The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-02
COULD BE DONE WITH CIGARS.

There were 1898, ,S7o,7S5 cigars
of all kinds smoked in the United
States last year. They cost all prices
from the Pittsburg stogie at three for
nickel to the two for a quarter that
senators use, but the average that is
smokes Is the scent cigar.
If all the cigars consumed during
the years were laid end to end they
would reach a distance of 63I, ,226
miles they would circle the earth at
the equator twenty-five times and if
laid from Washington to San Francis
CO they would make a pathway of
seventeen and one-half feet wide and
If from the White House to the capitol
t he senators and representatives
would have boulevard of over two
and half miles wide to walk on when
they visited the President.
They would completely cover the
Washington monument and grounds
and there would be enough cigars left
to keep "Uncle" Joe Cannon supplied
for the next ten years. If they were
laid in apile 100 feet square they would
reach height of five and half miles
and would weigh 67,oo6 tons. The
ashes would weigh 2,o82 tons. If
they were all made by hand it would
require 3,Ioo,35o cigarmakers to
make them and all the smokers would
have 70 smoke three cigars each day
in the year to consume them. Every
time the clock ticks during the "a
hours of each day there are 2,4o1
cigars sold.
To light the cigars it requires 2o,-
864, 392 boxes of matches which are
composed of ,o78 tons of wood and
4o tons of sulphur and birthstone.
If cigar was given to each man
and they stood side by side they would
circle the earth 1912 times, making
a ring of smoke I mile wide around
the world, and if each man was re-
required to dig one day in the Pana-
ma canal it would take just three
weeks to finish it. If they stood on
each others shoulders the top man
could talk to the man in the moon
and examine the rings on Saturn.
At fifty cigars to box it requires
15o,o77,S76 boxes, which consist of
I85,754,452 square feet of lumber,
that would take train of 4,64o cars
to carry it and would extend dis
tance of ffty-three miles. 1t would
take sixty of the largest locomotives
to haul the train.
If the boxes were laid end to end
they would make bridge from the
Jamestown exposition to London,
England, three feet four inches wide.
And if laid from Washington to the
North pole, Lieut.. Peary would have
a boardwalk three feet one inch wide,
and have one box left to put on the
top of the pole.
They would make fence complete
1Y around the United States and there
dIstryct OF ColumDia. fney WoGTd
build tower of jamestown eight
Paris.
At s cents each the cost would be
5000, o44, 49,. rs, which is $I5.45 for
every man, woman and child in the
United States. If the money was d.
vided among the states, each would
get IS, 887 !, ,664, and it would give H.
goo men In each state SIS week for
one year. The money would educate
SOC, ITO students at Yale college
each year. 1t would build fifty first
class battle ships. If it were all in
nickels it would weigh Io,4I4 tons.
If it were in 81 bills the President
could walk on path of dollars FIVE
feet wide to the Panama canal.
The money would support II8, 500
families of FIVE comfortably, and give
them all the clothes that was needed,
besides allowing them to go to the
theater twice each week for one year.