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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-20
lROQUOIS ORDERED
TO MIDWAY.
CONTINUED from Page l.,

More than that. the Navy Depart
ment has had Midway Island turned
over to its care by the government, and
1t is probable that it will fall to the
lot of Captain Rodman to establish a
government there. That will make 1t
one more station in the naval estab-
lishment in the Pacific, and it is just
possible, also. that the Iroquois may be
ordered to remain there for an indefinite
time
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-20
Castle & Cooke, Ltd.
HONOLULU.
Commission Merchants.
SUGAR FACTORS.

-AGENTs FOR
The Eva Plantation Co.
The YvaIalua, Agricultural Co., Ltd.
The Kohala Sugar Co.
The Waimea Sugar Mil co.
The Fulton Iron Works, St LouiS
10.
The Standard OIL CO.
The George F. Blake Steam Pump.
Weston's Centrifugals.
The New England Mutual Life In
,urance Co. of Boston.
The Aetna Fire Insurance Co. o
Hartford. Conn
The Alliance Assurance co. Of Lon
6m.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
The New Idea In journalism.

A new and pleasing innovation in the
great metropolis Sunday papers has been
introduced by The Chicago Record Her
aid in giving away with its Sunday edi-
ton The Chicago Record Herald Sunday
Magazine. In The Sunday Record Her
aid Magazine readers of The Sunday
Record Herald will recognize the advent
of new epoch in journalism. On De-
cember 6 The Sunday Record Herald
began furnishing it's readers without ex-
ira cost magazine that surpasses the
best illustrated weeklies ia the beautiful
execution of its color pages and equals
them in every other particular. The
magazine having a minimum size of six
teen pages will be printed on heavy
enameled paper At the present time
eight pages will be in colors four of
which will be suitable for framing
The beautiful highly illustrated pages
in co,ors must be seen to be appreciated
Any news dealer handling Chicago Sun
day papers will be glad to show you
sample of the magazine and the advance
pages for next Sunday if you will give
him an opportunity to do so.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
IaDGERToN, WIS, Dec. II, 1908.

LiDGEhIONs w u.s., Lee. IL, 1Soo'
The approaching holiday season is
already having depressing effect upon
the tobacco trade and very little is hap
pening to break the monotony of dull
times all along the line of the tobacco
business. In the absence of casing
weather nothing can be done towards
preparing the new crop for market, so
the buying movement is held in abey-
ance.
Old leaf is moving sparingly with an
occasional sale from first hands. Greg
erson & Dalby sold Ties of '02 to 0. r.
Pomeroy and A. O. Anderson 20cs to w.
FL. Parish. Mcintosh Bros. have pur-
chased between 400 and 500 cases of '01
and '02 goods from local packers in small
lots during the week. Geo. Rumrill re-
ports the sale of 200 cases of O2 and a
So case lot of 1900 leaf and F. S. Baines
200 cases for the past week.
Julius Marquisee has been looking up
business matters in the state during the
week.
The shipments out of storage amount
to 13scar loads, 655 cases, from this mar
ket to all points for the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.

Many growers in the vicinity of West
Suffield have not taken their crops down.
Most of The tobacco is still hanging.
Such growers as have taken their tobac-
CO from the poles have been unable to
strip it. The leaf was moist, but the
stem dry and drew the moisture from
the leaf. For this reason they could not
strip it without either stemming or
spraying, which old growers claim is not
wise thing to do.
The Bissell syndicate got tired wait
ing for the right storm to come, and
hired steamer, which will damp six
acre shed on moderately mild day in
about 10 hours, so the leaf can be taken
down. They have worked about As acres
in this way and seem much pleased with
results.
Mr.. John Barnett has started his
sweater and carried his tobacco in there
from the shed in small lots and started
his vapor pans. which dampen it over
night. The next day it is ready for
stripping. He has stripped some four or
five acres in this way and reports it
success. Other growers are contemplat
ing doing the same rather than wait for
a warm rain.-N. E. Homestead.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
Tobacco Culture Experiments.

