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C. A. ROST Sc CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA. E. A. GalVES ST (j^ Qo. <^jo^j> AVANA 123 N. THIRD
THE-TOBACCO WORLD IMPORTERS OF 8
^tHe TeB/ieeo Worlb^ NO TRVST IN MISSISSIPPI.

CHICAGO DEALERS SATISFIED. present oppressive tax on the sale ot PROTEST AGAINST TARIFF CUT.
cigarettes. As a matter of fact, it is
Best Xmais Trade in Years and New common knowledge New England Growers' Association Asks Governor Varda.man Turns Down Fisher
that there are hun- Law.
Congressmen to Prevent It. Tobacco Co. as a Violation of
Year Opening Up Well. dreds of saloons, fruit stores, etc., who
The New England Tobacco Growers' West Point, Miss, Dec. 29.
Chicago, Dec. 30. manage to sell cigarettes without paying
Association has placed itself on record as Governor Vardaman of this State has
The very good Christmas trade this
the tax. Of course works an im-
this
own being firmly opposed any further held up the charter of the Fisher Tobacco
to
'e.ir came of its accord, and, unlike mense mjustice
injustice to those legitimate and . .,,;,.,. ' j r- r.\ . ^ .u-. ^,..wj .u^. .u-.

reduction in the Philippine taritt, and is Co., of this city, on the ground that the
.
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)me seasons, did not have to be coaxed honest dealers
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who always make
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it
.
a , .^ u ., io. ..,
any such action, comoany of .1

.
. <^
-'
. niakimr efforts
making nreventanv
ptfnrts to prevent company'ss charter
,
is in violation of the :
much. Nearly all the down-town dealers point to comply with the law, and who
( lord LANCASTER,
In furtherance of this the association is spirit of the antitrust laws of the State,
lOci) made some attempt at special window- are the ones who are always held strictly
sending to each Senator or Representa- The charter was presented for executive
displays, but none of them were very accountable by the city authorities.
tive in the present Congress the follow- approval some weeks ago. and the ciov-
elaborate. More stress has been put on Miss Lucy
Speaking of cigarettes.
dated from Suffield, Conn. ernor's action was taken on account of a
Oil te Ui
than on fancy ing letter, :
the brands themselves

Page Gaston seems to have relieved the To aid the Philippines, the proposition clause in it which provides that any
trimmings and special holiday features.
city dealers from her vigorous attentions
that there shall be a further tobacco company or corporation domi
MANETOCIGAR While Chicago will in all probability take is made

have transferred her activi- reduction of the United States tariff on ciled in Mississippi or in any other State
of late and to
second place in this regard to no other
ties to the country. It is quite possible
Manufacturers, the products of those islands. of the Union, can hold stock in the
city, at the same time it must impress
that we may again hear of her in a very
^mong those products is tobacco, an West Point company.
one that more time could be ypent on forcible way in the city in the not far dis
The anti-trust laws of the State provide
615 M arket St., P hilada. the windows, not only for special occa-
sions, but through the year,
tant future.
and that it
article holding a most important place in
the agricultural economy of the I'nited that no corporation can hold stock in
States. To make a further reduction of another corporation, since only in this
GUHPERT 114 (NICKr LBY, 5c.) would be time profitably spent. CLERGYMEN HELP INDEPENDENTS the duties on Philippine tobacco would way can the State prevent combines, and
The year opens up with no special thus hinder one company from owni "g
transfer to those islands a very large
part .
changes in the trade. Not an important Won't Buy a.t United Cigar Co.'. Stores . . .
7^^ St which now

and controlling
supports the stock of all com-
BROS. N Channing Allen Co. change in buyers of the wholesale houses in Chicago. of the business
thousands of American citizens in the panies engaged in a similar line of busi-
and the retail field is curiously Chicago, Dec. 29.
is heard of,
cigar leaf growing districts of the United ness This is the first time this provision
Manufacturers ^^Philadelphia Manufacturers of
devoid of news. Two small jobbing Some of the clergymen of this city
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ôse investments in of the anti-trust law has been put into
concerns not yet up to, or rather down to seem to be finding new duties which
^^.^ ^^^^-^y^^^^ ^.^ ^f agriculture can operation in Mississippi.
the ground floor degree have started, belong According to one
HARTMAN & KOHN, FINE CICABS and of course they
proportions in time.
may grow to imposing of the
to their jobs.
local daily papers,
plugging hard for the
which has been
independents m
not well be turned to other use.
plan of reduction comes before charter until an amendment is made
If this
There
^^^ decision, we desire you to bear chminating the objectionable features, to

is no chance of securing the
Brummell & Buddinger is the name of their fight against the encroachments
of
.^ ^.^^ ^^^ interests of the tobacco which the Governor has called attention.
419 Locust St. a new firm that has started at 35-37
the United Cigar Stores Co.. many com-
^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^j^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^j^
munications pledging support have been ^^^r^^^^-
Randolph street. They will handle the -P
districts of the United WILL TEST TRADING STAMP ACT.
Philadelphia La Turina of the American West Indies received by the former from "bankers,
States. Before those principally affected will
clergymen, workmen and labor-
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 483G-A. Trading Company and other well known lawyers, Lest this appear as a blunt protest
^^^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ j^^ -^ ^y^^^^
brands.
ers. against aid justly due to a newly acquired chusetts, which taxes trading stamps,
CHALLENGES COMPARISON The Great Western Trading Company The article says
and unexploited dependency of the cases will be brought
coupons, etc., test
has been formed, with temporary quarters
A clergyman writes that after reading United States, we call your attention to
made prove the law
and strong efforts to
in the building at the southeast corner of 'be peculiarity of the leaf tobacco si.ua
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. White Knight will do a jobbing business, and the localities of trust
V^'.u"T-dtbLoT:st
Randolph and Dearborn streets. They inquiries of some of his flock as to the
stores, so that he could to tobacco culture and
h'/nTaTe
having supplies
tion, whereby all tropical countries suited
A member of the legal firm of Platzek
^ gtrooch, of New York, counsel for the
unconstitutional.
Jobbing and Wholesale Trade solicited.

FIVE-CENT CIGAR manager is Tom Farmer, formerly man- avoid bestowing his patronage by mistake ^f cheap labor are able to compete with ^^.^^^ ^.^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^'^ j^^^ ^^^^
MADE BY ager of the cigar department of White,
upon a trust store.
^^^ ^^^^ producers in temperate cli- _ - -.
Fall River, Mass., during last week in
To his satisfaction he found that those
Minor & Co. ^j^j^ protective tariffs. If it
consultation with City Solicitor Dubuque
Morris D. Neumann & Co. J. &
B. Moos have recovered entirely
of his flock who were using the weed
only posted
not oniy
were noi posicu cts lu the
as to
'"''^
iu-iiiui.a be the
mc locations destiny'
of
[
the Philippine
-- Islands
'
and David F. Slade, counsel for the

.
(Incorporated) They tobacco and cigars on a

from the effects of the recent fire.
of the trust stores, but all were also in to produce leaf ^^^^^ Trading Stamp Co., and it was
PHILADELPHIA, PA. had a new stock on the way a day or two sympathy with him to avoid them. large commercial scale, such an industry
^^^ conference was held with
^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^y^^
and are now back in their man of God in will surely develop there without further
after the fire, It is probable that this ^ ^.^^ ^^ bringing a test case for violation
Randolph street and of our present tariffs, which are
old location at his enthusiasm for a righteous cause reduction tax law at as early a date as ^^ ^j^^ excise
^^
'*The Philadelphia Michigan avenue.

new in association
extends his help directly from the pulpit
. _
such .
no 25 per cent advantage to ship tremen-

.
as allow tropical countries having
possible.
There is little that is and delivers notices something ^^^ American Tobacco Co., as told
like this:
A Matchless 5 cent Cigar.
The committee of the quantities of tobacco to the United
lircles. executive
'Remember the legular prayer service dous
. j,^^^ ^^^^1,^ has taken the stand that the
One of Roedel's Best [tional is looking forward with a good

on Wednesday evening at half past
êal of confidence to the annual conven- seven. We have received great spirit-
States in competition
The letter is signed
with
by
home
Edmund
growers,
H alia-
law was not meant to apply to coupons
of the nature of those used with tobacco.
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DEAL tion which takes place at the Sherman ual blessing at these services lately and day. president,
and Thaddeus Graves,
Samplet sent to Reputable Distributors commit- jelephoNE THIEVES ARE FOILED.
House on January 10. It will be a two- a full attendance is desired. Brethren E. N. Phelps and Frank Abbe,
Good responses have tee
days' session. are requested to get their smoking and
Extend Operations to Louisville and
been received from the active locals, and chewing at Blank's; all independent
Philadelphia Cigar Factory BURNED TOBACCO IN ORDER TO AC- Fail to Get Away With the Goods.
I an attendance sufficient to make the goods. Five-cent brands a specialty. GOVERNMENT FOR
COUNT TO IT.
The telephone order thieves have
W. K. ROEDEL CO., convention rich in accomplishment is Regular communion on next Sunday Revenue Collector Feather
EEKAHLER 41 N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA. assured.

I.
chairman of the advisory
Latzar,
morning at 10:30."
Deputy
burned about 150 pounds of unused
extended their operations to Louisville,
^^ ^.êr successfully working the game
tobacco at Sinclairville, Pa., last week .^
^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^.^.^^ ^^^ .^ ^^^
^ READINC.PA. board of the Chicago branch C. D. A. of
in the SANTELLA TOBACCO CO. MUST PAY while a curious crowd of residents of the Kentucky town the game was nipped in
A., has established headquarters The
DAMAGES OF $9,400. place witnessed the proceedings.
Manufacture the bud after the cigars had been gotten
rooms of the National Association in the
tobacco, which was owned by F. C.
Atwood building, and is doing some A case which excited much interest in out of the store.
CHARLOTTE CUSHMANr^ the Northwest, and which has been vig-
Holtz, was damaged, and he instructed ^
As in the other cases, an order for
aggressive work. destroy as every pound
orously contested in the courts, has been the deputy to it,
^^^^ ^^^ ^.^^^ ^y telephone, this time
PAUCE SMOKER The board of directors of the local will
known settled by the award of $9,400 to the of tobacco purchased by a manufacturer for $50 worth of cigars at J. T. Stier &
soon take action to make its wants An employe became suspicious at
MONKEY Brand to the committee having
nl.intiff
charge of the plaintift. The
1 ne case was uiai
of wuu
that 01 Otto r.
F. of tobacco goods
& has to be accounted for Son.
ck,.m v.- a remark made bv the expressman who
White CHIEF
National Birdj |J^
^ new city charter. They think that by
having all Unes of merchandise put on
Lange vs. the Santella Tobacco Co.. of
Dubuque, la., in which the plaintiff
possible, so claimed that the defendant
company had
by him to the government. Should he ^^^^^^[^^^^^ ^^'^^^ ^^J^ ^^^ f.n^êd
discontinue business at any time he j^j^ ^nd recovered the cigars,
must either sell the material on hand or dealers in all parts of the country are
.EjJlLjm CAMO the same plane as near as

its contract in depriving him of
destroy it, and he must first pay the warned to efaU,^^^^^^^
no
J far as the imposition of special licenses violated
the exclusive agency of a certain cigar.
government tax on it.
matter how safe they may seem.
is concerned, they can do away with the

'
C. A. ROST 8z CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA ^*iSB^ C& Go. <:ô^ Havana 123 N. THIRD ST
THE -TOBACCO WORLD IMPnRTERf^ OF MILAOBLRHIA
^TH T0B/ieeo WoKLB^ NO TRVST IN MIShlSSIPri.

CHICAGO DEALERS SATISFIED. present oppressive tax on the sale of PR.OTEST AGAINST TARIFF CUT.
As a matter of fact, it is
cigarettes.
Best Xma^s Trade in Years and New common knowledge that there are hun- New Engl&nd Growers' Association
Asks Governor Varda.man Turns Down Fisher
Con/iressmen to Preveat It. Tobacco Co, as a Violation of Law.
YetiLr Opening Vp Well.
dreds of saloons, fruit stores, etc., who
Chicago, Dec. 30. The New England Tobacco Growers' West I'omt. Miss, Dec. 29.
manage to sell cigarettes without paying
Association has placed itself on record as Governor Vardaman of this State has
The very good Christmas trade
the tax. this
Of course this works an im-
being firmly opposed to any further held up the charier of the Fisher Tobacco
ir came of its own accord, and, unlike mense injustice to those legitimate and
Co., of this city, on the ground that the
me seasons, did not have to be coaxed honest dealers who always make it a reduction in the Philippine tariti'. and
is
makmg efforts to prevent any such action, company's charter is in violation of the
much. Nearly all the down-town dealers point to comply with the law, and who
( lord LANCASTER In furtherance of this the association is spirit of the anti trust laws of the State,
, lOci) made some attempt at special window are the ones who are always held strictly
sending to each Senator or Representa- The charter was presented tor executive
displays, none of them were very accountable by the city authorities.
but
tive in the present Congress the follow- approval some weeks ago. and the Gov-
elaborate. More stress has been put on
Speaking of cigarettes. Miss Lucy ing letter, dated from Suffteld, Conn. : ernor's action was taken on account of a
the brands themselves than on fancy
Page Gaston seems to have relieved the To aid the Philippines, the proposition clause in it which provides that any
trimmings and special holiday features.
city dealers from her vigorous attentions company or corporation domi
While Chicago will in all probability take of late and to have transferred her activi- is made
that there shall be a further tobacco
reduction of the United States tariff on ciled in Mississippi or in any other State
second place in this regard to no other quite possible
ties to the country. It is Union, can hold stock in the
Manufacturers, city, at the same time it must impress the products of those islands. of the
that we may again hear of her in a very
Among those products is tobacco, an West Point company,
one that more time could be ?pent on
forcible way in the city in the not far dis- The anti-trust laws of
615 M arket St., P hilada. the windows, not only for special occa-
sions, but through the year, and that it
tant future.
article holding a most important place in the State provide
the agricultural economy of the United that no corporation can hold stock in
States. To make a further reduction of another corporation, since only in this
6UMPERT 114 (NICKC LBY. 5c. ) would be time profitably spent. CLERGYMEN HELP INDEPENDENTS. the duties on Philippine tobacco would and way can the State prevent combines,
The year opens up with no special
IV .. n 1} -4 A rw
l..ig2Lr r
- . transfer to those islands a very large part thus hinder one company from owning
Not an important iron t Buy Unilea aiores
4
changes in the trade. ak.i Co. s n- u r n
of the business which now supports and controlling the stock of all com-
1
BROS. N7^?St. Channing Allen . Co. change in buyers of the wholesale houses in Chicago.
thousands of American citizens in the panies engaged in a similar line of busi-
heard of, and the retail field is curiously Chicago, Dec. 29.
is time this provision
cigar leaf growing districts of the United ness This the first
Manufacturers Philadelphia Manufacturers of
Two small jobbing Some clergymen of
is
devoid of news.
concerns not yet up to, or rather down to seem
of the
be finding new duties which
to
States
this city

citizens whose investments in of the antitrust law has been put into
this speciaUzed form of agriculture can operation in Mississippi,

the ground floor degree have started, According to one
HARTMAN & KOHN, FINE and of course they
proportions in time.
may grow to imposing
belong to their jobs.
of the local daily papers, which has been
plugging hard for the independents in
not well be turned to other use.
If this plan of reduction comes before
There
charter
is
until
no chance of securing the
an amendment is made
^^^ decision, we desire you to bear eliminating the objectionable features, to
Brummell & Buddinger is of their fight against the encroachments of ^
the name in mind the interests
.... of
, ., .
the tobacco
, , . .
which the Governor has called attention.
419 Locust Si. a new firm that has started at 35-37 the United Cigar
^ Stores Co., many com-
, . growers of New England and of the other
They handle the munications pledging
r b support
rr have been f j ^r ,u it;.^,4
will
WILL TEST TKADING STAMP ACT.

Randolph street. fa . .
leaf-producing districts
.
of the United
%.? %y Philadelphiac La Turinaof the American West Indies received by the
former from "bankers.
States. Before those principally affected will
Company and other well known lawyers, clergymen, workmen and labor-
appear as a blunt protest submit to the new excise law in Massa-
^^^
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 4836-A. Trading ^j^j^
l'>5
igar CHALLENGES COMPARISON
brands. ^s"
The says:
against aid justly due to a newly acquired chusetts, which taxes trading stamps,
The Great Western Trading Company article
^^^ unexploited dependency of the coupons, etc., test cases will be brought
A clergyman writes that after reading """/ ~'~]^
\ /
has been formed, with temporary quarters nnitpd States we call vour attention to
^ j .u 1" '
^"''^ efforts made to prove the law

in the building at the southeast corner of
the energetic articles against the New
York cigar and tobacco trust, he made
^ off the leaf
^he peculiarity /rtnhT.r. .1..
tobacco s.tua- T and strong
Randolph and Dearborn They streets. whereby all tropical countries suited
^,^,tUutional.
....
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. will do a jobbing business, and the
inquiries of some of his flock as to the
so that he could
tion,
to tobacco culture and having supplies

A member of the legal firm of Platzek
Jobbing and Wholesale Trade solicited.
FIVE-CENT CIGAR localities of trust stores,
"' ..
& Strooch, of New York, counsel for the
manager is Tom Farmer, formerly man- avoid bestowing his patronage by mistake Qf chleap labor are able to compete with ^^.^^^ ^.^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ -^
^^^^^ ^^
MADE BY ager of the cigar department of White,
upon a trust store.
the home producers in temperate cli-
p^^ ^.^^,^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^-^^ j^^^ ^^^y. -^
& To his satisfaction he found that those ^^^^ ^.^^^ protective tariffs. If it
Minor Co. consultation with City Solicitor Dubuque
Morris D. Neumann & Co. J.
& B. Moos have recovered entirely
of his flock who were using the weed
were not only posted as to the locations be the
destiny of
"
the Philippine Islands
arid David F. ^
,
Slade, counsel for the _ _^ _

(Incorporated) effects of the recent fire. They tobacco and cigars on a
r .::V
4igr^ from the of the trust stores, but all were also in to produce leaf ^^^^^ Trading Stamp Co., and it was
PHILADELPHIA, PA. had a new stock on the way a day or two sympathy with him to avoid them. large commercial scale, such an industry conference was held with ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^
R!^!H after the fire, and are now back in their It is probable that this man of God in will surely develop there without further
a view to bringing a test case for violation
E===--
old location at Randolph street and cause reduction of our present tariffs, which are
5^
( his enthusiasm for a righteous of the excise tax law at as early a date as
^^= -?^>"''^
=f:^
aSS'^
"^ ^
i I Philadelphia Michigan avenue.
new in association
extends his help directly from the pulpit such as allow tropical countries having
no 25 per cent advantage to ship tremen-
possible.
jW-^
K jil'*^''
Sf*'^-
"
There is little that is and delivers notices something like this :
The American Tobacco Co.. as told
&?-"" '
tirdes. The executive committee of the
"Remember the tegular prayer service dous quantities of tobacco to the United
last week, has taken the stand that the
s^*^
IBK'*''
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^J
.^ oc uf Roedel's Best Itional is looking forward with a good
on Wednesday evening at half past
States in competition with home
Edmund
growers,
Halla-
j^^ ^^g ^^t meant to apply to coupons
We have received great spirit- The letter is signed by
I
feal of confidence to the annual conven- ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^y^^^^ ^,3^^ ^,^^^ tobacco,
HK:4^HIMil^hlA ** seven
^HRi^l^âl'^ THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DBAI. uon which takes place at the Sherman day, president, and Thaddeus Graves, w.^^^
,MU, ual blessing at these services lately and
K^^g^^^BH^J
Sample! sent to Reputable Distributors House on January 10. It will be a two- desired. Brethren E. N. Phelps and Frank Abbe, commit tf^lEPHONE THIEVES ARE FOILED.
a full attendance is
Good responses have
session. tee
t* 1
days' are requested to get their smoking and
Extend Operations to Louisville And
Til life. I
111
been received from the active locals, and chewing at Blank's; all independent
I
Philadelphia Cigar Factory an attendance sufficient to make the Five-cent brands a specialty.
BURNED TOBACCO OKDEK TO AC- IN Fail to Get AwblV With the Goods.
ac goods. COUNT TO GOVERNMENT FOK IT. The telephone order thieves have
K. ROEDEL CO.,
W. convention rich in accomplishment is
Regular communion on next Sunday Deputy Revenue Collector Feather
^^^^^^^^ ^,^^.^ operations to Louisville,
41 N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA.
assured. morning 10:30." unused
at burned about 150 pounds of
successfully working the game
chairman of the advisory
Latzar, ^^ ;,fter
tobacco at Sinclairville. Pa., last week
1.
board of the Chicago branch C. D. A. of

-^ j^^^ York and other cities, but m the
SANTELLA TOBACCO CO. MUST PAY while a curious crowd of residents of the
headquarters in the Kentucky town the game was nipped in
A., has established The
DAMAGES OF $9,400. place witnessed the proceedings.
the bud after the cigars had been gotten
rooms of the National Association in the which was owned by F. C.
A case which excited much interest in tobacco,
Atwood building, and is doing some was damaged, and he instructed
out of the store.
Holtz.
the Northwest, and which has been vig- As in the other cases, an order for
aggressive work. as every pound
of directors of the local will orously contested in the courts, has been the
deputy to destroy it.
^_ made by^ telephone,
^^^_^ was
stuff ^ this time
The board
settled bv the award of $9,400 to the of
tobacco purchased by a manufacturer for 550 worth of cigars at J.
T Stier &
soon take action to make its wants
known
tobacco goods has to be accounted for Son. An employe became suspicious at
r.l.intiff The
he case was that
inai of
01 Otto
kjiiv F.
r. of
&
charge of the a remark made bv the expressman who
plaintiff.
to the committee having
1
to the government.
cum
Should heh^ ajemaii.
Lange vs. the Santella Tobacco Co.. of by him ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^j^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
by
White Chief new city charter. They think that
Dubuque, la., in which the plaintiff discontinue
business at any time he
^^j,^^ ..^d recovered the cigars.
having all lines of merchandise put on hand
either sell the material on or
dealers in all parts of the country are
National Biro j|J^ the same plane as near as
possible, so claimed that the defendant company had must
first pay the ""
depriving h,nr of destroy U and he ,nu.
^-iiljftf^ far as the imposition of
special licenses violated i,s contract in
government tax on lU
^^^^^^^^
niê' """ ^ÎX'^-'""
'
the exclusive agency of a certain cigar.
isconcerned, they can do away with the
INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

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I'
E. A. G^'-^^^ <&
IMPORTERS Oi
Go 'qÎ^ÂVANA 123 N. THIRD ST
Co O AVANA 123 N. THIRD ST
A. o^'-*^^ cS
IMPORTERS HILAOLRHtA
Importers of HAVANA and SUMATRA
J. Vetterlein & Co. and Packers of DOMESTIC LEAF ^Tobacco
i The Old Salesman's Musings, l ^'
115 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

A FEW REMARKS A LA DR. SWALLOW He laughed it off at first, but grew
'-'
La Imperial Cigar Factory
PODNDBD 1855. Thanking you in advance for your kind more serious and admitted that he was
HOLTZ, PA.
attention, space hitting it too hard.
I think I shall use my /. F. SECHRIST, Proprietor,
this week to preach a short sermon, out "I really have about decided to cut it
Manufacturer of
T. Dobaiw > b &.T^ < Wm. H. Dohan. of which I sincerely hope somebody will out," he said, "but 1 ought to
change
^^ DOHAN & TAITT,

get some good. I, too, hate amateur my job to do it.
preachers who butt cheerfully in where a mixed up in it.

wise gentleman would stay away or send
Everywhere 1 go I'm
I have stopped for a
while two or three times, and then got
tied up in crowds with women and I
FIRE eiARS*
in his card, but I was so shaken up by an
experience I had the other night that 1 had to be either a dead one or a sport.
Importers of Havana and Sumatra
^f^j ^-*^2.- can't forbear. and somehow the latter always won out.
It seems like a cowardly admission,
K^_. > about Rum: Perennial old rum!
Z^^^^*^ JO/ Arcb St.
Packers of
v>J, And
It's
before I get any further I am willing

doesn't it?" he asked.
agreed with him, and mentioned
Leaf TobaccoK ^^ J philada.
I
.r.
to remark concerning myself, that 1 never
. , J u ~^ A , . numerous cases I knew of where bright,
insisted on being gagged, bound and
.
j . .u .
,, r ^^^^^ J J young fellows had succumbed to the

chloroformed in order to permit someone
. *
; ^ , . , . .
r
t- Ji-
J T o. falsely seductive combination of wine,
to force a small horn down me, so I am
^ ,,1. '
BREM ER'S
,
,i
He
y)\S
"
nil' - |-
Tfi M
W. C.
J * 1 ^f u.
,
T.
.
not speaking from the icy pedestal of the

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r ..
But

there are per-

women and
"^ P^',''^'
^
song. appreciated
'^^ it all,
^"f ^
*y^
. .
\JC*^^ IMPORTERS OP \ sons who J

use alcohol, and persons
, , ,
whom
, I saw him again in five years during
, , j r , ,
JACOB LABE SIDNEY LABB which hme I had occasionally heard ot

LABE man to
Sumatra
.
IBNJ. , .
Havana
, , , , ,
alcohol uses, and up to every it s r
and him, always as a successful salesman
, i
BENJ. LABE & SONS,

.
J , . , ,
^^
make snap judgment^ on which class ,
'
. , j . ,
making lots of money and spending it in

and PACKERS of nature has
, -. j\..
him out
, f *
same o I d way. u
fitted for.
Importers ot the He uhadj left
r. u-
his i
my On
Leaf Tobacco SU MATRA and HAVANA
To begin
dark and snowy night, about ten years
story properly: a
^^^^^^,^ employ because he thought he
wasn't making enough, and several sub- lOcUNCLE JOSS 5c.
ago, I boarded a train in Western Penn-
322 and 824 North Third Street, Philadelphia Packers & Dealers in I^BAF TOBA CCO sequent houses had been obliged to let
York NickScBest Known
Two Cracker Jacks ^Two for 5c.
sylvania and soon got into conversation
him go after particularly flagrant sprees.
with the only passenger in the car, a
231 and 233 North Third Street, I was with him this time for about ten
JULIUS HIRSCHBERG HARRY HIRSCHBERG young fellow not more than 23.
minutes in company with two or three
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Oak Mountain Bouquet Boston Beauties
Julius Hirschberg & Bro. liEOPOLiO liOEB
had
For all
was an unusually interesting

brains,
his
conversationalist, was really witty without

youth, he very evidently ot^cr men and I had no chance to talk
^^ Y\\m. He was more careless about
although he wore expensive
Puro Porto Rico Crooks.
Correspondence with Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Only Invited.
tmporten of Havana and Sumatra ^*\ ^ ^ /^/>/^ CO. 8t having to repeat, and altogether made
such a strongly favorable impression on
j^jg
clothes,
^j^^gg
and he looked decidedly bloated, Capacity, 25,000 per Day. TelegraphYork, Pa.
Packers of* Seed Leaf J~ UfJctLyLyiJ Importers of Sumatra and Havana me, that I made him promise
j^^j ^^ j^^ê idea of its value than a to let me
j^jg pockets were full of money and he
AND
23 2 North Third St Phila. Packers of Leaf Tobacco
hear from him.
He was a frank youth and he told me
cave dweller.
About a year ago a sweet looking
306 North Third

that his father was a member of a firm in ôman called upon me who said she was
J, MflHliOn BARNES CO.
L. BAMBERGER Sc CO. St., Phila. Philadelphia, and was sending him out BiHy-g mother and explained that he had
to learn the business on the road. I
j^j^j j^^^ ^^ about me and my good ad-
happened to know his line pretty well, ^jce, etc. The dear lady, much to her
MAKERS OF
Only High Grade Cigars

^ SEED LEAF
HAVANA w4 SUMATRA TOBACCO GEO. BURGHARD had made his territory many a time, and ^^^ annoyance, began to weep, and
loosened up some pointers for which the finally asked me if I wouldn't try to find
THM CO. CIGAR, Five Cents,
Arch Philadelphia
Importer of kid seemed properly grateful. hgj. go^ who was drunk, somewhere, and
Well, I met h m again in a few hadn' t been heard from for a week, i HAVANA TOPS, Ten Cents,
111
i: Lancaster, Pft.;
St.,
MiltemJuBctUn, Wis.; BaldwlMavffle.K.T.
Sumatra and Havana months, and he told me he was getting
along finely. Before many more months
j t^jg^ and didn't succeed but learned
jât he got home a few days later. It

Made in Conchas,
ALL UNION MADE.
Londres and Perfecto Shapes.
RIGHT PRICES TO JOBBERS.
and Packer Le^P TOBACCX) of had passed I began to hear of him
other salesmen, as having
from ggems that he still made his home with
made a big hit
j^jg family in Germantown, when he was
Factory,
Correspondence solicited
Park Avenue and Wallace

from Responsible Parties.
Street,
238 North Third Street, Phila. both with his customers and his brother off the road.
salesmen, and I felt glad of it. I said as
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
j ^^^ ^j j^ in New York about six months
i much
boy
toone
me.
man who was praising the ^go^ and was delighted to see that he had
He was
to a clear eye and a steady grip. Factory 1839.
'^^Sir'Vi- "Yes, he's all right," added the man. j^^ch more like the boy in the little mid-
And the child's a perfect tank. I don't ^jgj^j tâin, in Pennsylvania, and he told
,> , < / <
. '?i
jr\. ^-"-^ri?^^
think he exactly looks for booze, but he j^g j^g âs working inside, keepijig away
naturally is mixed up with it a lot, and they f^^^ j^g gang, and was just finishing up
tell he can put some of us old ones ^ certain much advertised treatment
me for
under the table twice, and then go out inebriecy.

:::s:;:2-::;:r>i3cr**^?^ 1?-*ii-:
and sell a bill. *'l feel different in every respect,"
Thfi Importers and Dealers in

X UC "Pmrvir*^
hope he don't push a good said he, "and I wouldn't go back to the
"Well, I
JL^llUJAl V^ ALL KINDS OF
SEED LEAF, mi thing too far," I remarked, and then old game for anything on earth.
forgot it. working for myself now, not a lot of
I'm
L eaf lobacco "avana

SUMATRA lU
n J. S. BATROFF,
224 Arch St., Philadelphia,
I didn't hear from Billy
(that is the saloon keepers and queer women.
boy's name) for a couple of years and I tried to tell him how glad 1 was to
then I ran into him again. He was a hear it and we separated in the best of
Co., Ltd. 118 N.3(l St. Phila. Broker in LEAF TOE /I (SO good deal wiser in the world's wisdom spirits.
than he had been before, but he still had One night last week I was hurrying up
an appearance of boyish innocence and lower Arch street, Philadelphia, when
same time as quick as a trick, as I reached Fifth street, a man crouch-
W. K. GRESH & SONS, Makers, Norristown, Penna.
was
JOSEPH a KOLB,
at the
IMPORTMRS q He seemed glad to see me and we drifted ing by the meeting-house wall grabbed
me by the arm with a frenzied grip and.
r] YO Qng Cfc I^Philadelphia,
ewmail,Sumatra Havana ([-sr&sr
Seed Leaf
ft
into a heart-to-heart talk over the dinner
table.
,, u- u..r^,-.
He drank a lot. ofr whiskey before
pointing to somethmg in the road, fairly
P.^^^^
, ,
^^^^^ .^ ^^^f, ^^^ ^^^ ^^j, J^
during and after the meal, which struck ^y^^^ ^j^j^^ jgp..
, 1
Uadin<
HAVANA BLOSSOM, the
Mnufclrer of the
Southeast Corner Second and Market
5c. CifM.
Streets,
2j^ M. rniRn st., Patters of me as a mighty bad sign in a boy of his it was a mere, harmless cat on a char-
Camden, N. J.
age, and I made some remark about it. (Concluded onlpage 7.)
6 THE TOBACCO WORLD
THE TOBACCO WORLD
^:;;^-REALM OF TAB PETAILEPS

JT IS the hope of the editor of this de- panatella is a long, thin cigar, with taper- to the ground, and when the rain splashes
smoking in the streets. This in a
ing ends, whereas the breva is finished off mud on the leaf these little straw col- measure temporizes the
habit with them
the '
Snuff Out Old Methods

every subscriber among the dealers will
TsuWriVer'^^^^^^^^^
short "*'
at both
find the page of constant use and aid to
him, and will come to watch eagerly for
""'""
thickness
"""'" ^"'^^
throughout,
'^"^ ^^^ ^"
except a
*^^^"
slight
'^<^
cured.
^pots appear when the tobacco is and they do not do so much smoking
When these spots are genuine when they are at home,
Begin the New Year Right
the paper. A number of dealers have narrowness at the end that is held in the the wrapper will be a good tobacco of its "This year we have had good pleasant
adopted suggestions made he.e ftom time mouth. grade, but whether it is acid stain or not weather up till a few days ago.
to time and have reported gratifying
Undoubtedly the best tobacco smoked only t h e expert will be able to de- past month or six weeks the cigar trade
For the '
JI Resolution to Use a
success.
Whatever and suggestions to re-
hints
in cigars in this country is the native termine. has been falling There are not as
off. National Cash Register
tailers are made during the coming year
^rown Cuban tobacco, and the cigar is many pipes or cigarettes sold and I am
will be carefully weighed and wherever further improved if it is made in Cuba, WHY DID THE RETAIL BUSINESS unable to account for the decline in
Means less XAôrk in balancing cash, l^ss worry, less bother
possible will be made from actual exper- particularly in the province of Havana.
furtherance of this another For this reason many so called
In
FALL OFF? the business. It may be that many young and more money. A National will
ience.
request IS made that dealers and readers ^:,,^ ,^ ; ^î;*.. ^:
Havana XHERE
1
a general complaint among
.-,,, is men have retrenched on their cigar
-j_
cigars are in reality cigars made :_ .u:. r ..
money
.
in this retail cigar dealers of the country might save

in general write to us, telling us about
ideas that have actually been tried or are mas.
that they
such
it for Christ-
Stop Losses by Enforcing Carefulness,
If is the case it is the first
proposed.
Bear in mind that a scheme which
QUEEN CITY TOBACCO CO.'S DISPLAY AT THE SHOW.
time in my memory
ment took place prior
that such retrench-
Efficiency and Honesty
to New Year's
might not be advisable under one set of day. At that time the cigar business
circumstances might be the precise thing
needed by some other man differently always falls off for at least one month. By furnishing an automatic record of every transaction
Thousands of men at that time 'swear off*
situated.
with good intentions of not smoking any
in the store, showing its nature and who made it, a National
You may have tried an idea which
seemed good but somehow failed to bring more. This lasts about a month or six
increases the efficiency of clerks.
results. Send it along and we will try to weeks and we can easily see the way the
explain it. Again you may have tried
resolutions arc broken by the steady
Let us tell you how it pays for itself.
something in a doubtful frame of mind
and found that it brought lots of business. advance in the sale of cigars."
We would like to hear about that.
If this page has ever helped you, help PLAY CARDS FOIL CIGAR CHECKS.
National Cask Register Co.
it to
indifferent
help someone else. Don't be so
when it comes to helping some
^ HARTFORD CITY (Indiana) man
who runs a cigar store
body else, and remember that this means
seriously of taking out the pool tables
is thinking
flra<r turitti'oH tin's paper Dayton, Ohio
YOU.
and substitutii.g card tables. Checks
are bought and played for in card games
LET A FEW FACTS STICK TO YOU
AS YOU MOVE ALONG. payable in tobaccos. In a number of
neighboring towns this plan has been
TDECAUSE a man keeps a cigar store
adopted. At Richmond the popularity
it does not necessarily follow that
of card games in these places has been
he an expert judge of tobacco or that
is
TKe Old S2Llesmai\*s Musiiv^s. NEW OFFICERS FOR KENTUCKY
growing so rapidly that the number of BVRLEY GROWERS.
he knows all about his stock that there is (Concluded from page 5.)
players had in some cigar stores increased
to know. The ignorance of the usual acteristic, mysterious nocturnal prome- Lawrenceburg, Ky., Dec. 29.
customer and at the same time his belief
beyond the capacity of the tables. At a meeting of the Burley tobacco grow-
nade. 1 said so, 'after 1 had recovered
that be is all wise, is proverbial, although
sometimes his ignorance is not much
greater than that of some of the small
EASILY ANSWERED.

A N exchange prints the following verses

from the start he gave me.
"Yes!" he panted.
a cat: but it's
"I know
a crawling, crawling cat."
it's
ers of Anderson the following officers
only were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Ben Franklin, of Glensboro; Sec-
s
BLACK THREADS 5
humorously
dealers.
"Nine men out often when you hand what should be done to the workman
settling the question of
Hejswore horribly
Something in |his voice
in an agony of
made me draw
fear. retary, Clarence E. Watts, of Alton Sta-
tion; Inspector, John Taylor Watts, of
Long Cut
them a cigar will roll it tenderly between who ruins good tobacco by turning out
inferior work under a standaid label and
him, into the light, and it was Billy. Avenstoke; Board of Control, George The Finst Heavy Pipe Smoking Tobacco manufactured.
the fingers and smell it knowingly before Sharp, o f Lawrenceburg; James R.
got no sleep that night, and in the Packed by hand
attempting to smoke it," said a cigar renders the dealer helpless in pushing
I
Gaines, of Alton, and William Shelton,
in 3^ oz. packages^
morning managed to get him home,
roan recently. "After puffing on it a
the cigar: of Ashbrook. S x thousand dollars' Union Made. The Wrappers are Good for Premiums.
way up in Germantown, in a carriage.
i
minute, he will tell all about the cigar, its The best ciâr-hand sometimes makes worth of stock has been sold in this Write ui for Samples and Prices.
His mother, who hadn't seen him for
make, grade and and inform you mistakes. The association has rented a
price,
was very white- faced but seemed
ays,
country.
g
in a confidential way that he knows all
about tobacco, and cigars in particular.
In ninety-nine cases out of one hundred
A ^^^^" Tobacco Show in Horticultural Hall which attracted much
*' ^^^
attention was the " Home of the Red Devil," conducted by the Queen City
who makes
And
Whereat the man's employer greatly
grieves,
asks, "How shall we treat the man
^Rclo know what to do, and his father,
just
who had retired from business, told me
large warehouse near the depot in which
it is now receiving tobacco.
The Gem City Tobacco Co.
'ô'âccco Co., of Cincinnati, to advertisesmoking and A
its bad
well
cigar known brand of
of good tobacco leaves ?"
that the boy had not been able to hold
JUDGMENT AGAINST UNIVERSAL DAYTON, OHIO.
his information will be wrong, as only
the tobacco expert can quickly' judge of ^^'''^'^^S tobacco. The Company secured the constant attention and interest of This problem he to arbitration
takes,
any sort of a job for months, and that
TOBACCO COMPANY. 9
he had gone on a terrible debauch only
the intrinsic merit of a cigar, and fre- *^^ crowds by giving away chances on a gold watch, the winner of which was And in due course thej answer he Judgment for $30, 9 1 o has been entered
a month before. "The doctors say that
quently he will be at fault
"For
ror commercial n,.rr.c.c
purposes all
ii
cigars
'
=^
determined at the end of the week. The display was in charge of W. J. Wood.
are divided into three grades of tobacco, country and shipped to the islands, of
the falling off in the sale of cigars. It
receives,
An echo of his words, "The 'man who
makes
A bad cigar of good tobacco leaves!
his constitution wont stand more than
one or two more," said the old gentle-
against
J. C. Drucklieb & Co., for the

favor of
amount claimed to be due on sales of
the Universal Tobacco Co. in
A LINE OF HIGH-GRADE
man in a monotonous, sad tone."
known as dark, medium and light, but whence they are reshipped to the United is said that this decrease has been shown 754 bales of tobacco between June i and
there are forty or fifty shades, which are States and the revenue stamp is duly greatly
That's all, I guess. There will prob-
November II, 1901. A thirty days stay
Tobacco Spraying Goods
in the past three months. TWO CATCHY SIGNS.
grouped into five subheadings. ably be a sequel before long, but I don't of execution For Cigar and Tobacco Factories
pasted on the MARKET was granted in the matter.
boxes to deceive the a prominent cigar dealer yesterday A STREET (Philadelphia) think I care to be in at the death. The and Leaf Tobacco Dealers.
-The grade of a tobacco used in a "nn>tiated. ^^j^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ learned from officials of dealer is caUing attention MISTING SPRAYING
to a par- other night will hold me for awhile. A NEW FACTORY AT ALLENTOWN.
cigar has nothing whatever to do with its Many smokers who prefer a light the internal revenue department that the ticular brand of cigar by these two signs,
FLAVORING CASING
Judging by the language he used from Joseph Flickinger will open a cigar WHITEWASHING
size, and there is practically no limit to wrapper enjoy the flavor of the Manila entire sales of cigars in the United States the verse in each case being followed by
....
J.
time to time, the poor boy had gathered Fountain SprKyer for misting
the number of sizes. Any cigar manu wrapper with the Havana filler. name factory and retail store at Seventh and
To had decreased 40,000,000 last month over the of the cigar ;
a knowledge of every form of vice that Liberty streets, fillers $4.00
facturer may
bring cut a cigar of special satisfy this taste the Havana tobacco fre- that of October. Iâin or shine, Allentown, Pa., and will Simplicity Automatic Sprayer 7.50
was ever invented and I've been sort of manufacture cigars Little Climax TobsLCCO Pump 10.00
size and give it whatever name he qnentlv is wrapped in N-v'iiicv.wv.ui
Connecticut j u u Wet or dry; of high grade. Mr.
** ff ..mtu
"When uthe cold wind begins ui
blowmg, ..

tkjo ui
sick at humanity ever since. Billy's is Progress Jr. Spraying Machine 16.50
pleases. The best known and most fre- wrapper. ^"'^ ;.,
'^ ^" îgar Flickinger, who is an expert cigarmaker
. ,. ^ ^ ^^ . ,, .
Also make Urê Field Sprayer which covers
ne continued, only one of a lot of cases and all I' ve got himself, has
'^
"then our busines falls off. You want to buy.
quently used sizes, however, in the cigar been for seven years pro- four rows at one time.
"Inferior grades of cigars (frequently In the summer time our best trade is on.
to say about it is this: Send for free Catalogue.
trade are the conchas, which are divided are made of doctored tobacco, prietor of the United States Hotel in
acid being Men who usually smoke have a cigar ^^t too short, The difference of time beween the last
into bouquet and especial, regalia bouquets used to stain the wrappers Not that city.
and light straw
and puritanos, the breva and panatella color in spots. The best leaf of the
in their mouth while walking down
too long;
drink that you are consciously able to DAYTON SUPPLY CO..
having distinct shape of their own. The bacco plant is that which grows
to- the street. As soon as snow falls and {Jo! T T^'^' refuse and the one which you must have, The Congress Cigar Co. is about to
Suc'ors to Nixon Nozzle & Mach. C
nearest the air is filled with frost they leave off Just right"^'. is often not more than two minutes. remove its business from Detroit to DAYTON, O.
The Old Salesman. Chicago. .
8
E. A. O^^^^ <&. O^-
^^mm^^^^ IMPORTERS OF^^
<^jD^j> Havan ~
a 123 n.

THIRD ST
HILAOEI^RHIA
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THE TOBACCO WORLD
am
GEO. W. BREMER,
gREMER gROS. 8z: gOEHM, WALTER
Importers, Packers ivnd Dealers in
T- BREMER.
Jr.
-
R/ BAVTISTA
Cab e RoTiSTA.
y C A.- Leaf Tobacco Warehouse-HABANA, CVBA.
NEPTUNO 170--! 74. special Partner GrMKRSiNDO Garcia Cukrvo. ^
119 North Third St., PHILADELPHIA

Leaf Tobacco MVNIZ HERMANOS S ei\ C
y CIA ff ESTABLISHED 1844
!=1
iTaTaTaYâTaTaVaTaYâVaTa1^ Growers ai\d Dealers of I

I5 JOHN U. FEHR. EsUblished 1883. GEORGE N. FEHR.
VUELTA ABAJCPARTIDOand REMEDIOS TOBACCO
J. U FEHR & SON. LESS

Cable:
"Angel," Havana
DEMAND
ReindL 20, HavaivdL
IN HA VANA FROM NO RTHERN BUYERS.
Reports From Country of Heavy Damages to Crops From High Winds
p. O. Box 98
H. Upmann & Co
HAVANA. CUBA.
Leaf Tobacco I
Keep Prices Firm Will Be Large Percentage
of Torn Leaves.
[Special Correspondence of

The Tobacco World.]
Havana, December
i^ Bdctvkers and
Commission
105 and 107 South Seventh
26,
700 Franklin St. and loi, 103, St.,
During the week ûst passed the of D. Hevia, New York: Joseph Mendel-
1904.
Havana market has felt the lessened sohn, of Mendelsohn, Bornemann & Co., Merchsciits
READIN, PA. demand from the Northern buyers, and Havana and New York.
business has assumed the holiday char-
acter natural at this season of the year.
Returned: Joaquin Hedesa.from Key
West.

Prices, however, remain very firm, Departures: Faustino Lozano, for SHITTEP^S OF CIGAP^^
particularly as the news from the country Tampa: Edward Hilson, Julius Lichten-
about the new crop speaks of heavy stein and Bernard Lichtenstein, for New
and LEAP T03ACC0
B0TTS & KEELY, PttlLIPpJ.KOLB CD^VyMl.COLGAN
damages done by high winds, which York.
have prevailed for nearly a week here in HavaLi\a Cigar Manufacturers.
HANUFACTURBRS OP
Havana, as well as in the Partido and While business as a rule is quiet, there
Importers and Packers of lowland sections of the Vuelta Abajo. however, quite a good demand from
W^
is,
Many of the tent-covered fields had Great Britain, and Germany also seems
Leaf Tobacco ORTH Th RD STR EET,

their cheese-cloth covers blown to pieces, to be ordering more than was expected.
while the breakage of the leaves of the The call from the United States is fair.
nearly ripe plants must have caused Canada and South America are ordering
The
Celebrated
CigSLf
Bra.nd
No. 148 North Second Street,
I
serious damage. In all likelihood there quite some quantities.

will be a large percentage of quebrados The new design of the export labels
PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia. and torn leaves in the 1905 crop; besides having been approved by the govern-
which, the high winds are apt to burn ment and accepted by the general meet-
the edges and tips of the leaves. If the ing of the Union of Manufacturers,
FACTORYt PASEO DE XACON 159-169
IMPORTER OF is
temprano part of the growth, which is now being printed, and will be ready for OFFICE: AMARGURA I HAVANA. CUBA.
HIPPLE BROS. S.Weinberg, Sumatra and Hayan
Dealer in all kinds of Seed Leat
usually considered as the choicest part,
will have a large percentage of defective is a little larger
use early in the
The design
and wider than the old
new year.
U J
Importers and Packers of and Dealers in 120 North Third Street, tobacco, there is less hope for a good label ("precinta") used heretofore, and
Remigio Lopez
Philadelphia. Tobacco average crop, even

tardido
if the medium tiempo on one
should experience a the Republic of Cuba, as well as the seal
plant
side will be the coat of arms of
RBMIGIO LOPMZ y HBRMANO
Benjamin Lopez
LEAF TOBACCOS
or
more favorable growing season. of the government, while on the other Manufacturers of the Imported Brands
&
Lsi Mas Fermosa y Magnetica de Cuba
.TdMKfaik. V.
It seems a pity that the hopes of the side be the bust of Columbus and
will
, No. 231 Arch Street, VELENCHIK BROS. farmers, which had been
pitch of expectation through timely rains,
raised to a high the signature of each individual manu-
facturer, besides the printed guarantee No. 83A Amistad Su HABANA, CUBA.
should have had such a rude set-back that the cigars contained in the box are
PHILADELPHIA.'' trty. LEAF T0B/ie<SO
Our Retail Department CitA.blished 1860
is Strictly Up'to'Date. just at the critical time when they are made of Havana tobacco and manufac-
preparing for the first cutting of the ripe tured on the island of Cuba. El lîco Hsibano pactot^y
Sumatra and Havana plants. On the other hand, the dealers All these precautions, however, INDEPENDENT OF ANY TRUST
G. H. BOESCH, 134 N. THIRD ST., PHILADELPHIA ! who
will
are carrying stocks here in
be benefited by
Havana not prevent the refilling of boxes by dis-
occurrence and honest retailers, although the rings on
this
will
OP
be able to dispose of their holdings more each cigar, if used universally, may be Enrique Dorado & Co. Vuelta Abajo Cigars
PWNC
Deafer in 1.^63,1 1 Dd/CCO IrOUIS BVTHINBR
LOUIS BYTHINMR & CO.
J* readily at better figures, so the old adage more effective. The best guarantee the
about "an ill wind, etc.," may also prove smoker of imported cigars has, however,
Purveyors to H. M. The King of Spain
Estrella No. iti-^j, cabie: chaoaWa. Havana, Cuba.

SUMATRA and HAVANA
a Specialty, true in this respect. such
is to purchase his supply from
leal Tobacco Brokers 30o RaCe

\
St. .- Manybuyers from the north are ex- houses as are reliable and above re- Narciso Gonzalez. Vknancio Diaz, Special.
In Quantities to Suit Purchasers. -j- - - - .
and Commission Merchants. rlVlIaaClpnia* pected here during the month of January, proach.
312 North Third St., Philadelphia. Long Distance Telephone, Market 3025. while some- dealers here have taken H. Upmann & Co. received some Sobrinos de Veivaivcio Diaz,
occasion to purchase all suitable lots in very large orders from Great Britain, (S. en C.)
the market that their owners wanted to Germany, as well as from the United
L. G. HAEUSSERMANN CARL L. HAEUSSERMANN EDWARD C. HAEUSSERMANN

realize upon.
Sales
States. They shipped 550,000 cigars Paciêrs, Growers and Dealers in LEAP TOBACCO
last week.
HAVANA,
HAEUSSERMANN & SONS,
L. G.
amounted 703 bales in all, or divided
to 3, Cifuentes, Fernandez & Co. arejstill
into 2,548 of Vuelta Abajo, 488 of Par- very busy, and have orders from every-
tido, and 667 of Remedios. The Amer- where for their Flor de Tabacos de Par-
10 'Alleles St.
F. Neumann. G. W. Michablsbn.
Cuba. p. O. Box 856.
H. Pkassx.
Importers of Packers and Exporters of and Dealers In ican buyers have taken 1,91
exporters 385, and
1,
1,407 bales were

European tagas & Co.
Rabell, Costa, Vales & Co. are turning FEDERICO IÊUJttflNN & CO.
Sun[iatra'Havana
LARGEST RETAILERS
Leaf
PENNSYLVANIA
Tobacco IN
written
cigar and
off for
Buyers
home consumption by
cigarette manufacturers.
Come and Go.

out some very fine goods in their Ramon
Allones and Cruz Roja factories, and
being appreciated^by con-
that this is
Commission Merchants
SHIPPERS OF
Arrivals:
A. Fromherz, of the^From- sumers of the whole world is evidenced LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS
No. 240 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penna. herz-Berlizhcimer Co., Celestino Vega, by the good orders they are receiving.
of C. Vega & Co.. and William Beitz, of Behrens & Co. note no diminution in
Havana, Cuba.
the William Beitz Co. , Chicago D. Hevia, their Sol factory,
; as they areXshipping Office, Obrapia i8. P. O. Box 28. Telegrams: UnicuiBi
123 N. THIRD ST
10 ^1 nTrrnrrrrT of^^ HILADELPHiA
THE TOBACCO WORLD 11
Leaf Tobacco Commission Merchant, goods and arc A. M. Calzada &

ROCHA &
in good-sized quantities, Co. turned over 86
Leslie Pantin/'o Rellly 50, ^ P. 0. Box 493, Habana; Cuba ia receipt of

particularly
new order from all markets, bales of Vuelta Abajo
England and Germany, Tampa customers.
to one of their
J. F.
Manufacturers of the
CO. * *" ^*
which are ordering heavily. Jorge & P. Castaneda received 300
BEHiÊNS & eo. Royal Cigar Factory in

J. F. Rocha & Co.
turning out close to 50,000 cigars daily
their Crepusculo tactory.
are likewise busy
They
Loeb Nunez Havana Co. shipped 78
re-
bales of a Rio
week.
Hondo escojida this past Celebrated Brands
"Crepusculo," "Nene"
i<lK
Mannfactorers of the ceived orders of 400,000 cigars for Great bales of Remedios, but, pending con-
INDEPENDENT Britain and her colonies, besides 150,000 firmations by mail, they sold about 500
Celebrated Brands,
for Australia, while Nene and Jefferson bales additional from their large stock of
are called for from the United States. all kinds of leaf.
Vv'
Enrique Dorado & Co. do not com- Jose Menendez has done some busi- "Jefferson"
The plain, as 1 Rico Habano is meeting ness, but the
be ascertained.
number of bales could not
with increased favor, whether shipped to
Garcia & Co. have not been idle
100 San Miguel Si. Habana, Cuba
Oldest >ARTAGAS the United States, Canada or Europe.
either, although when it comes to dis- Cable: Cfkpusculo
Remigio Lopez y H no. are busy moving closing transactions Don Manuel Garcia The Output of these Brands is 40,000 Cigars per day.
Brand aYG their factory to 113 San Miguel street. is like a sphinx.
Receipt* From tke Oovntrir

United States Representative, C. B. TAYLOR,
vt^BAt^r^ Baying. Selling a^nd OtKer Notes of In-
AdBAH^ terest.
Julius and Bernard Lichtenstein, who

Week Ending Since
Dec 24. Jan. i.
No. 07 Broad Street, New York.
Bruno Diaz R. Rodrigues
SOL and '^f^/sM^xf^ Cif untes, Fernandez Ca. left last Saturday, purchased nearly i, 500 Vuelta Abajo
Bales Bales
B. DiflZ &C0.
LUIS MARX ^4aAti^ Proprietors
y bales of all kinds of leaf during their Semi Vuelta
stay here. Partido
1,870
100
177
241,159
22, 264
57.592
Growers eLi\d Packers of
174 Industria Street Sobrinos de A. Gonzalez 'were sellers

Matanzas
S. Clara & Remedios 2. 100
334 Vuelta. Abajo and P9Lr<ido TobdLCCo
Consulado 91, HAVANA. Cable
ClFER. Habana, Cuba.
the extent of 500 bales of Vuelta Santiago de Cuba
Abajo, but besides this they hare just
Total 4.247
84.563
657
406, 569
Cable: Zaidco
PRADO 125,
HABANA, CUBA,
closed a deal for the Spanish Regie of
%^^^^%^
SUAREZ HERMANOS, some 4, 000 bales of Yara tobacco, which
COUNTY CLUBS WILL MEET AT
SRAU, PL/INAS Y OI/I.
JosE Menendez,
were purchased at Manzanillo.
CHATHAM.
(S, en C.) Jose F. Rocha sold 400 bales of his
Almacenistas de Tabaco en Rama
Grower., Packers
^^J TobaCCO Almacenista de abaco en Rama Vuelta Abajo holdings.
Celestino Vega secured 500 bales of
Inter-State Tobacco Growers* Protective
Association Issue Call for Jan. 16. Cable: Calzada de la Reina 22, ^
and Dealers in Vuelta Abajo for his Chicago factory. Danville, Va Dec. 31. grapuvnas. tlaoana. Cuba
, ,
Bspecialidad Tabaco de Partido

,
Muniz Hnos. & Co. disposed of 400 The Pittsylvania executive committee
Cable Address:
Figuras 39-41,
Vegas Proprias Cosecbado por el bales of Montezuelo leaf. of the Inter-State Tobacco Growers' Pro-
tective Association have called an im-
CHARLES BLASCO,
"Cuetara." Havana, Cuba. Monte 26. Habana, Cuba. J. M. Garcia & Co. received 895 bales
from the Vuelta Abajo, part of the finest
portant meeting of the county clubs to be COMMISSION MERCHANT
of this year's crop, and running from $80
held at Chatham, Va., at 11 o'clock a.
m. on the third Monday in January, 1905. LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS,
SoBRiNos DE A. Gonzalez per bale upwards, all vegas, including Every club will be entitled to send one
Obispo 2g, cbie-'Bi-co." Habana, Cuba.
FERNANDO FERNANDEZ y HNO. colas, net weight per bale being fom 80 delegate
and fraction thereof over twelve. Each
for every twenty- five members
Leaf Tobacco Merchants

to 90 pounds.
Sobrinos de V. Diaz closed out 325
club, however small n membership,
shall be entitled to at least one delegate.
i
GONZALMZ, BMNITEZ & CO.
bales of Vuelta Abajo, and this made
Principe Alfonso 116 y 118 Speciality in VueltaL Abajo, Semi Vueltat y Partidio,
All farmers in sections where no clubs
Don Narciso Gonzalez feel in excellent have yet been organized are cordially in- AlmacenlstasdeTabacoenRamayViveres
Cikle spirits when your correspondent called to vited to attend and take part in the de
Amargura 12 and and San Ignacio
*'Anto." Habana. IndusiridL 176, see him last Saturday. liberations, except that only delegates
will be allowed to vote on measures com- Cable: "Tebenitez.* P. O.
14,
Box HABANA, CUBA.
25,
HABAN^, CUBA. Ed. Hilson, president of the Hilson
ing before the body.
396.
ANTONIO CSUAREZ Co. did not tarry long, but he

,
satisfied with his trip to Cuba,

left quite
and he
of the committee
It will be the
to have several practical speakers on
effort
S en GUSTAVO SALOMON Y HNOSe secured about 700 bales of the best hand and make the occasion one of in-
Almacen de Tabaco en iâma Especialidad en Tabacos Finos de

Vuelta Abajo leaf to be had.
Gonzalez Benitez & Co. made several
club should fail to send its full
terest
No
and instruction.
Leaf Tobacco Warehouse,
MSPJSCIALIDAD MN TABACQS FINOS transactions amounting to 250 bales of
allowance of delegates, and all other
farmers interested in the movement will
MONTE 199,
Vuelta Abajo, Partidos y Vuelta Arriba Remedies and Vuelta Abajo. Cable: Andamika. HABANA, CUBA.
de VUSLTA ABAJO y PARTIDO Upmann &
be most welcome guests. Monday, Jan.
HABANA Monte 114 y H. Co. bought 500 bales 16, is the day.
LOEB-NUNEZ HAVANA CO.
R&yo 110 y 112 (P. O. Box) Apartado 270.
Cable: Zalezgon.
TJ o Ko ri O
XXCtUCtllCt* m of different kinds of leaf in the
well as in the country.
^
Aixala & Co. sold 200 bales of
city,
Reme-
as
SALES RESUMED
Forty Per Cent of Crop Already Sold,

IN RICHMOND.
ncetlstas de Talaco eq taina
UOAQUIN HED Eo A^ NARTINEZrHEDESA dios and Partido leaf.
Mostly Sun-Cured Tobacco.
142 and 144 Consulado Street, HABANA.
Packer and Exporter of Leaf Tobacco
<a CO.
AIXALA ^ CO., Havana Leaf Tobacco
Cardenas Z, aivd CorrdLles 6 and 8,
Joseph Mendelsohn arrived here in
the best of health and spirits from his
Richmond, Va., Jan. 3.
Sales of tobacco were resumed yester- HENRY VONCIFF
Cable: Rbporm.
VIDAL CRV2
short vacation north, and can again be F.
102 Escobar Street, ......,a day at the local warehouses, and as all
Cable: "Jkdrsa."
Branch House: 512 Simonton Key
HABANA, CUBA.
West, Fla.
^., *
HAVANA, CUBA.
9^PECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE WANTS OF AMERICAN BUYR&,0t
Men-
seen hustling daily in the market
delsohn, Bornemann & Co. have made
the farmers had been notified by the
Board of Trade, many were on hand
VONEIFF Y VIDAL CRUZ
LEAF TOBAeOO
Street,
P. O. Box 298. Cable Address, "Aixalaco." with their product
the following shipments of leaf tobacco:
& Jorge Y. P, Castaneda 23 bales and 13 packages to Crump Richmond has
sold to date 3,295,312 ''itoKe^'of
New Orleans; 28 pounds, which is generally thought to be 73 Amistad Street, HAVANA, CUBA.
JO^GE CASTAflEDfl
8t P. JVI. GARCIA PUlilDO
Bros.,
bbls to
Chicago,
Lilies
via
Cigar Co., Kalamazoo,
40 per cent of the crop.
figures will make
If true, these
this crop 8,238,280
BraivcK Houses: 616 W. Baltimore Street. Baltimore. Nd.; P. O. Box 433. TtLmpa^. FIu
GROWERS, PACKERS EXPORTERS

Hsivana Iieaf Tobacco
and of GROWER. PACKER AND DEALER.
Vueh2L AbaLjo, PdLftido

IN
Mich.,
Cohn Bros.
via
,
Mobile, and
Chicago, via Mobile.
140 bales to pounds, which
average for the
is still
last six years.
more than the
CIOAR FACTORY
dLivd Rêmedios B. Diaz & Co. made one deal of 200 About 90 per cent of the
thought by tobacco men
total sales are
to have been
of
DrsLgones 108--110, HAVANA Cable -Puiido. ESTRELLA 25, HABANA, CUBA. bales of their fine Partido holdings.
Faustino Lozano secured some
bales of Vuelta Abajo for his Tampa
500
sun cured tobacco. This class of the
plant is steadily on the increase, both in
BANCES & LOPEZ
HAVANA. CUBA.
point of amount raised and demand.
AVBLINO PAZOS & CO. CALZADA & CO.

A. M.
factory.
Rabell, Costa & Co. disposed of 1
1
The annual loose tobacco sales on the
Richmond market for the last six fiscal Calixto Lopez & Co.
years beginning October have been as
Alma40iiisias de Tabaeo en Rama Dealers in Leaf Tobacco. bales of Vuelta Abajo
A. Fromherz,
leaf.
who arrived here from follows: 1899, 6, 322,933 pounds; 1900,8,-

507,228 pounds; 1901, 6,564,269 pounds;
i,
180 Water St., New York

PRADO i3, COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
and Chicago, has commenced operating by
1902,7,189,345 pounds; 1903, 9,241,718
buying some good -sized vegas of Vuelta pounds; 1904, 8,245,220 pounds. Aver-
Will receive and attend to orders.
CigAri aadc itrictly of tkc Tcry best
*^n*iL Habana Monte ijs6, c.bie-'CAi.DA." HABANA, CUBA. Abajo. age for the six years, 7,668,452 pounds. VUELTA ABAfO TOBACCO
C. A. ROST Sc CO., All Grades of Leaf ^Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
12 THB TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD 15
^TOBACCO IVBWS OF THB WEEK IIV GOTHAM

New York, Jan. 3, 1905. constable New York ever had, let his Cobb, A. H. Burroughs etTected with, ot course, Mr. Lane high
Messrs. J. B.
and cigar dealers
Retail tobacconists cigar go out while temporarily dozing, and Harold Roberts, who returned from up in the directorate.
along Broadway and the main arteries of and he of course was voted out of the a business trip to Europe a few days There are admittedly many importers,
A. COHN & CO. IMPORTERS OP

the thoroughfares of Greater New York
assured me to-day that their sales on
New Year's Eve broke the record for
contest, so he lighted a fresh cigar and ago, were not to be found at their re- manufacturers and dealers who were
watched the other contestants. spective offices at No. Ill Fifth avenue penny-wise and pound-foolish when the
The man who won out is named Clark, within the past few days owing to the question of the Philadelphia exhibit was
any one day in their experience, and the buyer for a Fifth avenue firm, but it is holidays, and it is doubted if they will first mooted, and it is said slyly by the
Havana and Sumatra PACKERS OP

grade of cigars sold was generally higher not
than usual, a statement which proves
have the best he smoked. All I
name
my province to
of the particular
make mention of the have much
brand of the cigar ences as yet,
to say about their experi
for excellent business
knowing ones
men will not
that these dilatory gentle-
again an opportunity
let slip
that the best goods will can tell you is that reasons. to exploit their wares, but stand ready to

Seed Leaf Tobacco chance for ready sales in the future. he smoked it incessantly for two hours
In New York there is but little call for and three minutes and then burned his I am assured that Robert E. Lane, T.
avail themselves of the projected
in New York, should it assume tangible
show
THS AND 5 cent cigars, and thisbe lips. Five of the men smoked their J. Donigan. W. W. St. John, F. B.
is said to and material shape.
IMPORTti
Growers of FLORIDA SUMATRA largely due to the fact that there is more cigars for an hour and a half and two Aschner, S. J. Freeman, D. Oshinsky, C.
treating to cigars when friends meet on for one hour and fifty-one minutes. My Blayney, I. W. Jacobson, M. Babaya, A petition in

bankruptcy was filed
LSAF TOBACCO. 142 Water St., New York. Broadway, on Fifth avenue and along own experience is that the average cigar "Lou" W. Boyer and Charlie Fox, and on Friday against Maurice Kaim who did
the Rialto than ever before. is smoked in twenty minutes, unless the rest of the New York delegation, business as Maurice Kaim & Co., form-
Jos. Mendelsohn. Louis A. Bornemann. Manuel Suares. It is considered better form to invite indeed it be an exceptionally good one. were so well impressed with the tobacco erly cii,'ar manufacturer at 1385 avenue A,
orrices
DETROIT, MICH. New YoitiO Mendelsohn, Bornemann ^ Co. a friend to smoke than to drink, and
aaturally the average man does not treat
by the Fidelity Bank, a creditor for
I3, 898 for money advanced on two notes
;j|MSTEPDAM,HOLLAnO
MAVANA .CUBA Importers & Commission Merchants his friend to a 5-cent cigar. Two for a
quarter or three for a half seems to have
JAMES W. GEYER'S STORE
IN NEW YORK.
of the Juan Muriel Cigar Co., of which
Mr. Kaim was president, treasurer and
SpecialtyHAVANA TOBACCO
been the average price paid for cigars manager. It is alleged that he is in-
AtCNOcNcn. CABLt AOOftCSS'TACHUCLA* New York Office; HLVLncL Office:
U. S. ARCADE BUILDING. AMISTAD 95. this New Year's, and dealers have had solvent, that on December 5 he trans-
Water Street. Corner Fulton. Room 1. HAVANA. to work overtime counting up their day's ferred property at 137 and 139 Wooster
iMablishftd 1840. Cable '*lf^* receipts for the past week a by no street t o Charles Stich that h e has ;
means unpleasant tax upon them. transferred part of his property to credi-
Hinsdale Smith & Co. [

The shops were kept open New Year'
tors,
property.
and has removed a part of his
tmaorters rf Sumatra & Havana.Tp 1^ -. Eve until the New Year was at least an The Wooster street property is a six-
1 ODoCOO
r%^y-^y-^\, story loft building assessed for $80,000,
^Packers of Connecticut Leaf hour old and the blare of the tin horn
and the whirr of the creaky wooden rattle and was transferred to Mr. Stich for a
And nominal consideration, subject to a
125 Maiden Lane, had subsided into silence. during
mortgage of $20,000. Mr. Kaim has
^JBW YORlBi.
mmnMnT> H. SioTS
VMM Smitt NEW YORK all this turmoil of seeing the old year out
and the new year in, amid the noise of
the horns, the sweet chimes of Trinity,
been in the cigar business for over twenty
years, and was succeeded by the Juan
FkaZISR M. DOI3BBR G. p. SscoR, SpeciaL Grace and other churches, and the ribald Muriel Cigar Company, which was in-
GANS MOSHS CANS JKROMK WALLHR HDWIN ALEXANDER
|08. S. J.
I.
F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON , CO. songs of roysterers on the prowl, there corporated in July, 1903, with a capital
stock of $40,000.
JOSEPH S. GANS m. CO. Original **Iînde*' New York Seed Iêaf Tobacco Inspeoticm
EtJlislid 1864
was being enacted a test of the endurance
of a cigar, or rather of cigars, of differ- Judge Truax of the Supreme Court
Importers & appointed a receiver for that company
Packers of
reiephoiie-346 John.
Leaf Tobacco
NEW No. 150 WssLter Street, YORK.
PriAcipal Office, 180 Pearl Sirtei, New York Ciiy.
Bonded and Free Warehouses, 178, 180, 182, 186 and 188 Pearl St

Inspection Branches: Lancaster, Pa. G. Porrest, 140 B. Lemon St; H. &.
Trost, 15 E. Lemon St.; Elmira, N.Y. L. A. Mutchler; Hartford, Conn.J. Me-
ent brands.
This
of Robert
latter interesting
educational event occurred in the "den"

J.
pastime and
Ferns* residence on Neptune

on December 8. Its liabilities were
$20,550 and assessed $11, 650.]

Cormick, 150 State St.; Cincinnati, O. H. Hales, 9 ProntSt.; Dayton, O. H. avenue, New Rochelle, where a dozen While the new year does not record as
C. W. Grosse, 233 Warren St.; H. Hales, cor. Pease & Germantown Sta.; Jersey many changes in leaf circles as has been
New Yorkers had been invited to escape
Starr Bpothers Shore, Pa. Wm. E. Gheen, Anti* Port, Pa.; East Wbateley, Mass. G. P. Pease;
Edgerton. Wis. A. H. Clarke. the din of the city during the passing of
the case in
are a
some previous
few announced. I.
years,
M. Jacoby,
there
the old year.

IMPORTERS
AND PACKERS OF LEAF TOBACCO Frank Ruscher
RUSCHMR & CO.

Fred Schnaib^ Among them was "Billy" Proctor, at
whose Pine street cafe it is the boast that
who has been identified with the
Schoener Co., will resign and become
connected with the firm of S. Ruppin,
I.
J.
SsUbliflhed 1888. No. 163 Water Street, only good cigars are kept
Telephone, 4027 John. NEW YORK. Tobacco Inspectoits Each guest was permitted to select a
many boxes many /^NE of the most popular of the hundreds of retail cigar stores in New York city
Inc.
will take
M. Bauml, heretofore a salesman,
an interest in Mr. Schoener'
Water Storage: 149
COUNTRY SAMPLING
BRANCHES.Edgerton, Wis.:
Street, New
Promptly AHended
York.
to.
m cigar from as
'm each man

different brands, and at exactly
lighted his cigar and settled
of as
1 1 o'clock 439 Tenth avenue, which is just above Thirty-fourth street. business.
is "Geyer's," at
Mr. Geyer took hold of this store when it was by no means in prosperous condition. Julius Schack, Canadian representa-
Energetic up todate methods soon brought the store up to standard and it acquired tive of H. Duys &Co. Howard Kinney,
J.BERNrtEIMiS^SON Wis. :
lin.Ô.: T. E. Griest
Geo. F. McGiffin and C. L. Culton.
Dayton, O. : F. A
:
Stoagbte%
Lancaster, Pa. I. R. Smith, 6io W. Chestnut st Franb*
O. H. Hemsing.
Gebhart, 14 Shore Line avc. Hartfon^
down to a calm, deliberate, thoughtful,
silent, brooding smoke. The idea was a wide reputation as a place at which to get right goods at right prices. Mr.
Geyer Western representative of the firm, and
has completely re-modeled and re-decorated the store until it is notable for its R. R. Uhler, Pennsylvania representa-
;
Conn. Jos. M. Gleason, 238 State sL South Decrfield, Mass. : John C. Deckel. to see how long, with one lighting, a
:
pleasing, businesslike appearance. The Indian's head on the sign at the top is tive, have been in New York during the
Meridian, N. Y. John R. Purdy.: Baltimore, Md.: Ed. Wischmcyer & Cow cigar would last and yet burn out to the
Corning, N. Y. W. C. Sleight very striking and catches the eye at considerable distance. week planning a campaign for the com-
1 ir^w/î irm vri^/-iLv>V/V/ :
very tips.
Scarcely a remark was made until the

ing year. Mr. Schack will return to
N h W^ lî-ftSte^.^-^^
^^H AV A f
AMM Q, A
%iia3
COWON
M.
C. Hamii^ton, formerly of F. C. Linde, Hamilton
CONGAI.TON, Frank P. Wishburn,
Formerly with F. C. Linde, Hamilton
C. E. Hamii,ton.
Co.
Co,
Louis
&
& ship' s clock on the den mantel struck
the midnight hour, and then each
solemnly raised his glass, bowed
man
to his
Burling Slip has lost none of
time prestige, and, indeed, according
its old-
to
exhibit in the
that
Quaker City
they are in favor of a
Darius Ferry, the well-known leaf tobacco more extensive, elaborate and exhaustive
last month Canada in about a week.
similar but
Herman Rosenberg, of
Tobacco Co., of Philadelphia, has opened
the Colonial
d^m* M1VM w iii> ,

i 1
DM .
companions and said "A Happy and broker of No. 7, it is gaining in popular exhibition in New York during the
an office in the U. S. Arcade building of
C, C. HAMILTON & CO. Prosperous New

relapsing into
Year to You!
silence
"
imme-
and the
ity in the leaf trade. This may be coming spring.
evidenced by the fact that carpenters It is admitted that Madison Square
this city, and will make a specialty of
Sumatra tobacco. Frank Pulver, who

diately
Importers Tobacco Inspectors, Warehousemen & Weighers contemplation of his cigar. and decorators are busily engaged in Garden is too large and too expensive, has occupied 'suite 3 in this building,
Sampling Sections of the Country Receives Pronnpt Attention.
In All
man had will move into room 9 in Mr. Rosen-
One hour had passed and no fitting up No, Burling Slip as offices but there are several other suitably situ-
19
Ptoest Bonded Storage Warehouse in Of OC C Anfl, Cf 11Ta, YapV berg' s quarters.
Sumatra Tobacco tmffatmc^*
%Bcrica, Perfectly New, Eight Stories High,04"0D oUUlll OU) HCW lUri
Pirst-Class Free Storage Warehouses:
permitted his cigar to go out, and no for the newly organized and incorporated ated and spacious halls which may be
cigar was much more than half confirm of Heyman & Hollaender, brokers negotiated at rentals which need not

Since The Tobacco World opened its

ao9 East a6th St.; 204-208 East 27th St.; 138-138^ Water St.; sumed. It was curious to watch the in imported and domestic cigar leaf necessarily prove prohibitive. New York office at No. 7 Burling Slip,
Joseph Hirsch & Son Main
Telephone 13 Madison Square.
Office, 84-85 South St., (Tel. 2191 John) York. New
smokers. Some sought to prolong the tobacco.
life of his cigar by puffing long, slowly Hollaender
David Heyman and Maurice It is not unlikely that there will be a
are both well and favorably meeting of those interested at the Hotel
several warm friends of the paper have
called in to say "Howdy," place adver-
Inspection Branches. Thos. B. Earle^ Edgerton, Wis.; Frank V. Miller, and infrequently, while another tried known to the trade, and for nearly a Imperial early in February, when the
OffIcc, 183 Water
'
% X. vNoiiGVAi 227 St J06 North Queen street, Lancaster, Pa. Henry F. Penstermacher, Reading, Pa.,
;
Daniel M. Heeter, Dayton. O.; John H. Hax, Baldwinsville, N. Y.; Leonard L.

frequent short puffs. One man, Benjamin score of years were connected with S. subject of ways and means will be dis-
tising
Grey and
contracts for 1905 with John S.
to give pointers for informa-
Edward W. May.
NEW YORK. Grotta, 1015 Main street, Hartford, and Warehouse Point, Coon.; James L. Day,
Hatfield, Mass.; Jerome S. Billington, Corning, N. Y.
Hayes, whose father was the only high Ashncr. cussed and a temporary organization tion to
For Geouine Sawed Cedar Cigar Boxes, go to Esubiishcd iss*.
L. J. Sellers & Son, KEYSTONE CIGAR BOX CO., SEUÊRSVILLE, PA.

14 THE TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD 15
AN EXCELltBNT TOBACCO FOR CHBWING AND SMOKING. Telephone Call, 432 B.

Every Dealer Should Have a Stock of #|fice and Warehouse,
Ready for tlie Market
FLORIN, PA. First- ClassPennsylvania Broad Leaf B's
First Class Pennsylvania Havaaa Seed Binderi
Located on Main Line
Fancy Packed Zimmer Spanish
A E. L.
of Pennsylvania R. R.
ISISSLEY
1901 Fancy Table Assorted ^^^chPy^ny
Fancy Packed Oebhart
of
PagP
1OA O ^^^^ FORCB-SWEATED Quf WIl

Ready Proms # # &C0. l%J\Jj^ CONNECTICUT -^
Packing
1 .
Selling for
Growers and Packers of n tMi Packer of
Product Dealers FINE CiGAR LEAF TOBACCO I H. Weaver, Leaf Tobacco

Fine B's and Tops Our Specialty, 241 and Z43 North Prince Street,
Critical Buyers always find it a pleasure
.35
i ^! to look ove"our Samples.
LANCASTER., PA.
Samples cheerfully submitted upon request. P, O* Box 96*
W. R. COOPER & CO
Manufactured by KEYSTONE TOBACCO CO.. Reading, Pa. WALTER S.
PeLcker of
BARE, PACKER OF
Cincinn2Lti*s Dull LeeLf Tra^de. badly frightened, entered the field in a
J. E. SHERTS & CO. Market R.eports The New Crop is Ex- been swept
mad scramble, only to find that
clean by the
it
combine.
had
Fine Connecticut Leaf
t :
FeoM. Brial Leal
pected to be Larger thaLix that of 1903.
Planters and growers benefited very little ALL GRADES OF DOMESTIC and Dealer in All Grades of
Cincinnati, O. ,Jan.
Lancaster, Pa. by the boom 2.
market as the greater portioB
Leaf Tobacco Domestic Cigar Leaf Tobacco,
So far as the volume of transactions of the crop had passed into
the hands of Cilia r
Manufacturers of and the business of the commission leaf packers, jobbers
and speculators. The 201 and 20J North Duke SL
tobacco warehouses are concerned,
year 1904 will go down
the failure of the planters
in the history of share of the
to realize a OMce and Warehouse, LANCASTER, PA.
Ttt-f phenomenal advance in
)lig|-lf[aile the
years.
local trade as the worst in many 1904 was
The tremendous upheaval which organization of the Burley
the main incentive to there- LITITZ, PA.
Tobacco
Seed & Havana
the combine gave the market last summer Growers'
by going into the country and buying
all tobacco they could lay their hands
Association,
The new 1904 crop which is beginning
to come on the market, it is believed
7. K, LEAMAN, H, H, MILLER,
on inside of ten days
Cigars cause.
is attributed as the will
about 30 per cent over 1903. The in-

The brilliant coup of the combine crease, however is not evenly
show an increase in quantity of Packer of and
Dealer in Light Connecticut Wrappers and Seconds
divided,
% CORRESPONDENCE INVITED FROM RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. buyers wiped out more than 13,000,000 the greater
of this market"
with figures for 1903.
The Louisville
s business as compared
market also suffered

portion being in the Central
in
Kentucky
that the crop will
belt. Close observers assert
be largely a red one,
color and especially colory goods of de-
LEAF Tobacco Fine Florida Sumatra
IMPORTED SUMATRA and HAVANA
i^ ABMLs
i B. HELLAM, common with Cincinnati but to a far less
extent, for the reason that this a white
cided merit being most scarce. Weather 138 North Market St.
j^7 and 329 N. Queen
is conditions so far have been unfavorable
PA. burley market exclusively and the heavy Street,
Manufacturer of Fine purchases of the Continental (now the
for prizingand packing.
There have been no auction seed leaf
United
'Phones LANCASTER, PA,
Seed & Havana American Tobacco Co.) extended only to sales for the past
two Saturdays here,
LANCASTER, PA.
that class of tobacco. the warehouses observing the holiday
Cig'ars
Joe F. Willard
'"
îr'" less
The
year opened with light stocks on season.
hand, the total in all warehouses being
than 9,000 hhds. The market was CLAIM DEALER SCHEMED TO
Buhrman,
B. F. GOOD & CO. J. W. DUTTENHOFFER,
rACKBRS
Michael Hose A. F. BrillharL
fairly strong
I,
and active until about April
with prices all around about }4 cents i The
PREFER. CREDITORS.
higher than closing prices of the pre- and the Louis Klein Cigar Co., of Cleve-
Shields & Wertheim Cigar Co. # M AND
DEALERS IN Leaf Tobaccos Packer, Dealer,
and Jobber ii\ Leaf Tobacco

ceding year. The long, cold, dry spring land, O., through their attorneys have
prevented the work of prizing and pack- filed an involuntary petition in bank-
145 North Market Street Pennsylvania Broad Leaf Our Specialty.
Dallas Cipr Ci. ing and definite information as to the ruptcy against C. M. Van Pelt in the
size of the crop was not ascertainable United States district court. LANCASTER. PA.
until this work could be undertaken. It is charged in the petition that Van 33 Nortli Prince St., LANCASTER, PA.
Manufac-
Then the entire trade growers, jobbers Pelt transferred his cigar stand the
W. BREN NEMAN,
in
turers of & Dealers

and manufacturers suddenly awoke to a Baldwin hotel to Harry Bradbury, a cred-
m realization of the fact that the crop was
itor, with the intention of giving prefer- J.
decidedly short, being variously estimated ence to Bradbury's claim.
Packer and Dealer in
LEAF TOBACCO, from 30 40 per cent
to Evidently the
also claimed in the petition that
It is
Van Pelt arranged so that other creditors
Continental Co. was first in possession of
could have preference.
An. Fia.
accurate information in regard to the
Leaf Tobacco
shortage.
to
the Cincinnati
In a quiet way, least calculated
arouse suspicion, it first
greater part of the white burley oflfered im

and Louisville markets.
absorbed the
The Ward-Bowlin Cigar Co.
name of a new corporation of Wheeling,
W. Va., just formed with a capital of
$10,000. The incorporators are'W. A.
is the
Packing House, Leaf Tobaccos Main Office:

BRANCHES: Ward, of Ward & Co., brokers; L. D.
UNITED CIGAR & Scbiffer All this time it was planting its agents in
H. Millersville, Pa.
1
Kerbs, Wertbeim
Hirscbhoruy Mack & Co.
every town in the burley belt and at the
Bowlin, Klieves, F. L. Miller and
J.
W. H. Breidenstein, well-known busi- Lancaster, Pa.
H Straiton & Storm,
Manufacturers] Licbtenstein Bros, Co,
word they started buying. Prices went
up by leaps and bounds, the general ad-
ness men of that city.
has opened
The company
the City Bank
offices in
Office & Salesrooms, Warehouses: Lancaster and Red Lion, Pa.
I0I4-I020 Second Ave.,
.
NEW YORK vance being from 6 to 8 cents per pound.

