Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
COLLECTS CIGAR STUBS
New York Man Has Queer Souvenirs
Of Greatness

any person in the world. His one fad
is to collect the cigar stubs Of famous
men, and he has a collection Of over
1000 butts" of cigars that have given
solace or comfort to the tobacco lovers
of the last thirty years. His collection
embraces the stubs thrown away by
presidents, kings, emperors, pretenders,
millionaires, senators, speakers of the
house, congressman, candidates for the
presidency, great generals, and other
famous men of his time, says the Chi
cago Tribune.
For the last thirty years he has been
saving, labelling and recording the
unique souvenirs, and servants in pal
aces, walters at banquets and others
have found it to their profit to bring
to him the remnants Of delicious
smokes Of great incorporating they
can prove beyond a doubt that the
relic of past enjoyment is bona fide.
1t is hard to deceive Mr.. Barnes.
He knows his men and he knows CT
gars. He has the peculiarities of
smokers. 1t is said that If he were
given the stub of a cigar smoked by
any Of the great men Of today he
could tell almost at a glance who
smoked it, providing 1t came from the
private stock of the smoker and had
been smoked in the ordinary way. He
can tell by the way cigars are chewed,
or not chewed, by the way they are
marked with the teeth, by their length,
by the side that is burned deepest, and
by a hundred and one different ways
whether or not the stub is genuine.
Among the butts in the collection
is one of black, slender, panatella
shaped cigar of Havana tobacco that
once was held between the teeth of
William of Germany, and beside 1t is
the cork tipped, crested, highly fla
vored stub of cigarette, with part of
the black eagle of Germany showing
on the paper, that once satisfied the
desire of the war lord.
Next to that in the collection is a
fat black hand-rolled and hand-filled
Edward VII. of England. The cigar was
smoked by him on board his royal
yacht a year ago. The brand is a
special one prepared for the ruler by
a firm in Havana, and the cost is 81
each in lots of 1000. There is no special
mark on the cigar to designate it as
the possession of one of the greatest
monarchs in the world, but it is genu-
inc, because 1t was sent to the collec
tion by a young British naval attache
who promised Mr.. Barnes that at the
first opportunity he would secure the
treasure. The stub is chewed slightly !
and the cigar was less than half
smoked
That there is personality in the cigars
smoked by different men and BIZ their
way of smoking them is attested by
the relic Of one OF Joseph Chamber
lain's cigars. Put a monOcle On that
cigar and It would look like the prime
minister. 1t is slender. Of the exagger-
ated panatelIa shape. almost a stOgie
shape, and it Is made Of finest and
most exquisite top leaf Virginia to-
bacco with full Havana wrapper The
manner of smoking, as revealed by the
stub. shows something Of the character
inserted between the teeth of the
British leader was hardly marked, llav-
ing been held daintily between the teeth
and lips, and, although it was smoked
during one of the sternest crises of the
English nation, it was smoked coolly
and deliberately and burned evenly
down to an inch and half The cigar
was smoked on the terrace Of the house
during one Of the Boer war crises, and
was picked up by an American friend
of Attorney Barnes, who treasured it
for him.
The "butt" of ]. Pierpont Morgan's
cigar, as shown in the Barnes colIec-
ton, is typical of the man. The cigar
is fat, black and strong, smoked less
than half way down, and evidently
smoked rapidly because it burned un-
evenly and far down at one side. The
tobacco in the cigar is the finest in all
the collection, as the multi-millionaire
orders his own cigars made and pays
over 81 each for them, smoking as many
as 25 a day and seldom smoking one
more than half way down. He chews
the cigar heavily, showing nervousness.
Another treasure is the stub OF a
cigar smoked by President Grant few
months before his death--one of those
that helped kill him, according to anti
tobacconists. The cigar is a cheap one.
possible three for quarter grade
and of dark Connecticut tobacco with
a Cuban wrapper, and it was among
the last cigars smoked by the famous
general before he died.
Another gem is one of ,Bismarks ci-
gars-one of the rare ones that he
smoked as an interlude between puffs
at his pipe. Attorney Barnes paid $1OO
for the cigar. which was smoked at a
banquet in Berlin. The cigar is less
than half smoked, and is bitten nearly
through, showing the grim old Ger
mans habit of biting his pipe stem
violently.
There are four Of Grover Cleveland's