In his annual report Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilson states that tobacco is
crop of expanding proportions, and the
prospect now is that within few years
ten figures will be reuuired to represent
the annual production. This crop, he
says, has now climbed close to OOOO,-
600 pounds valued at S60,OOO,000.
The report has the following reference
to tobacco Investigations which have
been conducted by the department dur
ing the past year:
Some supervisory work was done in
Connecticut during the past fiscal year
but the large purpose of the department,
which was to show the Connecticut to-
bacco growers that wrapper leaf of
superior quality could be produced on a,
specific soil type established in the soil
survey of the Connecticut Valley, has
been successfully brought to close. 1t,
remains now for the growers to put the
shade-grown Sumatra industry on sub
stantial basis, toward which condition
great progress has already been made.
The investigation of the fermentation
of Ohio tobacco has also been continued,
and the interest in bulk fermentation,
which is far better than the case method
UP to this time largely employed by the
packers is gaining ground.
BY far the most important work of
the Bureau of Soils during the past year
under the authorization for tobacco in
vestigations, has been the experiments tah
growing of Cuban cigar-leaf tobacco on
certain soils in South Carolina, Ala abama,.
and Texas. These soils, the Orange
burg sandy loan and the Orangeburg'
loam are apparently very similar to the,
tobacco soils of Cuba, and the aroma of
the leaf grown on one of these soils in
Texas has been pronounced by the trade
to be very fine. The crops grown on the.
experimental plots are now in course of
fermentation, and it is too early to state.
definitely what the outcome will be- but
so far as is now known the quality of he
leaf will be excellent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
New York.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 1908


The market continues active in an ex-
ceptional degree in spite of the nearness
of the end of the year. The last month
of the year is generally one of the dull
est Whatever sales are made Or orders
booked the proviso is generally attached
to them not to be shipped until after
the new year. The remarkable excep-
ton this year may be ascribed not only
to the uninterrupted activity of our ci-
gar industry but more so perhaps to the
shortage of certain types of leaf, the
effects of which are making themselves
felt right along. For two years the cigar
industry tried to get along without the
proper binder leaf but it has come to
the ropes end, and finding the 1902
Wisconsin crop available, it is filling up
not only shortage but trying to guard
itself against being caught again short
by laying in supply for future emer
gencies. The same policy and it is the
right AID wise one, is being pursued in
regard to Havana. Hence the unex-
pected spectacle of many out of town
buyers roaming around our market at
this time of the year.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11

Our government received during the
last fiscal year in stamps and duties
from our tobacco trade and industries
an income of nearly sixty-two million
dollars more than flows from the same
source into the British exchequer, al
though the taxes on tobacco are one of
the two great revenues of the English
government under it's free trade policy.
And the income was by many millions
far in excess of that derived from the
same source by any European reggie.
Here is the Achilles heel Of our Ameri-
can policy.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
THE Germans are thoroughly aroused

The Germans are thoroughly aroused
because of the American invasion" par
ticularly as regards the tobacco indus
try. Protests are being sent to the gov
ernment requesting assistance in re-
pelling the Invader
Recently the Breslau Chamber of
Commmrce passed resolu sions in con-
demnation of the American methods.
which threaten to control the tobacco
trade of that country. The resolutions
seem to be aimed at the American To
bacco Company, while if reports given
out at the settlement of the English
fight were true, the British-American
Tobacco Company is responsible for the
activity at present in Germany.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11

In reviewing the present crop of the
cigar leaf producing states, the N. Y.
Leaf has the following to say of the con-
ditions in Wisconsin: "The trade.in leaf
tobacco in the state of Wisconsin for
1903, up to date, bas been characterized
by very healthy demand, with the ex-
ception of the past two Or three weeks,
during which time very few sales have
been made, and no buying to speak of
has been attempted. The acreage
planted in tobacco for 1903 was 37,738
acres, as against 36,173 in 1902. The
yield, in cases, Of the 1903 crop, it is now
generally believed, will not reach the
1902 mark. Buyers are becoming very
shy of the new crop, as a'great deal of
shed burn and mud has been discovered.
1t looks very much as though the farmer
will have to show up his goods in the
bundle, and that he will do great deal
Of casing also. The cold and dry wealth
er has been anything but cheerful to
those interested in leaf tobacco, and
there will be very little doing till good
moisture descends on this region"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11