Then the independent manufacturers,
building, and will do a general broker-
age, wholesale and retail cigar and to- IIO& 112 W. Walnut St.' LANCASTER, PA. We make Scrap Filler Ready for Use.
bacco business. UNITED PHONBS.
16 THB TOBACCO WORLD
THB TOBACCO WORLD 17
Established i&Si Incorporated 1902 THE PHILADELPHIA TOBACCO TRADE.
THE
W0E^ Report From InternaLl Revenue Office. handsome display to open up the New
You
Collector of Internal Revenue Mc- Year trade with. Considerable of the
Published Every Wednesday Coach has closed his books for 1904 display will be taken up by Cuban Rib-
T> -^ h^
Y'J^^^^'^'
President and Genl. Manager.
J.
BY THK
TOBACCO WORLD PUBLISHING
224 Arch Street.
Editor.
PKiUdelpKiaL
M. BuCKiÊY,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Entered at the Post Office at Philadelphia, Pa., as second class matter.
TEI.EPHONKS: Bell, Market 28-97 Keystone, Main 45-39A
CO.
H. C. McManus,
and found the Internal Revenue office to bon, Mr. O' Keefe' s popular 5 cent cigar,
be in good condition. The gross re- while he will also show a number of high
ceipts of the office were 16,998,675.66,
which
year.
is about 1700,000 more than last
Beer stamps were the leading figure as Danza, 7 cents

grade brands of Porto Rican goods.
The Moor, 4 for 55

straight, are
cents and
being pushed
La
en Ak
;
Cable Address, Baccoworld. Havana Office, Post Office Box 362. and the sales amounted to |2,- at the Moore cigar stores.
usual,
SUBSCRIPTION-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: 800,668.50. Next in volume come

One Year, $1.00 Six Months, 75 Cents; Single Copies, 5 Cents.
; cigars and cigarettes, with 11,910,820. 15. With MeLi\ufeLCturers and Jobbers.
In all countries of the Postal Union, $2.00 per year, postage prepaid.
Spirits, which is the internal revenue
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. The manufacturers are still busy with
term for whiskey, realized $816,514.21,
Advertisements must bear such evidence of merit as to entitle them to
public attention. No advertisement known or believed to be in any and snuff stamps were sold to the extent their inventories and their books, but S9 PUERTO
way far as can be learned at this time there is
calculated to mislead or defraud the mercantile public will be admitted. of $278,675.60. Tobacco brings up the pRiNcipe
Remittances may be made by Post Office Money Order, Registered I,et- rear with 180,237.57.
no dissatisfaction. Business for awhile
ter. Draft, or Express Order, and must be made payable only to the was not of the best locally, but it has been
pub- There are many small items besides f*- COBR
lishers. Address Tobacco Wori^d Pubiîshing Co., 224 Arch St., Philada
the above which in the aggregate amount
unusually good in the West, quite p f
snuff in the South, and as much as wat
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 4, 1905. to a good round sum. Collector Mc-
Coach says that the figures for beer show expected in New England. The latter Santiaco
part of the year, especially, has been ^fe^^
ABOUT OURSELVES. sentations of Messrs. Bijur and Fox and little change from last year, but cigars
In pursuance of its earnest eflforts to their confreres at the recent conference, increased to the extent of $50,000 and
marked by good sales and very few sales- :^
make this paper of the most whiskey $40,000. Snuff increased
men have any kick coming. The most
whether he has
possible properly appreciated the $25,-
cheerful predictions are made for the
importance to advertisers and readers, force of the combined opposition, or 000, and the figures for the last few years
the Tobacco World Publishing Co. has whether he has simply discovered an seem to indicate that the old-fashioned
coming year to the fulfillment of which
everything points.
taken offices at No. 7 Burling Slip, New error in his own premises, has not been habit is undergoing a revival.
York city, from which address a large officially stated, but belief is strong that Frank Comber, of the El Draco Man-
measure of its business will henceforth the 50 per cent rate will be recommended Here and There ufacturing Co., sent a fine box of his new
With the Retailers
be transacted. The news staff in that to Congress, which is considered equiva-
city has been adequately enlarged, and lent to its passing.
the New York department will be one of It was made certainly plain to the
Prospects With the Retailers.
The week was a fair one in the retail
brand of Governor Higgins cigar to the
New York executive last night, and by Your Hes^dque^rters ,^:
wide interest. highest officials at Washington that the trade although as was expected, the box
The advertising bureau of the five tobacco trade of the United States did end of the business didn't amount to any-
the looks of the cigars as they lay
their
will
handsome package. Gov. Higgins
have some pleasant moments coming
m
H\ At Our Office.
boroughs is in charge of Mr. John S. not propose to put up with a knock- off thing. Most dealers were glad of a rest
Grey who is a man of experience and of 50 per cent or less if any legitimate after the strenuous week before Christ-
resource in his particular field, and who means or measures would prevent it, and mas and were satisfied with the fair
to him.
Bayuk Bros,
are installed in their new
We are Headquarters for
will sec that the interests of our advcr- when business interests of this magnitude measure of patronage, which showed that building at No. 50 North Third street,
the old Boltz, Clymer & Co. building,
Choice Escojidas of
tisers in Greater New York are carefully set their foot down, there is occasion the market was in a healthy condition.
for
conserved. more to follow than a mere sneeze. There wont be a great deal doing in and by the last pait of this week the im-
The list Indeed the tobacco people have be- January as there never is, but so far from provements and alterations which a#e
of firms, corporations, mer-
chants, and business houses generally, come very prominent in Washington being duller than usual, Philadelphia being made will be completed.
Remedios, Santa Clara
The re-
who believe they can get good results by lately in a number of affairs, and they dealers believe that the market will rule moval of the firm from Market street was
telling about their business in our are becoming used to conducting suc- a little stronger than the average and will made necessary by increasing bMsiness "nd^Manicaradua,
columns has been increasing largely and cessful protests.
Naturally, free trade in tobacco with
brisk up for the which made the old quarters much
season sooner.
A number of dealers are contemplating small. The new building is comfmlably
f
steadily of late and it will continue to.
the Philippines would greatly delight the
The business man of today is wise in the consumer who might rather elaborate window displays, but spacious and will give more rni t* vv Vuelta Abajo and Partido Factory Vegas
get his cigars a
consider it advisable to wait a couple of customers.
placing of his advertising and the Tobacco dollar or two a hundred cheaper,
and it
World will benefit from that fact, for it would certainly please Americans who weeks before casting this bait Little
H. Hilbronner has started on a trip
of Various Sized LrOts
knows it can give results. have money invested in Porto Rican fac- money will be spent for tobacco
until
tories. It might even cause a passing South for Gumpert Bros., ia which tetri-
When a man appropriates a certain smile of interest on the face of the coolie consumers get through paying the annual
sum from his business to be expended in laborer, provided he could understand it.
advertising, he considers it as an invest- But there arc interests infinitely more
ment, and unless, as a result { the
important to be considered.
batch
the
of
dealers
their
can
New
do is
Year's
simply
bills, and
to wait.
all
tory he will remain for about two Months.
The corporation of Morris D. Neumanii

It was a good sign this year, though, & Co. has sold
out its business to Morris
LOEB-NUNEZ HAVANA COPackers of lii
that when the market did belatedly spring D. Neumann and
manner of expenditure, it becomes a Joseph Guckenheimer,
Among
profitable investment, he must change
that manner or henceforth use his money host
to some other purpose.
those discoverers such as Col- into activity just
umbus, Franklin, Newton and the great nature of the business was
of others who won undying fame
in their particular lines of achievement,
good.
before Christmas, the who will continue the business of Morris
especially D. Neumann & Co. from this date, at
More high grade cigars in regular the same address, Broad and Wallace
m" m Havana Tobacco
The Tobacco World's advertisers soon must now be included one Dr. Kellogg
find out that their investment has been a
or standard packages were sold and less streets.
of the Battle Creek sanitarium who, all of the marked down variety such as hit
by himself, has discovered the fact that the eye on a Christmas when money is
judicious one. Our prosperity is depend- tobacco and not
The Berry-Suhling ., of Bedford
CONSUUADO 14:2 and 144,
a wild assassin's bullet tight. City, Va., commenced a vigorous
Dealers consider this a fair indi- cam-
ent upon our making it a judicious one, killed President McKinley.
and we welcome each new advertiser as In an address before the Young Men's
cation that the coming year's trade will
paign on the Philadelphia market this
week, and will advance on the State
Havana^ Cuba.
be good and steady, and consequently
one who is certain to receive as much if Christian Association of that city, Dr.
not more benefit than ourselves.
Kellogg announced
and by reference
aren't worrying over the
his startling discovery
later. The permanent local agents of
brief period
& Co., the company are Arthur Hagen
WE WILL
ahead of them during which the clerks
to General Grant and
others, intimated that our line of Presi-
wont be very busy.
but the work this week was personally INVITE ji CHEERFULLY
A 25PER-CENT CUT IN THE PHILIP- dents shows a very unsuccessful struggle
against the terrible
overseen by William R. Darrah, who is CORRESPONDENCE Ql SUBMIT SAMPLES
PINE TARIFF. cigar. B. Greenwald, Market street below working up a run on the Staff
mj
"And," declaimed Dr. Kellogg with of Life,
It seems fairly probable now that the Second, is pushing the Almeda 5 cent Mason Co. Natural Leaf, Duke
terrible, upraised finger, after
most Secretary Taft will accompUsh in voluminous and exciting
reading
cigar, which is a winner for the money. and Red Raven Scrap.
of Athel Philadelphia Office, 306 N. Third St.
statistics, "in-
the Philippine matter will be a cut stead of (decreasing, the habit is IN
tariff
of 25 per cent on the present Dingley CREASING." Wm. H. O. Keefe reports very fair Phil Verplanck, the junior member of
Cable Address:
rate, which, as Mr. John R. Young, of
We
take the liberty of suggesting to business for the time of the year. There Menendez Bros. & Verplanck, Tampa, **REFORM"
Dr. Kellogg, whoever he may be,
the National Cigar Leaf Association, the use of tobacco can
that if is quite a run at present on El Rio
5
was in town during the week and was
contribute to the /^
cent cigar and Royal perfectos, at 4 for very enthusiastic over business.
asserts, would not be likely to do much making of such men as President Mc- Mr,
harm. Kinley and General Grant, then tobacco 25 cents or $6 a hundred. Verplanck, who has for years been
should be planted in every cornfield and known as one of the best salesmen on the
Whether the Secretary of War was
a plug or two slipped into every Y. M. George T. O' Keefe, South Fifth street road, said that his firm
most powerfully moved by the repre- C. A. boy's little now had orders
gymnasium locker. dealer is making preparations for a for a million and
a half cigars, and that
18
>
Capacity for Manufactnnng Cigar Boxes is
Airways Room for
Match
"Match-It"
It, if
On Morb Good Customer.
you Can You

THE TOBACCO WORLD
Cheroots
are the finest product of the kind
on the market.
The ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE
Sumatra Wrapped Cheroot, put up in
The Manchester Cigar Mfg. Co.

BALTIMORE, MD.
THEY ARE ON SALE EVERYWHERE.

Packages of Five Wrapped in Foil.
Manufactured by
F. B. ROBERTSON,
Factory Representative for Pennsylvania.
1133 Ridge Avenue. Phila.
Can't, l
L J. Sellers & Son, Sellersvllle, Pa.
he considered prospects
as very fine.
Samuel Sheppard,
been seriously
condition
F. B.
tive of the
is
R.obertson Issues
ill for
now thought
some
New
for the
of S.
Sons, Jobbers at 1520 Market street, has
to
Robertson, the local representa-

Manchester Cigar Mfg. Co.,
has issued an interesting circular from
his jobbing headquarters at 1004 Ridge
avenue calling attention to this depot for
goods made outside the American To-
bacco Co., and asking retailers to call
and see the complete line of independent
goods. Mr. Robertson says:
My attitude towards union-made and
independent tobacco goods, as shown by
new year
Sheppard
days, but his

be better.
YeaLf Circular.
&
particularly the latter part of it, with a
gratifying outlook.
and
Eckerson
There is a good de-
mand now for Pennsylvania broad leaf^ j
Geo. Burghard has balanced his books

is able to report a satisfactory year
to come.
Albert Koshland, a well known leaf

salesman, has become connected with F,
& Co., and wll shortly go
the road for the firm.
E. A. Calves & Co. report good de-

mand for this season and thinks that the
year will have an early start
Young & Newman have

their
year which showed progress.
closed better with this firm than 1903,
my labors in their behalf the past year, and the present year opens up better thaa
Frank
Dominguez will remain in Cuba several
weeks longer.
settled
books and are satisfied to report a
1904.
oa
up

V
gr"** V Jf
A. D.
THE TOBACCO WORLD
KILLHEFFER,
MILLERSVILLE,
Penna.
Manufacturer of
,T*t>
PATRICK
good
GORDON Territory given
distributors evervwhere. -"-"^
Established 1864
Geo. W. Bowman
Factory No. 20, 9th Dist., Pa..
Co.
is known. Again, my efforts in behalf 1904. There is a fair demand already
of retail cigar and tobacco dealers, perse- which bids fair to continue.
cuted by the Sunday Closing Association,
are also known. My labors in their B. Labe & Sons have had a good year
behalf have extended over a number of and are preparing to do a big business
RADE ARS
Ha.i\over, Pa.. years, and of course I have been criticised during the coming one.

by certain people the kind who think Warranted Havana Filler Free from Flavoring.
Manufacturers of of self alone. The comments of these {NEW CIGAR. FACTORIES IN YORK.
people have often been harsh, untrue
and unfair, and retail cigar and tobacco Liceases Granted, While Deputies Get
Some Mxcellent New Brands:
Fine C^^î*^ dealers who do not know me are asked
to look up my record as their strong and
Inventories From Old Plants.
York, Pa., Jan. 2.
Five Ceuts.-Lucky Drive, Rexmond,6sizes; Havana Prize 4 sizes;
consistent friend, as well as a firm advo-
^4- <*! cate of the use of union-made and inde
York county cigar manufacturers have
pendent goods. Any movement favoring closed a very satisfactory year, in fact
Ten Cents:-Ha\ana Dimes, Puro Mafois, Louis De Valois
surprisingly good, considering that for
TQe
the interests of the retail dealers is sure
of my cordial support at all times. 1
six months during the first of the year
they had an exceptionally dull spelL
We employ no Salesmen. QUALITY is Everything, and that is what helps
Boll Bow-piaii will add in this connection that I have
The past month was as good in the us to sell our goods direct to Jobbers and Dealers.
been engaged to lecture to trade unions
an excellent 5-ccnt Cigar, made in cigar trade as could be expected at that
the coming year upon the advisability of
several sizes,
Correspondence with the Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Invited.

is our specialty. using union-made and independent season of the year. All the factories were
smoking and chewing tobaccos, cigars, kept running full with holiday orders.
During the month licenses were granted
Communicate with the Factory. We Can Save You Money.
cigarettes, etc.
Write for Particulars. for the establishment of 31 new factories.
Lea.f DeaLlers' Jottings. District Deputies have commenced to
make a canvass of the 1,400 factories
been He
settled. was charged with re-
L. S. STAUFFER,
MANUFACTURER OF
The majority of
have got their
for the year to tell
the local leaf dealers
books sufficiently balanced
them that there is no
particular cause for feeling blue. The year
under their supervision to secure an in-
ventory of all leaf tobacco (stemmed and
unstemmed), cuttings, clippings, scraps,
stems, waste, cigars, cigarettes and ca-
i
moving unstamped
factory.
cigars
He reimbursed the government
and paid all taxes.
John E. Olp, a cigar manufactur er at
from the
was by no means a record breaker for pacity of each and unattached stamps
Jacobus, has been adjudged a bankrupt,
many of the houses find held and owned by the various cigar
HIGH and MEDIUM GRADES prosperity, but
themselves better off than they seemed men and tobacco dealers.
and another meeting of his creditors has
keen called for January 17, at the office /f.>
to expect. The large plant of Celestino, Costella

OF The first months of the year were & Co., commenced operations today
six
f J. . Vandersloot, Referee in Bank-
raptcy in New York.
flat and there was a general depression after a close down for one week, to allow
UNION-MADE CIGARS which was hard to lose sight of when for stock taking.
business braced up, which it did in June
or thereabouts.
D. Frank Kaltreider, of Red Lion, kas
Since that time most commenced the erection of a large aew
CHEERFUL NEWS FROM ILEADING.
FOR THE houses have experienced a volume of cigar factory, immediately back of kis Splendid Outlook for the Tra.de in
Section.
This
business which brought the year up to residence.
good average proportions. Collector H. L. Hershey has notified Reading, Jan. 2, 1905.
Wliolesale and Jobbing Trade Morcorer, the outlook seems much F. B. Glenn, cigar manufacturer, of Red
better than it was last January and there Lion, whose factory was seized by the
With few exceptions, if any, the
ufacturers of this section have had
man-
good
is a stronger feeling of confidence which revenue authorities, that the case has leasons to enjoy a most happy New
Akron, Pa.
is evidenced by the fact that there is
some demand already in the leaf market
whereas the first two weeks in January ( 12 j^
SPECIAI.
cents per 8-point measured line.
NOTICE m |Tear, for the reason that last year' s busi-
ness shows highly satisfactory results.
Julius G. Hansen has already com-
are expectedly slow. menced the new year with a most prom-
"pOR SALE Bstablished Retail Cigar
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. ^ and Tobacco Business doing a large ising outlook. Regarding last year, he
L. P. Kimmig, of L. P. Kimmig & Co. trade; central location, retiring; investi- simply said, "I am well pleased."
went to Connecticut this week to buy gate. Address Box 128, care of The To- I Charles R. Albright, who some months
tobacco. This firm reports a good year, bacco World, Phila. io-26-tf ago removed to his present location at
F. H. BELTZ, Schwenksville,Pa. Ninth and Douglass streets, is doing
very nicely. His All Bright cigar is
Manufacturer of JOSEPH HOLLARD & SONS, gaining a wide reputation, and in addi-
tion he is doing a fine retail trade.
Makers of
Frank P. Kalbach will engage in the
Hollard's Premiers,
cigar manufacturing business at 545
Franklin Club, Windsor street this week, and will also
Luxury, conduct a retail store there. He will
and NUMEROUS PRIVATE BRANDS. make the F. P. K. his leader in nickel
S Cent cigars Seal Cigar Factory, world.
James Heist, on Oley street, has been
The largest and best CLEAR 2203 South Street. Philadelphia. working overtime to meet the demand
for his Sentinel 5c leader, which has a
HAVANA FILLED S-cent

Cigair on the N^Lfket.
CHARLES BOLLSTATTER, Manufacturer of
good local trade.
John U. Fehr & Sons, leaf dealers, at
Seventh and Franklin streets, had the
largest business year since they have been
Wc employ no salesmen, saving you that expense. .'.vFIne Cigarsv.-. in the leaf trade, and propose to show
OUR GUARANTEE goes with the AMERICAN CUP Cigars, that they are 1433 Ridge Ave., (BothPho.) PHILADELPHIA a larger and more complete stock than
ever before during the coming year.
R.A.PATTER50N
eSIAtLISHED 1096.
TOBACCO CO
RICHMOND.
VA.
Clear Havana Filler and Sumatra Wrapper. Correspondence solicited with large handlers. Write for Samples.
20 THB TOBACCO WORLD THB TOBACCO WORLD
Largest
Cigar ribbons.
Manufacturers of
Assortment of
Write for Sample Card and Price

Plain and Fancy Ribbons*
Hot to Department W
and Gros
Wm.
Bindings, Galloons,
Taffetias, Satin Grain.
Wicke Ribbon
36 East Twenty-second Street,
Co.
NEW YORK. Good to Keep Good Cigars
LANCASTER. LEAF MARKET DULL. S. Rossin & Sons 10 bales
lYedeles brothers, But Nothing Else Was Expected, and

Louis Ash & Co
W. H. Stiner
9
6
"
'
Prospects ak.re Good. Bondy & Lederer 6 "

J. S. Gans & Co 4
PloriddL Sumatra. Lancaster, Pa., Jan.

During the past week there weie few
E. Regensburg
2.
Sons
E. P. Cordero
34 * &
81 bbls.
transactions in the local leaf market.

This dullness was not unexpected, how- J
as. E. Ward Co 20 & Your Jobber wilt
182 E. Lake St. CHICAGO, ILL. ever, and the prospects for an early
F. Miranda & Co
S. Rossin Sons 6 " & give you a Certifi-
resumption of activity are excellent. In
A. Blumlein Co 4 " &
fact, inquiries were beginning to arrive
American Cigar Co 50 pkgs.
cate covering small
to-day, and it is regarded as a favorable
indication that stocks with manufacturers Str. Monterey, arrived Jan. 2 Quantities, and When
DELA FLORA CUBAN STAR are low and will need early replenishing. (444 bales; 14 bbls.) you accumulate Cer-
W. E. Deitrich, purporting to be a J. Bernheim & Son 243 balM
Philadelphia cigar dealer, was arrested E. M. Schwarz & Co 60 (
tificates showing
GEO. STEUERNAGLE, last week at the instance of L. E. Ryder, G. V. Watson & Co
who brought charges of receiving goods M. S. Arrue & Co
56 purchases of 6,000
Manufacturer of
under false pretenses. He was bound B. Castellano & Co
$0
3$
4
CKEMO EXPOKT
over for court and sent to jail in default I. Menendez 14 bbU. Cigars, you Will be
Pittsburg Stogies, of bond. The defendant has been in
negotiation with numerous people in this
CIGARS HAVANA
entitled to one of
No. 2103 Peim Avenue, and York county, and it is claimed that
Str. Mexico, arrived Dec 28
these handsome
some goods were obtained, and that it is
Humidors free.
^tadKi* PITTSBURG. PA. altogether likely that additional charges
willbe brought
(113 cases)
Park&Tilford 39 case

John F. Hare, of the stogie manufac- G. S. Nicholas IT <
turing firm of John Slater & Co. is this , Wm. H. Stiner & Soa 12 <
week on a few days' pleasure trip to National Cuba Co 10 i<

South Carolina. William Fisher, with W. R. Grace & Co 8 i 1
the same firm, spent Monday in Phila- G. W. Sheldon & Co 8 <
delphia viewing the Mummers* parade. Duncan & Moorhead s

<<
Business is opening auspiciously with B. Wasserman 4

i<
this firm for the new year, with mail Order 4

(
orders arriving on the first business day M. D. T. Co 2 <<
of the year for upwards of 100,000 of L. Spence

J. I case
their product Garcia Pando & Co I
1
PAN Imports of Tobacco, etc.

A. H. Hillman Co
Strong & Trowbridge Co
PORTO RICAN TOBACCO.

I
I
It
1 <
Are You Still Arrivals at the port of New York from

foreign points during the week
Str. Caracas arrived Jan. 2:
ending Jan. 219 lales.)

Watching? 3, 1905.
American Cigar Co 160 bales
Havana J as. E. Ward &
trunks cigarettes, 428 cases cigars, cigar- Sola
Co., 10 G. W. Sheldon & Co
& Co
41
18
"
"
ettes, etc Havana Tobacco Co., 223 do.
;
Gillespie Bros., 18 barrels cigarettes. PORTO RICAN CIGARS. .-4

Liverpool American Tobacco Co. 14
r^'T^Î i'-u V . i ; .".
,
Str. Caracas, arrived Jan. 2
cases tobacco, 60 bales do. i case cigar-
J
,
(372 cases; i trunk.) Size, 30 in. long, 22 in. wide, 25 in. high. Weight, 60 lbs.
ettes.
American Cigar Co 135 cases
G. H. SACHS, SUMATRA TOBACCO. A. W. I. T. Co
Durlach Bros
34
32
'
THEpacked
above illustrationan exact representation of the Humidor in which Cremo Export Cigars are
is
Mannfactnrer of FT N F r T a A T? 5=;
Str. Sloterdyk, arrived Dec. 28:
(266 bales;
Brown Bros. &
5 cases; i box.)
86 bales Order
Rojas, Perez
Sola & Co
& Co 21
18
'
"
"
and shipped by the manufacturer. This Humidor holds 6.000 Cremo Export
contaming 100 cigars each. It is metal lined, metal covered, with strong brass lock, and
Cigars in boxes
heavy brass
.^
Factory No. 7. Ninth Dial.. Pa.
Integrity of Purpose
LANCASTER, PA.
and Earnest Endeavors, Coupled with Energy,
^
'*
L. Friedman
Co.
Co. &
United Cigar Manufacturers
E. Rosenwald & Bro.
Mendez
West Indies Cigar Co
R. A. M. Solas & Co
43
42
"
"
C.
18
14
13
"
"
(
# c
drop handles and brass trimmings, with moistener pad in top of lid, ventilator in each end,
decorated in imitation cedar wood.
and attractively
Have Brought OUR CIGARS to the Front

'
32 13 Each humidor is shipped in a wood case to protect it from being scratched or damaged in transit.
H. Duys & Co. 25
" A. S. Lascelles & Co 12 (
IT PAYS TO SELL THE BEST. B-VVE MAKE THEM. G. Falk & Bro. 24 " Cadiz Cigar Co 10 The purpose of the Humidor is to protect the cigars from the deteriorating effects of
changes in temper-
The Standard of Uniform Excellence in ) Leopold Loeb & Co. " Cayey Caguas Tobacco Co 10 ature, and to preserve them in the same good order and condition in which they leave
I 9 the factory. This it does
" C. D. Stone & Co
1 Seed and Hand Made Havana. Cigars. ) J. H. Goetze & Co. 5 7 perfectly for any length of time in any climate on the globe, until the last box is
used.

Always the Same The Highest Quality and the Finest Workmanship. Herz Bros.
F. Richard
5
I
case G. W. Sheldon & Co
box F. Bonilla & Co
7
6 Cremo Export Cigars are made only in Londres, which means a straight cigar, being practically
Will submit samples and quote prices to reputable dealers. the
Mateo Rucabado , 5 same size from end to end. This shape is more generally smoked than any other, the world over which
HAVANA TOBACCO. DeFord & Co 5
IS a pretty convincing proof that it is the most popular as well as the
fact
S. Ferrer 5
most desirable shape in which ciirars
^ can
Str. Mexico, arrived Dec. 28: be made.
Porto Rico Cigar Co 4
tt
Elstablished 1891. Factory No. 3765. (1,938 bales; 154 bbls.; 50 pkgs.) W. L. Brown 2 "
Jas. E. Ward& Co 589 bales E. B. Goico I case
If you serve your customer with a Cremo Export
Cigar out of a Humidor, you give him the best five-
F. Miranda & Co 458 " Cuban & Pan-Amer. Exp Co I trunk
cent cigar in the world in the best condition to please him and hold his patronage if he is
pleased with one ;
J. Bernheim & Son 274 he will be pleased with every one.

E. P. Cordero 163 "
Manufacturer of TOBACCO TiLADE IN HOPKINSVILLE. Send your jobber an order for 6,000 Cremo Export
E. A. Kraussman icx) " Cigars, and he will have them shipped to you direct
" Hopkinsville, Ky., Jan. 2.
from the factory the Humidor, freight paid,
E. EUinger 59 in and billed as 5,500, at ^^35.00 per thousand.
"i^" " This is the annual report of 1904 The
Grade
Cigars foS
E. Pascual
Starlight Bros.
Selgas, Suarez & Co
50
40
37
"
"
beginning was all amuck, buyers saying
the crop was so common and prices so
:
The CREMO CIGAR is by several times THE LARGEST SELLER IN THE WORLD.
Carl Vogt*s Sons 36 ' low; no use for it even at low prices and
Genuiive Union Made.

Leonard Friedman & Co
A. Blumlein & Co
25
22

"
planters begging for offers. Yet in face
of all this Jingo, the crop has been sold
ÎSK YOUKSELF WHY?
E. Rosenwald & Bro 16 " and gone from the West leaving smaller
Ephrata, Pa. Max Schwartz * 13" stocks for sale than for years only 620
A. Murphy & Co 11 ' hhds., about half 1902 crop. The situa-
ôds Sold Direct to JOBBERS and DEALERS. Herz Bros 10 ' tion is much reversed now. Planters
" ;
C. A. ROST 8c CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA.

THE TOBACCO WORLD
22 THE TOBACCO WORLD ai
TKe "KING DUKE" SMOKING TOBACCO IS A WINNER.
Red
GEORGE W. McGUIGAN,
Maker
Lion, Pa.
of
T^HE accompanying cut is High Grade Domestic

oz., 3>^ oz., and 8 and 16
= UNION T
:^^.
made:
^ CIGAR of King
a reproduction of a bag
bacco which
Duke smoking
is
by the Lancaster Tobacco

manufactured
to-
oz. The tobacco has caught
the market wherever
been introduced,
become especially popular in
and
it has
has
Cigars
LIGHT HORSE HARRY
r
LA-DATA
I
cut with a Works, at Lancaster, Pa. Leaders \ LA PURISTA

is the Pennsylvania coal
INDIAN PRIDE
The brand is a new one and regions, where it is handled
I
[LA GALANTEKIA
National Cigar Cutter. is issued in packages of i
% by practically every dealer. Capacity 50.000 per Day.
Prompt Shipnventa Guaranteed.
but one way, every time and all the time perfect.
It cuts
Designed to take the place of all other Cigar Cutters and it does.
Has all their good points, none of their bad faults, and many advantages.
gets weak, a handle that cannot come loose, a knife that sharpens
itself
sprmg that never A
BOOKS SHOW GOOD INCREASE. the goods, he has sold them. The av-
Bear Bros.Manufacturers of
Handsomely finished of only the best material hadable. Cannot bunt, chew or tuck burst.
erage cigar manufacturer was satisfied
Impossible to get weak or out of order. > M t M
Svmmin^ Vp
consin
of
Shows Bi^
Year** Trade in Wis-
Progress.
with the leaf and fillers he purchased, FINE CIGAI^S
and outside of a few tilts with labor, has
dulling or turning your Cigar Knives R.F.D.No.8.YORK,PA.'
To make cigars, and make them quickly but well, without Milwaukee, Wis Jan. 3. operated regularly.
,
Wages are the high-
Now that the old year has passed into A specialty of Private Brands for dii
and cutting away the board, you must use a est ever paid in this city, and the work-
Wholesale and Jobbing Trades.
history, and the various branches of the men seem to be content with
what they Correspondence solicited.
National Cigar Board. tobacco industry
books, it is
have
looked at the are getting, so long
understood that the past year off too much.
as they are not laid
Brands: g^ Bear, 5^ C\ib. Essie,
Samples on application^
and M&ttliew Carey.
Doesn't warp glued and triple bolted.
or split, for Entirely select Rock Maple Ends,
it's has been a good one all around. There were more pounds of smoking
first kiln dried, then thoroughly linseed oil soaked, to
preserve and keep moist. The special First, the crop while not as large as and chewing tobacco manufactured in 9 (OA C09 cos CO0 cos CO* !
9 COS COS CO: COB ccvr roe
No closer or harder gramed hoped for, was o f good quality, and Milwaukee last year than Factories: 9th District
process treatment produces a permanent marble-like finish. any other
L. E. Ryder,
in i i
wood possible. No other as smooth or uniform in surface. Why not get them
many cases of leaf will be found to be year in the history of the corporation. 1 26 and 517 Pei\i\8i. I
I \
superior. This is what the leaf men have More 8coe coo COS (Oo coe coe e
now? Prices are attractive from lo to 25 per cent lower than others.
dollars were paid out than ever
claimed right along, that the product of before. The aggregate sum paid to
Write for them to-day. Manufacturer of
the Badger State while not as heavy wholesalers and jobbers reaches far be-
We Can match what I
have a big line of Cigar Ribbons.
q
.GlSARS.
N. B. as some of the others, has grown a yond any other
year. So there must be
you use. Come along with your samples and questions. quality of leaf that averages well with satisfaction in this quarter.
the best. The growers, however, are
. .
The jobbing end of the business was
complaining, and the annual crop of also favorable. Most of the large con-
Nati ONAL Selling (^ rumors that there will be a short crop in cerns operating in this city are today
For the Jobbing Tra.de Exclusively
1905, are being spread broadcast. employing more men in one capacity
ALLENTOWN,RA As as a matter of fact, the farmers or another than ever before. This is LANCASTER, PA.
have been offered adequate pay for their explained by the fact that more help is
crops, and have been satisfied until the needed. Business has grown right along, The Best Goods for the Least Money.
EXPORT STAMP ISSUED BY CUBAN MANUFACTURERS. past two years.
beets within the past few years,
The growing
has dis-
of sugar
and new territory is taken in regularly,
and as the demand increases, so must the
turbed the minds of the tillers of the soil facilities increase for handling larger
A. F. HOSTETTER,
Maaofacturer of
> :^
REPUBLICADECUBA Kt PLBLICA.de. C LB A i)Hi<iPiÊii :iii*.i. ijHit^3iiaiaig and they have been promised great profit business. There was not a time last
from their land should they forsake to-
bacco raising and plant their acres to
year when good stocks were not carried
neither was there a time when the manu-
Kigh-Grade
UUniondeRbbicantesdeTabacosyCicabros beets. It is advanced that the cultivation facturers fell down on advance orders. Domestic
ÎSLAdeCUBA of beets needs no attention whatever after
the first pulling takes place,
Everything seemed to work in harmony,
and all they and the jobber certainly figures he did
dig them up and sell exceedingly well last year.
Cigars
do
utorizada porel Gobierno dela Repdblica iS^ have to
much
is to
HANOVER, PA.
them at so per. The end of these from
Garantiza ^. This plan has been attractive to many
retail
time to time has set forth

letters
how business
BTaob Favoritb," a 5-cent Leadtr,
cidelostabeccs.cigarrosypaqjetes
de picaduracjuellevapeshappednfa
^ farmers in the past, who are now raising is going along in this city.
tobacco again.
There are
Several of the large beet more stores in the city today, than there
Imown for Superiority of Quality.
son fabr'cados per

HABAMA sugar concerns, which were going to do were a year ago, and some of the old ones
wonders right from have are nearly double the size they were
the jump,
JWflf^TIfl SLiABflCH,
passed into the great beyond, and the twelve months back. Stocks are larger
DENVER, PA.
gÛJtt:IIIJ,l,IJIiîliMMJililjlMJUi^ ^M*^
machinery is for sale to any who de- and of higher grade goods than was the Manufacturer of
^^ t ^^ a t^ r^
X offset ''; effe^r^lhe
l'"''lrêt;he =,"^" "'
A
nro''%^^^^
>'
rj
- o^f cJ,* r.f been secured by the Union of Manufacturers of Cuba, anct which is designed to
thP ^'vnort st^mo
tapoTt":!^ Tus. prrlpera.on i' .he United S.aL.
issue of which has
The Cuban stanjp is no, .he same color as .he old United
overlooked when pas.ed on the box. The Union of Manufacturers will take steps to
sires it This has happened in Michigan
and
course,
in two cities in
there are
case a
factories
year
this State.
ago, and it might be inferred
But, of
that the average retailer is more pros-
perous. As a matter of fact some of the
which are stores are conducting business in a differ-
High-Grade Union Made
SPECIAL BRANDS:
^^
United Labor (5c) Union Stag
\ ^ P^ j[^
(5c.) Cuba-Rico (loc)
^
''?^was red but it is so large that it could no. well be prospering. There is no other crop ent way than they did a few years ago.
direc.ed by Rafael G. Marques, who is Presiden. of .he Union.
frrhalTtrsumpTunWersrii; identified by .he pullic. and .his work will be It formerly was the case that the proprie
crop, and are Sales for month, 189 between Secretary Taft and the delegation
506
There is no doubt that Secretary Taft
which catches the farmer's eye, so until
tor hired the clerks and paid little atten-
the beet sugar industry flourishes, there tion to his customers. This is changed
HENRY GOTTSBLIG & BRO.
only raised*6o per cent of a " 10,000 from the National Cigar Leaf Tobacco
14,080
still favors free trade between the Philip- need be no fear of the tobacco crop in now, and most every dealer in the city No, 828 Joseph Street,
St.
on year,
organizing rapidly and placing values 260 Association will have any effect one way pines and the United States, but he has
their holdings, about double last year's
Shipments for month, 744
shown himself willing to investigate
Winconsin being entirely neglected. takes particular pains to get acquainted
with his trade.
IÂNCASTER, PA.
to sell freely
year, 16,415 11,010 or the other. From sources which are generally re-
prices, and arc not disposed opposition and his consenting to 25 per
Stocks on sale, 620 1,693 The committee which waited upon the Reports from the tobacco growing sec- Manufacturers o
even at prices agreed on. The
remnant liable, it is promised that Wisconsin will
" sold, cent of the Dingley showed that he was tions are to the effect that the recent rains
left on sale is 722 742 Secretary was headed by A. Bijur, presi-
of 1902 and 1903 crops open to argument. It is understood that again come to the front this year with a
selling very cheap as
compared to prices Stocks on hand, 1,392 2,431 dent, and Charles Fox, chairman, of the
M. D. BOALES. Legislative committee, and these gentle-
the trade interests would put up with less good crop of tobacco.
saved the crop, as casing will now pro-
ceed. Heavy rains fell for three days,
igh Grade
for new crop. than 75 per cent of the Dingley rate, with it was welcome, expresses it
who and to say
men scenied disposed to feel hopeful. Next comes the manufacturer,
Lugs Common, 3>i 'o 4c; Medium,
to 5c. Very scarce. FIFTY PER CENT. OF DINGLEY RATE It is probable that some
sort of a com-
a certain amount of cheerfulness if it
became necessary, but will protest against feels that the past year has been fairly
Nearly if not all the crop hang-
mildly.
ing in the shed has been taken down and
Union Made
4to4)4c;Good, VA promise will be agreed to and it seems The average tobacco and within the next week or two all
6c; Medium, 6 LIKELY. the 25 per cent until the last horn. satisfactory.
the big
Leaf Common, 5 to
likely it will be 50 per cent of the
Dingley
cigar manufacturer in this State, or the tobacco warehouses will b e running
to 7>ic; Good, nyi
Loose
to 9c; Fine. 9 to 12c.
prices for New from planters:

Lugs, 6 to 7c; Leaf. *
to 15c.
Probable That War Department Will Re- rate as was intimated.
commend Twenty-five Per Cent. Cut
on Philippine Tariff.
Of course
only result of such a compromise would
be a recommendation to Congress for the
the An of the National Cigar Leaf
official
Tobacco Association said yesterday
(Tuesday) that he believed that the trade
City of Milwaukee, at least, undoubtedly again.
has made a profit If he has not his Milwaukee now has more than 2,600
saloons, and nearly every one sells
Cigars
Washington, D. C, Dec. 30. passage of such a bill instead of the 25 would be satisfied with a rate that was business methods have been poor. The **TKe Great Poet Needs no Praise.** Jobbers and Dealers Become Convinced
MONTHLY REPORT DEC. The Philippine proposition is still per cent bill which has been urged by not below 50 per cent of the Dingley
demand has existed, and if he has had
'cigars.
HDBRSGN. Samples and Particulars to Reliable People on Application.

a<
..
Sigkl
1908
Receipts for month.

1904
105 hanging fire impossible to say the Insubr Bureau of the War
and it is
Depart- rate and at this figure the cut would be
only a 25 per cent one.
M year, I4.390 ".3So definitely yet whether the conference ment.
^ s 5
u THE TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO W O R I. D 26
flANUPACTURCR OF ALU KINDS OF / r- - mil
l38ai40ffeNTRET.
Cigar Box Labels
AND TRIMMINGS.
Philadelphia Office, 573 Bourse Bldg.
H. S. SPRINGER, Mgr.
NEWYORK
Chicago, 56 Fifth Avenue,
E. E. THATCHER, Mgr.
San Francisco, 320 Sansome
L. S. SCHOENFELD,
Street,
Mgr.
LIBERMAN'S |
Acreage, Production and Value of Tobacco Crop in the
D. W. HUBLEY, The
United States for 1904.
following table showing the acreage, production and value, by States, of

the tobacco crop of 1904 has been compiled by the Department of Agriculture in
Washington, D. C, January 2.
T Latest Suctioiv Machine 1
a regular annual report:
Thomasville, Pa. States Acreage

Yield
per acre
Produc-
tion
Price
per lb.
Total
Farm Value
Acres Lbs. Lbs. Cents Dollars
New Hampshire 1,610 191,590 15.0
Cigsir ]V[anufacturer Vermont
Massachusetts
119
174
4.444
1,685
1,690
293, 190
7,5io;36o
15.0
18.6
28,738
43.978
1,396,927
Connecticut 12,705 1.685 21,407,925 22.6 4,838.191
For Wholesale and Jobbing Trade. New York 5.492 1.145 6,288,340 10.0 628,834
Pennsylvania 14.457 1,289 18,635,073 8.9 1,658,521
Correspondence Solicited. Samples on Application. Maryland 621
32,067 19.913,607 6.5 1,294,384
Adopted Palm Rolling
> Virginia
South Carolina
133,086
North Carolina 143,968
725
685
96,487.350
98,618,080
8,185,029
7.4
8.6
8.2
7,140,064
8,481,155
by the
Georgia
11.643
1,868
703
650 1,214,200 20.6
671,172
250,125
Essential
Florida
Alabama
4.434
585
815
479
5,613,710
221,715
31-5
155
1.138,319
34.366
Leading to
* F. B. SeHlNDLEF^ --^^
Manufacturer of
I
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
170
89
469
408
438
600
69, 360
38,982
281,400
15.6
:2i.5
19.5
10,820
8.381
54.873
Manufacturers. Hand-Work.
*^ Arkansas 1.234 565 697,210 12.0 83,665
.c.^^clAu^c/^^
Tennessee 47.703 730 34,823,190 5.8 2,019,745
Fine Domestic ^
West Virginia
Kentucky
4.087
277,409
710
827
2,901,770
229.417,243
8.5
6.4
246,650
14,682,704
Ohio 59.827 849 50,793. > 23 8.0 4.063,450
Cigars Michigan
Indiana
278
6,244
675
691
187,650
4,314,604
6.5
8.5
12,197
366,741
Illinois M55 670 773.850 5-4 41.788
Red Lion, Pa. Wisconsin 40.931 1.282 52.473.542 7.8 4.092,936 .
Missouri 1.771 626 1,108,646 8-5 94.235
** JOBBING TRADE * United States 806,409 819.0 660,460,739 8.1 53,382,959
SOLICITED
^HIS IS THE SIMPLEST AND MOST PRACTICAL TOOL yet introduced in connection with Cigar-
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PRICE AND CONDITION OF THE^ CROP FOR 1904. A making. The cutting so equipped with ball bearings and exteriorj;springs that they only
rollers are
produce enough pressure to cut the leaf, thus maintaining a sharp edge on the die and: assuring a perfect, clean
Department of Agriculture Issues Detailed Report of the Yield for tke
cut, superior to hand-work. The circumference of the cutting roller being greater than the length of the die,
Year, by Types, Which Shows That Binder and Filler Crops
makes tearing or streaking of the wrapper impossible. Then, after the leaf has been cut, a slight depression
are Late in Being Stripped and Sold.
with the right foot pedal will lower the die even with the table, thus making a perfectly smooth and rigid
Washington, D. C, Jan. 2. and a much larger percentage of tke
surface, enabling the operator to Roll with the Full Palm of the Hand, instead of pushing the cigar
In the monthly Crop Reporter, the crop has been sold.
Department of Agriculture publishes the Following are the reports in detail: along with the finger tips.
following detailed reports of the year' CigLr Types. Changing of the die to any shape, or from right to left, or the reverse, is a very simple matter on this
tobacco crops by types, showing the con- j^ ^^^ England. Reports from this table, and can be done within two minutes time.
dition ot the tobacco, the proportion of section indicate that the
prices so far These points of merit, coupled with others not mentioned, have won for this table the high standard of
yield and average price in 1904. It is a
received for the fine crop of 1904 have
excellence maintained to-day, a fact that cannot conscientiously be claimed by any of our competitors.
noticeable feature of the crop that among been approximately
50 per cent higher
the sections producing cigar tobacco, the than for similar grades last
A We stand ready to prove our statement, and all we ask is for the opportunity.
CSTABUSHCO laJirx- -^ great binder and filler crops of Wiscon- weighted average of all returns
sin. Ohio and New York were still hang- pîce of 21.6 cents
year.
shows a
per pound, in the
m We Think IT WILL PAY YOU to Investigate.
ing on the poles on December 20, practi- bundle, unassorted. Prices for Havana
cally none having been stripped and very ^^^^ ânge from 15 to
23 cents per
little sold.
New England and Pennsylvania had

marketed but a small percentage of their
pound; several sales of broad leaf re-
^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^
fourths of the crop has been sold, but on
LiBERMAN Manufacturing Co.
crops. An exception is noted in the case account of dry weather not
more than 1
Manufacturers of
of the southern district, which com- per cent has been stripped and
is
delivered,
posed of certain counties of Georgia and The cured leaf is of good color
Florida, about 70 per cent of this impor- weight, free from pole sweat,
tant wrapper and filler crop having been damage, and is far superior
and
or other
to the crop
Cigar Machinery
sold and delivered.
In
chewing,
many of
smoking,
the districts
of 1903.
snuff
Taken as a whole, the crop is
producing considered one
and export in New England.
of the finest ever produced and Tools
types, the percentage of the crop marketed 2. New York. In the Onondaga dis-
-
.A.B.CLIME> up
usual.
to December 20
In the burley
is much
district,
smaller than
the dark
trict the prices quoted range from
12 cents per pound, in the bundle,
8^ to
the 240-42 North Third Street,
STRICTLY UNION FACTORY districts of Tennessee and average being about 10 cents. Compared
Kentucky.
rFABRICONAROLFESCHOICE
Virginia, and in Maryland and Eastern with prices received for similar grades in
Ohio dry weather has greatly interfered 1903. these prices are from 25 to 30 per
PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A
^l-
POINTED ARROW-SHARP KNIFE with stripping and has delayed marketing cent higher. About half of the crop has
VAMPIRE
,
' the crop. remaining sections been sold on contract, but practically
In the
conditions have been more favorable, none of it has been delivered, dry weather
THE TOBACCO WORLD
Por Gentlemen of Good Taste
< > REMEDIOS < >

(]
^S/^N FELI E^
'
R A HIGH GRADE R
kjC.ClGAR FOR CJC
Sold Extensively by Leading Cigar Dealers and Druggists
Throughout the United States
CALVES CO. <fi THE DEISEL-WEMMER

SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES
LIMA, OHIO
CO., Makers
having prevented stripping. The aver- Zimmer Spanish has yet been established
IMPORTERS OF age quality of cured leaf is thought to be as practically none of this variety has
better than that of the 1903 crop,
this
but been sold. On account of dry weather
can not be ascertained with accuracy it has been impossible to strip tobacco,
until tobacco is taken from the poles. consequently none of the new crop has
In the Big Fl.ts distiict prices quoted been delivered up to December 20.
range from 9 to 1 1 cents per pound, Compared with prices received for simi-
J. M. MITTLEMAN
Dealer in
being 20 to 25 per cent higher than prices lar grades in 1903, the prices so far
received for similar grades in 1903. On realized for the new crop are from 15 to
account of dry, cold weather very little 20 per cent higher. Quality of the Leaf Tobacco
tobacco has been taken from the poles, cured leaf cannot be accurately estimated
o but the average quality is thought to be at this time; but the prevaiHng opinion
superior to that of 1903 crop. indicates that the 1904 crop is a very
No. 1619 South Street
> 3. Pennsylvania. The weighted

age of 8.9 cents per pound for the
aver-
satisfactory one,
than that of last year. Damage from
and considerably
prolonged drying, from pole-rot in over

better
Goods Sold in
PHILADELPHIA
Any Quantity.
tobacco crop of this section is based upon Open Evenings Until Nine o^clock.
pq crowded sheds and from a small per-
< TRADE MARK the contract prices at which about 75 per

cent of the crop has been sold. On centage of fat-stem in crops cut
reported in some cases,
late, is
but the injury
< > ( I
account of dry weather, it has been im-
possible to strip and assort the tobacco,
hence not more than 10 per cent has 5. Wisconsin.
from these causes
Onaccountof the lack

is thought to be slight.
H O been delivered. Prices so far have been of sufficient moisture to produce a strip
25 to 30 per cent higher than were ping season, practically the entira crop THE AROMA THOUSANDS PR A ISM.
r received for similar grades last year. is still hanging on the poles.
Average quality of cured leaf is thought
to be somewhat better than that of 1903
therefore
rately the quality
It is
impossible to estimate accu-

and to determine the Havana Box Aroma
There was less damage during average price that will be realized. The
crop.
$12 per Gallon.
the process of curing and practically no price given, 7.8 cents per pound, is based
injury by insects. The above estimates upon the reports of sales which have ITS EQUAL UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE
> do not include hail cut and frosted to-
bacco, very little of which has been sold.
been made
delivered. In
on contract,
some
but not yet
parts of the district, Cindnnati Fruit Refining Company, Cincinnati, 0.
HAVANA Prices so far quoted for such crops vary from 50 to 75 per cent of the crop has
from 8 cents to as low as 3 or 4 cents per been sold on contract Quality of cured
pound, depending upon the extent of leaf is considered better than that of
damage.
4. Ohio Miami Valley. About 70
1903 crop.
6. Georgia and Florida.
per cent of the crop of seed leaf and the entire crop of Cuban sun -grown
Practically C. S. COOPER,
Manufacturer of
#' It Little Dutch produced in this section is tobacco produced in this important dis
reported to have been sold on contract, trict is reported sold. Prices received Fine and Domestic Cigars
9 cents per for this type average 15 cents per pound,
at prices ranging
pound, the
from 6
weighted
to
average of all in the bundle, for the unfermented leaf. WEST EARL, PA.
23 NORTH THIRD STREET,
J
returns being 7)4 cents. No price for Only about 40 per cent of the shade-
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\ A. Z. SHERK, President. E. L. NISSLY, Treasurer. %
*
J, B, Milleysaek
Manufacturer of
The V. A. Collins Cigar Co.
Philadelphia Fine Havana r\
Hand-Made
Tf^ A
l^ KX^tJi JlLV O
J? S^ ^
^"fsof '' Marietta, Pa.
High Grade Union Hand Made Cigars

MAKERS OF
'""ISSr"
and 6ig Lake r JULIAN HAWTHORNE 10c. Cigar

615, 617 St.
"^- ^''"
Onr Leaders: ITN.^sc.^'lt
^
OUR LEADER 6c Cigar
Lancaster, Pa. [
< > PARTI DOS <0> 1^1

^^Distributors Wanted Everywr ere
C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA. C. A. ROST, & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA,
grown Sumatra crop has been grades at this time last year, the prices
sold, prices
ranging from 25 to 40 cents per pound, so far realized for the 1904 crop are
VICTOR THORSCH COMPANY in the bundle, for the unfermented leaf. about 20 per cent higher.
The average price for this type is esti-

The average
quality of the cured leaf superior to
AMERICAN
is
Makers of the
mated 30 cents per pound. Owing to 1903 crop, the early plantings having
BACHELOR CIGAR at
the prolonged drought in the early part produced some very fine tobacco. There
of the growing season, the shade-grown is a marked tendency to plant Burley
ALLENTOWN, PENNA. crop is inferior in quality to that 'pro- tobacco instead of the dark types hereto-
duced and a comparatively fore grown in this district, and where
last year,
short yield of high grade tobacco may be suitable soil was to be found a larger
expected. acreage than usual was planted to this
Leaf Tobacco INCORPORATED.
Co.
CHEWING. SMOKING. SNVFF AND EX- type in 1904.
C. E. MATTINGLY &
n Reports
I.
from
PORT TYPES.
Burley District.
growers
throughout the counties of Kentucky,
and
On
Vpper Cumberland
the basis of sales
dealers price of 4.7 cents per
District.
made an average
pound is indicated
as a farm price of the crop of this district
Successors to
Packers of
S. L. Jolins,
CO. Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia, pro- on December i. Prices so far received
and
MANUFACTURERS
NfUFACTURERS OF ducing burley tobacco, indicate that not are 25 per cent higher than for similar
HIGH GRADE
more than 3 per cent of the 1904 crop grades in 1903. About 20 per cent of Wholesale Dealers in
has been sold. Severe and prolonged the crop had been marketed up to De-
UNION MADE Cigars drought throughout the entire

prevented growers from stripping and superior
preparing tobacco for market as early as body.
district cember 20. Quality of the cured leaf
to that of 1903 both in color and
is
LEAF
For Wholesale Trade Only, usual. As the weather continued cold Clarksville and. Hopkinsville District.
and dry, only a few hogsheads of the
McSherrystown, Pa. new crop had been received up to
Prices received so far
25 to 30 per cent higher than those re-
have been from
m December 20, on the Louisville and

Cincinnati markets, to which the bulk of year.
the burley crop is sent.
are reported to have been sold at the been
time of cutting.
marketed up to
Prices received so far average quality
indicate an average of 9. i cents per thought
ceived for similar grades at this time last
On account of dry weather not
A few crops more than 7 per cent of the crop had
of t h e cured leaf is
December 20. The Main Office,
to be superior to that of the 1903
THE LOUIS NEWBUR6H pound, and compared with prices re- crop. It is of a darker color and has McSherrystown, Pa.
CO. ceived for similar grades at this time last more body, thus
making it much better
year, are from 25 to 30 per cent higher. for many
PACKERS OF purposes, though not so suita-
Branch
Zimmer Spanisli and Little Dutch
Quality of the cured leaf is thought to be ble for the French
market Prices so fat-
somewhat better than that of 1903 crop, will average close to 6 cents,
but this can not be satisfactorily estimated tobacco has been sold
though some
Office,
Reading, Pa. '.ESIIEMAN
below this price.
MAIN OFFICE, HAMILTON, OHIO. until the tobacco is stripped.
It is generally conceded that the quality
DA.rk Districts Kentucky ah.nd Ten- of this crop is better than that of 1903
READING.PA.
Wartbouses: Hamilton, Ohio, and Franklin, Ohio 2.
nessee.
The
crop, and as the yield in pounds will be
-
L. A. PEARSON,
Packer & Dealer in All Kinds of
Paducah District. average price probably 25 to 30 percent less, prices bid
of 4.8 cents per pound is based upon fair to continue good. In many counties
reports from this district, which indicate of this district tobacco is being held by
A. K. MANN, F. M. HUNT. A. G. MARTIN.
HUNT & MAR TIN

that while only about 5 per cent of the the farmers for better prices. They are
1904 crop had been delivered up to selling more freely in this county, how-
Ci^^^ L/eaf Xohacco December

centage
Compared with
had
20, a very
been
much
sold
larger per- ever,
on contract. having been sold up
prices received fr similar
probably 2, 000, 000
to
pounds or more
December 20.
Grower and Packer Manufacturers of
ZIMMER SPANISH, CONNECTICUT BINDERS & WRAPPERS, OF
UTTLE DUTCH,
GEBHARDT SEED,
IMPORTED SUMATRA,
IMPORTED HAVANA,
grades at this time
quoted are said
last year, the prices
be 25 per cent higher.

to
3.
About one- third of the 1904 crop of

sun cured tobacco is estimated to have
Virginia Sun-Cured District.
High-Grade Stogies
PENNA. BROAD LEAF, DOMESTIC SUMATRA & HAVANA.
Warehouses West Milton, O,
On account of continued dry weather
very little tobacco has been stripped.
The average quality of cured leaf is con-
been sold up to December 20. The
cured leaf is said to be sweeter and of
better flavor than the 1903 crop, but
LEAF BBTHESDA, OHIO.
Branch Yorkshire, O, siderably better than that of 1903 crop,
being of better texture and body, and
somewhat thinner and lacking in body Recommended for their Exquisite Aroma and
and gum. It is, however, of good rich Excellent Workmanship.
Buyers in All Tobacco Districts of the World
the leaf
crop is
is larger and heavier.
said to be particularly desirable
for export trade.
The new
color and well suited to domestic
facturing purposes. The average
manu-
price
^ !
TOBACCO All Goods Strictly First-Class.
Main Office, West Milton, Ohio. Stemming District. On account of dry up to December
per pound, but since that date a consid-
i was about 7^ cents Correspondence, with the Wholesale and
weather, practically none of the crop of
erable decline is noted. In explanation
Jobbing Trade Only, Solicited.
BILLMAN BROS.
this district has been stripped or sold.
of this fact, the following statement is
Millersville, Pa. 0
>
It is therefore impossible to estimate made by a
prominent dealer in this type:
accurately the average price that may be
The demand for sun-cured tobacco has V'
PACKERS OF realized or the quality of the cured leaf. J(
^^n
Reports indicate, however, that prices
increased so much that in many of the
counties south of the James River grow-
Located on Line of Millersville Trolley. J. Fred Holtzinger. W. H. Seitz. O
Ohio Leaf Tobaccos considerably higher than those received
^* '
for similar grades at this lime last year
ers have endeavored to sun-cure and air-
cure their crops with the result that a great CIGAR BOXES,
HOLTZINGER. , SEITZ,
are being offered.
quantity of the so-called sun-cured to- Geo. M. Wechter,
1903 \
ZIMMER SPANISH^
Zimmer Spa-nish 19021903
Fancy Natural Bulk
Upper Green River
In most of the counties included in this
District. bacco appearingon the/'breaks." In
is
consequence the price of the real sun-

1 SHIPPING CASES. X
LABELS,
Manufacturer off Manafactorers of High Grade
and
CIGARS
WRAPPERS And Sweated, Closely district dry weather has prevented strip- cured tobacco has been unfavorably edgings, All Grades of PennsylvaixiaL Cigars
FILLERS
^
Gebhari .f Tabled and Hand-
Too short for our*
Fancy J'ackings. 4^
ping and has delayed marketing. In the
^ somely Finished. southern portion of the district, however,
X None Better.
affected. The
emphasized that
this type of tobacco can be ^successfully
point is ^ RIBBONS,
and
i*eiAR B0XES*! Controlling
Independent Factories. lêd Lion, Pa.
Write for Samples.
Little Dutch Write for Samples. a considerable portion of the crop has produced only in the counties lying north
been sold and delivered, or sold on con- of James River and near tide water,
CIGAR
Our Leaders in Five Cent Cigars:
X
tract for future delivery. The average which have been included in the sun-
South Ninth Street, DON SEGNO HEGAL'^DUKE GOV. WRIGHT
West Carrollton, Montgomery Co., O. price, as indicated by these sales, is esti- cured district, viz: Caroline, Hanover, Manufacturers'
DISTRIBUTORS WANTBD EVERYWHERB
^ The Centre of the Best Zimmer Growing District/ mated at 4.8 cents per pound. Com- Henrico, King William, Spottsylvania,
t SUPPLIES. X
Established A L^^^%
Akron, 0
Pa.
Telephone,
Connection.
pared with prices received for similar Fluvanua, Louisa, and Goochland.
Our Capacity for Manufacturing Cigar B6xes U
Ai.vAYS Room poe Onb Morb Good Custombk.
L. J. Sellers & Son,Sellersviiie, Pa
80 THR TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD
frr. 31
$
CIGAH BOX EDGINGS
We have the l-2o assorteen' " Cigar Box Bdgingt in the United States, haying over 1,000 designs in stock. M. K ALISCH <a CO. ^^l^P^ 1
T. A. MYERS & CO. Printer? and Engravers, YORK, PENNA

Manufacturers of
A Large Line of
HIGH GRADE and MEDIUM
EmJIiossed Flaps, Labels, Notices, etc.
W. B. HOSTETTER & CO. On

4. Dark District of
account of unfavorable weather

Virginia.
for
quoted on the several markets are from
50 to 75 per cent higher than those
AI^S
Wholesalers and Retaile.s of stripping the tobacco not more than 15 received for similar grades in 1903.
per cert of the crop of this- district had Reports from counties in the eastern
Red Lion, Pa.
Correspondence with Wholesalers invited.
Leaf Tobacco ^^
been marketed up to December 20. The portion of this district indicate that the Free Samples to Responsible Houses.
average farm price on December i, as quality of the cured leaf is considered
indicated by sales reported up to this better ihan the 1903 crop; but taking the
SHADE-GROWN SUMATRA, in Bales. time, is estimated at 6. i cents per pound. district as a whole, the prevaihng opinion 4.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
York, No. 130. Prices so far received have been about 20 is that the crop is slightly inferior to that
k.c 1
Bell, No. 1873 12 S. George St., York, Pa. On
( per cent higher than
the corresponding time last year.
for similar grades at of
The 6.
last year.
Maryland and Eastern Ohio -Export. WILLIAM J. NOLL leaders: | """SiKJ'-" | Cijirs-Sc,, 3 Stais
A. SONNEMAN <& SONS,

quality of the cured leaf though
useful and valuable than 1903 crop, is
more On account of dry weather only about
NANUFACTUREiL OF
Successor to J. Neff
L. R. BROWN,
9 per cent of the crop had been marketed WHOLESALE
not as good as usual in this district. On up to December
20. Prices received for
Packers an
Dealers n i Leaf Tobacco
account of severe drought the late the few crops sold indicate
in
summer and early fall the plants could farm price on December
not be cured as successfully as usual.
for the district.
i
an average
of 6.4 cents
In the Eastern Ohio
High Grade C Cigar Manufacturer,
Larê Line of 1900. 1901 and 1902 B's. The leaf is of very satisfactory size, body counties producing
No. 105 S. Gcoriie St., YORK, PA. and texture, but with the exception of
certain grades, is deficient in color.
tobacco of this type
prices range from 5 to 6 cents per pound, ROBESONIA, PA. Brownstown,
CHARLES BROWN,D.
Pa.
or about the same as in 1903, but the Salesman.
5. Bright Yellow District. quality is somewhat better this year. ^^^4 I

4
D. R. SCHRIVER ^
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
CO^ Old Bright Belt, Virginia. It is esti-
mated that about 35 per cent of the crop

Perique.
7. Louisiak.na.
As compared with the crops La Adelphia Cigar Factory (^^^^%%%<^%%%%%

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^% ^^>^^^^^^%'
in this district had been marketed up to of
in All Crad8 of 1903 produced in this district, no
John McLaughlin. k. Kauffman.
December On j.
nnn
imtiistiG&lniiioiteilTOBAC cember I is
20.
reported, the average farm price
estimated at
the basis o f
8.6 cents per

sales marked deviation
on De- price or quality of cured leaf
As an additional guide
either as to average
is
to
noted.
a clear
THOMAS A. WAGNER,
Sellersville, Pa.
Propriefr,
JOHN McLaughlin
Wholeale Dealers in All Kinds of
<si co.
pound. Prices so far received are from
understanding of the condition of the
Manufacturer of
29 East Clark Avenue, 20 to 25 per cent higher than for similar crop, the following table shows, by types,
grades in 1903. LA ADMLPHIA, 5-Cent
Plug QJL Smoking Tobaccos
CIGARS Fine Cigars , Leaf Tobacco
In average quality the the average farm price on December i
FTKB 8UMATRAS a apedalty. YORK, PA cured leaf is somewhat inferior to that of in cents per pound and the
estimated LA FLOR DE A. C. F, lo-Cent
Also, All Grsdes of
1903 crop. It contains a smaller pro- percentage of the tobacco

crop of 1904
Samples and Prices Sent to Responsible People.
KoriLER & eo.
portion ot wrappers and common tobacco, which had been marketed up
to Dec. 20: I
the medium grades largely predominat-
fl. Average Market-
307 Queen l|| No. North St.
P. G. SHAW
ing. The crop is deficient in body and Types. Price ed to
per lb. Dec. 20
color, but is thoroughly ripe and sweet
LANCASTER. PA.
IliiiiLlFine Cigars Old Bright Belt, North Carolina. The
New
I. Cigar Types. Cents. Per Ct.
England 21.6 15
I m
Manufacturer of
I
III
n
>< t Hfm
|%^^%^%^%^%%%%^^^^^%
i< I
^^^^^^^^<^^^^^^%%^%%i
%%%%%%^'<
top prices reported from some of the New York 10. o
DALLASTdWN, PA. markets in this part of the old belt are 2

to 3 cents higher than those quoted in the
Pennsylvania
Ohio Miami Valley
8.9
7-5
10
o
Fine and Medium **^^^^^^#*^*^^^^^^^^^^^ê^^^^^.^^^^^^^^^l
Wisconsin 7.8 o
Virginia counties, but a weighted average Georgia and Florida
Oapmckft 75,000 per day.
Established 1870
Bstablished i87.
Factory No. 79
will not exceed that given for the entire dis-
trict. About
45 per cent of the crop of this
II. Chewing, Smoking,
Snuff & Export Types.
district has been marketed up to December Burley District
38.8 70
6lGyqRS S. N, MUMMA *
Dark Districts Kentucky

91
Dallastown, Pa. Packer of
S. R. Kocher &l Son 20. Prices received so far have been and Tennessee:
NASH
r GEO. F. A OPECIALTY of Private Brands
Leaf Tobacco
Paducah, or Western Dist
Manufacturers of
about 25 to 30 per cent higher than for
similar grades at the same time last year. Stemming District
4.8
4.1 o
5 Special JOHN SELDEN -^ ^ for Wholesale & Jobbing Trade
Upper Green River Dist. 4.8 Brands: GOV. THOS. HUTCHINSON Correspondence solicited.
-Fine Havana And Packers of

Cigars
The bulk of the 1904 crop consists of
medium grades,
Upper Cumberland Dist.
there being a smaller
proportion of real fine and real common
Virginia Sun Cured
Virginia Dark
7.4
6.1
Clarksville &
4.7
Hopkinsville 5 8
20
7
35
15
^ BEN DE BAR Samples on application.
E4: PennoL. Seed B's sl SpecidLlty

tobaccos than last year. There arc more Bright Yellow:
& Warehouse at R.ailroaLd Crossinjt
LMAF TOBACCO smokers and cutters, but not as many
wrappers as in 1903 crop.
Old Belt Va. N. C. 8.6
New Belt-E. N.C. & B.C. 8.4
Maryland & E. Ohio Export 6.4
40
84
9
C. A. KII^DOW. W. T. BOLON.
*
LANDISVILLE, PA. *
New Belt, North Carolina Perique Louisiana

Prices 21.5 50
Wrightsviile, Pa.
Brilliant as Diamonds,
quoted on the several markets in the
counties of eastern North Carolina range
from 7 to 10 cents per pound, a weighted move the Henderson Tobacco Extract

Preparations are being made to re- KILDOW
Fragrant as Roses,
Good as Government Bonds,
average for the section being 8. 5 cents. Works from Henderson, Ky., to Clarks-
The prices received for the various ville, Tenn. G. F. Gloystein is general
manager.
CIGAR CO. R. E. Jacoby
grades are from 30 to 40 per cent higher Wholesale
than for similar grades at the same time
Rothsville, Psl.
Are the CIGARS t%:^^tU.. last year. estimated that at least 65
It is
per cent of the crop has been marketed

R.K.Schnader&Sons Cigar Manufacturers Wholesale Manufacturer
"Brilliant Star" Clear Harana, IQc. PACKERS OW KD DHAI^RS IV
....
. .
up to December 20. Compared with of Strictly Uniform
**S. B."
**S, B.*'
Half Havana,
Little Havana!, .... 5c. the
5c. grades
1903 crop, the
are of rather better quality,
medium and fine Bethesda, Ohio. Quality of
but
"Honest Bee" Jc. common grades are inferior. Our Leader: HALF SPANISH, 3 for 5c. HIGH grade
"21 No" Mildeat Cigar Made, 2 fOF 5c. New Belt, South Carolina. About 90 jdl .". Specialty: Cigar Shaped Stogies.
Special Brands Made per cent of the crop in this section had
SUuffer Bros. Mfg. Co.,

'^^
Send Your Cigar Buyer Here. We
New Holland, Pa^.
Will
to Order.
Smyc You Moaey.

been marketed up
estimated average price for the
to December 20, the
State
436 & 437 W. Grant St.
Seed & Havana CIGARS
Correspondence with Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Invited.
being 8.2 cents per pound. Prices Lancaster, Pa,
:
A, CÂLVEs
mi
^ Qo- <^j>
O^^
IMPORTERS
H avana "^ N. THIRD ST
PniLADeLfHIA ^
82 THE TOBACCO WORLD
CIGAR MOLDS
IF YOU WANT A LEADER OUR MOLDS "^^^^ô^^s^-
We will Duplicate
who made yonr Molds,

Any Shape yon are now
""' ""' "'"
using, regardless
CIGARS
of or Furnish Any New Shape.
IN UNION-MADE
WRITE TO
Sample Sections submitted for your approval Free of Cost.
THE American Cigar Mold Co

RUPPIN-LANCASTER, PA
I2IH23 WEST FRONT CINCINNATI,
CINCI NNATI,
ST.. n
C. ABOUT THE
"BENJAMIN CONSTANT'lOc. and "THE CRAFTSMAN" 5c. Williams Suction Rolling Tables
THEY WILL ANSWER YOUR REQUIREMENTS. by the Manufacturers as being the
STANDARD Cigar RolHng Table,
strong and dealers are enjoying a liberal
ocGepted after an experience of 18 years.
Leaf Tobacco Markets.
W. E. KRAFT MANUFACTURER
CONNECTICUT VALLEY
The Crafts Brothers finished stripping casional lot of binder
trade from an export quarter as well as
from the stogy manufacturers. An oc-
goods finds a more The John R. Williams Co.
remunerative market, but the bulk of
in October and did not deliver it to the -*
What Can Be Done by learners and PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
Havana and Seed Cigars assorting shop until about December 21,
transactions are among cheaper lines. W.
and as it laid in one tier of bundles high T. Pomeroy & Co.

report the sale of a
December before it was I DOCS lot and our Janesville

correspond-
experts on this Table can be seen at the
School for Learners of the New York Ci-
gar Manufacturers' Supply Co., 403 to
120-128 Pacific Street,
East Prospect, Pa.

until the first of
piled up, they probably lost 500 lbs by ent tells of a liberal movement in tha 409 East Seventieth Street, New York. NEWARK, N.J.
OUR SPECIALTY Is the having the tobacco dry off, and their market Estabhshed 1877 New Factory 1904
Reporter. (
"THREE BEAUTIES" bank account is smaller by $80.

estimation, the men who bought
In my
the crop
Shipments, 2oocs.
put up in 80th packages only, and a ready seller everywhere. hurried them in the taking
they wanted the tobacco for their shop.
Had this tobacco been piled up one
down , as DANVILLE BREAKS RECORD.
Tobacco Sales in December Much More
than Same Month Last Year.
H.W.HEFFENER,
T. L. ÂDAIR,
Established month earlier, covered well top and ends
Danville, Va., Dec. 31.
WHOLESALE MANUFACTURER
WHOLHSALE MANUFA
1895.
OF
with corn stalks and weighted
little, the crop would have weighed about
down a
The sales recorded in this market, the
largest in the world, during December,
J Dealer in J
t Cigar Box humher, X
Steam
Our Leader: 9 tons to the 10 acres.
were enormous and a week ago had Isabels,
WEALTH PRODUCER Fine Cigars
Special Lines for the Jobbing Trade.
Our correspondents write
East Whately, Mass.: "I have to re-
port the sale of one crop of tobacco or
alreadyshown an increase of more than
2,000,000 pounds over sales in Decem-
Ribbons,
^
^ Cigar Box
SBD LION, PA. Telephone Connection. part of the crop, the balance, 6 acres,
ber, 1903. The farmers also received
month th^n
still hanging,
packed, raised by
10 acres
Lyman
assorted
A. Crafts, for
and
nearly $200,000
during the same period
The
more this
last year.
report of E. G. Moseley, president

Manufacturer
Howard & Boundary Aves.
21C, to J. Kieley, of Hatfield, for Lich-
of the Tobacco Association, is very grati-
USED TWENT\^ YEARS WITHOUT A FAULT. stenstene & Co.
Conway, Mass., Dec. 19: "Everything
fying to the local trade and shows much
increase in the whole year. The follow-
HavansL Flavor
in the tobacco line is very dull here;
damp, no buyers. So that all we have
to do is to wait patiently.
no
I hope the
ing figures are included in the report:
Total amount sold in December, 1904,
YORK, PA.
growers will keep a stiff upper lip and 5, 148, 1 86 pounds, for ^435,364.72;
sales
Purely Vegetable. $12 per Gallon.
DO NOT EXPERIMENT WITH OTHERS.
have their tobacco assorted and not give for December,
their tobacco away when it is as good a 1252,034.59;
1903, 3,360,246, for
increase for December,
INLAND CITY CIGAR BOX CO,
1904, 1,787,940, for $183,330.13. Sale^^^; Manufacttirers of
crop as it is this year," i4i>
Cincinnati Fruit Refining Co., Cincinnati, 0. for four months in 1904, 14,477,807, for^^
Conway, Mass., Dec. 26.: "C. F.
Allis and A. G. Patterson sold at 13c, 11,221,481.99; sales for four months in Cigar Boxes^Shipping Cases
W. R. Batchelder and A. R. Cranson at 1903, 11,102,216, for $730,577.18; in- Dealers in
14c in bundle, about 8 acres in all. Very
crease for 1904, 3,375. 59^ fo** ^499- Labels, Ribbons, Edgings, etc.
904.81.
little tobacco has been taken down here,
Dec. 22, 23, as it did not get damp." 716728 N, Christian St. L.ANC ASTER, PA
PATENTS RELATING to TOBACCO, Etc.
American Cultivator.
EDGERTON, WIS.
778. 2 1 1 Band George
signor to American Cigar Co.,
; Arents, Jr.
New York
, as- /IDEN BUSER MANUFACTURER OF
The holiday week seldom brings much
Cigar Boxes and Cases
City.
news in tobacco circles and the present 778.212 Band George

; Arents, Jr., as-
season no exception to the rule. Con-
is signor to American Cigar Co., New York
DEALER IN
ditions have been improved amazingly by City.
Wm. Lumber, Labels, Edging, Etc.,
casing weather of sufficient duration
put the hanging tobacco into suitable
case for removing from the sheds and the
to
P.
778,444 Electric cigar lighter;
Carstarphen, Jr., Denver, Colo.
778, 362 Tobacco stemming and book-
R. F. D. No. 3, YORK, PA. FNBOSSED
^^ Are
CIGAI
All the Rage.
delayed work of stripping can now go ing machine; Parrick Hart, Mendota,
M. D. BOALES,
J.
forward. It is believed the greater portion Illinois.

We have them in large variety. Send for Sampl^B^
of the crop has been taken
busy times are now
down and778,373 Apparatus for preparing cig-
predicted throughout arette mouth pieces; Joseph and L. Leaf Tobacco Broker William Steiner, Sons & Co.
LARCEST cMMjma
the tobacco sections of the State. Old Przedecki, Breslau, Germany. LitKograpKers,
leaf continues to be moved out of first 778, 274 Cigarette; Joseph and L. Prze- Hopkinavlllc, Ky. 1x6 and ii8 E. Fourteenth St., NEW YOBK.
hands though the late storms have cur- decki, Breslau, Germany.
tailed riding somewhat during the week. 778,817 Tobacco pipe; Harry Willis,
The demand for low grade goods remains Des Moines, la.

84 THB TOBACCO WORLl>

MHanai THK TOBACCO WORLD
Established 1878. Factory 1503, <Uh Dist.
JOSEPH REED , Pa.
PATRICK HENRY JACOB G. SHIRK, Specially Cleaned and Care-
J. B. BUDDING, Sr. 40 w^ Orange St.,

fully Graded.
LANCASTER, PAJ Combination I We make them for
J
10 6, ^}4, 9,
York, Pa. Plug and Smoking Tobaccos and 12 cents per pound. Ready
PLAIN SCRAP, SELECT BUTTS-Chew for use in Cigar and Tobacco
SCRAP
1 \
Manufacturer of or Smoke. Factories

KING DUKE 2y2 oz.
Fine Cigatrs Exclusively Manufacturer of Lancaster Long Cut Tobacco
Our Leading Chewing and Smoking Brands:
J. L. MMTZGMR
JOSEPH REED-IOC. tAHCASTER LONG CUT Tobacco Co.
Made in Four Sizes. Go to the Trade at $('.(> per 1000.
) KING DUKE CUT PLUG
KING DUKE GRANULATED
SHIRK'S BEST TWIST
REBATE LONG CUT
-Filler-
i~i' iiier-: Dealers in LEAF TOBACCO
\
PA TRICK HENR F- jc. Mainifiurtttrer of HIgh-Grade Turkish & Egyptian LANCASTER, PA.
Made in Six Sizes. Go to the Trade at $'Ao per 1000. Cigarettes.
9, aI manufacture all grades of PLUG, SMOKING and CIGARETTES
Ten Cent Cigar

Dealers Catering to Fine Trade Should Place a Sample Order.
Our
All Goods Sold Under Strict Guarantee.
Our Product
Interest in Maintaining the Standard of
to suit the orld. Write for samples.
E. RENNINGER,
is a Guarantee of Quality and Workmanship.
Five Cent Cigar Established 1834 Established 1889,
WM. F. COML Y c& SON Manufacturer of High and Medium Grade

SOMETHING NEW^ AND GOOD KLEINBERG'S Auctioneers and Commission Merdiants
-^ WAGNER'S
248 S. Front St. and 115 Dock St.
Cigars
Chban stogies MANUPACTURBD ONI,Y BY
"evil
KING ofsc CIGARS
PHILADELPHIA
Regular Weekly Sales Every Thursday
Strictly Union-Made Goods. DcilVGr
Caveats. Trade Marks,
Pfl.
AGAIN ON THE MARKET.
Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers' Articles Ori4-z^ri^C
dLCllLS
LEONARD WAGNER, Our famous "SMOKE-IT" Cheroots
are selling faster than ever before. SPECIAL SALES OF LEAF TOBACCO
A Desig:n-Patents, Copyrights, efea
(3
John A. Saul.
''
actory No. . 707 Oblo St, AUeglieny, Pa. Pbiladelpbia, Consignments Solicited Advances Made
Settlements Made on Day of Sale
OeaBaspoNDBS
s/>T,TrTTiei to Ofolt Baildii>5. WASHINGTON. IX C,
The Cigars You Want Business CKaLnges, Fires, Etc.
Illinois 4
Bloomington John Thennes, chattel ^.A.l^lÂ.
w. D. s)iriyvv's mtge., 11,310.
Indiana

Rochester Rochester Cigar Co., (not
^'^t^^'*^^!'*""*'^^
CIGAR BOXES
Union Cigar Factory inc.) succeeded by R. K. Gilliland.
Kentucky
The Easy Truck tl* <! f leiscKKayer
MadeMALLEABLE IRON, OF SKETCHES AND 1/1
Atk for Samples AKRON, PA. Correspondence Solidteo
Louisville Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co.,
incorporated, capital, $64, 000 Wolf &
of
and fitted with
STEEL ROLLER BEAIÎNGS.
^%*
Cigar Labels
PRIiriERS
Langbeck, cigar manufacturers, publish It won't leave its position on the floor 54 QUOTATIONS
dissolution notice. when
a case falls on it. Asrisnc
Michigan
If you have an old wooden truck, or 238 ArcK Street, Philadelphia. fURNISNED
^^^^^^W
4
none at all. this is the Cheapest and Best
C. A. Rest , Co.
Detroit S.
facturer, judgt, I485.
Grand Rapids
Beaneattie,
Chas. Reichert, whole-

cigar manu- Truck made. Write at once to
JOHN
Care of Box 184,
L. DARON,
York, Pa*
XX TELEPHONE 1561
SPECIAL DESIGNS
4'
WRITE m
Wholesale Dealers in
sale leaf tobacco Co., trust chtl. mtge.,
'SAMPLES AND
MkMw
$1, etc.
All Grades of New York RIBBON PRICES
Yonkers M. A. Bleich, cigars and to-
Parmenter WAX-LINED
LeafA Tobacco bacco, bill of sale, I250.
Findlay H. Johnson,
Ohio
cigars, etc.,
FOR SALE. T Coupon CIGAR POCKETS
Afford perfect
PROTECTION against
Specialty of
Light Connecticut
deed, $4,000.
Toledo Henry
turer, deed, $1,600.
cigar manufac-
Pennsylvania
Peiter,
I0N4 TOBACCO CO.
336-33S North Charlotte
LANCASTER, PA.
St,M^
^^
MOISTURE, HEAT and BREAKAQ&
the
Indorsed by
MOST EFFECTIVK
medium known.
all Smokers, and are
advertising
BBONS
Wrappers and Seconds Philadelphia Doddy, Jourdan &Co., Racine paper goods Co. BY All Dealers
Choice Assortment of
cigar manufacturers, adjudged bank- E. S. SECHRIST, Sole Owners and
^VACINE, -WIS .
Manufacturers,
US .<<V.
rupts.
Dallastown, Pa.
Scranton Carney, Brown & Co. , cigar Manufacturer
inufacturer of
i
Seed Leaf Fillers^ Binders manufacturers, deeds, R. E., $6,000.

