The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-18
REMARKABLE RECORD.
Made by Man Who Smoked 62S,7f3
Cigars in Forty-FiVe Years.
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Berlin has recently lost one Of her
most ardent and methodical deVotees
of the fragrant weed by the death Of
Herr Grunn, whose daily allowance Of
tobacco consisted of six cigars, six
pipes and six cigarettes. This amount
he never varied, save on his birthday.
when it was doubled, and on New
Years day, which, on the principle OF
starting the year temperateiy, was kept
as day of total abstinence.
Love of tobacco and wisdom often go
together. Prince Bismarck was wont
to boast that ne had in something like
fifty years consumed 100000 cigars, a
number that works out an average Of
five a day-nO great feat, perhaps, for
one who has at one period q chain
smoker, lighting each cigar from the
glowing stump of the one just enjoyed.
Edison, the great inventor. must hold
4 superior record. Ten cigars a day are
his normal allowance, but when deeply
absorbed in work he finds double that
number necessary to stimulate his
brain. Even more i'm 4 day used that
celebrated singer, Mario, TO dispose of:
but his day commenced with dawn and
concluded not until. sleep overpoWering
him, the still burning Havana slipped
from his lips
Without a cigar was Edwin Booth.
the tragedian, scarcely ever seen. Even
while enga Sed on his professional du-
ties his beloved weed was present in
the wings, ready to be Snatched from
ing the sometimes exceedingly brief in
tervals between his exits and entrances.
Twenty-Five cigars u day were at one
time his usual allOWance-an allow
ance. however, not infrequently eX-
ceeded.
To revert to ordinary folk BY
steady average Of fourteen cigars a
day William PattisOn of Michigan
managed in twenty years to account
for 100000 excellent weeds. Il number
that drew upon him the eXpOstulatiOn
OF his friends, on the ground that such
excess was pFejudicial to long life. to
which ne opposed the fact that Goethe,
though he drank 10000 bottles of wine.
lived TO be IS. So he smoked on un-
concernedly and died at the age of 80.
Three years since. at Vienna there
died in his seVenty-thjTd year an old
man beside whose smoking record that
of William Pattison appears quite in
significant From his twenty seVeHth
year he kept an exact account of IBIS
consumption of beer and tobacco. I'm
his fifty-fourth year he became a tee
totaler. after having drunk 2S.7SO
glasses of ale-a very. moderate tally
working out at but three "A day. But
il is of his immoderate smoking which
he continued till his death. that we
have to speak.
In fOrtv-tiVe years he smoked no few
er than 62S.113 cigars or 1891 a year
giving an average of thirty eight a day
Out of this gigantic total 1880 We're
given him at various times. leaving
5S5, 2l3. which, although this Austrian
devOtee at the shrine of My Lady
Nicotine never paid more than a pen
ny for each one cost nearly e2500
But even this marvellous record is
beaten by that of Myuheer Van Klaes,
known by the nickname Of the king
of the smokers" He was 81 at the time
of his decease. and sometimes smoked
as much as ten pounds Of tobacco in
week How strong with him was the
ruling passion in death was shown By
his funeral
At his EXPRESS desire he was placed
I'm a coffin lined with the wood of old
cigar boxes. At his feet were deposited
a packet of "Cauoral' and d bladder
Of fine Dutch golden leaf while at his
side were laid his faVOrite china BOWED
pipe, box of matches flint steel and
finder. Around his grave was gathered
2 circle of Rotterdam smokers. each
with his pipe from which, at the words
Ashes TO ashes, dust to dust" he
shook the ashes on 70 the coffin lid To
each af these mouTners the deceased
left ten pounds of tobacco and two
pipes bearing his arms.