The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-07-21
COLLECTS CIGAR STUBS.
New York Millionaire Has the
Strangest Fad Ever
Known.

owner of perhaps the strangest col
lection of any person in the world.
His one fad is 10 collect the cigar
stubs of famous men, and he has a
collection of over 1000 butts" of
cigars that have been solace or com
fort To the tobacco lovers of the
last 80 years. His collection en-
braces the stubs thrown away 10y
Presidents. Kings, Emperors, pre-
tenders, millionaires. senators.
Speakers Of the House, Congress
men. candidates for the Presidency.
great Generals and other famous
men Of his time.
For the last 30 years he has been
saving. labelling and recording the
unique souvenirs. and servants in
palaces. walters at banquets and
Others have found il 10 their profit
10 bring 10 him the remnants of de-
lcious smokes of great men pro-
viding they can prove beyond a
doubt that the relic Of past enjoy
ment is bona hda.
II is hard Ia deceive Mr. Barnes,
he knows his men and he knows cl-
gars. He has the pecularities Of
smokers. Ii is said that if he We're
given the stub of a cigar smoked 10y
any Of the great men of to-day he
could tell almost al 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 10y the way cigars
are chewed. or not chewed. by the
way they are marked with the teeth,
by their length. 10y 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 collec-
ton is one of black. slender. pan
tella shaped cigar of Havana tobac-
co that once was held between the
teeth os William Of Germany. and
beside it is the cork tipped, crested,
highly favored stub of a cigarette.
with part of the Black Eagle of
Germany showing of 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-flled
perfecto that was smoked by King
Edward VII of England The cigar
was smoked by him on board his
royal yacht a year ago. The brand
is a special one prepaid for the ruler
by a firm in Havana. and the cost is
81 each in lots of 1000.
The butt" of j. Pierpont Nor
gan's cigar. as shown in the Barnes
collection, 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 unevenly and far down at
one side. The tobacco in the cigar
is the finest in all the collection, as
the northumberland orders his own
cigars made and pays over 81 each
for them, smoking as many as rs IA
day and seldom smoking one more
than half way down. He chews the
cigar heavily. showing nervousness.
Another treasure is the stub of ci-
gar smoked by President Grant a
few months before his death one
Of those that helped kill him, ac-
cording to anti-tobacconists. The
cigar is cheap one, possibly three
for-a-quarter grade, and of dark
Connecticut tobacco with Cuban
wrapper, and it was among the last
cigars smoked by the famous Gener-
al before he died.
Another gem is one Of Bismarck
cigars one of the rare ones that he
smoked as an interlude between
puffs at his pipe. Attorney Barnes
paid 500 for the cigar, which was
smoked at banquet in Berlin. The
cigar is less than half smoked, and is
bitten nearly through, showing the
grim old Germans habit of biting
his pipe stem violently.
There are four of Grover Cleve-
lands remnants in the collection and
all different, showing that Cleve-
land is not discriminating smoker,
although two of the cigars are from