Fine and
J'''
I.''
WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TO
WISCONSIN ^ OHIO
Vermont
Cigars
Florida and Imported
BurlingtonS.
of cigars, sold out.
Washington
J. Ploof & Co., jobber Common
Capacity,
Established 189a
Twenty Thousand per Day.
^@ iPRiES Bros. Nanuf8LCturii\g Chemists

Sumatra and Havana
Seattle R. R. Young, cigars and
bacco, chtl. mtge., $300.
Tacoma Pellegrine & Co.,
to-
cigars,
92 Reade Street, NEW YORK.
The
Red Lioiv, PdL.
etc., succeeded by Finazzi
Wisconsin
& Co.
PATENTS First to Manufacture Sweetener In the United States
M. H. Clark & Bra

I
Cable Addreat
'CLARK.*
Ashland C. A. Driese,
facturer, dead.
Janesville M. H. Knox,
ranty deed, $s,aoo.
Madison Wisconsin Cigar Co., man-
cigar manu-
cigars, war-
I
promptlj obtained
Careati,
on patonUbilitj.
OR HO
Copyri<tht8
TWBITTT TEARS' PRACTICS.
All
and
PEE.
busineai
Isabel*
Trcle-Mark,
registered.
HighesI referenoei.
Send model, sketch or photo, for free report
confidential.
HAND-BOOK FREE. Explains everything. Tells
How to Obtain and Sell Patents, What Inventions
Will Pay, How to Get a Partner, explains best
LveesiNE
550 Times Sweeter than Sugar
ufacturers and wholesale
Leaf Tobacco Brokers,
OPKINSVILLE, KY.
creased capital to $25,000.
dealers, in-
I
mechanical moTements, and contains SOO other
sal^scta of importance to Inrentors. Address,
Also Headquarters for VANILLIN, COUMARIN, ^ta-vMIXTURB-'-^^
PADUCAH, KY. Clarksville, Tenn
Superior Henry Puis, cigar manufac- H. B. WlliSON & CO. A\. h TOBACCO and FRUIT FLAVORS.
turer, chtL mtge., $1,400, 774 F Street, N. W., WA8HIN6T0N, 0. C.
nSASIBiCttI t
34 THE TOBACCO WORLl)
THR TOBACCO WORLD
Kstablished Isjs. Factory
JOSEPH REED loo;;, \nh Dist., Pa
JACOB G. SHIRK, Specially Cleaned and Care^
J. B. BUDDING, Sr. 40 W. Orange St., LANCASTER, PA. J Combination J

fully Graded.
We make them for 6, 73^, 9, 10
York, Pa. Plug and Smoking Tobaccos and 12 cents per pound. Ready
n PLAIN SCRAP, SELECT BUTTS-Chew for use in Cigar and Tobacco
or Smoke.
Fine CigdLrs Exclusively

Manufacturer of
KING DUKE 2K oz.
Manufacturer of Lancaster Long Cut Tobacco
ISCRAPI Factories
J. L. METZGER
Made
Made
in
JOSEPH REED-IOC.
Four Sizes.
PATRICK HENRY- 3c,

in Six Sizes.
Dealers Catering
All
to
Go
Go
to the
to the
Trade
Trade
at
at
$',()
.*.!-")
Fine Trade Should Place a Sample Order.

Goods Sold Under Strict (iuarantee.
per KUIO.
per IdiMi.
m)
F.
Our Leading Chewing and Smoking Brands:
LANCASTER LONG CUT
KING DUKE CUT PLUG
aX mannfacture all
SHIRK'S BEST TWIST
REBATE LONG CUT
Mantifectttrer of High-Grade Turkish & Egyptian
grades of
to suit the orld.
Cigarettes.
PLUG, SMOKING and CIGARETTES
Write for samples.
i-Filler--i
E.
4 RENNINGER,
Tobacco Co.
Dealers in LEAF
LANCASTER, PA.
TOBACCO
Ten Cent Cigar Our Our Product

Interest in Maintaining the Standard of
Five Cent Cigar Established 1834 Established 1889,
is a Guarantee of Ouality and Workmanship.
WM. F. COML V & SON Manufacturer of High and Medium Grade
SOMETHING NETW AND GOOD KLEINBERG'S Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
-.
-. WAGNER'S >
248 S. Front St. and 115 Dock St Ciffars
C^BAN STOGIES MANUFACTURED ONtY BY
"evil
KING ofsc CIGARS
PHILADELPHIA
Strictly Union-Made G oods. DdlVGr
Caveats, Trade Marks,
PS.
LEONARD WAGNER,
AGAIN ON THE MARKET.
Our famous "SMOKE-IT" Cheroots
Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers' Articles P^^^^n + S
r^dLCllLO Design-Patents, Copyrights/etai
are selling f.isler than ever before. SPECIAL SALES OF LEAF TOBACCO
acton^ No. 2. 707 Ohio SL, Allegheny, Pa. Pbiladelpbia, Consignments Solicited Advances Made John A. Saul,
i- Settlements Made on Day of Sale
OeBBSSPONDBlVOa he PPott Baildin^g. WASHINGTON. Do c
The Cigars You Want Business CKaLAges. Fires, Etc.
Illinois 4
Bloomington John Thennes, chattel
w.
Union Cigar Factory
B. s/iriyw's mtge., 1 1. 310.
Indiana

Rochester Rochester Cigar Co., (not
inc.) succeeded by R. K. Gilliland.
The Easy Truck
^^^^^^ÎVih.l^^^^^*'^ LABELS
tl. il. f leiscKKa\ie

METAL PRINTED LABELS J^^
BOXES
Kentucky
Aak for Samples AKRON, PA Correspondence Soliciteo
Louisville Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co.
incorporated, capital, $64,000 Wolf &
MadeMALLEABLE IRON,
of
and
fitted with
STEEL ROLLER BEARINGS. Cigar Labels
" St-
SKETCHES AND
Langbeck, cigar manufacturers, publish It won't leave its position on the floor ;' QUOTATIONS
dissolution notice. when a case falls on it.
rATATA^TA^Ti^^fATiîTAÎ^ rAVATA"
Michigan
If you have an old wooden truck, or
1 1 238 Arch Street, Philadelphia, f rURNISHCD
C. A. Rost (h Co.
Detroit S.
facturer, judgt., I485.
Grand Rapids
Beaneattie, cigar
Chas. Reichert, whole-

manu-
none at all. this is the Cheapest and Best
Truck made. Write at once to
JOHN
Care of Hox 184,
L. DARON,
Yofk, Pa*
4 TELEPHONE
t'*t^^.ti^;?:^f.it.tt^^*^^>^^>^>>^>^4^^>^^^>^
4 LITHOGILAPHING
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^î'tClA^L^DE^^
4-
1561
SPECIAL DESIGNS
t t
WRITE m
sale leaf tobacco Co., trust chtl. mtge.,
$1, etc.
^ smpuEsm
All Grades of New York
LeafA Xobacco
Yonkers
bacco,
Findlay
M.
bill of sale,
H. Johnson,
A. Bleich, cigars and to-
I250.
Ohio
cigars, etc.,
SffllS
FOR SALE.
k li Parmenter WAX-LINED
T Coupon CIGAR P0CKET5
Afford perfect PROTECTION against
RIBBON PRICES
Specialty of deed, $4,000. I0N4 TOBACCO CO. MOISTURE, HEAT and BREAKAGE.
Toledo Henry cigar manufac-
Peiter, Indorsed by all Smokers, and are
336-33S North Charlotte St
Light Connecticut turer, deed, $1,600.
LANCASTER, PA.
the MOST EFFECTIVE advertising
Pennsylvania medium known.
Wrappers and Seconds Philadelphia Doddy, Jourdan &Co., Racine paper goods Co.
Choice Assortment of
cigar manufacturers, adjudged bank- E. S. SECHRIST, t
Sole Owners and
RACINE. WriS
Manufacturera,
. U S .<^
rupts.
Dallastown, Pa,
Scranton Carney, Brown & Co. cigar
Seed Leaf Fillers ^ Binders

,
Manufacturer
inufacturer of
manufacturers, deeds, R. E., $6,000. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TO
Vermont
Fine and
WISCONSIN ^ OHIO Burlington
ot cigars, sold out.
S. J. Ploof & Co., jobber Common Cigars Fries Bros.
Established 1890.
Florida and Imported Seattle R.
Washington
R. Young, cigars and to-
Capacity, Twenty Thousand per Day, NaA\if2LCturii\g Chemists
Sumatra and Havana bacco, chtl. mtge., $300.

Tacoma Pellegrine &
92 Reade Street, NEW^ YORK.
Co., cigars,
The
1^
Red Lioiv, Pa..
etc., succeeded by Fmazzi
Wisconsin
& Co.
PATENTS First to Manufacture Sweetener In the United Stales
M. H. Clark & Bro

ÂTATATi
Cable Addrew
"CLARK/
Ashland C. A. Driese, cigar
facturer, dead.
Janesville M. H. Knox,
ranty deed, $2,200.
Madison Wisconsin Cigar Co.,
manu-
cigars, war-
man-
promptly obtained
Cavents, C'>pvrieht
TWENTY YEARS' PRACTICE.
Send model, sketch or
on patontnhility. All
OR NO
ami
FEE.
Labflg
Trade-Marks,
repistered.
ZligheB* references.
photo, for free report
business
HAND-BOOK FREE. Explains everything. TelU
confidential.

eLYeesiNE
Leaf Tobacco Brokers, ufacturers and wholesale
creased capital to $25,000.
dealers, in- meohanical movements, and contains 800 other
ubjects of importance to inventors. Address,
Also Headquarters for VANILLIN, COUMARIN, ^^--.MIXTURE^^^
HOPKINSVILLE, KY. Henry & '"""
PADUCAH, KY. Clarksville, Tenn Superior
turer, chtl. mtge., $1,400.
Puis, cigar manufac- H. B.
774 F
WILLSON
Street, N. W.,
CO. Attorneys
WASHINGTON, 0. C.
11 TOBACCO and FRUIT FLAVORS. IHS AMZBIOM IfOMOOO 00. OW
><
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.
iM IMPORTERS O^^ HtLJkDBLfHiA
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ESTABUSHBD
3D IN 1881 Ons nnw.AB not Ammum.
Vol. XXV.
^, No. 2.
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Royal House of Spain. to Guarantee the Quality of its Products.
CIGAHS <
WE ARE SELLING ,
Symatr^L Tobacco
. .r','t\|SliSi>'i/,''
Factory, GaJiano 98,

NATIONAL CUBA CO.
Sole Representative of the
Havana, Cuba.
United States and Canada,
at the Right Prices.
147 Water St, New York.
Wl a>uijt<. >rc^b IMPORTATIONS:

4,000 Bales Annually
'^
',Sovrvfl- dL
^ H. BUYS & CO.
No. 170 Water Street,
JOHN SLATER & CO
Manufacturers of HLnd'Made
New York.
LONG FILLER
i^STOGIES
Corner Columbia and Marietta Avenues
Branch of De Amsterdamsche Tabakshandelmaatschappij, Amsterdam
LANCASTER, PA.
AND
No. 21 North Main Street, Washington, Pa.
E. iÔSENWALD & BR0. J

:
C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA. E. A. O^*-*^^ d& Qo. <^Ô^j> f/ AVANA 123 N. THIRD ST
HILAOCL^HIA 8
THE TOBACCO WORLD
'ISENLOHRS ^tHe TB/[ WORLB-^

YEAR IN THE RICHMOND MARKET SHOWS GOOD INCREASE. DANGER THAT CHINESE WILL USE NATIVE TOBACCO E\CLl SIVLLY.
Except for a Decrease in Revenue" Collections on Cigars, 1904 Has U. S. Consul Anderson Says that he Grown at Home
Much More will
Been Remarkably Prosperous for the Tobaacco Trade. Many as Result of Economy of Chinese Officials, and American
More Cigarettes Made. Tobacco May be Supplanted.
M
'i^-
^>'
Richmond, Va., Jan. Almost the sun cured tobacco <,'rown Washini^ton, D. C. Jan. 6. "It will be notiied that the figures on
PbilaJelpbia The figures which are available in this
5.
is
all
manufactured into plujj or twist here, According to George I'. Anderson, the importation of foreign tobacco do not
'
city to show the condition of business for The supply is limited and the demand is American Consul at Hangchau. China, promise much for American tobacco in-
1904, exhibit a remarkable growth in the still increasing. it is likely if present plans are carried out, terests This, however, is not to be taken
(lord LANCASTER, 10c.) city's commerce, at least in the tobacco The internal revenue collections for that tobacco of American product will as indicating too much. The impor-
trade, and as regards the building trades the calendar year 1904 aggregate ;j52 324,- soon be supplanted by Chinese grown tation of foreign stalk and prepared to-
which are significent of all, the year was 832,93. a decrease of $21,505 06. com- tobacco unless the American trade devises bacco has ceased altojêther. Generally
the most active in the history of the city, pared with 1903. This decrease is chiefly some ways and means to prevent it. speaking, the figures and other facts in-
Oiier Bk k
In the tobacco trade more than five accounted for commencing
by the diminished produc 'The tobacco trade of China at the dicate that the Chinese are
Ci. thousand persons were employed in the ^'O" of cigars, the output of which de-
present time is in a critical stage," to improve their grades of tobacco and
MANSS^'GAR
writes Consul Anderson, "and needs to their methods of handling it. The cig-
cigar, cigarette and cheroot manufac- creased immensely, while the revenue
be watched by American interests. He- arette factory at Shanj;hai, now owned
Manufacturers, taring interests alone, and a capital of therefrom fell off $167, 759. 21 cents dur-
cause of the comparatively large bum of very largely by Americans, has much to
two and a half millions was invested, the iniJ the year. The production of cigar-
the year exceedmg five and a ettes and the revenue derived therefrom
money expended for tobacco in its several do with the change. This enterprise is
615 M arket St., P hilada. sales for
quarter millions. Nearly five thousand increased 534 47^ 43' while the revenue
forms, the Chinese authorities have nat- likely to have large intluence on the to-
urally turned their attention to the irade bacco business in China. At present it
more were engaged in the manufacture derived from manufactured tobacco in its
114 .
(NICBT LBY. 5c.)
of tobaccos other than cigars, cigarettes various forms, other than cigarettes, ci- with a view of keeping as much of it as is using American tobacco to a great
and cheroots, with an invested capital of gars and cheroots, increased ;?66, 453. 73.
possible at home. It is a well known extent, but expert American tobacco
morethan three and three quarter niilUons ^"t for the falling off in the cigar out- fact that they are attempting to bring men are here with the purpose of adapt-
C banning Allen (H Co. of dollars, and sales for the year were Put the revenue receipts would have
of nearly twelve and a half millions.
more land under cultivation in tobacco, ing Chinese tobacco to its use by treat-
shown an immense increase. The small and they are succeeding in their attempt ment of the leaf to remove some of the
^"^Philadelphia Manufacturers of
to supplant the foreign product. The rank cjualities. The change which is
The first quarter of the leaf tobacco Production of cigars is probably attribu-
^^^^^ ^ ^ transfer of much of this branch increasing purchasing power of the Chi- likely to come in a short time will be
year shows large receipts, with prices very
nese Ipeople is likely to be shown as important. The concern which controls
HARTMAN & KOHN, FINE CI
satisfactorily maintained. Alarger proof the manufacturing trade to otherpoints,
portion of the crop has been sold in Oc-
""^" ^^^ "^"^ P^^" of operation put into quickly in tobacco as anything else, the foreign tobacco trade in China (the
^^^^^ ^y ^^^ operating company. The There are a number of changes in the British-American Tobacco Company) last
tober. November and December than in
^^''^ tobacco alone increased
course of the tobacco trade in China in year imported about $4,000,000 Mexican
419 Locust Si. the same period of the previous year or "^P"^ ^
the past three years or so which merit (about $1,850,000 gold) worth of tobacco
of several years preceding. Total sales M07. 562 pounds.
^^^ ^^""'^^ " ^^ ^^^' ^''Po^^s of to-
special attention. and tobacco goods. Some of this came
for the quartet- were 3,295,312 pounds.
Philadelphia compared with 1,335.704 for the corre- ^^^^' ""'^^'^ ^"^ cigarettes for 1904
show a decrease of 1,228.183 Pounds. Quantity and Value of Imports of Foreign and Chinese Tobacco at Hangchau,
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 4836-A. spending period of 1903, an increase of
China, in 1901. 1902 and 1903.
largely more than 100 per cent.
^^^ number of cigars exported during
^99 ^ .1 the year was increased 1,744,500
tt j over
1901. 1902 1903.
'The Philadelphia ^
nearly two million pounds.

. J
Sales for December alone aggregated
,
The bulk of
'
1903, but the decrease in the number of

cigarettes exported was 45,383,500. This
Kind.
Fôreign
Quantity.
Pounds.
Value. Quantity.
Pounds.
Vâlue. Quantity.
Pounds.
Value.
A Matchless 5 cent Cigar. the crop consists of filler, but a small

Stalk 30.667 $302 000
great increase in the export of cigarettes, 26, $398
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. quantity of wrappers having yet been
Jobbing and Wholesale Trade solicited. One of Roeders Best offered. The
^
entire crop will
compared with the 1903 figures, is
consider
alleged to be aUributable to the cessation
,
Prepared
Cigars & Cigarettes
4 400 393
10.523 io.9 9 I o. 3 1 o
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DBAL ably exceed the average for the past seven
^
J .,, J ,,

ot the war between the American and the
, , , . Total 11,218 11.389^ 10.310
years and will exceed eight million

,
Samples sent to Repntable Distributors , .

Chinese
,.
.
British manufacturers, whereby the

, , . ,
^,, ,
pounds. The average price will be up . .

, .
Leif 1,560.606 98,388 766,000 48,255 426,534 21,275
Ametican company agreed to leave the
,
'^
, r
, ,
to and even above that of last year.

1
Prepared 2.076.667 185.340 2,015,467 179.853 1.979.408 252.811
British field _
^, .^, ^^^ ^,_^^^__^ ^
. . , ,
to the British manufacturers, Stalk 484.800 472.667
4,972 5.183 472.267
Philadelphia Cigar Factory Richmond is essentially a market for
and the British firms agreed not to com- Total 4.122.073 288.700 3.254,134 233.291 2.878.209
5,07s
279.161
sun and air cured tobacco, which, having r ^. , ,
W. K. ROEDEL CO., ,,
no odor of smoke, is especially desired
pete for American trade.
.
.
. The large m-
.
. , .
/ crease in the revenue from cigarettes, as 'These figures, of course, cover only from
probably about $100,000
Japan,
N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA. J
#
,
41 for manufacturing fine grades of chewing ,. , , , .
^. J ^ . shown by the revenue report, indicates

, . , the trade of this port and the country worth gold, but most of it came from the
tobacco. The production of this grade , , , . .
CHALLENGES COMPARISON largely limited to six or

that the decrease in cigarettes exported tributary to it. It must also be remem- United States. Now that the Japanese
of tobacco is
is offsetby the increased domestic sales. bered in this connection that the differ- Government has taken over the tobacco
seven counties contiguous to this city, and that in turn by the withdrawal of
ences between the customs and likin business in Japan as a monopoly, the
natural and markcL the British competition in America.
White Knight which is its logical
systems ofTer opportunities for deductions
which are not really warranted. However,
importation from that country into China
for the time being has practically stopped.
POLICE SMOKING PROHIBITED. DEALER CAUSES ARR.EST OF BOYS.
FIVE-CENT CIGAR it is probable that one or two facts may ' The supplanting of the American pro-
be taken from the figures for these years duct by native tobacco,
MADE BY Chicago Civil Service Board Puts Tobacco Who Quickly Make Couater Charges That
The
therefore, will
as pretty thoroughly established. cut into the trade of the
Vnder Ban at Examinations. Dealer Sells to Minors. United States
Neumann & Co. Chicago, Jan. The dealer who thinks trade with boys decrease in the total weight of tobacco more than will into that of any other
Morris D. 9.
is worth having, in face of the law and brought to this port from other portions
it
The immense
An order has been issued and put into nation. increase in the
EEKAHLER PHILADELPHIA, PA. effect by the police department of this

city which is unique. For the first time
his own common sense, must bear in of the empire, while the value of the
mind the old truism, that it is a poor rule amount thus brought in remains about
that won't work both ways Fred Lough,
the same, indicates a decided bettering
use of the better grades of tobacco in
China, however, is likely to relieve the
READING. PA. in any municipal civil service examina

tion, patrolmen were not permitted to
a dealer in Portland, Ore. has got himself
in hot water by disregarding this fact.
.
in the quality of the Chinese tobacco

situation to a great extent.
increase and the increased buying power
Possibly this
MANUFAaURtR use tobacco in the desk sergeant's test Lough caused the arrest of Thomas purchased. The average price of the of the Chinese generally will result in a
last Saturday. Campbell and Alexander McDonald, two gross amount imported in 1901 was a
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN? The majority of the policemen have minors, on the charge of using abusive
fraction over 7 cents per pound; in 1902
considerable increase in the use of
smoked themselves blue in the face language. A double complaint has been American goods in spite of the propor-
PALACE SMOKER heretofore, during examinations and last sworn to by the boys, charging Lough it was 7. 1 cents per pound, and the av- tionate loss. The importation of cigars
week's applicants didn't like the new with selling tobacco to minors and allow- erage price in 1903 was 9.7 cents per and high grade tobaccos from the Philip,
Monkey Brand order for a cent. The edict reads ing p;ambling to beconducted in his place. pound. The fact that the amount of pines into the parts of China frequented
"The use of tobacco in any form during The boys were brought before Judge stalk tobacco bought in the three years by foreigners is satisfactory in volume
WHITE CHIEf ^fl* the examination is prohibited. Any Hogue, where the case was continued, remains about the same, and at about and constantly increasing. It can be
violation of this rule will be considered charges being made by the lads alleging
National Bird/I^ sufficient cause to exclude the offender that Lough has sold them tobacco and has
the same price, may reasonably be taken further increased by reasonable efifort
as indicating the decided change in the When once the Chinese are able to buy
King Louis Jl^ from the examination." allowed poker games in his store. tobacco trade. (Concluded on page 7.);
'"-"^W.^l
C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA. 123 N. THIRD ST
MILADEL^HIA 8
THE TOBACCO WORLD
^HE
YEAR IN
T0B/!eeO WORLB*
THE RICHMOND MARKET SHOWS GOOD INCREASE. HANGER THVT CHINESE Will. USE NATIVE TOBVCCO EXCMSfVEIY.
Except for a Decrease in Revenue Collections on Cigars, 1904 Has U. S. Consul Anderson Says that Much More will he Grown at Home
Been Remarkably Prosperous for the Tobaacco Trade. Many as Result of Economy of Chinese Officials, and American
More Cigarettes Made. Tobacco May be Supplanted.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 5. Ahnost all the sun cured tobacco grown Washington, D. C, Jan. 6. "It will be noticed that the figures on
The figures which are available in this ismanufactured into plu^ or twist here, According to George K. Anderson, the importation of foreign tobacco do not
city to show the condition of business for The supply is limited and the demand is American Consul at Hangchau, China, promise much for American tobacco in-
1904, exhibit a remarkable growth in the still increasing. it is likely if present plans are carried out, terests. This, iiowever, is not to be taken
commerce, at least in the tobacco The internal revenue collections for that tobacco of American product will as indicating toomuch. The impor-
( lord LANCASTER,
city's
lOc.)
trade, and as regards the building trades the calendar year 1904 aggregate 52.324.- soon be supplanted by Chinese grown tation of foreign stalk and prepared to-
which are significent of all, the year was 832,93. a decrease of 521,505 06. com- tobacco unless the .American trade devises bacco has ceased altogether. Generally
ni the most active in the history of the city, pared with 1903. This decrease is chietly some ways and means to prevent it. speaking, the figures and other facts in-
In the tobacco trade more than five accounted for by the diminished produc "The tobacco trade of China at the dicate that the Chinese are commencing
^'o" of cigars, the output of which de- present time is in a critical stage," to improve their grades of tobacco and
thousand persons were employed in the
CIGAR Manufacturers,
cigar, cigarette and cheroot manufac- creased immensely, while the revenue
turing interests alone, and a capital of therefrom fell off $167,759. 21 cents dur-
two and a half millions was invested, the ing the >ear. The production of cigar-
sales for the year exceedmg five and a ^'tes and the revenue derived therefrom
writes Consul Anderson, "and needs to
be watched by American interests. Be-
their methods of
arette factory at Shanj^'hai,
cause of the comparatively large sum of very largely by Americans, has much
money expended for tobacco in its several do with the change. This enterprise
handling it. The cig-
now owned
to
is
615 M arket $1, P hilada. quarter millions. Nearly five thousand increased 534 476 43, while the revenue
forms, the Chinese authorities have nat- have large intluence on the to-
likely to
urally turned their attention to the trade bacco business in China. At present it
more were engaged in the manufacture derived from manufactured tobacco in its
114 (NICr.rLBY. 5c.) various forms, other than cigarettes, with a view of keeping as much of it as is using American tobacco to a great
of tobaccos other than cigars, cigarettes ci-
possible at home. It is a well known extent, but expert American tobacco
and cheroots, with an invested capital of gars and cheroots, increased #66,453.73.
1^"^ for the falling off in the cigar out- fact
that they are attempting to bring men are here with the purpose of adapt-
N 7^^ St morethan three and three quarter milUons
Channing Allen Co. of dollars, and sales for the year were P"^ the revenue receipts would have
more land under cultivation in tobacco,
shown an mimense increase. The small and they are succeeding in their attempt
ing Chinese tobacco to
ment of the leaf to
its use by treat-
remove some of the
^^Philadelphia Mar\ufacturf rs of of nearly twelve and a half millions.
Production of cigars is probably attribu- to supplant the foreign product. The rank qualities. The change which is
n The first quarter of the leaf tobacco
year shows large receipts, with prices very
table to a transfer of much of this branch
increasing purchasing power of the Chi- likely tocome in a short time will be
important. The concern which controls
HARTMAN & KOHN, Ul
satisfactorily maintained.
portion of the crop has been sold in Oc-
Alarger proof the manufacturing trade
""*^" ^^^ "^^ P^^" of operation put into quickly in tobacco as anything else,
to otherpoints, nese Ipeople is likely to be shown as
the foreign tobacco trade in China (the
The There are a number of changes in the
I
^^^""^ ^y ^^^ operating company. British-American Tobacco Company) last
tober, November and December than in
^^'^^ tobacco alone increased
course of the tobacco trade in China in year imported about $4,000, 000 .Mexican
419 Locust St. the same period of the previous year or "*P"^ ^
pounds. the past three years or so which merit (about $1,850,000 gold) worth of tobacco
. 107, 562
of several years preceding. Total sales
^^^ ^^""'^^ " ^^ ^^^' ^^Por's of to-
special attention. and tobacco goods. Some of this came
for the quarter were 3.295,312 pounds.
Philadelphia compared with 1,335,704 <or the corre-
^^^^' '''^^'^ ^"^ cigarettes for 1904
Quantity and Value of Imports of Foreign and Chinese Tobacco Hangchau,
spending period of 1903, an increase of ^^^ ^
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 4836-A. decrease of 1,228.183 pounds. at
China, in 1901. 1902 and 1903.
largely more than 100 per cent.
^^^ number of cigars exported during
1901. 1902 1903-
* 59 ^ J the year was increased 1.744,500 over
"The PhiladelDhia la
^ , ,
Sales for
....
nearly two million pounds.
u
December
alone aggregated
^.
The bulk,,
.1
of
/
-t-t j
r ^903, but the decrease in the number of

.
cigarettes exported was -tj

.
,
500. This
Kind.,
Foreign
,
Quantity.
Pounds.
Value. Quantity.
Pounds.
Value. Quantity. Value.
A Matchless 5 cent Cigar. , . / C11

I .
the crop consists of filler, but a small
11 45,383,
j ~> j .
Stalk
. .
26,000
Pounds.
great increase in the export of cigarettes, 30,667 I302 $398
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. ..
quantity of wrappers having yet been
, . ,
Jobbing and Wholesale Trade solicited. Oneof Roedel'sBest ^^ J

offered.
^,
The entire crop
,,
.
will
J
consider
compared with the 1903 figures, is Prepared
,, .,
alleged to be attributable to the cessation
,
. ,
Cigars &. Cigarettes

,
,
, , ,
.-
4 400 393
10,523 10,991 10,310
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DRAL ably exceed the average for the past seven
ol the
Total
war between the American and the
II. 218 11,389 10,310
Sample! sent to Reputable Distributors years and will exceed eight million Chinese
British manufacturers, whereby the
pounds. The average price will be up Leif 1,560,606 98,388 766,000 48,255 426.534 21,275
Ameiican company agreed to leave the
to and even above that of last year. Prepared 2.076,667 185,340 2.015,467 179.853 1.979.408 252,811
British field to the British manufacturers, Stalk 484.800
Philadelphia Cigar Factory Richmond is essentially a market for
and the British firms agreed not to
4,122.073 288,700 com- Total
4,972 472.667 5,183 472.267 5,075
sun and air cured tobacco, which, having 3.254.134 233.291 2,878,209 279,161
W. K. ROEDEL CO., no odor of smoke, is especially desired
pete for American trade. The large in-
crease in the revenue from cigarettes, as "These figures, of course, cover only from Japan,
probably about $100,000
41 N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA.
CHALLENGES COMPARISON # for manufacturing fine grades of chewing
tobacco. The production of this grade
shown by the revenue report, indicates the trade of this port and the country
that the decrease in cigarettes exported tributary to it.
of tobacco is largely limited to six or is offset by the increased domestic
It must also be remem-
worth gold, but most of it came from the
United States. Now that the Japanese
sales, bered in this connection that the differ- Government has taken over the tobacco
seven counties contiguous to this city. and that in turn by the withdrawal of
ences between the customs and likin business in Japan as a monopoly, the
White Knight which is its natural and logical markeL the British competition in America.
systems offer opportunities for deductions
which are not really warranted. However,
importation from that country into China
for the time being has practically stopped.
FIVE-CENT CIGAR POLICE SMOKING PROHIBITED. DEALEK CAUSES ARREST OF BOYS. it is probable that one or two facts may The supplanting of the American
'
pro-
be taken from the figures for these years
MADE BY Chicago Civil Service Board Puts Tobacco Who Quickly Make Couater Charges That
duct by native tobacco, therefore, will
Under Ban at Examinations. as pretty thoroughly established. The cut into the trade of the United States
Dealer Sells to Minors.
Morris D. Neumann & Co. Chicago, Jan, 9. The dealer who thinks trade with boys decrease in the total weight of tobacco more than it will into that of any other
An order has been issued and put into is worth having, in lace of the law and brought to this port from other portions nation. The immense increase in the
EEKAHLER PHILADELPHIA. PA. effect by the police department of this

city which is unique. For the first time
his own common sense, must bear in of the empire, while the value of the
mind the old truism, that it is a poor rule amount thus brought in remains about
that won't work both ways Fred Lough,
use of
China, however,
the better grades
is likely to
of tobacco in
relieve the
READING. PA. in any municipal civil service examina
tion, patrolmen were not permitted to
a dealer in Portland, Ore. has got himself
the same, indicates a decided bettering
.
in the quality of the Chinese tobacco

situation to a great extent. Possibly this
in hot water by disregarding this fact. increase and the in( reased buying power
MAHUFAaUBCR use tobacco in the desk sergeant's test Lough caused the arrest of Thomas purchased. The average price of the of the Chinese generally will result in a
last Saturday. Campbell and Alexander McDonald, two gross amount imported in 1901 was a
CHABLOTTE OlSHMANt? The majority of the policemen have minors, on the charge of using abusive
considerable increase in the use of
fraction over 7 cents per pound; in 1902 American goods spite of the
smoked themselves blue in the face language. A double complaint has been in propor-
PAUCE SMOKER heretofore, during examinations and last sworn to by the boys, charging Lough it was 7. 1 cents per pound, and the av- tionate loss. The importation of cigars
week's applicants didn't like the new with selling tobacco to minors and allow- erage price in 1903 was 9.7 cents per and high grade tobaccos from the Philip,
Monkey Brand order for a cent. The edict reads: ing p;ambling to be conducted in his place. pound. The fact that the amount of pines into the parts of China frequented
"The use of tobacco in any form during The boys were brought before Judge stalk tobacco bought in the three years
WHITE Chief î '
the examination is prohibited. Any Hogue, where the case was continued, remains about the same, and at
by foreigners is satisfactory in volume
about and constantly increasing. It can be
rule will be considered charges being made by the lads alleging the same price, may reasonably be taken further increased by reasonable effort.
^National Bird/ violation of this
El-E sufficient cause to exclude the offender that Lough has sold them tobacco and has as indicating the decided change in the When once the Chinese are able to buy
YOMfS 19 King Louis f, from the examination." allowed poker games in his store. tobacco trade. (Concluded on page 7.);
''WW*'**** * '^ '-- ?7,:5, - '^t'

'''t^BJ^^*****'*--''

p Ô. <jO^ f-fAVANA ^
E.
J.Vetterlein
A. O^^^^^ <& Go < o
IMPORTERS O
& Co.
Importers of
AVANA
HAVANA and SUMATRA
and Packers of DOMESTIC LEAF
123 N.^THIRD
Phuâoei-rhia
Tobacco
ST
^
<
I
/\ (ÂL.Vea
The Old Salesman's Musings.

.^m^.^^^^ IMPORTERS O^^ ~
123
.
'La Imperial Cigar Factory

N. THIRD ST
PHILAOeL^HiA
'^
IF YOV'VE GOT A STORE. TEND IT. But, suppose he hasn't any interest in
I know at least three stores that were the firm, has no hope of getting a busi
HOLTZ, PA.
Arch Street, Philadelphia.
.
ness of his own, and his sole interest is

115 sold for ilmost nothing last month, be in seeing that he gets his salary every
J. F. SECHRIST, Proprietor,
cause the proprietors did not personally Saturday. This salary is in very few
cases enormous, and the manager simply Manufacturer of
PODHDSD 1855. look alter them. They were good loca.
tions and had always had the reputation
In each
bosses his clerk and floats along.
Why, know of one such case right
I
FIRE ei6ARS*
^^
of being prosperous stands.
here in Philadelphia. One of these man-
T. DolMa. Win. H* Dohan. |ase the sums paid were surprisingly
agers was making enough out of his job
"small.
no. 4 Last month wasn't an exception,

and occasionally buy
to dress fairly well,
a chorus girl a meal. The proprietor
was out of town a good deal and some- .iilfffGr 1
de DOH AN & TAITT, .,f^'^ either. There are such cases every
month in the year, and will continue to
JJ
times didn't get around for two or three
weeks at a lime. The manager was a
be as long as a man thinks he can add to ^j^^ ^ nephew or some such thing.
Importers of Havana and Sumatra
[) ^ J / / '
..j-**?"?*^-
his income by simply buying a cigar
store and allowing a few clerks to run it.
^j^^j. ^ ^^^^^ ^j^^ manager began to
buy the chorus girl two meals and soon
Packers of
Z^^^^J^ 107 Arch St. This is what these men did, and
theyVe sick enough over it, now.
had 10 knock down a Httle to do it Then
he found it hard to get down in the
heaf Tobacco^ ,k^ ) philada. mornings at all early. The clerks were
To an outsider, a cigar store looks like a wise lot and he had to fire two because
a gilt edged proposition anyway you take they developed a tendency to shoot off
\
Like the saloon keeper, the usual their mouths whenever he had occasion
Mcbliahal !(( amm it.
piker thinks that the only requisite is a to call them down.

He hired a couple of new clerks, and
little money off,
at and the
the start i
as the store was not in the real proprie-
\J&^^ .MPORTERSOP ^^/VS ability to count the bunches of

come in afterward.
it that
tor's name, staried by allowing them to
believe that he, himself, owned the
JACOB LABii SIDNEY LABB
Havana and Sumatra IBNJ. LA BE
estabhshment. It was a good game
lOcUNCLE JOSS 5c.

Oh. foolish
BENJ. LABE & SONS,
!
The man who gets rich out of a retail while it lasted. The boss was in Europe
aod PACKERS of
for a monih, but he finally came back, as
Leaf Tobacco
Importers oi cigar business deserves every dollar he's all things will
York NickScBest Known
SU MATRa and HAVANA got in bank.
them
The big ones are playing
closer every year, now,
He stopped in his store one morning
and it takes about ID o'clock.
he
The clerks were
wonder much Two Cracker Jacks Two for 5c.
322 and 324 North Third Street, Philadelphia Packers & Dealers in I^BAF" TOBA CCO a genius to keep his balance swelling.
Every once in a while you hear of a
strange,
about it.
buc
The manager
didn't
wasn' t in. The
proprietor asked for a ten cent cigar. He
Oak Mountain Bouquet Boston Beauties
HARRY HIRSCHBERG 2JI and 2J3 North Third Street, ball player, a prize fighter or some other
is a man who spends less money on his
JULIUS HIRSCHBERG gent in the kindly public eye buying a
PHIhADBLPHIA, PA. clothes than anything else about him,
and he was on his way 10 get shaved.
^ Correspondence with Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Only Invited. .1
cigar store and settling down. It usually

Capacity, 25.000 per Day. TelegraphYork, Pa. ,^ J
Julius Hirschberg Bro. X*^ .
8z: isn't long before he' s settling up, unless One sir, in a of the clerk, said "Yes
t't
*^^^^'
minute," and continued an account of
he* scot a partner who is really a business
Importen of Havana and Sumatra /A^^ V^r^ /^d^d^ IiEOPOLiD LiOEB CO.
8t man aim
man,
,1men it
and then
.
iv isn
..i.Koii ..lo^^-'c his experience

t. t the ball player s

u ^^
.'^,
night
^
before.
1
_,
The
girl he picked up
with a

proprietor j
drum-
,
J^ vJiJctLy L/ \J A lot of callow youths

Packers oi Seed Leaf Importers of Sumatra and Havana business at all. êdonthe counter for a minute and then
Sweet Caporals at this store for said sharply
BARNES CO.
AND
buy their
J, JffflHliOM
232 North Third St.. Phlla.
Packers of Leaf Tobacco
the sake of getting an occasional word
from the fielder or pitcher, but that's all
-Where's Mr.- .?
"Oh, he never gets down this early," MAKBRS OP

was the answer. "What do you want to
comes in on the deal.
BAMBERGER & CO.
the extra trade that
see him about!"
L. 306 North Third St., Phila. But about these three stores that were "That doesn't concern you, young
sold The circumstances were similar in man, " responded the proprietor who was
The men who owned beginning to get a little hot.
THE CO. CIGAR, Five Cents,
GEO. BURGHARD
all three cases.
the stores were engaged in some other

"Well, cheer up old sport; the worst
come," said the clerk, merrily,
is yet to HAVANA TOPS, Ten Cents,
HAVANA aad SUMATRA X V/J^XXV/V/V/ Importer of
business and "weren
very often. They hired an
t able to get around
experienced
^^^ ^-^^^ considerable more truth than
he suspected. "I'll give you a straight
Made in Conchas,
ALL UNION WADE.
Londres and Perfecto Shapes.
RIGHT PRICES TO JOBBERS.
the details to him. though, you're a collector you'd
if
111 Arch St., Philadelphia manager and left all tip,
Correspondence from Responsible Parties.
Sumatra and Havana

solicited
months of the better chase yourself around the block
6 the last
during
well, uui.
Well, few
: Lancmster, Pa.; liiltoa Junction, Wis.; BaldwintTille.H.Y. year, the retail business has not been
on
jjjj jj^jg afternoon. The boss always Factory, Park Avenue and Wallace Street,
^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^.^^^ ^ ^^^^^ grouch."
and Packer
LEAF TOBACCC of the boom, exactly, and receipts grew
and less. The
less
other businesses de-

^^ ^^^^ ^ number of sentences
^^.^^
appropriate to the occasion were seething

PHILADELPHIA, PA.
manded more and more time and around in the outraged proprietor's brain
238 North Third Street, Phila. tion and it got so that not one of these
atten-
but he was spared a selection by the Factory 1839.
^:
u * was going
1 arrival of his manager.
"*** That gentle-
rcrtny knew
..
three men
inrec men, really "*, what ui j *u- u
^^j^'^ gy^g resembled nothing so much
e, e>
on in his store. ^s the marks made by a cigarette when

'-
-v^^-
At they were running at a loss, and
last laj^ carelessly on a blanket and he was
managed to dig up a buyer somewhere, accompanied by an overpowering odor

of Jpeppermint. calamus, sen-sen and
miehtv
"' o '
dad to get the white elephants brown taste.
,
off their hands. His overworked nerves gave a sickening

:4^''-:.. i(-'{X' But the manager game is all right, you ^^^^ when he saw the customer, and in
say Lots of stores are being run that his agitation he tipped his hat, said
\h3^^W)mM^^ way. Perhaps so. But if you'll check "why'' twice, "you" once, and then
The Empire ''"^rtmalDe^lersin up 1 little, you'll discover that

managers have an
quite a '"^^^^
interest
^f^'^^:^,^, contented himself by
LEAF, m
number of these ^g^îy remarking: "Yaa-s!" and, to
V
--
SI> else they' re plugging cut a painful episode short, the two
^-r^ 1 in thebusiness, or

J. S. BATROFF.
what they expect to clerks went quick, and the manager
Leaf Tobacco Ilia 224 Arch St., Philadelphia.
the game along
get out of it later.
for
How many cases can lasted until Saturday night. The man
you think of right now, of managers
who tended shop
himself with the aid of one w. K. GRESH & SONS, Makers, Norristown, Penna.
SUMATRA of their own, and
clerk for two weeks, and although firmly
finally opened stores convinced that he had what could soon
Co., Ltd. 118 N.3d St. Phila. Broker in LEAF T0B/I(90 took their trade along with them? be made a paying proposition, was com
What protection has the proprietor who pelled to
sell out because he hadn' tt the
and was
th( JOSBPH a KOLB,
HAVANA BLOSSOM, the Uadinit 5c. Cir.
f -^ ^Y
It the man ""'^ to givc
u- man- lime to it, afraid to risk
^ doesn't
. . .i,o
IS, against
clerk,
aoesn I uiî s that? If .
& Nftnufacturer of the
any more managers.
O IMPORTERS of Southeast Corner Second and Market Streets,
aer hv hard work builds up a personal j

'
TIT .
& JN ewman,8iimata"a & Havana (V&sr)

""'"""'
!*at..stha.hehasaVtokeep
I 1 1 OUng {:;trer?in..r
"' ""
""""'"""^ ,t"pVg oûrtSr-n^r,."""
Te O.o S....M...
.
Camden, N. J.
ZV K. THISn ST.. PHILADELPHIA Packers of Seed Leaf.
THE TOBACCO WORLD
THR TOBACCO WORLD
^-'TIEALM OF- THE I^BTAILERS us DEMON

CIGAR MACHINES BENEFIT THE and once or twice normal expectation and one or two other WINDOW DISPLAYS SHOW TOO MUCH
if he wins, he'll play
TXTHAT
I
DEALER. more for the looks of the thing, or else to stores soon got machines in.
a tremendous difference a push his luck while he has it. When he The average salary of the customers
DETAIL.
ROM a cursory sizing-up of the gen- HOW YOU CAN MAKE MORE MONEY
slot machine makes to a store "wins big" he usually treats everyone in was not high, say $1$, and it is no exag- eral run of displays in cigar store
that has regular customers and does not the store and as a result needs cigars geration to say that for two months, an windows there seem to be two particular
have to depend largely upon transient again just as quickly. average of one third of his saiary was left faults which occur most frequently. One,
As a well known Philadelphia Moreover it is quite possible to develop by each man. And it got worse instead a carelessness and indifference on the
trade.
manufacturer declared in a recent article a cigar machine habit which will be quite of better until a few men got positively part of the dealer which is rewarded by
The success of Good clerks
in the Tobacco World, there was a very as binding as a gambling habit in any feverish over it, and their wives made so a dead, stale, absolutely unattractive ap. any retail busi-
make satisfied
noticeable difference in the size of orders other form. Some tmie ;igo there was a much talk over having nothing fit to eat pearance of the window, and the other an
which retailers gave the factories immedi- certain little cigar store in a town about on the table, that the ministers took the over-elaborateness which is apt to defeat ness is largely customersjwhich
own purpose.
ately after all the slot machines were twenty miles from Phil.idrlphia. The matter up and there was a great time. its
The objects of a window display are,

dependent upon mean more prof-
forced out by the authorities. stock wasn t large, the store was miser- The dealers had to throw their machines
There is probably no man on earth
first and primarily, to tell the passerby the clerks. itsand a bigger
whether the store sells cigars or leather
who has not the instinct of gambling in
DISPLAY MADE BY B. LIPSCHUTZ AT TOBACCO SHOW. bank account.
some degree
machine
at least,
presents an
and as the cigar
opportunity of
goods or is a drug store, and secondly,
to present a portion of the stock in a way
A NATIONAL
which indicates which
gratifying it in the most harmless way,
hundreds of men take a chance in this feel a desire to
at once causes the passer by
make a purchase.
to
clerks are careful

A NATIONAL
way who would not think of throwing dice. It is not easy to see how this second makes good clerks.
There are plenty of towns where slot ma- object can be accomplished by a window and efficient.
chines are permitted or overlooked now, which loaded up to the gunwales with
is
and they are operated in a quiet way in samples of everything in stock. There
certain Philadelphia stores. Wherever might follow an abstract desire to have CIT OFF HKRK AND MAIL TO IS T01AY
they appear the dealer will tell you that some of the on the part of anyone
things,
I own a. .store.
they have made who idly stopped to look in, but there Name
a difference in his sales. Please explain to me what kind National Gash Register Go.
If they hadn't he wouldn't have them would be no immediate, concrete longing
of a register is best suited for Address
for a certain article which, eight times out my
in, particularly in Philadelphia where he business. DAYTON OHIO No. Clerks
has to lake a chance. of ten, leads the consumer into the store. This does not obligate me to buy^ Tobacco Woi.o
During the holidays, a Market street
The machme which seems to be the
store gave over a whole window, and a
most popular is the one which throws
large window at that, to one brand of ci-
poker hands. This beats out the dice
gars. The window was draped in green
cup machine, probably for the reason
and decorated with a little evergreen and
that the average man would rather handle
holly, and in the centre, resting on a large
a poker deck than a dice cup. With DANGER THAT CHINA WILL USE ing off the edges, with a tool much like a
piece of draped velvet were two or three
some of the machines the plajer drops a NATIVE TOBACCO carpenter's plane. The use of cigarettes
.
boxes of this cigar in its principal sizes. is increasing.

nickel in the slot and is sure of one cigar, (Concluded from page 13.)
The cigar is lucky enough to have a "The amount of tobacco used in China
standing to win as many as twenty- five
BLACK THREADS
American! tobacco products they will
enormous. Most of it is produced by
with a Royal- flush. This is considered
and the simplicity of
striking package,
probably furnish a steady
is
the consumers or in the immediate
demand for
5
the thing was tremendously effective.
less of a gamble than the machine which consumed, and
Walking by, one stopped short and them, but until their purchasing power is vicinity of where it is
fed with pennies and pays cigars for does not get into the trade reports at all
materially increased the demand will be
is
high throws only

Dealers are of different minds as to
thought
looked.
how very
That was worth ever so much
inviting the cigars The foreign tobacco trade has scarcely
for the low grade i goods at the cheapest scratched the surface of t h e field. Long Cut
more than a window full of heaped up price possible. I Whether the improveinent in the Chinese
which of these two varieties is the most "As stated heretofore, the officials of methods of cultivating and caring for The FioMt Heavy Pipe Smoking Tobacco manufactured.
junk, on" the same principle that wise tobacco plants and products will event-
lucrative, inasmuch he of course
as, while
advertisers will insist on as much white
the several provinces are alive to the need
ually shut out the cheaper grades of
Packed by hand in 3>^ oz. packages. 5
disposes of more cigars on the nickel of saving as much of the tobacco trade to
space as there is ink and will stick to one abroad remains to be seen,
goods from Union Made. The Wrappers are Good for Premiums.
proposition, he frequently gets caught for
thought
China as possible, and are giving every but at present the indications are that
Write ui for Samples and Prices. 5
a lot of big winnings all at once which he Heie is a suggestion for a window encouragement practical to Chinese farm, American manufacturers must handle the
has to stand himself. On the other hand ers who raise the tobacco plants. Chinese situation
in China promptly and with tact

the penny play is made against long
which ihould by used by a dealer who is,
intendiig to push one brand of cigars for farmers have a number of advantages
if they are to hold the market they have
5
and to obtain the market they ought
chances and the dealer gets a big per- A TASTEFUL display of well known brands of cigars and little cigars was made a while at the expense of oiher brands.
in this connection. In line with their
to have."
centage of the gross receipts. Frequently, at the Tobacco Show by B. Lipschutz, of 44 North Twelfth street, Philadel- If your window is roomy enough, ge^^
two or three dozen empty boxes of othe
usual intensive methods of culture, they DAYTON, OHIO.
two or three customers will throw cold phia. The manufacturers popular "44"
5 cent brand came in for much admiring are accustomed to plant tobacco in their PATENTS RELATING to TOBACCO. Etc. Si
brands. It is better to select brands fo"
hands on the machine simply to make attention as well as "The Bride," label in cigars and little cigars. The Lipschutz this purpose which you are not handling mulberry groves. The stripping of the ^g^^^^mTATATATAlXrATATATATATATATATATATATAl
side bets and out of two or three hundred booth was made unique by a novel feature in the shape of "Phroso, " the automatic 779, 348 Match box; Edward C. Carris,
yourself, or which are not particularly leaves from the trees for the silk worms
Phroso created much merri-
Washington, la.
pennies the dealer may not be required man, which can be seen at the right of the picture. well known. Pile the boxes up in a gives the tobacco plants the light they
ment during the week and attracted everyone's attent on Mr. Lipschutz's pleas- pyramid heap, as if done carelessly. 778,953 Match making machine; Jo-
to pay more than a half dozen cigars. to need when they need it, and later the seph C. Donnelly, Philadelphia, Pa.
ing exhibit. The more battered and old the boxes are,
shade of the trees affords them protection A LINE OF HIGH-GRADE
Then there are machines in which the the better the effect 779, 368 Cigar bunch shaping machine;
insertion of a cent or nickel, whichever At the front of the window, and directly when it is required. All Chinese culture Joseph D. Lacroix, New Orleans, La, Tobacco Spraying Goods
it may be, will set a couple of dice cups ably shabby and the most ornamental out and the first one lost considerable of in front of this nondescript heap, set a box is intensive and the tobacco plants are 779,095 Tobacco cutter and pipe filler; For Cigar and Tobacco Factories
turning until they finally make a throw. article in the place was a handsome, his regular custom, because many custom- of the 'orand to be advertised, on a hand- treated with the fertilizers peculiar to Austin Mclnnis, Northam, Canada. and Leaf Tobacco Dealtrt.
Besides these there are machines in which This was of ers when they came back to earth started
nickel plated slot machine. some stand. The box should be open China. MISTING SPRAYING
and the label and cigars showing and on FLAVORING CASING
the coin percolates through a lot of pins the poker hand variety, and some of the to save money or else were ashamed to "The tobacco grown is rank in quality
to a chance destination, bicycle machines customers had to be taught the value of go into the store again.
it should be a neat card, reading:
and would be rated very low in American
R.K.Schna(ler&Sons WHITEWASHING
in which the hind wheel makes the run the hands. That's only one case and it's literally
true. So it is easy to realize the great
THIS THE CIGAR THAT HAS
IS
SUPPLANTED THEM ALU
markets, but it supplies the Chinese con-
sumer with a product within his reach
PA.CKBRS 09 Ajrp DBAUIRS IV
fillers ....
Fountain SprA.yer for misting
Simplicity Automatic Sprayer

$4.00
7.50
and numerous other devices, in all of In about two days there was a regular
Naturally, as was stated, this must be ^;i.iUle Climax Toba^cco Pump 10.00
which the dealer has the best percentage crowd around that machine during eveiy difference which the machines m ike to financially, and this is the chief thing to
'"lN'gress Jr. Spraying Machine 16.50
at the expense of other brands, but fre-
of chance whether the machine is "fixed* neon hour and immediately after supper the dealer in whose customers there is quently dealers are in a position where
be regarded in the tobacco or any other Also make Ur^c Field Sprayer which covers
h four rowi at one time.
U *^ ^
,L
Methods of treat-
or not until ten or eleven at night. And every any sporting blood. they are willing to do this, particularly if trade in the far East. '^ '
Send for free Catalogue.
own ment of the tobacco plant are crude and
The chief value to the dealer of the son-of-a-gun who would break
could, it is brand, and if they can do
their
A Retailer should remember he it without knocking any other particular
are not such as to improve the product.
.machine, however, lies in its stimulation away once or twiceduring working hours
spends nearly half his lifetime in his store
that
cigar or cigars that they have in stock, 435 & 437 W. Grant St. DAYTON SUPPLY CO..
The man who plays it once to take a chance. The business done by and The vast bulk of the prepared tobacco is
of trade.
for that reason should make it as at- the effect will be striking and will be Sa$;'pni to Nixon Nozzle & Mach. C
and loses is almost sure to try again the store was out of all proportion to any tractive as his home. fine, cut, qiade by pressing ^ quantity of """^
sure to bring results.
the tobacco leaves together and plan- Lancaster. Pa. TDAY O.
8
E. A. G^LVEa (j^ Qo. <JO^HaVANA 123 N. third ST THE TOBACCO WORLD
RREMER BROS.
^^^ ^^^
&z: gOEHM,
^^^
GEO. W. BREMER,
WALTER
mpoiiers, Packers Lnd Dealers in
Impoiiei
T. BREMER.
Jr.
R/ BAVTISTA
Cable Rotista.
y C A.- Leaf Tobacco
NEPTUNO
Warehouse-HABANA, CUBA.
I70--I74. special Partner Gumkrsindo Garcia Cuervo. ^
119 North Third St., PHILADELPHIA

Leaf Tobacco NVNIZ HERNANOS
S ei\ C
y CIA r ESTABLISHED 1844
=^
Growers ai\d Dealers of

I
VUELTA ABAJO, PARTIDO and REMEDIOS TOBACCO

Cable:
Angel," Havana ReiiidL 20, Havana.
H. Upmann & Co
J. U. FEHR & SON. p. O. Box 98
ANOTHER DULL WEEK, BUT BUYERS ARE EXPECTED.

Prices in Havana Market are Firm for Good Grades, and Crop is Not if
I HAVANA. CUBA. I
00 Franklin St.
Leaf Tobacco
and loi, loj, 105 and 107 South Seventh
Badly Damaged There Will Be
[Special Correspondence ol The Tobacco World.]

No Retrograde Movement.
Another dull week must be chronicled sign a contract whereby they can not
in the Havana market owing to the very claim any more salary than for the actual
Havana, January 2, 1905.
Bdcrvkers and
Commission
St.,
'J
limited number of northern buyers
town, but everybody seems to look
in working time, and that they can be dis-
I
Merchdcnts
READIN, PA.
for- missed at any moment, without the right
ward hopefully to an excellent business to receive the full wages up to the end of
to be done this month, as a crowd of the month and one month extra besides,
purchasers from the United States is The Spanish commercial code, which is SHITPEB^^ OF CIGAF^^
expected to arrive here. still ruUng here, states distinctly that any
Prices are held firmly for all fine employer who discharges his help during
and LEAF TOBACCO
0TTS & KEELY,
Importers and Packers of
PtflLlPPj.KOLB CoWABBiT.COLGAN growths, and there appears no prospect the middle of the month is obliged to
of any retrograde movement, particularly pay the discharged party one and one-
if the report of damages to this year' s half months' wages,
crop is only to a limited extent true. This rule has been in force here for
HANUFACTURfiRS OP
It is the custom among the Spanish

years, and the framers of the commercial
dealers to close their books by the end code undoubtedly had it in mind to pre- CigfLf
Leaf Tobacco of March or April, by which time prepa- vent these classes from becoming pau-
ration for the packing season in the pers, or being thrown upon the street.
Vuelta Abajo and Partido section usually None
The
Celebrated BreLnd
No. 148 North Second Street, ORTH Third Street,
begins, but your correspondent is now have complained about its being a hard-
of the independent manufacturers
busy compiling figures to show the ship to them; neither would they let their I
PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia. receipts and sales of the 1904 crop and help suffer if they were unable to keep
FACTORYt PASEO DE TACON 159-169
the balance resulting therefrom, and at them busy all the time. If the trust, for
the same time taking the approximate the sake of economy and in order to do OFFICE: AMARGVRA I HAVANA. CUBA*
IMPORTER OP
HIPPLE BROS. S. Weinberg, Sumatra and HayaDa^
Dealer in all kinds of Seed Leaf
actual stocks on hand in the different a large business, is obliged to institute
warehouses, thus proving the correctness
or errors which might have occurred
such an oppressive measure with their
employes, it will become less liked by
Importers and Packers of and Dealers in during the past twelve months.
Remigio Lopez Benjamin Lopez
120 North Third Street, the working people than it is at present
Philadelphia. Tobacco Sales H. Upmann & Co. continue very busy RBMIGIO LOPMZ y HERMANO
LEAF TOBACCOS .VdbwUk. & VeteMhik.
amounted 269 to 3, bales in all, or divided
into 2,204 of Vuelta Abajo, 135 of Par-
tido, and 930 of Remedios. American
and shipped
all markets.
Cifuentes,
last week
Fernandez
50, 000 cigars to
& Co. have

LsL Mas Fermosa yMagnetica
Manufacturers of the Imported Brands
de Cuba
No. 231 Arch Street, No. 83^ Amistad HABANA, CUBA.
.
0r Retail Department
VELENCHIK BROS. buyers purchased 2, 080 bales, for Europe enough orders on hand
205 were acquired, and the local cigar Partagas factory running as lively as now
to keep their St.,
ElJ>lihed ISM
PHILADELPHIA.*
is Strictly Up-to-Date.
KlSfb LEAF T0B/ieO and cigarette manufacturers took 984 through January and February.
bales.
Buyers Come and Go.
Rabell, Costa, Vales & Co. are active
in their Ramon AUones and Cruz Roja
El îeo H^bano
INDEPENDENT
paetory
ANY TRUST OF
Sumatra and Havana Frank Dominguez,
G. H. BOESCH, 134 N. THIR.D ST., PHILADELPHIA
Arrivals:
Calves & Co., Philadelphia; Facundo
of E. A. factory, and all their brands continue
be called for in good round numbers.
to
Enrique Dorado & Co. Vuelta Abajo Cigars

OF
of T
&
Importer ^ ^ | ^ i
Arguelles, of Arguelles, Lopez Bros., La Eminencia cigarettes, made by J.
&
Leal
Dealer in
SUMATRA
lODaCCO
HAVANA and a Specialty,
IOUIS BVTaiNER
LOUIS BYTHINMR & CO.
J. PRINCB
Tampa ; Rafael Alvarez, representative
of the Viuda de Joser Gener, at
York; C. S. Egerton, of Egerton &
New and
Joel,
Vales
Behrens
Co, , stand at the top of the
are the most popular ones.
& Co. closed a very successful

list,
Mstrella No. iî^j,

Purveyors to H. M. The King
cabie: chaoawa.
of Spain
Havana, Cuba.
Boston. and satisfactory business for the year. Narciso Gonzalez. Vknancio Diaz, Special.
In Quantities to Suit Purchasers. Leaf Tobacco Brokers 308 Race St.p. .
A \ U*

Departures: Wm. Bcitz and A. From- and the prospects for this year are very
312 North Third St., Philadelphia.

and Commission Merchants. 1
Long Distance Telephone, Market 3025.
Kll&(lclplll& herz, for Chicago. To leave on the 3d: promising indeed.
Leopold Locb and Arturo Loch, for j. p. Rocha had a small strike in their
Sobrinos de Veivaivcio Diaz,
(S. en C.)
Philadelphia; Jose M. Cayro, Key West; factory, because the union of cigarmakcrs
Rafael Alvarez, New York; Celcstino insisted upon their re-employing bad
Vega, Chicago. which they had discharged for
Packers, Growers and Dealers in LEAP TOBACCO
L. G. HAEUSSERMANN CARL L. HAEUSSERMANN EDWARD HAEUSSERMANN r
rollers
C.
Hava.na Cigar Manufacturers incompetency. This is surely an impo- lOAnlelM St, H AVA N A , Cuba, p. O. Box 8S6.
L. G. HAEUSSERMANN & SONS, have closed the old year tolerably well, sition, and upon sober reflection the
as contrary to the usual custom of having union must back down from a stand-
p. Neumann. O. W. Michabi3Bn. H. PmAats.
Importers of Packers and Exporters of and Dealers In

nearly a whole month, from December poi^t which it cannot maintain.
15th to January 15th, barren of any Enrique Dorado & Co. are fairly busy
FEDERICO JÊUjVlfl]4ri 8t CO.
demand Commission Merchants
Sumatra.'*Havana Leaf Tobacco
orders to speak of, the
on has kept up during the entire month cigars.
of December, particularly in the larger
this sea- for all
Remigio Lopez y Hno. have finished

markets shipping El Rico Habana
SHIPPERS OF
LARGEST RETAILERS IN PENNSYLVANIA independent factories. moving their factory to 113 San Miguel LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS
The trust is having its troubles with street, and will start in filling the orders
No. 240 Arch Street, Phriadelphia, Penna. its salaried employes, who are universally on hand for La mas Fermosa and Mag.
Havana, Cuba.
opposing the innovation of having to netica de Cuba. Ofl&ce, Obrapia i8. P. O. Box a8. Telegrams: Unicum.
123 N. THIRD ST
10 IMPORTERS OF HILADEL.RHIA
f ..
Tobacco Commission
Leslie Pantin-,'^'Reilly 50, '^ P. S".Sl';t".':Habana;Cuba
Bwyin^. Selling a^nd Other Notes of
terest.
was attended by at least 300
li\'
people, and the hearse was drawn by

funeral
A. Fromherz, of the Fromherz, Berliz- eight horses. Two hearses were required
J. F. ROCHA &
CO. S. en C.
heimer Co., Chicago, purchased 500 to carry all the wreaths of flowers.
RENS Royal Cigar Factory

bales of Vuelta Abajo, among which was
the famous vega "La Llanada" of San
Luis, so they ought to turn out a superior
Reoelpta From the Oovntrj
Week Ending
Dec. 31.
Since
Jan. 1.
Celebrated Brands
Bales
"CrepustHilo/* "Nene"
âIX
cigar. Bales
Mannfacturers of the
INDEPENDENT Antonio Suarez closed the last week o
Vuelta Abajo 1.872 243.031
Celebrated Brands, Semi Vuelta 138 22,402
1904 by making a' transaction of 800 Partido 58.085
493
bales of Vuelta Abajo to a local factory. Matanzas 334
The
Leopold and Arturo Loeb, who leave S. Clara & Remedies
tomorrow for .their Philadelphia home, Santiago de Cuba
949 85.512
657
"Jefferson"
have done some good business, but are
100 San Miguel Habana, Cuba
Oldest
Brand
mmks. expected to return here by the end of
this month. The Loeb-Nunez Havana
Co. sold 375 bales of Remedies.
Total
HAVANA CROP
3.452
IN 1904.
410.021
Si.
Cable: Crkpusculo
The Output of these Brands is 40,000 Cigars per day.
Sdbrinos de A. Gonzalez shipped from

Consul General SteinKoLft Tells WhA.t United States Representative, C. B. TAYLOR,
their previous purchases for the Spanish
Wa^s Done With It.
No. q^ Broad Street, New York.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 7.
Regie 740 bales per German steamer
3, R. Rodrigues
SOI/ and
Cif uentes, Fernandez y Ca. Prinz Joachim to Santander, Spain, and
they sold 400 bales of Vuelta Abajo from
United States Consul General Stein-
^^''t- ^^ Havana, has made the following
Bruno Diaz
B. DIflZ & CO.
MAJRX Jfijn Preprltr . .
-fQpUg interesting report of the Cuban tobacco
Com
Growers etAd Packers of
174 industria Street Frank Dominguez is again in town <^'-P ' ^904 to the Department of
VueltdL Abajo and PdLftido TobdLCCo
Consulado 91, HAVANA. Cable:
trying to replenish the holdings of E. A.
Calves & Co., Philadelphia, and has
"^^^^^^ ^^^ Labor:
The tobacco
quality and quantity, and
crop in the past year was
PRADO 125,
HABANA, CUBA.
started right in making some purchases, g^^^ >" ôth Cable: Zaidco
ê safely valued at over $30,000,000
SUAREZ HERMANOS, Jose F. Rocha disposed of 200 bales of "^^y
'^^^ exports during 1903 were valued at
GRAU, ^L/INAS Y Q\/i-
Jose Menendez,
Vuelta Abajo
(S. en C.) Arguelles also paid another ^26.046.431. against $25,400,000 in the
Facundo
The exports of leaf
en Rama
visit to Havana, as their factory at
Previous year.
Altnacenista de tabaco tobacco in1904 exceeded those of the
*::? D.^V[: Leaf Tobacco Bspecialidad Tabaco de Partido
Tampa
Arguelles, Lopez
is turning out goods faster than
& Bros, expected to do.
previous year by $600,000, The total Cable
exports of leaf tobacco amounted to Graplanas,
Calzada de la Reina 22,
Habana, Cuba
and he has already secured some 400
Figuras 39"4r,
Cabl* Address:
Havana, Cuba.
Vegas Proprias Cosecbado por el bales of choice Vuelta Abajo.
A. M. Calzada turned over 125 bales
40 977.946 pounds, valued at 113,245,-
187, 24, 1 28, 430 pounds of which, valued CHARLES BLASCO,
"Cuetara."
Monte 26. Habana, Cuba. of Vuelta Abajo and Partido to one of
at $9, 93 1. 802. went to the United States, COMMISSION MERCHANT
and 10,306,574 pounds, valued at |i,-
their northern customers. LBAF TOBACCO and CIGARS,
SoBRiNos DE A. Gonzalez Mendelsohn, Borncmann & Co. closed
921,079, to Germany, the next largest
Obispo 29, cbie- Bico Habana, Cuba.

FERNANDO FERNANDEZ y HNO. a very'
satisfactory year, having exceeded
. f, u r
,
mark
P^^^c aser.
,.
Tobacco stems, which are used in the
.

Leaf Tobacco Merchants the i2,ooo.bale of purchases for
GONZALEZ, BENITEZ & CO.

manufacture of snuff, etc, were exported
their customers.
to the amount of 598, 178 pounds, valued
Gonzalez, Benitcs & Co. sold 125 bales
Principe Alfonso 116 y 118 principallv to the United
AlmacenistasdeTabacoen Rama y Viveres
at $9,959,
Spcudhy in Vueli*. Aba}*. Scmi VinUa. y Priid*, of Vuelto Abajo and Remedios.
eM Sol Hamburger is as usual going very
States, Argentina and Germany.
Âktkro." IndusirisL 176, carefully over the market in picking out
Cigars exported numbered 205,244,- Amargura 12 and 14, and San Ignacio 23,
HABANA, CUBA. only such lots as Hamburger Bros. &
298, valued at $12,302,969, of which
Cable: "Tebenitez.* P. O. Box 396. HABANA, CUBA
45.769,422, valued at $2,888, III, went
ANTONIO CSUAREZ Co. can quickly dispose of, and he has

already made some good-sized pur-
to the United States; 28.388,074, valued
at $1,968,395, went to Germany, and eh^Qifi Y e/i.
S en GUSTAVO SALOMON YHNOS. chases.
92.559,817. valued at $5,197,785. to
Almacen de Tabaco en iâma Grau. Planas & 120

Co. disposed of England. Of cigarettes. 14.662.209
Especialidad en Tabacos Finos de bales of their Remedios holdings. packages (each package containing about
BSFBCIAUDAD BN TABACQS FINOS Sobrinos de V. Diaz turned over 80 14). valued

at $404,173. were exported
MONTE 199,
de VUBLTA ABAJO y PARTIDO
Vuelta Abajo, Partidos y Vuelta Arriba ui
bales of p,^^Hm;
r Remedios. during the year. Of these 287,767 pack-
ages, valued at $7,055. went to the
Cable: Andamika. HABANA, CUBA.
Joaquin Hedesa closed out 60 bales of ^^^^^^ g^^^^^. 16,693.372 packages, val-
Monte 114, LOEB-NUNEZ HAVANA CO.
Rayo 110x112 HABANA (F. O. Box) Apmrtado 270. TJ o 'K O n O Partido, but has a very fine stock of y^d at $49,070, to Dutch possessions;
Artemisa wrappers and caperos still for i. 323.1 27 packages, valued at $40,926,
CaUe: Zalbzgon. X XCt LICtllCt* to British islands; 7.259.354 packages,
,
^ o ^ valued at $191,854, to Columbia, and
va^^^^ Tataco et (ama
giniaceiiistas De
JOAQUIN HEDESA, n artinez^Tedesa
11 1
Rabell, Costa & Co. were sellers only
co.
AIXALA ft CO., Havana Leaf Tobacco to the extent of 59 bales ( Vuelta Abajo.
packages, valued at $17,632, to
Germany. Much of the remainder went 142 and 144 Consulado Street, HABANA.
Packer and Exporter of Leaf Tobacco Carilenas Z, and Corrales 6 anil S,
Vicente Pazos has just returned from to the Canary Islands.
amounted to
The export of
226,648 pounds,
Cable: Reform.
a trio to the Vuelta Abajo, and while it cut tobacco HENRY VONEIFF r. VIDAL CRVZ
102 Escobar Stre^, * * m a îm a HAVANA, CUBA. valued at $81,031. of which the United
Cable: "Jkdesa."
Branch House: 512 Simonton Street,
HABANA,
Key West,
CUBA.
Fla. t0^rECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE WANTS OF AMERICAN BVYEMS^m
is too cany
IS
ing his
early yet, still he believes in mak-
yci, 31
arrangements for the coming

States received 75, 205 pounds, valued at
^^^^ ^g^ and Columbia 57,283 pounds,
VONEIFF Y VIDAL CIÛZ
& Jorge Y. P. Castaneda
P. O. Box 298. Cable Address, "Aixalaco."
packing season
diately the season
so he can
opens
start
up in
in imme-
Mayor
valued at $21,201.
Tobacco seed to the value of $3, 112
A. Pazos & Co. sold 50 bales of was exported to the United States.
''%tZ!.l'of LEAF TOB AeeO
73 Amistad Street, HAVANA, CUBA.
JOf^GE 8t P. CflSTflflEDfl JW. GARCIA PULilDO June.
Vuelta Abajo to a local factory. The principal shippers of leaf and
manufactured tobacco in Havana are as
Branch Houses: -616 W. BsKimore Street. Baltimore. Nd.; P. O. Box 433. Tamp*.. Fltu
GROWERS, PACKERS and EXPORTERS
H SI vana
Tobacco licaf
of
VuchsL AbdLjo, PdLftido

GROWER. PACKEIL AND DEALER.
stivd
IN
Remedios
and
from in 1905.
J
successful year,
^- / *
Garcia & Co. closed a very satisfactory ^^^^^^^^
and will
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ Company,
be heard (^^ân Land and Leaf Tobacco Company,
G. Arostegui, Jose Suarez & Co., Luis
EDEIN CIOAR FACTORY 0/
Upmann
JOragones 108110,
^ v.*
HA VA NA Cable -Puiido. ESTRELLA 25. HABANA, CUBA. lose Santalla died here last
anu was buried
day and
aay, last Friday morn.
^
Wcdnes- Marx, Calixto Lopez
& CoG. Solomon
& Co.,
Bridat Mon-
& Co.,
tros&Co., Federico Bauriedel & Co.,
H.
BANCES & LOPEZ
HAVANA. CUBA.
He was an old-timer m the leaf
f .. , r
ing. ^^^^^ Pantin, S. L. Goldberg & Son,
AVMLINO PAZOS & CO. A. M. CALZADA & CO. tobacco business, of the well-known
firm of SanUUa, Eschevarria & Co., and Co., Garcia
Co., Locb-Nunez
Leob-Creagh Havana Company, B.
Co., Antonio
Baustista
Co., E. A. &
& &
&
Tr^rv:-.
Calixto Lopez & Co.
j^fBjfif^Mista^ de Xabaeo en Rama Dealers in Leaf Tobacco. later Santolla Co., although for the Suarez
&
,,,.,,,
^.
last two years he had virtuaUy retired
. Kline Co., H. J. Bemhcim, Cuban-
^^^^-^^n c^^^Jy^ j. p. Berndes.
&
..l^'^
"-^
180 Water St., New York
PRADO i9^j COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
and from business. He was the ex president ^^^y^ Pollock, Mendelsohn, Borne- ^ Will receive and attend to orders.
and a man mann & Co., G. Mîiiîîi y u i'
Ctgn mtdc tttictly of tke Tcry bcit
Habana Monte J s6, cabie-"CAu>A.' HABANA, CUBA. I ii
of tke Centro Gallego, Sidney Rothschild, J.

i ii
.w univerMlly liked and esteemed. The Prendes. VUELTA ABA]0 TOBACCO

-*
C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf ^Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
arrival from Havana last week and seized and this increase has been chiefly on the
A. COHN <& CO.
->
C^^'n4/ei></t'M 275 cigars which were secreted in the old-established brands. Little success
wainscotting of the forecastle, and which has been attained in the introduction of
were of a variety which would be worth new lines.
import?:rs OP
..^4.44.4^4. ^^^*
1 5 or 20 cents apiece in the retail trade.
The same inspectors seized 600 cigars on
board the steamship Olinda from Cuba.
"Owing
leaf, prices
to the increase in the cost of
smoking and chewing

of
tobaccos were generally advanced about
Havana and Sumatra PACKERS UP
1
4.
TOBACCO NEWS OF GREATER NEW YORK t
These were done up in twenty-four pack-
ages and were secreted under the boilers
10 per cent early in the year, and there
have been no price changes of conse- Seed Leaf Tobacco
of the vessel. quence since. AND
[From The Tobacco World s Correspondent.]
Growers of FLORIDA SUMATRA
Another seizure of 400 cigars and 25 "The increased consumption of high-
New York, Jan. 10. At the annual meeting in question the packages of cigarettes was made by offi- grade cigarettes is still a marked feature
were
Last week's storm,
blocked traffic,
which
kept the more fortunate
effectually following directors
1905: Messrs Lane, Freeman, Donigan,
selected for cers from the Surveyor's office. The
merchandise was found on the steamship
of the trade, and the granulated tobaccos
used by the consumer for rolling cigar- 142 Water St., New York.
Mj^m^ -^m^ ones indoors and paralyzed trade. The Fred B. Aschner, James W. Geyer and Morro Castle, from Havana, and was in ettes also show a decided increase. Jos. Mendelsohn. Louis A. Bornemann. Manuel SuareiL
weather conditions were such that no one Charles A. Hilkenbach. charge of the fireman. Each package "The cigar and tobacco trade has no
^^ F?OTH3CHlL attempted tosmokeon the street and retail The two latter represent 1,504 and contained 1 6 cigarettes. reason to doubt continued prosperity in Mendelsohn, Bornema.ni\ fH Co.
.^ ,
Wate 141 tobacconists and cigar dealers found slim 1,503 shares respectively, while the all its branches during the coming year."
Importers <&: Commission Merchants
receipts in their cash drawers when they former gentlemen each represents 1,537 Leaf tobacco men along Water street %%%%%%
Specialty HAVANA TOBACCO
URAF TOBACCO. counted up every night. shares. report a healthy activity despite the fact GEO. K. GROSS <& SON SELL OUT TO New York Office: Hk.vcLnk. Office:
This week opens up brighter, however, In his annual address President Doni- that most of the dealers and manufac- ROBT. L. FEE. U. S. ARCADE BUILDING. ANISTAD 95,
and the prospects of a better retail trade gan spoke of the splendid growth of trade turers are busily engaged taking inven- Geo. R. Gross & Son, one of the old- Water Street. Corner Fulton, Room I. HAVANA.
look encouraging. Of course the weather and alluded at length to the removal of tories of stock, which for January are said est cigar houses in Detroit, sold out last irtablkhtd 1840. CabU "Ml
orncES:
NcwYoftio did not greatly effect the wholesale trade the import stamp and the evident dispo-
DETROIT, MICH.
RDAM,HOLLAMie<)
MAVANA .CUBA
but many drummers have prolonged their sition on the part of the independent
New Year's holidays and will not start firms and individuals to close up their
to be unusually small.
demand is
week to Robert L. Fee, and the business
In domestic stock the leaf in greatest will henceforth be conducted at the
1903 Pennsylvania broad leaf. address, 209 Jefferson
same
avenue, by the
Hinsdale Smith & Co*
ranks and pull together for mutual in- ^naorters of Sumatra & Havana
MtCNOCNCfl. CAtlt AOORCSS 'TACHUeU*
out on their districts for a week or two.
Accordmg
,

^
^,
,
.^,
to the United States Consul
, J ,
terests.
methods of the trust

the high
" handed
He declared that in his opinion
For fillers there
1903 Wisconsin Havana seed.

is a brisk
1903 Zimmer Spanish and for binders vote its attention
in the Sauthwest.
demand for Robert L. Fee Company, which
to the
will de-
wholesale trade ^Packers of Connecticut Leaf Tobacco
General, in Havana, Frank Steinhatt,
are no longer a menace and he fully be- A few 1904 Connecticut Ha-
lots of Geo. R. Gross & Son is well remem-
125 Maiden Lane^
the total output of Havana cigars last
year was to the value of $12,302,969, of
lieves that from now on, the independ-
ents will have a wider field and the best
chance of success.
vana seed have appeared on the market bered by the older Detroiters, and at
and have shown
prices rule high. I n
handsomely but one time the firm occupied a high posi-
u p
Sumatra a fair tion in the local cigar trade. The Ives
D H. SioTa
SioTr NEW YORK.
which tidy sum $2,888,111 only were
imported into the United States, chiefly
As delegates to the Chicago National
Convention, the Association selected
business
increase.
is doing with a prospect of bank failure three years ago started the
firm' s financial difficulties, and the loss
through the New York Custom House.
Messrs. Aschner, Donigan, Lane, Frce- sustained at that time was never made
Comment
- 000
is made in this city that while
L r
$2,888,111 worth of cigars came to the
* *u^ r"^" ^nd St John.

