New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-02
THE PASSING THRONG

1T IS an old saying that you should buv Won,
cigars IN London and your cigarettes in New-Yorx +"
said B. L. r. Benjamin Of New
TOO EXPEN- Orleans. yesterday at the waldorf.
SINb FOR Astoria and II prices are anv eri
1hE luke terion to go by 1t is certainly a
true epigram. for in London there
are cigars for sale at prices that would stasxer
the average American Here the most expensive
cigar nave ever seen exposed for sale costs 81
whereas IN London I have frequently seen them OF
80 80 hS grade TO call for the expenditure or
10 snllngs before you could smoke one ana ci9aps
only h bos apiece have sesn sod In London
o0ar with the IL cigar THAI they tell story
thousand were Oered to the Duke Of westni1 Os
65iissanc richest peer by dealer. whereupon the
man TO- smoke expensive a cigar ordered the
f EN- b Importation sent to the Prince of Wales and
vbe a3e D English like cigar dry that eraeks
account of their climate / think, Then too theT
nons,d Upon eisars there as they do wine. and
mat the tobacco grown in certain years exces in
grown in t "a tne pleasure Of smoking the tobacco
coh1st you will find that the same cigar will differ
being In pipe tobacco also they top us ser Tbe S ars
t S nation Of pipe smokers. from the highest to
set FOR every grade of pipe tobacco and you viii
it impossible that the dealers s5op pHS sbos
OF even can OF it. Since the last insurrection OF
been steady advance in the price Of Havanas,
both III III GTbmJIeqnence to-day the prices Of cigars.
they 81 were few years ago. In SAN Francisco it
Gisar for less money than YOU can in ,New-York
It may be the climate, but the cigar pay Is cents
LOT IN me tity Of the Golden Gate. always seems
10 taste PETER than the cigar pay . cents for
OF Manila; he's crank that subject
George Edwards of Chicago. who was thus "a
ferred to. smiled as he replied That's only the
airy persifage of ignorance for
HOW Benjamin only knows of Manila
MANILA tobacco through smoking OCCASION
CIGARETTES ally an alleged Manila cigar and
ARE KEPT isn't in consequence. in position
OUT. to say whether the tobacco there is
good. bad Indifferent. As a mat
ter Of fact, it is extremely good tobacco both for
cigars and cigarettes. and this coupled with its
extraordinary c-e7Tness, has driven every other
tobacco out of toe E,arket Suez and west Of
san FRANCISCO For many years they have been
improving the grade of their tobacco in the Philip
pines by importatons of Havana seed. and the
present production bears only a slight resemblance
G min IN appearance quality or flavor to the Ma
rI hetoo. OF which we used to hear so much
There is nc cigar in the world to-day equal to a
brought into this country, they would command q
ready. large and enthusiastic market. why aren't
an example When I came back bT l5 ite ~ you
thousand cigars, and perhaps hundred packages
OF assorted cigarettes. What do you think they
wanted to charge ne at the Custom House in San
Francisco? About G5O per duty the original
49, 49, price OF tne c!gars and from 16o0 TO 220O
specific and ad valorem duties are charged that
u an absolute fact that that was the proportion
II pore 10 the original cost. I'm a Republican. and
DeeVe IN protecting home industries but that isn't
protection; it's prohibition and cannot come within
that theory that there is protection which does
not ultimately lead 10 free trade. That's why
there are no Manila cigars or cigarettes for saia
here There's money in them. Then another
thlng, 1t is possible that they would not retain
their flavor If they had TO make that long sea
voyage ,o TO give You an idea Of how cheap they
are, cigarettes in packages Of thirty can be pur-
chased for 2I2 cents. Mexican. a package in Ma
Mia. They run from this price 10 cents Next-
can, package at retail. If YOU buv in aTantfrv
tthey, OF course. come cheaper Their cigars run
from So to $50. Mexican. a thousand and a real
good small cigar be purchased - Sc MEXICAN
that is less than So of our money a 7usand TbS
500 cigar IS the best they make comes 70
" and some odd cents Of America for rha
thousand Think Of that. only alb cents a
piece for a delicious smoke They ,nufsrt1lra
cigars costing = high as 500 MeXic, rbouss-6
nut they of the tobacco as $50 cfcsr
out are larger in size more carefully rolled and
wrapped In ttnfou. They are intended for presents
ana that sort OF thing They have a tobacco worm
there which is an awful nuisance as IL will walk
thTouEh an entire case of cigars ruin he Tor
In short order. I'd like to those cigars come
lhto our market. and wish they would modify the
tarin so as 10 make their importat IN possible