The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-27


stOgie, or 'tobie,' as il is called there
Phil wakes genial under the influence
Of his cigars. which cost him about 81
cents each by the thousand, and he
offers them freely to friends and call
ers II he considers them up 10 the
( proper standard to enjoy such 3 smoke.
! Colonel u. B. Hilton son of Judge
Hilton, for almost twenty years had a
special brand of cigars made for his
use, at cost of more than 50 cents
each. Now he's broke. William c..
Whitney. with all Of his native luXu-
ri0us tastes and the money with which
to indulge them, smokes a small, mild
+ cigar which costs him cents each by
+ the thousand he has more expensive
3 cigars for his friends. but this is his
( favOrite smoke John W. Gates OcCS-
sionally lights a stogie. but this prob
ably is in Difference TO his Pittsburg
associates in the iron and steel world
/ 1t is probable that there is not a sin
gle millionaire who has come out e.
that city, with the exception Of Andrew
Carnegie, who does not enjoy a quiet
Whit of the stogie so beloved by James
G. Blaine IL his schoOlboy days in
jefferson college. He al
ways had one in his mouth when not
! in school. Senator Isham G. Harris Of
/ Tennessee prefers a cheap smoke, con-
Stunning quantities Of 5-centers, or the
even less expensive stogie.
Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina
smokes two for a quarter and strong
Joe Blackburn likes them big and
| black and pays so cents for his brand
He and other lovers of the oil in the
weed occasionally indulge in an hours
wrestIe with a Celestiales or Invinci-
bles. which cost from 81 TO S1.50. One
Of these, pulled at vigorously, is guar
/ anteed to wreck the nerves of an ordi-
/ nary smoker for a day.
Matthew Stanley Quay is a dry
smoker, and nibbles at the end of an
unlighted cigar frequently in Washing
! ton, and all the time when he is fishing
I in San Lucie. Fla. He would love to
/ touch a match to the end, just TO cele-
1 brate the landing of a huge tarpon,
/ but his physician has forbidden It.
/ Roswell p. Flower also was a dry
smoker, but he differed from Quay,
| who likes a good imported cigar,
| though he can't smoke. Flower would
chew at any cigar that came handy.
| and before he was through with it the
end was ground to a pulp Senator
Allen is a persistent smoker. buying
| 15-cent straights by the half-dOZen and
| keeping up the chain until all are gone.
! Chandler of New Hampshire does not
smoke in public, though he pulls at a
! strong pipe at home. Wolcott of Colo
RADIO frequently goes to the senate
ante room for a smoke, while Turpie
| frOWns at the practice Neither Bryan
nor Hill smoke at all, which fact con-
/ veys any kind of a lesson one may
| choose to deduct from it.
y. Pierpont Morgan smokes a small
! but strong imported tWO-for-a quarter
| cigar in his Office. Few have seen him
| finish a cigar elsewhere, though he
/ lights one in respect to custom after
a dinner with friends or business asso-
/ GATES Mr.. MorgaR's box Of cigars in
/ his Office is open to all OF his employees,
/ but only his partners dare 10 take
/ them. James J. Hill puffs like an en-
4 CINE behind the biggest and blacklist
/ ne can get. 1t is not extra fine, but,
! because of its size principally, costs
/ him 80 cents. He is not famed for
! offering them to anybody else. Henry
/ W. Cannon. president Of the Chase
National, always has a box Of medium
/ cigars in his Office while Darius Miller
/ likes strong perfectOs.
| Former Secretary Herbert buys his
! cigars as he smokes them, paying Is
| cents each for the mildest he can get.
| Every day after lunch former Mayor
| Robert A. Van WyCk buys 81 worth of
medium cigars of a certain brand. They
/ cost Is cents straight, but in this way
/ he gets seven for 81, thus saving 5
/ cents. He stuffs them in his pocket,
/ but only smokes two or three Of them,
/ giving the rest away. Justice O'Dwyer
buvs medium Havanas. four for 81,
I while Magistrate Mott buys one naild
/ = I
/ "Representative Sulzer likes a strong
domestic cigar costing TO cents, but
| buys imported ones for his friends, and
| hands them out freely. Amos Cum
mines uses a favorite brand Of home
! make, for which he pays 10 cents, ana
| Representative George 3. Mcclellan
! likes 15c straight, but occasionally in
/ duIges in five for 81, when they must
| he strong. Stewart Of Nevada pays "a
cents each for his and wants them OF
the niIdest. Senator O'Grady goes him
| \ cents better. John Fox Of Democrat
| ic club fame likes any cigar SO it is
| good. while former Corporation Coun-
sci Whalen uses a certain small and
thick cigar, two for quarter An
tbonv n. Brady likes very mild Caro-
linas. three for 81. John c. Sheehan
/ smokes Is straight and strong WINE
/ William drags at black 4o-centers
! Croker pays the same for his, out tneS
/ must be fat and black. He IS not tnt
| hard smoker he used to be, prObabls
because of stomach trouble BOD Hlt
liard navs high for his smokes, and in
csc That they be oily-that means oil
the strongest. Though these are then
reouIar habits. many of the men hers
mentioned light an occasional cigar
-. -, 1,,7rx- for a short smoke.