Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-11
LAMENT PASSING
Of OLD CLAY PIPE
Youths of Today Do Not Take
to Smoke Popular Years
Ago.

The clay pipe is passing. Perhaps
! Il wouiG be nearer the truth to
write that the clay pipe has passed
1t might be unsafe to prophesy that
! it will never come back, because the
clay ppe when well used has a
strength and persistency all its own.
The clay pipe was once the pet of
! the labofer and the pride of the
WorkinG man.
The clay pipe was the pipe of men
who did a mans work.
Can You not remember, and of
course you can, that when a group
of those real workingmen gathered
under the shade of a tree or the lee
of a wall for lunch, that after the
tin bucket had been emptied the
strong man probably W ped his mouth
with the back of his brawny hand
and then he would produce a Cay
pipe bl2ckened with reek and fire?
Il had sometimes a very short stem.
Ii was a hot smoke he sought and
not q cool one.
Can you not rememer with what
loving care and elaboration he filed
and patted the pipe with chips of
tobacco he had Whitfield from a big
black plug? Can yon not remember
how he lighted one of those blue
head sulphur matches and shielded it
with his hairy hands, waiting for the
flame to come clear and red? And
then the content Of such smoke.
Used for soap Bubbles.
Watch the laborers Of today and You
will see that the mature or ripper of
them are smoking wood pipes-briars.
they call them-and that the younger
workers are smoking cigarettes. So
1t is that the clay pipe is passing-has
passed. But let tobacconist tell this
story in his own way.
Young man, you want a clay pipe?
| don't have many calls for that kind
of pipe nowadays, except from chill
dren who want to blow soap bubbles,
and from some folks who want to
give a smoker and provide a box OF
clean clay pipes for their guests.
Twenty. thirty forty years ago 7
used to sell great many of those
pipes to smokers. The white clays
called 7. D.'s sold for a cent each.
The yellow clays with the reed stem
sold for two cents each, and the red
ot Powhatan sold for ten cents for
the bowl and five cents for the stem.
But they had their run. Nearly every
pipe smoker now calls for q briar
-, - iiO' 'Sft'iS "i'3
truly a brian. Poor men want q hard
rubber mouthpiece, q bone mouth
piece, an imitation amber and in
MANY cases n genuine amber mouth
piece. Just now there seems to be
quite a run on specially prepared
curncobi pipes and ealabashes, but
nine out OF ten pipes are made out
OF wood and the old-lasl1ioned clay is
rot IN the running.
The red Powhatan of our youth
was a fine pipe. 1t was cut out Of a pc
cuilaf RED pipestone In Virginia. one
FAMILY made them for the market for
many years. some pipemakers began
To initiate them by molding them
OUT OF red cay. The real PoWhatan
Wueh II became iuu,, could be burnt
our ana WGono be pure and sweet, but
the el53 tQWiiatai} 1&puld crack.
r. First, Popular la Engiand. sh
The clay Eptpe early attained great
popularity jn F.ngland- and Ireland
IT 81 believed that the first tobacco
pipe Waa taken into England by+Hal h
Lane, first governor of Virginia.. in
1885. He gave this pipe to Sir Walter
ya!elgp. " was the. pfpe Whlch8set
Ite M, i9i,Nn ~
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tbara - iii ~ 60 ~
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M S'aS PIP vas Mi"eiy sillofHed.
there mere Aere S IeaS Gay plpe-Hla sing
IetoIoi res az l, 5.o seleS' u 9ta!lofushiFe
anu at AIi,espury III "rItshlre IN the
seventeenth century Inc cray was
pressed INTO IRON holds with a wire
through the stem, Which was drawn
out before baking. Ine pipes were
tlred, but so ishtiy that the clay
remained quite SOFT and porous. Pipes
were made not only of clay, but of
wood, horn, bone, stone, amber. glass
and porcelain.
In the East especially in China and
Japan. pipe bowls were made of
brass. The porcelain bowl with the
long pendulous stem became the ia
vorite pipe of the German peasantrv.
and I'm Turkey. the red CLAW l,o,,,I ,,,ifh
the cherry stem came In no tho nina
of the neople American nione,,.s
very. commonly made thei,- ninas b,,
burning Tho min o,,t ~ - -, -
and INSERTING raad .,tar, O0'
INDIANS smoked Them.
American Indians had been smok-
ing tobacco in pipes for unknown
ages before the coming of Europeans.
Pipes are found in the Indian burial
mounds throughout the Mississippi
Valley, and great many of these
pipes are to be seen In museums.
Many of the old Indian pipes were
made from red pipe-stone, and "a
quarry of this, thought to have been
worked by Indians in days prior ia
the advent OF the whites. exists in