The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-07-11
OST domestic cigars are
manufactured of tobac-
CO grown in Virginia,
Georgia and Kentucky.

lcEH2X<EiU manufactured OF GOOac-
IE&MB8RH co grown in Virginia,
tNAglB Georgia and Kentucky.
When the farmers crop is ready
he delivers it as per agreement to
the warehouses, (who, by the way,
monopolize this product). 1t is
then cured and baled, ready for
shipment to the middlemen and
jobbers. Up to the present time
no jobber has succeeded in obtain
ing this product direct from the
farmer because of the monopoliz-
ing company who manage to keep
the farmer in their clutches by
holding over him mortgages,
promisory notes and other con-
tracts preventing him from acting
Independently. Should he rebel
he faces destruction.
A large quantity of tobacco for
the domestic cigar also comes from
Cuba: these we call Havana cigars
and are to be bought only in high
grade smoke shops" From the
jobber .he tobacco goes direct to
the cigar manufacturer, where the
weed" is moistened and put into
heatless rooms for about "a hours,
in order to allow the leaves to be
handled without breakage.
Classed by manufacturing pro-
cesses there are three varieties of
domestic cigars: l. The machine
made. 2. The team made. 3. The
strictly hand made.
We will eliminate the machine
made cigar, which is known to the
trade as the push-the-button varie-
ty, pressed and shaped by rollers.
its productive capacity is about
1000 for every working hour.
The team made cigar consists of
a stripper, buncher, filler and
wrapper. The stripper's work is
to strip the stem out of the leaf
and to separate the latter; the
shorter ones to be used as inside
filters, the larger and uncracked
ones as outside wrappers. The
buncher's part is to see that the
right allowance of filings should
be placed in each inner binder.
The filters job is much more com.
plicated; he has to wrap the bunch
into the inner filler, known as a
binder, and place the same in the
mold where it remains for 30
minutes under pressure. 1t then
passes to the last team hand known
as the wrapper. Upon him lies
the entire responsibility of the
finished cigar; he must possess
skill for adjusting the outside leaf
called wrapper.
Wages for the team cigar makers
are: Shippers (women), SO to $12
per week; bunchers (women), $40
to $3.50 per week; filters (men),
$14 to $18 per week; wrappers
(men), $18 to $27.5O per week.
To properly make hand made
cigars is an art and trade by itself.
It is there that we use the clear
Havana; there is the perfect leaf;
there is craftsmanship that is called
art; it is there that the inside long
filler produces that fine flavor
known as aroma. Therefore, the
clear Havana has got to be a per-
feet hand made cigar produced by
skilled men who turn out the cigar,
from punching and shaping the
filler to the touch that curls the tip.
The operation of the hand made
cigar is paid for at the rate of $16
to $27.5O per 1000. The team
cigar is sometimes called hand
made, though with rank injustice
to the real and skilled hand made
cigar maker.
Thus, we. have taken you
through the cigar factory and if
you are a good observer you should
have come to the conclusion that
with all the above mentioned diff
culties the cigar is yet long ways