The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-13
SANITARY CIGAR
 SARGENT OUTPUT
Automatic Machine That VIII Turn Out 60,OO0 a Day
 Being Constructed
M. B. Ryan lnve 1tive Genuis Associated With the Sargents
 Talk With ID. H. Sargent

1t has remained for two Bridgeport
 men. D. A. Sargent and M. B. Ryan to meet and satisfy the long. insist snt and constantly lncreas ng public demand for a sanitary cigar. In other words. cigar that Is made in such hygienIc surroundings that there can be no possible doubt In the mind Of the public as to the cleanliness Of the cigar in question.
 Mfr. Sargent. together with his brothers Allston and P. N. are the founders of the Sargent Cigar & stockholders. together with MT. Ryan who IS one of the most noted .nven, tors In the country. His electric welded chain making mach .nes have revolutionized the chain making in- dussry of the United States, and have made fortunes for all interested In them. f. In the past eighteen months Mr. Sargent has received hundreds of let ters asking If the gars of his firm der hygienic conditions. The volume of these inquiries and the insistent manner of their repetition, made MT. Sargent realize more keenly than ever that this was vital question on the smokers of the country.
 
 play his knowledge of mechanics. and started to perfect an automatic san- itary cigar machine: later associating with Mir. Ryan in working out the completed machine The brains and experience of both men were centered upon one thing. the perfection of machine wh oh should turn out ci. Rars of faultless workmanship and not be touched by human hands dur ing the process of converting the raw
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 The inventors realized that with such . machine. constructed along practical working lines. it would rev. olutiofize the cigar-mak business of the world. and aside from making asainst ali the skin and Blood dis e ses. with the attendant agony, which the medical profession attri- butes to cigars made In surroundings of unknown and unreal'zed filth.
 s1rr. m .aS ct w ss matter nerseas sSaay mr automatic machine with a capacity of e0.000 cigars a day. From the mo- ment the tobacco is fed to the ma- chine ifi the same cond tion it Is plac- ed before the hand cigar maker. un- pa Der. ready for cor1sun ption. the to- hacco has not been touched by human hands in the various stages of evolu- tIon from the leaf to the finished cigar Eyrry pit Of tn the tg TorE has ,bs been
 "There fs something intensely hu- man about its workings, it selects the filler. rolls and binds t. then puts on the wrn-~er. rolling and finishing the end and choppins 1t off at the proper length. There is no possible chance for human hands to touch the cigar even in packing them in boxes for the trade as each cigar Is wrapped in air and moisture proof paraffine paper. wh ch Is sealed before 1t leaves the machine. The first person to touch the cigar is the smoker himself"
 "The smoking public has little idea of the conditions under which the ma- 1orfty of cigars are made. The room, in which cigar maters usually work is dirty. illy-vent lated and dark. The workers are not personally clean, Their hands are usually filthy The paste. which is used to secure the end of the cigar. in the majority of instances is a mass Of dirt dead reaches and other nauseous things. A nice thing that end of a cigar. for a man to place in his mouth If you have ever noticed it. a naval officer never bites off the end of his Hahana. but uses a knife cutting far down on reasons as he has seen the Cuban cigar maker work
 "rt Is these unsanitary conditions and surroundines that spread disease, and believe that o-n of the reasons why 50 many smokers are afflicted with that incurahle ralady. cancer can be traced 'r' gft back to the filth in cigar making" ."T.et us look on the economic side of the automatic sanitary cigar ma chine for a minute. The machine has . capacity of 60."V0 cigars a working day and requires three men to feed toba eco. The most skilled and rapid workmen can make but 300 cigars a day. 50 the machine. VII do the work of 2eo experts ;on filling; oindinT ana s,a ana n, sars will be absolutely uniform. there win not be the slightest variation. A cigar maker earns about s6 a day; as our machine does the work of POO in wages not deducfine the pay of the three men Necessary to feed the l machine with tobacco. Last year in the United states alone there were made e.es7 774s15 cigar: WV weighing .hi1. sand. and 04302s s5e cigars weighing | less than three pounds to a thousand. | a total of TITO SnS 474 cigars. num- 1 Der that the human brain cannot grasp. On the basis of 300 wort'ng { Ssyi c,s tr yrar out enf is co Sr eesra year: while one skilled workman working for a year at top speed. would only equal bne days nroduct | Of fine marh'ne. If we had ss7 ma chimes wo-tfne we could roake near lv the total amount of cigars made | in the United States"
 ''ft Is our purpose to make all the | cf<ars sold ny the Sa~~ent Ct9a~ & P1anfsfinn Go, with th's machine. and prohat1v to erect a model sani- ta~v cfear factory hera in which to rate fhem The machine only ta,res | ID about ten souare feet of floor fnscp. snd if ie cr- intention to have flhe room in which the machines aye iy,4tasseA 1irAd with elass so thst | everything will he sanitary in the stsactsst sense of the word."