The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-05
PRETTY CIGAR GIRLS
TURN OUT FORTY THOUSAND CT
CARS DAY.
A KISS WITH EVERY SMOKE.
AN HOUR IN THE SAVANNAH CIGAR
FACTORY.

Prominent Visitors See How 1.-TWO
Orphans" Are Made-275 Girls and
Women Employed Here by the
American Cigar Company and
Room For 700 MOre-Rev. DIR. Fair
and Rev. Charles II. Strong Adj
dressed the Operatives - Girls
Make From So to $11 n Week in
Pleasant Surroundings.
Two hundred and seventy-five girls
! making 1.-TWO Orphans at the rate of
| 10000 day, is an interesting picture. 1t
was seen at the American Cigar Com
pany's Savannah factory yesterday by
a party of ladies and gentlemen, the
guests of Supt. w. Nee. Reid, and may
be seen there any day, except Sunday.
In an short time 1.-TWO Orphans" will
be turned out at the rate of 100000
a week.
orphans" making is not an unpleas-
ant sight, when it is done by 200 or
more pretty girls, and the smoker who
| enjoys the 1.-TWO Orphans" brand has
| but to indulge his imagination when
he is told that the tip of his cigar has
been kissed" by the girl who made it.
There is no more pleasing sight than
a big roomful of bright-faced girls
and young women employed in
pleasant and remunerative work. 1t
means prosperity and social happiness.
The Savannah Cigar Factory offers an
| oppor ,dnity for just this sort of thing.
| There is room for one hundred more
| girls this week and in a few weeks
there will be room for two-hunded
more The party which visited the
factory yesterday gave it their indorse-
ment. Supt. Reid had invit-
ed Mayor Myers, Rev. and
| Mrs. Charles H. Strong, Rev. DR.. Fair
and Miss Fair, Col. and Mrs. j.
Mrs. Steinheimer, Mrs. c. r. Woods,
| Miss Rice, Mrs. Hummell and
| several others to be his guests
for an hour and see how cigars are
made. 1t was an interested party and
an interesting and instructive hour.
Saw How Cigars Are Made.
Supt. Reid, District Manager George
| H. Hummell and Secretary Neville es-
corted the visitors through the build
| ing from the office to the fourth floor,
| through all the departments of the
| IdCtUTy-dDQ showed LneIIl all the FRO
| Cesses of the making of the tobacco
| leaf, as it comes from the field, into
! the finished cigar, through the hands
! of the shippers, the selecters, the
| bunch makers, the rollers and finally
the packers and the hands of the little
banders who decorate the cigars with
blue and red paper bands, and tie them
with pink and yellow ribbons.
Its an interesting process-the meta
| nf no tph irto
Two Orphans" and the visitors were
Impressed with the skill and apparent
| ease with which it is done. The la
dies of the visiting party talked with
| the operatives and were not long in
! discovering that they were happier in
| their work than the average shop girl
| is in hers. In fact they found quite
a number who had given up the store
counter for the factory and not only
found the work easier, but more re-
! munerative.
$50 Busy Girls.
The main operating room is on the
| second floor of the Guckenheimer build
ing. AS the visitors stepped from the ell
evator they saw $50 girls busy at work.
| The hum OF the belts and the click
click of the machines mingled with
| the music of popular airs from the
| piano which is played by a skilled
musician an hour and a half every
| afternoon. There was lacking the
rattle of heavy machinery, the confu-
sion of a crowded factory, the over
| towering nicotine odor which is un-
| pleasantly associated with cigar max
| ing. The room is light and airy and
| cheerful, with every provision for the
| comfort of the operatives, dressing
| rooms and lunch rooms and room for
| dancing during lunch hours; in fact
| a room where work is pleasure
Talked to by Ministers.
Just before the visitors left, the
| machines were stopped, all of the en-
| ployes of the factory We're assembled
in the rolling room and Supt. Reid
introduced Rev. DIR. Fair and Rev
Charles H. Strong, each of whom
| talked to the girls for a few minutes
DIR. Fair congratulated them on their
good fortune in being employed, with
such agreeable surroundings, in
| work that is both remuneratiVe
healthful and pleasant. There is no
| disgrace in working in a factory, he
said, and with the opportunities and
advantages which the cigar COM
| pany affords, there ought to be 600
! girls employed instead of 300.
Rev. Mr.. Strong told a number of
apt stories, complimented both the
| management of the factory and its en-
ployes on the success of the industry,
talked for a few minutes in a serious
vein and INDUCED in some pleasantries
| which brought smiles, then laughter
| from the 200 or more girls, and here
and there women who had passed the
two score mile post of life. Mr.. Strong's
| talk was just the sort of talk to add
pleasure to the life of a wage Garner,
and he was applauded from every part
| of the room.
After the addresses the machinery
was started again, and the visitors
were taken to the company's offices
where the ladies were presented with