Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-18
RICHMOND DESTINED TO
Be CIGARETTE CENTER
biggest Factory on Earth Here
One still Larger Commenced.
Great Activity Is Coming.

gentleman Interested in the to-
bacro industry in general and the
cigarette making branch Of 1t lin
particular. whose business has re-
quired him 10 investigate the labor
question, so far rs IL pertains TO Gig
arctic and cigar manufacturing. has
recently been heard TO express The
opinion. as result OF his investi-
who work in the cigarette and cigar
factories Of Virginia do better work
and moro OF IL Ia tho hour tnan the
women and girls in any other parI
He declares that they work faster
and better stamping. labelling ana
hour than do the women and girls
in any of the Northern or Western
rigarette factories od anN OF the
S osTs on exssp, ha
It may be due n some measure 20
the climatc-thc intermediate climate.
as he expresses a,, II, In vi5Ein!a' !,
the harsh Northern winter or the
enncrTating heat Of the far Southern
air troubles the girls and the women
and they work and sing through thu
day IN a WY that shows up larger
rNsuirs n st~e way OF completed
packages when the count for the day
Richnoud ns Grcnt Cigarette Center.
This may or may not account, for
the fact that Richmond is destined
cigarette manufacturing for the
whole world. Bu; such il the fact At
any rate. Already more cigarettes
are manufactured in this city than
most people here have any dream of.
and the time is not far distant when
The output will be largely more than
double its present gigantic proper
tions.
The Export Leaf Tobacco Com
rany. at its immense plant in the
ha N .ef rlf-
not a package OF III" product OF this
plan, Is smoked IN this country. the
output being exclusively for export.
Thu cigarettes made In this Rich
inond factory 20 all over Europe and
Asia, and there is ample evidence
smokers Is growing by leaps and
bounds in these foreign lands every
day.
Pioneers Going Over the TOP.
The old Alien & Ginter factory. the
pioneer in the business. now par;
and parcel OF the gigantic business
OF the LigEett X Myers Tobacco Com
pany. Is an enormous cigarette
ing plant. and. rs has been noted in
me local columns OF this paper from
time to time recently. is soon TO b.
now IS
The contractors who have the lob
OF building the factory for Liggc,,
& Myers. to cover an entire city bIrck.
have commenced the preliminary
work and in time six-story huildi.,s
that, with the inner courts and flower
plots. etc, will take up ali IN" space
bounded by Sixth. Fifth. Cary and
Canal Streets. And. /; is now claimed
that then the old pioneer will he the
largest cigarette manufacturing plant
= in the world. that is unless tina En-
port people and some other cigarette
making people do some wonderful
growing in the meantime. The Llg-
gc,t 4 Myers Co sell cigarettes in
every nook and corner OF America
and IN many foreign lands
Richmond are Patterson Rro,hcrs
Tobacco Company. Larns & Brother
Co. Inc. T.. ~ Ware Tobacco Com
nany. Falk Tobacco Company. United
states Tobacco Company and per
haps others on a smaller scale. and
all OF these are increasing their out :
put rapidly 10 meet the growing de-
mand all over tho world for the con
vc1icut little smokers
And now comes the news that L