The Washington herald., 1909-01-13
CLuny Lace Curtains.

\ new lot Of Cluny Lace Cur
tains, purchased for this sale .
offered AZ - ~;al - =..sssstion in
met win rebuhs from some
mao business men who had their heads
turned toward oranges and tourists. Jus;
rs they were about TO depart for Mobile
one man came 10 the point and offered
hem land upon which 10 build their fac
tories
That is how Tampa became the clear
Havana cigar emporium Of the world
row Key West lost its supremacy. and
how Mobile, by mere chance, missed get
ting q rich industry The first factories
which came 70 Tampa were established
by men whose names are now known
wherever there IS an eye &C read the
label on a cigar box How these factories
have grown, how some OF them have
passed under the control Of the trust, how
others are still fighting as Independents
how Tampa overcame 4 trade prejudice
against its name. how strikes and other
troubles were met and settled-all these
things are now a part Of the peculiar
history Of the cigar trade.
It may be interesting. even 70 those
not in the trade. 10 study the Tampa
method OF getting rid OF troublesome Ia
Dor agitation The cigarmakers are near
" all Cubans. They get good wages. they
have many privileges which are not ac-
corded any other class OF factory labor
ers, and they have many excellent Co
operative benefits which were imported
from Cuba They got along with their
employers very well until a grOup OF
American agitstors made their aupear-
ance. Demand after demand made upon
the employers was granted, but each tine
q concession was made the agitators
would ask for more. Without Judging
the merits Of the case. and without con-
doning the illegality Of the measures ia
ken one must admit that the manufac-
turers settled the troubles effectively.
The aEitstOrs and labor leaders were
kidnapped, bound, gagged and taken
aboard a convenient schooner which was
lying at anchor in the bay This schoon-
er. a low, rakish craft, made OF at once
TO the south In due course Of time the
labor agitators were marooned in the
most approved fashion Of the Spanish
Main upon a small island of the South
American coast. That ended the labor
troubles
Tampa Is one Of the chis' sufferers
sentimentaIly from the Spsnish-AmerIcan
war. Ten years ago the commercial
Tampa was in its infancy. Civic i'm
provement had not been undertaken. The
streets were mere trails covered with
loose sand a foot deep. There were no
convenieuces for the multitude The war
correspondents came here TO report the
embariSation Of the expeditions 70 Cuba
They told the truth about Tampa, and il
hurt. II they we're to return to-day. they
would look in vain for the deep sand
on thL miles and niles Of well paved
streets; they would find an absolute
change. Where they knew a struggling
village. they would find modern city
What the east coast OF Florida owes TO
Henry ". Flagler, the west coast once
owed 20 Henry 3. Plant, whose name viii
be forever connected with this section
Plant attempted to build a great com
mercisl city II Port Tampa, eight miles
farther down the bay, but that venture
ended in disaster. Tampa Is the real
city. the real porI. and viii soon have as
deep water ss its whilom rival At this
time Port Tampa Is nothing more than
a transportation outpost for the older
city
Sportsmsn who have cast lines into all
waters say that the fishing on the west