The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
Tn New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York. = Where there's smoke there's fire-and also, when q celebrity is smoking, there's like ly to be an interesting story ..
 J. P. Morgan, for example, will not touch any cigar other than his own special blend made in Ha- vana. Yet he's inclined to be a little offended, if some equally dis criminating smoker refuses one of the Morgan brand .. George Ar liss carries cigars which look ex- actly like the two-for-a-nickel sto- gies he smoked in less prosperous days. Yet the present ones are made to order and cost almost as much as MT Morgan's Frank Vanderlip, the financier, gets ci- gars at 10 cents apiece at any con- venient store. But William Green, president of the American Fedora tion of Labor, pays 60 cents each for his cigars, and puffs through 8 dozen a day.
 Cigar smoking isn't what it used to be. About the only luxury in which the late Calvin Coolidge in dulged were 80-cent cigars. Her. bert Hoover still orders a fine blend at $60 the hundred. Frank lin D. Roosevelt smokes cigarets, and cheap ones. Al Smith smokes cigars, but of an humble brand. EXTENSIVE PUTTING
 E , There still are tobacco connois- seurs, however, who sigh over yint- age tobacco and love to discuss color and leaf and firmness. They believe that a cigar is not worth smoking until 1t has aged at least ten years, so they store, their pana- tellas and perfectos in advance in some of tho humidor vaults main- tained by the. big houses such as Park and Tilford, and Dunhill.
 Albert Wiggin and Eugene Myer, the bankers, Clarence Mackay, Adolf Zukor' and owen Davis are some of those who go in for vim tage tobaccos., Douglas Fairbanks buys his long,-sblunt cigars in New York for $66x hundred Ihat's about an average price, though many smokers pay up to $96 a hundred. Park and Tiiford occasionally make up an 1y-inch size at $5 each. These are mostly for gifts, but; a Chicago million airei ordered a hundred of them TOT his yacht. ,.g,.s .slsS s John Mccormack and Galli Cur ci like long, sperialy-made, fil- tered cigarets. Most other opera singers, and actors. smoke prac- tically any kind. Society women seem to prefer medium priced English cigarets. .ssj .s . =
 CHAUTFEUR's REVENGE \
 Victims, of naggipg back drivers ought to appreciate the story of the worm that turned in airather spectacular way the other evening during the home-bound rush of traffic. x The worm was capable chauffeur who had worked for years for "a dithery old codger from Wall street.
 Every day they made thel trip downtown and back again at night. and every day the employer would berate the driver for go- ing too fast. or too slow, or for hitting too many bumps, or some- thing .s. We'll, the financial grampus was grumbling more bit- terly than usual recently, looking up from his evening papers to declare that if the chauffeur made another short stop like that he'd fire him. Pretty soon the car was halted by Q red light. and the chauffeur calmly locked the igni-l ton, got out, closed the door and walked away.
 Tn a few minutes traffic was jammed behind for blocks. The Wall street man read on, oblivious to the yells of drivers and the traffic cop put his head in the door and gave the old gentleman fear full bawling out. After ten more minutes of confusion the car was pushed into a side street. It couldn't be started and the chauf- feur couldn't be found. And he hasn't been seen since.