A correspondent of one of the New
York trade journals says: The effect of
the recent commercial upheavel on the
shipping departments of all the leaf
houses in town has been electrical. I
have been paying storage and insurance
on tobacco which was bought and paid
for more than year ago, but all of
sudden the buyers woke up and found
they had immediate use for the goods,
and ordered them shipped to them at
once. OF course, this is no reflection on
me-oh, no. but the goods were needed.
In my short business career | have never
been able to figure out why the seller
should be expected to continue to pay
board for tobacco which has been bought
and settled for in cash. 1t is popular
custom I know, but it will be less popu-
lar from now on, / can assure you.
Some of the letters from customers Or
dering their goods shipped are quite
apologetic in tone. but there is no occa-
sion for it. Anything that will cut down
my expense account is welcome, and my
own tobacco family is large enough to
require all my attention and spare cash.
***
The report of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, which will be submitted
to Congress at the regular session, shows
that the receipts of the Bureau for the
past fiscal year are some forty-one mil
lions of dollars less than the receipts
for the year ending June 80, 1902. Mr..
Yerkes says that this decrease is not due
to diminution in the business move
ments and commercial transactions of
the country, but entirely to reduction of
internal revenue taxes under acts of
Congress. There has been an increase
in the amount of tobacco and snuff pro-
duced of S,96O,211 pounds during the
past fiscal year over those for the year
1902. The decrease in the amount of
tobacco and snuff exported was ,774,214
pounds. The increase in tobacco and
snuff imported was 42,4S0 pounds. The
increase in the number of large cigars
produced in this country during the
past fiscal year was 679, ,437, ,181. There
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11

was an increase of S2,746 large cigars in
the exports and an increase of 3,46S, ,S33
in the number imported. In small CT
gars there was decrease of 127, $3.50
in 1903. There was an increase in the
production of cigarettes, taxed at "a
cents per thousand and S10S, of 357,-
213, ,4O3.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
BaidwinsvIlIe, N. Y,

There is no activity in the local mar
ket. No sales have been reported as
made in either the new or the old crops.
A few small shipments only have been
made from the local warehouses.
Lysander-Tobacco buyers have re-
Gently been in town offering from seven
to eight cents for first quality tobacco
and from three to four cents for hail cut.
Wolcott Fire in the Church building
in Wolcott last Tuesday night destroyed
146cs of 1902 tobacco and about a ton of
bundle goods, which were stored there
by Sennett & Waldorf. Gazette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 1908.

The market during the past week was
featureless. Wisconsin is moving stead
lily, but with nothing like the activity
experienced when it first came on the
market. There is decided dearth of
out of town buyers.
Sumatra.-Sa of SO and Is bales are
reported occasionally, but transactions
are scattered and generally small
Havana.-A few moderate transactions
in Remedies are reported this week. The
market continues quiet.-Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
Virginia Tobacco Growers Organize.

Three hundred tobacco growers met
last week at Norfolk (Va.), and formed
an organization which will be known as
the Tobacco Growers Organization of
Virginia and North Carolina. Those
present represented eleven counties in
the two states.
The object of the Association is to
curtail the acreage of tobacco, to assist
in holding the present crop, and start
movement to induce farmers to grow
diversified crops
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

It is so rare that winter sets in with
out some casing weather during the fall
months that will permit OF portion at
least of the hanging tobacco crop being
removed from the curing sheds for strip
ping, that growers are beginning to fear
there will be but small chance of getting
the tobacco off their hands until spring
comes again. Usually farmers are able
to do their stripping when there is not
much other work pressing. and are IN
condition to show their crops any time
after its curing. IT is now SO generally
understood that not much buying need
be expected until the crop comes down
and is stripped that growers can figure
out there is long wait yet before they
can realize on their. product. But it is
not the farmers alone who are embarass-
ed by the suspension of the tobacco
movement. The real sufferers are the
laboring class who are depending upon
the opening of the warehouses for en-
ployment during the winter months
these are the people who are really being
pinched. Casing weather sometimes
comes to as in December and January,
but continuous damp spell sufficient to
bring tobacco into good case is not gen.
orally looked for after winter is we'll set
tied.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
Lancaster.
LANCASTER NEW ERA, Dec. l, 1908.

