The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-11-03
FAKE NEWS STORY
ABOUT BRUNSWICK
SAVANNAH NEWS is ENJOYING
QUITE A NICE LITTLE
HALLUcINATION.

News of Wednesday:
Savannah is to have another cigar
factory in the near future.
The location of the new factory
has not yet been determined, but it
will in all probability be on Bay
street.
The new cigar company, to be
known as La Colonial Cigar company,
is at present located in Brunswick,
but the owners of the company, Jose
Hernida and Jose F. Morales, have
found that Brunswick is too small
field and have decided to come to
Savannah.
1T will be about three or four
months before the factory comes to
this city, inasmuch as it has large
stocks of goods to dispose of in
Brunswick. The factory will employ
from 25 to 100 people, and will have
capacity of from 5000 to 10000 ci-
gars a day. The cigars will be made
of Cuban tobacco, imported from Ha-
vana. In addition to manufacturing
cigars the firm will do a jobbing bus
mess in Havana tobacco, and VIII be
the American representative of Vidal
Cruth, a big Havana tobacco export
ing house.
Mr. Hernida and Mr. Morales, the
proprietors of the company, were m
Savannah yesterday and had confer
ences with Mayor Tiedeman and 10.
seph f. Gray, executive officer of the
chamber of commerce. Both Mayer
Tiedeman and Mr.. Gray assured them
that they would be offered every en-
couragement in establishing here
THE firm is two years old. It was
first established in Tampa, but the
strikes there caused so much trouble
that it was decided to move to Bruns-
wick. In the time it has been there
the firm has outgrown Brunswick,
and has decided to come to Savannah.
"The firm has a well established
business shipping as far north as Bal
timore and as far west as Chicago.
The owners of the company have been
in the business for many years and
are experienced in every branch Of
cigar manufacture. Mr.. Hernida Is
Spaniard and Mr.. Morales a Gu
ban. 4 37q W2l' :, -
"The expert cigarmakers of the
company will be brought here from
Tampa. Local help will also be hired.
An H. oiu,orc ,oorYfo ot,,rad Iv rho
company will be made by hand, the
prices ranging from 5 to Is cents.
"Mr. Morales and Mr.. Hernida, who
are stopping at the De Soto, said yes
terday that they believe there is a
good local field for their product, and
/ they are confident of making sue
cess Of the business here"
1t took a News representative about
three hours to locate this big plant
, of La Colonial Cigar company yes
! terday, but after diligent search it
was found in the dwelling house cor
ner of Newcastle and Howe streets
1t is of the buckeye variety" and
works one and two men sometimes,
I One Of the proprietors Of the mann
moth plant" is a cigarmaker who is
now employed at the Santa Clara fac
tory.
But it has outgrown Brunswick.
The large stock referred to in the
| Savannah paper probably means at
! least eighty 500 cigars and not less
| than four dollars and twenty cents
| ($42O) worth of tobacco, boxes,
stamps, etc, and various tools for the
many" now employed at the fac
tory" Taking this great proposition
! into consideration, of course the fac
tory has "outgrown Brunswick"
It will be noted that the firm ships
as far north as Baltimore and as far
west as Chicago. If this is the case
the big factory must use the aero
plane route as no railroad or express
company here knows of any such
! shipments or, probably, they shipped
! by mail as this is more in keeping
with the size of the factory. Hereto
fore, one Of the proprietors has been
peddling the output to suburban stores
and that they have "outgrown" Bruins
wick is a sudden jump from plain
"pot-licker" to champagne; they made
one leap from an OK cart to an Olds
thirty. There is no truth whatever in
the article in the Savannah News and
such statements as the one above do
Brunswick untold harm.
| No industry here "outgrows Bruns-
wick" Brunswick does the 'outgrow-
| ing"-but Savannah doesn't.