The Convention of the Cigar Dealers' Recently a chattel mortgage was
up. ..Fine Cigars '.v.
,-..,, _
United States, England
J. .J.-
imported
,
twice as
_, , .^
I he Association decided that hereafter
. . , , . ,
Association of America, now in session placed on the company's stock to secure 1433 Ridge Ave., (Both Phones) PHILADELPHIA
the annual meetings shall be held on the in Chicago, opened Monday and closes creditors, and yesterday negotiations Correspondence solicited with large handlers. Write for Samples.
^BW YORtt. many Havanas at double the price.
third Tuesday in January instead of the
So far as domestic cigars are concerned first
today (Wednesday). Robt. E. Lane, Presi were closed by Mr. Fee.
FRAZIBR M. DOX38BR G. P. Sbcor, SpeciaL
Tuesday as heretofore. This action dent of the Association, was unavoidably
JOS. S. CANS MOSES J. CANS JBROMB WAI.I^HR KDVVIN I. ALHXANDKR there is a rapidly growing tendency to
was found necessary as it has been in-
improve the grade and the "five center" convenient
absent but sent an interesting annual
report to be read before the convention.
INCORPORATIONS. F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON <Sl CO.
JOSEPH S. CANS . CO. is looked at askance both by maker.
if not impossible to get in all
annual reports in the first week in E. W. May. The Walter Weaver Tobacco Co. has
OrigUud **Linde*' New York Seed Leaf Tobacco Inspection
EataJtlished 1864
jobber, dealer and consumer, although i^^^^^^
Importers & been incorporated with $15,000 capitaL 180 Pearl Street, New York City.
Packers of
reicphoiie-346 John.
Leaf Tobacco
NEW No. 1.50 WsLter Sireet, YORK.
their "day' may never go.
According to statistics the total
of cigars manufactured in the United

output
^^^ y^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^.^
^^^^.^^ ^.^^ .^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^
p^^j g^^^^ Tobacco Works from St J. B.
ILESVNE OF THE YEAR.
Moos, of Chicago. Sums Up 1904 in

The Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co.. of
Louisville, has been incorporated in
Kentucky with a capital of $64,000.
Priivcipal Office,
Bonded and Free Warehouses, 178, 180, 182, 186 and 188 PeaH St
Inapection Branchea: Lancaster. Pa. G. Forrest, 140 B. Lemon St.; H. 1.
Trost, 15 E. Lemon St.; Elmira, N.Y. L. A. Mutchler; Hartford, Conn.J. Mt>
States in 1903 was 6,886,647.455 and ^^.^^^
Louisville, a move announced
(he Trade. McKay, Edward Lynch
Kenneth I. Cormick, 150 State St.; Cincinnati, O H. Hales, 9 Front St.; Dayton, O. H.
the total for the year just ended will Chicago, Jan. 9, 1905. C. W. GroBse, 233 Warren St.; H. Hales, cor. Pease & Gennantown Sta.; Jersey
by R. K. Smith, the vice president of the and Henry
L. Meyers have incorporated
Shore, Pa. Wm. E. Gheen, Antirf Fort, Pa.; East Whatcley, Mass. G. F. Pease;
Stapp Brothers fall a
the eleven
little short of that the output for
months ending with Novem-
American Tobacco Co., who was form- J. B.
Moos, of J. & B. Moos, one of the Juan Cabanazon Cigar Co. with
the best known firms in this city, makes factories at Tampa.
EdgertoB. Wis.- A. H. Clarke.
^^,y ^^^.^^^^ ^.^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ company in Frank Ruscher Fred Schnaib^
IMPORTERS While New the following interesting general comment
AND PACKERS OF LEAF TOBACCO ber being 6, 484. 1 74. 1 50.
greater producer
York is a g.vit. P
Kentucky. This change in the policy of
V of domestic .1 *î ^
jjjg tobacco company is
j
made

in pursu-
on the year in the trade:
The MacCardy Cigar Vending Machine
Co., of Chicago, has been incorporated RUSCHSR & CO.
BsUblished 1888.
Telephone, 4027 John.
No. 163 Water Street,
NEW YORK.
cigars than
1904 fell
Florida the total output in
below that of the previous year,
^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ contemplated and
f^n details were given in The Tobacco
"Despite the fears prevailing a year ago, by F. E. MacCardy, C. E. Collins and
that the year 1904 would be marked by F. S. Abraham, with a capital of $50,000. TobaccoWater
InspectoiTs
and various are the reasons assigned
the interesting if not encouraging fact
for
^^^j^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ a further decline in business activity, The Urel Tobacco Company, of
the cigar and tobacco trade has had a Gentry ville, Ind. has been incorporated
Storage: 149 Street, New York.
,
Promptly AMended to. COUNTRY SAMPLING
More domestic cigarettes than ever are On and since last Monday the Morton prosperous year. Manufacturers found by William T. Urel, Leila O. Urel and
BRANCHES. Edgerton, Wis.: Geo. F. McGiffin andC. L. Culton. Stongbto^
J.Bernjjeim&Son made in New York which in its output Trust Company has been exchanging
outstrips Louisiana and Virginia. The definitive engraved securities for certifi-
a steady, improving
close of the year they
demand,
found
culty in filling their orders.
and
great
at the
diffi-
Unionism
Oakley
$10,000.
H. Kellogg,
Incorporation
with
articles
a
were
capital
filed in
of
the
Wis. O. H. Hemsing. Lancaster, Pa. I. R. Smith, 6io W. Chestnut st Franfe>
lin.Ô.: T. E. Griest
Conn.: Jos. M.
:
Dayton, O. : F. A. Gebhart, 14 Shore Line ave. Hartford^

Gleason, 238 State st South Deerficld, Mass. John C. Decker.
:
output of cigarettes in the United States cates

:
of deposit for the 6 and 4 per Department of Secretary of State by the Meridian, N. Y. John R. Purdy. Baltimore, Md.: Ed. Wischmeyer & Col
1903 was 3,210,325,015 while for the cent bonds and the preferred and cornin the cigar and tobacco industry has :
HAVANA TOBACCO
for S. E. Rice Tobacco Company, of Muhlen- Corning, N. Y. W. C. Sleight. :
eleven months of 1904 there were made mon stocks of the American Tobacco been on the decline, and although a berg county, Tenn. It has $2,000 capi-
no less than 3,584,654,161 with New Company. Bonds are issued in coupon strong effort has been made to get the tal stock. COLSON C. Hamii,ton, formerly of F. C. I.inde, Hamiltod & Co,
York city a long way in the lead. form of $1,000 each and in registered 'closed shop,' but few factories of any The Jamestown Cigar Co., of James M. CofirGALTON, Frank P. Wiskburn, LoDift Busm^
ôrm in denominations of $50, $100. $500, importance are now operated under town, N. Y., has been incorporated with Formerly with F. C. Linde, Hamilton & Co.
The total output of smoking and chew
a capital of $10,000 and the following C. E. Hamii,Ton.
union regulations.
ing tobacco in 1903 was 320,802,285 li.ooo, $5,000. $10,000, $50,000, and
Havana. Cuba pounds and for the eleven months in 1904 lioo,ooo. The dividend of 1 )4 per cent
declared by the American Tobacco Corn-
directors: John F. Gustafson, Elmer W.
"The increasing prosperity of the Carlson and Axel F. S. Gustafson all of
country has had a marked effect on the Jamestown.
C. C. HAMILTON & CO.
303,381,469 pounds, a very favorable
comparison say the New York traders. P^ny on its 6 per cent preferred stock, growing demand for the better grades of Articles of incorporation have been Tobacco Inspectors, Warehousemen & Weighers
Sections of the Country Receives Prompt Attention*
Importers
payable
December
to stockholders of record as of cigars, and not only have the manufac-
turers of clear Havana cigars increased
the Nicholas Kuhmen Cigar Co.
filed for
of Davenport, la., with a capital stock of
Sampling In All
Plaent Bonded Storage Warehouse In 01 QT CAnfli Cf fâw Vtivk
31 are also being distributed
Robert E. Lane, Thomas Donigan $50,000. The incorporators are Alex %serlca. Perfectly New, Eight Stories High,04"04l OvUlU Oli) Hvl I U1&
in number throughout the country, but
Sumatra Tobacco and Sidney J. Freeman, who were ap-
J.
by the trust company.
the manufacturers of the leading well Neiff, who are
Anderson, F. M. Rhodes and Chris
also the officers of the
PIrst-Class Free Storage Warehouses:
ao9 Bast a6th St.; 204-208 Bast 27th St.; i38-i38>^ Water St.;
pointed a committee at the annual meet- B. S. Davis, R. Rodriguez and Mark known brands have all largely increased company. It is also provided in the in Telephone 13 Madison Square.
Joseph Hirsch & Son ing of the Retail Cigar and Tobacco Kalish have secured
Dealers' Association to formulate
incoporation papers
plans fo^ B. S. Davis & Co.,
for the contemplated Tobacco Exposition deal in tobacco,
of New York, to
their output Another well-defined change corporation papers that the company
has been the growing discrimination on
shall have the privilege of taking over
the present cigar firm of D. A. Anderson
Main
.>
Office, 84-85 South
St., (Tel. 2191 John) York.
Inspection Branches. Thos. B. Earle^ Edgerton, Wis.; Frank V. Miller,
New
with capital of $5,000. the part of smokers of 5-cent cigars. J06 North Queen street, Lancaster, Pa. Henry F. Fenstermacher, Reading, Pa.,
;
$. t VHQIBCWAL 227 OffIce, 183 WatcF St of the metropolis are all enthusiastic on
some
# t
and F. M. Rhodes for the sum of $18,
'The consumption of smoking and 000, the payment to be made in stock in

Daniel M. Heeter, Dayton, O.; John H. Hax, Baldwinsville, N. Y.; Leonard L-

Orotta, 1015 Main street, Hartford, and Warehouse Point, Coon.; James L. Day,
the subject and promise definite Speciallnspectors Hoadleyand O'Neil chewing tobacco has largely increased, the new company.
iiBtcnlaB.WlHi. NEW YORK plans for publication next month. visited the steamship Niagara on her
Hatfield, Mass.; Jerome S. Billington, Corninjti N. Y.
for Genuine Sawed Cedar Cigar Boxes, go to .,rf ^ PA.
'T
L. J, Seller* A Son. KEYSTONE CIGAR BOX CO.. SEL1.ERSVILLE.
14 THE TOBACCO WORLD- THE TOBACCO WORLD li
AN MXCJ^LLBNT TOBACCO FOR CHBWING AND SMOKING, Telephone Call, 4328.
Bvery Dealer Should Have a Stock of 4ffioe and Warehouse, Ready for the Market
FLORIN, PA. Broad Leaf B's
First Class Pennsylvania
Havaaa Seed Binders
Located on Main Line
Fancy Packed Zimmer Spanish
A
It
E. L.
IsisSLEY
1901 Fancy Table Assorted ^^^^^^F^verV
Fancy Packed Gebhart
C^Sfi
of
Big 1 OnO ^^^^ FORCB-SWEATED Quf Owil

Ready Proms &C0. I 51 U-^ CONNECTICUT -^
Packing
i ,
Growers and Packers of Packer of

Selling for
Dealers
FINE CIGAR LEAF TOBACCO I. H. Weaver, Leaf Tobacco
Product Fine B*s and Tops Our Specialty. 241 and g43 North Prince Street,
Bayers always find it a pleasure
Critical
to look ove*'our Samples.
LANCASTER., FA.
Samples cheerfully submitted upon request. P, O* Box 96*
W. R. COOPER & CO
Manufactured by KEYSTONE TOBACCO CO.. Reading, Pa.. WALTER. S.
PeLcker of
BARE, PACKER OF
WHITE HOUSE FAVORITE

Connecticut Leaf
14,662
Trade-Mark Register. For cigars, cigarettes, cheroots, sto- Fine*: :
J. E. SHERTS & CO. HAVANA NOODLES. 14,649

gies and tobacco.
1905, at 9 a m, by
Registered Jan.
I. M. Umstead,
6,
ALL GRADES OF DOMESTIC and Dealer in All Grades of
Lancaster, Pa. gies

For cigars, cigarettes, cheroots, sto-
and tobacco. Registered Dec. 28, O.
Phillipsburg, N.
K P. 14.663
T.
Ciâr Leaf Tobacco Domestic Cigar Leaf Tobacco,

Manufacturers of 201 and 20J North Duke SL
1904, at 9 a m, by A. D. Engel, Phil-
adelphia, Pa. gies
and tobacco. Registered Jan. 6,
Office and Warehouse, LANCASTER, PA.
pigl-liraile FOXY GEORGE 14.650
cigars, cigarettes, cheroots, sto-
1905, at 9 a m, by the Keystone
Cheroot Co., Hanover, Pa.
LITITZ, PA.
For
(ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-
^ \-
"^^ SeedSHnana
giesand tobacco. Registered Dec. 28,
1904, at 9 a m, by A. D. Engel, Phil-
adelphia, Pa.
186
For
SIX) 14.664
J. K. LEAMAN, H, H. MILLER,
gies and tobacco. Registered Jan. 6,
THE BIRSWAGER 14.651 Packer of and
Cigars For cigars.
1904, at 9 a m,
Registered Dec.
by Samuel A. Sopher,
30,
1905, at 9by the Keystone
a m,
Cheroot Co., Hanover, Pa. Dealer in Light Connecticut Wrappers and Seconds
5 CORRESPONDENCE INVITED FROM RESPONSIBLE HOUSES.
(V
Baltimore, Md,
PHONOGRAPH
For cigarettes.
14,652
Registered Dec. 31,
TOWN TRADE
at
For cigars.
9 a m, by John L.
town, Pa.
14,665
Registered Jan.
Fritz,
7, 1905,
Reanis- LBAF Tobacco Fine Florida Sumatra
B. F, ABJBLs 1904, at 9 a m, by
Philadelphia, Pa.
I. Moguleski,
Alhambra,
SEARCHES.
Zembo, Rajah,
Alcazar, 138 North Market St.
HMLLAM, PA. AMANCO 14.653
Alleppo, Boumai, Lady Maud,
Bohemia, D. A. M., The Old Fellow,
United
LANCASTER, PA. ga^ and 329 N. Queen Street,
Manufacturer of Fine For cigars, cigarettes, cheroots, sto- 'Phones
Seed & Havana giesand tobacco. Registered Dec. 31,

El Claretta, Log Cabin, El Cabin, LANCASTER, PA.
La Prosperity, Golden Gate Perfecto,
1904, at 9 am, by William Anthony,
Merchant of Venice, Opera Jewels,
Cigars
''
Hanover, Pa.
AMERICAN COUNTESS
Registered Jan.
14.654
Seeko,
Chiclets,
Virginius,
Spenders,
The Philadelphiaa,
El Brazil, B. F. GOOD & CO. J. W. DUTTENHOPFER,
Joe F. Willard ''^.IT'" For cigars. 3, 1905, Opera, Flor de Opera. fACI^RS
Michael Hose
^ 1
A. F. Brillhart
at 9 a m, by A.
EPICUREAN 14.655
P. Snader, Ephrata, Pa.
For cigars. Registered Jan. 3, 1905,

GOVERNMENT WANTS EXPERTS.
AND
DEALERS IN Leaf Tobaccos Packer, Dealer,
and Jobber in Leaf Tobacco

at 9 a m, by A. P. Snader, Ephrata, Pa.
WELCOMA 14.656
Tobacco Examiners for Service
ous Ports of Entry.
at Vari-

Tobacco experts in the East and Mid-
at
For cigars. Registered Jan.
9 a m, by J. L. Dimmig &
5, 1905,
Bro., dle West will have a chance to work for LANCASTEEL PA.
33 Nortli Prince St., LANCASTER, PA.
Uncle Sam if they care to. The Treasury
East Greenville, Pa.
W. BRENNEMAN,
Manufac- Department having difficulty in getting
is
& Dealers OSTRO 14.657
turers of expert tobacco examiners for service at
the various ports of entry, and civil J.
at 9 a m, by J. L. Dimmig & Bro.,
service examinations are being conducted
East Greenville, Pa. Packer and Dealer in
The
LEAF TOBACCO, MYOWNO 14.658
without a great deal
position pays $2,000 a year.
of success.
For cigars. Registered Jan. 5. 1905, A week or so ago the Civil Service
Leaf Tobacco
LOS ANGELOS PERFECTO
at
For cigars.
9 a m, by A.
Registered Jan.
P.
5,
Snader, Ephrata, Pa.

14,659
1905,
Commission
dozen men who had
certified the
the examination required of applicants

for these places,
names
but upon investigation

of half a
successfully passed

BRANCHES: VOLUNTEER ORGANIST 14.660 Shaw learned that not one of
Secretary Millersville, Pa.
UNITED CIGAR Kerbs, Wertheim & Schiffet For cigars. Registered Jan. 5, 1905, them knew the difference between a Lancaster, Pa.
1
<
Hirscbhorn, Mack & Co.
Straiton &
Storm,
hand stem of natural
of fine cut
leaf
He, therefore, refused to
and a package
Office & Salesrooms, Warehouses: Lancaster and Red Lion, Pa.
Manufacturers! Jîcbtenstein Bros. Co.
SEENO 14.661 place them on Jhe roll. The Civil
H0& 112 W. Walnut St.fLANCASTER, PA. We make Scrap Filler Ready for Use.
w
I0I4-I020 Second Ave., NEW YORK at

9 a m, by A. P. Snader, Ephrata, Pa.
Service Commissioi^ will hold another
examination in Chicago in a short time. UNITED PHONES.
16
fee
TeB/ieee
Established 1&81
THE
Wqrld
THB TOBACCO WORLD
Incorporated 1902
4 ^^ Philadelphia Tobacco Trade.

Y<
THB TOBACCO WORLD IT
Jay Y. Krout,
Prctident and Genl. Manager.
Entered at the Post Office at
J.
Philadelphia,
Published Every Wednesday

224 Arch
BY THB
Street. PKiladelpKicL
M. Bdckiêy,
Pa., as second class matter.
Editor.
CO.
H. C. McManus,
To Permit Sunday Cigar
Every magistrate in Philadelphia has
signed a petition which will be presented
Sales. Cut Plug, which Mr.
made a belter hit
has ever handled,
*^
Banton says has
than anything else he
en Aê
asking the
Tklephones: Bell, Market 28-97 Keystone, Main 45-39A
Cable Address, Baccoworld. Havana Office, Post Office Box 362.
;
to the present Legislature
passing of the be attached.
bill
permit the sale on Sunday of non-

which will
for
ôi
D. W. Glover, Western representative
Vetterlein Bros., paid a short visit to
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SUBSCRIPTION-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: to
One Year, $1.00 Six Months, 75 Cents; Single Copies, 5 Cents. intoxicating drinks, tobacco and cigars, the Philadelphia office last week.and has
;
I
In all countries of the Postal Union, $2.00 per year, postage prepaid. certain articles of food and newspapers, again returned to the West. Mr. Glover
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. says that everything points to a splendid
The bill, which is a result of the peculiar PUERTO
Advertisements must bear such evidence of merit as to entitle them to business year in his section.
activities of the Philadelphia Sabbath Vetterlei pRlNClPE
public attention. No advertisement known or believed to be in any way
calculated to mislead or defraud the mercantile public will be admitted. Association provides that Bros, are still engaged with their invea-
Remittances may be made by Post Office Money Order, Registered Let- "Hereafter it shall be lawful to sell tory and balancing of their books. DEU"RtO P- COBFTE
ter, Draft, or Express Order, and must be made payable only to the pub- drugs, medicines, soda and mineral wa-
lishers. Address Tobacco Wori^d Publishing Co., 224 Arch St., Philada.* ter and other harmless nonintoxicating
drinks, bread, oyster, cakes, pastry, ice F. B. Robertson, who has a depot for
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 11, 1905. cream, candy, milk, fruit, cigars and independent goods at 1004 Ridge ave- SANTIACO
THE ANNUAL CONVENTION Of THE PLANT 'BACCY INSTEAD OF COTTON.

tobacco, to prepare, print and sell news-
papers on the first day of the week, com-
nue, suffered at the hands of burglars o
^^^^ ^-^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^j^ ^.^^ ^.^^^ ^j^^
^
monly called Sunday. . ,
_;.,,_,
. , , . .
C. D. A. OF A. There are a lot of people who console ,. , genial Match It representative has beem

the cotton grower who has managed to
herein con-
tained shall be construed to allow the
sale of any nonintoxicant or other drinks,
"Provided, That nothing
located
, .
in
^. ..
Philadelphia.
son figures out that he has
, , , . ,,
Mr. Robert.
lost about |20
,
The Cigar Dealers' Association of go broke on his industry, with the ad-
in any saloon, inn or tavern licensed by '
from the cash register. 500 cigars and
America has been in session in Chicago monition to "go plant tobacco. " There
law for the sale of intoxicating beverages." 1. 000 cigarettes. Two other business
during the early part of this week, and are several things readily to be thought of
good places in the neighborhood were also
the enthusiasm and importance of the which are easier to cultivate with
gathering
the independent
is significant of the progress of returns than tobacco, but there are quite
movement throughout a number of instances on record where
The
October Revenue Returns.
returns from the Internal Revenue
robbed on the same night.
son has recently moved above
Mr. Robert-
to the
Your He^dque^rters ^^^:
^
1
the country.
The represented by a seed, and there may be something worth
national body
J-
is
*u- /* . J . f^
cotton soil has responded nobly to tobacco

Collector's office for the First District of
Pennsylvania, for the month of Decem-
, c
ber, consist of ,u
the r u
following t:
figures

address from 11 33 Ridge avenue, and
burglars entered the other establishment
on four separate occasions. The police 5 -y
At Our Office.
local in nearly every large city in the regarding in this oft-repeated tip, after
We
'
$ 1 50. 349. 20
eastern half of the United States, and ^"
'""^t be remembered, however, that
<<
at caq. " 46.98
were put on the case, but it is doubtful
if the thieves will be caught.
are Headquarters for
though the local association in Philadel- ^^ cigarettes at $1.08 per M. 4.039-74
phia has,
seen fit to
for some reason not given,
remain outside the national S^^""^ clamor lately that they have been
^^^ Southern tobacco growers made a Cigarettes at 54c.
Manuf d Tob. at 6c per lb
" 82.08
8,475-63 Lester Newburger, of Stewart, New-
Choice Escojidas off
raising crops at a dead loss on account Snuff stamps at 6c per lb 21,388.02
association, it is working in the same burger & Co., will shortly leave on a
, ,.
cause and toward the same object.
,of a monopoly in the buying. The same
.
^,. ^r ^ A, ' i^;.,* u^^\^^ c, ^.

^ business trip through the South, and at Remedies, Santa Clara
^ sort 01 a complaint has come from out Fred W. Hoch, W. Hoch & about the sametimeanother
of Fred
The convention showed that the asso- Wisconsin way, and the Pennsylvania of the firm's
Co., of Columbia avenue, has named
ciation is in a healthy, progressing con- crop went considerably to the bad this salesmen will leave for his regular trip.
dition, one which bids fair for its future

y*^^""'
^^ '^^' '^^
^^'"'"^''^ ^"^ "^^
pay off very many mortgages.
accomplishments, but the address of ^-^^^^ jê Connecticut farmers were in
^^}^, ^
Like
the
which
new member of his family Anita,
is Mrs. Hoch's name. The firm
C. C. Rosenberg, of the El Proved
and Manicaraûa,
also has a popular cigar label of that
President Robert E. Lane, which was the dumps a year ago. and while they
read before the meeting and which is seem disposed to make up for it by the
name.
%K%%^^l%
Co. , left for Cuba
after transacting his business in
at noon yesterday ,and
Havana
Kv Vuelta Abajo and Partido Factory Veâs
printed in full in another column, pre- P"^" " ^9^4. the same thing may
J
sented pertinent reasons
.
IV than
, ,
why more has
.
tobacco growing is found to be a

happen
'^'^ next
Still,
year,
' . r j
With MaLAufdLCturers and Jobbers, will visit the firm's Florida factory to see
that everything is in fine working order.
of Various Sized L,ots
accomplishedJ..
. . 11 .
not been '^
actually has. ^^:î ^^^..!^:^ uf, ,,ôr, or,^ \r o
^ congenial occupation by many, and it a
New Factory in Philadelphia.
Mr. Lane said: farmer must go broke, he might as well It was stated this week by a well
It is my opinion that we should
depend upon ourselves even more
than we have in the past; we are
as not, do it
rate, the
on
soil
something
gets a rest
new.
on
At any known local retailer, who said he had
cotton,
been given the information in confidence.
Tobacco is now raised in twenty-six ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ divulge the details, that a
Son,
trip.
Roy
is
Valentine, of A. S. Valentine
South on a well earned pleasure
The business done by this house
&
LOEB-NUNEZ HAVANA CO Packers of
strong in numbers, influence and States, covering New England, the South , n l 1. r.1.1 j , . . 1 . last year was so gratifying that Mr. Val-
îg factory will be built in Philadelphia
knowledge of our business, and and the Middle West. Of these, Virginia
should not lean on others and expect North and South Carolina, Georgia, this spring which will manufacture a
entine thought he had a
him.
little rest com-

them to fight our battles, or even
supply us with ammunition.
Alabama. Mississippi. Tennessee and complete line of cigars. The plant will
Kentucky produce an average of 75 per be operated by a firm which will be
ng to
Havana Tobacco
Later, he said
The interest relaxed in certain

local branches is to be regretted, and
cent of the total crop.
trary plant, it has been

It is a Southern
industry, and though tobacco is an arbi-
proved that it
members
,^^^ for the purpose, one of the
j j ^
of which is declared to be a
can adapt itself to almost any section of man already identified with the trade in
, ,
1 1
&
After being brought together for the
annual banquet given by the Theobald
Oppenheimer Co.. at the Bourse last bv
OONSUUADO 14:2 and 144,
while the officers should not be has- week, the firm's salesmen from far and
tily blamed, they must to some ex-
tent be criticised, and must regard
the South.
Cotton farmers down in Texas, who
have tried switching their crops, have
this city.
^'^
%t%
Sig. C. Mayer & Co. the new firm of ,

wide have all dispersed
spective territories and are prepared to
to their re- Havana, Cuba
themselves as servants of the organ-
ization, and not as masters.
that the lack of frequent meetings
I feel
made out very well considering, and manufacturers at 417 Locust street, is
there seems no vital reason why the
starting the new year with a great many
jump
Marshall has
into the New
San Francisco where
left for
Year's work. E. D. WE WILL
is the main cause of apathy.
same thing can't be done through other
orders in hand for cigars. The company he will push the William Penn, Royal
INVITE CHEERFULLY
This last sentence is particularly a
sections of the South.
%%%%%^
has the brightest prospects, as their Lancers and the L a Toco along the CORRESPONDENCE SUBMIT SAMPLES
No dealer who has the right Pacific coast; W. S. Dennis has returned
may soon brands have made a
^
keynote. c^w*u ^^ manufacturers decided hit on the
^
^ Some tobacco r *
spirit can feel that the time he gives find themselves in the meshes of the market.
to his association is a sacrifice.

Mr. Mayer is about to leave
Neither pure food law if they don't watch out on a trip South to push Sig. C. Mayer
to St. Paul,
for St. Louis;
John Bain
Ramon Fernandez, super*
is about starting
Philadelphia Office, 306 N. Third St
should he waste time in the belief that At Los Angeles the city chemist tried to & Co. 's Verybest, George M. Dallas intendent of the Tampa factory, has gone
excuse himself from examination under Cable |Address:
someone else will be glad to do what he and Sigwado, 5 cent cigars, and El South, John T. Dee left for Chicago yes-
is unwilling to do himself.
the pure food law, of campaign cigars, on
As Mr. Lane the ground that they vverenm^ Morento, a 10 cent brand. During his terday and Emory Reynolds went to "REFORM"
puts it, "Unity should be the watchword the protestants countered by claiming that absence George J. Watson will have Boston on Monday. All the Theobald
impressed deeply upon the mind and cabbage is a food if tobacco is not, and charge of the office. & Oppenheimer factories which were
heart of every member,' and every mem-
that to place a tobacco wrapper around
'
a roll of cabbage leaves and sell the

^ closed down to permit the taking account
ber should make it a point to get out to result to candidates for campaign pur- William H. Banton, jobber at 315 of stock, have resumed work on full
every meeting, if only to swap cigars poses ought to be made a violation of South Fourth street, is having a very time, and the books of the Company
with the man he sits next to. pure food ordinances. large run on his own brand. Pine Apple show the best year it has ever had.
18
EalablisKcd 1864
-
Cftpftity for Mantifacttiriag
Match
"Match-lt"
It, if
Cigar Boxes
Always Room for Onb Mors Good Custombr.
you Can-- You Can't.

THE TOBACCO W O R
Cheroots
on the market.
Packages of Five Wrappea in Foil.
Manufactured by
The Manchester Cigar Mfg. Co.
BALTIMORE, MD.
P. B. ROBERTSON,
1133 Ridg* Avenue. Phila.
Factory No. 20. 9th Dtat.. Pl.

I
L J. Sellers & Son, Sellersvllle, Fa.
Here and There With the Retailers
Last week
I. D
Cigar store, Tenth street, south of Wal-

was another pretty good nut, two machines. While at work the
one with the retailers and the slumpy raiders discovered a poker room in full
condition of the market seems so much blast in the basement, and captured
a thing of
dealers are
the now that many the receipts
past
commencing to make opti- The players
mistic predictions about the spring trade.
There never
demand and the majority of Chestnut taken, and one machine was confiscated
and Market street dealers expressed in a cigar store on Arch street near
themselves as
One man who
the most important
satisfied.
along
is
Chestnut
street, and who was extremely gloomy
manager of one of
stores
$2,
dollars, the stakes that were exposed on

any rush early in January, the table. At the cigar store on Sixth
is
but last week showed a good, steady street near Chestnut three machines were
Two machines were found in a cigar

The
Third.
store on Second street near Buttonwood;

while two were captured in a cigar store
a few weeks ago, was in good spirits this on Fairmount avenue near Fourth street;
week and expects to remain so. This one in another cigar store on North
man has been in the trade for years, and Twelfth street above Race two in a store
his former woniment was owing to the on Tenth street
fact that the extreme stagnation of the in a pool room at
market was seemingly unexplainable.
above Spruce, and three
the corner of Fair-
mount avenue and Eighteenth
result of the raids
for the
was as follows:
house of the game.

bolted with several hundred
street
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Ks^=^
^k;
THE TOBACCO WORLD
t<^^y^^^
^J#
^\i% f
NATIONAL
CIGAR TOOLS
We Want
You to Know
About
19
Used by the
W. Bowman (& Made Work--dood work- -and plenty
He now believes that trade has fully re- for of It.
Geo. Co. covered its natural tone and will remain at

Tuesday's machines were confiscated
the following places: Cigar store
Best Workmen, who make
the Best Cltfars,
good through the spring.
and want only the Best Tools.
Ridge avenue and Mount Vernon street,
Ha.AOver, Pa.. one machine; Tenth and Ogden streets., NATIONAL CIGAR CUTTERS- -Made to cut. and wear and
Many Porto ILican Brands On the last best crucible steel self-sharpenind blades'
Manufacturers of Market. one one each at Cumberland street near
;
riveted knohsdon't choke off or chew off.

Porto Germantown avenue above Cum.
Rican cigars of varied brands Tenth,
Fine C'^^rs and prices are to be seen prominently berland street, Susquânna avenue near
displayed in a good proportion of the Fourth street, Dauphin street and Ger-
NATIONAL CIGAR BOARDS Hard
soft spots
as Iron no S'j
no streaks no dryind no crackind- ^
^4- ^^ retail stores, and some dealers declare mantown avenue; four on Kensington
that the demand is an increasing one. avenue above Cambria street; one on
NATIONAL CIGAR KNIVES and NATIONAL CUBAN a
BLADES Best that money can buy. >J ..
These, however, are dealers who make Kensington avenue above Lehigh avenue;
Strictly hidh-drade tools at low-drade prices
more or less effort to push this particular two on Kensington avenue near Somer-
THe Boil Bow-maq product, and display it in a way to tempt set street, and one on Buttonwood street
fully doaranteed. A unique sellind system that >'
means a bid money difference to you.
an excellent 5-cent Cigar, made in the casual consumer to buy it. near eighth.
several sizes, is our specialty. It is said that a good percentage of The machines made a full wagonload^ etum this Coupon, and tfet our
Special Proposition.
these experiments result in a regular cus- and at different points of the raid large
Correspondence with the Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Invited. tomer on the line. On the contrary crowds witnessed the raiding.
Write for Particulars. other dealers say that they have not had
Mr. Gib-
boney says the city is again full of I [National Selling Co. j^
^^
^^ <f
much demand for the Porto Rican smokes these gambling devices a n d t h a t he ALLENTOWN, PA., U.S.A.
and what inquiry there de will continue to drive them out
STAUFFER,
that is, is
I
L. S. creasing.
One dealer who has a good average H. Jackson is opening a new retail
MANUFACTURER OF class of customers declared that he did cigar store at 160 North Ninth street and
street, is startingthe year with a good and the tobacco no better if as good.
Established 1891. Factory No. 3765.
not see how the ordinary cigar from the if the present arrangements go through^ demand for both Havana and Sumatra. That being the case it is scarcely a paying
HIGH and MEDIUM GRADES
OP
Phihppines could possibly win out over
a domestic cigar.
*
willhave everything in readiness for con-
sumers tomorrow morning. The new
%% proposition to lay in a very heavy stock
Ihe travelling representatives of Julius now until some indications of what the
Hirschberg & Bro. will start out in a few next crop will be are obtained.
JOHN ZUDREliLi Manufacturer of
'We wouldn* t consider
for a moment, store will carry a full line of popular days through their respective territories.
said "handling any cigar made in brands.
he, This firm is perfectly satisfied with the 1905 WILL BE GOOD IN OHIO.
'^h
UNION-MADE CIGARS Porto Rico, which was made to sell at
more than $$ per hundred for it is very
The popular proprietor of the Moore
cigar shops is confined to his home, at
business done last year and said that it
always would be, with the same returns. MaLnufacturers Sa^y That Prospects for
The new year is opening up with a good Convin^ YeaLf aire of the Best. Grade
Cigars 5;5l
THE FOR hard to get more than that for them. I
present, suffering from an attack of grip, demand. Cincinnati, O. Jan. 9.
have smoked them enough to make a fair ,
Genuine Union Made.

which malady has laid quite a number of Walter J. Friedlander, proprietor of
test, and to me its like eating soup with- George W. Newman, than whom there
Wholesale and Jobbing Trade out salt. The leaf seems coarse to me
the trade low lately. is no better known man in the leaf trade,
the Day and Night Tobacco Company,
received a handsome badge of honor on in an interview with The Tobacco
World Ephrata, Pa.
and there is no distinct flavor. Of Hancock & Adams, Seventh and Monday night to commemorate his re correspondent, said "All the independ-
:
course the high grade brands are better Chestnut streets, are making a handsome tirement as Commander of the George C. ent manufacturers that I have come
in 'loods Sold Direct to JOBBERS and DEALERS.
Meade Post No. i, in which office he contact with expect the year 1905 to be a
Akron, Pa. but they aren' t the kind usually bought. window display o f the Lyric Theatre
In spite of what some dealers say, I brand which sells for 5 cents straight. served during 1904. The decoration is banner one, inasmuch as systematic
in the form of the regular G. A. R. badge steps have been taken to put a stop to
don't believe there will be any great de-
but is of gold and much handsomer. On certain phases of the trust's methods.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
BELTZ, Sch wenksville, Pa.

mand
to hurt
or even
the
one large
domestic cigar because
don' t think the cigar can compete on
enough seriously
its
I
N, W. Young, who is now conducting
the store at Third and Chestnut streets,
which was recently owned by Goldsmith
the back of the pendant is an engraved The chief evil of the business is the giv-
record of the presentation and on the ing away of all kinds of
front is the figure "i" set with seven
presents."
It is reported that the telephone com-
pany is working up cases against a num-
PAN
F. H.
Manufacturer of
own
price."
merits, even
Slot
when
Machines Captured.
it is sold at low & Co. is having quite a run on the John
Hay
brand.
Among
,
10 cent cigar
the salesmen
and Rugby
who
5
got around
cent
s diamonds.
L. P. Kimmig, of L. P. Kimmig &

ber of prominent down town cigarists,
who, it is alleged, have been allowing
Co., is in Connecticut buying tobacco for customers to use their phones, which
his firm. Mr. Kimmig also made a New have not the slot arrangement, instead of
AMERICAN Registered
A number f Philadelphia dealers, England trip last week and secured a referring them to the pay stations.
appreciating the extra sales which slot
among
week were Geo. the dealers this good lot of the new crop of Connecticut F. J. McCormick, president of the
To Be Continued Next Issue.
Weiss, of the National Cuba Co., and wrapper and filler which he says is of Gem City Tobacco Company, when asked
machines make for them, have been
Mr. Strauss, of Bustillo Bros. & Diaz. fine quality, but is commanding very his views on the outlook for this year,
operating them in a quiet way for some high prices. replied: "Prospects are exceedingly
scentGps months. The ubiquitous Mr. Gibboney
LeaLf De&.lers* Jottings.
bright,
Frank Dominguez, who is in Cuba ness than last year."
and we anticipate a bigger busi-
got wind of the fact some ago and in
The largest and best CLEAR buying for E. A. Calves & Co., writes
HAVANA FILLED 5-ceivt

connection with several constables and Geo. Burghard, has just received a
a few of the Law and Order agents, large shipment of 1903 Wisconsin Ha-
that he is considerably disgusted with the
prospects on the present crop.
It is semi-officially reported that Cin-
Mr. cinnati capitalists have subscribed for

\Yedeles Brothers,
raided a number of cigar stores and pool vana seed binders for which there Dominguez purposely arrived o n the 1400,000 worth of capital stock in the
Cigsir on the Matrket. is
field early in order to secure the run of Burley Tobacco Growers' Association,
We employ no salesmen, saving you that expense.
rooms for slot machines Saturday night already a fair demand.
and captured 7 of them. On Tuesday
1
the market, but declares that he may not
President W. B. Hawkins, who was here
Florida. Sumatra.
be able to get as many as 400 bales of
OUR GUARANTEE goes with the AMERICAN CUP Cigars, he again descended upon unwary dealers The Amsterdam Sumatra Co. which is
that they are ,
Remedios of good quality. Prices are last week, did not affirm or deny the
Clear Havana Filler and Sumatra Wrapper. and captured 5 more. 1 one of the younger leaf firms on Third fully 50 per cent higher than last year story.
'
BUHRMAN. 182 . Lake Si CHICAGO, ILL
C. A. ROST Sz: CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
26 THE TOBACCO WORLD THK TOBACCO WORLD 21
Cigar ribbons, Plaln and Fancy

^'.^t-Lot.,
Write for Sample Card and Price Lioi to Department W OUR TWO BIG SELLERS*
Manufacturers of Wc Guarantee them to be Free from Adulteration, Full Weight, and Choice in Every Respect,
Bindings, Galloons,
and Gros
Taffefeas, Satin
Wm. Grain.
Wicke Ribbon
36 East Twenty-scconrl Street,
Co.
NEW YORKo
by placing them Over Our Own Signature.
CIGAR DEALERS' ASSOJF AMERICA IN ANNUAL SESSION S

DELA FLORA CUBAN STAR Col. M. W. and Other Officers are Chosen.
Diffley is Elected President #
Resolutions Commending President Lane, Protesting Against
Philippine Tariff Cut, E!c., Adopted.
GEO. STEUERNAGLE, [By wire to The Tobacco World.] ences and the convention conducted an
Manufacturer of
Chicago, 111. ,
open discussion on association stamps.
Jan. 10.
Pittsburg Stogies, The Cigar

America met at
Dealers' Association of
the Sherman House in
Testimony was>given by a large number
^^ '^^ delegates as to the undoubted
No. 2103 Penn Avenue, this city today in annual session. The b^^^^* ^*^*"l^>"g ^'^"^ ^* "^^-^^^ '^ *^-
Goods Sold Direct to President of the Association. Robert E.
^^^t'*>" ^'^""^
^^ '^ ^^ ^^^^*^^* '****
DiTTCDflDr' DA
* ** laDUKU, rA. ** "^ ^^ ^^ w^rk would bc^^wshed
Jobbers and Dealers. Lane, of New York, was unable to be
"^^'^^ vigorously during the comi^year.
present, and the chair was taken by Vice-
President Holton. The most important The committee on credentials liere
% o I
business transacted at the session was reported that fifteen cities wer^êpre-
I
I
CO
the annual election of officers which sented by delegates, with sufficfent prox- o
resulted as follows: M.W. Diffley, presi- ies to amount to representationj^ôra ^^
^^
G. H, SACHS, dent: Robert E.
vice president;
Lane. New York, first
R. G. Fisherj 'Minneap-
thirty- four cities.
After some
"^
discussion resolutiS^ were
73
Mannfactnrer of
FINE CIGARS olis,second vice-president; Henry Leo-, unanimously adopted c6mmendiA|^Fresi-
pold, Chicago, secretary; Jacob Berolz- dent Roosevelt for his efforts t^^êheck
heim, Chicago, treasurer. the trusts and to secure enlarged iôwers
AGOODÂCOOL
LANCASTER, PA.
.
^
M
Factory No. 7, Ninth Dist.. Pa.
Integrity of Purposeand Earnest Endeavors, Coupled with Energy,

* Mr. Lane's proposed by of the Interstate Commerce Comn[iission.
name was first
the nominating committee for reelection The general opinion of the convention
CHELW^ SMOKE
.Have Brought OUR CIGARS to the Front
as president, but was withdrawn by Sid- seemed to be that the President is willing
IT PAYS TO SELL THE BEST. Jg&^WE MAKE THEM. ney Freeman, of New York, obeying to do everything in his power to help
The Standard of Uniform Excellence in
Seed and Hand Made HavansL Cigars :}

Always the Same The Highest Quality and the Finest Workmanship.
J.
instructions from Mr. Lane, who felt that along the independent movement, and
he would be unable to occupy the chief has already shown such disposition by a
The following number of his actions. A resolution
THE GLATFELTER-SNYDER TOBACCO CO.
Will submit samples and quote prices to reputable dealers.
office for another year.
board of directors was elected was also adopted demanding the passage
Factery No. 38, YOM, PMNNA., U.S.A. Ninth Dist,, Pa,
*
ik * Robert E. Lane, Sidney Freeman, of the Hearst bill, and one commending
J.
Henry We
^^ T. J. Donigan, W. W. St. John, Fred
B. Aschner, of New York; Henry Leo-
the able administration of President L ane.
Arrangements were made for a strong
bert
Dolan,
Breitung,
all of Chicago.
Ways and means were
Leopold,
discussed
J. J. been in vain.
as a power in the land,
are now recognized expect them
and so considered supply us with ammunition.
to fight our battles, or even fully shared by every
Let us be organization as well as by the independ-
by every allied trade and industry, as like the sturdy oak, rather than the ent dealers, in the devotion of our Exec-
member of our
pold, Jacob Berolzheim, Albert Breitung, protest to be forwarded to President

to
interest more manufacturers and dealers well as by the highest public officials; clinging ivy.
Otto Schraeder. Edward Holman. Jacob Roosevelt and Congress against any re- Let us be men, furnish utive Committee to the cause which our
in the association stamp, and during the and although we have been defeated in the funds, and carry on the war of agita- association represents.
my
Benner, O. B. Eisendrath. J. J. Dolan, duction whatever of the present tariff
rates on cigars and tobaccos from the coming year their sale will be pushed Congress in some cherished aims, we tion, education and publicity throughout The cost has never been too great, the
Joseph L. Freidman. of Chicago; R. J.
and E. Smith. Philippine Islands, under President Diffley* s direction with must not give up the fight. There is still the land. distance too far nor the time too precious
Fischer, of Minneapolis, L.
1. SEEip MFC. ca of Grand Rapids.

The convention opened with a large
Secretary Henry Leopold reported
the association's liabilities were $2,800
that
renewed vigor.
President
hope, especially in the ultimate passage
which was of a measure similar to the Otjen Tawney pressed deeply upon the mind and
Lane's report,
Unity should be the watch-word im- for me, as
Association,
president
to assist
of the National
in organizing or
read by Mr. Freeman, was very inter- bill, which is to be introduced in Con- heart of every member. building up local associations and during
representation of delegates on hand who and had not only
at the first of last year, ;
esting and contained many pertinent sug- gress in the immediate future. The allied trades have wearied of the past year, as your executive, I have
were welcomed by Albert Breitung. who been wiped out, but there was a good
Cigar Boxes expressed his gratification at the goodly balance on hand.

attendance and hoped that all
He said that from
present
take
the time of Secretary Case's resignation
last year, the expenses were reduced
gestions. It is as follows:
Cigar Dealers' Association of America,

That we assisted, in a great degree, in supporting the association, since the in-
To the officers and members of the securing the modification of the import dividual dealers have not made the most
stamp, must be considered as a decided of their opportunities in the past. This
always stood ready to aid or assist in
every manner possible in the upbuilding
of such local organizations.
In conclusion, desire to congratulate
would hear something of benefit to I
in convention assembled victory for our association, and this was matter, I be given earnest the members of the association on the
trust, will
back to their various locals. from I400 to less than |ioo per month.
Gentlemen Owing to the circum- the first time that the trust has ever been consideration at this convention, and it fact that while a few short years ago the
Cigar Box Lumber Sidney J. Freeman, of the New York After a brief consideration of the mat-
stances, over which have no control. I
I defeated when seeking favors from the is earnestly hoped that some steps may pathway of the independent dealers and
Association, responded to the address of ter, it was decided to make no change in regret that can not be with you on the Government
manufacturers seemed beset with difficul-
I be taken to continue our work through
there is to day a movement well-
welcome and read the annual report of the constitution and by-laws. occasion of the third anniversary of our As your representative, I have also our own exertions.
ties,
nigh world-wide in its scope to correct
President Lane. Immediately following The board of directors of the National and although
association, absent in borne a part in the agitation against the The interest relaxed in certain local the abuses of the tobacco trust.
this the following committees were ap- Association met this afternoon and ap- person, you may be assured that am reduction of the tariff on cigar imports branches is to be regretted, and while the
I Practically every civilized nation is
pointed: Credentials, Mr. Breitung, Chi- pointed the following standing commit-
Largest stock of with you in spirit and good will. from the Philippines, an agitation which officers should not be hastily blamed, now moving against this giant monopoly.
cago, and Mr. Freeman, New York; tees: In the past year, as your executive we trust will prevent the American cigar they must, to some extent, be criticized, In England, in Australia, in Canada,
constitution and by-laws, Henry Leopold, Executive cominittee President, M. in Germany, in Austria, in Japan, in
Sawed Mexican and Cuban Cedar, Chicago, and E. L. Smith, Grand Rapids; w. Diffley; J.J. Dolan, Albert Breitung,
officer,
harmony and
I have endeavored to
loyalty in our association
promote industry being brought into competition and must bear this criticism as a part of
with the coolie labor of the Orient. their official burden, as they must regard
Italy, in Spain and in Cuba, as well as in
the South American republics, steps have
resolutions, I. Latzar, Ed. Kolman, Henry Leopold, Otto Schrader, all of neither praise or censure has influenced Notwithstanding the activity of the themselves as servants of the organiza cither already been taken, or are now
Veneered Cedar, Joseph A. Moos and Col. Diffley. of Chicago. Finance committee C. D. me to harmony, the support
forget that trust, and its retail auxiliary, our mem- tion, and not as masters. I feel that the under way, to check the further encroach-
Chicago; nominations, Messrs. Dolan Alschul. Jacob Benner, Edward Kolman, of all institutions, must prevail in our bers seem to have prospered as though lack of frequent meetings is the main ments ot this great, soulless trust, which
and Leopold, of Chicago, and G. L. Chicago; T. J. Donigan, Sidney J. has sought to capture the tobacco trade
Imitation Cedar. Hutchinson, of Minneapolis. Freeman, New York; Joseph L. Fried-
ranks, that we may, when circumstances oppression had instilled them with new cause of apathy.
of the universe.
demand, present an unbroken front to life and ambition, and forced them to Our sole revenue during the past year
These committees retired for confer- man. Chicago. Board of trustees Al- our adversaries.
We, the pioneers of this movement,
become, through their own exertions, has been from the sale of the association have every reason to feel that the people
The reason that our efforts in carrying more prosperous and successful mer- stamps. That these have not been more will not be content to long remain do-
WRITE FOR PRICES chants, rather than serfs to the whims generally used by independent manufac- mant in this endeavor to secure for
JOSEPH BOLLARD & SONS, out the objects of our organization have
not been crowned with greater success and caprices of the trust, as that cor- turers is due in a great
every member of the trade the right to
measure to the
enjoy the liberty guaranteed by the Con-
Makers of known to you all. poration desired.
is fact that theh" purpose is not adequately stitution of the United States of America.
COLOMBIA AYENOE and SIXTH STREET Hollard's Premiers,

Franklin Club,
That we are again free from debt is. I It is my opinion that we should depend appreciated by most of those who should Wishing the association every pros-
trust, a source of gratification to every upon ourselves even more than we have be most deeply and sincerely interested perity in the years to come, and trusting
Luxury, that my successor may enjoy the same
member, as it certainly is to me. in the past; we are strong in numbers, in the success of our movement.
PHILADELPHIA. and NUMEROUS PRIVATE BRANDS. As your executive, it is my pleasure influence and knowledgeof our business,
loyal support that has been accorded my
! Seal Cigar Factory,

2203 South Street. Philadelphia.
to announce that our existence has not and should not lean upon others and
As your president. I desire to express administration, I remain. Yours sincerely,
my utmost confidence, which I believe is Robert E. Lane. Loberg.-'
92 THR TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD 38
TILADE QVIETER IN BOSTON.
AmericcLn Tob&.cco Co. Will Pa.ck No

Imports of Tobacco, etc. GEORGE W. McGUIGAlN,
Arrivals at the port of New York from
More Coupons for Massachusetts.
foreign points during the week Red Lion, Pa.
Boston, Mass., Jan. 8.
ending Jan. 10, 1905.
Maker of
Trade with the retailers has quieted High Grade Domestic
Good to Keep Good rigars Good I

down considerably since the holidays.
The sales of cigars by the box to the
holiday buyers
pipes increased,
fell off,
there
but the sales of
being plenty of trunks
Fime M.
tobacco.
Havana Jas.
Pacific R. R. Co., 2 do.
L. Herzog&Co., 270
Co., 20
E.
cigarettes, 9 cases cigars; Can.
Ward &
bales
Cigars
fLIGHT HORSE HARRY
I
LA-DATA
calls for fine meerschaums.
The cigar manufacturers have started

Liverpool American Tobacco Co., 7 Leaders ^
I
LA PURISTA
INDIAN PRIDE
cases tobacco.
in working again, and the majority of i LA GALANTEklA
Capacity 50.000 per Day.
drummers have started out on their SUMATRA TOBACCO. Prompt Shipments Guaranteed.
routes, but the orders they are sending
Str. Statendam, arrived Jan. 3;
in show trade to be quiet, especially in
(550 bales)
Your Jobber Will
give you a Certifi'
the nearby towns.
United Cigar Manufacturers
The American Tobacco Co. caused G. Falk & Bro
considerable gossip this week by sending F. Hirsch & Son
256 bales
81
47
<<
<<
Bear Bros. Manufacturers of
cate covering small Rossin & Sons < 1
to both jobbers and retailers the follow- S. 45

Quantities, and When ing" circular:
E. Rosenwald & Bro
Rothschild & Bro
33
28
< 1
( FINE CIGARS
you accumulate Cer' January 3d, 1905. L. Schmid & Co 15
(
Several cuscomers in Massachusetts E. Spingarn & Co R.F.D.N0.8.YORK.PA.

tificates showing have requested that we do not pack A. Cohn & Co
12
12
<
i 1 A Brands for tbc

specialty of Private
purchases of 6,000 coupons in our tobaccos or cigarettes H. Duys & Co 8 1 Wholesale and Jobbing Trades.
intended for shipment into Massachu- B. & 0. Ry Correspondence solicited.
C1K.EMO EXPOK.T 8 1
setts. In deference to this desire, and L. Friedman & Co 1 1 Samples on application.

5
Cigars, you Will be because of the obvious inconveniences
that would be incident to packing cou
Brands: 5^ Bear, GAe Cub, Essie, and Matthew Carey.
entitled to one of pons in goods intended for some custom HAVANA TOBAC(:o. Q eoa cos ?0 SOS 70s CO* 9(XC70e?0:cOccOecOS o
these handsome ers and leaving them out of goods
intended for other customers, we have
Str. Morro Castle, arrived Jan. 3:
Factories: 9th District
L. E. Ryder,
g j^ 'i i
(1,809 bales; 278 cases; bbl. )
Humidors free. :: :: concluded to cease packing coupons into
J-ichtenstein Bros
I
610 bales 1 26 and 517 Pei\i\aL.

any of our tobaccos or cigarettes hereafter I I jl
b cos cos coe (oa coc sOe b
J as. E. Ward & Co 424 i 1
shipped into the State of Massachusetts.

Green hall Bros. 130 i<
Manufacturer of
This, of course, does not apply to shipr
c ments made into the State of Massachu-
Hamburger Bros & Co
E. A. Kraussman
103
100 <<
< i
setts by or for customers whose places of

business are outside of that State.
week here doing some good work on

Rothschild & Bro
Chas. Stewart has been spending the
M. Perez & Co
F. D. Grove
Leonard Friedman & Co 80
6S
S8
50
i<
<
1 <
(<
. .ei@ARS. .
Kismet, Brandy and Clawhammer plug American Cigar C 40 1 For the Jobbiivg Tr^^de Exclusively
tobaccos manufactured by Strater Bros.'
E. Regensburg & Sons 39
(<
Tobacco Co., Louisville, Ky.

S. M.
Selgas, Suarez & C
M. Frank & Co., Carl Upmann
Frank, of S.
S. Ashner 35
23
<i
II
II
LANCASTER, PA.
15
pipe manufacturers, New York, and H. R. M. Blake & Co 14 1
rhe Best Goods for the Least Money,
Burger, representing the Manhattan Briar 1. Hijur & Son
II
14
Pipe Co., New York, were both here S. Rossin & Sons 10 II
Weil & Co 7
II
4. F. HOSTETTER,
calling on the trade.
Calixto Lopez & Co 2 i
Postal cards have been received from & C Haaufacturer of

Jas. E. Ward 378 cases
Maurice Bondy announcing that he will Jas. E. Ward & Co I bbl.
call on the trade in a few days' time. Str. Esperanza, arrived Jan. 7

Kigh-Grade
The wife of Charles L. Polep,
Hanover street tobacconist, has presented
the
Jas. E.
(351 bales;
Ward & Co
i case .)
170 bales
Domestic
him with a bouncing baby boy. The The Hilson Co
Foyo
48
36
(
1
Cigars
Size, 30 in. long^, 22 in. wide, 23 in. high. Weight, 60 lbs. event was celebrated by a grand spread J.
^ '\-r-
on Thursday, which affair was attended
Hamburger Bros. & Co 34
II
1
HANOVER, PA.
A. Arens 20
above illustration is an exact representation of the Humidor in which Cremo Export Cigars are by many tobacco men, among whom ^Staob Favoritk," a
THE packed and shipped by the manufacturer. This Humidor holds 6,000 Cremo Export Cigars in boxes were Joe Manning, John McGreenery,
S. Ruppin
M. Menendez
I. Bijur & Son
20
6
6
1
II
known
5-ceiit
for Superiority of Qualitv
Leader,
Louis Jeselsohn, B. M. Wollenberg and

containing 100 cigars each. It is metal lined, metal covered, with strong brass lock, and heavy brass & Co
IWflHTlN ShflBACH,
A. Murphy 6 1
S. A Frank, L. Miller & Sons' North-

drop handles and brass trimmings, with moistener pad in top of lid, ventilator in each end, and attractively J. Bemheim
& Son II
5
east representative. Ward & Co case
decorated in imitation cedar wood. N. Alfowich, of Alfowich Bros., spent
Jas. E. I
DENVER. PA.
Each humidor is shipped in a wood case to protect it from being scratched or damaged in transit. visiting friends in New Manufacturer of
0I6ARS
the holidays
HAVANA CIGAF
The purpose of the Humidor is to protect the cigars from the deteriorating effects of changes in temper- York.
Str. Morro Castle, arrived Jan. 3- High-Grade Union Made
ature, and to preserve them in the same good order and condition in which they leave the factory. This it does L. Miller &
Sons arc doing good work
(244 cases)
here on their Kozy 2^ ounce package of SPECIAL BRANDS:
perfectly for any length of time in any climate on the globe, until the last box is used. Havana Tobacco Co 179 cases
United Labor (5c) Union Stag (5c) Cuba- Rico (loc)
cut plug, the sales of which are steadily Park & Tilford II
Cremo Export Cigars are made only in Londres, which means a straight cigar, being practically the 17
3 same size from end to end. This shape is more generally smoked than any other, the world over, which fact
is a pretty convincing proof that it is the most popular as well as the most desirable shape in which
cigars can
increasing.
Geo. Harris & Co. are now
G. S. Nicholas
operating Waldorf Astoria Segar Co.
the corner of Howard SpenceL.
15
9
II
1
II
HMNRY GOTTSSLIG & BRO.
the cigar store at J.
Calixto Lopez & Co
5
II No. 828 St. Joseph Street,
C be made.
If you serve your customer with a Cremo Export Cigar out of a Humidor, you give him the best five-
and Court streets,
the Goodwin Sisters.
formerly occupied by
Can. Pacific R. R. Co
Duncan & Moorhead
4
3
1
1
LANCASTER, PA.
3
The Mentor Co. has launched a new & Condit Co Manufacturers of
cent cigar in the world in the best condition to please him and hold his patronage if he is pleased with one
II
;
Acker, Merrall 3
IOC Turkish cigarette on the market National Cuba Co 2 1
he will be pleased with every one. called Turkish Naturals. G. W. Sheldon & Co 2 1
High Grade
Send your jobber an order for 6,000 Cremo Export Cigars, and he will have them shipped to you direct H. White has purchased the cigar N. Y. Export &
Import Co I case
&
W. Co
Union Made
II
store at 1279 Tremont street, formerly
R. Grace
from the factory in the Humidor, freight paid, and billed as 5,500, at $35.00 per thousand.
I
3 owned by S. B. Klein.
Gordon, who operates a very f^ne WILMINGTON JOBBER. ASSIGNS.

The CREMO QGAR is by several times THE LARGEST SELLER IN THE WORLD. J.
cigar store opposite the Columbia Music
ÎSK YOUn.SELF WHY? of El Cafe and Grumbler cigars.

S. Kasdin, a Wilmington jobber, was
Hall, has a fine window display this week forced to make an assignment this week.
with liabilities amounting to I3.00C and >

Cigars
The Marlboro Cigar Co. is pushing
assets of about I300. Mr. Kasdin has **The Great Poet Needs no Praise.** Jobbers and Dealers Become Convinced s< Si|
Stahl's Smokers in every cigar store
Ben All been in business. for some years. Samples snd Particulars to ICclisble People on Application.
possible.
HANUFACTURER OF ALL KINDS OF

I I I I I J I TT-
ffffT|TfV^'
Q8 ft 140 CENTRE T
CIGAR Box Labels
TRIMMINGS. AND
NW YORK
Philadelphia Office, 573 Bourse Bldg.
H. S. SPRIN(^,ER, Mf/r.
Chicago, 56 Fifth Avenue,
E. E. THATCHER, Mgr.
'" ^ ' n
San Francisco, 320 Sansome Street,

L. S. SCHOENFELD, Mgr.
LIBERMAN'S
YORK WILL HAVE A GOOD YEAR have already found it desirable to secure
Lsitest Suction Machine

additional factory facilities.
WKatt the Manufacturers Are Doin^ in George W. Parr, of Littlestown, is
making a aggressive campaign
very
this Busy Section.
D. W. tlUBLEY. The new year seems

Nurprisingly well with our local nianu-
York, Pa., Jan. 0.
to be starting in
on his "Fernside" 5-cent cigar, upon
which he was awarded a medal at the
St. Louis Exposition last summer.
George A. Buddy and James A. Col-
V Thomasville, Pa. fnotnrers, a large majority having open-
ed lor business again on Tuesday last.
lins, lately trading as the Littlestown
Cigar Co., have dissolved partnership.
Arecent distribution of cigars said
Mr. Buddy will continue business at the
to have been made by prisoners in the
old factory building, while Mr. Collins
CigSir ]V[anufacturer York County Jail aroused the suspicions
of the Internal Revenue officials and
will re-enter the trade on his own be-
half at his former factory building in
resulted in a visit to that institution last
Littlestown. Mr. Buddy, however, has
For Wholesale and Jobbing Trade. week by Superintendent Alexander, As- not yet fully decided whether or not
sistant Superintendent Farrar, of Phila-
he will continue under the old firm name
Correspondence Solicited. Samples on Application. delphia, and Deputy Collector
of York.
Liggett,
of the Littlestown Cigar Co. Adopted Palm Rolling
> Beyond the
of tobacco said
fact that large quantities
to have been sent to
During 1904 H. F. Kohler, cigar
manufacturer at Nashville, this county,
had the most extensive trade he ever
by the Essential
the prisoners by their friends were
experienced. During the few short
found, nothing was developed. It is not
yet known whether or not cigars were
years in which he has been located there Leading to
he has built up a reputation as a cigar
I F. B. SerilNDLER
SerilNDLEF^
Manufacturer, of
I
made from tobacco thus secured and
sold in jail.
Samuel A. Stump, a former Red Lion
manufacturer that will, no doubt, be
a source of much benefit for many years
to come.
Manufacturers. Hand-Work.
cigar manufacturer, who is charged
with forgery, will not be tried at this
Fine Domestic term of Court by mutual consent of
counsel on both sides, the case having
PILIZES FOR WRAPPERS. LOTTERY.
been postponed until the April term. Government So Decides, and Wisconsin
^
Cigars The Grand Jury has found three indict-
ments against the accused.
Collectors are Up Against
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan.
It.
6.
The new cigar factory being erected
A certain tobacco factory here, which
Red Lion, Pa. *
by M. Meyers is now under way and
will be ready for occupancy early in
has been conducting a scheme consisting
JOBBING TRADE the spring. of the awarding of prizes in money to
SOLICITED IS THE SIMPLEST AND MOST PRACTICAL TOOL: yet introduced in connection with Cigar-
A new scrap manufacturing establish- collectors of wrappers, will have to call THIS
llm ****** *^***^*^* * * * * * * * * * ***** *^*^***^*.n. ment has been organized here by M.
Kats & Son, who are located at Mc-
it off owing to a ruling of the Govern- making. The cutting rollers are so equipped with ball bearings and exterior springs that they only
Kenzie and Howard streets.
ment that the scheme is a lottery. Many produce enough pressure to cut the leaf, thus maintaining a sharp edge on the die and assuring a perfect, clean
The Hanover and McSherrystown consumers have formed clubs for the cut, superior to hand-work. The circumference of the cutting roller being greater than the length of the die,
manufacturers have opened the new purpose of collecting the wrappers, and makes tearing or streaking of the wrapper impossible Then, after the leaf has been cut, a slight depression
year with excellent prospects. unless some way is discovered of evading
with the right foot pedal will lower the die even with the table, thus making a perfectly smooth and rigid
A. F. Hostetter, of Hanover, reports the ruling, they are doomed to disap-
surface, enabling the operator to Roll with the Full Palm of the Hand, instead of pushing the cigar
1904 to have been the largest year he pointment.
ever had, and continues to push with along with the finger tips.
According to the scheme as presented
old-time vigor the "Stage Favorite," the
at Washington, the company advertised Changing of the die to any shape, or from right to left, or the reverse, is a very simple matter on this
most popular brand of 5-cent cigars
made at this factory, the sales of which that on a fixed date a sum of money in table, and can be done within two minutes time.
are increasing steadily. gold would be given those persons send-
These points of merit, coupled with others not mentioned, have won for this table the high standard of
The Hanover Variety Works, printers ing forty or more wrappers. The per-
of embossed cigar ribbons, labels and excellence maintained to-day, a fact that cannot conscientiously be claimed by any of our competitors.
son sending in the largest number of
specialties, also had a very excellent
year during 1904, and say that the pros-
wrappers was promised I300 and the We stand ready to prove our statement, and all we ask is for the opportunity.
pects for continued good trade were

never so bright as they are at this time.
next person J200. Other prizes were oflfered
according to number of wrappers pre-
We Think IT WILL PAY YOU to Investigate.
T. I. Smith Co., of &
Centennial, sented.
Adams Co., has opened a new union It is held by the department that the
The business of
LiBERMAN Manufacturing Co
factory at Hanover.
the Centennial Cigar Co. has been sold
scheme comes under provision of section
WASHINGTONlAK by T. I. Smith to G. F. M. Smith, who
will continue the business in the old
2, act of July I, 1902, because even after
the wrappers have been presented there
factory premises. They will not, how- is an element of uncertainty as to what
Manufacturers of
ever, manufacture union-made goods.
they are worth.
H. J. Roth & Co., of McSherrystown,
will erect a new factory building on
Ninth street, near the Square, early in
the spring, which is calculated to give ( 12^
SPECIAL NOTICE.
cents per 8-point measured line.)
Cigar Machinery
them the much-needed increased facili-
ties.
A. J. Brady & Sons, of McSherrys-
town, reiwrt to the writer this week
pOR SALE Established
'''
and Tobacco Business doing a large
trade; central location, retiring; investi-
gate. Address Box 128, care of The To-
Retail Cigar
and Tools
that orders continue to come in most bacco World, Phila. io-26-tf
encouragingly for their "Stephen Crane**
and "Robert B. Pattlson" brands of 5-
cent goods, as well as the "Havana ^-^ a
NAME FOR A CIGAR. am
P GODnewspaper man and have con-
name for a good two-for-
I 240-42 North ThirdPStreet,
STRICTLY UNION FACTORY Post" in the 10-cent variety.
The McSherrystown Cigar Co. are
ceived a clever
a-quarter retail cigar. It is a name of
PHILADELPHIA,
FAB RICONAROLFEiS CHOICE planning for the erection of a new dgar
one word only. It is not the name of PA., U.fS.iA.
any place, person, animal or fabric, and ,
factory, to be built early this spring.

' POINTED ARROW-SHARP KNIFE During the few short months in which
will proTe fast as popular in Maine as in
California or any intermediate point. I
VAMPI RE
,
they have been engaged in business here

they have done remarkably well and
will sell this nam* for one hundred dollars
Address Box 34, New York Prbss Ci,ub
TBB TOBACCO WORLD

For Gentlemen of Good Taste
^S/IN
R
FELI
A HIGH GRADE p^
The Gilt Edge
Sold Extensively by Leading Cigar Dealers and Druggists
Cigar Box Factory

THE DEISEL-WEMMER CO., Makers

Cigar Labels, LIMA, OHIO
Boxes
Edgings
and SAN SHLEIFSTEIN SPIELS NIT no hut ar gamianed why du gross kup
and SIENER FANILIA. de grosse hinkle und
es grosse luch is fer
Shipping Wooleverstettel, Pa., Dec. 30, 1904.

es glayne luch fer de glana hinkle. Ich
Ribbons hop of course lacha missa, und de dseit
Ich hop shere net der tseit cich tzu
Cases
schriva de wuch, ovver wile ich far-
sprucha hop yadura wuch tzu schriva,
wore ar mere a venich folsh, und hut
gamained ar und sie kinder sin schmarter
OS mina, ovver on Mundawk ovct hen
I
J. M. MITTLEMAN Dealer in
will ich duch a venich neichkata schicka.
see en sot fun en entertainment kotta om
Cigar Manufacturers' Supplies of all Kinds. Mere hen om Dinsdawk tswa sie greitzwake shule house, und while es
Daily Capacity, Five Thousand Boxes.

gschlocht und en ux, de sie wora now shiita bowe so gude wor hop ich de fear Leaf Tobacco
maraguartic und hen ocht hunnert schwartza aisel in der bluck shiita
fet
pund gawoga, des hut ovver warsht geva, kspunned und hop de gonse wesh mit No. 1619 South Street
J. FRANK BOWMAN. und fimf stenner full schmoltz.
Ich bin fro os es farivver
ganumma, yusht so os de weipsleit
is wile de nimmy stutzich sie setta. PHILADELPHIA
frau so grittlich wore, see hut butchera De Sarah hut den teacher gude ka- Goods Sold in Any Quantity,
wuch we des duwock show kenned und
51 MaLfket Street, La.ivcaLster, Pa,. wella de lesht see hut ein kfroched fer sot
Open Evenings Until Nine o'clock.
im Philadelphy wore, ovver ich hop's net fun en spelling class nuch in era program
so sana kenna, while ich des show sana tzu do, see hut of course gavissed os see
hop wella. und era bow grufa data wora. %^^^%i
De weipsleit sin eva so opsonaud und Well, es hut mich gude feela mocha
mana mere monsleit missa y usht donsa pap dat wore, so
yusht while era bow sie
wund se pifa, und won mere net duna, is OS see sana hen kenna os de Sarah awe
GEO. BUDDY.
der deivel loase in de kich und doch
;
ken glutzkup is und kun awe english THE AROMA THOUSANDS PRAISE.
J. A. COLLINS. A.
hop ich see net feel blama kenna, while schwetza. Es wore dennawake. Dare
The Littlestown
i^^^^^^^%%<%%%%^^%^^%%%^^^^^^ %^k%%%^^^^^^^^^^^^^îî^^^^^^^%
see bocka hen missa fer de Krishdawga, OS de wotta ous gevva hut, hut es wort
Der druvel is see mocha tzu feel kshis 'Delight" de Sarah are bow gevva tzu
'
mit era schleck soch do mus mince pie, spella, und ar hutz farfailed, sis not tzu
Havana Box Aroma
;
$12 per Gallon.
Cigar Company W. C. Jackson, Manufacturer of

hocha kucha und dtzund onnera sotta de Sarah kumma. Se hut mich oblinked
kucha kabocka sie, yusht wile de Sarah, und ich hop der kup gnucked, see hut
unser elsta duchter en bow hut. mich ferstona, no hut see es wort a pore
ovver mole ivver ksaut, no funged se so long-
ITS EQUAL UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE
Cindnaati Fruit Refining Company, Cincinnati, 0.
Weil ich gliech ein gavis net,
de mam mained ar ish galined mit guld, some awe gfunga, d-e-l-i-g-h recht
Littlestown, Pa.
t,
english schwetza secht dar wu os wort ous gevva hut. No
Fine
yusht wile eir bissel
kun, ovver ich hop era ksout des dut secht ar Sarah moch now en sentence in
ken frau und familia enara, und ich hop english und use es wort "delight," des
sie fatter shund long kakend, ar wore
der dumsht mon im township; ar hut
wore ordlich tough, ovver de Sarah hut
era kup net farlora im excitement, no
C. S. COOPER,
Manufacturer of
amole en hinkle house kabowed und hut funges see aw. 'De room is now dark,
Fine and Domestic Cigars
'
Cigars tswa lecher nie gamoched, en groscs und

ein glanis; des hut mere wenich spossich
gagucht, no hop ich ein gfroked fer wos
OS ar de tswa lecher nie gamoched het;
some one please turn on delight. " Des
wore era bow sie fatter tzu feela und ar is
blitzlich hame gonga.
Sam Shleifstein.
WEST EARL, PA.
Factories No. 34 and No. 1596, Wl ^P ^^ ^^ ^p ^P ^p ^^ ^p ^p 'r ^p J^ 3^ ^^ ^^ 9|C 4^ 3^ 3^ 3^ ?JC s^ 3fC 3|C tyk ^C ^^ 3^ 3^ j^ 3^ 3K 3K
^* A. Z. SHERK, President. E. L. NISSLY. Treasurer. \

/. B, Milleysack ^
East Prospect, Manufacturer of )f

The V. A. Collins Cigar Co.
A J? Q
"
Marietta, Pa.
Fine Havana r\ Tf^ "^'fs"?
NAKERS OF
'""SSr'
Penua. Hand-Made \^ A. XJTjTI. J\. KJ

*
High Grade Union Hand Made Cigars **
and big Lake St.
^f
r JULIAN HAWTHORNE 10c. Cigar
Correspondence with Wholesale Dealers 615, (>i7 J
SUSQUEHANNA 6c. Cigar
Manufacturers of Oor Leaders ]
.S. & N. 5c. Cigar #
and Jobbers Invited. OUR Leader 5c. cigar
Lancaster, Pa. [
STRICTLY VNION-MADE CIGARS ^"Telephone Connection

MÔIstrlbutors Wanted Everyw# ere
OUR LINE:
Lord Bute, The Buddy, Union Riders, Sweet Tips,
'
; !! Kl
Cuban Emulator, General Post, Pretty Nell. I

C. A. ROST &: CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA
^ THE TOBACCO WORLD C. A. ROST, 8z: CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
THE TOBACCO WORLD S9
THE WEEK IN CHICAGO. INVESTIGATION IN WISCONSIN'S
C. D. A. of A. Directors' Meeting Was
VICTOR THORSCH COMPANY
2l
Tra^de Se^ys That Government Agents
Pleasing Affair. HLve Not Begun Yet.
Makers of the Chicago, Jan. 7, 1905. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 9.
BACHELOR CIGAR The chief topic of interest in tobacco

circles this weelc of course, the Na-
is,
tional Convention, scheduled for next

The trade in this city is
for something definite to
still
come out
waiting
of the
AMERICAN (iioiceo|i' Market
report that President Roosevelt's spe-
ALLENTOWN, - - - PENNA. Tuesday at the Sherman House, and of
which a full report is given elsewhere
cial appointee to investigate the Ameri-
can Company's
Tobacco operations
in this issue. would commence his work in this sec-
But few business changes arc noted
thus far this year.
for
Harry Allen, who
years has been with W. F.
many
tion.
who will
No
one can be found in this
admit knowing anything
city
defi- Leaf Tobacco Co.
1
nite, and the general opinion is that if I
Monroe, has resigned and will take the Government's agents are working INCORPORATED.
charge of the new store of the First around here they are going about it in
National Cigar Stores Company, which a very quiet way.
will be opened a few weeks hence in Predictions were made by those who Successors to S. L. Johns,
the Dearborn street side of the First are anxious for the investigators to go
National Bank Building. He is now
C. E. MATTINGLY & CO. at the company's stand in the rotunda
as far as they like that Wisconsin would
be found to be a very fertile field and Packers of î)
MANUFACTURERS OF of the building getting posted. George one from which a gratifying bunch of and
Renaud will be his successor with W. F, sensations would be sprung. dailyA
HIGH GRADE Monroe. paper made the following statement: Wholesale Dealers in
UNION MADE Cigars The
branch
directors' meeting of the Chicago
Cigar Dealers' Association of
"While no further announcement is
made than that Wisconsin is to become
For Wholesale Trade Only,

McSherrystown, Pa.
America took place Wednesday night at
the association rooms, at which time the
new ofl3cors-elect were installed in a
manner most creditable and pleasing to
all. While the organization lays no
the seat of early operations, it can safely
be said that the chief point in this State
that will be covered will be Milwaukee
and Edgerton Milwaukee as the field
for manufacture, wholesaling and retail-
ing; Edgerton as the seat of the tobacco
LEAF
m
claims to being a secret society, it was
evident that both Former President Kol- growing industry."
man and President-elect Albert Breitung A
general canvass of the trade this
were made to feel that they were vic- week brought out a general round of
tims of no small amount of merriment denials that anyone had been approach-
ed and these denials bore every appear-
during the progress of the meeting.
One after another of the members ance of sincerity. A bona fide investiga- Main Office,
tion conducted without fear or favor
arose, assuming a serious altitude, and
THE LOUIS NEWBURGH CO.

critcized the official acts of F'ormer Pres-
ident Kolman. After carrying the joke
a degree almost uncomfortable to that
to
would undoubtedly cause a big agitation
in the Wisconsin tobacco field.
Figures of interest to tobacco grow-
McSherrystown, Pa.
PACKERS OF ers of Wisconsin are found in the an-
gentleman, a happy termination follow-
ed, when President Albert Breitung, in
nual report regarding the principal farm
Branch Office,
Zimmer Spanish and Little Dutch a neat little speech, expressed the true
sentiment of the members and presented
crops of the United States.
In a comparative table showing the
Reading, Pa.
o^rsfi^^*
'.CSIIEMAN
MAIN OFFICE, HAMILTON, OHIO. Mr. Kolman with a handsome gold
prices for the different grades of to-
bacco grown in the United States, Wis-
watch as a token of the high esteem in
Warboases: Hamilton, Ohio, and Franklin, Ohio which his efforts had been regarded.
On the other hand, Mr. Breitung had
consin products are shown to rank fourth
in point of price obtainable, being consid-
erable in excess of the average price
READING.PA.
been generously "jollied" throughout the
L. A, PEARSON, evening concerning the beautiful bunch

of American Beauties that ornamented
the table, which he was accused of hav-
received by Ohio growers. While this
State produces only the cigar type, used
largely for fillers and binders, the quality
A. K. MANN,
Packer iS: Dealer in All Kinds of ing placed there in token of his great
has steadily increased, as the growers F. M. HUNT, A. G. MARTIN.
became more experienced, until at the
Ci^^^ L/eaf Xobacco

ZIMMBR SPANISH, CONNECTICUT BINDERS & WRAPPERS,
esteem for himself.
the high regard in

This, too, finally
proved to be but another expression of
which incoming
President Albert Breitung was held by
the members. Mr. Breitung is still en-
present time Wisconsin tobacco stands
well at the head among tobacco produc-
ing States, both as regards quality and
quantity.
Grower and Packer
HVNT& MARTIN Manufacturers of
A
notable feature of the 1904 tobacco
UTTLE DUTCH, IMPORTED SUMATRA,

joying the pleasant aroma of the flow- crop, as shown by the table, is the very OF-
GEBHARDT SEED,
FENNA. BROAD LEAF,
IMPORTED HAVANA,
DOMESTIC SUMATRA & HAVANA.
ers and has assumed his duties with
full assurance of the hearty co-operation
small percentage of the crop marketed
up to December 20. Among the sections High- Grade Stogies
Warehouses West Milton, O.
Branch Yorkshire, O.

of his fellow-workers.
Louis P. Wiser, a well-known South
Side cigar dealer, shot himself and then
jumped into the lake last Thursday
night. He left a note at the store stat-
producing cigar tobacco the great binder
and filler crop of Wisconsin was still
hanging on the poles at that date, practi-
cally none having been stripped and very
little sold.
LEAF BBTHMSDA, OHIO.
ing that his body would be found at Recommended for their Exquisite Aroma and
Main Office, West Milton, Ohio.
the foot of Fifty-third street, but gave
no reason for the deed. He leaves a
wife, but no children. His store at 103
Fifty-third street was a favorite resort
BURLEY ASSO. MEETS IN
Gel Together in CincinncLti \o Mtt.ke

Good Subscriptions Lacking.
SECRET
TOBACCO All
Excellent Workmanship.
Goods Strictly First-Class.
for the wealthy citiaens of his locality,

Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 5.
Correspondence, with the Wholesale and
and he had a very excellent trade. Between thirty and forty members of Jobbing Trade Only, Solicited.
BILLMAN BROS. PACKERS OF
The dealer who won't confess to a
holiday trade considerably in excess of
that of 1903 is as hard to find as the
proverbial needle in the haystack. All
the
tion,
for
Burley Tobacco Growers' Associa-
which has been maturing its plans
some months to gain control of the
Millersville, Pa.
entire hurley market in competition with
lay stress on the increased demand for the combine, held a secret meeting in
Located on Line of Millersville Trolley.
Ohio Leaf Tobaccos high-grade goods. While trade of course
shows a marked contrast to that of the
week preceding Christmas, the year has
opened up in a good, healthful way,
Cincinnati this week. None of the mem-
bers registered at any of the hotels, and
the utmost secrecy was observed. It was
<:iGAR BOXES.
J. Fred Holtzinger.
HOLTZINGER. <a SEITZ,

w. H. Scitz.
1903 Zimmer Sp^Liiish 19021903 and everybody in the trade appears to

stated that the object of the meeting was
to make good a few subscriptions that I
X SHIPPING CASES, 4.
Geo. M. Wechter,
I be satisfied.
ZINMER SPANISH^
WRAPPERS and
.f. Fancy Natural Bulk
Sweated, Closely
Colonel James G. Davis, who, with his
had fallen down and fill out the required
amouut of half a million dollars. LABELS, Manufacturer of MaoDfactorers of High Grade CIGARS
Too
FILLERS
short for our^
I
Gebhart ^.Tabled and Hand-
somely Finished.
son Graham, so ably looks after the
western interests of Bondy & Lederer,
To the correspondent of the "Tobacco
World" President W. B. Hawkins, of X EDGINGS,
and
All Grades of PennsylvaAiaL Cigars
Fancy Packings. 4.
Write for Samples.
Little Dutch
X
jWrite
None
for
Better.
Samples.
has been elected financial secretary of
the Chicago Press Club.
LOBSUtO.
Lexington, Ky., said:
may
"I cannot give
you the details of the meeting, but 70a
say that our work will be consum-
RIBBONS,
and
|*ei6AR BexESi
4 4
Controlling
Independent Factories. Red Lion, Pa.
L. F. Naftzer, of Wichita, Kan., mated in a few days, and not until then
will the public know what I CIGAR Our Leaders in Five Cent Cigars:
West Carrollton, Montgomery Co., O. has purchased the cigar and grocery
Casey & Garst, for $24,100, and
The members are pledged
transpired.
to secrecy.**
Manufacturers* t South Ninth Street, DON SEGNO HEGAL DUKE GOV. WRIGHT
store of From other sources, belieyed to be re*
^
The Centre of the Best Zimmer Growing District/ will close it out at once. liable, it was ascertained that efforts X SUPPLIES. X
Established
AL-r^fl Pa! Telephone,
DISTRIBUTORS WANTED EVERYWHERE
4 J 1883. MlIWI UII9 1 Connection.
Our Capacity for Manufacturing Cigar Boxes li
Al.vays Room for Onh Mors Good CuSTomtx. l. J. Sellers & Son, Sellersviile, Pa,
THE TOBACCO WORLD
80 THR TOBACCO WORLD 31
CIGAR BOX EDGINGS M. K ALISCH CO.