AS little improvement in local trade
was looked for and none has come along,
all that remains to be said is that no
body seems to be disappointed. The
trade appears to have settled down to
the belief that the principal trade of the
year has about been done, and little &C
tivity is to be looked for until the new
year comes along and dealing in 1908
goods begins in real earnest. We must
not forget, however, that the bulk of the
1901 crop is still on hand, and that also
remains to be disposed of. That it, too,
will find purchasers. we do not for a mo-
ment doubt Many dealers declare it is
a much better article than it gets credit
for, and doubtless use will be found for
it before midsummer.
The sales for the week that have been
reported to US are 15Ocs sold and 24Ocs
bought by Kramer & Goldberg, all of the
1902 crop, and 138cs of the 1901 crop,
bought by Morris Rosenthal. In all,
528cs For the corresponding week of
last year the sales were 90Ocs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
MIAMIsBURG, O., Dec. L. 1903.

The work of stripping the new crop is
going to be late this season. Scarcely
any tobacco has been stripped as yet,
and up to the present time the absence
of moist weather has prevented the
farmers from removing the hanging to-
bacco from the poles. No buying in this
vicinity has been reported so far, and
packers have concluded that much
trouble and loss may be prevented by
deferring purchases until after the crop
has been stripped, as much of the filler
portion was burned to death during the
drouth, and has the appearance of being
dead and worthless. Farmers are i'm
proving their opportunity to secure and
supply themselves with new boxes
News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11

The writer has frequently challenged
the figures given out as statistics of the
tobacco crop of Ohio as icing inaccurate
regarding the cigar leaf produced in that
state. AS the figures given in the gov
ernment estimates include both the ci-
gar tobaccos and the southern type as
we'll, they are very likely deceptive to
the trade without means to distinguish
between the different varieties. The
total acreage reported would indicate
that Ohio produces more cigar leaf to-
bacco than Wisconsin, which is not gen
orally believed to be true. The N. Y.
Leaf comes to the rescue of our conten-
ton in an estimate made of last season s
crop, which says: "The crop has been
estimated by half dozen merchants,
from which an average has been taken,
as follows Zmmer Spanish, 900 cases;
Gep phart Seed, 1880 cases; Little Dutch,
22500 cases: other varieties, 600 cases,
making total yield in Ohio of about
$500 cases. So it will be seen that
the Ohio crop is scarcely more than one
half that grown in Wisconsin in late
years, and we are inclined to believe the
figures are very nearly accurate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-01
Would Like TO Get His Album Back.

LOST-An autograph album containing the
names Of ali the Presidents Of the United states
since the time Of Grant; also those of Generals
Sheridan and lee Admirals Farragut, Colds
borough, and Dewey, OF Jay Gould and Rus
sell Sage. Of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry
Nordica and Sembrch. Ii Hung Chang and
VIZ Ting lang, Queen Liljuokalapi, and the
distinction II found. please notify the owner,
George w. ShiebleT, No. ) Maiden Lane.
In spite of notices like this, which
have been printed in the newspapers and
reprinted: in spite OF a half dozen de-
tectives who have hunted uD and down
the town. and a whole day which he
spent himself in a personal search.
George w. shiebler, the silyersmith. is
still grieving over the loss OF his auto
graph album. When Dr. Lorsnz was in
this city. Mr.. ShiebIer sought TO add the
name of the surgeon to the rest. and
sent the book by one of his clerks to the
home of DR.. Virgil P. Gibney. Of whom
the Austrian was a guest DR.. .Loren2
was just getting into a carriage when
the messenger arrived, TO go TO the Yale
dinner. and in some mysterious way the
album disappeared. Whether it was left
in the carriage OF slipped into the
street. or was snatched up by some va
grant. the owner of the album has been
unable to learn.
The Shtebler autograph album has had
a career that would do credit 10 dip
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-01
Something About
This Unique
Institution Which IS
Doing Such
An Important Work.

