The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-14
HANS TAKES TO SHORT PIPES
BULLDOG REPORTED TO M
STPPLANTING CHINA STOVE.

It's EnGilsh. Ven Knew neatly. HSweSeT.
Many 90 inc EnglIsh DullaoGs Are
Made IN NuFemberg. where They Also
Make the TOPS and the Lebkuehen.
Il 10 not long sIncs an American wh~
discovered Germany brought bach the
intelligence that the Germans Wers giving
up beer and going in for champagne
and now comes q German traveller Who
says that long stsmmsd pipes are going
out Of fashion over there. the theory being
that tho modern Tsuton hasn't the time
to walt for the smoke TO reach him through
the pipe Of his ancestors. The same
thing happened once in Nleuw Amstsr-
darn.
A. Eckert Of N0rnbsrg. or Nuremberg
~ the English and Americans call Il.
10 nc tho Imperial. Mr.. Bckert says that
Nuremberg makes other things than the
toys and lebkuchen for which IL 10 mainly
famous. For one thing there are pipes.
Mr.. Eckert IL in the pipe business and he
says that his firm 10 ono % the oldest
pipe making concerns In the world. In
fact they were making briar pipes scores
u years before the Germans Who were
not Interested inthe business got On % II
And the briar pipe did not originate in
England at all. according TO Mr.. Eckert,
but in France. The English ussd 20 get
their short pipes from France and Ger
many until comparatively q few years
ago. when they took up the manufacturs
themselves.
For years the Nuremberg product was
shipped outside ~ Germany and the
native chung TO the common wooden or
clay or neerschAum pipe with its long
cherry wood stem. When the Germans =
few years ago got 10 going over 60 Eng
land IN large numbers. precipttsting the
scare that they we're spying out the land.
tho travellers were astonishcd 10 die
cover that almost every man that rode
on the top Of bus smoked q short briaF
pipe. Though naturally slow 90 take up
an innovation come Of the visitors invested
IN short pipes, decided they we're easier
to mana ge and then went homo with the
new pipes in their mouths only TO dis-
cover that for years and years similar
pipes had been manufactured in their
own country and even that some Of those
in Germany Thus began the demand
81 the German smoker at homo for the
short briar pipe
'Most Of the briar root used in the manu-
"a cture Of pipcs nowadays oomss from
Corsica. said Mr.. Ecksrt. Fifty years
NnT shHRty C9hnS ITptu INC TyTSur<-4-
II takes about an hour To turn out the
average briar pipe with an amber stem.
but OF course . gross OF moro can DO
turned out in tho same time. Amber 10
found generally only In small lumps.
In fact 30 rare 10 II that q piece longer
than two inches IL found that q cigarette
holder two and q half inches long. % solid
amber. 10 worth from 80 10 tiS according
10 the color and the beauty Of the piece
-Of course there are the amber mouth
piscNs and cigarette holders that are made
by compression 81 smaller pieces which
are much cheaper. Then there 10 the
imitation amber. which 10 very cheap
and which 10 made % nothing but pressed
milk and cheese. mixed With a little glue.
England 10 rho greatest pipe using
country according TO the population.
The demand 10 merit greatest In south
Africa. and ! believe IL n third in the
United States Here 80 many more pso-
pie smoke ciGars than in England. In
Germany people have hem much given
90 smoking ciGar too. 80 cigars have
be-n very cheap over there. but aimee
last summer. when q tariff Of rs per cent.
was put on them. people have been taking
10 smoking the short pipe q great deal.
while the old part % NNrnberx 10
being kept 40 nearly itself A. poeaible
the outskirts Of the city are being built
up with magnificent residences. The
toy trade 10 growing fast. and many men
have made hig fortunes out Of the busi-
nes@ There are some firms that devote
their attention to one or two kinds Of
small. simple toys. turning out millions
If fhs.as,