We have the lorgesi. assortecn* >5 Cigar Bos Bdgingt in the United States, having over x,ooo dtsigni in stock. Manufacturers of
A Large Line of
T. A. MYERS & CO. PRINTEF9 AND ENGRAVERS, - YORK, PENNA HIGH GRADE and MEDIUM
Embossed Flaps* Labels Notices, etc.
be immediately made to have Cincin-
street to the Baumgardner warehouse. ARS
W. B. HOSTETTER & CO. will
nati financiers pnt np the balance of the
guarantee fund, which is supposed to be
in the neighborhood of $150,000. Those
Samuel Sissel has moved into the ware-
house just vacated by Brimmer. Charles
Tole & Co. have removed from West
lêd Lion, Pa.
Wholesalers and Retalle.s of James and Prince streets to 232 North
present at the meeting were President Free Samples to Responsible Houses.
W. B. Hawkins, Lexington, Ky.; Judge Quceu street.
Leaf Tobacco George Payne, bank president. Georgo-

town, Ky.; .Judge .T. W. Hughes, Har-
rodsburg, Ky.; Mr. Adarae and five
The tobacco growers
Washington borough are complaining
in the vicinity of
SHADE-GROWN SUMATRA, in Bales.

other members of Cynthiana, Ky.; Hon.
that they have considerable diflS'ûlty in
getting their tobacco from the poles,
Onr Leaders: Cigars-Sc, 3 Sizes
"-- {^:n':J:^8^;: 12 S. George St., York, Pa.
June Gayle, Owenton, Ky.; Henry Lou-
don, J. F. Young, Frank P. Hite, Brown
owing to the lack of warm rains to
moisten it, rmd for that reason it is like- WILLIAM J. NOLL { "'"'"AI.ston''"" }
L. R. BROWN,
'^^
county, Ohio; Edgar Ellis, Harry Still- ly that some of them will be late in
man, Archie Stewart, John F. Shuft, the ware-
Successor to J. Neff I
delivering their crops to MANUFACTUREIL OF
Cincinnati; O. P. Williams and H. Pen WHOLESALE t
A. SONNEMAN <a SONS, Williams, Clermont county. Ohio; Colo-
houses.
A. W. Mentzer, the veteran cigar
%t.:rr,J Leaf Tobacco

nel Waller Sharp, Sharpsburg,
and Senator John Newman, Woodford

Ky.;
Fred Stuoey, Ghens, Ky.; C. B. Sullivan
county, Ky.; M. K. Barker, Carrollton.

manufacturer and dealer in general mer-
chandise at Ephrata, has retired from
business. Mr. Mentzer has had a long,
High G Cigar Manufacturer
useful and successful career, extending
Ky.; Nath. Kidgeway, Falmouth, Ky.
BUHRMAN. over a period of 49 years. The business, Brownstown, Pa.
Larite Line of 1900. 1901
No. 105 S. George Si,

and 1902
YORK, PA.
B's.
PRICES TOO HIGH
Many Leaf Purchasers Won't Buy

IN LANCASTER.
at the
however, will be continued by his three
sons viz.. Dr. J. F., H. S. and J. G.
Mentzer, who have for many years asso-
ciated with their father in business.
They will continue under the old firm
^^
ROBESONIA, PA. CHARLES BROWN.
D. Salesman.
D. R. SCHRIVER ^
WboleMleand Retail Dtal
GO.
Present Stiff Rates.
Lancaster, Pa., Jan.
There was more activity in the leaf
9, 1905.
name of A. W. Mentzer & Sons.
La Adelphia Cigar Factory John McLaughlin. J. K. Kauffman.
GradM of market in this city during the past READING SHOWS 1>P WELL. THOMAS A. WAGNER,
in All
week than was expected, and a fairly
good local trade was done, although no
large transactions were reported. The
Output Larger Last Year, and Manufac-
Sellersviile, Pa.
Propriefr,
JOHN McLaughlin
Wholesale Dealers in All Kinds of
^ co.
turers are Still Busy.
MilfiiitiGiliiiiioiteilTOBACCO
29 East Clark Avenue,
severe storms of the past week have
interfered somewhat with the buying of
the new crops, but believed that a
Reading, Pa., Jan. 9.
Reading is justly proud of its fine
LA ADELPHIA,
Manufacturer of
s-Cent /^T d^ Tl O
s
Plug Smoking Tobaccos
O A ijT ^XV ^
it is
showing in the cigar output during 1904. /< Also, All Grades of
YORK. PA. major portion of these crops have al-

The figures for the year for this divis- LA FLOR DE A. C. F., lo-Cent
VINE 8UMATRAS a tpedalty. ready been secured.
The prices are running high and quite
ion of the First district were 162,000,- Fine Cigars . Leaf Tobacco
000, as compared with 143,000,000 dur- Samples and Prices Sent to Responsible People.
a few local packers declare that they
ing 1903, an increase of 19,000,000.
KoriLER & eo.

fl.
will not undertake to buy any goods
at the present high mark.
trouble has already been
with the new goods.
Not a little
experienced
It appears that
There have been few business changes
made here at the first of the year.
The Fleck Cigar Co., Ltd., of this
P. G. SHAW
No. 307 North
LANCASTER, PA.
Queen St.
<^^^^^^^<^^%^^^^^^%i
has contracted for the manufacture
JBs^MM-Fme Cigars considerable damage has

veloped,
already de-
owing, it is believed, to the
fact that soon after the tobacco was
placed in the drying sheds the cold sea-
city,
of a large line of goods for Fleck &
Co., cigar distributors at Philadelphia,
which is regarded as a very desirable
Fine and
Manufacturer of
Medium li4(*^^^^-)f-^^-)f^^#
%%%%%% %%%%%%%%|
DAZLASTOWN, PA. son came on and some of the tobacco line of business. *
OtfmOtj^ 75.O00 per day. Brtablished i87.

was frozen before it was thoroughly
cured.
It is known to be a fact that in a
H. Rindskopf has succeeded the Amer-
ican Leaf Tobacco Co.. at Fifth and
Washington streets, Reading, and has
6iGyqRS *
*
S. N. MUMMA m
Established 1870 Factory No. 79 number of tobacco sheds water dripped removed his entire business to that ad- Dallastown, Pa, Peicker of m
through to the floor, indicating the ex- dress. Mr. Rindskopf commenced busi-
NASH
GEO. F. A OPECIALTY of Private Brands
S. R. Kocher 8z Son cess of moisture. Of course, the tobacco
that has thus far been received at the
packing warehouses was
undoubtedly
ness hero a little more than a year ago,
and has made remarkably good progress.
The manufacturing firm
Special JOHN SELDEN
Brands: GOV. THOS. HUTCHINSON
-^ ^ for Wholesale & Jobbing Trade
Correspondence solicited. Leaf Tobacco
Manufacturers of cigar <^^^^ BEN DE BAR Samples on application.
the poorest among the lots, for the rea- Shively, Miller &
Co., at Pottstown, is^^ *
Fîne Havana And Packers of

Cigars
son that the tobacco last put into the
sheds, some of which may have been
slightly nipped with frost, was the first
to be taken down, stripped and brought
dissolving, Messrs.
C.
W. H. Sassaman and
Shively retiring from the firm.
F.
Mr. Greorge Miller, the senior member
of the firm, will continue the business
*
*
PenivaL.
Warehouse
Seed B's
at RailroaLd
a. SpecidLlty
Crossing

to the warehouse. It has, however, had

*
He also retains the
LMAF TOBACCO a discouraging effect, and some of the
packers arc feeling ill at ease in con-
at the old stand.
services of Mr. Jacobs, who has for
C. A. KII^DOW. W. T. BOU)N. *
*
LANDISVILLE, PA.
many years been the firm's bookkeeper
Wrightsvilie, Pa.
sequence.
The exact output in numbers of cigars
in this district for the month of Decem-
ber was 59,882,000, which was 908,000
and confidential man. In addition to
the manufacture of cigars, the company
will also engage more extensively in
T. M. KILDOW
Fragrant as Roses,
more than during the month of Decem-
ber of 1903, with a total output for the
year of 1904 of 775,250,000.
the manufacture of scrap tobacco.
good.
Roesh Bros, report
They boast
business very
of a distinction en-
joyed by but few that their "Indian Wholesale
The flitting season among the local
Good as Government Bonds, Ax"

5-cent cigar sold in every cigar
is
Rothsville, Pa..
1
Are tne V/IIjAKO Registered Brands:

leaf packers is now about over, and the
changes were less numerous this year
than some previous years. E. M. Cohn
store, drug store, restaurant and new
stand in and about Pottstown. Their
Cigar Manufacturers Wholesale Manufacturer
=" "Bronze Medal" 10-cent cigar is fast
& Co. have removed, as was stated in
r n Brilliant Star"
((
B." Half Havana,
Clear Harana,
....
. . IQc.
5c.
these columns some time ago they would,
from West James and Prince streets to
getting to be a leader in Jersey City
and New York. Bethesda, Ohio. of Strictly Uniform
Quality of
1
S.
headquarters on Chestnat A. Keely &
Son, of Phoenixville, re-
*S. B.'* Little Havana! 5c.
their old
street near Duke. Cohn's old building port that the outlook for this year i Our Leader: HALF SPANISH, 3 for 5c. HIGH GRADE
((
Honest Bee" 3c. is now being occupied by the leaf de-
very good, and that the jobbing trade is
Specialty: Cigar Shaped Stogies.
partment of the American Cigar Co. holding out nicely.
**2 I No" Mildeat
Siauffer Bros. Mfg. Co., New Holland, Pa..

Special Branda
Cigar Made,
Made to Order.
2 fOF 5c.
Kramer & Goldberg are now in full
possession of the warehouse adjoining
their premises, which was formerly oc-
De Wan
will this
in the
Bros., cigar manufacturers,
week resume active operations
marketing of their "Overholt" 6-
''
cupied by Cullman Bros. John P. Brim- cent cigars and say they see good proo-
^ Send Your Cigar Buyer Here. We Will Save You Money. met has removed from 230 North Queen pects ahead.
-- ,"
82 THE TOBACCO WORLD Oo O

E. A. G^^vEs cIMPORTERS AVANA 123 N. THIRD ST
HILAOElJHIA 38
LEADER CIGAR MOLDS

IF YOU WANT A OUR MOLDS GRADE, and Our Prices
are the Best
CIGARS IN UNION-MADE
WRITE TO
of
THE LOWEST.
We will Duplicate Any Shspe you are now using, regardless
who made your Molds, or Furnish Any New Shape.
Sample Sections submitted for your approval Free of Cost.
C. RUPPIN-LANCASTER, PA ABOUT THE

The
121-123
American
WEST FRONT
Cigar Mold Co
C IN CINNATI,
ST.,
"BENJAMIN CONSTANT'lOc. and "THE CRAFTSMAN" 5c.

THEY WILL ANSWER YOUR REQUIREMENTS.
Williams Suction Rolling Tables
for a critical examination buyers are ven-
Leaf Tobacco Markets. by the Manufacturers as being the
W. E. KRAFT
turing out again and a resumption of the STANDARD Cigar Rolling Table,
buying movement isconfidently expected. an
CONNECTICUT VALLEY after experience of 18 years.
A few deliveries have commenced to
MANUFACTURER The storm of last week enabled the
arrive at the warehouses and enough is
farmers to get the most of their tobacco
Havana and Seed Cigars from the poles, and the stripping is well
along
already stripped to start warehouses han-
We can see no reason now for dling at several market

points the com-
ghe John R. fViliiîi^s C*
ing week, and others will follow shortly. What Can Be Done by learners and PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
the assorting shops to shut down, at
East Prospect, Pa. least, for the want of tobacco to assort,
Packers who have contracts booked for experts on this Table can be seen at the
School for Learners of the New York Ci- 120-128 Pacific Street,
large acreage are anxious to get the as-
OUR SPECIALTY Is Ihe provided the buyers and growers can gar Manufacturers' Supply Co., 403 to
"THREE BEAUTIES" come to an agreement as to the amount

sorting business under way. The United 409 East Seventieth Street, New York. NEWARK, N.J.
Cigar Manufacturers will begin handling
of money that will be required to move
put up in 80th packages only, and a ready seller everywhere. ihe crop at Edgerton, Viola and Postage Established 1877 New Factory 1904
the crop. If the price should rule high [
the coming week.

it will take a longer time to buy up the
Old leaf is still being vigorously hunted
T. L. /ID AIR. W
Established
MANUFACTURER
1895.
OF
crop and require a deal more haggling.
Our correspondents write:
Westfield, Ct. 'The rain and fog of
:

in country hands and the movement
shows but little dimunition, though the
remnants left are continually being
H.W.HEFFENER,
WHOLESALE MANUFA this week enabled farmers to take down
reduced, with a prospect that it will be
Our Leader:
WEALTH PRODUCER Fine Cigars
some of their tobacco, although it was
not quite
class shape.
warm enough
But it could be handled
lifted at low prices.
to get into
and ic.
Mrs. Lee sold 24CS
first>
'03 at 5. 2
J Dealer in
X Cigar Box Lumber,
X
X
Steam
Reports coming from the western por-
No sales to report as yet."
BMD LION, PA.
Telephone Connection.
very well.
South Decrfield, Mass.: "It is re-
ported that Charles Williams & Son have
tion of the State are that growers were
not so fortunate in getting down as large
Isabels,
Ribbons,
X
4 Cigar Box
sold their crop in the bundle at private
a portion of the hanging crop last week
as in this locality.
Edging, X AA ff A
USED TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT A FAULT.
terms, about ten acres."
West Suflfield, Ct :

'Leading tobacco
Shipments were 588CS. Reporter. Br.nas, etc. t
Manuiaciurer
growers here have formed a society for

CLARKSVILLE, TENN.
the improvement of the tobacco and
Havan^L Flavor other farming industries.

learn and introduce the best methods of Sales "
The

idea is to
M. H. Clark
Receipts in Dec. were
& Bro.
169
267
hhds

Purely Vegetable.
DO NOT EXPERIMENT WITH OTHERS.
$12 per Gallon. cultivation, particularly of tobacco, for Shipments in"
the excellence of which this district
Total stocks Jan. I,
Buyers' stocks, Jan.
"
"
i,
868
1,049
293 hhds; Sellers'
YORK, PA.
already has a good reputation. stocks, 756 hhds.
Cincinnati Fruit Refining Co., Cincinnati, 0. been making the

Ct: "Growers have
East Hartford,
most of the damp spell
There were no transactions during
Christmas week. Our receipts for two
INLAND CITY CIGAR BOX CO
and have been hustling about taking weeks were 1 1 hhds, offerings this week Manufacturers of
down the rest of their crops. Hired 17 hhds, sales 13 hhds. Market un-
help is at a premium for this work. changed. We
have had one rainy spell Cigar Boxes^Shipping Cases
Nearly the whole crop is now down." which enabled tobacco to be taken [down Dealers in
New Milford, Ct: "Farmers have in the barns but it turned off cold, and Labels, Ribbons, Edgings, etc.
been hindered in getting down the to- but little stripping has been done.
bacco by the scarcity of help and several The actions of the Dark Tobacco Dis 716728 N. Christian St. L.ANCASTER, PA
hired women to do a part of the work. trict Planters Protection Association has
The crop is
Windsor, Ct:
now practically all
"The crop
down."
is now
thanks
greatly restricted sales of loose crops, but
sales have been made here and there.
/IBEN BHSEF^ MANUFACTURER OF
ready for stripping and sorting, The Association is now contracting with
to
worked
the wet spell.
all night." Amer.
Some large growers
Cultivator.
dealers to prize the crop and propose
holding it in that form until it realizes its
ideas as to prices. The preparation of
Cigar Boxes and Cases DEALER IN
leaf for the British markets promises not
EDGERTON, WIS.
Lumber, Labels, Edging, Etc.,
Interest
new crop which
now is centered largely in the
the growers are hurriedly
to be large, and prices paid for loose
crops are far above the parity of the prices
in these markets for strips and dried leaf. R. F. D. No. 3, YORK, PA. FMBOSSED
M^
CIGAR BANDS
Are All thtf^
Ar>. All RAde.
the Rage.
preparing for market. Another season For Old jTobacco, we quote:
of casing weather during the week has Low Lugs $3.50 to I3.75
M. D. BOALES, We have them in large variety. Send for Samples^
afforded an opportunity of removing the Common Lugs 3.75 to 4.00
from the curing sheds and stripping
Medium Lugs 4.00 to 4.25 William Steiner, Sons & Co.
leaf
isbeing pushed as rapidly as possible in
Good Lugs
Low Leaf
4.25 to 4.75
4.75 to 5.50
Leaf Tobacco iMGisr LitKogr&pKers, cumn
the country districts. Now that the great Common Leat BodM,"
bulk of the crop is down and in condition Medium Leaf
5.75 to
7.00 to
6.75
8.00
V. . A.
Hopkinsville, Ky 116 and 1X8 M. Fourteenth St., NBW YORK.
84 THE TOBACCO W O R I. D
THB TOBACCO WORLD-
z
Established 1878. Factory 1503, 9th Dist. Pa.
Specially Cleaned and Care-
JOSEPH REED
,
PATRICK HENRY JACOB G. SHIRK,

J. B. BUDDING, Sr. 40 W. Orange St., LANCASTER, PA. ICombiiiationi
fully Graded.
We make them for 6, 7%^ g, J9
and 12 cents per pound. Ready
York, Pa. Plug and Smoking Tobaccos for use in Cigar and Tohaeom
PLAIN SCRAP, SELECT BUTTS-Chcw
Fine Cigdcrs Exclusively
Manufacturer of
KING DUKE 2H oz.
or Smoke,
ISCRAPi Factories.
J. L. MMTZGMR
Our Leading Chewing and Smoking Brands: Tobacco Co,
'
JOSEPH REED-IOC. LANCASTER LONG CUT KING DUKE GRANULATED i--Filler--i
Made in Four Sizes. Go to the Trade at $(]() per 10()0.
KING DUKE CUT PLUG SHIRK'S BEST TWIST TOBACCO
Dealers in LEAF
PATRICK HENRY-3C. REBATE LONG CUT LANCASTER, PA.
Go Trade MtmifiEwtarer of High-Grade Turkish & Egyptian Cigarettes.
Made in Six Sizes. to the at $35 per 1000.
aXaMirofactute PLUG, SMOKING and CIGARETTES
\
W. all
to suit tbe
grades of
orld. Write for samples.
E. RENNINGER,
Established 1889,
Ten Cent Cigar Our Interest in Maintaining the Standard ofOur Product Five Cent Cigar Bstablisbed 1834
is a Guarantee of Quality and Workmanship. Manufacturer of High and Medium Grade
WM. F. COML Y & SON
SOMETHING NEW AND GOOD Business CKeLnges, Fires. Etc.
i
Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
Cig.ars
^^ WAGNER'S Georgia

4
Cuban stogies MANUPACTURBD ONI^V BV
Atlanta
tion in bankruptcy.
Idaho
F Williams, cigars; peti-
PHILADELPHIA
Regular Weekly Sales Eycry Thursday
Strictly Union- Made Goods. DCIlVCr
Caveats, Trade Marks*
PS..
r^fltCri TS
Troy J Knutson, cigars, etc. ; real
Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers^ Articles Desis:n-Patents, Copyrights,
LEONARD WAGNER, estate mtge., $1,500.
SPECIAL SALES OF LEAF TOBACCO

Factory No. a. 707 Ohfo St, ADcgheny, Pa. Indianapolis
Indiana
Chas H Sullivan, cigars;
Consignments Solicited Advances Made
John A. Saul,
sold out.
Iowa Settlements Made on Day of Sale
he ftvott Baildif^. WA5HINQTt)N, Dl C^
The Cigars You Want Sioux City
aged by fire
J Kokenes, cigars; dam-
W F Blaine, cigars; 4
CIGAR BOXES
sold out.
MattachusettA 4- METAL EMBOSSED LABELS METAL PRINTED LABELS 4 4-
Cambridge Leavitt^ & Pierce, cigars,

incorporated under Massachusetts
etc ;
XX
Union Cigar Factory laws as Leavitt
15,000.
& Pierce; capitalized at The Easy Truck
MadeMALLEABLE IRON,
of
ft. <l r leiscKKa\ier - PRUIERS OF SKETCHES AND
Chicopee Falls O
Ask for Samples AKRON, PA, Correspondence Solicited
etc. ; chattel mtge,, $535.
J Moshier, cigars, and fitted with
STEEL ROLLER BEARINGS.
Cigar Labels tot
( QUOTATIONS
Minnesota It won't leave
when
its position on the floor xh ARTisnc fflanuidtfurors-
Duluth G. Blackwood,
a case falls on it.
xH X'X FURNtSNED
rATAl
damaged by insured.
cigars, etc. If you have an old wooden truck, or
none at all. this is the Cheapest and Best 238 Arch Street, Philadelphia. XX
fire,
814-826
C. A. Rost
All Grades of
^ Co. Vicksburg
damaged by
JopUn

fire.
Davidson & Cameron,

Mississippi
J F Jones,
Missouri
cigars, etc.
cigars
JOHN
Care of Box 184,
L. DARON,
Yofk, Pa 4 LITHOGHAPHING
TELEPHONE 1561
SPECIAL DESIGNS 4 4-
CIGAR
UBELS
LAWRE^^CEST.
WRITE fON
'SAMPLES AND
RIBBON PRICES
succeeded by L Davidson.
Kansas City H S Shoemaker, cigars Darmenter WAX-LINED
LeafA Tobacco Specialty of
sold out.
Newburgh
assigned.
New York
Frank Karp, tobacco;
FOR SALE.
ION\ TOBACCO CO.
Coupon GIGAR POCKETS
PROTECTION against
Afford perfect
MOISTURE, HEAT and BREAKAOa
Ohio 336-338 North Charlotte St. Indorsed by all Smokers, and are
Light Connectictit Cleveland Chas PSchuttheim, cigars; LANCASTER, PA. the MOST EFFECTIVE advertisii^
medium known.
Wrappers and Seconds
assigned
petition in bankruptcy.
C M Van Pelt, cigars, etc.
E. S. SECHRIST, RACINE PAPER GOODS CO.

SoleOwners and ManufacturerSt
For Sale by All Dealers
Choice Assortment of Dayton J H Barrett, retail cigars and
Dallastown, Pa.
hj\cine:. i^s . u s vv.
tobacco; discontinued.
Manufacturer
inufacturer of
Oregon
Seed Leaf Fillers <Sl Binders Pilot Rock G Cannon, cigars, etc Pine and WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TO
Cigars
;
real estate mtge., $500.

Common
WISCONSIN (h OHIO
Scranton
Pennsylvania
H
Hartman, cigar manu-
P
Capacity*
Established 189a
Twenty Thousand per Dqr*
Fries Bros.
Florida and Imported facturer j udgment, 1 1 500.
MaA\if2LCturii\g Chemists
NEW
, ,
Sumatra and Havana Memphis I

Tennessee
Samuelson & Co., whole-
92 Reade Street, YORK.
Red Lion, Pa..
sale cigars
$3,500-
Wisconsin
and tobacco ; sold real estate,
PATENTS The First to Manufacture Sweetener In the United States
M. H. Clark <S: Bro

AddreM,
"CLARK."
Cable
Fond du Lac J S Hall, cigars;
tached.
^The
Dubuque,

cigar store of Arnold Jaeger, in
has changed hands, the
la.,
at-
I
prompUy
CaTe*t.
obtained OB VO FEB.
CopyriprhU and Label*
Tnde-lCarks,
registered.
TWKHTT TEARS' PKACTICB. Highest referenoM.
Bead model, sketch or phnto. for free report
on patentabilitj. AH basiness oonfldential.
HAHD-BOOK FKEX. Explains everything. TelH
How to Obtain and Sell Patents. What InTentions
Will Par. How to Get a Partner, explains best
meohanieal moTementa, and contains SOO etkor
eLYeesiNE
m
m^cotaoflmportanoe to iuTentors. Addrew,
new proprietors being Alvin Agard aad
Headquarters for VANILLIN, COUMARIN,
I
BOPKINSVILLB, KY.
FADUCAH,KY. Clarksville, Tenn,
John LaBarge.
identified with
The former has been
the store for some time.
H. B.
774 F
WILLSON
Btrert, N. W. ,
& CO. iSSS,.
WASHINGTON, D. C^
Also
TOBACCO ad FRUIT FLAVORS. IKSffiOAH T(AOO0 W. BW TWL
34 THE TOBACCO WORLD THB TOBACCO W O R I. D
Factory
Established LST-S. 15i.", '.Hh Dist., Pa.
Specially Cleaned and Care*
JOSEPH REED PATRICK HENRY JACOB G. SHIRK,
J. B. BUDDING, Sr. 40 W. Orange St., LANCASTER, PA. J Combination J
fully Graded,
We make them for 6, 7M 9 J*
York, Pa. P/ffB^HENRY Plug and Smoking Tobaccos for use in Cigar and Tobaeoo
PLAIN SCRAP, SELECT BUTTS-Chew
Fine CigaLfs Exclusively
Manufacturer of
KING DUKE 2y2 oz.
or Smoke,
ISCRAPl Factories.
J, L. MnTZGBR
Our Leading Chewing and Smoking Brands: Tobacco Co.
JOSEPH REED-IOC. fcANCASTER LONG CUT KING DUKE GRANULATED i-FiUer--i
Made in Four Sizes. Go to the Trade at $;(! per 1(HK.
KING DUKE CUT PLUG SHIRK'S BEST TWIST Dealers in LEAF TOBACCO
PATRICK HENRY- 50. REBATE LONG CUT LANCASTER, PA,
llaiitifoctttrer of HIgh-Grade Turkish & Egyptian Cigarettes.
Made in Six Sizes. Go to the Trade at $;5.") per lOdd.
&~K numnfactnre all grades of PLUG, SMOKING CIGARETTES
Dealers Catering to Fine Trade Should Place a Sample Order,
\ F.
and
E. RENNINGER,
I<:stablished 1889.
Ten Cent Cigar Our Interest in Maintaining the Standard ofOur Product Five Cent Cigar Established 1834
is a Guarantee f Ouality and Workmanship. Manufacturer of High and Medium Grade
WM. F. COML V & SON
"
SOMETHING NEW AND GOOD Business ChaLnges, Fires, Etc. Auctioneers and Commission Mercnants Cigars
-^ WAGNER'S Georgia

Chban stogies MANUFACTURED ONI^Y BY
Atlanta
tion in bankruptcy.
J
Idaho
F Williams, cigars; peti-
PHILADELPHIA
Strictl y Union- Made G oods. DCIlVCr
PS,,
LEONARD WAGNER,
Troy J
estate mtge., $1,500.

Knutson, cigars, etc. ; real
Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers^ Articles r^d^LC^n ^LrO
1^ Design-Patents, Copyrights, tii^
Indiana SPECIAL SALES OF LEAF TOBACCO John A. Saul,
factory No. ,. 707 Oh'io St, ADcgheny, Pa. Indianapolis Chas H Sullivan, cigars; Consignments Solicited Advances Made
sold out.
Settlements Made on Day of Sale
0mRll8POIfD U Droit Banding. WASHINOT'ON. D. %,
Iowa
The Cigars You Want Sioux City

aged by fire
J Kokenes, cigars; dam-
W F Blaine, cigars;
CIGAR BOXES
sold out.
W. B. s/iriM's Cambridge
etc ; incorporated
MatsachusetU
Leavitt^ & Pierce, cigars,
under Massachusetts
> METAL EMBOSSED LABELS METAL PRINTED LABELS 4 -
Union Cigar Factory laws as Leavitt

$5,000.
& Pierce; capitalized at The Easy Truck
Made MALLEABLE IRON,
of
ll J. Ml leiscKKa\ier PRinERSOF SKETCHES ANa
Chicopee Falls O Moshier, cigars,
Ak for Samples AICRON, PA. Correspondence Solicitec
etc. ; chattel mtge., $535.
J and fitted with
Cigar Labels ;/) QUOTATIONS
won't leave on the
Minnesota It
when
its
a case falls
position
on it.
floor
ARTisnc ilanufaclLjrers:-
fJ^J^J^J^J^J^JiMjÎ^J^ Duluth G. Blackwood, cigars, etc. If you have an old wooden truck, or
238 Arch Street, Philadelphia. rURNISNED
damaged by insured. none at all. this is the Cheapest and Best
fire,
X t TELEPHONE 1561 814-826
Mississippi
JOHN DARON, CIGAR WRITE FOR
L.
C. A. Rost m. Co. Vicksburg

damaged by

fire.
J F Jones,
Missouri
cigars, etc.
Care of oz 184, York, Pa* 4> - LITHOGILAPHING SPECIAL DESIGNS 4- Lawrence St.
'SAMPLES AND
Wholesale Dealers
yill
in Davidson & Cameron,
All Grades of
Joplin
succeeded by E L Davidson.
cigars;
LABELS RIBBON PRICES
Kansas City H S Shoemaker, cigars;
Scrap PARMENTER WAX-LINED
LeafA Tobacco sold out.
New York
Frank
FOR SALE. COUPON GIGAR POCKETS
PROTECTION against
Afford perfect
Specialty of
Light Connecticut
Newburgh
assigned.
Cleveland
Ohio
Chas PSchuttheim, cigars;
Karp, tobacco;
ION\ TOBACCO CO.
336-338 North Charlotte
LANCASTER, PA.
St.
Indorsed by
the MOST EFFECTIVE
medium known.
advertising
CIGAR RIBBONS
Wrappers and Seconds
assigned C M Van Pelt, cigars, etc.
RACINE PAPER GOODS CO. For Sale by All Dealers
petition in bankruptcy.
Dayton J H Barrett, retail cigars and
E. S. SECHRIST, Sole Owners and Manufacturers,
kacine:. \iris us .^
Choice Assortment of Dallastown, Pa.
.
tobacco; discontinued.
Manufacturer
inufacturer of
Oregon
Seed Leaf Fillers <Sl Binders Pilot Rock G Cannon, cigars, etc. Fine and WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TO
real estate mtge., I500.
Common Cigars
WISCONSIN m. OHIO
Scranton P H
facturer, judgment, $1,500.
Pennsylvania
Hartman, cigar manu-
Capacity,
Established 189a
0# iFries Bros. Maaufa.cturii\g Chemists
Sumatra and Havana Memphis I

Tennessee
Samuelson & Co., whole-
Red Lioiv, Pdc.
sale cigars
$3,500.
Wisconsin
and tobacco ; sold real estate,
PATENTS The First to Manufacture Sweetener in the United States
M. H. Clark & Bro "^cIarkT

Fond du Lac J S Hall, cigars;
tached.
The
Dubuque,

cigar store of Arnold Jaeger, in

la., has changed hands, the
at- promptly obtained
Caveats,
on patentability.
OR NO
C'lpvriphts
All
and
Lnhela
Trade-Marks,
FEE.
registered.
TWENTY TEARS' PRACTICE. Highea* references.
Send model, sketch or plmto. for free report
business
HAND-BOOK FREE. Explains everything. Tell*
confidential.

Will Pay, Uow to Get a Partner, explains best
meohanioal movements, and contains 300 other
SLYeeSINE 550 Times Sweeter than Sugar
m
atijects of importance to inventors. Address,
new proprietors being Alvin Agard and
Headquarters for VANILLIN, COUMARIN,
?fu"^.i^ryv".^
''''
Clarksville, Tenn.
John LaBarge.
identified with
The former has been
the store for some time.
H.B.WILLSON&CO.
774 F Street, N. W.,
,^Z\,
WASHINGTON, D. C^
Also
TOBACCO and FRUIT FLAVORS. AHSBIOM TOBiOOO 00. RT TOBK.

H. A.
e?!-
C .
c6 Qo- <^j>H^v*nA
IMPORTERS Op^^ "
t23 N. THIRD
HiLJktymu^HiA
ST
-2
.4\
KEYSTONE CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS OF

CO.
Cigar and Tobacco Flavor, Sweetener, He. i
BSTABI,ISHBD
!D IK 1881 Onb Docaar psr Annum.
Vol. XXV.
^, No. 3.
I PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY i8, 1905.
Single Copies, Vrr^ CenU.
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HAVANA CHROMA
\
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Costs only 7 cents per thousand cigars. It will increase sale of cigars
100 per cent. Why not get in line with the successful manufacturer and
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it at a Fair Price. look
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it and be convinced.
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THEN
give us a Chance. We're in business to stay, not to pump out of a
customer every possible cent that is shining that's like the man who
Ucrvc'H
wi oulA)-<, lao^ I
j
killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.
[hot
REMEMBER
that Sumatra, Havana and all kinds of Domestic Leaf are here in full
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^
stock,
thank us
and when you lay in this year's supply get our
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prices. You will
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Manufacturers of H&.nd-Made
L. G. HAEUSSERMANN & SONS
Packers, Importers and Dealers in
LONG FILLER
STOGIES
Corner Columbia and Marietta Avenues 16 AR LE/IF T0BAee
LANCASTER, PA.
AND 240 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA.
No. 2 1 North Main Street, Washington, Pa.
E. IÔSENWALB & BR0 u

C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco,
THE TOBACCO WORLD
RED LION, PA.
AC d& QO- (C^JO^^
IMPORTERS OF
HAVAN A 123 N. THIRD ST
^THE
RESOLVTIONSADOPTEDBYC.D.OFA.
TBAeeO WORLB^ South Carolina pronounced less satis-
is
GOVERNMENT REPORTS ON TEXAS AND ALABAMA TOBACCO.
factory, and while the Bureau will con-
Full Text Those Passed hi Annual
of Chief of Bureau of Soils Gives Encouragement to Farmers Who Con- tinue its experiments in that State on a
Convention Last Week. template Planting in Texas or Alabama. Certain Soil small scale, in the hope that methoils for
Chicago, Jan. 13. Will Produce Fine Trade Leaf. the improvement of the leaf product there
There is a feeling of much satisfaction
In last week's issue of The Tobacco result was the discovery that the type of may be discovered, it does not for the
at the headquarters of the Cigar Dealers'
World was an editorial treating the possi- soil had a marked influence on the quality present recommend that the farmers enter
Association of America as a result of the bility of growing tobacco in Southern of leaf produced, and that the leaf grown into its produ( tion.
annual convention held during the first had hitherto been used for on the type given the name Orangeburg
soil which Inquiries re;;arding tlie cooperaticm of
(lord LANCASTER. lOc.) part of the week, as the enthusiasm shown some other purpose. The matter is one sandy loam indy the Department in t h e growing of to-
(a reddis^h or grayish s
is taken as indicative of the present vigor bacco in any of these areas, may be made
which is just now exciting considerable loam with a red clay subsoil) possessed a
( of the Chief of tlie Bureau of Soils, or of
of the association. interest among farmers, owing to the much finer aroma than the leaf grown on (i. T. McNess. the chief tobacco expert
Following are the resolutions in full,
possibilities latent in the idea and the fol- any other soil in the area, of the Department in Washington, or
which, as Wednesday's
stated in last
lowing report made by Milton Whitney, Other surveys made in 1902, 1903 and W. M. Hinaon, expert in harê of the i
MANETOCIGAI^ Manufacturers,
paper, were recommended by the com-
mittee on resolutions and adopted by
the association
proposed Philippine
protesting
tariff cut:
against the
Chief of the Bureau of Soils of the De- 1904 have established the fact that the
partment of Agriculture, throws consid- Orangeburg sandy loam is a soil of wide
erable light on the subject and defines distribution in East Texas, as well as in
the opportunities which have been dis- the other Gulf and South Atlantic St.ites.
work in Texas, whose present head([uar.
ters are at Nacogdoches, Texas.
TAMFF CUT WOULD WORK INJURY.
615 M arket St, Philada, Whereas, Secretary Taft is reported

be anxious to send to Congress a bill
to
to
covered to exist in East Texas and Ala- It is associated with other
of which the
Orangeburg
Orangeburg clay is
Cincinnati Seed Leaf Boaird of Tra.de
bama for the production of cigar leaf soils, Expla.ins Why.
reduce the Philippine tariff in compli-
114 (NICKT LBY.Sc. ) ance with a cabled request from the tobacco. also believed to be a good tobacco soil.
Cincinnati, O. Jan. 13, 1905. ,
Philippine Chamber of Commerce; Chief Whitney says that a few years There is thus an ample area of soil
Editor Tobacco World:
Whereas, Any reduction in the present ago the attention of the Bureau of Soils suitable for the growing of cigar leaf to- The cigar leaf trade and the cigar
tariff rates on tobacco and cigars pro- was called to a new tobacoo industry in baoco in Texas and other
Channing Allen , Co duced in the Philippine Islands would
East Texas, where it was reported con
Southern manufacturers of Cincinnati and the
States, and in Texas particularly, and the First Internal
Revenue District of Ohio,
Philadelphia Manufacturers of be extremely detrimental to the tobacco in common with their colleagues in other
progress had been made in thought occurred that whatever deficien-
mm
and cigar industry of the United States, siderable parts of the country, are much concerned
from Cuban cies formerly produced were due to an about the proposal to reduce the tariff on
* as well as to all American labor engaged growing a domestic filler leaf
It was found that qute an exten. indiscriminating use
of soils might at cigars and tobacco from the Philippines
HARTMAN & KOHN, FINE

therein
Whereas, A policy forcing the product
of Chinese and coolie labor into compe-
seed.
sive acreage was being planted around once be eliminated in the
Willis, Montgomery Country, and that edge of soil adaptation
light of knowl
gained during the
to 25 per cent of the present tariff rates.
This industry has been for years
tition with the product of American singularly harassed by legislation affect-
Follow-
labor is hurtful to all classes of labor, several warehouses and cigar factories Willis and subsequent surveys. ing the national revenues, and which
419 Locust St. and beneficial to none; were in operation there. ing out this idea, the Bureau in 1903
does not by far obtain to the same extent
Whereas, A similar reduction in tariff An examination of the tobacco, made conducted a series of tobacco experi- in any other branches of industry.
Philadelphiac rates heretofore granted to Cuba upon by the Bureau expert, showed that some ments on the Orangeburg
soils around The tariff on imported leaf tobacco and
the pretext of assisting the needy island- of the leaf produced was of excellent Nacogdoches, Luskin,
and Woodville, cigars excessive as it is on some kinds
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 4836-A.
ers has proven to benefit only American of leaf tobacco, is recognized as neces-
whom such quality, surpassing in aroma any domestic Texas. The tr.ide has adapted itself to
trusts, and not those for sary.
_M reductions were pretended to be benefic- examined up to that time, but that the This crop has been sold and distributed the conditions, but it retjuires stability
'The Philadelphia ial, therefore,

Resolved, By
be it
the Cigar Dealers' Asso-

crop as a whole, for reasons not determ- among the pricipal
ined, was not such as to warrant the pre of the country
cigar manufacturers both in the tariff and the administr.itive
who have expressed prac- features thereof, to insure continued
A Matchless 5 cent Cigar. ciation of America, in convention assem
diction of any phenomenal development tically unanimous
satisfaction with the success as a prosperous
business and a
NEW YORK, bled at Chicago, this loth day of January, national levenue producer.
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, It is the general feeling of the
Jobbing and Wholesale Trade
solicited. One of RoedePs Best 1905, that a strong protest be
to the President of the United
forwarded
States and
of the industry.
The matter was again given some
leaf.
trade that this tobacco will fill an im-

With the enactment into a law of the
contemplated reduction to 25 per cent on
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DBAI. Congress against any reduction whatever study in 1899 as the result of the notable portant place in the market, if produced
all tobaccos and cigars coming from the
in the present tariff rates on cigars and and at reasonable Philippines, there can be no question
Samples sent to Reputable Distributors superiority of some Texas samples ex- in sufficient quantities
,:
tobacco from the Philippine Islands. Owing The tobacco being an entirely but that everyone connected with the
hibited at the Paris exposition. prices.
sets of resolu- industry down to the humblest worker,
Following were the two to the manner in which the collection new
product, and having at present time
both in shop and field, would be veiy
Philadelphia Cigar Factory tions adopted, commending President
been made, however, it was im- no fixed status in the market,
had
it is to
materially injured and in mîny cases
Roosevelt and Robert E. Lane: to determine whether this be expected that its introduction will be ruined. 1-very workman in cigar facto-
W. K. ROEDEL CO., Whereas, The President of the United
practicable
ries, every farmer, both land owners and
was the result of the particular more or less slow and tedious, and the
quality
41 N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA. States, in his efforts to stop illegal
trusts
soil upon which the leaf had been grown, growers
of this Texas leaf must not at tenants raising cigar leaf tobacco, would
in their purpose to crush competition; unquestionably have to abandon the
1 CHALLENGES COMPARISON
Whereas, The President of the United of the
kind of seed used, of any special first look for the highest prices,
The value of this tobacco, as far as the
manipul.ition and cultivation of cigar leaf
fertilization, or of care and skill tobacco, and to that extent depreciation
States recommends the enlargement of system of
the powers of the Interstate Commerce in handling and curing. Bureau has informed itself to the present in the value of tobacco lands would
White Knight Commission, which policies meet with

the full endorsement of this association,
be it
In 1 90 1 the Bureau made a survey of time, varies
the soils around Willis, at the same time the finished
considerably, the prices for
product ranging from 25 to
grade
follow.
Cheap
labor,
land,
both of
cheapest kind of
the
which everyone must
the condition of the tobacco 40 cents a pound, according to the
FIVE-CENT CIGAR Resolved, That the Cigar Dealers investigating
, ,
quality of the leaf, but the grower

admit exist in the Phili|)pines, coupled
Association of America fully approves of industry, and especially the relations of and with a tariff of but 25 per cent of present
MADE BY the recommendations of the President
of to obtain at the outset rates, are the factors that will afford the
the quality of the leaf to the soil pro- can not expect
Con- aforesaid undesirable conditions.
the United States and demands of ducing it. The tobacco interests were more than 15 or 20
cents for the unfer-
Morris D. Netttnana & Co. gress the passage of the Hearst bill now
then found in a languishing condition, mented leaf.
From computations based has been amply shown that Philip-
pine cigars and tobacco can be laid down
It
before Congress.
of 1,000 acres on the past work of the Bureau, it is
Whereas, Robert E. Lane, of New From a maximum acreage
EEKAHLER PHILADELPHIA, PA.
National President of the Cigar planted in 1898. the plantings had de estimated that the cost of
York,
Dealers Association of America, has
clined to 500 acres in 1899, and thence bacco, under normal conditions, should
in the United States under the 25 per
growing the to-
cent rate at prices with which no dealer
in tobacco and no manufacturer of cigars
READING. PA- filled this office

discouraging
under the
conditions
most trying
during the to less
than 100 acres in 1901 and the not exceed 10 cents a pound.
;
The av- can possibly compete.
and be 600 pounds The standard of wages and cost of
MAHumeniRCR growers aUhough needing some crop, erage yield is estimated to
past year; and living in the United States bears no
Whereas, During the administration of like tobacco, in which to specialize, had or more per acre.
comparison to the simpler necessities of
CHARLOnE CUSHMAN? Robert E. Lane all the conditions injuri- become very much discouraged. The During the past two years the Bureau the Philippines, and any discrimination
ous to the existence and purposes
for
causes assigned by the Bureaus agent for has also conducted experiments in Perry in favor of the so called "poor Filippinos"
PALACE SMOKER which this association is organized have
the decline in the production of this crop County, Alabama, and in Darlington and that works a hardship on a deserving
been removed and perfect confidence
Orangeburg counties, S. C, upon the class of our own
people is a violation of
Monkey Brand and harmony restored, be it were mainly two the lack of knowledge
that sense of justice which has always
That the Cigar Dealers* among the growers as to the methods of same types of soil as in Texas, characterized the American people.
Resolved,
White Chief ^/ Association of America, in national con- handling the crop, and the peculiar The tobacco grown in Alabama, while
The Seed Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade
assembled, this loth day of met considered quite so good as the Texas
National Bird/ vention market conditions always to be with not of Cincinnati.
of thanks
[ January, 1905, extends a vote trade so highly specialized as the product, meets with much approval from Julius C. Fri:i, President.
great work done during his in a
for the Jno. Staun, Secretary,
KingLouu Jl administration.
tobacco trade. However, an important the trade, but the leaf so far produced in
THK TOBACCO WORLD
RED LION, PA.
K^^ H ST
(& Qo- <Cjo^j>
JMPnRTERS OF
avan a 123 N. THIRD
Hll.ADEL.RHIA 3
TB/ieeO WORLB^ South Carolina pronounced less satis-

RESOLVTIONSADOPTEDBYC.D.OFA. GOVERNMENT REPORTS ON TEXAS AND ALABAMA TOBACCO. is
factory, and while the Bureau will con-

Full Text of Those Passed at Annual Chief of Bureau of Soils Gives Encouragement to Farmers Who Con- tinue its experiments in that State on a
Convention Last Week. template Planting in Texas or Alabama. Certain Soil small scale, in the h(ipe that methods for
Chicago, Jan. 13. Will Produce Fine Trade Leaf. the improvement of the leaf product there
There is a feeling of much satisfaction
In last week's issue of The Tobacco was the discovery that the type of may be discovered, it does not for the
result
at the headquarters of the Cigar Dealers'
World was an editorial treating the possi- soil had a marked influence on the quality present recommend that the farmers enter
Association of America as a result of the bility of growing tobacco in Southern of leaf produced, and that the leaf grown into its production.
annual convention held during the first
soil which had hitherto been used for on the type given the name Orangeburg Inquiries regarding the cooperation of
( lord LANCASTE R, lOc.) part of the week, as the enthusiasm shown some other purpose. The matter is one sandy loam (a reddish or grayish sindy the Department in t h e growing of to-
is taken as indicative of the present vigor bacco in any of these areas, may be made
which is just now exciting considerable loam with a red clay subsoil) possessed a
of the Chief of the Bureau of Soils, or of
of the association. interest among farmers, owing to the much finer aioma than the leaf grown on
iîi G. T. McNess, the chief tobacco expert
Following are the resolutions in full,
possibilities latent in the idea and the fol- any other
of the Department in Washington, or
soil in the area,
OIliiBr Bilft. which, as stated in last Wednesday's lowing report made by Milton Whitney, Other surveys made in 1902, 1903 and W. M. Hinson, expert in harge of the
paper, were recommended by the com- Chief of the Bureau of Soils of the De- 1904 have established the fact that the work in Texas, whose present headciuar-
(
MANjFTOCIGAli Manufacturers,
mittee on resolutions and adopted by partment of Agriculture, throws consid- Orangeburg sandy loam is a soil of wide ters are at
the association protesting against the erable light on the subject and defines distribution in East Texas, as well as in
proposed Philippine tariff cut:
the opportunities which have been
Nacogdoches, Texas.
the other Gulf and South Atlantic States,

TARIFF CUT WOULD WORK INJURY.
615 M arket St., P hilada. 1 Whereas, Secretary Taft
be anxious to send to
is
Congress a
reported to
bill to
covered
bama
to exist in East Texas and Ala-
for the production of cigar leaf
dis-
It is
soils,
associated with
Orangeburg
of which the clay
other Orangeburg
is
Cincinnati Seed Leaf Board uf Tr&de
Expl&ins Why.
reduce the Philippine tariff in compli-
(NICKrLBY. 5c.) I
ance with a cabled request from the tobacco. also believe(^ to be a good tobacco soil.
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 13, 1905.
11,4 Philippine Chamber of Commerce; Chief Whitney says that a few years There is thus an ample area of soil
1. Editor Tobacco World:
Whereas, Any reduction in the present ago the attention of the Bureau of Soils suitable for the growing of cigar leaf to-
The cigar leaf trade and the cigar
tariff rates on tobacco and cigars pro- was called to a new tobacoo industry in baoco in Texas and other Southern manufacturers of Cincinnati and the
Channing Allen , Co. duced in the Philippine Islands would East Texas, where it was reported con States, and in Texas particularly, and the
First Internal Revenue District of Ohio,
Philadelphia Manufacturers of be extremely detrimental to the tobacco in common with tlieir colleagues in other
progress had been made in thought occurred that whatever deficien-
and cigar industry of the United States, siderable parts ot the country, are much concerned
leaf from Cuban cies formerly produced were due to an about the proposal to reduce the tariff on
as well as to all American labor engaged growing a domestic filler
therein It was found that qute an exten. indiscriminating use of soils might at cigars and tobacco from the Philippines
HARTMAN & KOHN, FINE of Chinese and coolie labor into compe-
seed.
Whereas, A policy forcing the product sive acreage was being planted around
Willis, Montgomery Country, and that
once be eliminated in the light of knowl to 25 per cent of the present taritT rates.
edge of soil adaptation gained during the This industry has been for years
tition with the product of American singularly harassed by legislation affect-
Willis and subsequent surveys. Follow-
is hurtful to all classes of labor,
several warehouses and cigar factories ing the national revenues, and which
m
FAMOUS r^^^ 419 Locust St labor
and beneficial to none; were in operation there. ing out this idea, the Bureau in 1903 does not by far obtain to the same extent
Whereas, A similar reduction in tariff An examination of the tobacco. made conducted a series o f tobacco experi- in any other branches of industry.
liters 5c* Philadelphia rates heretofore granted to

the pretext of assisting the needy island-
Cuba upon by the Bureau expert, showed that some ments on the Orangeburg soils around
Nacogdoches, Luskin, and Woodville,
The taritT on imported leaf tobacco and
cigars excessive as it is on some kinds
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 4S3t>-A. of the leaf produced was of excellent
ers has proven to benefit only American of leaf tobacco, is recognized as neces-
oltlie Cigar trusts, and not those for such quality, surpassing in aroma any
whom
reductions were pretended to be benefic- examined up to that
domestic
time, but that the
Texas,
sary. The trade has adapted itself to
This crop has been sold and distributed the conditions, but it requires stability
\ "The Philadelphia ial, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Cigar Dealers' Asso-
crop as a whole, for reasons not determ-
ined, was not such as to warrant the pre
among the pricipal cigar manufacturers both in the tariff and the administrative
of the country who have expressed prac- features thereof, to insure continued
A Matchless 5 cent Cigar. ciation of America, in convention assem
diction of any phenomenal development tically unanimous satisfaction with the
success as a prosperous business and a
bled at Chicago, this loth day of January, national levenue producer.
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. It is the general feeling of the

solicited. One of Roedei's Best 1905, that a strong protest
be forwarded of the industry.
to the President of the United
States and The matter was again given some
leaf.
trade that this tobacco will fill an im-

With the enactment into a law of the
contemplated reduction to 25 per cent on
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DBAL Congress against any reduction whatever study in 1899 as the result of the notable portant place in the market, if produced all tobaccos and cigars coming from the
in the present tariff rates on
cigars and
Samplei sent to Reputable Distributors Texas samples ex-
superiority of some in sufficient quantities and at reasonable Philippines, there can be no question
tobacco from the Philippine Islands. Owing prices. The tobacco being an entirely but that everyone connected with the
hibited at the Paris exposition.
two sets of resolu- industry down to the humblest worlcer,
Following were the
to the manner in which the collection new
product, and having at present time
both in shop and field, would be very
Philadelphia Cigar Factory tions adopted, commending President
had been made, however, it was im- fixed status in the market, it is to
no materially injured and in many cases
Roosevelt and Robert E. Lane: be expected that introduction will be Every workman in cigar facto-
practicable to determine whether this its ruined.
K. ROEDEL CO.,
W. Whereas, The President of the United slow and tedious, and the ries, every farmer, both land owners and
quality was the result of the particular more or less
41 N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA. tenants raising cigar leaf tobacco, would
trusts
States, in his efforts to stop illegal growers of this Texas leaf must not at
soil upon which the leaf had been grown,
in their purpose to crush competition; unquestionably have to abandon the
kind of seed used, of any special first look for the highest prices,
CHALLENGES COMPARISON Whereas, The President of the United of the manipulation and cultivation of cigar leaf
value of this tobacco, as far as the
The
States recommends the enlargement of system of fertilization, or of care and skill tobacco, and to that extent depreciation
the powers of the Interstate Commerce in handling and curing. Bureau has informed itself to the present in the value of tobacco lands would
White Knight Commission, which policies meet with

the full endorsement of this association,
be it
In 1901 the Bureau made a survey of time, varies
the soils around Willis, at the same time the finished
considerably, the prices for
product ranging from 25 to
according to the grade
follow.
Cheap
labor, both
land,
of
cheapest kind of
the
which
everyone must
investigating the condition of the tobacco 40 cents a pound,
FIVE-CENT CIGAR Resolved, That the Cigar Dealers
, ,
especially the relations of and quality of the leaf, but the

grower
in the Philippines, coupled
admit exist
of but 25 per cent of present
Association of America fully approves of industry, and with a tariff
MADE BY the recommendations of the President
of can not expect to obtain at the outset rates, are the factors that will afford the
the quality of the leaf to the soil pro
Con- undesirable conditions.
the United States and demands
of
ducing it. The tobacco interests were more than 15 or 20 cents for the unfer- aforesaid
Morris D. Neumann & Co. gress the passage of the Hearst bill
now
then found in a languishing condition, mented leaf. From computations based It has been amply shown that Philip,
before Congress. pine cigars and tobacco can belaid down

on the past work of the Bureau, it is in the United States under the
Whereas, Robert E. Lane, of New From a maximum
acreage of 1,000 acres
EEKAHLER PHILADELPHIA, PA.

York, National President of the Cigar planted in 1898, the plantings had de
Dealers Association of America, has
clined to 500 acres in 1899, and thence
estimated that
bacco, under
the cost
normal
of growing
conditions,
the to-
should
25 jier
cent rate at prices with which no dealer
in tobacco and no manufacturer of cigars
I READING. PA.' filled this office under the most trying
to less than 100 acres in 1901; and the not exceed 10 cents a pound. The av- can possibly compete.
and discouraging conditions during the erage yield is estimated to be 600 pounds The standard of wages and cost of
growers although needing some crop,
MMttmcniiKii (m past year; and
or more per acre.
living in the United States bears no
Whereas, During the admmistration ot like tobacco, in which to specialize, had comparison to the simpler necessities of
dttBUOm COSHMANC Robert E. Lane all the conditions injuri- become very much discouraged. The
purposes for
During the past two years the Bureau
the Philippines, and any discrimination
ous to the existence and causes assigned by the Bureaus agent for has also conducted experiments in Perry in favor of the so called "poor Filippinos"
PALACE SMOKER which this association is organized have
the decline in the production of this crop County, Alabama,
and in Darlington and that works a hardship on a deserving
been removed and perfect confidence class of our own people is a violation of
the lack of knowledge Orangeburg counties, S. C, upon the
Monkey BiAND and harmony restored, be it were mainly two
that sense of justice which has always
iWhitECMiEr
'
Kational Biro/
^ Resolved, That
vention assembled,
January, 1905,
the
Association of America, in
extends
this
a
Cigar
loth
vote of
Dealers*
national
day
con-
of
thanks
among the growers as to the methods of same types of soil as in Texas,
handling the crop, and the peculiar The tobacco
market conditions always to be met with not considered

grown
quite
meets with
in
so
Alabama,
good
much
as the
approval
while
Texas
from
characterized the American people.
The Seed Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade
of Cincinnati.
Julius C. 1''ki:i, President.
in a trade so highly specialized as the product,
done during his
for the great work J NO. Staun,
Secretary,
tobacco U-ade. However, an important the trade, but the leaf so far produced in
administration.
saiE^*^rii i
* *?'^^ ?&Ssiiî&t liiMi^

/\, CÂL.VE3 (^ O^' <^^ H avan a 123 n. third
Qalves ^ OOv<jo^ Havana
^
J.Vetterlein
'
- - iMPnR-TPRfi
& Co.
G^y^
Importers of
and Packers
^
HAVANA and SUMATRA

of DOMESTIC LEAF
Philadelphia
Tobacco ^
I
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flTrr^lTrrr^ ^^^^
>^^
''
~
La Imperial Cigar Factory

123 n. third
Philadelphia
st
^5
'^
115 Arch Street, Philadelphia. CViLB YOVR IMAGINATION. make a sale. Go at the man with a
There was once a circus which by clever advertisement, and he is interested
fell HOLTZ, PA.
IKHJHDBD 1855. ^mm inheritance to a man who didn't know at once, it doesn't matter whether the ad.
anything about circuses, but had ideas is verbal or printed. /. F. SECHRIST, Proprietor,
m.-.m^^^M^ ^<^^ on everything. This man looked the The advertisement may boom the ar- Manufacturer of
John T. Dobaiu Win. H. Dohan.
%
IMPORTERS OF
show over after he had taken hold, and ticle to the skies, but if there is a reason-
sized it up as a fair, average circus. He able percentage of truth in it, the man
had a confab with his press manager, will not feel that his confidence has been
FIRE eiQARS*
^^^'^ DOHAN ATAITT, Sfv Ip-^^"^ and took this position: abused. If your advertisement confined
'See here I am tired of seeing these itself to the mere statement of bald facts,
; 1
Q^j Importers of Havana and Sumatra ^^ glittering lithographswhich promise all it wouldn' t attract for a cent.
sorts of impossible things, and make It is in the proper combination of truth
any number of absurd claims. This is and fancy that the value of advertising
/^*^^^^ I07 Arch St.
Packers of
a pretty good show, but it isn' t any won- lies, and the most successful advertisers
Leaf Tobacco\ ,^ J philada. der of the world, and we' re going to take
the public into our confidence and tell
are those whose judgment
determining this proportion.
is the best in
them just exactly what we have. When The man who

on with a paint lays it
they come, and discover that, if any- brush defeats his own purpose and soon
BREMER ILADEL: thing, we have under- promised, we'll get acquires a reputation by which the peo-
to be the most popular show on the road. ple to whom he makes appeal undervalue
\JC^^^ * IMPORTERS OP ^YO I

'We haven't got three rings, and we the grain of truth that does really exist
We've got one m his statements.
Havana and Sumatra BBNJ. LABE JACOB LABti SIDNEY LABB aren't going to say so.
elephant, not seven, four monkeys, not A man in Philadelphia
BENJ. LABE & SONS,
certain business </."
^^not*^ Oi^ôc^nmff vrheah^ se<f9
od PACKERS of two cages full. Our acrobats are clever, got into a habit not long ago of exagger- \&^-
Importers ot but they're not the greatest in the world. ating greatly, everything that he said or
Leaf Tobacco SUMATRA and HAVANA The women trapeze artists are well worth
seeing, but they aren'
printed about his business.
grew until it was beyond all bounds and
unique.
The habit lOc UNCLE JOSS 5c.
York Nick 5c. Best Known
t
322 and 324 North Third Street, Philadelphia

I^BAP TOBA CCO 'I simply want you to go over our ad was doing him an amount of harm with

Packers iSh Dealers in
vertising literature with a fine tooth comb his old established trade which was by no
HARRY HIRSCHBERG 231 and 233 North Third Street, and revamp it until we' ve simply got a means made up by the new business
/UUUS HIRSCHBERG
PHIhADMLPKIA, PA. straightaway outline of what really resulting from these methods. Oak Mountain Bouquet -Boston Beauties
Julius Hirschberg & Bro.
comes off," He had a department store on a small Puro Porto Rico Crooks.
The press man shook his scale, and it got so bad that when he
head and
Correspondence with Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Only Invited.
!
^
LiEOPOLiD liOEB
f.
shrugged his shoulders, but he knew the happened to have two blankets of an odd
Importers of Havana and Sumatra CO.
8t t^^ Capacity, 25,000 per Day. TelegraphYork, Pa. 4.^4
Packers of
AND
Seed Iêaf Tobacco Importers of Sumatra
AND
and Havana
folly of trying to convince a man who lot left over that he wanted to sell quick,
doesn' t know anything about it, so he he would advertise "A thousand Navaho,
went ahead. superfine blankets come to our hands as
232 North Third St., Phila.
Leaf Tobacco
The hthographs and posters were a the result of a mistake in the invoice.
Packers of curiosity, from a circus standpoint, and We are keeping them and standing the
BARflES
J, JttflHLiOri CO.
BAMBERGER & CO.
the public didn't know how to take them loss. Oar customers benefit. As long
L. 306 North Third St., Phila. at all. The majority of them apparently as they last today at $3."
MAKBRS OP
4 Dealers to
made the usual discount from the face
value of the promises, and, figuring up
One day a couple
of his stopped in
of old time friends
to see him. They Only High Grade Cigars
^r% of SEED LEAF
HAVANA end SUMATRA TOBACCO GEO. BURGHARD
Importer of
the result, decided that they would wait
for the next show. Business for three
hadn't seen each other for some time]
but had corresponded.
months was simply rotten, and made was proud of the business he was doing
The merchant
Tun CO. CIGAR, Five Cents,
HAVANA TOPS, Ten Cents,
t
111 Arch St., Philadelphia such a heavy drain on the wise man's and began to talk fulsomely about it
lâtôwet: Lancaster, Pa.; If ilton Junction, Wis.; BaldwinsTiIle,lC.T

Sumatra and Havana bank account, that he finally had a quick His friends were politely interested and
heart to-heart talk with the press man, asked questions, but always after the de-
Made in Conchas, Londres and Perfecto Shapes.
ALL UNION MADE. RIGHT PRICES TO JOBBERS.
from Responsible Parties.
and Packer
LEAF TOBACCO of and gave him carte blanche. That foxy partment store man had finished a re-
gentleman made not a single change in
mark, the others would fall into a minute
of silent meditation, moving their lips as
Factory Park Avenue and Wallace Street,

y
238 North Third Street, Phila. the performance, but got out a
Business
new set
immediately
of
if calculating. PHILADELPHIA, PA.
lithographs. The merchant noticed it and finally
picked up and made good, not only in asked about it. "What's the matter
strange towns, but on return dates, prov-
with you boys?" he said. "What do
you do that for?"
ing that the patrons of the show did not The
Oh, nothing," was the answer.
consider that they had been fooled. conversation was continued and in a
All of which goes to say that you must little while the merchant asked again
put a certain amount of hot "Tell me why you do that? You make
air into cir-
culation to make good. As Pete Dailey me nervous."

"Well," said one ot the visitors hesi
sings in "A Little of Everything," You tatingly, "we are just translating you as
TheE m ni rp^ ^**t'^*

Importers and Dealers In
ALL KINDS OF
m
Wont Do any Business if you Haven't we go along.
Got a Band. " That sterling line that
all used to scratch bum copy book imi-
we it is safe to reduce
have discovered that
half per cent to get facts."

We
it to seventeen and a
V SEED LEAF,
Leaf Tobacco
^Y^
--
SUMATRA llUjJi;
1
J. S. BATROFF,
224 Arch St., Philadelphia.
tations of Honesty is the Best Policy-
is considerably elastic now- a days, and
The merchant was rather inclined to
get mad but they laughed at him and then
gave him a good talking to. They told him
practically every man in business is that everybody was getting on to him,
apt toexpand his statements to suit the that his statements published or other-
wise were winked at and laughed at, and
W. K. GRESH & SONS, Makers, Norristown, Penna.
Co., Ltd. 118 N.Sd St. Phila. Broker in LEAF TOB/I0 occasion.
that it was up to him to work a quick
You have to hypnotize a man to a cer- reformation.
tain extent, to sell him goods now a-days, The merchant had sense enough to
and the modern advertisement is a part take their advice, secured the services of JOSEPH C. KOLB,
-I ^y O TIT IMPORTERS of of the process. Show a man a certain a clever advertising man who knew his
HAVANA BLOSSOM, the Leading 5c. Ciâr,
Manufactîrer of the
r] 1 img ; 14 ewman, Sumatra & Havana (x&'Si article, and let him examine it thoroughly
business, and is building up a reputation
for reliabilty. All o f which can be
without comment on your part, and if he summed up in the pithy statement that Southeast Corner Second and Market Streets,
2Wr N. THIBD ST., PHILADELPHIA. ' Packers of Seed

is not already eager and ready to buy you can go as far as you like, as long as
such an article, you will propably not that isn't too far. The Old Salesman
Camden, N. J.
THl TOBACCO WORI^D
THE TOBACCO, WORLD
^^'TIEALM OPTHB PBTAILERS AVOID

SAYS CIGAILS ARE NOT SO GOOD NOW.
UJ WENT into a cigar store the other TT
ISN'T
is
THE PIPE RESPECTABLE 7
a curious fact that no matter how
CIGARS THAT R.ETAIL AT
TOURING
$2. 20 cents each.
the holiday season just past large,

Nearly all
most of the costly cigars are also

of them are
DISPUTES
day tobuy a cigar," says a writer expensive the manufacture of pipes there was some demand, at least, graceful in shape, but not all of them are.
There is, for instance, a $2 cigar that
in a
some
New England paper, "and
lying in the case that were quite
I saw may become, they are likely always to $2 each,
for cigars selling at as high as
be held to a certain extent in disrepute the cigars being bought in nearly every
is rather clumsy in its outlines; it is Lose Trade.
popular a few years ago. but which are as regards their use before the public, case to give away. These and other longer than the ordinary big cigar, much
thicker, and its general build a stubby,
not bought very extensively at the pres- In New York, for instance, and indeed high priced cigars, such as sell at I1.50
.
boxes con- chunky cigar. But while one may or

ent time. The dealer told me that he in other large cities, the majority of first- and |i apiece, come in trim
may not admire its type, the cigar itself
had had thousand during the class restaurants refuse to allow the taining five, ten or twenty- five,
several
days of their popularity, and that these smoking of pipes even in the men's cafe, But while such cigars are mostly im- is made with the utmost perfection of
workmanship. There is, for example,
were some that were left of the lot. and many clubs limit pipe-smokers to ported and sold for the holiday season,
big, almost
"He added that while they were but an certain rooms. they may be found on sale and more or another costly cigar that is
straight sided and cylindrical in form and
average cigar at the price when they were The University Club, when it moved less of them are sold the year around,
first placed on the market, that they now into its new Fifth avenue quarters some They are
sometimes sold for weddmg stubby at both ends, certainly not a
beautiful model, but the cigar itself
were really much better, from the fact years ago, established a rule that pipes gifts and for banquets and for special
that they were made before the revenues should be smoked in one room only, costly dinners, where the guest
would be simply perfect in its form.
The same is true of all these costly
were raised. Reclaimed that the cigars Now a prominent Brooklyn club, which more likely to put one of these cigars,
cigars. Whatever the type may be,
made since the raise in revenue are not
homely or graceful in outline, the work-
of the same quality or material that they
were before, and that the cigar referred R. A. PATTERSON TOBACCO COMPANY AT THE SHOW. manship displayed in the making of
IT gives an al)solute check on cash and credit sales, on
them is uniformly faultless, and not only
to was therefore a better cigar than others money paid out and on money received on account,
is each cigar in every way perfectly
at the same price.
made, but the cigars in a box will be tlicrcty preventing disputes atout accounts, the most fruit-
"The cigars of to-day are not quite
what they were a number of years ago.
found perfectly matched. These costly ful source or misunderstanding.
cigars represent, in fact, the highest art
A few years ago it was almost impossible
to get a five cent cigar that was fit to
of cigarmaking. INational Cash Register Company
Such cigars may be found in the show- Dayton, Ohio
smoke, but at the present day, in spite
case, duly labeled, at |i, I1.25, $1.50,
of the faci that it is claimed it costs more
1 1. 75 and $2, and there are some sold in
to smoke a cigar, the five cent cigars
the ordinary way to smokers. There is
have greatly improved in quality. Every
now and then a smoker who likes that
now and then a new five cent cigar is
placed on the market, and as a general
kind of a big, heavy smoke, and who
comes in and buys a $2 cigar and lights permitted to accumulate
rule it is pretty safe to buy them when 1 UNION ASSISTS HEALTH BOARD. tobacco dust is
they first come out. If you follow the

it up. The purchaser is quite likely to on a floor, it is liable to become the lt lÂWATiyATyATaVyAT4î kTATATATATATAÂTi
be somebody with plenty of money who Cigarmakers [Help Physicians Enforce breeding place of certain disease germs.
scheme up, you will be pretty sure to get
a good cigar at a reasonable rate.
is feeling cheerful over a good dinner, Sanitary IS Laws. Despite the vast number of factories
"Pittsburg stogies seem to be rather
popular. A prominent cigar dealer tells
me that he sells hundreds of them a
but while such cigars are sold at retail
there is not often occasion to
out to a purchaser.
hand them
The cigarmakers
12. here, the State
of Milwaukee are co- found conditions excellent, with

operating with the local health authorities occasional instances of complaint.
factory inspector has
only BLACK THREADS
month, the most of them being sold by
the box. If the right kind of a stogie is
As a matter of fact, there are not many
men who pay a dollar or more for a
in enforcing the sanitary laws of the city.
This was one of the first places in the SHOULD MARKET SLOWLY.
Long Cut
bought, makes a good, clean smoke,
it
cigar. No matterhow much money a
country where the craft joined hands with The Fintst Heavy Pipe Smoking Tobacco manufactured.
and one can afford to consume several of
man has or how fond he may be of R.ichmond Tobacco Farmers Advised
the authorities in working for the public Packed by hand in 3^ oz. packages.
smoking, he hesitates to pay $1 for a Not to Glut the Warehouses.
them a day without any pangs of con- good.
smoke. It is not until a lower price still Richmond, Va., Jan. 16. Union Made. The Wrappers are Good for Premiums.
science. It would be surprising to learn The idea of assisting che authorities
just how many of these stogies are used
is reached, say in the 5o-cent cigars, that
in ferreting out places liable to breed This week and next will witness large Write Uf for Samples and Prices.
the costly cigar becomes an article of sales at the local warehouses providing
in a day by people who can well afford disease has been in vogue among cigar-
to buy ten or even fifteen cent cigars.
Cheroots are sold to a large extent, as is
comparatively common
And, indeed, 50 cents
consumption.
is
notch price for cigars in the most expen-

about the top-
makers many years.
They never permit a union shop to get
weather conditions are not too unfavor-
able. One warehouse man of this city The Gem City Tobacco
plainly evident by the store windows of in such shape as the majority of non- says: DAYTON, OHIO.
sive hotels and restaurants. Higher 'There be good demand for the
will
union shops are in most of the time,

cigar dealers."
HOW TO TREAT A

BORE.
priced cigars may be had, but half a
dollar for a cigar is about as much as
men often pay. Exchange.
according to
reason
officers.
why you find so

This
many
is the great present crop, and if the farmers will hold
men who off" and not crowd the crop on the market
!
TT is not always best to take a woman
are bitterly opposed to organized labor within a few weeks, thereby causing a
granted and go ahead on the
always smoking union made cigars. glut and consequent breaking of prices,
for
ONE of the large displays at the recent Tobacco Show in Horticultural Hall was DON'T BE TOO BIG TO LOOK AFTER
belief that you have got her actions all
They know that when they smoke a la- they will obtain better results.
A LINE OF HIGH-GRADE
the one made by the R. A. Patterson Tobacco Company of Richmond, Va. YOUR STORE.
classified and cut and dried. "Loose sales on the warehouse floors
The picture shows how Patterson Seal and Lucky Strike, two of the best known T^HERE
is a prosperous retail store in beled icigar there is little danger of it Tobacco Spraying Goods
One man is telUng a joke on himself
presented to consumers. This exhibit wag "^ Milwaukee which has built up the having been made in an unsanitary shop. will run until May i,
which will give am-
brands on the market, were attractively For Cigar and Tobacco Factories
apropos of a box of Christmas cigars.
much larger than the cut gives an idea of, and caused much favorable comment.
best part of its trade in the last two
Few people are aware, doubtless, that ple time to dispose of the crop without and Leaf Tobacco Dealers.
The oft repeated tale of the cigars which years. That length of time ago the pro- crowding the market, and if farmers will
in a union shop men are not permitted MISTING SPRAYING
a woman selects is the theme, but in this IZZZZZ^ZZZZHZZZHIIZZZIZZZIZZZIIIIZZZ:^:^::^^ prietor didn't even have his name on the
bear this in mind and distribute the FLAVORING CASINO
to squirt tobacco juice about the floor.
case the cigars were good. j^ especially favored by young college when they were served, in his pocket as window. He was simply in the business period of four months, WHITEWASHING
for the money there was in it, and only Every man working in a shop is provided offerings over this
Receiving a festively trimmed box of
cigars from a woman friend, the man,
without trying them, gave them away,
"^"i
is
"= f"='^'^
prohibited in
*t.
the grill
t* f
room
smoking&
during
a souvenir of the occasion than to smoke
it, for many of these costly cigars are
went around to count up the money on
Saturday night. Some of his friends
with a cuspidor and he is required to use it will
it They are death on all germ breeding
add greatly to the price received.'
fillers ....
Fountain Spn^yer for misting

$4.00
7.50
box, gold bands, ribbons and The dinner hour, from 6 to 8. large and more of a smoke than a man told him, when he complained that he Climax Tobk.cco Pump 10.00
all.
factories and the filthy practices that pro- FINED $25 FOR SELLING TO MINORS Little
following day the friend he gave them to, n jg not exactly clear why pipes should might want to take, wasn't making a success, that he would Progress Jr. Spraying Machine 16.50
who happened to be something of a bore, ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ân than lose every cent he had unless he got. duce them. W. H. Minghini, who operates a cigar Also make lar|e Field Sprayer which covers
These expensive cigars are of the finest foar rows at one time.
busy. He took a tumble and did a little Union men say tobacco in itself is a store on East Philadelphia street, Los
cigarette,, .he odor of which many men and costliest tobacco and are made with clerking Send for free Catalogue.
ret'r'ed .hakf ?o' .\"' "
Fo.?o"': dgtf on his own account. Now there germ destroyer, and that during the great Angeles, Cal., was convicted in Justice
greatest care by cigarmakers of the is no friendlier
ing up his acknowledgement of the favor detest, unless it is because the clabor- the man in the city. He Hamburg years ago it Gidley's court of selling tobacco to a
he asked the donor to dine. ately carved meerschaum is a disUnt highest skill; there are only a few men even has a large sign hanging over the
cholera plague in DAYTON SUPPLY CO.,
was found that men who were employed minor and was fined $75, which he
When the dinner was over, he handed cousin of the Irishman's clay, but the who can make them at all, and these get cash register, which reads:
Minghini protested his
Suc'ors to Nixon Nozzle & Mach. C
out a cigar. It was a particularly fine in the manufacture of cigars were in no promptly paid.
one and the man who was a guest said *^ '
ejudice,' if it may be so called, remains, high pay for their work.
' , ^ /. ...u
It might be
/*u>i.,K^rv fk.m/^ct BE FRIENDLY. danger of taking the disease. But when innocence. DAYTON, O.
that the mere cost of the labor on the most
.1.. . *
.
and it is likely to remain for an indefinite

so. "Yes," returned the other, -it'sone DROP IN OCCASIONALLY.
gave me expensive of these cigars would be 1 5 or
of those you yesterday." period.
8
/^^ Qalve3 ^ Qo. ^^^
^^^mm^.^^ IMPORTERSOF^^
H avana ~~
123 n. third
PHiiUkDBiJ'HiA THBTOBACCO WORLD
RREMER RROS. &l ROEHM,
^^^ ^*^ ^^^ Importers, Packers dLnd Dealers jn
-
GEO. W. BREMER,
WALTER T. BREMER.
Jr.
R.^ BAVTISTA
Cable RoTiSTA.
y CA.~Leaf Tobacco ffarehouse-HABANA,
NEPTUNO I70"i74. special Partner Gumkrsindo
CVBA
Garcia Cuervo. ^
St., PHILADEL?HI4;:^,^,-p,_^^^ #y^

-^^^
119 North Third ,j^ .^ ., ^
-
NVNIZ HERNANOS S ei\ C

y CIA r^ ESTABLISHED 1844
n^
(P)

GEORGE FEHR.
15 JOHN U. FEHR.
^ Established 1883. N.
TUELTA ABAJO, PARTIDO and REMEDIOS TOBACCO
Upmann & Co
FEHR & SON, H.
Cable:
Angel," Havana Keina. 20, Havaaa. p. O. Box 98
J. U. FIGURES FOR 19 04 FROM THE H AVANA MARKET. I HAVANA. CUBA.

A Synopsis Which Gives a Detailed Report of Sales in Havana and
Leaf Tobacco!
and loi, 103, 105 and 107 South Seventh
f Special Correspondence ot

Stocks on Hand. Present Market is Still a Little Dull,
but Big Transactions are Early Expected.
The Tobacco World.]

Havana, January 1905.
B^LtYkers and
Commissi on
700 Franklin St. St., The following statistics are herewith tobacco from nearby points,
9,
presented to the readers of The Tobacco about 10,000

Merch^^nts
READIN, PA. World in regard to the Havana market
during the year 1904:
Stocks on hand, as per report of
Eastern end of the island, partly
in hands of farmers and deal-
ers, or exported from
ports as Santiago de Cuba,
such
Jan. 4, 1904, of all kinds of Bales, Manzanillo, Gabara, Caibarien SHirPEPs^ OF CIGAF^^
and LEAF T01BACC0
leaf Jan. i, 1904, 101,407 and Cienfuegos(Manicaragua), 20, 000
Receipts from the country Jan.
455.021
00TTS&KEELY, Importers and Packers of I

PfflLIPPj.KOLB CDV^ywT.COLGAN I to Dec. 31, 1904, at Havana
of all kinds of leaf,

Total supply,
Sales reported at Havana
by your correspondent
420,031
521,428
Less received from the 1903
crop up to April 2, 1904, 12,001
Total estimated 1904 crop, 443,030
Or say, in round numbers, about:
MAMUPXCTVRBRS OP
W^
from J an. 9 to Dec. 3 1 Bales , Bales.
1904, 322,936 Vuelta Abajo, 350,000
Leaf Tobacco Stocks belonging to

second hand upon Jan.
the
I, 1904, as per report

of Jan. 1 1 and which
Semi-Vuelta,
Partido,
Remedios,
Mayari, Yara, Gibara, Remedios,
24,000
66,000
83,000
The
Celebrte4
ClgKt
Bf Lndi
No. 148 North Second Street, ORTH Third Street,
ought to have been
,
shipped from Caibarien, and

eliminated,as the sales Manicaraguafrom Cienfuegos, 20,000
PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia.
should only be from
first hands. 41* 4^7
443.000
The new year has just opened, and
Receipts from the coun-
while the transactions are not yet large,
raCTORYt PAS0 DE TACON 159-169
IMPORTER OP try sold direct by the
a good many northern buyers have OFFICE! AMARGVRA I HAVANA. CUBA,
HIPPLE BROS. S.Weinberg. Sumatra and Havana
Dealer in all kinds of Seed Leal
farmers to manufactu-
turers
American
not
and
exporters
reported among
a few arrived during the past week,
is no doubt that this
and there
month will show it J
Importers and Packers of and Dealers in some big transactions. Prices are very
120 North Third Street, Havana sales, 67,085 Remigio Lopez Benjamin Lopez
LEAF TOBACCOS Philadelphia. Tobacco Balance

hand
o
of
f
kinds of
all
stock on
43'. 428
firm.
The latest crop reports are mixed, and
speak of a rather diminished growth in
RMMIGIO LOPMZ y HMRMANOManufacturers of the Imported Brands
& La. Mas Fermosa
m. VelMvMk. leaf upon Jan. 1,1905, most sections for want of uniform rain-
Veleadiik.
hands at Ha- judgment ought yMagnetica de Cuba
No. 231 Arch Street, be sus-
in first falls; still all to
. VELENCHIK BR.OS. vana and ascertained
by the various dealers, 90, 000
pended as
If the
to quantity until next month.
dry weather prevails the quality
No. 83^ Amistad St., HABANA, CUBA.
Oar ReUil Depsiiment
is Strictly Up-tO'Dste. PHILADELPHIAf tH^y. LEAF T0B/ieeO The above clear synopsis ought to put be too heavy and unsuitable for the
will
EtaLblhd lata
a quietus for all time upon

reports published, or expressed verbally,
the malicious clear Havana manufacturers in the north
El îGo ]4abano paetopy
Sumatra and Havana as well as here.
INDEPENDENT OF ANY TRUST
G. H. BOESCH, 134 N. THIHD ST., PHILADELPHIA
that theHavana correspondence of The Sales
Tobacco World publishes sales in excess ran up 103,516 bales in all, or 918 of
of the actual transactions, and as one Vuelta Abajo, 78 of Partido and 2,520
OP
Importer of /* ^1^ 1 Enrique Dorado & Co. Vuelta Abajo Cigars

Dealer Leaf
in
SUMATRA
Tobacco
IÔUIS BVTHINER
LO UIS B YTHINMR <& CO.
J. PRINCH party even stated in a printed interview of Remedios.
in excess of the crop of z. single year.

American buyers took
in a New York contemporary, three limes 2,398, European exporters 393, and local
manufacturers 725 bales. MMtrella No. iî^^j,
caWe: chaoawa. Havaua, Cuba.
The above figures prove conclusively Buyers Come and Go. Vbnancio Diaz, Special.
In Quantities to Suit Purchasers. Leaf Tobacco Brokers )UO KSICC ^^*pf J 1 U* that the reported sales constituted only Arrivals: C.
Narciso Gonzai,bz.
S. Egerton, of Egerton
and Commission Merchants. 1 l\llftClClpni&* about three fourths of the crop, and are
312 North Third St., Philadelphia. Long Distance Telephone, Market 3025. therefore as nearly correct as they can
& Joel, Anto. Fanego Rico.Boston, Mass.
Louis Goldsmith and Charles Barthen,
be, as long as no official statistics are (S. en C.)
of L. Goldsmith & Co., Max Stern, of
kept A few people may exaggerate the Lewis Sylvester & Son, New York Harry
L. G. HAEUSSERMANN CARL L. HAEUSSERMANN EDWARD C. HAEUSSERMANN amount of their sales, while others on Nathan, representative of Loeb-Nunez
;

the other hand diminish them, but the Havana Co., Philadelphia, M. Pareda,
H AV A N A
L. G. average is approximately true, and of Granda Hnos., H. L. Simon and
answers all needful purposes. Michael Hirsh, of Montreal, Canada;
The 1904 crop can be estimated as Harry Esberg and J. Lowe, of Esberg-
10 An<cles
P. NBUMANN.
St..
O.
.
W. MlCHABLSItN.
Cuba. p. 0. Box 856.
H. PRAat*.
Importers of Packers and Exporters of and Dealers in

follows Gunst Co., G. W. Nichols and F. L. FEDERICO ISLEUjWIflliri 8t CO.
Sumatra>''Havana Leaf Tobacco rReceipts from the country
ing vessels at Havana Jan. i

by
railroads, steamers and sail-
Artolozaga, of G. W. Nichols & Co., and
Luis Martinez, of the
Bales,
Co., Key West; Wm.
Martinez Havana
Hooker, of Hooker
SHIPPERS OF
LARGEST RETAILERS PENNSYLVANIA IN to Dec. 31/ 1904,
Estimated stocks in the country
410,021
Cigar Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; Mens.
LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS
in farmers' hands, Vuelta Blondeaux, the French regie buyer, from
No. 240 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penna. Abajo and Partido, about 15,000 Paris, France. Returned Sidney Gold-
: Havana, Cuba.
Received by carts, bundled to- berg, of S. U
Goldberg e Hijos, New
bacco packed here, and baltd York and Havana. Office, Obrapia i8. P. O. Box a8. Telegrams: Unicum.
10
^^ J\^ Qalves (^ Qo. <ô^j>
IMRORTERS O
H avana 123 n. third st
HILAOELJHIA
THE TOBACCO WORI.D
Leaf Tobacco Commission Merctiant

Bstablished 1834
iDdependent Voelta Abajo Factory J. F. ROCHA & CO.
Leslie Pantin-,^' Rellly 50, 3 P. O. Bx 493, ; Habana; Cuba Por Larranaga
Celebrated Brands
S. CO
BEHiÊNS & eo.

