The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-06
The Pattersons Again
in Ring Large Fac !
tory Established.
LITTLE ROMANCFL
OF PIPE SMOKING
How the Pipe Was M AIDE Uni
versally Popular-New Estab-
lishment Will Add lover
Quarter of Million Dol
lars to Richmond Wage
Farmers Pay Rolls.

Times-Dispatch sevcrfhl days ago thai
the Pattersons are again in the tobacco
manufacturing BUSINESS In this city
has been received Will no little pleas
ure by all who hnv'e tho interests OF
Greater Richmond atf heart The name
Patterson is SO intimately associated
with the tobacco business In this city
that It seemed odd when NJ c. and
j. I. Patterson we're off the market
and the entire community. as we'll as
the tobacco fraternity. is rejoiced 10
know that they we're out of The bust
ness only temporarily The new es-
tabliahment Is the Patterson Brothers
TOBACCO Company Incorporated, and
st starts out In business with ample
capital and years sof practical and most
succeHsful experience The company
first absorbed the Gordon Cheroot
Company. manufacturers of the cele-
brated Green Turtle cheroots and
other smoking Goods Of the cigar kind.
and arc now actively pushing that
branch of tho business. By July LIST
the company Will have tho smoking
tobacco department of their immense
factory frl full blast and have upon
the market several new brands Of pipe
smoking tobacco. made and blended
after formulas Of their own, producing
superior pipe smoking goods. The Pat
ness all of their lives. and have made
a. lifelong study Of tho art of blend
ing and mixing the weed and prcpar-
Ing II for the lover Of the pipe.
The Pipe To the Front.
SO nucceesful have they been IN this
particular line. il may be said. that
the Pattersons have built up the habit
of pipe smoking in this country. Fiji
teen or twenty years ago there was
not over one-third Of the quantity OF
tobacco smoked in the pipe In this
country az is the case to-day. II is
true that thousands. even millions OF
pounds OF graduated tobacco was
smoked. but IL was ainly in the fac
tory-made and home made cigarettes
Com pa rativeiy few smokers possibly
less than n third. used tho fiuc-curcd
granulated tobacco in the pipe, nc
cause no way had been discovered to
keep the stuff from biting and blister
ing the tongue The heavy pipe
smokers in the North and out West
used a plug smoking tobacco because
of It's mildness etc. To prepare il for
the pipe when ready for smoke they
had to slice IL with q knife from the
plug. then granulaie IL by rolling In
the hand before transferring IL to the
pipe. This took time and patience.
The old Patterson factory established
in this city half a century ago by
the father Of the present tobacconists
OF that name. manufactured this plug
smoking to large extent.
Meeting Smokers Wants.
Jim Patterson. the student chemist
and inventor ~ the old concern. con
ceived tho idea OF slicinE the plug for
the smoker before it left the factory
Machinery for this work was invented
and thus the now popular cut-plug
smoking was horn Latcr on he said
tho factory ought 80 also roll the cut
plug, and tho machinery for that pur-
roFc was conirivcd. and tho rolled cut
plug was horn
His next idea was !" Crannlate
tobacco for tho pipe that had all OF
tho mildness necessary to overcome the
tongue biting and histcrng trouble.
and vet carry auficicn, strength to
satisfy the smoker IT required some
knowledge Of chemistry and u great
deal of EXPERIMENTATION in tho mat
ter OF blending and mixing TO accom-
plish this. but Jim Patterson and his
associates " re equal to the occasion
md in time rouEht things to pass, aid
very soon tie old-timc Patterson cSn-
Germ became the largest manufacturers
of pipe smoking goods in the country
There was no secret about the meth
DDS of making the goods. a, least none
that could be kept hid under bushcl
and other up-to-datc manufacturers
caught on. and thus in decade. the
cheap cigar tho home made cigarette
and the long plug smoking tobacco
had been forced from the head of the
GLASS In the smoking world. and the
ripe had gone to tho front. Since that
time tho annual consumption OF pipe
smoking tobacco has increased In this
country thirty or forty million pounds |
Could Not Stny Away.
The old Patterson Tobacco Company
became "A branch OF tho American To-
bacco Company. aud when the disso-
luton came was entirely absorbed by
st. M c. Peterson became vice, presi-
dent of the now American and moved |
TO New York. and the others retired |
from the business. But New York did |
not suit the ono and the others could |
not keep out of the tobacco business |
and moreover they loved Rirhmond |
saw an opening here for another great
Patterson factory, and to Richmond |
they came again. The Patterson |
Brothers Tobacco Company, lncorpo-
rated Is oficeredt as follows NJ C. |
Patterson. president; John Lahdstreet |
first vice-prcsidcnt; James II. .Patter- |
son. second vlce-president; j. S Hut
Gibson, third vice-presidcnt and treas |
urer. These with Henry FAIRFAX, com
pose the board OF directors.
The company has acquired the i'm
mense factory Mt Twenty-sixth and
Main Streets. which for many years
has been known as tho Cullingsworth
tobacco factory, and arc having 1t re-
modelled and enlarged.
The factory is TO be equipped With
up-to-date machinery, and when ali of |
this work IS completed. say. about me
last of June, the factory will have a
capacity of from 100000 to 100000
pounds Of smoking tobacco per year.
and the cheroot and cigar department
q capacity OF from 100, 900. 900 to 1!5.-
100000 oheroots and cigars. When |
the combined factories get well to
work, along by the fall months. the
outlay for wages for labor will b. at
the rate OF about $260,000 per anium.
10 say nothing OF salaries for offl,ers