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Evening star., 1903-08-04
PHILIPPINE TOBACCO.
Manila Brands Well-Known, but Not
Generally Popular.
From the New York Sun.

From the New 1Ofk sun.
The recent bulletin on tobacco culture in
the Philippines calls attention to the possi-
bilities of improvement in the quality of
the Philippine leaf and to an extension of
it's use in this and in other countries. That
the quality of Philippine tobacco can be inn
proved by systematic and scientific culture
is much more certain than the matter of
its greatly increased use in this country
Manila brands are no strangers in our
market. The cheroot and other grades have
been offered to our smokers for many years
But they have never found popular favor
and their sale has been limited. Spain has
used the Philippine product in very consid-
cradle quantity. but this has been due very
largely to the direct interest of the Spanish
government in the tobacco industry. The
greater part of the remainder of the crop
has found sale in the east and the far east,
where 1t has stood upon comparative rather
than upon actual merit. 1t is better than
the Trichinopoly and other brands offered in
that market at prices which the average
run of smokers can afford to pay. Some
English army men and civilians stationed in
that part of the world become accustomed
to its use. and their return to England has
created a limited market for the goods in
that country.
That the Philippines may produce wrap
per leaf which could be used in place of
Sumatra to considerable extent is quite
possible if not quite probable. 1t would not
be Sumatra, but II might make an accept
able substitute for 1t. But any talk of pro-
.ducing a tobacco in the Philippines which
will rival the Vuelta Abajo of Cuba Is quito
on a par with talk of producing Manila
hemp In Cuba. Through many and long
continued experiments it has been fairly de-
termined that even the planting of seed
ditions of soil and climate approximating
the Cuban conditions will not produce a
leaf which corresponds with the famous
Vuelta Abajo.
Evening star., 1903-08-04
swAMPs OF NEW ORLEANS.
Mosquito Pest to Be Removed by
Draining Lands.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
There is going on within the limits of
New Orleans a drainage work that prom
ises to dry up nearly all of the swamp
land between the building limits of the
city and Lake Pontchartrain, on the lower
side of New Basin canal This work be-
gan last November. and has gone on con-
tinuouSly ever since. The results are very
satisfactory, even though the canals have
not yet been connected with the pumping
station.
A New Orleans land company, which has
bought up all of the swamp lands from
the New Basin canal to Bayou st. John
and from the cemeteries to the lake. start
ed a plan last summer to clear out the
water which has for years stood on all
that vast area. The land is not lower
than the ordinary level of the city, but
the water has been kept in by the levees,
where there were levees, and backed in
from the lake, where there was none. The
area which is now being drained is pro-
tected from the lake water by levees. and
as soon as the canals are completed and
the drainage pump takes the water out.
the land should be dry any part of
the city.
One effect Of the draining of this swamp
will be to diminish the number of mos
quitoes, and when the land which lies
above the West End tracks is drained as
well as that extending from the New Or
leans and Western to Bayou st. John,
there ought to be a great decrease in mos
quftoes and malaria. On account of the
water which comes into the latter areas
from the lake they will require leveeing
before they can be effectively drained
If the proposed draining of the swamps
in st. Bernard is also carried through, and
the other sections between the city and
lake are treated as the land company is
doing its main track. the end of the swamp
trouble will be reached and vast territory
added to the habtable portion of the city.
jefferson parish has some swamp along
the lake. but this can be treated similarly.
This done and the drainage and sewerage
made effective In the city. that there
will be no water standing in the streets
and no vaults of cisterns, the mosquito
ought to become a creature of historical,
instead of hysterical, interest in the city
Evening star., 1903-08-04

1t pays to read the want columns Of The
Star. Hundreds of situations are nllsS
through them.
Evening star., 1903-08-04

WHY NOT BUY THE BEST?
Every who has inspected house 1924 Co
lumhia road says they the best houses In the
city for
$7150.
Better built better arranged and better locat-
ed; VERY HANDSOME; stone and brick froats;
rooms deep: TWO ~ ELEGANT TILED
BATHS: stlirways; TILED KITCHENS; two
story rear porches; H0TWATER HEAT; beal-
tifully decorated.
LOCATION, high ground. near schools, stores
and churches. OPEN.
au1-3t STONE & FAIRFAX. sO6-sOS st. NV.
Evening star., 1903-08-04

FOR RENT
THOMAS ]. FISHER q CO.. mo.
REAL ESTATE LOANS AND INSURANCE,
l4l4 b ST. NV TELEPHONE NJ 3lS
Evening star., 1903-08-04
FOE RENT-HoUsEs.
UNFURNISHED.

FOR RENT-NEw 3-SToRY CORNER HOUSE.
with wide avn, the Heights q. W.: convenient
to car lines. Rent, SIS So Inquire Of OWNER.
Room 50. Atlantic building au13te