Royal Cigar Factory îSfe Cigar Manufactory
ANTONIA LOPEZ CUERVO. Proprietreas
ANTONIO J. RIVERO. Manager
'' Crepusculo," "Nene"
INDEPENDENT 2 Belascoain (B), HAVANA, CUBA
1ir
Celebrated Brands,
îlllK # Trade Mark Registered
Annexed Brands Alexander II..
Lcl
:
Columnia de
Cable Address: Por Laranaga. Havana
Flor de Rivero. Ready and Rou^K. Sir Walter Raleigh
IrmaL. and Lsl Guipuzcoana.
1l VictorisL.. Lft.
"Jefferson"
Facundo 100 San Miguel Si. Habana, Cuba
The Departures: Arguellcs, for A. Waldman, of the firm of J. Fried'
mikm Tampa; Harry Esberg and J. Lowe, for man Cable: Crepuscuug
& Co., Chicago, who was reported
Oldest Key Wiest, and to leave on the lolh, Frank here as having arrived three weeks ago,
Dominguez, for Philadelphia. has finally made
appearance in town,
his United States Representative, C. B. TAYLOR,
Brand YG a iIavLi\a Cigar Manufacturers and it was rumored that he must have
been hidden in the Vuelta Abajo all the
No. 95 Broad Street, New York,
are a trifle less busy now than is usual at
4^BAHh. this period, but the large independent

factories are nevertheless well supplied
time.
Monsr. Blondeaux, the French regie
Bruno Diaz
B. DIAZ & CO. R. Rodriguex
SOL and '^^/sMJLtC*'

Cifuentes, Fernandez y Ca.
with orders and have not discharged any buyer, is looking over the condition of Growers aLnd Packers of
LUIS MARX Âalnf^ Proprietors

cigarmakers. Everybody expects to see the market preparatory to making his
a good business for the next five months, selection of leaf for this year.
Rabell, Costa & Co. disposed of 64
Vuelt^L Abajo
PRADO
and PdLftido Toba^cco
125,
174 Industria Street and then it will depend upon how the
HABANA, CUBA.
prospects of the new crop
as to wrappers, colors and quality.
are turning out bales of Vuelta Abajo.
The two chief trust lawyers, Parraga &
Cable: Zaidco
SUAREZ HERMANOS,
Busy
tagas,
factories are
Ramon AUones,
H. Upmann,
Sol,
Parta-
Crepusculo,
Covin, received orders by cable to
to New York and report at headquarters,
come
GRAH, PL/INAS Y 1/1.
Jose Menendez,
Fifth avenue, and week, with
(S. en C.)
Por Larranaga, El Rico Habano and
La mas Fermosa. H. Upmann & Co.
1 1 1
only a few hours'

left last
notice. People here

are wondering what Cable Calzada de la Reina 22,
Almacenista de abaco en RamM
shipped 400,000 cigars last week. F. is up.
J.
Graplanas. Habana, Cuba
and Dealers in L89l I 0D3CC0 Mspecialidad Tabaco de Partido
Rocha & Co. 's strike
days and was quickly
lasted a couple of
settled.
Antonio Suarez sold 1 1 bales of wrap-
pers for |6,ooo to a local manufacturing
concern. CHARLMS BLASCO,
FiguTOS 39-41, The new label is now being used uni-
Vegas Proprias Cosecbado por el versally by every manufacturer to all Jose H. Cayro shipped 125 bales of COMMISSION MERCHANT
^"cueu^= Havana, Cuba. Monte 26, Habana, Cuba. countries, and is a guarantee that the
his stock to Key West customers.
LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS,
cigars are made in the island of Cuba. Voneiflf & Vidal Cruz are busy at work
Obispo 29, Cable- Bico" Habana, Cuba.
SoBRiNos DE A. Gonzalez Buying, Selling aLnd Other Notes of In- stripping for their customers.
Harry Esberg, with his foreman,

GONZALEZ, BMNITMZ &
terest.
FERNANDO FERNANDEZ y HNO. Frank Dominguez has been a heavy

J.
Lowe, arrived on Friday and left again CO.
Leaf Tobacco Merchants buyer in the Havana market, securing a on Saturday. He had just time to regis-
Almacenistas de Tabaco en Rama large number of bales of Remedios and ter soihe tobacco. He left so quickly on AlmacenistasdeTabacoenRamayViveres
Principe Alfonso 116 y 118 Speci&Jty in Vuelta. Abajc, Semi
Vuelta Abajo leaf, so that E. A. Calves account of the fact that his brother,
Amargura 12 and 14, and San Ignacio 23,
Vuelta. y Partido, & Co. will have a choice stock to sell. Alfred Esberg, of San Francisco, is going
CWbie
& HABANA, CUBA.
Ântro. tt Habana. IndustrieL 176,
Gonzalez, Benitez
heaviest sellers this week, disposing of
Co. were the to be married Miss Sussman on the
to Cable: "Tebenitez.* P. O. Box 396.
BAFêi/i Y e/1.
17th, therefore Harry could not tarry if
HABANA, CUBA. 900 bales of Remedios and Vuelta Abajo he wants to get to San Francisco in time
ANTONIO CSUAREZ to a number of buyers in town.

Sol Hamburger has made good use of
for the wedding festival
Reoelpts Froas the Couutrj
S en GUSTAVO SALOMON Y HNOS. his three weeks' stay in Havana, as he for week ending Jan. 7, 1905:
MONTE
Almacen de Tabaco en iâma Tabacos Finos de
Especialidad en
has already purchased fully a thousand
bales and has not finished yet. That he
Vuelta Abajo,
Semi Vuelta,
950 bales
62 Cable: Andahika.
199.
HABANA, CUBA.
B8PBCIAUDAD BN TABACQS FINOS has picked out only the best goods stands Partido, 76

Vuelta Abajo, Partidos y Vuelta Arriba to reason, and as he is a close buyer, the
Remedios,
Santiago de Cuba,
739
169

LOMB-NUNEZ HAVANA CO.
Rayo 110 y 112 HABANA Monte 114, m high prices which he has been obiged to
pay be represented by the first
will 1,996 " Total
im
(P. O. Box) Aprtdo 270.
Cable: Zalbzgon.
K on O
Tjr o
XCiUCiU.Ci quality. He has purchased principally
ACCIDENT POLICY FOR EACH OF ITS
mnaceiiistas He Taiaco en
HABANA.
Vuelta Abajo lea
SALESMEN 142 and 144 Consulado Street,
tlOAQUIN HED ES A9 NARTINEZ^'hEDESA ^ CO.
AIXALA
Sobrinos de V. Diaz commenced the
new year well, selling 650 ^bales of
The Queen City Tobacco Co., of Cin-
HENRY VONEIFF
Cable: Rbporm.
Packer and Exporter of Leaf Tobacco , CO., Havana Leaf Tobacco cinnati, manufacturers of the Red Devil
r. VIDAL CRVZ
102 Escobar street, ^^-.. <-..,*

Cardenas Z, and CorraLles 6 and t,
Remedios.
Facundo Arguelles bought inâll 789
brand of smoking and chewing tobacco,
has sent the following notice to every
HAVANA. CUBA.
Cabte: "jvDBSA."
Branch House:512 Simonton Street,
HABANA,
Key West,
CUBA.
Fla. V4PECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE WANTS OF AMERICAN BVYtMSjgt
P. O. Box 298. Cable Address, -Aixalaco."
bales of fine Vuelta Abajo fillers.
Sobrinos de A. Gonzalez turned over
400 bales of Vuelta Abajo and Remedios,
salesman employed by the Company.
;
We have decided to make you a pres-

ent of an Accident Insurance Policy for
''itoêTs'of LEAF TOBAeeO
S^ Jorge Y. P. Casuneda and are trading on some larger lots with Branch Houses:-616 W. Baltimore Street. Baltimore. Nd.; P. O. Box 433. TcLmp*.. FIcl.
$5,000 for one year from date, and en-
JORGE 8t P.
GROWERS. PACKERS aad
ORSTRJiBDR
EXPORTERS of
Jtt. GARCIA PUmDO
GROWER. PACKER. AND DEALER IN
a number
busy.
of parties.
Mendelsohn, Bornemann & ,Ca.
close herewith blank application, which,
you have not already done so, you will
are if
please fill out and return to us at once.
EDEN CIOAR FACTORY
Aixala & Co. disposed of 200 bales of We sincerely hope that you will not of
Hsivana Tobaeco Iieaf VueltdL AbdLjo, PdLftido 9Li\d Hemedios "^r'

Vuelta Abajo. Don Jose Aixala returned
have occasion to need this, but in the
event of accident, which is apt to happen
BANCES & LOPEZ
Drgones 108110, HA VA NA Cable -Puiido. ESTRELLA 25. HABANA, CUBA. from his short trip to Tampa, bringing to us all, and especially
along several orders.
&
to traveling sales
men, it will come in very handy, carrying,
100 as it does. I5.000 death insurance.
i'-^
1,'->;.-
HAVANA. CUBA.
Calixto Lopez & Co.

Grau, Planas Co. turned over It is
AYMLIXO PAZOS & CO. A. M. CALZADA & CO.

bales of Remedios.
Joaquin Hedesa did a fair business in
also re- assuring to those depending on
our salesmen, wives, mothers, etc., to
know, that in the event of a mishap you 180 Water St.. New York
JJma00nistas d* Tabaco en Ramm Dealers in Leaf Tobacco. Key West on
A M. Calzada
his last trip.
& Co. bought and sold
will be paid for your loss of time while
ill. Yours truly,
Will receive and attend to orders.
Cigri made strictly of tkc very best
PRADO XMj, COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
and 100 bales of Vuelta Abajo and Remedios. The Queen City Tobacco Co. VUELTA ABAIO TOBACCO
OniLBri Habmnm Monte 1,^6, cabie-"CAi4>A. HABANA, CUBA.

It
.s
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THB TOBACCO WORLD
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TOBACCO NEWS OF GREATER NEW YORK

X

THE WEEK'S MOVEMENT IN LEAF. C"^, and at ,th? beginning every one
Since the beginning of the new year,
all firms have been very busy sampling
their holdings and dispatching their

salesmen
returns in the shape of orders have been >^
û
16.
(^
[From The Tobacco World's Correspondent.]

New York, January was planted and
ag*'^^*^ ^^^^ ^^ ûelta and Rcmedios

several
^^ f^*"" * ^^ ^^^^V ^^^ crop, but on

account of the gum in the Remcdios. it
^^ '^^^ >* March or April before
to respective territories. Some
coming in slowly from the nearby cities W"' ^^^ opinions have changed since
Ô"^*^
ô"^^ *e sweated well enough to use.
times since it
X
1
"But up
plain.
to contend with

We
C. A.
to this
oeramittee of the tobacco business has
for
ROST
day no representative
this dissension
&
Richard Green, manager of the Norma

ever been able fully to agree upon any Martinez Cigar Co. 's stand in the drug
tariff rate offered by the Government, and store at No.
it probably never will.
"The reason
Havana, Sumatra and cigar salesmen on lower Broadway.

is
car horses, and can hardly be expected Porto Rican tobacco plantation. Crowds
to travel in the
what
rily
or the other.
older before
terests'
rate of duty
on
we
I
same
tariff
is
class.
imposed,
works a hardship on one commodity
expect to be
in the
No
many
it
the
have three distinct interests Broadway, and is one of the best known
He
seed and although they'are all classified reports a thriving business, and for a
CO., All Grades of Leaf ^Tobacco,
240 Broadway, was for years

the manager of the cigar department of
under the head of cigar leaf tobacco, they drawing card has in his window a photo-
are as different as trotting, truck and graphic group of school children on a
Hegeman
RETAIL NUBBINS.
Drug
THE TOBACCO WORLD
matter stop to gaze at the photo, and their eyes

necessa- naturally wander from the photograph
to the stock of cigars
years cles artistically displayed.
see a 'community of in- "Tom" Roberts,
leaf tobacco
Co., at No.
and smoker' s
who
of the cafe of the Hotel Endicott, has
is the
200
arti-
manager
Jos.
Seed Leaf
Importers
A.
Havana and Sumatra
AND
Tobacco
142 Water
Mendelsohn.
Mendelsohn, BornemdLnn
COHN & CO.
RED
IMPORTERS OP
PACKERS OP
St.,
Louis A. Bornemann.
& Commission Mercbanta

New
LION, PA.
York.
^ Co.
Manuel Suarea.
It
LBAF TOBACCO. already visited, and inside of a week

then, and the Vuelta did not show the trade."

always some eye-catching idea for the Specialty HAVANA TOBACCO
beautiful^tobacco we expected, while the New York Office;
business is expected to hum. cigar stand, Thomas
which is run by HeLVCLHCL Office:
Remedies jsi ready for use now, instead JOTTINGS. U. S. ARCADE BUILDING. ANISTAD 95,
Quite a few Western buyers have ap- Buckley and William Ôttman. The
of March. As to prices being high, that John Wardlow, of Ruy Lopez fame, Water Street, Corner Fulton, Room 1. HAVANA.
opriccs peared and acquired good blocks of the patronage of the Endicott is largely
is easy to account for. When the war arrived at the home office on the 12th, titiHilitd 1840.
yPETROIT,MICII. NewYoftll> new force sweated Connecticut. This
looking exceedingly well and prosperous.
horsey and sporty, and not a few well- Cable
TCROAM, HOLLAND
MAVANA.CUBA. tobacco is showing great activity for so
early in the season, and as soon as a lot
closed every farmer planted tobacco and
raised a crop good, bad and indifTerent
and the result was such a glut that *^
. , ,
He expects to remain with us about two
weeks, when he will return to the factory
known medical men and newspaper men
occasionally rest an elbow on the bar Hinsdale Smith Co* &
J J A prices rail or on the cigar case.
Wiorterf of Sumatra & ^^^^
, , ,
MMmmnkii. .
is sweated and sampled, it finds a ready
1
<ABll AfiOKCSS'tACMUeU* ,
**
, , ,
Key West T^/xlv <^^>^>^v
1 ODuCCO
. went to the lowestêbb. And every year
,
at
John Kennally presides at the cigar
since then there has been a reduced The Florida Tobacco Co., in other Packers of Connecticut Leaf
The manufacturers have taken hold
words, Mr. Alex Shaw, of Quincy, Fla.,
stand at the Hotel Majestic, and Chris
acreage in the Remedios section, and
quite freely of the 1903 Zimmer, and Farley brags about the cigars sold over
sales of 1,000 cases at I5^@i6c have
the farmers have turned their attentioa has opened a very up to date office at
the glass case at the Buckingham.
125 Maiden Lane^
been reported.
old Wisconsin Bs
Pennsylvania broad
and quite
leaf,
some 1902
to planting sugar.
"Certainly, during this past year fully
131 Maiden Lane. They are showing a
few sample bales of their fine product, as Among
office of
the visitors to the
The Tobacco World,
New York
No. 7
TD H. Suits
NEW YORK.
25 per cent less tobacco was planted \m a type of what kind of tobacco to expect at
Wisconsin binders have changed hands
recently.
Remedios. should judge the crop to
I
be, say 200,000 bales, of which 70,000

when With the very Burling Slip, yesterday was Charles
they get to rights.
able assistance of Edward C. Downs, Testera,the superintendent of the Colum-
CHARLES BOLLSTATTER, Manufacturf rof
Sumatra is moving well, considering
who was for years with Schroeder & bia Yacht Club, whose beautiful club is
the low stocks the importers carry at this
any wonder prices are high when the
bales are ist and 2d Capaduros. Is it
Arguimbau, success is assured. at 83d street and Riverside Drive. An- ..Fine Cigars ..
season. If what reports we receive from

supply is so limited? Take my word for Charles P.Bidwell will shortly leave other visitor was George Grant, who runs 1433 Ridge Ave., (Both Phone.) PHILADELPHIA
NEW Holland are correct, every bale of this
old crop will bring its price by summer,
it, you will be glad to get aboard at 60c for the East, carrying the colors of S.
Ruffin, Inc., importers of Havana. This
the cigar department at Kid McCoy's
cafe, at No. 1432 Broadway, while an-
Correspondence solicited with large handlers. Write for Samples.
inside of six months. Even the manu-
but the Amsterdam reports are some- other was John Fenton, who has charge FftAZISR M. DOI3SB& G. P. Sbcor, SpeciaL
|OS. S. CANS MOSES J. CANS JKROMK WAI.I.HR HDWIN I. ALEXANDER facturers who visited Cuba and kept firm has had wonderful growth since its
tines like the Wall street tips. We all
JOSEPH S. CANS ^ CO. remember last year, we were going to
posted, are at this time buying the new
New We in New York
conception, and with the added prestige of the cigar department in Wilson's drug
of J. W. Jacoby, formerly of Schoe- store, at Broadway and 42d street.
F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON Qi CO.
tobacco in
Originsd ^'Linde" New York Seed Iêaf Tobacco InapecUom
I.
York. J.
have "large percentage of light colors
Importers & may think the Philadelphia manufacturer aer &
Co. and Charlie P. Bidwell, should "Al" Gleaning, who has the stand at> I8M
Leaf Tobacco
,
EtLblished
and big yield,"
slow, but if this trade only kaew how rapidly reach ^ position of even greater the Montauk, at Maiden Lane and Will- Principal Office, 180 Peari Street, New York City.
Packers of Havana is moving in an upward direc-
much new Havana the cigar manufactu- prominence. iam street, reports a rapidly increasing
tion, and the market is in a good, healthy Bonded and Free Warehouses. 178. 180. 182. 186 and 188 Pearl $L
feiephone-346 John. NEW No. 150 Walter Street, YORK. have acquired in the rers of Philadelphia The offices of Ernest EUinger & Co. business.

Inspection Brancheat Lancaster, Pa. O. Forrest, 140 B. Lemon St; H W^
condition. Limited stocks of old tobacco,
past month, they would allow that the 161 Water street have undergone ex- In a cigar dealer's window 0:1 Nassau Trost, 15B. Lemon St.; Blmira, N.Y. L> A. Mntchler; Hartford, Conn.J. M>
and more inquiry as to the new crop are and business has Cormick, 150 State St.; Cincinnati, 0.~H. Hales, 9 Front St.; Dayton, O. H.
Philadelphia pace was fully up to if not tensive alterations, saw pedestrians stop to read a set
street I
C. W. Grosse, 333 Warren St.; H. Hales, cor. Pease &
Starr Brothers being heard.
ahead of the New York standard. A
word to the wise is sufficient
started up very promisingly. With the of maxims said to have been compiled by
assistance of S. H. Friedlander, the suc- Stephen Allen a former mayor of New
Germantown Sta.; Jersey
Shore, Pa.Wm. B. Gheen, Antk Fort, Pn.; Bast Whateley, Mats.O. P. Pcaae;
BdgertoB. Wis.A. H. Clarke. ^
IMPORTERS A WORD TO THE WISE.
AND PACKERS OF
XtUblished 1888.
LEAF TOBACCO We
had a most
The Tobacco World
interesting caller in
office the other day

CANT GET TOGETHER. ON TARIFF.
cess of this new firm is assured.
J. H. Duys,
company
York who, with others, lost his life at the
of H. Duys & Co., in burning of the steamboat '"Henry Clay"
with the firm's genial repre- off Yonkers, several years ago.
Framk Ruscher
RUSCHMR <& CO.

Fred SchnaiW*
No. 163 Water Street, who is one of our successful jobbers "Did itêver occur to the members of
Telephone, 4027 John. NEW YORK. in leaf tobacco,
make "Ralph Rose"
but who certainly can
look like thirty
^^^ trade the cause of so
cessful attempts at legislation in
many unsuc-
Wash-

sentative, "Bob"
Reading and York county the past week,
juid as usual something was "doing."
Uhler,
be idle
sailed into The maxims were as follows:
"Keep good company or none. Never Tobacco Inspectoits
cents when it comes to handling the ington on behalf of the tobacco trade? *
Henry Fisher, representing
your hands cannot be use-
A
Cohn & fully employed, cultivate your mind.
If
Water Storage: 149 Street, New York.
hammer. He This question was asked of your corre- COUNTRY SAMPLING Promptly AMended
J.Bernheim&Son started his conversation to.

Co., has returned from Boston after "Always speak the truth. Make few BRANCHES.Edgerton. Wis.:
like this: "What in is the matter spondent^by a tobacco merchant of forty Geo. andC L. Culton. StovfktBi^ F. McGiffin
spending a week selling Sumatra to his promises. Live up to your engagements.
Wis. O. H. Hemsing. Lancaster, Pa. L R. Smith, 6io W. Chestnut st Fraal^
with those Havana importers going to years' experience, who continued a
many customers.
:
Keep your own secrets if you have any. hn,^0.: T. E. Griest Dayton. O. : F. A. Gebhart, 14 Shore Line are. Hartfov^
:
Cuba and running up way follows:

prices the
Chas. K
Crawford, of Dohan & Taitt, "When you speak to a person look Conn. Jos. M. Gleason, 238 State st South Deerfield, Mass. : John DeckMi C
HAVANA TOBACCO
:
they have, and then expecting jobbers "Away back j in 1878 the Government Meridian, N. Y. John R. Purdy. Baltimore, Md.: Ed. Wischmcyer & Ci^
of Philadelphia, closed out several lots him in the face. Good company and
:
like myself to sell our customers ist was considering the raising of the tariff Corning, N. Y. W. C. Sleight :
of tobacco in this market this week. good conversation are the very sinews of
Capaduros at 60 to 65c? They don't on imported" tobacco, and a meeting of
Charlie is certainly one of our "old virtue. CotSON C. Hamilton, formerly of F. C. Linde, Hamilton &
NEW YORK. realize that
to the honest
such prices are a temptation
manufacturer to water his
our Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade was
called and a committe appointed, con-
timers, "but works like a "four-year-old.
Ben Rothschild, of
"Good character is above all things
Rothschild, Son & else.
M. CoNOALTON, Frank P. Wiseburn,
Your character cannot be essen-
Co,
Formerly with F. C. Linde, Hamilton & Co.

Louis
milk with seed, and the manufacturer sistingiof Edgar M. Crawford, Gerson
Havana, Cuba who only uses half milk at the present Mayer, Darius Ferry and Simon Auer-
Co. Chicago, was a large buyer in our
, tially injured except by your own acts. C. B. Hamilton.
time, will use all water in the future; bach, to 'go to Washington to confer with
the'Ways and Means Committee. On
market this week. We are always glad
to see Ben.
"If one speaks evil of you, live so that
no one will believe him.
C. C. HAMILTON & CO.
then what will Havana importer do?
the
Importers The devil only knows we use little their arrival they talked the matter over,
Harry S. Rothschild, and there is only
one Harry S., returned from his Key
"Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors.
"Ever live (misfortune excepted) with-
Inspectors, Tobacco
Sampling In All Sections of the Country lêcelves Prompt Attention.
Warehousemen & Weighers
Havana enough since the Spanish war." and each'member of the committee pre-
West factories, and is again taking up in your income. When you retire think finest Bonded Storage Warehouse in Of Or Cnnfli Cf lUnm Vnnk
Svmatra Tobacco During this monologue there entered ^^^^^^ his views,
"Afterihaving done
the management of the immense Waldorf over what you have done during the day.
%aierica. Perfectly New, Bight Stories High, 04"0 J OvUlU oli) llvV Ivil
man who recognized as a very level- so, the chairman PIrst-Class Free Storage Warehouses:
a is
Astoria Segar Co. "Make no haste to be rich if you
(Congressman
Joseph Hirsch & Son headed tobacco merchant, who buys
tobacco in every clime.
Abraham S. Hewitt, from
He took excep- ^^ ôx)^), addressed them as follows:
tion to the remarks by saying: "Just
"'Gentlemen, we would ask you to
Jesse Falk, of G. Falk & Bro. is hav- would prosper. , Small and steady gains
ing his samples of Sumatra made ready give competency with tranquility of
eo9 East a6th St.; 204-208 East 27th St.; 138-138^ Water St.;
Office, 84-85 South St., (Tel. 9191 John) Main York,

New
%i. maaan m Office, 183 Water St let me
.
post you,
^ . \' my' friend, as to the real
^ ^ ,
'ôTa
among vZfî'"^ ''^f
yourselves as
^"
to just ''I"
""^'^
what you
for another
road.
of his whirlwind trips on the
Jesse' s great business has never
mind.
"Never play any game of chance.
^ Inspection Branches.Thos. B. Barle^Bdgerton, Wis.; Frank V. Miller,
906 North Queen street, Lancaster, Pa.; Henry F. Fenstermacher, Reading, Pa.,
situation in Havana tobacco. have want, let us know, and tempted him to smoke a cigar, and still Avoid temptation through fear you may Daniel M. Heeter, Dayton. C; John H. Hax, Baldwinsville, N. Y.; Leonard L.
NEW YORK.
I
we will try ^-
to
been to Cuba investigating this crop grant your request * Grotta, 1015 Main street, Hartford, and Warehouse Point, Coon.; James L. Day,
he does know how to sell tobacco. not withstand it" Hatfield. Masa.; Jerome S. Billington, Corniof^, V /.
Por Geouine Sawed Cedar Cigar Boxes, go to Esuwished iss*.
L. J, Sellers & Son. KEYSTONE CIGAR BOX CO.. SELLERS VI LLE, PA.
14 THE TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD 1$
!
AN EXCMLLnNT TOBACCO FOR CHBWING AND SMOKING. Telepkone Call, 432 B.
Every Dealer Should Have a Stock of Îfice and Warehouse, Ready for the Market
FLORIN, PA First Class Pennsylvania
Broad Leaf B's
Located on Main Line Havana Seed Bindem
of Pennsylvania R. R. Fancy Packed Zimmer Spanish
m
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LRWeaver, Leaf Tobacco
Dealers Specialty.
^41 and 243 North Prince Street,
Buyers always find it a pleasure
Critical
to look ove-our Samples. LANCASTER., PA.
lil Samples cheerfully submitted upon request. P. O. Box 96
WALTER S. BARE, W. R. COOPER & CO

Manufactured by KEYSTONE TOBACCO CO., Reading, Pa. PaLcker of
PACKER OP
n
PR.ETTY GOOD IN CHICAGO. good year and says the tendency of the Fine Connecticut Leaf I 1
trade to adopt private brands, is on the
PfiMil. B
J, E. SHERTS & CO. Salesmen are Out and Business
Enough to be Satisfactory.
is Lively
increase.
The E. Hoffman Co., Chicago's reli-
ALL GRADES OF DOMESTIC
and Dealei in All Grades of
Cilia r Leaf Tobacco

Chicago, Jan. 14.
Lancaster, Pa. Considering that only two weeks have
able manufacturers and importers, con-
tinue doing ^business
Domestic Cigar Leaf Tobacco,
at the old stand.
Manufacturers of elapsed since the holidays, trade condi-
They carry, |in addition to their well Of&ee and Warehouse, 201 and 203 North Duke SL
tions in this part of the West are very
satisfactory. Naturally enough, the
selected stockôf cigars and tobaccos, a LANCASTER, PA.
Higl-lrraile that usually follows the holiday season
lull
is
large assortment o f smokers articles. LITITZ, PA.
some measure. The
{firm are distributors for the well
felt in The fact that no
known^Bachelor cigar, in which they re-
Seed&HsYanii
failures are reported, and that all hands
making inventory, serving port an excellent^business. They also
are busy either
customers, or planning larger fields of
report good sales in Hoffman's Spillman
7. K. LEAMAN, H. H. MILLER,
operation, speaks plainest for general
mixture, which it is claimed, to "the Packer of and
Cigars conditions in the western field just now.
man behind
lent smoke.
the pipe," makes an excel-
Bi tr -
Deader in Light Coimecticut Wrappers and Seconds
^ CORRESPONDENCE INVITED FROM RESPONSIBLE HOUSES.

I. Latzar,
home tomorrow evening.

who has been on
business trip to Cincinnati,
Gus Hoefer, who has gone to

is
a brief
expected
represent
Col. Diffley's several retail stores all
appear to be enjoying their
of patronage, as do also those of Presi-
dent Breitung.
full measure
LBAF Tobacco i Pine Florida Sumatra
JOSEPH BOLLARD & SONS,
E. A. & Co., at San Francisco, briefly
visited friends here lately.
Among
noted. J.
leaf men, some changes are
Waitel has associated himself
138 NorthMarket St
Makers of
Hollard's Premiers,
W. Monroe, the popular down town
F.
dealer in the Tribune Building, is pre-
with the Wedeles and Mr. Levi-
Bros.,
son has gone to the Rothschild Sons
- LANCASTER, PA. $97 and jag N. Queen Street,
Franklin Club, paring for an extended visit to Florida in & Co. Messrs. Hathaway, of H. Smith \T lANCASTBR, PA.
Luxury, the near future. His wife and children & Co., Springfield, Mass., Levison of
J.
NUMEROUS PRIVATE BRANDS. accompany him, and the trip will
and
Seal Ciâr Factory,
will
consume several months time.
Bernheim & Sons, New York, Chas.
Waxelbaum, of A. Cohn & Co., New
Leo W. Mayer, vice- president of the York, Soliday and Benno Newberger, of
B,F.GOOD&CO.
.^ ,..,,,1-,
J. W. DUTTENHOFFER,
2203 South Street, Philadelphia. VACums
Hilson Company, was a visitor this week. E. Rosenwald & Bros., New York, arc
Harry Harris, secretary of the Khe- late trade visitors. Sol "Dewey" has m '
WD
Leaf Tobaccos
DSiLUUlSIN Packer, Dealer,
"1
Michael Hose A. F. Brillhart
divial Company, manufacturers of cigar- joined the forces of Metzger & Co.
ettes, has returned from the East and
The
firm of L. Abeles &
have dissolved
Co.
and Jobber in Leat Tobacco
North Market Street
,
will leave at once an extended West- partnership, W. Wetzler retiring from

for
145: Pennsylvania Broad Leaf Our Specialty.
ern trip. the business, and L. Abeles & Son to
Dallas Ciiar C Manuel Lopez, of Manuel Lopez & continue the same.
Co., New York, visited here this week Leo iTuska, the busy broker in leaf
LANCASTER. PA [**/* <s4t*y
33 North Prince SL, LANCASTER, PA.

on his way to the Pacific coast. tobaccos, appears to be enjoying his full
Manufac-
turers of & Dealers
in
C. J. Holton, of Detroit, and several proportion of business, and says the year
other members of the Cigar Dealers* As- is opening well with him. Loberg. J. W. BRENNEMAN,
sociation of America, recently attended
a meeting of the Chicago Retail Drug
Packer and Dealer in
1904 PRICES IN RICHMOND.
LEAF TOBACCO, Association, which body they addressed According to an estimate made by
on matters touching the cigar interests,
and urged the handling of independent
several prominent tobacco men, of Rich-
mond, a few days ago, the general aver- Leaf Tobacco
goods.
are doing
wavs than one.
The members
good missionary work
of the National
in more
age of prices received this season has
I
been from 75 cents to |i a hundred

pounds higher than the prices of last
BRANCHES:
Your correspondent recently visited season. On the lower grades the increase Millersville, Pa.
UNITED CIGAR & the Chicago headquarters of Geo. Schlegel, has been larger. One man said that all
Lancaster, Pa.
V ^
Kerbs, Wertbeim
Hirschborn, Mack
Straiton &
Stornif
Scbiffer,
Co.& the well
labels
known manufacturer of cigar box his grades
and trimmings. . . Thatcher, higher this season than last On the
have cost him more than $1 Office & Salesrooms,
Warehouses: Lancaster and Red Lion, Pa.
Manufacturers L I/icbtenstein Bros. Co. the able manager of this end, spoke in "PP*"" gi'ades, however, the increase has 1I0& 112 W. Walnut St., LANCASTER, PA. We make Scrap Filler Ready for Use*
1014-1020 Second Ave., NEW YORK. good terms of the patronage enjoyed by been less, and so the general average has
the Chicago house. He anticipates a been made.
UNITED PHONB8.

ss THB TOBACCO WORLD
GOODS ORDEHED ARC NOT ALWAYS tobacco business, swindlers of this soit
Established 1&81 Incorporated 190a PAID FOR. would find themselves helpless. Anxiety
T0B;êe0 Published Every Wednesday

BY THE
W0RLD The trade
who rented
warned against the man
is not to lose any business, however, induces-
some jobbers and manufacturers to take
a store on Ninth street.
long chances, and it is by the purest of
Philadelphia, last week, and succeeded
good luck rather than good management
in getting several bills of goods on credit,
that Jackson did not succeed in getting
THK TOBACCO WOfttl If
sold them at cheap and hasty private away with more goods than he did.
TOBACCO WORLD PUBLISHING CO.
224 Arch Street. PKiUdelpKiaL saleand skipped out The man gave
Jay Y. Krout, J. M. Buckley, H. C. McMands, the name of "H. Jackson, and was '
The following is taken from the
^f<!^^
President and Genl. Manager. Editor. Secretary and Treasurer. apparently a perfect stranger in this city. Providence Journal
Entered at the Post Office at Philadelphia, Pa., as second class matter. He evidently expected to find Philadel- There is no ground
for the pro-

Tei,EPHONES: Bell, Market 28-97 Keystone, Main 45-39A ;
phia a very easy mark, and was throwing fessed fears of the tobacco growers
Cable Address, Baccoworld. Havana Office, Post Office Box 362. of this country that lower duties on
when
^t
out his lines in other directions
SUBSCRIPTION-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: Philippine tobacco will unendurably
forced to duck.
One Year, $1.00 Six Months, 75 Cents; Single Copies, 5
; Cents. injure them, as may readily be
In all countries of the Postal Union, $2.00 per year, postage prepaid. Jackson ordered bills and had them understood by those who note that
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. sent C. O. D. He offered checks, which
>n
about two- thirds of the country's
Advertisements must bear such evidence of merit as to entitle them to were refused in some cases but accepted crop is now exported.
by the expressmen in others, in which There we have it The only thing
calculated to mislead or defraud the mercantile public will be admitted.
Remittances may be made by Post Office Money Order, Registered Let- cases the goods were left If it were less left now is for the tobacco trade to hide
ter, Draft, or Express Order, and must be made payable only to the pub- easy to get credit in the cigar and its diminished head m chagrined shame*
lishers. Address Tobacco WoRi^D Pubwshing Co,, 224 Arch St Philada.* ,
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 18, 1905
t
rather inclined to h e cut, President
To Benefit Our Readers.
t
Roosevelt appreciates the fact that there

Philadelphia Tobacco Trade, j
The Tobacco World wants to receive may be more than one side to a ques-
from week to week all questions
tion, and is desirous of satisfying himself
relating to the trade which may be
of the rights of the matter before action
puzzling its subscribers, and will be Swindler OpercLtes on Ninth Street store a day or two longer, so that he could
glad to supply any information in its is taken.
A smooth proposition, who had chosen conduct his swindling operations with
possession or obtainable.
as a cognomen "H. Jackson," spent a this business address as a background,
The columns of the paper are also WORRYING ABOUT THE CIGARETTE.
few busy hours in Philadelphia last week. It is said that a representative of a cer-
open to readers for the discussion of
The cigarette seems to cause an
current trade topics. If you have a and came mighty near making a number tain cash register concern wined and
decided opinion on a matter, express amount of trouble out of all proportion
of manufacturers and jobbers sick at the dined "H. Jackson" at Green's in order
it, and see if some one else has good to its size. Medical authorities are con-
As it is, some of to effect a sale, and that when the newly-
reasons for thinking otherwise.
All letters should be addressed to
tinually disagreeing as to whether it is
deadly, and there are always to be found
pit of their stomachs.
them are guessing, but it is not believed embarked cigar store proprietor casually
that the man got away with very much, mentioned that he wanted to buy a.
Your Hea^dque^rters
the"CorrespondenceEd)tor"andmust
be accompanied by the name and ad-
dress of the writer, which may be
a half dozen or more cities where a fren-
zied crusade is being waged against it
"H. Jackson" arrived in town and couple of diamonds for his wifes birth-
rented No. 160 North Ninth street, pay- day present a friend of the cash register
^Hll At Our Office.
withheld when desired.
He had his salesman steered him up against a jew-
Aside from the question of the potency ing out 550 in real money.
of the commodity as a health destroyer sign put on the window in white enamel, ^ry house and showed a disposition to
on general principles, it does not seem "Jackson's Cigar Store," and induced a vouch for him. "H. Jackson" ordered
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION RECOM-
MENDS 25 PER CENT RATE. quite clear why there need be so much firm which sells cigar store fixtures to th stones delivered at the Ninth street Choice Escojidas of^
worry about the cigarette habit in boys. deliver a set of showcases, etc, for which address. Check O. D., but the jeweler did
Seci^tiiry Taft' has ^submitted to the
A boy with the average boy's rugged hie made an initial payment of |io. not seem to care to. do a face business.
President the annual report of the Philip
pines Commission knd the President âs
health will not smoke more than a lim-
number of cigare^tês if he smokes a
Thus fitted out "H. Jackson" visited Remedios, Santa Clara
transmittcc}' iv to Congress. The Com-
ited
number of manufacturersîind JQl>bers, Here and There With the Retîleri
any, for the reason that he wont crave
mission among other things, recommends
that the tariff on sugar and tobadco be re*
\hem^
Your
./
cigarette
,.
fiend
i
isn't
;
healthy, and
who found him a very agreeable indi-
vidual.
at one place,
,,
He , ,
left orders for 4,000 cigars
and similar orders ^t

.
**
.
-
While no retailer was doing a land
,
,.
office business this week, there were few
,
, . , .
and Manicaraûa,
duced to not more than 25 per cent of if liny kicks coming, as every dealer who
the Dingley rate, and suggests legisla- in the
majority of cases he smokes con- others, the merchandise to be .paid for
because 4^;;^ in bad health, on delivery. The store was to be opened
was asked, declared that he thought the Vuelta Abajo and Partido Factory Vegas
tion authorizing the Commission to make tinually market at least normally active for this
reductions on present and future ^tariff instead of being in bad health as a re- last Thursday
chedules when, in its opinion, to do so sult of his smoking. The most forcible
' afternoon. Many^ of the i-time ofr year. Some
bills arrived, and those expressmen who
c ^ u
hadj i-^î 'îî^vi-
a little Tietter
report than this to make, but it is safe to
of Various Sized Lot3
will be in the public interests. argument agiinst the sale of cigarettes to* kindly consented to be hypnotised wer<*
say that the average business done was
boys is that it helps them to form a habit presented with a brand new check which
Secretary Taft's action would seem to
indicate that he still believes the 50 per
cent cut to be the
spite of the rumor
only
that
one
he
advisable
had
in
consented
which they might otherwise not fofm un- "H.Jackson" would remove from a book
til their judgment and selfcontrol were
more matured.
of busy.4ooking stubs.. The only tiny
irregularity important enough to mention
as good as any January can show for
3ome years. There was in average
demand at the Chestnut street stores, but fl
LDCe-NUNEZ HAVANA CO Packers of
^
j^ ^^^^ residence sections trade suffered a
to a compromasfEi at 50 per cent of the
The child cigarette fiend in practically was the fact that "H. Jackson" had not ^^^^^ phaps from the fact that the
\\
every case has the sort of nervous system gone through the formality of depositing
Dingley rate. Christmas donations have not all been
The legislation has not yet
acted, however, and it behooves those

been en- that
it was
would have
cigarettes
found
or
some
not
outlet whether any money in bank.
The tempera- Somebody gained a little wisdom and
^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^j^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^
^^^^^ ^^ ^nd well, however, and Febru-
Havana Tobacco
who are fighting against it to continue
operations.
ment of the American boy is such as began to ask
Each week produces a largely to protect him against the desire some friend told "H. Jackson" that it
for excessive cigarette smoking, and in was about
questions
time, there
here
was a
and
sudden
there,
^ry to open up better than ever,
^^
CONSUUADO 142 and 144,
batch of additional protests from various dis- z. John Norris, the local representative
#1
trade bodies throughout the country and
as all of these are sent to Washington, it
his
the
case,
wish
the
to
father
be a
of
hero.
the desire is merely appearance,
bills on credit
and those
gathered
who
around
had
No.
sold of the Thomas Allen Tobacco Co. and o f
160 i. Lewis & Co., whose popular counte-
Hdvana, Cuba.
must by this time be fairly obvious in the In Spain it is different
Capital that there are a few persons in the has received a bill from the minister of
The cortes to engineer a bunch of replevins. nance is extremely well known among
About the first warning that the mo- Philadelphia dealers, spent last
week in
WE WILL
United States and in the Republican the interior absolutely prohibiting the mentary proprietor was not AAAi was Newark and New York, planning the INVITE CHEERFULLY
party who are rigidly opposed to any sale of tobacco, cigars or cigarettes to given by the Keystone Tobacco Co. of local campaign for the coming year. , CORRESPONDENCE an II SUBMIT SAMPLES
such change. any person under 17 years, and provides North Ninth street, the members of %%
The mere fact that the domestic inter- a penalty carrying a heavy fine or im- which firm had watched with mixed Augustus Fleck, of Fleck & Co. which
ests may not be of absolutely one voice prisonment. This is because of a claim interest 'H. Jackson' carrying cigars
' firm recently retired from business at 220
,
Philadelphia Office, 306 N. Third St.

as to precisely what the rate of duty shall that racial degeneration in Spain is due out of the store and selling them around Market street is about leaving for an ^
be, does not seem to be a good reason in a great measure to the use of cigarettes the corner. extended trip through the South. Mr. Cable'] Address:
for nearly eliminating it altogether. by the young, ot^ it ls*doubtful if the It is now believed that the man's plans Fleck expects to put in two months
or "REFORM"
It would appear that while, personally race is confronted by any new conditions. originally admitted of his keeping his more down where it's warm.
18
'
OifMkjr
Match
f^r MantifiKCttirlng Cigar
vnrATS Room for Ons Mork Good Custoioir
"Match-It"
It, if
Boxes
you Can-- You Can't.
Cheroots
on the market.

Packages of Five Wrapped in Foil.
Manufactured by
Is
THE TOBACCO WORI.D

L J. Sellers & Son, Sellersvlllei Fa.
The North Eighth street,
store at 144
which is operated under the name of the
Pennsylvania Cigar Stores Co., has been
sold again and is now being operated by
M. Gartner and Albert Lang as Gartner
street,
& Lang, although the establishment will that there are no funds and asking the
continue to trade under the name of the creditors to come up with the expenses
Pennsylvania Cigar Stores Co.
Both of the new proprietors are men of
thorough experience
and retailers,
which have already been incurred.
as
and are prepared
the stand a very prosperous one.
manufacturers
to make
The
who became insolvent some months
ago with assets of about $11$, has been
discharged in bankruptcy, and Albert
Bankruptcy has sent
Driver, Referee in
out a circular to creditors announcing
Lea^f Dea^lers* Jottings.
#^
Best
is to buy
THE TOBACCO WORLD
Very Best Tobacco you

the
Increase Your Business
The Manchester Cigar Mfg. Co. two are New Yorkers, but are fairly
The leaf market has been
during the week so far as inquiry
fairly active
is con- can get. We have in all grades, at it

BALTIMORE, MD. familiar with this market. cerned, but there has been a dispositiom

The
operated by
store, until a
Wm.
few weeks ago, was on the part of buyers who want goods to
Catlin, who in order to hold off a bit. The prices are ruling very
Reasonable Prices. Why not buy from
ROBERTSON,
F. 8.
join the Victor Thorsch Co., sold out to
Hartman & Kohn, of New York. During used
high, much higher than this market is us and get the Very Best in the Market?
to, and buyers don' t feel like paying
1133 Ridge Avenue. PhiU. the latter' s man- what they will finally have to. Pennsyl-
holding, the place was
aged by E. E. Shaw. vania is scarce and high, Connecticut
HIPPLE BROS.
EsUblisKed 1864 Factory No. 20, 9lh Dist.. Pt..
wrapper is high, and the buyers for the
C. A. Smith & Co jobbers at 18 South leaf houses who i
Geo. W. Bowman Co. ,
have already been to
Delaware avenue, have retired from Havana, report the same conditions there.
business and sold the stock, fixtures and There does not seem to be any
possibility
Haivover, Pa.. good will to Runge & Co., who will of a much easier market. The inquiry,
conduct a retail store at that address. however, is quite good for this time of
Manufacturers of The company have been doing
Arch
latter and the few salesmen who have
year,
fine Ci^^rs
business at Delaware avenue and Chest- already started on the road are making
nut street, but have been compelled to some returns. In a few weeks practically
vacate to allow the Pennsylvania Railroad all the leaf salesmen will be out on their
231 Street,
^4> -f^J^^
Co. to erect a warehouse on the site. territory, and it is expected that the bus-
PHILADELPHIA.
The removal took place late last week. iness will be average good.
Wm.
LEAF TOBACCO
H. O'Keefe, of South Fifth street, George Burghard received a nice lot of
THe Boll Bow-man has decided to give up the cigar stand Connecticut wrapper this week. A. M.
an excellent 5-cent Cigar, made in which he has been conducting in the Lake will start out on the road in about aqd PacRBFS ol
several sizes, is our specialty. front of the saloon at 835 Market street, two weeks.
and will close it up on Friday of this
Correspondence with the Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Invited. The leaf house of Morris Rosenberg,
week. Mr. O' Keefe finds it necessary to
Write for Particulars.
devote more time to his main establish- on Third street, was closed yesterday on
ment. account of the funeral of Joseph Rosen-
WAITING FOR UNITED CO. TO ACT. advent of any more "tag" stores would The B. Leidersdorf Company operates New York and much pneumonia p
berg, a brother of the leaf man, who died
L. S. STAUFFER,
MANUFACTURER OF
Walter H. Lazar, Chestnut
Tenth, has a handsome window display
of the La Verdad brand, which he offers
street below on Sunday.
Walter T. Bremer, of Bremer Bros.,

Milwaukee DesLlers Would Not Sta.nd
More "TsLg" Stores.
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 17.
for
mean that somethinghad to give. As it a union shop and observes union rules,
is, local dealers do not want to be pushed it is claimed by members of the organiza-
into a fight of any kind until they have tion. The reason the use of the union
vailed, so that tobacconists and ciâr
dealers suffered a diminution of trade.
"Tell The Tobacco World something
sufficient ammunition to carry it to the label has been refused is that it is claimed about the proposed exhibition.
has returned from a short trip on the The
in fifteen sizes. The half dozen tobacco and cigar men
HIGH and MEDIUM GRADES road, and will go out again next week.
of this city, who attended the sessions of
end. the company is a branch of the American Committee of Three will report progress
What is of more interest just now than Tobacco Co. The employes of the at the next meeting of the Retail Dealer^'
A week that He considers that he did very well for
report was circulated this
the Cigar Dealers' Association of America
OF the United Cigar Stores Co. had taken January.
the proposed war on the trust, is the Leidersdorf factory side with the com- Association
on January 23, when Mn
in Chicago last week, are full of hope of plan of Secretary Taft to lower the tariff pany.
the Bainbridge Shoe Store at Second and Anderson. Freeman will report on the Chicago
great benefits from this meeting, and from the Philippines. Local dealers and
UNION-MADE CIGARS Market streets, in which to open a branch.

It seems probable that the report is true,
Frank Dominguez, of E. A. Calves &
Co., has returned from Cuba, where he
although the manager of one of the local was buying for the firm, and is anything
Milwaukee stands ready to do her share
in "agitation, education and publicity"
producers are bitterly opposed to the
contemplated action, and the Wisconsin
Convention. There are over eleven
TOBACCO SHOW FOR NEW YORK. hundred members of the Retail Cigar
and Tobacco Dealers' Association, and
THE FOR
United Stores refused to confirm it.
but optimistic over the conditions as he against the trust, as urged by President members of Congress will be fortified Will be Either in Madison Square Garden if New York cannot make such an exhi-
or Herald Squk.re HslII.
found them. The tobacco was not of Lane in his written address to the con- with resolutions and many personal let- bition a success, I don't know any city
particularly high grade and the prices vention. While not a single cigar dealer New York, Jan. 17.
Wholesale and Jobbing Trade With MaLiiufeLCturers and Jobbers. were very much higher than last year. in Milwaukee or Wisconsin is named in
ters declaring against any such action.
These resolutions will set forth that the Because one of the busiest, Thomas J.
that can. Aside from dealers and man-
ufacturers I think that nearly everybody
%^) Ithc list of officers or on the executive great industry in this State would be Donigan is one the hardest men to catch is interested in tobacco. Now
W. H. & the Phila-
Jos. Wertheim, of Jose Lovera & Co. Myers, of E. A. Calves Co.. committee, still this section can be ex- wrecked should the
practically tariff rates either at his Centre street store, his Cort-
W. T. Taylor, the American representa-
left last night to make the New York delphia contingent broke the ice and
Akron, Pa. tive of the
Juliet
Punch and the Romeo and
factories; and Tom E. Bowen, of
State trip.
L- P. Kimmig, of L. P. Kimmig &

pected to supply some of the funds and
some of the hustling men needed in any
from the islands be reduced
cent of the present rates.
to 25 per landt street shop or at Association head-
would work quarters, but I coralled him this after-

It
opened up a field for tobacco exhibits,
and I think ours will be a hummer, but
war to be waged. havoc with the producing and manufac noon at the first address and asked him may be ready by spring. The
not
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Guerra, Diaz & Co., were among those Co., has returned from Connecticut
it
Since the Chicago meeting local dealers turing interests in Milwaukee, Wisconsin if it is true that he is one of the appli-
I committee has decided on one of two
who got around among the Philadelphia where he acquired considerable tobacco
which he will pack both at Hatfield and are getting braver about discussing the and the entire country at large, they will cants for space in the Times building. exhibition halls, either Madison Square
trade during the week. probable action in this city against the Not much," he promptly answered,
Lancaster. Mr. Kimmig says he paid say. Garden, which
F. H. BELTZ, Sch wenksville, Pa. stiff prices for his holdings, but believes
R. Choate, who was connected with it will continue to be a high market. I
chain of stores system.
done by the two
If the business
local retail stores was
The Tobacco Workers' Union will at- "not at a 15,000 rental. 1 don't think
tempt to give the B. Leidersdorf Tobacco it would pay any cigar dealer to pay
about $7,000 a
will cost
week, or the Herald Square Exhibition
Hall, which will cost about half that sum
~m Manufacturer of Fleck & 220 Market street, for
Co.,
heavy enough to affect the business of Co. of this city as fair a hearing as possi- ^5,000 unless he got plenty of window
seventeen years, has entered business for George W. Newman, of Young & New- and yet afford almost as much area sur-
other first-class stores, there would have ble upon the question of whether or not space to show off his goods."
man, leaves today for a Western trip, face for exhibits.
himself as a jobber at 1 1 1 Market street Asked to review the business situation
where he expects to find things in lively been joint action with the Chicago inde- it is entitled to the use of the union label.
and will sell cigars and tobacco. "The objection to the latter hall is
shape. pendent dealers when this plan was To avoid the display of prejudices that and trade conditions Mr. Donigan said :
that it has to be reached by elevators,
proposed some time ago. But thus far, may have been formed as a result of the "There is a general feeling that trade
Frank Win slow, manager of the cigar Eckerson has left which is not the case at the garden.
F. Cuba to buy
for
no reliable dealer in this city has felt like previous entanglements, the arbitor who is fair, but I think myself that this is an
department of Finley Acker & Co., will for the Eckerson house. The new year Still it will accommodate eighty exhibit-
S Cent Cigars retire from that position in order to is starting with a satisfactory demand
making a fuss, simply because he has in will pass upon the case will be one who optimistic view. I should say it was
ors, including manufacturers of smoking
with this firm. no way felt the encroachment of the has heretofore had no connection with only middling, and with many I know it
The largest aivd best CLEAR, become a full partner with Wm. H. and chewing tobaccos, cigars, boxes and
chain stores, which, on the other hand, it. He will be Charles Hardy, president to be There are certain conditions
dull.
Hartley, of 2333 North Eighth street, labels. The admission should not be
HAVANA FILLED 5-cei\t who is already well known upon the
SPECIAL NOTICE. have made Uttle noise, attending to their of the Tobacco Workers' Union No. 16, in connection with the cigar and tobacco
over 25 cents.
CigOLf on the Market. ( 12^ cents per 8-point measured line.) own business. Consequently, in Mil- of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Hardy is here, trade which are not important factors in
market with his American Traveler The United Cigar Stores Co. , who a
waukee, there has been no trouble and and has declared he will put forth every other fines of business, or at least not so
We employ no salesmen, saving you that expense. brand. The new firm will enlarge the TX7ANTEDCity Salesman with some week ago adopted a system of insuring
^ ^ trade, by well-known Philadelphia no ill feeling. Just how long this will effort to settle the trouble here in a fair apparent. For this very reason you can-
present business extensively. itsadult employes, is gradually extend-
OUR GUARANTEE goes with the AMERICAN CUP Cigafs^that they are leaf house carrying a full line.
Address, last is the length of time before other and impartial manner, and will merely not always figure on the trend of trade. ing the work, paying the premiums on
with particulars, Leaf, Box 114, care of
Clear Havana Filler and Sumatra Wrapper. D. Dubin, jobber at 722 South Ninth chain stor<;s axe established here. The sift the facts as presented. Last year was a very unhealthy year in $1,000 policies for all men who have
The Tobacco World.
' , ; 1 :
ION, PA -* %
THE TOBACCO W O R I, D
3^31
THB TOBACCO WORLD

Wc Guarantee them
OUR TWO to be
BIG SELLERS*
Free from Adulteration, Full Weight, and Choice in Every Respect,
RiBB ONS
r:
ClGAJtt ^"""' ' PlînandFancy Ribbons.
Maaafactarcrs of
Write for Sample Card and Price Liot to Department W
Bindings, Galloons,
Taffetas, Satin and Gros Grain,
Wm. Wicke 36 East Twenty-second
Ribbon Co.
Street, NEW YORK.
been in their employ one year or more, at No. 126 East Pearl street, at $840 per y CO
The beneficiaries aie mostly the wives annum. The building will be used as a
and children of the insured. The ad- warehouse,
DCLA FLORA CUBAN STAR vantage to the company is that through Edward R Singleton and P. G. Gor-
this free insurance good men are re- don, both of New York city, representa-
tained and attracted to the employ and lives of the Continental Tobacco Co.,
GEO. STEUERNAGLE, there an additional
is incentive to were mysterious visitors here last week.
Manufacturer of honesty and business integrity, When asked their opinion concerning
E. W. May. the possibilities of the Burley Growers'
Pittsburg Stogies, SALES GOOD IN CINCINNATI.
Association, concerning ithe
Mr. Gordon said:
1903 crop,

No. 2103 Peim Avenue, Record Price
"The plan does not look feasible to
for a Year in Connecticut
Goods Sold Direct to me. They have tried it a number of
Jobbers and Dealers. rll IMJUKU, DA
DiTTCnfTDr JTA. Wrappers.
times but we were never caught asleep.
Cincinnati, 0.,Jan. 17.
Whenever it is attempted you usually find
Offerings were fair in size at last Satur-
two people playing the same game and
day's cigar leaf sales, the total being 85
cases with sales at three of the ware-
houses. Taken as a whole the quality
there is generally a
Suppose the Association does corner the
pretty loud crash.
i5 AGOODÂCOOL
They think they
was below the average.
were the best feature, the greater portion
The Zimmers
crop?
buy, and so do others.
we can
will force us to
If we cannot get che:w<^ smoke
You
G. H. SACHS, of this type selling between
In Connecticut wrapper the record price
6^ and loc.
burley,
know 'necessity is
get a substitute.
the mother of inven-
Mannfactnrer of FT N R C T O A R .S for over a

case of
- , '
....
fancy wrapper bringing
,, ,
year was established, a single
the un
tion* "significantly
a/* *i.
After they
heavy purchases by combine buyers in
1 r.. i.
left the
remarked Mr, Gordon.
..
city,
_.. j ^
reports arrived of


Factory No. 7. Ninth Diat.. Pa. LANCASTER, PA. usual figure of 42c, under keen competi-
Factory No. 38, YOM, PMNNA.,
and Earnest Endeavors, Coupled with Energy,
Integrity of Purpose
tion. Connecticut binders ranged from
Kentucky. At Owingsville a number of
crops were purchased at top prices from
U. S. A. Ninth Dist,, Pa.
I.
Have Brought OUR CIGARS to the Front 7}4 and 15c, and fillers from 2 and 631^ c.
1 1 and I3^c per pound. It is said that
Wisconsin s ranged from 1 1. 55 and 2.60 ,. r, R.OCHESTER PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA- Joe Bimberg, of Elmira, N. Y., has Otto Malchow & Co HAVANA CIGARS
IT PAYS TO SELL THE BEST. Wog-WE MAKE THEM. ^, ,' a ^ 11.
the Burley Association people have in no 1
TION ELECTS OFFICERS.

10 bales
also been looking over the markets here. S. Rossi n & Sons
,
per 100 pounds. The market was strong 10 " Str. Mexico, arrived Jan. I
The Standard of Uniform Excellence in instance offered figures that high. At S. Ruppin
1 1
except on common stogie stock, averag- At the annual meeting of the Cigar L. Bincus, representing Taussig & Co. lo*
(576 cases; bbl.)
Seed and Hand Made HavansL Cigara:} Lexington thousands o f pounds were S. L. Goldberg & Scms
i

Always the Same The Highest Quality and the Finest Workmanship.
ing from }^ and ic higher than at the
last break which was 3 weeks previous.
purchased at a general acreage of $1 1. 50
Manufactur r' Protective Association of of Chicago. 111., has been looking over
Rochester, N. Y., the following officers this market in quest of old goods.
'
S. Auerbach & Co.
Jas. E.
Havana Tob
Ward & Co
icco Co
335 cises
168
Will submit samples and quote prices to reputable dealers. Buhrman. Simon Batt & Co ^ 27; jbbls.
The Warehouse, located at
Planters'
per 100 pounds.
were elected: President, P. Meagher; Order 12
fark & Tilford 25 In.
I
3|( G. S. Nicholas 15 r
Vine and Water streets, resumed opera- vice president, P. Werncke; treasurer, Str. Vigilancia, arrived Jan, ^ National Cuba Co
COLVNBVS FACTORY GROWING. 1
tions last week after idleness of six

The business of the Martter Cigar Co.
H. J. Veith; secretary, F. M. McJarthy; Impts
of Tobacco, etc. - -' (1,364. bales; 5l>bls.)""*' Wm. H. Stiner & Sons
C. U. Stone & Co
JO
i.
months. Hereafter, according to Man- attorney, H. W. Martens; directors, P. Ward & Co 5

which established a factory in Columbus, Arrivals at the port of New York from Jas, E. i.035 bales ,
Calixto Lopez & Co

ager Lee Spalding, both burley and cigar Meager,; H. J. Veith, F. M. McCarthy, J. Bernheim & Son 276 4
O. has grown so that the factory now gives foreign points during the week W. O. Smith & Co
,
S. L. Goldberg & Sons 28 " 1
leaf sales will be held regularly. P. WeVnclce, R. E. Jones, John Nelson, ending Jan. 17, 1905. .^
employment to about 300 cigarmakers. Emanuel Hoffman
G. Salomon & Bros
. .
I
25
PAN
.
Clement Mclntyre, who for years was Fred Graf, D. Harris, James Driscoll, Chas. h. Wyman & Co V ^
Havana- Trinidad Shipping & Trad- Jas p. Ward & Co
1
The output of the Columbus plant will 5 bbis.
a conspicuous figure on the burley leaf H. J. Schmetser, Hi C. Gnaedinger,Otto Jas. E. Ward & Co
average 100,000 cigars a day. TTie offi- mg ^^0., 20 oarreis cigarette 5; jaLS. tL. Str. Morro Castle, arrived Ian. [7:
breaks, acting as buyer for various eastern Moeschler, U'Lintz, D. Stuck. ]
Str. Vigilancia, arrived Jan. 14
cers of the Martter Co. are Joseph F.
J. Ward & Co., 21 cases do.
AMMRICAN Registered
independent companies, has removed to
Louisville where he opines the market is
better suited to his purposes.
The
Martter, president; F. A. G. Law, Sec-
following report was received Sat-

retary.
Voneiff y VidaLl Cruz Bacck a^t Their Old

OHIO AUTHORITIES CONFISCATE
GARS OF CUBAN SALESMEN.
t'' Chillicothe, 0., Jan. 7.
CI-
Str.
SUMATRA TOBACC:o.
Amsterdam, arrived J an. 12:
(115 bales; 17 cases. )
F.
(2,264 bales; 48 bbls.
Jas. E. Ward &
Miranda& Co
Hinsdale Smith & Co
Co.
Granda, Hermanos & Co

366 caseJS.)
95 bales
209
175
H5
Jas. E>
L.
Co.
National Cuba Co
G. Smith
Str.
Ward &
Morro
(9 cases.)
& Co
Castle, arrived Jan. 17:
-
4 caês
4
1
*^
caf<^''
'
.
urday by a local firm from Farmersville, Address. A sensation was created here last week E. Spingarn & Co ss bales L. Goldschmidt & Co 131
(263 cases)
STOGIMS Ohio: "Tobacco being stripped.

in excellent condition,
cations are that
It is Voneiff y
and general indi. have removed to the Marine Bank build-
there will be a good ing, at 33 South Gay street, their old
Vidal Cruz, of Baltimore^ when revenue authorities confiscated
500 cigars from Benjamin Sauases and
I. Pinto, two Cubans, who claimed to be
2, G. Falk & Bro
Otto Malchow & Co
A. Blumlein & Co
S. Auerbach & Co
>9
17
II
10
<(
< f
<<
'
Lewis Sylvester & Co
A. Pazos & Co
J. Bernheim & Son
Hamburger Bros. & Co
130
106
56
48
Havana Tobacco Co
Park &
Tilford
G. S. Nichols
Calixto
& Co
Lopez & Co
173 cases
28
21
9
<<
<
crop. quarters. The firm is one of the best salesmen for a New York firm. It was S. Ashner 17 cases Starlight Bros 4 Waldorf Astoria Segar Co 8 It
The Wm. alleged that the cigars were not properly American Cigar Co 40 National Cuba Co
E. Fisher Tobacco Co. has known importers of Havana leaf tobacco 8 *
*
HAVANA TOBACC< E. Ellinger & Co 39 "-
secured a lease on the five story building in Baltimore. stamped. At a preliminary hearing both [). L. Spence 4
Manrara Bros. & Co 37
J.
G. W. Sheldon & Co
men had their cases continued. Str. Mexico, amved Jan . 11:
Lopez, Grau & Co 3
30 C. H Wyman & Co 2 "
(1,435 bales; 39 bbls.) Brown Bros. & Co. 28
Duncan & Moorhead
2
t-++++T-f trH'fTfMBTT I B WISCONSIN NOTES. Jas. E. Ward& Co 418 bales A. Cohn & Co 23 A. Hollander & Co. 2
4- Sartorius & Co 282 Havemeyer & Vigelius 20
W. Martinez
Edgerton, Wis. Jan. 14. I case
E. Rosenwald & Bro
t-h+^rH-+t+-f J.
,
D. Hevia IS8 16
*+.4"bfi6h:icfcii;i
Co. will open A. E. Outerbridge & Co 1

iJajTih
The American Tobacco Order M7 A. Blumlein & Co 15
Selgas, Suarez & Co 1

several of their tobacco warehouses this Leonard Friedman & Co 47 P. Fernandez & Co >3
week. In fact the Edgerton and Stough- M. Arue & Co A. Murphy & Co
/. B. Milleysack GET VOUR 45 II
American Cigar Co 45 Suarez, Selgas & Co 10
HAVANA CIGARETTEa
ton warehouses are already in operation. A. S. Lascelles & Co
W. Alvarez 40 E. Kleiner & Co 10 6 bbls.
Fine Havana r\
Hand-Made
Manufacturer of
K/ Jf^ A
XJTJ^
1? Si
JX. KJ
J.
Trade-Marks Registered
IN THE OFFICE OF
m William Brill, of the United Cigar Cruz & Diaz
Manufacturers, has returned to his
vacation in New York city.

home V. Lopez
here after spending a pleasant holiday Simon Batt & Co
E. EUinger
E. M. Schwarz & Co
39
.34
.34
27
S. Lopez
Louis Ash & Co
Hamburger Bros & Co
M. D. T. Co
10
6
26 bbls.
13
Trinidad S. & T. Co
The Merchants' CigarCo., of Toledo,

O., declared a dividend at the stock-
5
25 Jas. E. Ward & Co 8 holders* meeting and re-elected the

Max Cans, of Max Cans & Sons, of A. Murphy & Co 32 Lopez Grau & Co I bbl. following officers: President, H. A. La
The Tobacco World New York, has recently been doing con- A. Blumlein & Co 21 Jas. E. Ward & Co 365 cases Vey; vice president, O. Clayton Reed;
615, 6x7 and 6ig Lake St. siderable driving in this state. Lewis Bros. 16 Havana Tobacco Co I case secretary and treasurer, C. E. La Vey.
Lancaster, Pa. -^ .._*i_i^jtij* i i.. __ i. ,

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THK TOBACCO WOKLD

THE TOBACCO WORLD
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Factories: 9th District

1 26 and 517
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Bear Bros. Manufacturers of
Manufacturer of
Good to Keep Good Cigars Good . .Gl@ARS. .

FINE CIGARS
A
R.F.D.No.8,Y0RK,PA.
specialty of Private
Brands for Uie
For tKe Jobbing Tratde Exclusively Correspondence solicited.
Samples on applicatioa.
LANCASTER, PA. Brands: 54? Bear, 5^ Cub, Essie, and Matthew Carey.
Your Jobber Will

The Best Goods for the Least Money. A. F. HOSTETTER,
ICaaufacturer of
give you a Certifi"
JVIflf^TIJ^ SLiflBACH,
cate covering small
DENVER, PA. High-Grade
Quantities, and When
pou accumulate Cer^ Manufacturer of ^^^ Domestic
^/ J Q ^ J^
-r
tificates showing High-Grade Union Made Cigars
purchases of 6,000 SPECIAL BRANDS: United Labor (5c) Union Stag (5c) Cuba-Rico (loc) HANOVER, PA.
CJK.EMO EXVOK.T *8taob Favoritb," a 5-ceni Leader,
Cigars, you Will be
entitled to one of
HENRY GOTTSELIG & BRO. known for Superiority of Quality
No. 828 St. Joseph

these handsome LANCASTER, PA.
Street,
GEORGE W. McGUIGAN,
Humidors free, :: ::
Manufacturers of Red Lion, Pa.
>/ Maker of
High Grade High Grade Domestic
TJniqn Made Cigars

r LIGHT HORSE HARRY
Cigars Leaders
I
I
LA-DATA
LA PURISTA
INDIAN PRIDE
LA GALANTERIA
"The Great Poet Needs no Praise.** Jobbers and Dealers Become Convinced at SigM Capacity 50.000 per Day.
Samples and Particulars to Reliable People oti Application. Prompt Shipments Guaranteed.
NVCH CHEER IN LANCASTER.. the Banner Cigar

pany.
Com- DEISEL-WEMMER COMPANY'S NEW FACTORY.
Business is Better Than WaLS Expected A. G. McLaughlin has
and Trek.de is in Good Humor.
discontinued the manu-
Lancaster, Pa Jan. i6.
,
facture of cigars, and the
The volume of business done
premises at 228 W. Grantin the
market during the past week street ar^ now occupied
local leaf
has been an agreeable surprise since it by C. K. Hengst & Co.
was really larger than was expected it T. D. Hene, with We-
would be. deles Bros., of Chicago,
Sire, 30 in. long, 22 in. wide, 25 in. high. Weight, 60 lbs.
iJOJ.V/
The new crop has been pretty well and R. M. Granat, of Gil-
cleaned up. It is estimated that about len & Granat, were cir-
THEpacked
above
and
illustration is an exact representation of the Humidor
shipped by the manufacturer. This Humidor holds 6,ocx)
in which Cremo Export Cigars are
Cremo Export Cigars m boxes
three fourths of the crop has been bought culating among the Lan-
by packers and large manufacturers, and caster trade last week.
containing 100 cigars each. It is metal lined, metal covered, with strong brass lock, and heavy brass a considerable quantity of it is now be-
drop handles and brass trimmings, with moistener pad in top of lid, ventilator in each end, and attractively ginning to arrive at warehouses. It is
expected the condition of the
Visiting leaf salesmen
are out in force this week,
decorated in imitation cedar wood. that, if
number having
a greater
country roads improves any, it will not
Each humidor is shipped in a wood case to protect it from being scratched or damaged in transit. been encountered than
Enlarged 1904,
be long before sufficient tobacco will be Erected 1901,
were met in any week
The purpose of theHumidor is to protect the cigars from the deteriorating effects of changes in temper- in packers' hands to start up their
of this year. They generally report a fair The above is an illustration of the president;Henry G. Wemmer, general
ature, and to preserve them in the same good order and condition in which they leave the factory. This it does respective warehouses in full blast
outlook for business. enlarged cigar factory of the Deisel- manager, and R. J. Plate, secretary and
perfectly for any length of time in any climate on the globe, until the last box is used. The Lancaster County Tobacco Grow- Wemmer which has treasurer.
Co., at Lima, O.,
Cremo Export Cigars are made only in Londres, which means a straight cigar, being practically the ers' Association will hold a meeting today,
WOR^LD'S FAIR TOBACCO SOLD. just been completed. The main portion The company' s popular leader is the
same size from end to end. This shape is more generally smoked than any other, the world over, which fact which will be attended by Profs. Frear
Three of the hogsheads o f tobacco of the present
building was erected about San Felice 5c cigar, but this is by no
and Armstrong of the State Agricultural
is a pretty convincing proof that it is the most popular as well as the most desirable shape in which cigars can
shown in Kentucky's great exhibit at the three years ago, and was 50x120 feet in means its only brand. The American
be made. Department. It is also expected that dimensions, affording facilities for 500 Stag and Star Green are also good
St. Louis Fair were sold at auction last
resolutions will be adopted protesting
If you serve your customer with a Cremo Export
Cigar out of a Humidor, you give him the best five- Wednesday on the Louisville breaks. hands. sellers in the nickel variety of output.
against any further reduction in the tariff The addition in the rear is 65x80 feet, while the General Stark, made in four
cent cigar in the world in the best condition to please him and hold his patronage if he is pleased with one
he will be pleased with every one.
; \ on tobacco from the Philippines. A
One of these is a hurley, another a Green
River and the third a one sucker, and
and permits the employment of 200 more sizes, is a strong leader with them in the
request will also be made for governmental people, giving the company an output of loc line.
all three were recognized not only by the
Send your jobber an order for 6,000 Cremo Export Cigars, and he will have them shipped to you direct aid for experiments in curing tobacco in *^"* 1.000,000 cigars per week. Both The firm caters largely but not exclu-
International Jury of Awards at the ex-
from the factory in the Humidor, freight paid, and billed as 5,500, at $35.00 per thousand. the shed. *^^ "'^^^ ^"'^^^"^ *"^ *""*^^ ^'^ ^""* sively to the retail trade direct, and em-
position as the best types of their variety
H. W. Killian,a cigar manufacturer of ploys a force of ten salesmen. The
ever displayed, but theyare conceded by ^ ^*"'' *"*^ ^"''^' *"** ^^^^^^^^
^^""^
product is almost wholly in hand-made
The CREMO CIGAR is by several times THE LARGEST SELLER IN THE WORLD
RLD. Ephrata, was spending a few days in tobacco experts of Kentucky to be the stories and basement. goods, which are sold throughout the
\f Philadelphia this week. best of the crop of 1903. This business was established in 189 entire country. The San Felice has
ÎSK YOURSELF WHY? S. R.
A charter has been
Moss Cigar
applied for by the
Co., which haveis to
The hogsheads occupied conspicuous by Henry Deisel. and a few years ago
places in Kentucky's tobacco display
^^
incorporated under the name of the
become a veritable password throughout
^îo and other Middle Western States,
which was given the largest amount of _, , ^ , u- 1. *i. r where the demand is growing at an
space devoted to any one product at the Dsel- Wemmer Co., of which the fol-
.
an authorized capital of |2oo,ooo, and , 1
astonishingly rapid rate. These goods

which new corporation is to take over the whole exposition. The money from tlie lowing arc the officers: Henry Deisel, are sold to the trade at I35, less the
present business of S. R. Moss, and also sale goes into the fund of the commission, president; William J. Wemmer, vice usual discount for cash in ten days.
, : -
<^
THE TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD i^
LANCASTER AGAINST TAMFF CVT. F. H. POWELL'S "OXVS."

"""" There is not another man in Camden
HANUFACTUmtR OF ALL KINDS OF *' County Tobacco Grower.* Association ^ho has
done more effective work in the
on Record a. Opposed to it.
cigar industry than F. H. Powell. 126 Fed-
Lancaster, Pa.. Jan. 16. eral street. "Oxus, which the name
Box
'
is
a 140 CENTRE 5t.

Cigar Labels ers*
The Lancaster County Tobacco Grow- of Mr. Powell's specialty has become a
Association held its annual meeting sort of pass word with the cigar-loving
138 AND TRIMMINGS. here today, when resolutions were unani- people throughout the State, and
NEWYORK^ mously adopted protesting against the becoming firmly entrenched in its
is
border
fast
Philadelphia Office, 573 Bourse Bldg. Chicago, 56 Fifth Avenue, San Francisco, 320 Sansome Street, reduction of the tariff on Philippine ing city Philadelphia,
H. S. SPRINGER, Mgr. E. E. THATCHER, Mgr. L. S. SCHOENFELD, Mgr.
tobacco. has been on the market The cigar
Several European manufaturers in- many years and each succeeding year's
COILILECTION. ^1 quired whether or not they could pur- sales show a healthy increase.
O. K. P. Registered Jan. 6, 1905, by The
Trade-Mark Register. the Keystone Cheroot Co. Hanover, Pa., ,
chase and pack in the local market, and sales in Philadelphia have grown marvel
should have been "O. K. 186." to this President Herr replied that they lously fast, and a branch office is being
W. HUBLEY.
P.,
MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTU-
D. For
RERS' 14.679
"186."
CANCELLATION.
Registered by the Keystone
would be welcome here.
William DeHaven, who had charge of
conducted at 5 Market street.
^r. Powell is not only well known
the Lancaster County cigar and tobacco throughout New Jersey, where he is
Thomasville, Pa. gies and tobacco. Registered Jan. 7, Cheroot Co., Hanover, Pa., Jan. 6, 1905,
has been canceled. exhibit at the Sl Louis Exposition, com- extremely popular, but he is also promi-
1905, at 9 a m, by George Steuernagle,
plained that he had not been paid, but J^^ntly indentified with the trade in
Pittsburg, Pa.
that the matter had been taken to Gov- Pennsylvania and is President of the
MONOGRAM, THE "ORIGINAL PACKAGE" SETTLED.
C'igSir ]V[anufacturer For a firm name.
Y. C. Co.
Registered Jan.
14.667
Iowa Supreme Court Sustained by

emor Pennypacker, who directed the Powell- Witter, Leninger Co. of Reading,
Pennsylvania Commissioners to the Ex- extensive manufacturers of high grade

,
7, 1905, at Ip m, by the Yorkana Ci-

U. S. Supreme Bench. cigars. factory
For Wholesale and Jobbing Trade. gar Co. , at Yorkana, Pa.
position to pay the bill. It is at this that the
KUBIANO Washington, D. C, Jan. 16. committee was appointed to ask the ^^"^ *^ "^^*^^
A
14,668
Correspondence Solicited. Samples on Application. ^"""^ "'^"^^^ *^ * "^ ^"^^ ^^^
For cigars, cigarettfrs and tobacco. The Iowa Anti- Cigarette law was up- Legislature for an increased appropria-
^^'^ ^^^ ^^"^' ^îch has greatly added
held by the Supreme Court of the United tion for conducting the State experimental
f
Registered Jan. 9, 1905, at i p m, by
to its attractiveness and general improve-
States today in the cases of Charles P. stations in this county.
Max Bekoff, Philadelphia. Pa.
ment of its appearance. The brand is
VESNA Cook and Robert E. Hodge, affirming
^l**:^************ ****** *^ ****** 4f H-i-
14.669
the decision o f the Supreme Court of FACTORIES BVR.NEO IN YORK.
made up in several of the more popular
it For cigars. Registered Jan. 9, 1905,
sizes and is sold to retailers at I35 per
Iowa. The cigarettes were shipped int*
F. B. SePllNDLER at I p m, by Henry
delphia, Pa.
BELA 14,670
A Fischel, Phila-
the State in small boxes, and the conten-
tion was made that, in enforcing the law,
Three CigaLf Flaunts
Fire of Unknown
aire Destroyed by thousand,
Origin.
less the usual cash discount.
Manufacturer of
the State authorities were interfering with York, Pa., Jan. 16.
NUBBINS FROM READING.
A interstate commerce. Fire of an unknown origin destroyed
p m, by Henry
Fine Domestic at I
delphia, Pa.
Fischel, Phila-
The Court refused, however, to hold three large frame cigar factories, owned
Good Business, but Not Much
Interest,
of News
that the small boxes were original pack- by Thomas Adair, A. Fauth & Co. and
WAITO 14671 Reading, Pa., Jan. 16.
Cigars at
I p m, by Henry A Fischel, Phila-
and concluded that the action of the
ages,
State authorities in assessing a tax upoH
James Adair, at Red Lion, and occupied jhe Reading trade continues in high
by the respective owners and M. Kalisch spirits over the way business is commenc-
Red
JOBBING TRADE
Lion, Pa. delphia, Pa.
CLADO
For
14,672
cigars. Registered Jan. 1905,
Cook and Hodge was no violation of their
constitutional rights.
It has been understood that the Amer-
& Co., at an early hour on Friday morn- j^g tîs year, and a majority of the fac-
ing last, entailing a loss of approximately tories have ample orders on hand to
I13 000, a small part of which is covered keep them running steadily.
F. V. ESHELMAN,
SOLICITED at I p m, by Henry A Fischel,
9,
Phila.
ican Tobacco Co. was backing the plaint- by insurance. The Fleck Cigar Co. is especially busy 1600 Arch Street, Philadelphia,
****************************5j- *4-+ delphia. Pa.
iffs
tion
with the idea of getting a final ques-
on this point of law.
The three factories were twostory at present, and prospects are for a con- MAKER OF
NIGHT QUEEN 14.673 frames with attics, and all were used as tinued good trade.
The law prescribes that no goods must cigar factories. The fire was discovered ^-4^ 4iaL^yHi^t>jbfe '
For cigars. Registered Jan. 11, 1905, john U. Fehr & Son in 1904 had the
be sold except from the package whick
at 9 a m, by A P Snader, Ephrata,Pa. at 12:45 o'clock in the factory occupied biggest years business in the history of
bears the stamp, and the controversy has by Max Kalisch and James Adair, and
UNCLE FRED 14.674 it
thg house. In fact, their business has
been as to whether the large package im of the gyo^n at a wonderfully rapid rate,
^tîrite.5m
For cigars. Registered Jan. 1 1 1 905, ,
spread so rapidly that all efforts
which the cigarettes are usually sold at
at 9 a m, by A P Snader, Ephrata,Pa. firemen to save the factories were futile.
The new factory of Otto Eisenlohr &
wholesale is the original package from Henry Obendorf, watchman
COMMERCIAL TIP 14.675 in Miller Bros, is rapidly nearing completion, and
which, according to the law, goods must Bros. cigar box factory, gave the alarm,
^jn goon be ready for occupancy,
be sold, or if the small package of tea and the people of the town responded
at 9 a m,by Wallick & Gohn,York,Pa.
comes under the law. Small dealers who
O-WE-GO 14.676 promptly. ALLENTOWN NEWS.
will sell less than ten, have contended The Dallastown firemen were tele-
For cigars. Registered J an. 1 4, 1 905 Allentown, Pa., Jan. 16.
at 9 a m, by Stautfer Bros. Mfg. Co.,
that the second reading of the law is the
'
phoned to come to the aid of the Red
^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^^^^ .^^^^^^ ^^^ A Cigar of Real Quality, made in various sizes,
CSTABUaHEO 1 671^
New
VUELTA SPRIGS
Holland, Pa.
14.667
correct one.
In the cases appealed, the claim if
m )Lion department, was seen
but
that the fire would not spread beyond the
when it
^^^^^ ^^^j^^^ .^ p^^.^^j^^ reporting a
^î^ly good trade for this season of the
ranging from $33 to $300 per thousand.
that a package of ten cigarettes is aa burning cigar factories the request was Established 1891. Factory No. 3765.
For cigars. Registered Jan. 14, 1905, ycflia
original package in the meaning of the
at 9 a m, by Stauffer Bros.' Mfg. Co., countermanded. & Co. have the recently
New Holland, Pa.
CAYUGA 14,678
law. The packages were shipped loose
to the retailers, without any other box,
with
The buildings were
tobacco, cigars
all partly filled
and machinery,
Julius Alvarez
opened factory filled
oughly skilled cigarmakers and are turn-

with a force of thor- JOHN ZUDJÊLili Manufacturer of
wrapping or other container. The posi-
For cigars. Registered Jan. 1 6, 1905, The losses sustained are estimated as jng out a fine large line of goods.
tion of the State authorities was that this
at 9 a m, by John Sauer, Philadelphia, follows Victor Thorsch Co. open a new factory
"'"
Pa.
UNION PLUCK 14,679
method of shipping is altogether unusual,
and is a mere subterfuge for the evasion
of the law. They hold that the term
A. Fauth & Co., $1,200 on building, today at Coplay, with a force of seventy-
$700 on stock, insurance 1 1,400; James five cigarmakers. They have been un-
Grade
Cigars f;et
For cigars. Registered Jan. 16, 1905, Adair, $5,000 on stock, fixtures and remittingly busy during the whole of the
"original package" means the package
at 9 a m, by L L Schloss, Chicago, 111. building, |2,8oo insurance; Thomas holiday season. Sales of the Bachelor Genuii\e Union Made.
in which goods are usually sold at whole-
UNION GRIT 14,680 Adair, $2,000 on building and stock, ^re growing steadily. Buster Brown is a
sale.
insurance $500 on stock; Max Kalisch, new 5 cent product which they are just Ephrata, Pa.
at 9 a m, by L L Schloss, Chicago, 111. CHANGE IN H. N. NAILTIN TOBACCO $3, 500 on stock and $1,000 in- marketing, and an innovation for this
fixtures,
REJECTIONS. CO.. OF LOUISVILLE. surance; St Paul's United Evangelical firm is being introduced with this brand. 4oods Sold Direct to JOBBERS and DEALERS.
Union Star, Cream Puff, Spanish Sweet, Church, damage to windows and stable, The goods will be banded, and the
Casselberry Dunkersch has been elec-
jANIJ^ BY
A.B.CLIME Oriental Star, Dawn, Delmarvir.Rising
Sun, Twilight, Clio, Alexander, Lu-
Uncle Rube, Foxy Grandpa,
ted secretaryand treasurer of the H. N.
Martin Tobacco Co., of Louisville, Ky.
$400, windows covered by insurance.
Kohler-Snyder Cigar
which won a gold medal
Co., of York,
bands will
main office in
be redeemed at the firm's
Allentown.
Berninger Bros, are operating with a
\Yedeles Brothers,
STRICTLY UNION FACTORY cifer,
Old Chum, The Old Boy, Vesta,

He succeeds Edgar D. Martin, who has
entered the tobacco business. W. exhibited at the
for the cigars
Louis Exposition, and have a good lot of orders
full force
f fabriconarolfeSchoice, Maxim Gorki, Alexandra, Al- Roark has been made

G.
manager of the
St.
received the award last week and it is on hand for their Golden Horse Shoe Florida. Sumatra.
sales department of the company.
I-
POINTED ARROW-SHARP KNIFE hambra. Alcazar, Zembo,
W. Brown has been re elected president
John now on exhibition. It is highly prized brand of 5 cent cigars. Bondy & Leder-
'r ' VAMPIRE Rajah, Alleppo, Boumai,

Bohemia, D. A. M.
and W. S. Logan
superintendent.
vice president and
by the firm. cr* s factory is also very busy. Allbn. 182 E. Lake St. CHICAGO, ILL
THE TOBACCO WORI.D THE TOBACCO* WORLD 27
^PffipfTO For Gentlemen of Good Taste
LIBERMAN s-S^N FELieE-5

B A HIGH GRADE R
kJC. CIGAR FOR k-)C#
m
Latest Suctioiv Machine 1 Sold Extensively by Leading Cigar Dealers and Druggists
THE DEISEL-WEMMER CO., Makers

LIMA, OHIO
CUBAN STAMP NOW ON BOXES. FARMERS MUSTN'T BREAK WORD.
%%%%^
Pasted on (he Bottom of the Box and Growers' Association Will Prosecute iff
Adopted Palm Rolling Has Not Attracted Great Attention.

