The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-01
The Cigarette in England.

The Anglo-American tobacco war has
! produced some surprising revelations re-.
garding the number OF cigarettes con
sumed i'm this country, and has incident
ally led TO inquiries as TO how the onor-
nous demand is met by the manufact-
urers. The popular cigarette of today is
made by machinery. The contrivance IA.
vored by the firm which has been ac.
quired by Mr.. Duke Is capable OF turn
ing out $50 cigarettes per minute. while
the machine used 10y Messrs. w u. and
II. O. Wills Ltd.-the leaders Of the re-
sistance which is being offered TO the
American invssion-can comfortably pro-
duce 100000 cigarettes in working day of
ten hours
Each Of these great factories has scores
Of Its respective machines at work. and
either, it is believed, could II necessary.
continuously make cigarettes from year
end TO year end at the rate Of l2o. 600 900
per week. Some idea OF the stupendous
vogue which the cigarette has gained i'm
this country may be gathered from the
fact that quite recently one Of the great
firms mentioned was working it's whole
plant night ana day Though the ma
chimes used by leading firms differ con-
siderably In appearance. their working
principle is practically the same The to-
bscco is put into a kind of hopper and is
forced into tube which runs the entire
length OF the machine. Meanwhile spool
Of Nhat looks like thin white ribbon. bur
"A fnh - rec WI r,sf.-
rapidly unfolding Itself and has met The
LONG strin OF compressed tobacco. rescmb.
Ling now nothing so much as thick GROWN
string.
Paper and tobacco travel along to-
gether for short distance until the
edges OF the former are gradually bent
round the strip OF weed So that they near.
" meet Then at the exact moment the
outer edge OF the paper just touchs "a little
eummed wheel The other edge quickly
adhcres, and knife cuts the continuous
eight-foot cigarette into required lengths
as IL passes, and the finished article Is
ready for the packing case. The machine
employed by Messrs. wis d. the only
one I'm this country that "crimps I'M
stead NJ gum the cigarettes: in other
words the edges arc Joined bv pressing
The cigarette habit Is Of compara-
lively recent growth IN Great Britain
Whom the 1rst machine was brought for
exhibition purposes 10 this country all tho
English manufacturers refused 10 enter
tain % except Mesgrs Wills Tho fact
was hat 50 limited MAS the use Of the
cigarette in England that by one days
working the machine could have stocked
amy tobacco factory Tor a week. Mos,rs
Wills cigarette trade was tho only Que
larsc enough 20 find regular work for tho
newcomer The machine hailed from the
United states where even then some
thing like 2,1jo00.0o0 cigarettes we're
made annually.
AN authority estimates that quite io p--
cent of ine population or the Tutcd
Kingdom are cigarette smokers. and TIA.
They consume "n an avcrace FIVE a day an
ihe Ncar round-s0 about i0lo.mlon.
That represents 9.p0 tons ~ tobacco.
which if rlrccd ON railway trucks capable
ol carrying two tons cach~would form a
train 7hout seventeen ana onc-hsif miles
lonc Ihe rJachiue- of England turn out !
ct.ty Ncar G.i0o0 miles of cigarettes. |
enough 10 20 fourteen times round tho |
lobe
Aud yet dcsplic this enormous -mokrr 7,
or tho iu1chlnc-mauufacturcd varisrv /
lltrc gre more handmade cigarettes con. I
HuW"d th9n ever. Tho ponuoigsur IN. |
.wo., with Tho refined superssnsitia |
''atstc declares than he can tIste the /
'fff-t-t+ t+-r---tt- 7uHrffrp fT Tre CH0anTf I
brands Handmade cigarettes cost \
about hair crown q Thousand to mako \
Machines turn out tho sumo number fsr
.wopence-
The cheaper cigarettes are made. safd
in authority to the writer. the greater
Nill be the number ~ smokers. but the
place of tho best hand made brands viii /
never be taken by the commoner ysria-
les. London Daily News