The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-29
CIGARS !. SjIT /
BY TH MILLIONS |. !. Ms
American Cigar Comp to More
Than#D Double Their Output s5l
in Richmond.
[IBEsT DIsTRIBU TING POINlT1
UJnfounded Rumors About Ameri-
can Absorbing the Retail Trade de-.
iii This City.

III It has been known for many months
past that the American Cigar Company
which is the olga r-mnking department OF
the American Tobacco Company, has
made gup Its mind to make Richmond It's
principal manufacturing point for cigars ar
and cheroots.t After carefu III inYestig tlon,
and after giving due consideration TO al, all
points Il In their immense territory the
great tobacco and cigar-naklng concern
has deliberately and definitely reached
the conclusion that r edmond Is the best
distributing point on their trade map
#and that map covers pretty much the
whole world. W N & lss
$aas The company n has i had a plant here FOR.
several years at Twenty-th third and Cary
Streets, blu t5now that they have DECIDED
gto& concentrate their cigar and cheroot-i
making business In this city, they Will
need vastly more room and tiles. 5E&;
@ Several Of the higher fticials Of H the
company have been in the Il city during
the past two weeks, and It Is no longer
q secret that 1t has been definitely decided
to largely more than dc BILE the ca acity
OF the company's factory at n Twenty
third and Cary, This will be done by
running the buildings up two or three.
more stories, and building on every inch
of ground the company owns at that
/ point. The entire block y Is g$ owned ca BY
the company, and the idea is to make It
q cigar and cheroot manufacturing block
Tremendous Pay Roll.
In the building. as 1t is now, bout $500
girls and men are employed, but COM
,paratively few OF them are olga r lers.
S5f The new factory will be 5devo ted excfu-s
Tsiyely to the manufacture Of cigars and
Echeroots. No cigarettes will Sbe turned
out, and smoking tobacco will not be
han lied. q The 5000 working force will roll
cigars and cheroots, and the outpus daily
will enormously exceed Ii the produc tive
capacity OF the biggest OF the big cigar
factories In the North. the Middle w est
or the Southern country. KS fs. #
X Much OF the work will be done by
new cigar-maklng machinery, I.
Direct to Consumers.
IN this connection, It is rumored that
the American Cigar Company Is leasing,
retail cigar and tobacco stands y in the
lcity,@an going largely INTO the distrtbu-
ton OF Its products direct to the con-
sumers IS thus squeezing out many COM
petitors In the retail line. II TX
IT Is said that they have secured a
lease at Q faRcy price OF the stand at
the corner OF Eleventh and Main Streets.
so long occupied py5 INV ana dFdHl !,
and that they have options on other
stands, the off, es at the corner OF Ninth
and Main. now occupied by the Norfolk
and Western Railway and the Atlantic
Coast Line. being among the places said
to have been taken In by them
How much or how little truth there
may be In these rumors remains to be
seen. All that Is positively known Is
that ThnW and Grant have been notified
by the owners that another party has
leased the stand at Eleventh and Main,
paying for It largely more In the way
of rent than that firm has heretofore
been paying. H..
hThaw and Grant have leased the prop
erty aat the southeast corner of Twelfth
and Main Streets, and will, when Their
lease expires at the old stand, open up
there In great shape. They say they
have no idea Of being run out OF the
business by the American Cigar and
Tobacco CompanIes or anybody else, }iiN