The export stamp which has just been
Tobacco is Not Forthcoming
Clarksville, Tenn., Jan. 12.
by the Essential issued by the union of manufacturers in

Cuba is now in active operation and is
Chairman Felix, of the
Growers' Association, has received
Dark Tobacco
in
J. M. MITTLEMAN
Dealer in
Leading to seen on all the later importations in structions
every cigar store handling that class of farmers and buyers who violate their
to take legal steps against
Manufacturers. Hand-Work. goods. Practically all Havana manu- pledges to the organization. Leaf Tobacco
facturers are using the stamps on goods
It is not believed that there will be
shipped not only to the United States
many instances where such steps will be No. 1619 South Street
but to every other country.
necessary, but it is considered best to be
The stamp was reproduced actual size prepared and the chairman proposes
to
PHILADELPHIA
in The Tobacco World of two weeks ago
and as was
act vigorously if it becomes necessary.
once noticed, is consider-
at
Goods Sold in Any Quantity,
As a result of a conference between a Open Evenings Until Nine o'clock.
ably larger than the old red import stamp
special committee from the Association
of the United States. It is of a quiet
and the owners of a number of prizing
color, however, and all those which have |^<i^^^>^^%%%^^^ ^>%>%%^%'
houses, it has been arranged that the %%<
been seen so far by the writer were
prizers shall furnish the house, hogs-
pasted on the bottom of the package
THIS IS THE SIMPLEST AND MOST PRACTICAL TOOL yet introduced In connection with Cigar- heads, execute bond for faithful duty,
where it could not readily be noticed.
making. The catting so equipped with ball bearings and exterior springs that they only
rollers are uniform assorting and regularly packing
produce enough pressure to cut the leaf, thui maintaining a sharp edge on the die and assuring a perfect, clean
A dealer whose trade
ported goods was
is largely in im-
asked whether the
oO as to prevent leakings. The prizer THE AROMA THOUSANDS PRAISE.
cut, superior to hand-work. The circumference of the cutting roller being greater than the length of the die, will also pay the cost of insurance while
stamp had thus much
makes tearing or streaking of the wrapper impossible.
with the right foot pedal will lower the die even with
Then, after the leaf
the table, thus
has been cut, a slight depression
making a perfectly smooth and rigid
tion
"No,
among
it
far attracted
his customers:
has not," he declared.
atten-
"I
the tobacco
is to deliver
is in their
ble for the order in which

house. The
the tobacco, be responsi
it is
farmer
delivered
Havana Box Aroma
surface, enabling the operator to Roll with the Full Palm of the Hand, instead of pushing the cigar don't think there has been a single com- $12 per Gallon.
and remove the tobacco to the storage
along with the finger tips. ment made yet, although at that I have
house after it has been prized. ITS EQUAL UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE
had the stamp in the store only a short
Changing of the die to any shape, or from right to left, or the reverse, is a very simple matter on this It was agreed that the uniform price
time.
table, and can be done within two minutes time. for prizing should be 75 cents per 100. Cindnaati Fruit Refining Company, Cincinnati, 0.
"Oh, some men are very quick to no-
The prizer will also give the farmer a
These points of merit, coupled with others not mentioned, have won for this table the high standard of tice such thmgs," he continued, in an-
certificate stating the amount of tobacco
excellence maintained to-day, a fact that cannot conscientiously be claimed by any of our competitors. swer to a question. "But it has just hap-
delivered, which can be deposited by
pened that none of that sort has seen the
We stand ready to prove our statement, and we ask for the opportunity. those desiring to have money advanced.
We Think IT
all
WILL PAY YOU

Is
to Investigate. # box yet. At a rough guess, I should say

that with my trade, about seven men out
Twenty- two prizers in this section agree
to prize for the farmers upon the above
C. S. COOPER,
Manufacturer of
of would immediately notice any
25
conditions.
change in the markings or form of the
package containing their favorite brand. MARKET ACTIVE IN RICHMOND.
LiBERMAN Manufacturing
Manufacturers of
Co "For instance, the very firsrtimel put
out a box with a new U. S. stamp on to
a customer, he exclaimed on the second:
don't want that; where*s the red
Greater Now Than Any Time Since
Holidn.ys.
Richmond, Jan.
WEST EARL, PA.
I 14.
stamp?* The
Cigar Machinery
local tobacco warehouses this
"Of course was precisely the same week took on a greater amount of activity
it
w***v*v*v*%****v****v*****************v.**v*
cigar in every way that he had been buy- than at any time since the resumption of A. Z. SHERK, President E. L. NISSLY, Treasurer. *,
ing, and I explained the situation to him
sales after the holidays. O. Shelburn' s
and Tools and showed him the smaller stamp on

the bottom of the box. He took it all in, warehouse reported a fine sale of about
and I suppose believed me, but he made 40,000 pounds and a top notch price of
me get a box with the old stamp on that I26, which is the highest price since the
The V. A.
Established
1898
Collins Cigar Co.
Marietta, Pa.
Incorporated
1901
I had in stock for him to select from. beginning of the new year. All grades * MAKERS OF
240-42 North Third Street, "On the other hand, the next five men
who asked for imported cigars didn' t pay
the slightest attention to what the box
sold well and the farmers went home well
pleased and saying that they will return
High Grade
JULIAN
Hand Made
HAWTHORNE
Cigars*;
*
looked like, but simply verified the label with more tobacco as soon as they can r lOc. Cigar
PHILADELPHIA, PA., U.:S.|A at a glance, took their cigars and went conveniently do so.
out
Onr Leaders: I^N.^sc^'ail^
'" ''"'"
. Shockhoe sold about 40, 000 pounds
"And as I said, there hasn't a word at good prices. The other houses [ OUR LEADER 5c Cigar
had
been said yet about the Cuban stamp, 'OUtrlbutors Wanted Bverywl;ore
sales, but ones that showed the
V*V*V*V*V*V*V***V*V**^V :V*V*V*V*V*
but the next man who comes in is likely smaller
to see it at*a glance." market to be in good condition. *
C. A. ROST 8z: CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA. C. A. ROST, & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
28 THE TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD 29*
RETAIL TRADE BETTER IN BOSTON. C. H. Camith & Co. who operate one of
fm
the largest bowling alleys here, placed a
Some the Brandt That are Moving some
VICTOR THORSCH COMPANY Makers of (he
off
Out Best.
nice order for
week.
of these cigars this
Boston, Mass., Jan. 15. Sam Marcuson, representing the Ameri-
BACHELOR CIGAR The improved a trifle during can Tobacco Co., is certainly making
trade has
the past week on what it has been since good on the Hassan cigarettes and these
New Years, and the wholesalers seem to goods can be found in almost every first
ALLENTOWN, - - - PENNA. be confident that business will improve class cigar store in Boston. Ben All
much more in the next few weeks espe-
now that the Falls River strike has
Leaf Tobacco Co.
%
cially
been settled temporarily and the mills
ROYAL CIGAR CO. ORGANIZED. ^^ INCORPORATED.
have started again. Many firms in this New York Concern is Thought to be
city were
and
eflfected
months
a great deal by this
was almost use-
Part off United Cigar Stores Co. Successors to S. L. Johns,
strike, for it New York, Jan. 13.
less for salesmen to go there.
Baum, with the Turco-American 1250,000 is the latest in the field in this
The Royal Cigar Co., with a capital of
Packers of
C. E. MATTINGLY & CO.
Sig.
Tobacco Co., spent a few days here this city, and the new firm commences busi- and
MANUFACTURERS OF week, and had no trouble getting orders. ness with John F. Whelan.of the United
The Omega the best 5 cent Turkish
HIGH GRADE is Cigar Stores Co. at its head.
UNION MADE Cigars cigarette selling in this locality.
The American Tobacco Co. has a cigar

salesman here placing two new brands of the fitting up of which place is said to
The company week purchased the
last
store at Twenty- sixth and Broadway,
LEAF
For Wholesale Trade Only, Turkish cigarettes, Bizak, a 10 package have cost $150, 000. The change of own-
plain tip, the price of which is I7.00 per ership took place on January 9.
McSherrystown, Pa.
m
M, (and they give gratis with each thou-
sand 4 packages of Turkish Trophies and
4 packages of Moguls) and the Murad,
a 1 5 cent Turkish cigarette, is being sold Whelan, o f Syracuse, is the
The Royal Cigar Company has been
organized under the laws of this State.
The
John
capital
F.
stock is set at 1250,000. ^TOBAGGO^
at I ID per M., a similar package to the
Moguls.
president, and several men well known
in the tobacco trade are said to be in-
Main Office,
A H. Hill, the well known Water terested. The company announces that
street cigar jobbers left on Thursday for it will run a chain of cigar stores in
McSherrystown, Pa.
THE LOUIS NEWBURGH CO. a brief business trip to
Hall is the distributor for Boston
New York. Mr.
for
New
It is
York, to deal in high grade goods.
said to be looking for other eligible
Zimmer Spanish and Little Dutch

PACKERS OF Straitton
Geo. S.
& Storm's goods.
Harris &
a trade on their Prince ot Wales cigar, in
Co. are having quite street
locations, especially for
The Whelan s who own and operate

one on Wall Bi-anch Office,
Reading, Pa. JohnJ.Esheman
MAIN OFFICE, HAMILTON, OHIO. their new Howard and Court street
L. Miller & Sons, of New
store. hundreds of stores throughout the United
name of the
York, an- States under the corporate READING.PA.
Warbouses: Hamilton, Ohio, and Franklin, Ohio nounce a deal on their Kozy 2^ ounce United Cigar Stores Company are, it is
5 cent package and with every 5 pounds believed, the principal owners of this new
L. A, PJBARSON,
they offer 50 Puritans
terminates February 15.
gratis.
"Edgeworth" made by Lams Bros. harmony with it

This deal company, which while apparently a com-
peting company, is apparently to work in A. K. MANN, F. M. HUNT. A. G. MARTIN.
Packer & Dealer in All Kinds of Co. is selling nicely and is packed in
three styles 4, 8 and 16 oz. tins.
It IS thought that through the new com-
pany, the organizers of the United Cigar HUNT & MAR TIN
Ci^^^ L/^^f tobacco F. X. Obcrle Co.'s Bostonia 10 cent Stores Co. desire to market a better grade
cigar is rapidly forging its way to the of goods than is the case with the United Grower and Packer Manufacturers of

OF
I
ZIMMER SPANISH, CONNECTICUT BINDERS & WRAPPERS,
WTTLE DUTCH, IMPORTED SUMATRA,
front in popularity.
is now
F. J. Greener, Jr.,
representing the firm on the road
Stores.
The store in question
year ago by the Havana Cigar Company
was opened a High- Grade Stogies
IMPORTED HAVANA, and suburbs.
GEBHARDT SEED,
PENNA. BROAD LEAF, DOMESTIC SUMATRA & HAVANA.

F. R. Grim & Co., 85 Dover
and has been considered one of the hand-
street,
who make a specially of jobbing union somest establishments in New York city.
and independent goods exclusively, are
LEAF BSTHESDAy OHIO.

Branch Yorkshire, O. increasing their business daily.
U
Their INCORPORATIONS.
^ Recommended for their Exquisite Aroma and
Can't
TOBACCO
leaders in 5 cent cigars are,
Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin, of thAp'
Beat It and 1 Cafe Bouquets. Superior Court has granted a charter to
Buyers in All Tobacco Districts of the World Joe Gordon, of Gordon Bros., the the Southern Cigar Co., the incorpora- All Goods Strictly First-Class.
south end tobacconists, contemplates get- tors of which are F. R. Jamison and E.
Main Office, West Milton, Ohio. ting married some time in March. W. HallowelL The company will deal
Jobbing Trade Only, Solicited.
M. Falk, of the Falk Tobacco Co. , is in all kinds of tobaccos and manufacture
calling on the local trade. Mr. Falk is
cigars.
Millersville, Pa.
BILLMAN BROS. very popular here on account of his long xi
.
Articles of incorporation have been
connection with the late firm of Cameron with the Secretary of State by Ferris
^^
filed
PACKERS OF & Cameron. & Grady, wholesale cigars and tobacco,
The American Tobacco Co. is about to Minneapolis. Capital stock $25,000.
Located on Line of Millersville Trolley. J. Fred Holtzinger. W. H. Seitz. ^
Ohio Leaf Tobaccos place on the market here a new short Incorporators, James R. Ferris, Wm. H.
smoke similar to Leroy little cigars that Burd, and James H Grady.
will retail at ten for fifteen cents. The The Independent Cigar and Tobacco
,
CIGAR BOXES,
X SHIPPING CASES, X
Geo. M. Wechter,
HOLTZINGER , SEITZ,
1903 X immer opSLiiish X 19021903

name of the brand is Flexo.
Co., of Boston, has been incorporated
with a capital of $250,000. The pro-
A. Shadoff has been engaged by J. O. moters are P. S. Chase, A. P. Goodell
LABELS,
Manufacturer of Manofactarers of High Grade
and
CIGARS
ZIMMER SPANISHt 4 Fancy Natural Bulk ^^^^^^^ .
WRAPPERS and Sweated, Closely Cohn as city salesman. DonnelL and M. I. O' EDQiNGS All Grades of PennsylvaiviaL Cigars
^
Gebhari
FILLERS
Too short for our*
Fancy Packings. 4^
^ ^Tabled and Hand-
X
somely Finished.
None Better.
During the past week there has been
of Virginia sliced cut tobacco, as many

The C. A. Smith Cigar Co., with a
quite some business done on the Pride capital of $5,000, has been incorporated
at Binghamton, N. Y., by Charles A.
RIBBONS,
^
heiAR B0XES*
X
Controlling
Write for Samples.
Little Dutch JWrite for Samples. Smith, Menz W. Goodell and William
of the jobbers are well stocked with same.
S. Polly.'
4
X CIGAR X
Onr Leaders in Five Cent Cigars:
Having obtained it with tags and coupons
The Thomas Cigar Co., of Chicago, hai South Ninth Street, DON SEGNO RJBGALl^DUKE GOV. WRIGHT
Manufacturers*
West Carrollton, Montgomery Co., O. of the Floradora Tag Co., it stands them been incorporated by M. Salamon, N. DISTRIBUTORS WANTED EVERYWHERB
^
The Centre of the Best Zimmer Growing District.
^ very low in price.
Grumbler cigars are selling well here.
A. Stem, and Menzo I Rosenbaum, with
a capital of |2, 500.
.
X
X
SUPPLIES. X ^^î^s^^
X 883. AKrOHf 1 9 Connection.
Our Capacity for Manufacturing Cigar Boxes If^
so TRX TOBACCO WORLD Alvvays Room for Onh Morb Good Custqmsx. L J. Sellers & Son, Seilersville, Pa,
THE TOBACCO WORLD
OIGAH BOX EDGIflGS
W Iuv the U^gta awortMta' - * CIsar Bos fidglaft la the United States, having over i,ooo design* ia slack. ^ K|H N. KALISCH , CO.
T. A. MYERS & CO. - Printers and Engravers, YORK, PENNA. A
Manufacturers of
Large Line of
Embossed RapSf Labels* Notices, etc HIGH GRADE and MEDIUM
W. B. HOSTETTER & CO. Leaf Tobacco Markets. it and get

are looking at
one sale
their tobacco
at i6c."
down. Buyers
the crops, and I hear of eiBAI^S
Wholesalers and Retailers of CONNECTICUT VALLEY
For a distance of about one mile each the sale of one crop
Bradstreet, Mass. :
! have to report m^ym lêd Lion, Pa.
of tobacco of 14
Leaf Tobacco
way from my home, on the road from acres at i8c, sold by
^>
Oscar Belden & Free Samples to Responsible Houses.
SHADE-GROWN SUMATRA, in Bales.

'>' ^Wo? I 12 S. George St., York, Pa.
.8^7:
Greenfield to Northampton, there were
raised last season 148 acres of tobacco,
yielding on an average 1,500 pounds per
acre, or220,500 pounds, and the proba-
Sons. Stripping all done." American
Cultivator.
EDGERTON, WIS.

4 ^^
ble price will not be far from 15c per Onr Leaders: Cigars-6c, 3 Sizes
The week has been largely a stormy """"euiston"-""
pound. For this the farmers will receive
WILLIAM J. NOLL { }
A. SONNEM AN SONS, over 131,000; how much

stick to the inside linings of their
etbooks is a problem.
of this will
pock-
With a poor crop ceiving
back a good deal of riding
one, holding
in country districts that otherwise might
have been done. The new crop is re-
some attention but not much
MANUFACTUREIL OF
Successor to J. Neff L. R.
WHOLESALE
BROWN, I
t
DtTrJ-J Leaf Tobacco

Large Line of 1900. 1901 and 1902 Vs.
last year, and the probable indebtedness
for fertilizer for the raising of this year's
crop,and the paying for fertilizer for the

organized
able.
where from 7 to 10 cents for bundle de-
effort to take it
Prices for choice lots bring any-

over is notice-
High Grade Cigars 4-

Cigar Manufacturer,
coming crop, my opinion is that with
No. 105 S. George St., YORK, PA, some there will be a very small surplus
livery. The search for old leaf continues
so that the deliveries made at packing

ROBESONIA, PA.
Brownstown, Pa.
a working fund. wish might CHARLES BROWN,
44'f^4
left for I it D. Salesman.
points are about equally divided between X4.
be larger than it will probably be. With
D. fl. SCHRIVER ^ CO. the increased

raised this
amount of the crop to be
year I think more of the money
the new and cured tobaccos.
F. S. Baines purchased a 175CS lot of
-^^^4
Wholesale and Retail Dctlcri old goods of Chris Olson of Stoughton.
coming may be allowed
laAUGradatof
workers.
Our correspondents
to stay with the
write:
W.
and
T. Pomeroy
'03 leaf.
& Co. sold 3oocs of '03
La Adelphia Cigar Factory John McLaughlin. J. K. Kauffman.
THOMAS
imieiiUGSIiDiioiteilTOBAOCO Montague,
sold three
Mass.:
acres at 13c.
"A.
Donaldson &
The handling of the new crop is now
M. Lyman under
way at several packing points and
A. WAGNER,
Seilersville, Pa.
Propriety,
JOHN McLaughlin Wholesale Dealers in All Kinds of
^ co.
the number of warehouses opened will be
29 East Clark Avenue, Brown, about two acres
think farmers have their
at I3>^c.
tobacco
I
all
increased soon. It is believed the de-
Manufacturer of Plug . Smoking Tobaccos
KNB 8UMATRA8 special^. YORK, PA. liveries will be keep them
sufficient to
stripped now.'*
Hadley, Mass. :
*
'The tobacco crop of
steadily running, though not over 25 per
cent of the Crawferd county leaf has been
lA ADELPHIA, 5-Cent
hA FhOR DE A, C. P., lo-Cent CIGARS Fine Cigars Qi Leaf Tobacco
Also, All Grades of
fl. KoriLER & eo.

1904 has been about all taken down and ^
removed from the poles to date. The
is being stripped and in the bundle; i6c
American Tobacco Co. intends to com-
Samples and Prices Sent to Responsible People.
seems about what the buyers are paying
mence warehouse handling at several No. 307 Norf h Queen Si.
P. G. SHAW
per pound. No sales have been reported
packing points the coming week.
LANCASTER, PA.
)te!!fti!BJ_Fine Cigars as yet this week."
Conway, Mass.: "We have had con-
Shipments were 947CS. Reporter.
êaf-MU;^
Manufacturer of
siderable activity here in the week
DALLASTOWy, PA. in the tobacco business.
damp time and all
We had a
but one grower finished
past
fine,
CLARKSVILLE, TENN.
M. H. Clark & Bro. Fine and Medium 1t1t***-h-tkMikii-ik-iiik*r:ii-)i-ikii-)iii*Hik*1t
Otptifditft 75*ooo per day. Brtablished 187c. Our receipts this week were 20 hhds.,
Established 1870 Factory No. 79

taking
nice,
in by a
down and we are having a fine, offerings
fire. Nearly all

on
warm time to strip without taking it and private
the tobacco here
The
the breaks 45 hhds., public
sales 93 hhds.
quality of the offerings was poor,

eisyiRs : S. N. MUMMA
S. R. Kocher 8z Son is Those who sold last week are
sold.
H. T. Newhall, H. D. Pease, Charles
with a full proportion
The market was
of nondescript leaf.
active and rather NASH
Dallastown,
A SPECIALTY of Private Brands
Pa. PeLcker of *
Fîne
Manufacturers of
Havana Cigars
Parsons & Son, G. H. Johnson,' D. New-
hall,
Ii@i4c
D. Weston; prices
in bundle."
ranging
stronger in price.
from remains of the 1903 crop look
prices, as the new crop
Holders
is
for
of what
higher
held at very
# Special J
r GEO.
JOHN SELDEN
F.
-^
Brands:] gov. THOS HUTCHINSON
*[ BEN DEBAR
>^ for Wholesale & jobbing Trade
Correspondence solicited.
Samples on application.
:
Leaf Tobacco *
And Packers of
Suffield, "Tobacco men are in- much larger figures than those ruling for
Ct :
== PennaL. Seed Bs at SpeciaLlty
terested in an experiment tried by W. S. old tobacco, the gap between the two is a *
LMAF TOBACCO Pinney, of Suffield, who this year, instead wide one.
of cutting his crop in the usual way,
The hands of the Planters*
Association are strengthened by the
*
*
Warehouse at R.ailroaLd Crossing
picked ;six tons of it, method steady signing of crops to its management
using the C. A. KILDOW. W. T. BOLON. LANDISVILLE, PA.
Wrightsville, Pa. employed in the harvesting the shade- and a full reduction of this year's planting
grown. Mr. Pinney
the plan, but says its
is enthusiastic over
value cannot be es-
timated until the crop has been through tobacco market
is generally discussed.
There is but little doing in the loose
The weather for the
T. M. KILDOW
Fragrant as Roses,
Good as Government Bonds,
the sweat Now it is in excellent condi- past week has been cold with one snow
tion and is a very handsome crop. He storm.
made two pickings; one included all but For Old Tobacco, we quote: Wholesale
Are the i/luAKS the four top leaves, and the second the Low Lugs Rothsville, Pa..
"Brilliant Star** Clear Havana,
Registered Brs^ds:
. lOc.
top leaves. One packed
leaf is at a time,
I3.50 to I3.75
Common Lugs 3.75 to 4.00 Cigar Manufacturers Wholesale Manufacturer
....
.
and forty leaves put on one lath. As Medium Lugs 4.00 to 4.25
**S. B." Half Havana, 5c. each leaf is separate there is no danger Good Lugs 4.25 to 4.75 of Strictly Uniform
"S. B.** Wttle Havana*, . . . . Sc. of polesweat He thinks by this method
Low Leaf
Common
4.75 to 5.50
Leat 5.75 to 6.75
Bethesda, Ohio. Quality of
"Honest Bee" 3c. more weight to the acre can be obtained. Medium Leaf
"2 I No" Mildeat Cigar Made. 2 fof 5c. The cost of picking, hanging and getting
7.00 to 8.00
Our Leader: HALF SPANISH, 3 for 5c. HIGH GRADE
Special Brands Made to Order.
the leaves into bundles averages about The Cliff. Weil Cigar Co., of Rich- Specialty: Cigar Shaped Stogies.
Stauffer Bros. Hig. Co., New Holland,

^ Sead Year Cigar Buyer Here. We Will Save Yea Meaey.
Fql.
$6, or ^3 more than the old way. The mond, Va., is
longed for damp spell came Tuesday, capital of #100,000, to conduct a cigar
and all were quick to take advantage Of business on Main street
being organized with a

, )
A. O^'-'^fe <& Co <o>H
IMPORTERS OP^^
AVANA 123 N. THIRD ST
MIUADBLPHIA 38
CIGAR MOLDS
IF YOU WANT A LEADER OUR MOLDS "%t,":owEsT" "'
We will Duplicate Any Shape yoii are now
**" "'"*
using, regardless
TO WRITE
of who made yonr Molds,
Sample Section! submitted
or Furnish
for
Any New Shape.
your approval Free of Cost.
The American Cigar Mold Co

C. RUPPIN-LANCASTER, PA ABOUT THE
121-123 WEST FRONT CINCINNATI,
ST.,
"BENJAMIN CONSTANT"IOc. and "THE CRAFTSMAN" 5c. Williams Suction Rolling Tables
THEY WILL ANSWER YOUR REQUIREMENTS.
by the Manufacturers as being the
STANDARD Cigar Rolling Table,
GEILMAN FARMERS* QVAlNT WAYS Business CKeLi\ges, Fires, Etc. flccepteil after an experience of 18 years.
W. E. KRAFT Some of Them Cure

Their Own
Their TobaLCCO in
Houses.
Connecticut

Bridgeport Rehstock Bros, cigar man-
The J ohn R. Williams
MANUFACTURER Washington, D. C, Jan. lo. ufacturers; burned out
Illinois
Co
Havana and Seed Cigars United States Consul Brittain.at Kehl,

Chicago L Abeles & Co, tobacco, an-
Germany, writes the following interesting nounce dissolution; L Abeles continues
matter concerning the small planters in under same style Louis P Weiser, ci
'
What Can Be Done by learners and
|4*/v
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
i>o w% sxs
l-Û-l/O raClflC Otreetf
o^ m.

East Prospect, Pa. Baden and their primitive methods of gars, etc; dead
Indiana 409 East Seventieth Street, New York. NEWARK, N. J.
OUR SPECIALTY the cultivating tobacco. Consul Brittain
Is
Columbia City O Hayden, cigars;
"THREE BEAUTIES" says that in the Grand Duchy of Baden
during 1903 there were engaged in the
succeeded by B Warren
Elwood Charles Cooper, cigars, etc,
Established 1877 New Factory 1904
put up in 80th packages only, and a ready seller everywhere. cultivation of tobacco SSiOQI small
real estate mortgage, $250
Established
planters who had
Rhine. Many
under cultivation
16,610 acres, chiefly in the valley of the
Wabash F H Richmond, cigars and
of the plots contain but

tobacco; discontinued
Iowa
H.W.HEFrENER,
T.L.ADAIR, # MANDFA
WHOLSSALE MANUFACTURER
WHOLESALE
1895.
OF
a few square rods of land, cultivated
men and women working side' by
by
side in
Waterloo

Vinton John L Robinson,
ceeded by George N Ulrice
Casebeer Bros,
cigars; suc-
cigars; sold
Dealer in X
Steam
Our Leader:
the fields. The total value of the crop
out X Cigar Box I^nmber,
WEALTH PRODUCER- Fine Cigars harvestedin 1903 was 11,541,466. There
were 848 less acres of land under culti-
vation than in 1902, and 2,327 fewer
Auburn
Maine
Gauther & Wilson, cigar
mfrs; succeeded by Mrs F D Hooker
I Labels,
Ribbons,
X
X Cigar Box
RED LION, PA. Special Lines for the Jobbing Trade.
Telephone Connection. planters engaged in the business, and
the decrease in the value of the crop was
Bangor F E O' Leary, cigars; burned
out; partially insured
Edging, X
^393389-
The leading causes for this decrease,
Baltimore
Maryland

H Hays & Co, leaf to-
^J
X Brands, etc, X
Manufacturer
bacco; succeeded by Gibson & Aubrey
SED TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT A FAULT.
says Consul Brittain, were the difficulty James Mather, retail cigars; damaged
in obtaining young plants and the un by fire
steady condition of the tobacco market. Massachusetts
'
'i
Havanat Flavor
Purely Vegetable. $12 per Gallon.
While the crop of 1903 was below the
average the quality was good and the
Boston D J Kouhry & Co, cigarette
mfrs; chattel mtge, |2,ooo
Michigan

YORK, PA.
planters realized an average price of a
Detroit
Hutton Bros, cigar manufac-
DO NOT EXPERIMENT WITH OTHERS. fraction over 5 cents a pound when the
tobacco was dried.
turers, bill of sale,
The 1904 crop has
i
Minnesota
$
not been marketed, but will be less than
Duluth Kem merer & Schroeder, cigar Manufacturers of
t Cincinnati Fruit Refining Co., Cincinnati, 0. that of 1903, as there were 903 acres less manufacturers, succeeded by J Schroe- W
planted.
Alace- Lorraine 3,456 acres were
In
der
Minneapolis Ferris & Grady, whole- Cigar Boxes^SMpping Cases
sale cigars, incorporated, capital stock, Dealers in
planted in 1903, yielding 7,810,582
$25,000
pounds which sold at an average of 5.7 New York Labels, Ribbons, Edgings, etc.
cents a pound. The quahty of the Elmira Eastern Leaf Tobacco Co, 716728 N. Christian St, L.ANCASTER. PA
tobacco in Alsace Lorraine was not very damaged by fire Insured
New York City S Sumprecht, cigars,
good, and the indications are that the
than that of 1903, as the area planted

damaged by fire
crop of 1904 will be considerably less into the firm
N Jacob, admitted
of E P Cordero, cigar man-
is ufacturers, and style of firm name changed
/IBEN BUSEF^ MANUFACTURER OF
to E P Cordero Co &
Cigar Boxes and Cases
3, 348 acres less.
The faimer or planter is not obliged North Carolina
to pay any tax on his tobacco, but as Greenville The following have been
DEALER IN
soon as it passes out of his hands an
Lumber, Labels, Edging, Etc.,
excise duty of $10. 71 per 220.46 pounds
must be paid. Many
planters or farmers handle their tobacco
of these small
R.K.Schnd()er&Sons
PACKBRS 09 AlTD DSAURS IV R. F. D. No. 3,
YORK, PA. F NBOSSED CIGAR. BANDS
^-^ Rage.
Are All the Rag<
in
the
a very primiiive manner.
tobacco
home
is cut the leaves are hauled to
of the planter in old
drawn by one or two cows. The leaves
are then hung up to dry in rows around
the outside of the house or other build,
When the
wagons
M 435 &
:-:
437 W.
Tin
Grant St.
M. D. BOALES,
Leaf Tobacco Broker
BoOm," W. B. a.
Hopkinsville, Ky
We have
iMGtsT
them, in
William Steiner, Sons

large variety.
Lithographers,
1X6 and ii8 B. Pourteentb
Send for Samples,
St., NEW YORK.

& Co.
a^tn
ings. Some of the more extensive
planters have special drying houses.
Lancaster, Pa.
84 THE TOBACCO WORLD THB TOBACCO WORLD
'
Kstabhshed 1878. Factory 1508, inh Dist., Pa.
JACOB G. SHIRK, ^^JJJ^44^^44^4^ Specially Cleaned and Care^
JOSEPH REED PATRICK HENRY fully Graded,
J. B BUDDING, Sr. 40 W. Orange St., LANCASTER, PA. X vOmblllfttlOIl : He make them for 6, 7'Ay 9, 10
Plug and Smoking Tobaccos /N AN ^^

York, Pa. T^ A T% ^^'' "''*^ ^^^ Cigar and Tobacco
Manufaciurer of
KING DUKE 2)4 oz.
or Smoke.
Si I KA P^^'^^''^'^^
Fine Ciga^rs Exclusively Manufacturer of Lancaster Long Cut Tobacco

Our Leading Chewing and Smoking Brands: ^
dV
TT'i 1 1 ^ Tobacco Co.
JOSEPH REED-IOC. LANCASTER LONG CUT
KING DUKE CUT PLUG
SHIRK'S BEST TWLST |--r lllUl ~: Dealers in LEAF TOBACCO
Made in Four Sizes. Go to the Trade at $00 per 1000.
REBATE LONG CUT LANCASTER, PA.
wi^6.^^ PATRICK HENRY- 5C. Mtmifnrtiirerof High-Grade Turkish & Egyptian Cigarettes.
Made in Six Sizes. Go to the Trade at $00 per 1000. ft &--Iaia]iiilactare all grades of PLUG, SMOKING and CIGARETTES
to suit the orld. Write for samples,
E. RENNINGER,
P^stablished 1889,
Ten Cent Cigar Our Interest in Maintaining the Standard of Our Product Bstablished 18^4
Manufacturer of High and Medium Grade
is a Guarantee of Quality and Workmanship.
WM. F. COMLY & SON
Auctioneers and Commission Merciiants
SOMETHING NEW AND GOOD
WAGNER'S
damaged by
O R
Hooker & Co,
fire: PLvans,
tobacco warehouse; E B Ficklen Tobacco
E 248 S. Front St. and 115 Dock St
Cigars
^
Co; tobacco warehouse;
_^ Jeffress,
H Thomas & Thomas & PHILADELPHIA Strictly Union- Made Goods. DCIlVGr PA.
C^BAN ST061ES
^^ MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
Green, tobacco
Ohio
Co, tobacco;

Dî^î^n^C Caveats, Trade Marks,
y
LEONARD WAGNER,
Cleveland C DeArengo, cigar manu
facturer, petition in bankruptcy
Oigars, Tobacco, Smokers' Articles
JlcHwO Lo Desii^-Patents, Copyrights* aiik
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Morris D Neumann & Consignments Solicited Advances Made John A. Saul,
factory No. . 707 Ohlo St, Allegheny, Pa. Co (Inc), cigar manufacturers, succeeded Settlements Made on Day of Sale
by Morris D Neumann & Co ^^^
The Cigars Yon Want
Reading Julius G Hansen, cigar
1
^
CIGAR BOXES
manufacturer, satisfied real estate mort
gage, $4. 500 4^ METAL EMBOSSED LABELS METAL PRINTED LABELS ^ 4-
W. B. ifl]A/A'i> Seattle
mortgage, $164
M
Washington
B Lytic, cigars, chattel tt
Union Cigar Factory
Spokane Henry Davis, cigars, sold The Easy Truck tl# J Jl leiscKKa\ier SKETCHES AND
Samples AKRON, PA. Correspondence Solicitcc
to Brown & Neuman
chattel
S A Mills, cigars
mortgage, $600 A R Pratt,
Made MALLEABLE IRON,
of
an<l fitted with
i Cigar Labels
prihersof
Ask for
N STEEL ROLLER BEARINGS. QUOTATIONS
cigars, sold out to
Tacoma D A McLennan,
J Sleem
cigars, sold
It won't leave
when
its position on the floor Mtnsnc rlanuldcfurers-
to J P Sheriff J P Sheriff, cigars, real
a case falls on it.
If you have an old wooden truck, or 238 Arch Street, Philadelphia. FURNISHED
estate mortgage, |2oo none at all. this is the Cheapest and Best TELEPHONE 1561 814-826
CIGAR WRITE FOR
i
g C.A. Rostra Co. Racine
Bittinger, dead
Wisconsin
Biddinger & I'ohl, cigars, M
JOHN
Care of Box 18 4,
L. DARON,
York, Pa. f-r- > UTROGILAPHING SPECIAL DESIGNS 4 4- LawrenceSt.
'SAMPLES AND
5 Wholesale Dealers in etc,
Sheboygan John Vandervart,
warranty deed, 1^1,300
cigars,
UBELS RIBBON PRICES
All Grades of Parmenter WAX-LINED
PATENTS RELATING to TOBACCO, Coupon CIGAR POCKETS
obacco
Etc.
:ÔR SALE. PROTECTION against

Afford perfect
A Specialty of
Light Connecticut
779.687
779.688
Mouthpiece for cigarettes or
cigais; George P. Butler, New York city.
plying mouthpieces
Machine for making and ap-
to cigarettes or ci-
I0N4 TOBACCO CO.
336-33S North Charlotte
LANCASTER, PA.
St.
Indorsed by
the
all
MOST EFFECTIVE
medium known.
Smokers, and ar
advertising
CIGARMBBONS
R gars; George P. Butler,
Cigarette
New York
machine;
city.
Daniel
RACINE PAPEK GOODS CO. For Sale by All Dealers
R Wrappers and Seconds 779,411
Campbell, New York city. E. S. SECHRIST, Sole Owners and Manufactureri,
R J.
776,694 Smoking pipe; George B. N.

R Choice Assortment of Dallastown, Pa.
Dow, Manchester, N. H.
R
I
Manufacturer of
mufacturer 01 IWlUTE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TO
'
779,610 Match box; Joachim F. W.

R Seed Leaf Fillers 'a Binders Kuehn, San Antonio, Tex. Fine and
R
R WISCONSIN m. OHIO
779.430 Cigarette machine; Peter A.
Lawless, New York city.
Common Cigars
Established 189a
Fries Bros.
R 779.431 Cigarette machine; Peter A. NaiwifaLCturing Chemists
R Florida and Imported Lawless, New York city.

779,495 Match holder and striker;
Capacity, Twenty Thousand per Day. p'nA'.
&.
Sumatra and Havana Edmund A. Parker, Meriden, Conn.
779,674 Match composition; Henry
it First to Manufacture Sweetener In the United States
Red Lion, Pa.. Staier, Brooklyn, N. Y.

PATENTS
Cable Addre
779,676 Combined flap and extension
back for cigar boxes; Isidor Steiner,
New York
779,817
city.
Cigarette tip; H. P. Strause

pmrnptly
C:iv.!its.
8.111.1
Ion
mil!,
oJ.tiiinod
Ci'iuTitrhts
TWENTY YEARS' PRACTICE,
OB NO
fik.'tih
pit.Tititiilit V.
HAND-BOOK FREE.
All
and
FEE.
Lii>i<>l
iMiHiiieiis
Trade-Markg,
rejristercd.
ilighem references.
"r i]<"t". for fr-e report
contidential.
TelU
LYeesiNE
Ji rr. Clark <' Bro "CLARK."
and Kehlmann, New York city.
L.
779,629 Self-igniting match safe;

n iw Olitain and Sell
Will
t.)
Pav. H'>\v to (i<-t

Kxplniiia everything.
r:it.-iit.
explains bet
a
What Invention*
I'lirtner,
nH"'haniiial onntains SOO Other
inovHiiii-iits, and
Alio Headquarters for VANILLIN, COUMARIN,
Leaf Tobacco Brokers, Address,
aw Ttu.
ubjectiof iniportan'' to inventors.
Samuel A. Tescher, Noblesville, Ind.
HOPKINSVILLE, KY.
Clarksville, Tenn
779,980 Tobacco stemming machine;
Louis P. Whilaker, Washington, D. C.
H. B.
774 F
WILLSON
Street, N.W.,
& GO.
WASHINGTON,
^. D. C^
kV ^^BACl ana FRUIT VtÂViMS. iuoûLi foiAooo m.
PADUCAH, KY. l-4''.%
34 THE TOBACCO WORLD THB TOBACCO WORLD
44
JOSEPH REED
Kstablihhed IsTS. Factory 15o;>, '.Uh Dist., Pa.
PATRICK HENRY JACOB G. SHIRK, 4^^4^>^444>4^44444^4444^4 Specially Cleaned and

fully Graded.
Csure^
J. B. BUDDING, Sr. 40 W. Orange St., LANCASTER, PA. J Combination i and

We make tbeni for y}4, 10
per pound. Ready
6, 9,
Plug and Smoking Tobaccos cents
lis
York, Pa. pAT^^ÊNf^Y PLAIN SCRAP, SELECT BUTTS-Chew Smoke,

for use in Cigar and Tobacco
.iîf^lS^^^ Manufacturer of
KlISG DUKE
2y2 oz.
or
iSCRAPi Factories
J. L. MMTZGMR
Fine Cigars Exclusively Our Leading Chewing and Smoking Brands: Tobacco Co.
JOSEPH KEED-ioc LANCASTER LONG CUT
KING DUKE CUT PLUG
SHIRK'S BEST TWIST l--Filler--j TOBACCO
Dealers in LEAF
Made in Four Sizes. Go to the Trade at .*<",() per 1000.
REBATE LONG CUT '4-4444'4'^4^4444444'<44' LANCASTER, PA.
PATRICK HENRY- 5c. Miiitifiictarer of Hlgh-Grade Turkish & Egyptian Cigarettes.
4'4'4'
4-
Made in Six Sizes. Go to the Trade at .*;'..'> per 1000. F. a.-! mannfactnre allgrades of PLUG, SMOKING and CIGARETTES
E. RENNINGER,
Established 1889,
Ten Cent Cigar Our Interest in Maintainirg the Standard of Our Product Five Cent Cigar Bstablished 1834
Manufacturer of High and Medium Grade
is a Guarantee of Ouality and Woikinanship.
WM. F. COMLY & SON
SOMETHING NEW^ AND GOOD
WAGNER'S
damaged by
tobacco warehouse;
fire: P>ans, Hooker
EB Ficklen Tobacco
& Co, Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
248 S. Front St and 115 Dock St.
Cigars
^ Co; O R
H Thomas &
Jefifress, tobacco warehouse; E
Thomas & PHILADELPHIA Strictly Union- Made Goods. DCIlVCr
Cuban stogies MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
Green, tobacco
Ohio
Co, tobacco;

r%n4'd^r%'i'C^ Caveats. Trade Marks,
Pd,
Cleveland C DeArengo, cigar manu
bankruptcy
Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers' Articles 1 ClLdlLo Design-Patents, Copyrights, di^
LEONARD WAGNER, facturer, petition in
Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Morris U Neumann Consignments Solicited Advances Made John A. Saul.
707 Ohio St, Allegheny, Pa.
c\:
'actory NO.,. 0mKSSPOIfBl WASHINGTON.
Co (Inc), cigar manufacturers, succeeded Settlements Made on Day of Sale WoT.TrTT*! Ue Droit Balldind. IX |
by Morris D Neumann & Co
The Cii>ms You Want Reading Julius G
Hansen, cigar 44-
manufacturer, satisfied real estate mort
CIGAR BOXES
^4,^^<^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 4^<4 4.4..^ 4.4.4^
gage, $4. 500 > NCTAL EMBOSSED LABELS METAL PRINTED LABELS 4- 4-
44>^^*4-4444'4^^^-f>^^**^4^4^^*^^^**<4^*-44^4^
W. B. s/iriM's Seattle M
Washington
H Lytic, cigars, chattel
Union Cigar Factory

mortgage, $164

Spokane Henry Davis, cigars, sold The Easy Truck Ha cla f leiscKKa\ier
? W^
PMRIERSOF SKETCHES AND
Atk for Samples AKRON, PA. Correspondence Solicitcc
to Brown & Neuman
chattel mortgage, 56oo
S A Mills, cigars
cigars, sold out to N J Sleem

A R Pratt,
MALLEABLE IRON,
Made
and fitted with
of
Cigar Labels
4Mt QUOTATIONS

Tacoma D A McLennan, cigars, sold
It won't leave its position on the floor ARTisnc hmulums-
to J P Sheriff J P Sheriff, cigars, real
when a case falls on it.
If you have an old wooden truck, or 238 Arch Street, Philadelphia. niRNISHED
estate mortgage, J200
none at all. this is the Cheapest and Best TELEPHONE 1561 814-826
Wisconsin
JOHN L. DARON, 4'*'4.44.4^44'4^44^4>^4>'f4^^4'>><f^444>4>^4'4>>^4 444>4-4'4^4 -f 44-> CIGAR Lawrence St.
WRITE FOR
I Biddinger M 4* 4- LITHOGILAPHING SPECIAL DESIGNS 4^ 4>
g
C.A.Rost<llCo. Racine
Bittinger, dead
& I'ohl, cigars,
Care of Hox 184, York, Pa 4-4-^44-ff 4-4-44-4'>>4'>>44^4'^^44>4^^>4'4->4^4-4^4>4^4-4-'44>4-4>44-4'4-4
4-
4 4- 'SAMPLES AND
etc,
Sheboygan John Vandervart,
warranty deed, $1,300
cigars,
UBELS RIBBON PRICED
g All Grades of Parmenter WAX-LINED
PATENTS RELATING to TOBACCO, Coupon CIGAR POCKETS
Leaf Xobscco
Etc.
g J-OR SALE. Afford perfect PROTECTION against

5
CIGAR RIBBONS
779.687 Mouthpiece for cigarettes or
MOISTURE, HEAT and BREAKAGE.
cigais; George P. Butler, New York city.
g lONA TOBACCO CO.
A Specialty of 779.688 Machine for making and ap-
336-33S North Charlotte St.
Indorsed by all Smokers, and are
the MOST EFFECTIVE advertising
plying mouthpieces to cigarettes or ci- medium known.
Light Connecticut LANCASTER, PA.
g
gars; George
779,411
P. Butler,
Cigarette
New York
machine;
city.
Daniel
RACINE PAPER GOODS CO.
Sole Owners
For Sale by All Dealers
g Wrappers and Seconds J.
Campbell, New York city. E. S. SECHRIST, and Manufacturera,
racine:. -wis .USA.
g Choice Assortment of 776,694 Smoking pipe; George B. N.
Dallastown, Pa.
g Dow, Manchester, N. H. Manufacturer of
inufacturer 01 WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TO
g 779,610 Match box; Joachim F. W.
g Seed Leaf Fillers ^Binders Kuehn, San Antonio, Tex. Fine and
g
g WISCONSIN <a OHIO
779.430 Cigarette machine; Peter A,
Lawless, New York city.
Cigarette machine; Peter A.
Common Cigars
Established 189a
^ iFries Bros. Nanufa.cfurii\tf Chemists
g 779.431
g
g
Florida and Imported Lawless, New York city.
779,495 Match holder and striker;
Capacity, Twenty Thousand per Day.
Sumatra and Havana
4%
Edmund A. Parker, Meriden, Conn.
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CALL IN SUCH SLUSH. CUBAN RECIPROCITY WISE MEASURE BUT TARIFF CUT BAD. TARIFF CUT WOULD AFFECT ALL.
Independent Chicago Dealers Should President Frye, of England Growers' Association, Defends Sena- Well Known leaf Dealer Explains the
New
Suppress Newspaper Silliness. tor Piatt's Cuban Amendments which Association Originally Op- Situation.
Some time ago an extract from a Chi posed, but Scores Secretary Taft's Philippine Reduction. "All tobacco interests in the United
cago paper was printed in these

;daily Now Senator was right was States will be affected by the proposed
Hartford. Conn.. Jan. 20. if Plait 1
columns and comment was made that r^, . -Kr t\Ut

"ht. ^f wab wiong <-;*.n
.^ ,.,.r.n,T
...
Senator
itrr 1>1latt
itt u'i<; reductioHs
uas ill the duties ol imi)orts" said
The recent annual meeting of the
. ,
New If T
I 1
_
^^^ ^, , , , r .. -
r ,- .
such rot was domg the independent deal- ^ who nf ^* i^nglehardt.

*" of the tirm of Lnglr-
^
T- , ^ ,
England Tobacco Growers
, . .
Association
.rrn.r
^-rong. Ui.t
but ^y^^r^ in
in thf-
the li.rVit
light actual
ot îrtii \1
,___*>_
'.
. .
(lord LANCASTER, lOc?) ers in that city more harm than good in
was rem arkable for its.^ ^^cts today dares question the honesty, ^''^''tlt Brothers. .
wholesale toboaco leaf
m
j^^^^ ^j^.^ city
United Cigar dealers of Milwaukee, who is qualified to
îgor and enthusiasm which showed the the good judgment, or
their fight against the patriotism of
Stores Company. The article in question ^^^^^-^^^.-^^^ ^^ be brimful of life and one Senator Piatt in this matter ? But laying speak on such subjects,
was a highly flavored account of a re- of the strong bodies to be reckoned with aside all that Senator Piatt knew or "lê Philippine i^land^ raise enough
tobacco to supply the whole of this coun-
puted encounter between a trust sales- ^^ ^,^^^^ -^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^,^^^^ legislation said on the question, what did happen in
the absence of those two measures? At the present time, duties remain
man. an independent dealer and a sym- ^^j^^j^^ ^^ ^,^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^V-
MANgro CIGAR 615

Manufacturers,
M arket St., P hilada,

thetic customer, in which the first was put ^^^ 5 ^^^^ ^^ Poquonock. who was
Porto Rico, a densely populated island,
to rout, and the affair was about as ^^^.^ ^j^^^^^ ^^ ^,^^ presidency after a and the Philippines a vast archipelago
plausible as a sale of rain coats in the ,.^^^^0^ fôm the office of two years. with (it is said) S. 000, 000 of people, were
Sahara. made an e.xtiemely interesting address,
annexed. For a long time now Porto
inj,'
States at
^^'^'ch
as
a'^'e to deliver
they are. Philippine
from |i2
supplies of cigars in the
the dealer in this country pays his

to
dealers are
$15. of a grade
Kicin tobacco and cigars have been "ên from 512 to 5i for making. To-
Here is another, recently printed in of which a portion follows, placing him 5
'^-^cco dealers might not be affected di-

the Chicago Journal, the same paper ^^j^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ,^^ .^ ^-^^^^ ^^ (,^,^.^^ ^^^j, coming here, free of any duty at all, and
114 (WICKX LBY, 5c. )
issue of a rectly but the result of such a reduction
continued
cudêU for now you are up against the
which has printed install-
^^^^j^^ j^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^
slubh very low tariti" on Philippine tobacco,
ôuhl be felt by them. The grower and
ments of such ;
Senator Orville H. Piatt, whose measure
cigarmaker would suffer directly, and in
N 7*!^ St.
Channing Allen , Co. 'Salting the brands"
smokers are now
smoKcrs
a phrase that
is
oecoming well ac-

^^^ originally opposed by fhe Associa- with the prospect of none
,,.,,,
at all in the
j not distant fuluie an issue vou will have

^^^'s way other departments of the ousi-
.
^^nc^m,Rnr# tne
the tio"- Î^. lye said th.n he accepted
^^^^Philadelphia
I"
quainted with, and in consequence j

have ness would be
r-
Manufacturers of expect you will affected.
the presidency again as not only a vin-
to meet and one 1
goods of the tobacco trust are being left whether "Cheap labor of the Philippines is
to accept, too, sooner or later,
in their gaudy boxes instead of making dication of hmiself, but of Senator Piatt,
responsible for these conditions. Where
Chicago smokers dizzy. who had favored Cuban reciprocity jf
you like it or not.
HARTMAN & KOHN, labor can be hired ing

^
for scarcely a
An amusing inddent. showing how home g And so now, in the light of expeiience
li\
'INE CICABS quickly smokers have caught on to the

scheme of placing inferior cigars under
,,e (Mr. Frye) had been at
years that he
,,/.,.,
had been at.
xxr u-
Washington and the
the fiv
.
as they
logic of historical facts, justifying
do the prophesy of what would livered here, all expenses paid, at a figure
wage the finished tobacco can be de-
well known names, is related by a prom- he would have looked at the question in
e.pial to that which it cost a deale. of the
419 Locust St. the same way as the fanners in this sec-
have happened to Cuba had we be
inent dealer.
A well dressed man entered my store
^-^^^ Speaking further, he said in
come a nation of repudiatois and through ^t iles to work up the article. cannot 1
s ly whether the trust would

a few days ago, briskly laid down a quar- suDstance.
onirol the
fears refused to keep our pledges
servile
*
Philadelphia. ter. and asked for a couple

of cigars.
,
because we were and tobacco in the i..lands. if such a reduinion

vastly bigger
box the I fully endorse and heartily sympathize
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 4836-A. When the clerk passed over the was made. It is probable, however,
stronger than the child of our own ciea-
customer looked at them and became with the tobacco farmers in their opposi- ^'ât they would in time.
tion.l tliank (iod when the crucial test
very much confused. ^lon to the extremely low rates of duty
"Wisconsin is one of the leading to-
..Are those really good cigars?" he came I was not found lined up with that
"The Philadelphia asked.
II ^ c.,.,^r.H QCQnvinthp.ivirket
.. Iheyareasgoodasan>inthemarket.
I
^^
have
^
no
^ Philippine tobacco, but I
,,
sympathy
> j
^^.
with ., , ,
that bigoted fa-
,
,
,
^
.

,
cabal of
'-"'^'' ^ beet sugar
^ o insurrectos whose 'âcco growing States in the nation.
Other St.iles are nearly as greatly inter-
A Matchless 5 cent Cigar. every claim wa. a falsehood, whose every
^vciy^-ia /
naticism which, stooping to misrepresen-
replied the clerk. ested. The plant is being cultivated
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. don't think they are." said the tation and bearing false testimony, could
prophesy proved untrue.
Trade
Jobbing and Wholesale solicited. One of RoedePs Best ..1
man. "They look all right, but I guess ^^.j^^ ^^^ ^^^^, ^ngi^nd Association into The following resolutions were adopted
until
that
we are able
comp ires
to produce tobacco here
favorably with that grown
I won t buy.
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DBAL position to one of the wisest, one of
. by the Association:
It may be necessary
What objection have you to this ^Fi
'
,-
in the Philippines, , ,.
Resolved. 'I hat the New Lngland lo-

,
Samples sent to Reputable Distributors the most just and equitable, one of the
brand'" asked the astonished clerk. to develop the interests of oui new pos-
most necessary and honorable measures, bacco Growers' Association regard with
"Well." said the doubting Thomas,
J ^11
J J
you people used to l>aye some good that have ever redounded to the honor
, .1 u 1 .. ereat interest the tobacco seed selection
sessions, l)ut I doubt if it is wise to do it
^J^^ ^^ the bureau of plant industry of at the expense of our home industries."
Philadelphia Cigar Factory cigars once on a time, but they are
good
all
and credit of this country; an opposition. ^^^ i:)epartment of Agriculture, which
out of the market. Yon control lo-
too. that could not be justified even un- the strains ol tobacco
aims improve
W. K. ROEDEL CO., cations, but I may as well be
candid.
der the most selfish considerations of
to
seed through the closer observation and
CiGAKMAKF.KS' UNION ACTS.
You are 'salting' the brands."
41 N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA. self interest, for the result has proved the
selection of the seed plants and the dis
Circulars Have Been Sent Out instruct-
Before the clerk could recover his carding of the inferior individual [)lants,
m truth of my contention then, that reci-

,
in^ Protest Against Philippine Cut.

CHALLENGES COMPARISON breath the man was outside. i^^tead of allowing such inferior charac-
General President G. W. Perkins, of
A minute later the same customer was procity with Cuba could not injure the teristics to be reproduced.
back at the counter. tobacco interests of New England to the Resolved. That we urge theconiinuance the Cigarmakers' Union has sent out
White Knight 'Good Lord,' he gasped: "I thought

this was one of those stores
work ofT cheap cigars in
where they
high class
amount
And
,
of a single dollar.
today the whole diplomatic world
, ^ ,
of the work of the bureau of plant indus-
try particularly to
flip imoroved
^"^ im|)rovcu characteristics
^..
demonstrate whether
as obtained
circulars to every local in the union urg-
j^^, t|jg
,, ..
recipients
Congressmen and Senators ofr
to
a a
communicate with
.u
two measures Cuban

..
regards those the their

FIVE-CENT CIGAR boxes. The joke is on me and I'll take" ^
ciprocity and its projenitor the Plait
re- ca .. ,\ a â
in the past two vears are sufficiently fixed "
^âte lecjuesting them to use their
.
, . .
infiu-
,
MADE BY a box of those perfectos I was looking at j permanent' as to be regularly trans-

amendments to the Cuban constitution mitted in future plant generations ence against the bill proposing to cut the
The sooner the independent dealers in
Chicago or anywhere else, awake to the
as among the most noted examples of Resolved. That we request our senators tariff rate from the Philippines.
Morris D. Neumann & Co. f t th tsuch "pipes" as this will only wise statesmanship and diplamatic ben- and
reprentalives in Congiess to aid in President Perkins writes that the cigar-
the appropriations for the
i..^ better
cause the w they
ofT eficence ever recorded. Through the continuing makers in the islands are paid no more
PHILADELPHIA, PA. ineir cause,
in'ure^their
injure .^v.^x,. . j
^^^^ than 37 cents per day, and that the
effect of these two measures.
will be. The newspaper in question re beneficent .,...,.. Resolved, That the present tarilTrate on
one of which the New England

tr A
Associa- freight charges are hardly a factor in the
I 1
._tly printed a large advertisement for

cen ^^^.^^^^ fôm foreign countries is satis-
de- tion is on record as opposing, we were fatory to the New England Tobacco Grow- retail price. The general belief is thatif
the independents and is evidently
good. instrumental in founding a new republic, ers' Association and we earnestly request such a law is passed it will kill the cigar
making
f
and clothed in rags our senators and representatives in Con jnduetry in every large city in the coun-
struggling in poverty
The Tobacco World would like to see
^'^^^ ^ "^^ as far as possible their intlu- ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ accountof such
^nrreed ana
oHpnu succeea
u independents
A and oners
offers as ^^ true,.yyet working
'tis y and hope-
b bravely h
the
fully on to the attainment of that dream
ence to maintain the same rate of duty.
low wages the Pnilippine product could ^ .
h b Dossible advice the suggestion

******** ê laid down in New York for next
th!t the dealers call off this
Chinatown of every Cuban patriot, when Cuba shall
reporter.
become the home of a free, happy, con- McCiee Bros., of Janesville, Wis., to nothing, driving out the cigars made
^;,;^^,^^f^ tented people. dealers in leaf tobacco, are building a in this country by better paid labor.
I thought I knew something about the addition to their warehouse on %%%%%%^
Wisconsin Cigar Co. of Madi-
The large
North Academy street, which will greatly Robert Raphael, dealer in tobacco
Strausc. and Cuban question, but Senator Piatt knew
son, by its president. N. P.
cigars, of 2144 Third avenue, New
faciUtate their handling the 1904 crop, and
WYOMISSIHGlUi King Louis J^ rctwv H

secretary,
ment
nt
to >25ooo.
Curtis filed an amend- a great deal more about it than I did,
M
increasing its capital from 1 1 0.000 for his
opportunities of knowing were
vastly greater and better than mine,
The addition will contain 1,200 feet of York city, has been discharged in bank-
floor space.
ruptcy of liabilities amounting to 16,511.
p-
C. A. ROST 8z: CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco,
THE TOBACCO WORLD
RED LION, PA.
E. A. Havan st CD^LVEs (^ O^' <^ô^j>
IMPORTERS Or^-^
a 123 n. third
HILJKOeWHIA
*TriE T0B/ieeO WORLB*

CALL IN SUCH SLUSH. CUBAN RECIPROCITY WISE MEASURE BUT T\RIFE CUT BAD. TARIFF CUT WOULD AFFECT ALL.
Independent Chicago Dealers Should President Frye, of England Growers' Association, Defends Sena- Well Knowix leaf Dealer Explains (he
New
Suppress Newspaper Silliness. tor Piatt's Cuban Amendments which Association Originally Op- Situation.
Some time ago an extract from a Chi posed, but Scores Secretary Taft's Philippine Reduction. "All tobacco interests in the United
cago daily paper was printed in thcbe Now Senator FlaU was right was States will be affected by the proposed
;
Hartford. Conn., Jan. 20. if I
columns and comment was made that ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ,ight. If I was wrong Senator PlaU was reductions in the duties of imports" said
such rotwasdomg the mdependent deal- j^^gj^^^ Tobacco Growers' Association vvrong. But who in the light of actual
W. F. Englehardt, of the firm of Engle-
( lord LANCASTER , 10c.) crs in that city more harm than good in ^^^^ .^ ^^.^ ^.^^
^^^ remarkable for its facts today dares question Uie honesty. ^''^^'1* Brothers. ,
wholesale toboaco leaf
their fight against the United Cigar the good judgment, or patriotism of dealers of Milwaukee, who is qualified to
^,^^^^ ^^^ enthusiasm which showed the
Stores Company. The article in quesUon ^^^^^-^^^^-^^ ^^ ^^ brimful of life and one Senator Piatt in this matter? But laying speak on such subjects,
was a highly flavored account of a re- ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^.^^ ^^ ^^ reckoned with knew or "Ibe Philippine inlands raise enough
Mil
aside all that Senator Piatt
tobacco supply the whole of coun-
ANM^
happen to this
puted encounter between a trust sales- ^^ ^^^^^ .^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ legislation said on the question, what did in
Olifir ft. man. an independent decder and a sym- ^^^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ the absence of those two measures? ^^y. At the present time, duties remain
M GAR 615
Manufacturers,
M arket St., P hilada,

thctic customer, in which the first was put
to rout,
Sahara.
and the affair was about
plausible as a sale of rain coats in the
as
H. S. Frye, of Poquonock, who was
after a
again elected to the presidency
^^^^^-^^^ f^^^ ^ê office of two years. with (it is said) 8.
Porto Rico, a densely populated island,
and the Philippines a vast archipelago able to deliver supplies of cigars in the
ooo. GOO of people, were ^^^tes at from |i2 to I15, of a gr.idc
made an extremely interesting address, annexed. For a long time now Porto
^^îch the dealer in this country pays his
'"^ as they are. Philippine dealers are
Here is another, recently printed in

of which a portion follows, placing him
Ricin tobacco and cigars have been men from $12 to Ji 5 for making. To-
the Chicago Journal, the same paper coming here, free of any duty at all. and bacco dealers might not be affected di-
114 (niCKILBY. 5c,) ^^j^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ .^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^-^
which has printed continued install- ^^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ dTeii" for
now you are up against the issue of a rectly but the result of such a reduction
low tariff on Philippine tobacco, would be felt by them. The grower and
ments of such slush: Senator Orville H. Piatt, whose measure very
cigarmaker would suffer directly, and in
a phrase that
^^^ originally opposed by fhe Associa- with the prospect of none
Salting the brands" is at all in the
Charming Allen , Co. smokers aare now becoming well ac-

smoKcra
quainted with, ana in ^^nQi^mienre me
consequence the ^lon.
,. -j ,
Mr. P ryc said that he accepted
' ^
j not distant future
, ,
ness would be affected.

an issue you will have this way other departments of the ousi-
to meet and one 1 expect you will have
'^^Philadelphia Manufacturers of
goods of the tobacco trust are being left the presidency again as not only a vin-
"Cheap labor of the Philippines is
to accept, too, sooner or later, whether
in their gaudy boxes instead of making dication of himself, but of Senator Piatt, responsible for these conditions. Where
Chicago smokers dizzy. who had favored Cuban reciprocity. If you like it or not ^ Atfor scarcely a hvmg
labor can u

HARTMAN & KOHN, be lured 1
Fll
1
An amusing incident, showing how ^^^ FrveUad been at home the five And so now, in the light of experience
CICIE scheme of mferior
^r'^'rnT'c'l^cLX'ferr'^^^^^^^^^
placing cigars under years
>
that hi had been at Washington
^ ,u
and the lo.ic of historical facts, justifying
: as they> do the prophesy
,
P P V of what would
wage the
lvered here,
fin hed tobacco can be de.
expenses paid, at a figure
all
.ell known names, is related by a prom- he would have looked at the qu stion in
, ,
^^^^^^ ^^^ ^,^^ ^,.^, .^ ^^^^ ^ ,^^j^, ^^ ^^^

419 Locust St. inent dealer. the same way "'*^'= iiappt..-a
as the fanners in this sec-
^^
States .to work up .u
.
the artile. i e. .
cannot 1 1
..A well dressed man entered my store

3 ,.^,^^^,,^^ ,, ^^,, ,^J come a nation of repudiators and through 1
a few days ago, briskly laid down a quar- ^^^,_^*1. ^ servile fears refused to keep our pledges s:iy whether the trust would control the
Philadelphia* ter. and asked for a couple
of cigars.
substance:
because we were vastly bigger and
tobacco in the inlands, if such a reduc^tion
box the I fully endorse and heartily symp ithize
Factory No. 909. Bell Telephone 4836~A. When the clerk passed over the was made. It is probable, however,
stronger than the child of our own c.ea
customer looked at them and became with the tobacco farmers in their opposi- tha they would nt.me^
lie.
tion. thank God when the crucial test
very much confused
I
tion to the extremely low rates of duty
_9f 'Are those really good cigars?' he 1 was not found lined up with that
Wisconsin is one of
o. the
.... leading'
..^..-..^ to-
"The PhiladelDhia asked.

"They are as good as any in the niarket,
proposed on n,
have no sympathy
1-
Pilippne . tobacco
K .. K
,
but/t1 came
with that bigoted fa-
^

.
.^^^J^^^^ ^^^^^
Other States are nearly as greatly inter
falsehood, whose every ter-
_,
,^^^^ ^^^^^.^^ ,^,^^3 ^,^ ^,^^
on.
A Matchless 5 cent Cigar. ,,^

W: the clerk
,cu....v.......
replied "^^'^'''"''^''^''''P'"^''''"'''^P'^'^" ested. The plant
plam is being cultivated
cultivatec
I..v^^^^^^ untrue
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. don't think they are." said the tation and bearing false testimony, could prophesy proved
,

solicited. One of RoedeFs Best ..I
man. "They look all right, but I guess ^^j^^ ^^^ ^^^ England Association into
'. /,,* .
The following resolutions were adopted
J until we are able to produce tobacco here
, ,,
that comp ires favorably with that grown
.
, 1 .
, ,
IS SAYING A GOOD DBAL

wont buy."
THAT 1

W
hat objection have you to tnis
opposition
fi to one of the wisest, one of by the Association:
t- j i-
in the Philippines, It may be necessary
the New England To-
1
Samples sent to Reputable Distributors astonished clerk. the most just and equitable, one of the Resolved, That
brand'** asked the to develop the interests of our new pos-
most necessary and honorable measures, bacco Growers' Association reg.ird with
<;i5d the
"Well." bai^ 111^= doubtinu'
8
Thomas* sessions, but I doubt if it is wise to do it
^^^^^ interest the tobacco seed selection
Philadelphia Cigar Factory

W. K. ROEDEL CO.,
41 N. Ilth Street, PHILADELPHIA. u rhP cierK
. the could recover his
clerk couia nis self interest, for the result has proved the selection of the seed plants and the dis
Circulars Have Been Sent Out Instruct-
Before
f
, carding of the inferior individual plants,
CHALLENGES CO:viPAKISON breath the man was outside. truth of my contenUon then, that
.
reci-
^^5^^^^ %f
allowing such inferior charac-
ing Protest Against Philippine Cut.
A minute later the same customer was procity with Cuba could not injure the teristics to be reproduced, General President G. W. Perkins, of
back at the counter. tobacco interests of New England to the Resolved, That we urge the continuance the Cigarmakers' Union has sent out
White Knight "Good Lord," he gasped: "I thought amount of a single dollar.
this was one of those stores where
on cucap
worK off
wrtrt cheao cigars
^6
they
in high class _ improved cn.n
the impruvcu ^.
of the work of the bureau of plant indus- circulars to every local in the union urg-
^^^ ^^^^^ î^^ whole diplomatic world try particularly to demonstrate whether jj^g ^^^ recipients to communicate with
characteristics as obtained ,, j c?
those two measures Cuban re- ine
. r .u
the Congressmen and Senators of their

, , ,
^j T'li oU regards
FIVE-CENT CIGAR boxes The joke IS on me and I 11
Iwaslookingat
take
'*
&
ciprocity and its projenitor the PlaU
in the past two years arc a-^:^ ,\ fi^^
sufficiently fixed " ,
State reque.Ung them to use their intlu-
. , .
aboxofthoseperfectos permanent as to be regularly trans- ^^^

MADE BY amendments to the Cuban constitution mitted in future plant generations ence against the bill proposing to cut the
The sooner the independent dealers in
Chicago, or anywhere else, awake to the

as among the most noted examples of Resolved, That we request our senators tariff rate from the Philippines.
Morris D. Neumann & Co. f f th fsurh "Dioes" as this will only wise statesmanship and diplamatic ben- and
reprentaiives in Congress to aid in President Perkins writes that the cigar-
con.Uuing the appropriations for the mikers in the islands are
eficence ever recorded. Through the paid no more
EEKAHLCR PHILADELPHIA, PA. Sure their cause .he better off they
11 u^
will be.
n#w<;naner in qucsuuu
1 he newspaper
TVi. nuestion re
cently printed a large advertisement

ic beneficent effect of these two me isures,
for one of which the New England Associa-
^, . ^
Resolved That the present tariffrateon
^^^^^^^ ^^^\^ ^^^^-^^ counUies is satis-
'
than 37 cents per day. and that the .
*^^''^^ ^'^^''^'^^ ^'^ ^^'"^^y ^ '^^to"" "^ f^

, .
READING, PA. the independents and is evidently de-

tion is on record as opposing, we were fatory to the New Englmd Tobacco Grow- retail price. The general belief is that if
instrumental in founding a new republic, ers' Association and we earnestly request such a law is passed it will kill the cigar
MAHUFAaURCR of making good.
and representatives in Con industry in every large city in the coun-
The Tobacco World would like to sec struggling in poverty and clothed in rags our senators
idi as possible their influ-
CHARLOTTt CUSHMAN<? 'tis true, yet working bravely and hopc- arpss 10 use d3
gress to as far p
jj.
r
fQj. î^g
.u
reason .u . . r l
that on account of such
the independents succeed and offers
as
ence to maintain the same rate of duty. '
.
fully on to the attainment of that dream low wages the rnilippine product could
the best possible advice the suggestion
PALACE SMOKER that the dealers call off this
Chinatown Cuban patriot, when Cuba shall
of every
******** be laid down in New York for next
Monkey Brand reporter.

become the home of a free, happy, con- McGee Bros., of Janesville, Wis., to nothing, driving out the cigars made
leaf tobacco, are building a in this country by better paid labor.
^ <v%/%fv^%/v% tented people. dealers in
White CniEf The Wisconsin Cigar Co. of Madi- I thought I knew something about the large addition to their warehouse on %%%%%%^
National Biro/K^
King Louis J^V
A: ^.-.

E. A. C>'-''^s <& Co <o>H^!^'* 123 N. THIRD ST
PniukoeL^HiA /\^ Qali/hs ^ GO'^<ô^^ Havana
iMFORTERa
third st
or^^
123 n.
J.Vetterlein & Co.

and Packers of DOMESTIC LEAF ^Tobacco
^>%%>%^%^>%<^^^^^^^^% %<>%'
* F. V. ESHLEMAN, :
MtLAOmL^HiA
115 Arch Street, Philadelphia. A BILOTHCIL OLD-TIMER. MAKES A cash, they sold him"long" price
at 1600 Arch Slreet, Philadelphia,
FEW REMARKS g^^d to take his promises to pay for what
MAKER OF
among old time they had already paid duty.
The musing habit
ypo wMtD 1855.
salemen seems to be contagious, as the Such competition makes a jobber feel
following few remarks have been received like licking his grandmother, but that is
T. Dobaa. Win* H. Dohan. from "an old Knight of the Grip.'* what he has to buck against and even
kThis knight, after mournfully comparing worse. The evil of selling a man 50 cases
PI OR '%S^ t 7
the silver and gold days of the past to of tobacco, letting him take them as he
'^^ DOHAN&TAITT, S^/

the sad present, takes occasion to air a
grievance, the timeliness of which will
needs them, and settle from date of ship-
ment, storage and insurance free for an in
be appreciated by many a seems 10 be increasing in
^^
leaf dealer. definite period,
Dg,j Importers of Havana and Sumatra The Oi d Salesman. stead of diminishing. Competition is so
^____^
keen that dealers give more liberal terms
Packers of
^^^^^^^ Ô/ -^^^^ -Sft.
,.
When ,I
_ J . ^. Un^v
get retrospective and look back
. than in any
^ other legitimate
^ business. A Cigar of Real Quality, made in various sizes,
"ohts are cut to a mmimum and at the ranging from $35 to $300 per thousand.
I/ea/ Tobacco^ .^^ y philada. "
T ,,
.
,
,,.
.u- .,^,.mi;r.rr
.
to the good old times when the traveling

r :., o/i
man's existence was a thing of joy and
end of the year w
^.
.
..
Mr. r^
Dealer says: "1 have
done a big business u
,
but where is the

,
i.
1.
compare it with the strenuous times we

money]*"
are now experiencing it makes me give
ttaUiahad iS$ expression to the old saying that "good
I wish we could stamp out this evil If
Sulzberêr-
-^\SBBEMERSsoyv things never last."
a
buy it and not carry 50 when he needs
man wants 5 cases of tobacco, let him
Y^1C#^ IMPORTERS OP ^Yo When I first started on the road some only 5 at a time. The chances are if Oppenheimer Co.
LABE JACOB LABtt
Havana and Sumatra IBNJ. SIDNEY LABB twenty-five years ago I simply had to the market slumps, the buyer will say
(Limited)
and PACKERS of BENJ. LABE & SONS, present my card, to be sure of a hearty ^jth tears in his eyes:
reception and an invitation to call on the
"I'm sorry but I
can't use your goods any more as they
Giâr Manufacturers
Importers ot
Leaf Tobacco man's family. I was handed a good don't fit my combination." or give some
Broad & Noble
SU MAT R A and HAVANA cigar and
fellow well
was
met
generally
My prospective
treated hail other frivolousexcuse while the seller
have held the goods 2 or 3 months and
may
Philadelphia
Sts.
322 and 324 North Third Street, Philadelphia Packers & Dealers in I^BAF TOBA CCO buyer would call at my hotel, look over
twice, yes,
might have sold them a half dozen times,
my samples and buy about market takes a bullif^ however, the
231 and Z33 North Third Street,
JUhlVS HIRSCHBERG HARRY HIRSCHBBRG
PHIhADELPKIA, PA.
three times as much as I could sell the movement the buyer has the safest in-
same man now with the same amount of vestment in the world making money JOSEPH HOLURD &
Makers of
SONS,
Julius Hirschberg 8z: Bro. working force.
Now. when I call on the trade I am

from other people's capital. I agree with
an old friend of mine in saying that a
Hollard's Premiers,
Importers of Havana and Sumatra LiEOPOLiD LiOEB 8tCO. given a more or less frosty reception, and
tobacco man can never be happy,
Franklin Ciub,
Packers of
AND
Seed Iêaf Tobacco Importers of Sumatra
AND
and Havana after separating myself from a quarter
for which get two, as a general thing,
I
It is the hardest thing under the sun
to make a manufacturer, especially a

ad
Seal Cigar Factory,
Luxury,
NUMEROUS PRIVATE BRANDS.
small one, believe that the market

232 North Third St., Phila.
Packers of Leaf Tobacco
bum cigars the customer takes the other
I am told with a glassy eye
that but in "the sweet bye and bye" when
is high
2203 South Street, Philadelphia.
Mr. Blank, your competitor, was here they find wh a t I tell them is true
L. BAMBERGER & CO. 306 North Third St., Phlla. yesterday and sold me a case of tobacco
that has yours "skinned
a cents a pound less than you
to death," for
want
they will be gnashing their teeth
they didn't take
Herculean undertaking, in
my advice.
fact
''
It
that
=-
is
almost
-
a
J. JWrnHliOfi BARflES
MAKERS OP
CO.
GEO. BURGHARD an impossible one for a importer to raise

SBBD LEAF
pf
HAVANA aod SUMATRA TOBACCO Importer of
Then I am asked to buy a ticket for a
rafHe on a gold mounted pipe and to
cap the climax my customer's children
the price of his cigars, but at the leaf
price ruling at present he must either do THM CO. CIGAR, Five Cents,
111 Arch St., Philadelphia
Lancaster, Pa.; Milton Junction, Wis.; Baldwinsrille.lf.Y.
Sumatra and Havana came
only
in with miniature bricks selling at
5 cents apiece to help build a

this or "cut" the quality of his cigars.
Billy. HAVANA TOPS, Ten Cents,
:
church. Then be told
I am likely to TRAVELING SALESMEN AS TRADE Made in Conchas, Londres and Perfecto Shapes.
and Packer
LEAF TOBACCO of that when I call again and have sqme
cheap goods (quoting price about 20 per
GETTERS.
Consul General
United States Vice
ALL UNION MADE. RIGHT PRICES TO JOBBERS.
Correspondence solicited from Responsible Parties.
238 North Third Street, Phila. ent under market values) he* may look George h. Murphy sends from Frank Factory, Park Avenue and Wallace Street,
me over. Germany, the following statementfort,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The outlook for business this year is from a report of the French vice consul
Factory 1839.
of the brightest. Tobacco is high and at Mogador, Morocco, in regard to Ger-
for that reason none of the manufacturers man commercial activity in that country
large or small are overstocked and con- gy ^hcir astonishing activity and won-
sequently salesmen will have no trouble ^j^^fui patience the Germans have dis-
to dispose of goods that are desirable, tanced all Our trade
competitors here.
as I have never seen good tobacco scarcer -^ declining because we have no traveling
that it is now. salesmen. On the other hand, the Ger-
A lie "Pmnirp
Importers and Dealers in can only explain this by saying that mans themselves offer their products for
TVi^ J^^lllJ-Ill C KINDS OF
I
I
the demand has almost doubled, but the sale, gather information in regard to what
_ . SEED LEAF.
ALIv
BATROFF,
acreage hasn't increased to any visible is wanted in Morocco, and carefully corn-
extent. Would advise any farmer who ply with the demands of the market in
Leaf lobacco havana J. S.
224 Arch St., Philadelphia,
has good rich
can command a good
soil to raise tobacco and he
price for it,
the matter of forms and colors.
and cordingly easy to understand why they
It is ac-
î,^ SUMATRA get it at that. The jobber today is in an are succeeding,
W. K. GRESH & SONS, Makers, Nomstown. Penna.

