The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-23

have scores OF freak" styles and
shapes sprung ON them every day
Some slaves of loose tobacco take 10
the German pipe with its elongated
stem and cavernous bowl and they
wouldn't think they were smoking AT
al If compelled 10 adopt the bulldog
| style of pipe that the staggering col
lege boy smokes on the street The
German bowl is necessarily q home
luxury. because few smokers care TO
be bothered with a dray.
Another home" pipe that appeals
strongly 10 the metropolitan smokers
is the chiboOk, or Turkish bowl. with
its half dozen appended flexible stems
and its bowl of water through which
the smoke is drawn. These pipes are
prevalent for the most part in bach
elor apartments. and the feature that
is their strongest recommendation Is
! that several smokers may puff at one
of them at the same time.
The Increase ia the number of tour
lists to the Philippine islands has
flooded New York with various styles
of pipes that are new to local dealers.
They are in the main unique, and are
more valuable as ornaments and addi-
tions to collections than for the actual
satisfaction obtained from smoking
them. Yet pipe smokers. who always
are on the lookout for somethi g novel,
trade an old reed stem and coblike
bowl for the finest meerschaum in
town
The large MORO pipe, which is in
tended to serve as a war club when not
otherwise in use, is by far the most
novel of the recent impOrtations from
the Philippines 1t has an immense
stem, covered with short barbs, and
the bowl is of sufficient weight TO
make EPaDOn Whom
welded by native Filipino There are
several of these MORO pipes in this
city, and smokers have taken to them
with alacrity simply because they are
queer
One pipe smoker is the owner OF
highly priced specimen that was carved
out of steers horn. A bowl of briar
was inserted in the end and connected
with reed stem tipped with amber.
He spends his evenings smoking his
pipe, and couldn't be induced TO try
any other. 1t is heavy and hard to
handle, but he likes ii, nevertheless.
Some curious designs are to be found
in the collections of pipe smokers who
appreciate carving. One man who
consumes a pound of tobacco every
week smokes from a snakes head in
geniOusIy worked out of French briar.
Another finds satisfaction in a bowl
representing a dogs foot The human
skull also has been cOunterfeited to
meet the fancy of the pipe smoker.
A good many lovers of the meer-
schaum pipe spend their time trying to
color their high priced treasures in
fantastic fashion. believing that they
have the genuine article. As matter
of fact, scores of them waste their
breath against exceedingly deceptive
limitations
The first meerschaum pipe made in
the United States was carved by
Charles Pollack in New York in 1859
from block which Rev. DR.. Tying of
Brooklyn brought from Turkey. Poll
lack learned his trade from his father
in-law in old Buda and introduced the
meerschaurp industry in this country
in 1851
The literal translation of the word
meerschaum is foam of the sea-" but
it in reality is a silicate of magnesia.
The raw material comes from Asia
Minor. wherefrom the Turkish gov
eminent derives a great deal of reve-
nue. It is extracted much the same
way as coal. Near Eski Shehir. an i'm
portant station of the Anatolian rail-
way, where rich deposits are found,
pits from twenty-five TO $50 feet deep
are dug. and as soon as the vein is
struck, horizontal galleries, sometimes
of considerable length, are made.
The stone as extracted is called ham
fash Trough block), and is soft enough
TO be easily cut with a knife. II is
white and is covered by a red clay soil.
The manipulation required before it IL
ready for export is long and costly
There is some found in Spain, but it
is not suitable, being too full of flaws
The best quality is called "Spiegel
meerschaum' docking glass meer-
schaum), on account of its beautiful
luster when colored. The first piece
of meerschaum was brought into Hun
gary by a nObleman about the year
1900 who gave it to q cobbler on his
estate to carve into pipe bowl. As
ne was mending shoes, thereby using
wax. some of it got on the bowl, which
caused the pipe to color when smoked.