held. These consist oasong recitals and
readings. and are intended exclusively
for the residents Of the house. outsiders
not being admitted. Everything is doao
that wilI aid in making life cheerful and
enjoyable for this energetic little band
or blind workers
Religious services are held in the par
Iors on Sunday afternoons at O'Clock.
and are conducted by various ministers.
CIergymen OF all denominations are in
vited to oficiate in turn. This is in
keeping with the non-seetarian character
Of the institution. The guilds of the diff
ferent churches assist at these services
and provide the music
The growth Of the home and its pros
perity have been retarded by the difieul-
" in obtaining an adequate market for
the goods produced. Fortunately, a
years contract for all the broomz used IN
the postofaee has beer. secured. and this
fnsures certain amount OF steady work.
The chairs used in the Senate annex are
also caned at the home. and work has
been done for the Interior Department
and the Department Of Agriculture.
The Officers.
But much more could be done If there
was the additional demand. One draw
back has been that the home has not
been brought sufficiently before the pub
lie. and that its seIf-supporting character
has not been properly understood.
The present officers of the Aid Associa-
tion for the Blind are Mrs. Albert G.
Bracket. president; Major Richard syI-
vester, treasurer Mrs. Sydney R Jacobs,
corresponding and recording secretary,
and Mrs. L. ". CaIveT. financial secre-
tary. Mrs. E. c. Cuttings is the matron,
and is in constant charge OF the house.
where everything is under her super
vision. It is to her that the home owes
many Of its pleasant features, and it's
spotIessIy neat aspect
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-01

lomat. 1t began in an humble way, like
many a successfm American. and at
first made the acquaintance of people
whom the great world knows little il
sRything about Gradually it made it's
way into more exclusive circles, met
men and women whom genius or uerse-
verance or birth or wealth had brought
into public prominence, until It num-
bered among its friends Presidents. ad-
miraIs, generals. statesmen. b1zaers.
artists, musicians and actors whose
names are known to permanent or tran
silent fame.
a Sunday school class presented Mr..
Shiebler twenty-eight years ago With
this album. aud Gu its froat page he
members wrote their names. AT first he
book seemed destined 20 go the way Of
the ordinary autograph album, TO obtain
the names of few relatives and friends,
and Their fall victim to moths oa the
top shelf of some garnet closet ar
Shiebler numbered among his friends,
however, many men of distinction for
be began life as a clerk in the employ
Of the Western Union in he Capitol
at Washington. Although his chief duty
then was to count the words OF The news
paper correspondents copy and of the
private dispatches of members OF Ger
gTes. and hand them over to the opera
tors, nevertheless he impressed those ne
met with his genial way.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-01
/ZAEZNG RRALb.

cords running across the upper part Of
the broom to hold the wnfsps in place
They are clever and raid workers at
this, too. # there was a sufficient mar
ket for them. from two TO three dozen
brooms could be completed each day.
Mattress making is also done. and
we'll done, for TO it is brought that ex-
quisite patience that only the blind seem
TO possess Il is the same with chair
Gaming The product is as perfect as
can possibly be. and the interviewer
strips Of rattan present a beautiful piece
of work, One marvels at the conscien-
tiousness displayed. And it is a strange
sight TO see men Iaboring without ap-
parent attention to whas they are doing
The attention is there, though. in the
delicate. highly trained hands. the hands
that have learned TO know and comDre-
bend by touch.
Nor are the women less busy than the
men. They make belts. knit dainty shawl
head dresses. and now are learning to
make wristbags and shopping bags. Ev-
eryone is occupied. even those upon
whom the hand Of age mas rested. Their
faces bear a singular look OF content,
the content that the self-supporting
worker feels
Furnished by Churches and Clubs.
a visit to the living rooms reveals
neat comfortable quarters, rooms sucn
as might be found in the houses of see
ing persons. for little objects are dain-
tiIy arranged. and framed pictures adorn
the walls. The beds are of enameIed
iron. with trimmings OF polished brass,
and the bed linen is snowy in its white
ness
These rooms have been furnished by