(ô., Ltd. 118 N. 3d St. Phila. Broker in LEAF TOB/lOeO unenviable position. Formerly the large
packers and importers sold only to job-
bers, whereas now they cater direct to the
S. H. Gordon and E.
will organize the
^'^^^'^^^^
W. Pamperin
Gordon Cheroot Co., of
JOSEPH C. KOLB,
m^ _ nry importers of manufacturers and none Richmond, and establish a plant at Fif-
are- too small
I
I
1
2J^ ^.
'
ling
THIRD
&
p TLT
ST.,
Si ewman, Sumatra & Havana (V&3f
PHILADELPHIA, Packers of Sccd LsMf.
^^ ^^ for them. I know of several instances teenth and Main streets. D. T. Manget
where one of our leading concerns sent a & Co. will establish a cigar factory at
small manufacturer samples of Sumatra Newnan, of which Bowen Reese^will be
and he being unable to pay the duty superintendent
HAVANA BLOSSOM, the Uadintf 5c. Ciâr.
Manufacturer of the
Southeast Corner Second and Market Streets,
Camden, N. J.
.'*"'
-f'
THE TOBACCO WORLD

THB TOBACCO WORLD
OB
^"^TtEALAV OPTHB i:ÊTAILERS A National Protects Profits Jos. Hyink
500. WiPinl?
Brnard
Si
J.
Son
Hylnk
General Aercbati5f0e
HOW THE LARGE HUMIDOR IS CON- tible to climatic changes as ivory is. The those who before they saw it had no idea window his place looked the hmit of AGAINST PILFERING MICE AND CARELESS MEN
making a purchase. dinginess. He got busy at crce. Out Alton, Iowa, Oct. 22, 1904.
STRVCTED. humidor humors the cigar the dealer whatever of
in came ihe fly-specked stuff and everthing
N. C. R. Co., Dayton, Ohio.
The dealer whose store is situated
ii\XTHAT
^^
would you think of spend- watches it with the care of a physician.
ing $150,000 for a humidor and the consumer appreciates this solid- a residence section of the city,
just to keep Havana cigars moist?" asked tude.
or in a else in the window.
After all. its simply one of the small town, is apt to get the idea that a
It was a new game
on the man. and he had the sense to hire

^ When Mr. Lensink and some of his
clerks were cleaning up under the counters
Gentlemen: We enclose a
clipping taken from the Hull cor-
respondence of the Orange City

(Iowa) Herald one of our local
certain amount of trade will fall to him a professional
window decorator. When they came across a mouse nest in which
the busy manager of the cigar depart- up to date phases of business. papers. It is the story of a mouse
Icokcd they discovered a five and a ten dollar bill
mentof abig distributing house. "Makes anyhow, and so it is a useless proceeding the latter got through, the store a.nddmopencash-dyazuer'iti'wtvxch.
which the little fellows had abstracted you probably will be interested.
attempt- like a different place, and attracted the
your $4 Christmas present of an oak WHAT A WINDOW DISPLAY ACCOM^ to go to any trouble and expense from the till. Contrary to the custom of It occurs to us to wonder, if
any display changes. attention of cveiycne in the town. The the firm in this case missed the
humidor look rather insignificant, does it PLISHED. ing those animals the bills were still almost
In a proprietor, who is a man with natural money, which of its clerks was
not? This costly vault is installed in one 'pH ERE is every reason why just as It is a very mistaken idea. entire. Orange City {Iowa) Jlerald. blamed for the loss. If a A'a-
once began a study of
town not a great dis- good taste, at
of the modern fire proof buildings in much care should be taken in pre flourishing country tioual had been on guard the
dressing, having the professional
New York-in the warerooms of one of paring the show windows of a small cigar tance from Philadelphia is a cigar store wirdow bills would not have been lost,
of course, but even if they were
three years come in once a week until he felt that he odd little incident of the mice and the money
the big cigar companies." store, as is the rule with the enormous which was purchased about The point of this lost no clerk would have been
could try it alone. unjustly suspected. If the mer-
The step from the animated office, is that $15 was taken from the merchant's till without being missed.
People began to watch for the displays. chant? did not m.iss the hills the
thronged with salesmen filling out orders
and stenographers busy with the firm's
WEISERT BROS. TOBACCO COMPANY'S DISPLAY. The dealer was just as careful with the Had a National Cash Register been in use in the store, the money mice borroived, they certainly
were in need of a National to
interior of the store, and was one of the would have been missed at once. protect their cash.
correspondence, into the cigar vault,
sort whose whole heart was in his busi- Such things as this can't
through an armored door, is not unlike
entering a cooling room at the Chicago ness.
town,
Some of the best smokers in the
who had been buying at some
A NATIONAL IS INDISPENSABLE happen
tional
to us. W'c use a A'a-
Cash Kcgister. It is
mouse-proof and gives absolute
stockyards. But instead of rows and
other store or getting their stuff in Phila- in every retail store because it detects and prevents losses. protection to our clerks. We
rows of sides of beef cooling out, the would not be without it. The
delphia, came to the conclusion that good it has done for us would fill
cigar vault is lined with shelves on which In writing please mention this paper.
such local entei prise should be encour- many pages if we tried to write it.
rest the choicest importations from the You may use this letter as
aged, and stopped in to look the place
Queen of the Antilles. you wish.
The most striking feature about the
over. They found the young proprietor National Cask Register Company Yours truly,
to be an intelligent man, who took an Jos. Hyink & Son.
the center mat of plain
big humidor
red brick.
is
This portion of the floor is

interest in his customers' favorite brands DAYTON, OHIO
room. and was always ready to receive or
what furnishes the humidity for the
impart information.
Made of a special kind of clay and
Every smoker, no matter how seldom
burned with infinite care in a special
are sponges. he smokes, likes to consider himself a
kiln, these bricks reajly
and give good judge of tobacco, and enjo}s an
They are dampened regularly
occasional conversation on tobacco with
off their moisture with such automatic
the man he buys his cigars from. FOR LARRANAGA" FACrORYJENTER- right kind often enough, fabulous prices
regularity that the most precious fabric
They discovered that this man really 'J_TAINS DISTINGUISHED GUESTS have to be paid as the competition is
varnished box from Cuba "
in the highly The Havana cigarmakers make
had the interests of his customers at Havana, Jan. 16, 1905. keen.
will notbe injured.
BLACK THREADS
heart was always informed on the latest One of the pleasant incidents of the only handwork, no machinery is used,
Safely secured in each box, the fragrance thing on the market and was dependable
assembly of the "American Public Health and they become artists
in being able to
and bouquet of each cigar is not permitted in everything that he said.
leaf in any kind of shape imag-
Association," which held its sessions in twist the
to escape. Although it is not contemplated And as was touched upon in a previous
article, the customers began to take pride Havana at the AtencolClub building last inable.
tkat Havana stocks shall remain a long
time in the vault, experts are agreed that
in the store as if they had a financial in-
They looked for the window
week, and at which there were |about two Don Antonio J. Rivero is a good type Long Cut
terest in it hundred prominent American physicians, of the Spanish gentleman, and having
they might be kept for months without displays, often made suggestions for new The Finest Heavy Pipe Smoking Tobacco manufactured.
was a visit to the "Por^Larranaga" fac- lived for a number of years in the United
loss of flavor, quality or value. ones,some of which were practical and
and made the concern a sort of tory on Friday and Saturday! made in re- States, speaks the English language as Packed by hand in 3^ oz. packages.
The entire sheeting of the vault is good
an invitation extended by^Don h i s native tongue. After
fluently as Union Made. The Wrappers are Good for Premiums.
ainc a splendid nonconductor a n d CO operative one. sponse to
having completed a tour of the factory,
proprietor { that store bought the The Antonio J. Rivero, the proprietor. Write ui for Samples and Prices.
between and the outside sheath of
that
business at a ridiculously low figure, and from the ground floor to the top, the
the big humidor are many thicknesses of It was evident that the medicos were
today he has one of the tidiest businesses guests were invited to the office and each
felt The floors are set in a bed of
cement and felt, and the porous bricks
outside the big cities. The window and
interior displays are a lot of trouble andâ^
some expense, but they pay him. The^^
greatly interested by their tour of inspec-
tion, which was made much more enter-
taining by the care which Don Antonio
visitor was handed a bunch of seven
Deliciosos, enveloped in a yellow silk
The Gem City Tobacco
are laid with the care of mosaics.
COMPANY,
j j v
of St. Louis, displayed its Arrow store is never crowded with customers
TOBACCO

ribbon, which read thus: DAYTON, OHIO.
Essentially
r.55cnuaiiy mc
the big
îg ^6
cigar humidor is BROS. TXTEISERT
yw ,,,
u Â ..* u^ TKoo,. and to a Casual observer would apparently
took to explain every detail of the factory
the same whether it costs only a few
^^
hundred dollars or as much as the most Show in Philadelphia, and, as the cut demonstrates, did it
r .u
Plug Cut. Faust Granulated and a number of other brands at the Tobacco ^^^ ^^^.^ ^^ ^^ ^^.^^ ^^^ volume of bus-
x.
in a very beautiful wav. j^^gg ^^ ^jîch the average city

store can
work.
room
After the guests had visited every
in the vast building atNo. 2 Be-
"For Larranaga"
Established 1834 J^WmW^^^^^^ rATATATiÂTAl !
costly one in the country. It must have The company also gave away a large quantity of tobacco in souvenir packages boast lascoain street, where 500 cigarmakers COMPI.IMENTS ^^^ CONGRKSSISTS
in conjunction with the artistic booth Havana, Cuba,
a zinc lining.thick doors and the moisture- during the week of the show, and this, can work comfortably without being
Nevertheless, it is a safe bet that the
and W. C. Miller, made a H good of a man's books will show up better than January 14th, 1905.
disseminating bricks. arranged and conducted by J.
deal hit
some of the pretentious stores in Phila-
crowded, and were given minute expla- A LINE OF HIGH-GRADE
In a well-appointed cigar vault the with consumers. nations and descriptions of how the raw The guests were pleased and charmed
delphia, and the business is so settled
temperature is just 50 degrees Fahrenheit. ri==i==^======:^r==============^^ that he can count with practical certainty leaf is wetted, the stems taken out and by the liberality of the host who also en-
The humidity is indicated by a system of windows of the modern department store, ago by the present proprietor, a man not on his income. the leaf after being dried is turned into
tertained them with a light lunch and For Cigar and Tobacco Factories
and Leaf Tobacco Dealers.
dials. The latter varies according to the There never was a store so small that it more than thirty years old. The store is Enterprise, if demonstrated in
it is cigars, which latter have to be selected ac- wine, and some gave orders for hundreds
MISTING SPRAYING
amount X)f moisture in the bricks, the didn't pay to display samples of its goods, near a drug store, the owner of which the proper way. will always be recog- cording to 32 different colors, they became and thousands of cigars before leaving FLAVORING CASING
nized by the buying public.
outside temperature and the draught from and, the merchant who progressive ideas, and makes at
is satisfied by the has convinced that the successful manage- the factory. WHITEWASHING
the opening and closing of the doors. mere act of dumping a quantity of stuff least one different window display, after ment of an undertaking of this kind did Fountain SprSLyer for misting
TXTHEN you change your window Don Antonio J. Rivero evidently prof- fillers . . - - $4.00
Havana goods are delicate and have on the floor of the window and allowing the mannei of the Evans stores in Phila- '^ aot require a vast amount o f capital
display it is a good scheme to ited by his stay in the United States, as Simplicity Automatic Sprayer 7.50
to have considerable solicitude shown for it to remain there indefinitely, does not delphia. every week. alone, but also a thorough knowledge of Little Climax TobaLCco Pump 10.00
paste paper or some other covering back he has acquired much tact in doing busi-
You majt take from a deserve to have a window in his store. where to acquire the right kind of leaf, Progress Jr. Spraying Machine 16.50
their welfare. The cigar store had been allowed to of the glass even, if you have a curtain. ness, and by appointing Baron Taylor,
uunug that is necessary in
AUo make Ur|e Field Sprayer which covers
humidor or vault some of the choicest He would never dream of doing busi run along withh its oeiore and
traae before
Its regular trade anu allow uio
aiiow it to remain asiiuninnc
rcinam a short time during and of the blending four row* at one time.
day when people are passing. Sun- son of the famous seller of imported
imported cigars for a European trip, only ness without a show case. As a matter the present m? aan took it. and the goods ^he producing the mild sweet taste combined Send for free Catalogne.
to find that alter crossing the Atlantic day is best if you live in a good neigh- cigars, William Taylor, his agent in New
,
of fact his window is a more important in the window at the time of the purchase
, ,
with the most subtle aroma.
your cigars have lost many good quali- borhood. It stimulates curiosity, and if
York City, and for the United States, has DAYTON SUPPLY CO.,
tii^have taken on othcrs'not so desir- adjunct thin the show case, for it stands had probably been there six months, your store is located where many of the
This factory only uses the choicest
able as they mij^ht be. and you complain to reason that anyone who sees the show xhe old proprietor, being used to it, same persons pass every day, they will a shrewd business trans- Sac'ors to Nixon Nozzle & Mach. C*
Vegas of the lowland districts of the accomplished
of them. case, sees it because he is inside for the didn't see an) thing out of the way, but be sure to watch for what is coming.
Vuelu Abajo, and in order to obtain the action. DAYTON, O.
The ocean voyage, plainly affects purpose of buying something, whereas, the new man saw it with different eyes. You thus secure just double the benefit
fine tobacco. The cigars are as suscep- the window display is supposed to catch Beside the fre^h looking drug store from your display.
. J\^ Qali/hs (^ Qo. <C^p^^ Havan a 123 n. third st
THE TOBACCO W O R I* D
gREMER BROS. & gOEHM, GEO. W. BREMER.

WALTER
Importer Packers dLiid Dealers in
Importers,
t. BREMER.
Jr.
R.^ BAVTISTA y C A.- Leaf Tobacco Warehouse-HABANA, CVBA.

PHILADELPHIA Cable RoTiSTA. NEPTUNO 70"! 74.
x
115 North ThirdT ^T^
St., 1 1 special Partner Gumkrsindo Garcia Cubrvo
Leaf Tobacco NVNIZ HERNANOS y CIA r ESTABLISHEP 1844

1^
rArATAl rATAl S ei\ C
I
JOHN U. FEHR, Established 1883. GEORGE N. FEHR.
J. U FEHR & SON, m VUELTA ABAJO.PARTIDOand REMEDIOS TOBACCO

Cable:
'Angel," Havana ReindL 20. Havaiva p. O. Box 98
HAVANA MARKET ACTIVE AND TRAN SACTIONS LARGE.

Rush of Buyers from the North and Limited Supply of Choice Goods
H. Upmann & Co
HAVANA, CUBA. I
:ôo
Leaf Tobacco
Franklin St and loi, 103, 105 and 107 South Seventh
Have Made Prices Feverish. Demand May Exceed Supply.
Consumption of the U. S. Has Greatly Increased.
[Special Correspondence of The Tobacco World.]
Havana, January i6, 1905.
Bdctvkers and
Commission
St., As was foreseen, enough stocks, have been following a
the unprecedented
READING, PA.
influx of Northern buyers and the com. poHcy of living from hand to mouth, and
paratively limited supply of choice goods,
particularly first and second capaduras of having
that possibly
to
this may
pay the piper
result
for
in their
the little
Merchscnts
Remedios, has resulted in an exceedingly foresight shown in not believing the re-
ÂÂTATATATATATi ÂTATATATATi active market and the transactions have ports of the shortness of the Remedios
SHIPPEP^S OF CIGAP^^
and LEAF T03ACC0
been very large. crop.
Sales
B0TTS&KEELY, Importers and Packers of

PtflLlPPj.KoLB fDVÛWlCOLGAN
Prices were feverish, jumping upward
from day to day, and as one commission '^^t week amounted to 14,917 bales in
house tersely expressed it, "the market ^^'' ^^ 5.265 bales of Vuelta Abajo
has gone completely 'meschugge' as far ^>^^ ^^ Partido and 8,650 bales of
HANUFACrURBRS OP
as Remedios is concerned " With the Remedios. American buyers have
Leaf Tobacco
No. 148 North Second Street,
exception of one good Santa Clara Exco ^^^" 12,588 bales and the local manfac-
jida, for which the owners will not take
less than$55
^"""^'s and cigarette manufacturers 2,029
per qq. for the first capa- ^^^s, while Europe only participated
duras and $36 for the seconds, there ^^*^ 300 bales.
hardly remains more than a couple of
'^^^ ^^^^^ exports from the port of
thonsand bales of Remedios in first Havana were in 1903, 303.106 bales

The
Celebraied W^ CigCLf
Br a,nd
PHILADELPHIA. hands, and these are not of the finest ^^'* " *904 there were only 250.638
^^^^- ^he seven prmcipal importing
growth or packing.
The American exporters have of course
countries, exclusive of the United States, FACTORYs PASEO DE TACON 159-169
were:
OFFICE: AMARGURA 1 HAVANA. CUBA.
HIPPLE BROS. IMPORTER OP Bales.
taken time by the forelock and secured
1904
Sumatra and Havana 1903
Importers and Packers of and Dealers in

Weinberg '
Deafer in all kinds of Seed Lem I*.
as much as they possibly could for their
steady customers, still as the demand
Germany,
Spain,
Austria,
46,155
32.153
32,639
8.730 \t J
may exceed the supply it would cause no 5.329 i.i 1
120 North Third Street* Remigio Lopez
LEAF TOBACCOS Philadelphia. Tobacco surprise to see prices for first capaduras .^"^ ^
1 r -r . *.: AC
rule from |6o to $65 per qq, and for prance
seconds from $40 to I45 per qq. in the Great Britain,
t^
Argentine Republic,
5.305
1. 715
1,450
1.303
3.993
2.199
1,894
1,707
RBMIGIO LOPEZ y HBRMANO Manufacturers of the Imported Brands
Benjamin Lopez
. VelMchik. & American market, just as soon as the
No. 231 Arch Street,

VeleKbik
stocks of theses grades in
Buyers
Havana shall
Come and Go.
La Mas Fermosa yMagnetica de Cuba
Oar ReUil Department
VELENCHIK BROS. have become exhausted. ^^
Arrivals:-Simon
^^
Batt, of :S.
^ ^^^^ ^ ^^ ^
^^^^^ ^^
Batt &
No. 83* Amistad St.. HABANA, CUBA.
PHILADELPHIA. Good, heavy -bodied Vuelta Abajo
is Strictly Up-to-Dste.
KiS:*ia LEAF T0B>qeO fillers have also been actively inquired
for and round lots have changed hands

Cohn, of J. Cohn & Co., A. Blumen-
stiel. of Levi. Blumenstiel & Co, Chas.
Jacobs, of Chas. Jacobs & Co., Alfred El fîco Habano

Cs(.blished 1860
Factoiy
Sumatra and Havana Light
at advancing
fillers
figures.
were in demand by the clear Ha-

vana manufacturers for Tampa, who com-
Partido and Victor Ettinger, of E. Hoffman &
Sons, H. Spingarn. of E. Spingarn & Co.
e. H. Smith, of Hinsdale, Smith & Co..
INDEPENDENT OF ANY TRUST
OP
Importer of
AND
Dealer Leaf
SUMATRA
in Tobacco
LOUIS BYTHINER
LOUIS BVTHINMR <& CO.
J. PRINCB
plain about scarcity of suitable vegas and
the high prices asked for same by the .
local dealers.
Louis Hirsch. of Joseph Hirsch & Son.
A Kline, of E. A. KHne &
Captain Mike Flaherty, the well known
Co.,. and
Enrique Dorado & Co. Vuelta Abajo Cigars
Eatrella No. iri-TJ,
Purveyors to H. M. The King
c*^'= ch.oaiva.
of Spain
Havana, Cuba.
No matter what the outcome of broker, New York; J. M. Fortier, of J.
final
In Quantities to Suit Purchasers. Leaf Tobacco Brokers )UO KSICC ^^ n the new crop may be. by the time it shall M. Fortier & Co., Montreal, Can.; Wm. Narciso Gonzai,bz. YbNANCiG iJiAZ, Special,

!j i r
and Commission Merchants. A hllaaelphl& have been packed and becomes fit for the H. and H. H. Yocum. of Yocum Bros.,
312 North Third St., Philadelphia. Long Distance Telephone, Market 3025. cigarmakers' tables, it seems to become Reading, Pa. Matt Berriman. of Berri. ;
clearer from day to day that the stocks man Bros. Tampa Otto and Aug. Eisen- , ;
(S. en C.)
in the Havana market will barely suffice lohr, of Eisenlohr Bros. C. Rosen- ; A
HAEUSSERMANN for the growing demand from the United berg, of A. C. Rosenberg & Son, Ven-
L. G. CARL L. HAEUSSERRIANN EDWARD C. HAEUSSERMANN States. tura Blanco and Jose Alvarez, of Phila-
L, G. Evidently the consumption must have delphia; F. Opp, of Weinheimer & Opp,
increased enormously, as Tampa alone a^^ T. Schutz, of The F. R. Rice Mer-
is credited with 50,000 bales of Vuelta
cantile Co.. St Louis, Mo. Wm. S. ;
10 Angeles
P. NBUMANN.
St.. HAVANA,
G. W. MICHABLSBN.
Cuba. P.O. Box 856.'
H. P&A88B.
Importers of Packers and Exporters of and Dealers
^^ in Abajo and Partido as its present quota Lightburn, of the Cortez Cigar Co., Key
FEDERICO lÊUMflNN & CO.
needs West.
Sumatra.'* Havana Leaf Tobacco v6 per year, therefore the total yêarly
oftheUnitedStatesof all kinds of Cuban

leaf must be above rather than below
Returned; Louis C. Cantor, of L.
Friedman & Co., New York and Havana. Commission Merchants
SHIPPERS OF
LARGEST RETAILERS IN PENNSYLVANIA 300,000 bales, even if the exports last Departures: Charles Landau and M.
No. 240. Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penna.
year amounted to only 196,861 bales,
against 206,698 bales in 1903. The
Pareda, for Montreal; C.
Boston:
S.
Louis Goldsmith and Charles
Egerton, for LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS
conclusion to be drawn, therefore, is that Earthen, for New York; G. W. Nichols
Havana, Cuba.
the manufacturers, instead of carrying and F. L. Artolozaga, for Key West Office, Obrapia i8. P. O. Box 28. Telegrams: Unicum.
10
E.A.G <& Go <o>HAVANA
IMPORTERS OP"^^
123 N. THIRD 3T
HIUADBI^RHIA
/ 5E
THK TOBACCO- WOBLD It
Leaf Tobacco Commission Merciiant,

Habana; Cuba
EtUblithed 1834
Independent Vaeita Absyo Factory J. F. ROCHA & CO.
Leslie Pantiii-,ô 'Reilly 50, O P. O. Bx 493,''
r PO R. 1^ P^*" Larraiiaga
Celebrated Brands
S. en C.
BEHiÊNS & eo. Royal Cigar Factory ^^ttfi\im^d

LmV w^^^^*\*^^. A mjf^
^^âr Manufactory
ANTONIA LOPEZ CUERVO. Proprietress "Crepusculo," "Nene"
p ANTONIO J. RIVERO. Nsnsêr
Celebrated Brands,
^<1X INDEPENDENT
ri Trade Mark Registered

Annexed Brands Alexander :
La. Colunvnia de
II..
Il
2 Belascoain (B), HAVANA, CUBA
Cable Address: Por Laranaga. Havana
Flor de Rivero. Ready and Rou^K. Sir Walter Ralei^K
VictorieL, La. Irma, and La Guipurcoana.
"Jefferson"
The HavsLiva Cigar Manufacturers made some fair sized purchases for their
100 San Miguel St.
Cable: Crkpuscui.0
Habana, Cuba
Oldest
Brand
MTAGAS are beginning to notice a better call for
their product, and while the trust seems
Key West factory.
Grau, Planas & Co. sold 400 bales of

YG? to be less busy and has discharged many
cigarmakers for want of orders, the large
Remedios.
No. 9 7 Broad Street, New York,
H.
Gagnier and twenty-two of the
4MBAt4^ independent factories have not only kept
their forces at work, but in several
prominent cigar manufacturers and deal-
ers of Montreal,
Bruno Diaz
B. DlRZ^St CO.
R. Rodrigues
SOL and
'^^/SM^^*' Cif uentes, Fernandez y Ca
instances have seated more cigarmakers.
Canada, arrived here
last Wednesday by the steamship Morro Growers atiid Packers of
LUIS MARX ^fABAHf^ Proprietors
The exports of cigars show the following
comparison between the years 1904 and
Castle and enjoyed a three days' rest by
seeing the sights of Havana, returning
Vuelta. Abajo
PRADO
and PsLftido Toba^cco
174 Industria Street 1903:
on Saturday by the same steamer for 125,
CoDsulado 91, HAVANA. Cable:
CiPER. Habana, Cubao
Total exports of cigars from Havana,
217,645,082 in 1904; 208,077,091 in
their Canadian homes. They expressed
great satisfaction with their trip, but did
Cable:Zaidco HABANA, CUBA.
SUAREZ HERMANOS,
1903; increase, 9,567,991.
Destination.
United States
not seem to care
A
to talk business.
M. Calzada & Co. closed out some

SRAU, PL/INAS Y 61/1.
(S. en C.) Jose Menendez, 1904. 1 903*
60.745,446 45.800,429 inc. 14,945,017
325 bales of Remedios and Vuelta Abajo.
M. Pareda made some profitable
Almacenista de Tâbaco en Rama
pur- Cable
Great Britain
chases for Granda Hns., Montreal.
Calzada de la Reina 22, .. . .
and Dealers in L63f T0D9CC0 91,616.555 92,277,137

Germany
dec. 660,582
Suarez Hns. disposed of 300 bales of
Graplanas. Habana, Cuba
Figtiras 39-41,
Mspecialidad Tabaco de Partido 27,147.516 31.560,509 dec. 4.412,993
France
Vuelta Abajo. CHARLES BLASCO,
Cabl* Addrcsi:
Vegas Proprias Cosecbado por el 8,829,405 9,425,485 dec. 596,080
Louis Goldsmith and Charles Barthen
COMMISSION MERCHANT
Cuetara." Havana, Cuba. Monte 26, Habana, Cuba. Canada
dec. 928,756
secured between 600 and 700 bales of
choice leaf. LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS,
6,264.984 7.193.740
Spain Sobrinos de V. Diaz turned over 300
SoBRiNos DE A. Gonzalez 5,718,838 7,420,010 dec. 1,701,172 bales of Vuelta Abajo.
Obispo 29, cbi.-- Bieo Habana, Cuba.
FERNANDO FERNANDEZ y HNO. Australia

3,124.280 2,663.800 inc. 460,480 Charles Jacobs has started in to secure
GONZALMZ, BMNITMZ & CO.
Leaf Tobacco Merchants Almacenistas de Tabaco en Rama
Argentine Republic
2,497,665 2.041,962 inc. 455.703
some vegas
New York.
for his Las Palmas factory at
Principe Alfonso 116 y 118

Chili
2,215,601 2,553,859 dec. 338,258
Jorge & P. Castaneda made one sale AlmacenistasdeTabacoenRamayViveres
SpceiaJtjr in VueHa. Abaio, Semi Vuelta. y Ptrtido, of 265 bales of Vuelta Abajo and Partido
Amargura 12 and and San Ignacio
Austria 14, 23,
Tampa
*^"> Habana. industria. 176,
2,026,940
Belgium
1,102,000 inc. 924,940 to a
Simon Batt
factory.
is still in the market pick-

Cable: "Tebenitez.* P. O. Box 396. HABANA, CUBA.
HABANA, eUBA.
sAFêiyq Y e/i.
1,059,443 1,287,226 dec. 227,783
ing out some extra choice leaf for his
ANTONIO CSUAREZ Busy

tagas,
factories are:
Ramon Allones.Sol, Por Larranaga,
H. Upmann, Par-
La Verdad
Rabell, Costa
factory,
&
S en GUSTAVO SALOMON Y HNOS. Crepusculo, El Rico Habano and Lamas
Fermosa.
Co. sold 187 bales of
Vuelta Abajo and Partido to local facto- Leaf Tobacco Warehouse,
Almacen de Tabaco en lâma Tabacos Finos de
Especialidad en Baying. Selling a^nd Other Notes of In-
ries.
Cohn purchased some very fine first Cable: Anoamira.

MONTE 199.
HABANA, CUBA.
B8PBCIALIDAD BN TABACQS FINOS terest. J.
& capaduras of Remedios.

Vuelta Abajo, Partidos y Vuelta Arriba Weinheimer Opp and the F. R.
Monte 114,
Rice Mercantile Co. were the heaviest
purchasers of Remedies, as they have
Bruno Diaz & Co. closed out 185 bales
of Vuelta Abajo leaf.
LOMB-NUNEZ HAVANA CO.
Rayo 110 y 112 HABANA (P. O. Box) Apartado 270.
Cable: Zalezoon.
TJ o K O tl O
X XCLUCiLJLCL^
e taken over 3, 000 bales of first and second
Capaduras.
J. M. Fortier, who came with the Wcegistas le TaM en Vania
Gagnier excursion party, has stayed here
Rodriguez Bautista & Co. sold i.ieo 142 and 144 Consulado Street, HABANA.
J O AQ U I N H E D ES A, MARTINEZ?HEDSA CO.
to look over the market and eventually
Dales of Vuelta Abajo and Remedios. carry home some choice parcels of Cable: Rbporm.
Packer and Exporter of Leaf Tobacco

AIXALA Qi CO., Havana Leaf Tobacco Mendelsohn, Bornemann & Co. had a
Receipts Froai tMe OovBtry
leaf.
HENRY VONEIFF r. VIDAL CRVZ
102 Escobar Stre^, ..aa..,a

HABANA, ^.ia
CUBA.
Carilenas Z, ai\d Corra.le8 6 an4 t,
HAVANA, CUBA.
very busy week, buying 2,000 bales of
kinds of leaf for their customers.
all
Week Ending
Jan. 14.
Since
Jan.
LEAFTOBAeeO
I.
Cbi: 'jDB8A."
a^-SFECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE WANTS OF AMERICAN BUYERS^M Sobrinos de A
Gonzalez disposed of
Branch House: 512 Simonton Street, Key West, Fla.
P. O. Box 298. Cable Address, "Aixalaco." 1. 000 bales of Vuelta Abajo, Remedios Vuelta Abajo
Bales
1,403
Bales
"Eto7te'A'of
3.353
and Partido. Semi Vuelta 451 513 73 Amistad Street, HAVANA, CUBA.
& Jorge Y. P. CastJUkeda
Leslie Pantin purchased 1,200 bales of Partido 214 290 Branch Houses:-616 W. Baltimore Street. Baltimore. Md.; P. O. Box 433. T.mp%.. Fhu
JO!^GE 8t P. CflSTAJSlEDfl
GROWERS, PACKERS and EXPORTERS of
JH. GARCIA PUmDO
GROWER. PACKER. AND DEALER. IN
leaf for his various customers.
Jose Menendez turned over 800 bales
Matanzas
S. Clara 4 Remedios
Santiago de Cuba
71
36 CIOAR FACTORY
of Vuelta Abajo and Partido.
Toul
Hs^vana Tobacco Iieaf Vuelta. AbdLjo, PdLftido dcivd Remedios Matt Berriman supplied himself with
600 bales of choice Vuelta Abajo and
2.75 4. 171
BANCES A LOPEZ
sr
Dragones loSiio, HA YA NA Cable -Puiido. ESTRELLA 25. HABANA, CUBA. Partido fillers for
Loeb-Nunez Havana Co. were

his Tampa factory.
sellers
CHANGE IN NAME OF HAVANA
BRANCH.
',-m^
HAVANA. CUBA.
to the extent of 550 bales of Remedios. Sincejanuary Havana branchthe

Calixto Lopez & Co.
CALZADA & CO.
17,
AYBLINO PAZOS & CO. A. M. C. S. Egerton was a buyer of 1,000

bales of Remedios.
of Mendelsohn, Bornemann & Co., of
New York, has done business under the 180 Water St., New York
Almat^mstas d* Tabaeo en Rama Dealers in Leaf Tobacco. J. F. Rocha closed some transactions
of 450 bales of Vuelta Abajo.
name of Manuel Suarez & Co., with
which firm there has existed a co-part-
Will receive and attend to orders*
PRADO Its, COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

and
G. F. Nichols and F. S. ArtoUzaga nership which remains unchanged.
Ctgtra aade itrictly of tkc Tcry bcit
VUELTA ABAJO TOBACCO
OifiuriL Habana Monte 1,^6, cbie-"CAU)A." HABANA, CUBA.
12 ^ THB TOBACCO WORLD C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf ^Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
THE TOBACCO WORLD it
three monthsjago, which resulted in the his official memory in the form of the
Established 1&81 Incorporated 1902 new import stamp. The Assistant Secre-
for
establishment of a periodical fine
Te BR e e We R ld dealers which acts as an excise tax

furnishes quite a revenue to the city.
and tary showed so effectively at the time of
the controversy over the stamp that he
Jay Y. Krout,
Published Every Wednesday

224 Arch Street. PKiladelpKiaL
President and Genl. Manager.

J. M. Buckley,
Entered at the Post Office

Bditor.
BY THE
H. C. McManus,
second class matter.
at Philadelphia, Pa., as
CO.
It does seem rather
specta* ular raiding
in order to
vice
silly to
machinery of the law

pounce upon one little de
invoke the was an
of a diverting method of purchasing a independent interests.

five cent cigar.
Every man resents any attempt to

interests
active
bluffed, thatihis exit
whose only offence is the affording greatly to be regretted by those same

friend
and, moreover, could
to
from officialdom
independent
not be
is
enYouAfe
LocallManufacturers and Jobbers.
Telephones: Bell, Market 28-97 Keystone, Main 45-39^ ;
deprive him of liberty, particularly in

Cable Address, Baccoworld. Havana Office, Post Office Box 362. Marcus Kleinberg, jobber at 21^^
SUBSCRIPTION-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: such a small matter, and the mere taking
away of the machine will not prevent him North Second street, has made applica-
One Year, $1.00 ; Six Months, 75 Cents; Single Copies, 5 Cents.
In all countries of the Postal Union, $2.00 per year, postage prepaid. from gambling if he so desires. More tion to thej United States District Court
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. over it is far better for him to spend his to be discharged as a bankrupt A
Advertisements must bear such evidence of merit as to entitle them to
m hearing has been set for Friday of this
small change in a cigar store th to PUERTO
throw dice or match for drinks in a week at 10 o'clock, when the creditors pniNcipE
calculated to mislead or defraud the mercantile public will be admitted.
Remittances may be made by Post Office Money Order, Registered Let- saloon. and those intere^sted will be present
ter, Draft, or Express Order, and mtist be made payable only to the pub- Weaver & Drake are attorneys DEU-RlO ^1- COBE
It was stated at the time the machines for Mr.
lishers. Address Tobacco World Publishing Co ,, 224 Arch St., Philada.* Kleinberg.
were so numerous in Philadelphia during
the clean up two years ago, that many
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 25. 1905 Quite a number of salesmen were in
wives had made personal complaint to SANTIAGO
town during the week, andjmost of them
THE TAILIFF HEARTING. Square Garden, or whatever else hall
month and then
is
the dealers asserting that their husbands
took fiom the wife's allowance, the extra
reported business on the road
slow just at present, with
to be a
xs;
^
Congress* Committee on Ways and selected, for a transferred little every
money spent in the slot machine. It is
Means is giving a hearing in Washington to a number of the larger cities of the prospect for an early quickening. Henry
beyond dispute that there were entiiely Â'
today to representatives of the domestic United States. Kraus, of Kraus & Co., Baltimore; E. G.
too many machines in the city at that
interests, who are in force at the Capital The proposed exhibit will be largely Garner, American Tobacco Co. William ;
time and the wholesale raids were bene-

to protest against any decided cut in the educational and will show the plant in Moulsdale, Sanchez & Haya; W. H.
ficial.
duty rate on tobacco from the Philippine the various processes of growing, harvest McBurney, Lozano, Nistal & Co. Albert
As long as the condition is no worse
;
\
ing, curing, manufacturing, packing and Calis^ch, Cortez Cigar Co., and W. Y.
Islands.
Hearings before the committee on the
offending Curtis bill took place on Mon-
as finally displayed on a retailer's counter
for sale. The manufacture
than it is at this time, however, it seems
of cigais, ci-
like misdirected
Connor, Amo, Ortiz & Co., were among
energy on the part of
those who got around among the retailers.
Your Hee^dque^rters ^^:
interests were not involved. Today is and of aromatic snuff will be revealed to
the public in New York for the first time,
Mr. (iibboney, to go after the cigar
day and Tuesday of this week but tobacco garettes, smoking and chewing tobaccos dealers and pass by the dozens of
gambling places, dives, and other
Ben Beecher, one of the El Provedo
illegal Co. 's well known salesmen,
has resigned
At Our Office. m
the time specified by Chairman Payne
operations of a far worse nature. his connection with that firm and will
when the tobacco trade would be given and costly and interesting machinery will
full attention.
be shown in action.
This is a pretty large proposition, much THE AMER.ICAN TOBACCO CO. AND
enter the mattress business.
^
Naturally it is impossible at this time
Thomas
to attempt to define what effect the hear- larger than the one carried through in
The poor tobacco trust has been ac
THE AGRICVLTUR.AL DEFT.
fancy groceries an
A. Fli e & Co. ,
cigars at Chestnut
dealers in
Choice Escojidas of
ing will have on the fate of the and Philadelphia, but the New York projec-
bill,
cused of about every mean and unscrup and Juniper streets, ave secured the
tors have the advantage of following a
all speculation at such a time must be
more or less idle. It is certain, however, precedent, whereas, the Philadelphia

ulous deed under the sun and has man-
Association was not only making a pre- aged to keep on doing business. Now
entire building at
and
19S
remove their establishment on
will
, th Second street,
Remedios, Santa Clara
that the domestic trade will present its June I. There were heads shaken in
carious experiment, but was making it comes a charge whose very novelty may
point of view and define its attitude in a
way which the administration cannot largely in the dark. It will be a very
expensive affair, but judging by the
have an effect of which the others failed.
The " Chronicle" of Clarkesville, Tenn.,
the tobacco trade over this proposed
radical change of address, but the firm
and Manicaraûa,
possibly mistake, and it would seem says that considerable of
interest manifested in the exhibit in the has
printed a two column and a half its cigar busi-
that in view of the forceful and momen-
tous arguments with which the cause is
Quaker City which presented no miracu- article likening the situation between the
ness is a family trade done by telephone
K)
Vuelta Abajo and Partido Factory Vegas
and the growers and wont suffer by the change.
lously attractive displays, it ought to be American Tobacco Co.
endowed, adverse action would demon-
strate a gratuitous
ago.
stubbornness noteasily
to the war in the East, and after drawing
Mitchell, Fletcher & Co. have pur-
of Various Sized Lots (A|
this parallel, accuses the trust of secretly
explainable.
SLOT MACHINE RAIDS REPRESENT engineering the Agricultural Department chased the business of E. J. Crippen &
TOBACCO SHOW A POPULAR

The Tobacco Show proposition in on
the boom just now and there are all sorts
IDEA.
A
MISDIRECTED ENERGY.
of the
week or so ago, Secretary Gibboney,
Law and Order Society of Philadel-
in its soil surveys and standing ready to Co., Seventeenth and Chestnut streets,
cop out valuable land as soon as the de- according to a report.
partment discovers it. The article says
Both are grocery
concerns with a cigar department
LOEB-NUNEZ HAVANA CO Packers of
prospects in this direction. phia, descended on a lot of local cigar in relation to this:
of alluring Edward A. Roberts has been engagedfll||
There has been some talk, most of it and confiscated thirty or more slot
stores We have seen in print and heard
as salesman for the Philadelphia trade bj^*^
idle we admit, of a national exposition,
in which the whole country would be
machines which were operating against
the law. There was a general clean up
about to )ears ago when a
much of the valuable soil sur-
talk
veys promoted by the Agricultural
Department for the benefit of farmers.
Gum pert
work.
Bros, and has already started
Havana Tobacco
reprcsented.whilcone enthusiastic penman
went so
of tobacco.
far as to suggest a s Fair
in this city
tremendous bonfire of the offending ma-
World
chines was held on a vacant lot.
But has it occurred to the public that
the tobacco trust in disguise has been
all the while urging these surveys that
The Ferris
^^%%^%%
INCORPORATIONS.
& Grady Cigar
and Tobacco
CONSUUADO 14:2 arkdi 144,
The machines which were not caught they might discover the most valu
The World's Fair is doubtless some Co., of Minneapolis, has been incorpor-
thing which our great grandchildren may in those
raids were thrown out back or
down cellar, but as time went on
able lands for producing certain
types of tobacco, and buy such lands ated by James R. Ferris and William H. Havana, Cuba.
possibly enjoy but which is a little carted cheap in large bodies, which has Burd, of Minneapolis, and James H.
beyond us. Nevertheless, it seems a few bolder dealers brought them tenta- been tried in some localities for pro-
ducing fine cigar tobacco ?
Grady, of Fargo, N. D., with a capital WE WILL
reasonably positive at this time, that an tively out and operated them behind
exposition of national importance will be their counters. They grew less timid, The American Tobacco Co. is a prt^tty
of 1125,000.
The
INVITE J, CHEERFULLY
held in a few months in New York. As and indeed powerful proposition, and one which has Ind., has been incorporated for carrying
until previous to the last raids,
Pierson Cigar Co., of Indianapolis,
CORRESPONDENCE (11 SUBMIT SAMPLES
The Tobacco World last week, at the present lime, there are quite a gone far to attain its ends. It is hardly on mercantile operations and buying
stated in
pl.ins enough for it to have
have gone far number of them running in the city. potent enough, yet, though, to own the and selling cigars, with
a capital of Philadelphia Office, 306 N. Third St
become a question of which building is Out in Des Moines a crusade is being Agricultural Department. $25,000.
most desirable and everything as much waged against the machines which the Martin Johnson, Herman Eckhardt Cable Address:
as can be possible at this early date authorities and newspapers declare have The independent trade notes with re and L. Schoenbucher have incorporated
become so bad in some cases as to sub gret the resignation of .Assistant Secretary the La Palma Cigar Co., of Milwaukee,
(<
REFORM"
points to a proper consummation of the
project. ordinite the cigar business itself. More Robert E. Armstrong of the treasury De- with a capital of |io,ooo.
or less feeble kicks have been made in partment, who will leave Washington to D. B. Nusbaum, C. H. Jenkins and
The show will be under the auspices of
Joseph F. Levy have incorporated the
the Retail Tobacco Dealers'
Cigar and other cities lately, but the most business- take an important place with an insurance
firm of D. B. Nusbaum & Co., of Chi-
Association of New York city, and as like incident in slot machine history was company in New York. Mr. Armstrong cago, to do business in liquors and
things point now, will be held in Madison the rumpus in Portland, Ore., about leaves a small but potent monument in cigars, with a capital of 125,000.
Fr Geaulne Swed Cedar Cigar Boxes, go to blkbd
L. J. Sellers A Sea, KEYSTONE CIGAR BOX CO.,

14
THE TOBACCO WORLD
!ESB THE TOBACCO WORLD
If
AN MXCMLL^NT TOBACCO FOR CHUWING AND SMOKING, Telephone Call, 432 B.
Mvery Dealer Should Have a Stock of 4ffice ami Warehouse, Ready for the Market
FLORIN, PA First Class Penniylvania
Broad Leaf B's
Located on Main Line First Class Pennsylvania
HavaBa Seed Binden
A
Big E. L. NISSLEY
1901 Fancy Packed Zimmer Spanish
Fancy Table Assorted Dutch pwrp---
Fancy Packed Gebhart CaJi
of
m QUO FE FORCB-SWEATED
iaUZ CONNECnCTIT
1 Ouf Owfl
Ready
Prots &C0. Growers and Packers
vll
Packing
Selling for
of
Packer of
FINE CIGAR LEAF TOBACCO I. H. Weaver,
Product Dealers Leaf Tobacco

tat
Fine B's and Tops Our Specialty.
Buyers alvâys find it a pleasure
Critical
to look ove*- .our Samples.
241 and 243 North Prince
LANCASTER. PA.
Street,
Sample! cheerfully submitted upon request. P. Q, Box 96
Manufactured by KEYSTONE TOB ACCO, CO., Reading. PaL. WALTER S. BARE, W. R. COOPER & CO
PACKER OF
^^ PaLcker cf
n
Trade-Hark Register.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Tine Connecticut Leaf
I t
J. E. SHERTS & CO. FRANROY 14.681

( 12^ cents per 8-point measured line.)
NEW CO-PARTNERSHIP.
ALL GRADES OF DOMESTIC PEW. Br
and Dealer in All Grades of
Lancaster, Pa. gies and tobaccoRegistered Jan 18,
1905. at 2 p m, by the South Jersey
New York, Jan. 18.
Ciâr Leaf Tobacco Domestic Cigar Leaf Tobacco,
Manufacturers of Tobacco Co, Mt Holly, N J I beg to announce to the trade that I
GOOD UNTIL USED 14,682 have this day formed a co-partnership

OMce and Warehouse, 201 and 203 North Duke SL
For cigars, cigarettfs and cheroots LANCASTER, PA.
mgl-lrraile Registered Jan 18, 1905, at 2 p m, by with my MAX h. KAUFMANN,
brother, LITITZ, PA.
John T Taylor, Reading, Pa under the style of A. L. & M. L. KAUF-
GOOD BETWEEN POINTS NAMED
Seed & Havana 14.683
For cigars, and cheroots
cigarettes
Registered Jan 18, 1905, at 2 p m, by
MANN, for the
ing the highest grade of Seed and Ha-

purpose of manufactur- \
7. K. LEAMAN, ~ H, H. MILLER,
Packer of and
??f>^^. Cigars John T Taylor, Reading, Pa
AND HER NAME WAS MAUD
vana cigars.
Dealer in Light Connecticut Wrappers and Seconds
^ CORRESPONDENCE INVITED FROM RESPONSIBLE HOUSES.
14,684
For
gies
Having attended solely to the manu-
and tobacco Registered Jan 18, facturing interests of the firm of A. L.

1905 by at 2 p m,by John A Schmidt,
Cincinnati, O & A. G. KAUFMANN, with my brother
LSAF Tobacco Fine Florida Sumatra
PAT HAVANA SCRAP 14.685 Max L. Kaufmann as office manager, and
138 North Market St.
Established 1891. Factory No. 3765. For chewing and smoking tobacco
both of us having now withdrawn from
Registered Jan 18, 1905, at 2 pm, by
and 329 N. Queen
JOHH ZVDHEUU LANCASTER, PA.
United
Joseph McCudder, Cincinnati, O the latter firm, I will be prepared withia Thones jijf Street,
MEXSUSUDIES 14,686
Manufacturer of For cigars, cigarettes, cheroots, sto-
a short period of time to have the new LANCASTER, PA.
gies and tobacco Registered Jan 20,
firm fill any orders that may be entmsted
^^ Cigars 1905, at I p m, by N Behrowsky,

Philadelphia. Pa to our care. B. F. GOOD & CO. W. DUTTENHOFFEI^,
Grade foiJ BIRNELL 14,687
I shall be pleased to give any informa- PACKERS J.
Genuine Union Made.
For cigars Registered Jan 20, 1905,
at 2 p m, by N Elmer, Bridgeton, J N tion regarding the abore, and solicit
# AND
DEALERS IN Leaf Tobaccos Packer, Dealer, W jP HH <
EL MONTE
L#CSll K ODSlCCO
14.688
and Jobber
Ephrata, Pa. For cigars Registered Jan 20, 1905, correspondence with reference thereto, in
oods Sold Direct to JOBBERS and DEALERS.

at 2 p m, by E Montero, Philadel-
phia, Pa
in care of my temporary address, the
FATHER GEORGE GOPON 14,689
Waldorf-Astoria Segar Co., Fifth avenue
LANCASTER. PA 33 North Prince
gies and tobacco Registered Jan 23, and Thirty-fourth street, New York. St., LANCASTER, PA.
Michael Hose A, F. Brillhart 1905, at 9 a m, by H Rosenblum,
<^ _ _ Philadelphia, Pa
MASTER KEY 14.690

For cigars Registered Jan 23, 1905,
Respectfully yours,
ALEXANDER

L. KAUFMANN. J. W. BRENNEMAN,
i-25h
at 9 a m, by Yorkana Cigar Co, Packer and Dealer in
Hellam, Pa
ST LUKE 14,691 FOR RENT
Manufac- For
gies
and tobacco Registered Jan 23,
Leaf Tobacco
turers of & Dealers
1905, at 9 a m,
Cincinnati, O
GOLD DIAMOND
by John
14,692
A Schmidt, Giâr Factory Building, Complete,
in
First District of Pennsylvania

good section cf
Packing House, Leaf Tobaccos Main
LEAF TOBACCO, For cigars Registered Jan 23, 1905,
at 2 p m, by T I Smith, Centennial, Pa
Capacity of 23 hands, and 35 hands Millersville, Pa. Office:
available. Terms moderate. Address,
Lancaster, Pa.
O see-0.
REJECTIONS.
King Bolt, Honest Value, FACTORY, Office & Salesrooms,
Idfi, Fei. Molino, Republic, 0-Hi-O, Cos-
mopolitan. Key West,
Havana Cuttings.
Care of
The Tobacco World, Phila.
Box 112,
i-asca
fIO& 112 W. Walnut St., LANCASTER, PA.
UNITED PHONES.
Warehouses: Lancaster and Red Lion, Pa,
We make Scrap Filler Ready for Use.
IC THK TOBACCO WORLD THK TOBACCO WOULO If
of America; Mr. Lauchs, representing John Fielding, of Rothschild & Bro.,

the cigar box manufacturers; William intends sailing for Cuba very shortly.
Bird, third vice president of the Ward For so young a man, John certainly
COHN IMPORTERS OF
of steamships, and several well knows Havana tobacco,
line
known men interested
against the reduction of the tax on Phil-
in the protest
Co.,
W. J. Gestal,
announces the lease of an annex
of Perez. Rodriguez &
Havana and Sumatra
.^^^^^^^4-* f ippine cigars and tobaccos. factory at 116 Pearl street, and avast PACKERS OP
J TOBACCO NEWS OF GREATER NEW YORK t

Mr. Fox. who had charge
transportation, si^d that he was expect-
of
on three more traveling salesmen this
the extension in business. The firm took
Seed Leaf AND
Tobacco
ing to be joined later in Washington by week, and will now cover the whole
f New York, January 21, 1905. Daniel Harris, president of the New United States. Mr. Perez himself is
THE WEEK'S MOVEMENT
The market has shown
IN LEAF,
quite a Uttle
others in securing documentary evidence
in support of their proposed vigorous
^ York Cigarmakers' Union; Samuel Gomp- at present in Havana.
ers, President Perkins, of
"Nat" Rice is
the Cigar- in Philadelphia this week, but will pro.
142 Water St., New York.
week the protest, and Benno Newberger, president makers' International Union; A. M. ceed to Pittsburg, Cleveland and there-
improvement over last in
Louis A. Bornemann. Manuel Suarec
Jos. Mendelsohn.
quantity of goods sold, the new force- of the New York Leaf Tobacco Board of Jenkinson, of Pittsburg, of the Manufac- abouts on a six weeks' trip,
W. Cronauer booking large

sweated Connecticut receiving the most Trade, cut short a business trip in order turers' Association of Western Pennsyl- Jacob
orders for Perez, Rodriguez
is
& Co.
Mendelsohn, BornenvdLniv . Co.
attention. In fact.the demand far exceeds to appear before the committee, but he vania. and representatives of the Retail
the supply. Pennsylvania broad leaf is told me today that after all he was Dealers' Association. Importers c& Commission Mercbanta
a ready seller, and seems to be fast afraid he would be unable to go to Mr. Bijur said: "Congressman M.E. LANCASTER MARKET QUIET. Specialty HAVANA TOBACCO
Washington this week, as business DriscoU, of the New York State Tobacco New York Office: Htt.V8Ln&. Office:
LBAF TOBACCO encroaching on the popularity of Zimmer
pressing in other directions.
is
Growers' Association, will act with us, as

Action of Growers' Association on Tariff U. S. ARCADE BUILDING. AMISTAD 95o
as a filler. Sales of Boo cases of Zimmer Cut HaLS Had Good Effect. Water Street, Corner Fulton. Room 1. HAVANA.
i6c, about 3,000 cases The New Yorkers have been in constant will many have not now
others whom I
are reported at Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 23.
telegraphic communication with able time to name. We have had offers of iMbliahd 1840. Gable "Ml
1903 Wisconsin were sold for export at
oprices
DETROIT, MICH.
^9tSTE ROAM HO LLANO
,
NEwYoftil^ 10c actual, and odd lots of 1902 Wiscon-
sin sold at I4>4c marked.
representatives of the various branches
of the tobacco trade in Philadelphia.
co-operation from lumber merchants,
banks and Western associations, but we
, ,,
The local leaf market is moderately
quiet this week, and transactions have
' been small.

mostly Tobacco grow ers, ot
.
Hinsdale Smith Co &
HAVANA, CUBA The Sumatra business shows large Chicago. Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincin- think that our delegation is sufficiently
J ,,
the
.
,
. u
course, are busy in trying to get their
.
hwxMleri d Sumatra & Havana/" l^^%l^^fc A^>^V

incrcase over the preceding week, about nati and other large cities for some days strong to compass our end without ^
, ,.
1 llllClx^\^0
, , , ,
crops stripped and ready for delivery.
iAacNOCMcn. CABLE AOORCSS TACHUCLA'
500 bales changing hands. With the past, and a large gathering is expected valuable aid offered." ^Packers of Connecticut Leaf
With the cigar trade generally in good
inscription announced for March 10, in Washington. President Fry said that his address to
first
gives about six weeks for importers to In discussing the condition of trade Committee on Ways and Means
condition, there is every reason to believe
125 Maiden Lane,
it
dispose of any desirable tobaccos they

may hold.
before he
said that there
left for Washington, Mr. Fox
any change
is little if
the
would be
"I often
short, but sarcastic.
find that sarcasm counts
a charter has been granted to the S. R.
^^^^ ^^^ j^^^ market will
^^^-^^^ j^j^ g^^^^g activity.
before long
-s?r^*" NEW YORK.
From present
about 225,000 bales,
reports the new crop
or about 30,000
is from last week. "Things are going
along much the same; business is lively
more than solid argument,
leave to others to adduce.
which I
Sarcasm
shall
tells
^^^^ ^j^^^. ^^^ ^j^j^ ^ ^^pj^^j ^f
|2oo,ooo, but a complete hst of the
bales less than last year. Out of 225.000 enough not to cause any complaint, and if not founded on fact, but when it is ^^^.^^5 jâs not yet been announced,
bales there should be at least 80.000 prices are about the same not lower. built on fact it is well-nigh irresistible.
j^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ the action of the Lancaster .v.Fine Cigarsv/.
bales good first and seconds, the balance Mr. Bijur said that there is a great My brief will not take over five minutes c^^nty Tobacco Growers' Association. 1433 Ridge Ave., (Both Phones) PHILADELPHIA
of 145,000 bales consisting of X Blad scarcity of binders, and that reports state to read if I am allowed to go on uninter- ^j^j^j^ ^^^^ ^^^ adopted resolutions pro- Correspondence solicited with large handlers. Write for Sampler.
(broken leaves) and undesirable tobaccos Wisconsin good, but the growth about 25 ruptedly. expect somebody will j^g^jng against any further reduction of
but I
for this market. per cent less than last year. butt in on my most sarcastic points." ^j^^ ^^^j^ ^^ tobacco from the Philip- Peazikr M. Dojjxser G- P- Sbcor, SpociA
Of the 80,000 "In the northern part of Wisconsin John R. Young is to join the New
|06. 9. CANS MOSES J. CANS JKROMB WALLER EDWIN I. ALEXANDKR
bales, this country needs
40,000 bales, and we expect prices to the tobacco is almost cleaned out," he
^^^ y^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ jj^g-^ ^^^^^^
Yorkers at the Philadelphia station, and ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ wholesome effect
^^^^^^ j^
F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON (Hi CO.
rule high. As to the merits of the crop, said, "and it is now all in the packer's the whole delegation will put up at the ^^^^^ ^^^ Y^^^ ^^^^^^ among which an OritiV^ **Linde" New York Seed Iêaf Tobacco Inapeotkm
JOSEPH S. CANS (h CO. no definite idea can be obtained at this hands. In the east side of Connecticut New Willard. association has existed for several years.
EattLblUhed 1864
Principal Office, 180 Pearl Street. New York City.

and be bought up prices The presentment covers between fifteen
Importers & time, it will far safer to see the broad leaf is all at ^^^ which during the past twelve months
Packers of
rei.phone-346 johd.
Leaf Tobacco
NEW
No. 150 Waiter Street, YORK.
tobacco from the
tion before expressing
the meanwhile we
ist,
will
2d and 3d inscrip-
an opinion.
hope for the best,
In
ranging at 25c to 38c through.
west side of Connecticut some broad leaf
has also been bought up quickly, but the
On the and twenty type written pages.
Benno Newberger,
JOTTINGS.
of E. Rosenwald &
has fallen into a semi comatose condition.
while some of the older
to have gotten cold feet
members seem
Bonded and Free Warehouses, 178, 180, 182. 186 and 188 Pearl SC
Inspection Branchea:- Lancaster, Pa.G. Forrest. 140 E. Umon St.;
Trost 15 E. Lemon St.; Elmira, N. Y. L. A. Mutchler; Hartford, Conn.J.
Cormick, 150 State St.; Cincinnati, O H. Hales, 9 Front
St.; Dayton,
H. 1.
O.
Mo-
H.
The Havana market is improving pnce was not as high as was asked and But that the blood is again circulating C. W. Grosse. 233 Warren St. H. Hales, cor. Pease
; & Gcrmantown Stsj Jef*y
and before F. PeMc;
obtained on the east side. Havana seed
Bro.. is in Chicago this week,
Shore, Pa. Wm. E. Gheen, Anti* Fort, Pa.; East Whateley, Maw.-G.
every day what old tobacco we have is testified to by the fact that on Monday
leaving received a special rate from the is
Edgertoa. Wis.- A. H. Clarke.
;
Starr Brothers fast disappearing, and one sale of new

Capaduros
brought from 17c
A prominent member
to 24c through."
New York
Western Union Telegraph Co., and he is evening
men was
last a meeting of the local leaf
which was presided over Frank Ruscher .
Fred Schnaib^
IMPORTERS
AND PACKERS OF LEAF TOBACCO
tobacco of 500 bales of
went to one of our large jobbers at 52c
1st
Leaf Board of Trade said

of the
getting his money's worth.
George Dennerlein is on a purchasing by
held,
Gust Zook, the well known packer,
J.
while C. E. Long, of M. M. Fry & Co..
RUSCHER & CO.
XiUbliihed 1888. No. 163 Water Street,
net Prices are certain to advance inside
of four months.
"New Connecticut Havana
with favor, but the farmers
seed meets
demand so
tour in Connecticut, and his adjutant-
general. Max Herzog, is in command at was secretary,
and Morris Rosenthal Tobacco Inspectors
NEW YORK. AGAINST TARIFF CUT. Storage: 149 Water Street, New York.
high a price their crops that there is treasurer.
Telephone, 4027 John. for headquarters.
or profit to the I" û'^her view of the fact that the
The all-absorbing topic of conversation very little satisfaction
^^ Charlie Waxelbaum is distinguishing COUNTRY SAMPLING Promptly AMended to.
Spanish 1903 trade can always rely upon the hearty
this week in the allied tobacco trades is packer. is selling well at himself in the way of orders from Chicago BRANCHES. Edgerton, Wis.: Geo. F. McGiffin andC. L. Culton. Stoughtai^
There is a demand support of such other well known houses Wis. O. H. Hemsing. Lancaster, Pa. I. R. Smith, 6io W. Chestnut tt Fi^^
, . ,
the public hearing to protest against the from 15c to i6c. fair :
J.Bernmeim&Son
:
reduction of the tax on imported tobacco for everything in all lines, including Shack closed the banner sale in as J. D. Skiles, I.
H. Weaver. R. K. lin, O.: T. E. Griest Dayton, O. : F. A. Gebhart. 14 Shore Line ave. Hartfec4
Julius
Sons. Kramer & Goldberg, Conn. Jos. M. Gleason, 238 State st South Deerfield, Mass. : John DeckCBi C
Pennsylvania broad leaf Wisconsin 1903 Sumatra this week in Canada. One Schnader &
:
and cigars from the Philippines. Several
Baltimore, Md.: Ed. Wischmeyer & C^
;
Cohen & Co., etc., there is good Meridian, N. Y. John R. Purdy.

hundred and forty-eight bales are not E. M.
:
prominent men in the tobac;o world left fillers and Sumatra is asked for right -"
Corning, N. Y. W. C. Sleight
:
..
...
reason to beUevethat the local trade^now
HAVANA TOBACCO this evening for Washington to speak
before the Committee on Ways and

Means. Some of these gentlemen were
along, with the supply
Messrs. A. Bijur, Charles Fox and

p. Cullman, of the National Cigar
none too large."
J.
Leaf
sola ^,
&
., Hair
every cay.
Jerome Fisher, representing A. Cohn
Co. in the Canadian market, sold 70
active and fully alive to the real interests
"Romey" is a young of the trade, but that the personnel

of its
.,,
has an organization that will not only be
i .
t ^wa
C013ON C. Hamilton, formerly
M. CoNGAi^TON, Frank
of F. C. Lindc,
P. Wiseburn,
Formerly with F. C. Linde, Hamilton
Hamilton
& Co.
& Co,
Louit Bom^
especially invited to give their views by bales in one lot
NEW YORK. Chairman Payne, and in the delegation
Tobacco Association James Ertheiler,
of the New York Leaf Tobacco Board of
;
one, but certainly is a comer.

offi^^^s ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^" i^^^^"" '^^' '*'"
of permanent benefit to the organiza-
C. E. Hamilton.
HAMILTON & CO.

Havana, Cuba are representatives of the cigar manufac- Trade; Chairman Andrus, of the Execu- Ed Kraussman intends leaving for be
tion.
C. C.
turers, box manufacturers, cigar labor tive Board of the New England Tobacco Havana to day to replenish his stock of
unions, leaf tobacco dealers, growers Growers' Association, and President H. tobacco.
^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^
ygjî-s past
^
with T. D. Shertzer. has
Tobacco Inspectors, Warehousemen & Weighert
and even steamship Sidney Rothschild, of Rothschild &
Sampling In All Sections of the Country Receives Prompt Attention.
E. M. Cohen & Co.
lines. s. Frye, of the latter organization, were engaged with
Importers About fifteen interested persons left met at the Pennsylvania depot at 3:30 Bro., arrived from Havana, and is very %%<%%% 2::Sl?.'^^tf;Set*E.^"s?o;^^s"Hi'rh,84--8 Sonth St., Yoil New
New York this evening in order to be at p. m. today (Tuesday) by the other much pleased with the situation in Cuba. '^kOHLBERG l CO. TAKE IN NEW PIrst-Class Free Storage Warehouses t
Samatra Tobacco the opening of the hearing at 10 o'clock
tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. Some
delegates who will tomorrow appear
before the Ways and Means Committee
Matt Rosenshine, of San Francisco,
with us again, and we expect some good
is MEMBER.
Kohlberg & Co. dealers in leaf tobacco
809 Bast a6th St.; 204-208 East 27th St.; i38-i38>^ Water St.;
,
Washington. Among the latter were orders before he departs.

in San Francisco, announce that they
Office, 84-85 South St., (Tel. 2191 John) York. Main New
Joseph Hirsch & Son will return as soon as they have entered
their protest, and others will remain as

long as the committee sits for this par-
in
John Wardlow, of Key West, represent-
ing the Clear Havana Manufacturers'
. , J r
Julius Lichtenstein has returned from
. have admitted to their firm Robert
. ..
^^schM. who is already well known J06

Chicago, where he disposed of large lots ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^
B.
Kohlberg & Co. feel that

. Inspection Branches. Thos. B. Earler Edgerton,
North Queen street, Lancaster,

Pa.; Henry F.
Wis.; Frank V. MiUer,
Fenstermacher,
N.
Rcadmg, Pa..
Y.; Leonard U
Daniel M. Heeter, Dayton. O.; John H. Hax, Baldwinsville,
% I mman a Office, 183 Water St

packing Connecticut strengthened Warehouse Coon.; James L. Day,
OrotU, 1015 Mala street, Hartford, and
Association; Mr. Dolbeer, of the Ware- of his celebrated of they have materially their Point,
ticular hearing.
Charles Fox, of F. Miranda & Co., houseman's Association; Walter Schiffer, Ibrce-sweated. house by this acquisition. Hatfield, Masa.; Jerome S. Billington, Cornin-i, V /,
NEW YORK has been busy all day with A. Bijur and of the Cigar Manufacturers' Association
Q^mmty fmr UMmâimctMrimg Cigmr Boxes 1b
AiÂvs Room vok Onb Mok Good Custombm
u L J. Sellers & Son, SellersvlUe, Pa
THE TOBACCO W O R I, D THE TOBACCO WORLD
Match
"Match-It"
It, if you Can-- You Can't.
Cheroots
> 44 :
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t
4
4-
^
Philadelphia Tobacco Trade,
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COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HEARS PROTEST ON THE CURTIS BILL
Washington, D.C., Jan.
Representatives of
and tobacco merchants
leaf dealers, cigar
25, 1905.
tobacco growers,
and other branches of the trade assembled

A. Bijur, G. W. Perkins, H. S. Frye, B. Ezra Herr,
Contiressinan Driscoll and Others Promi-
nent in Various Branches of the
by lack of tobacco, but by public taste.
In the case of Sumatra, its light color
and handsome appearance make it pop-
ular with the smoking public, and Cuban
tobacco, on account of its aromatic qual-
on the market. Here aivd There With <he Retailers Yahn & McDonnell. Fifteenth and before the Congrssional Commitee on Trade Make Stronî Protest ities, must constitute the main part of
The ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE Cbp'tnut street dealers, report a very Ways and Means in the Capital today
Atiainst Philippine
a cigar intended for a fastidious smoker
Sumatra Wrapped Cheroot, put up in Youthful Cigarette Thieves. good week, and say that the sale of Porto anywhere in the world. Philippine to-
and presented an overwhelming series 01
Packages of Five Wrapped in Foil. Three boys, none of whom was more Rican goods continues brisk. arguments against passage by Congress
Cut Rate. bacco, in its present state of cultivation,
i can replace neither of these tobaccos.

Manufactured by than *^
fourteen yeais old, were arrested of the Curtis bill, which aims to reduce It can compete here at the 25 per cent,
The Manchester Cigar Mfg. Co, and given hearings During the last week the decorators
last week on the ii the duty on tobacco from the Philippines
At this point Mr. Frye referred to the modities, tinnpotitors of domestic prod-
ucts, in quantities relatively equal to rate of duty only with the domestic
entire exemption from internal revenue their production of suâr and tobacco. tobacco. The (ioverumeut figures on
BALTIMORE, MD. charge of robbing Schmidt's cigar store ^^ê had full sway in M. J. Dalton's Fifth
at Forty eighth street and Westminster ^^^ Chestnut
to 25 per cent of the present Dingley
taxes of Philippine tobacco which the The tobacco trade, as a whole, has our annual production of tobacco is
street store, with very Chairman Payne and the commit- raise<l no objection to the tariff gifts
THEY ARE ON SALE EVERYWHERE. avenue. Entrance was effected through striking results. The walls have been
rate.
trade understands will be the result of the made at its exl)eu^ê where it has felt about (5(K),OtM).000 pounds, but in this
tee will consider the evidence presented to give the amount connection we must point out that by
F. B. ROBERTSON, bill. Chairman Payne questioned this that it could afford case of the Cuban
a rear window of the place, and a large done over and present a very artistic ap- and report the bilU asked. Even in the far the greater amount is tobacco suit-
Factory Representative for Pennsylvania. and the matter was noted, to examine Uecipnu'ity Treaty, when the early fifty able for pipe or
quantity of cigareites and candy was pearance. The hearing commenced at 10 o'clock, per cent, reduction proposition resolved
chewing purposes, as we
1133 Ridge Avenue. PhiU the law upon. Mr. Frye then said that itself finally to a reduction of twenty raise only about 140,000,000 pounds of
stolen. Two boys about a year older and was opened by H. S. Frye, who rep-
E. Wallis. at the Dalton Thirteenth there had been discrepancies in reports per cent., our objections were more that cigar leaf tobacco. The two types are
than these three had been arrested pre J.
resented the New England tobacco grow- the bargain made was ill-balanced and
Established 1864 and Chestnut which should be looked into. Two years to the disadvantage of the United States about as distinct as apples are from
Factory No. 20, 9th Dist., Pl. and are members of the same store, reported last week
viously ers. Mr. Frye did not speak at great jtears. and they cannot be used inter-
as being the best since the week before ago Judge Taft stated in a number of than that very serious results would fol-
Geo. W. Bowman Co. crowd. The boys were

for a further hearing
^*
tomorrow.
all held in bail
Christmas.
F. H. Rogers, who one of the most

length but very forcibly voiced his
test against the cut.
"As I understand the bill." he said,
pro
Philippines was very depressed and that

the cigarmakers there were nearly starv-
low; our most
per cent, iucreasie in
importation of tobacco,
pessimistic
the
cigars, the 30.(X)0 bale decrease in the
and
predictions
the absence
changeably.
cablegrams that the cigar industry in the have been verified by the seventv-five our 140,000,000-pound production,
import of
by
to
If the problem were, could
raised
labor at $1.50 a day, afford to admit
competition the present Philippine
Hanover, Pac. H.G. Cutler, well known dealer at 208 obliging and best liked clerks in
is
the
"it has two objects to accomplish; first,
ing to death. Now it is stated that the of Cuiia. any decide<l increase in our exports export of 19,000,000, raised by labor at
Arch street, has purchased the cigar store Philadelphia trade, has been confined to and primarily the rehabilitation of the wages on the Islands are greatly in- to So that, when we say that the pro-
20 cents a day, with a duty in our favor
Manufacturers of at 102 Arch street from John Landen his home for industries of the Philippine Islands, and posed sixty-six and two-third per cent, of 8% cents per pound, and say the ad-
a week, suffering from a creased and factories are not able to reduction on Philippine tobacco and its ditional 11/4 cents per pound for trans-
berger and at once assumed active man-
severe attack of tonsilitis. second, to increase the revenues of the products to twenty-five per cent, of the
R. M. Boch keep up with their orders. portation, we nright regard the problem
rne C'gars agement of the store. Mr. Cutler will in
run both stores for a time until he decides
whose Broad street store Mr. Rogers*
holds forth, started to be ill one day last
insular government, and both by largely
increasing exports from there to this
Dingley rates means disaster to our
"So that, boiled down." said Mr. Frye cigar leaf tobacco growing interest, and without apprehension. That, however,
emphatically, "the proposition is simply the transfer of the
greater part of our is not the problem. The proposed 8%-
what arrangements are best manufacture of cijrars to those islands. ent duty will either greatly stimulate
country."
J44 4t44 week but suddenly changed his mind. to bring the tobacco and cigar industry we expect this statement to be accepted Philippine production, or fail utterly in
Chairman Payne here said that the inas a truthful representation of our opin-
of the Philippines to a condition of pros- ion, without color or exaggeration of its purpose.
Joseph S. Gilleland, who has for years come of $400,000 lost by taking the duty any kind. As we may, with all due There is no reason to doubt the Gov-
LeaLf Dea^lers* Joititigs. perity by opening this market to it free.
conducted a retail store at the northeast from hemp was to be made up somehow modesty, claim to be experts in the mat- ernment
Bow-inaq corner of Ridge avenue and Wood street. Phil.delphi* Let.! Board off Trade Joins
and that Mr. Frye' s premises were wrong.
And it follows as a natural result, that to ter of tobacco and cigars, we must re-
do so. involves the injuring of our own gretfully decline to consider the opinions
reports that tobacco raising
in the Philippines is capable of indefinite
an excellent s-cent Cigar, made in died on Thursday The latter accepted the correction and contrarv to our view of this matter, as extension; Sumatra, Borneo and Java,
at his home at the Protest A^SLinst Curtis Bill. industries to the same extent that we im- expressed by the various great news-
several sizes, with a similar climate and topography,
is our specialty. same address. The funeraKervices were continued.
The following telegram was sent on prove theirs. A short time ago I person- papers. are among the most important cigar leaf
<?>
held on Sunday at 1.30 o'clock at the Wednesday "It is an old saying, 'never look a gift A great deal has been made of our
Correspondence with the Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Invited. of last week to Sereno E. ally acquiesced in a proposed compromise total annual production of seven thou- producers of the world. Sumatra and
undertaking establishment of Albert Payne, chairman horse in the mouth,' but in the privacy sand million cigars, as compared with Borneo are the world's reliance for cigar
Write for Particulars. of the Ways and Means of 50 per cent of the present Dingley Philippine production of
disrc the present
Moore. 829 Vme street. of our barnyard we arc all apt to wrappers, and Java furnishes binders
Interment was Committee, Washington. D.
made at Chelten Hills Cemetery.
C. by the t gard it, as it is decidedly unwise not to
rate, but that project fell through, and I 150,000.000. If this Philippine output
were all that had to be regarded, the for Europe and a large filler crop that is
Philadelphia Leaf Tobacco Board of now most earnestly protest against any cigar manufacturers would not view the highly esteemed there. Government re-
do so, and I propose to look this animal reduction.
L. S. STA UPPER,
MANUFACTURER OF
last
The
week
retail
**
market was rather uneven

some unexplainable reason.
for
Some stores did business enough to sat-
Trade:
The
Philadelphia Leaf Tobacco Board
^ Trade earnestly protests against the
Passage of the bill introduced by Repre-
i over before I go
the giver of it.
into ecstatic
is to impose a duty of only 25 per

gratitude
Briefly, the proposition
cent
to
of
representing the National Cigar Leaf alone 58.000.000
prospect of tariff reduction with serious
apprehension. But little Porto Rico is
Mr. Frye was followed by A. Bijur, to-day sending to the port of New York
Philippines are
cigars
thirty
a
times
year,
as
and
great
the
in
ports show that the Philippines are capa-
ble of equaling the production of th
neighboring islands. So we need not
delude ourselves by considering a pos-
Tobacco Association, who delivered a area, and have eight times the popula- sible importation from the Philippines of
'"^^^'^^^ " Dingley rates on sugar and tobacco. I
tion of Porto Rico. Cuba raises enough
HIGH and MEDIUM GRADES isfy lanybody. while others in the same
, , L L .
class and near enough to be affected by
,
pJllfl? .^"''i'
Philippine l^*^
.^"'^
products, and asks that your will drop the sugar question and
would
very comprehensive argument, which tobacco to make over 2,000,000,000
succinctly embraced the complete situa- cigars, and sends us 20.000,000 pounds
19,000,000 pounds of rather inferior to-
bacco, but must look to a production
committee grant us a hearing to show
consider that that industry was perfectly of leaf annually, which we import in
OF the same conditions, reported things as why the bill is inimical to our interests.
Uke care of itself, if I had
tion, which follows, in full spite of freight rates and a 28 to 148
there of at least 100,000,000 pounds of
first-class tobacco that it is proposed to
competent to
In presenting this statement we 8^)eak cent per pound rate of duty. The Phil-
being very dull. The weather was of John R. Young, President as big as admit here at duties of 8% per cent, for
not recently learned that by its absurd for a trade now thoroughly organized, ippines are almost three times six times
UNION-MADE CIGARS the best and trade should have been fair
all over.
Some of the dealers are taking ad- The

J. S. Batroff. Secretary.
majority of the local leaf houses,

opposition to a reasonably fair compro
including
mise proposition it had reopened the turers' Association of America,

the National Cigar Leaf To- Cuba and have a population
bacco Association, the Cigar Manufac- as great. Tobacco can be grown almost
the anywhere in the islands.
Clear Havana Manufacturers* Associa- scarce there is China to be
If labor be
drawn on, for
fillers and 40^/4 cents for wrappers, if
this last proves collectable. And this ia
spite of the fact that a 28-cent duty oa
THE FOR vantage of the usual light January to
at least those which are gunning for whole question. tion, the Independent Tobacco Manu- no one can
Association, the Retail Cij?ar Exclusion Act
seriously believe that
can be effective where
the fillers permits us to import 20,000,000

'Twenty five per cent of the Dingley facturers' pourds from Cuba, while a $1.85 rate
make alterations in their stores and to western trade now, did a fair amount of Dealers' Association, the New England thousands of miles of coast invite its
on wrapper enables us to take nearly
business last week, quite as much as rates means a reduction in the duty on Tobiicco Growers' Association and other evasion. These, then, are our grounds
Wliolesale re- decorate for
do not
the
particularly miss
coming
the
year, and so
business.
could be expected at this time. Some
organizations of the cigar leaf growers for
wrapper leaf of $1. 383^ cents per pound, in the various States. We are also ad- the growth of tobacco under the most
apprehension; an unlimited field for 7,000,000 pounds from Sumatra.
above all, without the necessity of look-
But,
conditions, an unlim-
firms reported business a little bet- or from I1.85 to 46X cents and on filler vised that our views are shared bv va- favorable climatic ing into the future at all, what is to pre-
Others have suffered lighter trade owing rious steamship companies, warehouse ited supply of labor for its development
to the fact that they have pushed big lots ^*^ ^^^^ ^^*^ January, and all agreed that, ^ leaf from 35 to 8)^ cents per pound:
interests, cigar box makers, silk ribbon and for the manufacture of the tobacco vent the import of Sumatra tobacco into
into cigars, and a wage rate that makes
Akron. Pa of special brands at low prices, and have ^^^'"^ prospects into consideration, there
to wait until their trade
was no fault to find.
catches up. On
moreover as there never has been made a manufacturers,
The
lithographers and others.
majority of these interests are rep-
law and never can be that will justly resented in our delegation here to-day. safeguarded by a protective duty.
the Philippines, paying 22^1 cents per
American competition impossible, unless pound duty, it being repacked and re-
The greatest element of cost m the handled so as to sufficiently disguise ita
The main trouble is that customers are and equitably collect wrapper duty on A special delegation, representing the
Cigar Makers' International Union, will production of tobacco and cigars is la- identity, and its subsequent import into
the whole, the average tone was fairly
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. holding off on the high prices and busi- any appreciable quantity of leaf tobacco present their views, in which we heartily bor. Tobacco field hands are paid in the United States as Philippine wrap-
satisfactory, with room for hope. coincide. this country $1.50 per day; cigar makers
ness moves very slowly. At the same imported that can be used here for filler providing for a further re- average something more. In the Philip- pers at 4GVi-cent duty, or a total duty
If a bill
purposes (and Manilla tobacco can be) duction on Philippine tobacco and its pines field hands get from fifteen to cost of 08% cents, as against the $1.8S
Wm time, as one dealer put it, manufacturers and cigar
F. H. BELTZ, SchwenksvUle,Pa. H. O'Keefe, Fourth street dealer,
has a window display of Gumpert Bros.' can't make cigars out of hay,
and have
products passes at the present session twentv-five
the result will be that nearly all Philip- of Congress it will be the fifth tariff makers average just below forty cents
pine leaf tobacco, wrapper and all, will reduction measure affecting the
cents per day,
tobacco per day. according to the latest availa-

duty on Sumatra tobacco, to the detri-
ment of the honest importer and the
Royal Perfectos, and has quite a run on simply got to have tobacco. There was
interest that will have been put into ef- ble official census figures. A tariff which, revenues of the Government?
Manufacturer of 8^ inquiry during the week, and the actually be paying 8^" cents per pound fect in a period of seven years, in addi- making due allowances for transporta- The same general line of reasoning ap-
them at $6 per hundred or 4 for 25 cents.
three changes in rates of internal tion and other necessary expenses, does
duty. tion to plies to cigars. Philippine wages are
^ prices quoted were just about as low as revenue on tobacco products made by not fully equalize the difference in la-
"We didn' t dream of such things when the Spanish war revenue act, its amend- bor cost means eitheror lower wages for one-quarter of ours, and their tobacco
R. Goldsmith, of Goldsmith & Co., could be, for the leaf dealer to live. That the transfer of
ment and repeal. As a result of our our working people, that is used in the cigars cheaper than
who conducts a store at Fifteenth and being the case, the dealers in a good we got our low tariff Democratic friends war with Spain three great tobacco and the industry to the point of cheaper pro- any available for our use, and we are
to give us $1.50 a pound protection on sugar producing countries, Porto Rico, duction. Before going on to other mat-
Sansom streets, has accepted the Wash- many cases merely have to wait for the Islands came ters we wish to point out that the forty
to reduce the duty, already 5 per cent.
the Wilson and Cuba and the Philippine mak-
wrapper leaf in bill,
cent dailv wage of the Coolie cigar less than that placed on Cuban cigars
ington agency for Stewart, Newburger & customer to make up mind to come
his into close relationship with the United
as compared with
we've been so grateful for the $1.85 cents States. A wave of philanthropy, care- ersoAmerican pitifully small under the Reciprocity Treaty, an ad-
S Gem Cigars Co. Mr. Goldsmith will be in Philadel- "P- The latter part of the week showed fully fostered and developed by various the wage of $l.flO-$1.70- is ditional 66 2-3 per cent
phia only on Saturdays hereafter. * better tendency, however, and everyone a pound duty the Dingley bill gave us, business interests, swept over the coun- nevertheless not so low. compared with
It is clear to us, whether Philippine
The largest and best CLEAR %% looks forward to a very satisfactory we've kept pretty much all this country try and demanded that
economic favors the wages paid cigar makers in other
as to justify any hysterical cigars become popular or not, that noth-
should be shown to what were variously countries,
HAVANA FILLED Sceni Joseph Levy, Eastern representative February,
I
Republican ever since. Now, it's pretty known as the wards of the nation
our new colonial empire.
and
This charita-
outburst about ruin and starvation. ing but harm can come to our industry
As regards m.anufactured tobacco suit- by the proposed rate of reduction. If
tough to endure the suspicions that our
Cige^r on the MaLfket. of the Ballard- Fernandez Co., Tampa, ble sentiment reflected credit on the able for cigar purposes, into which cat-
Jake Labe, of B. Labe & Sons, who is old friend and benefactor is likely to go heart of the great A^nerican public, but egory Philippine tobacco falls, it is nota- the cigars are liked here it will mean
We employ no salesmen, saving you that expense. with headquarters in this city, has re- the tobacco trade may be pardoned for ble that, in spite of its own enormous the transfer of the bulk of our industry
signed his Philadelphia connection with
making the Western trip, has sent in a back on us now, particularly when there its cynicism if it persists in wondering iroduction, the United States imports to the Philippines; if, as the friends of
OUR GUARANTEE goes with the AMERICAN CUP Cigars, that they are and has a number of other ness
nice bunch of orders, and reports busi- It no question of national honor or repu- how much the demand for tariff reduc- 32.000.000 pounds annually, practically reduction triumphantly claim, the cigars
the firm
in that section as good as he had " tions would have been lessened had all from the islands of Sumatra and
Clear Havana Filler and Sumatra Wrapper. plans under consideration. Station involved theee islands produced a variety of com- Cuba. These imports are compelled, not are wretched and ran never willingly bi-
expected it to be.
THE TOBACCO WORLD THX TOBACCO WOKLO
EXPORT STAMP ISSUED BY CUBAN CIGAR MANUFACTURERS
Authorized by the Government of the Republic of Cuba
3
>
OVR NEW CROP! Either ihe name of the Manufacturer or that of his Brand will appear primed in the blank space of this precinta or stamp.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
SUMATRA we ever . . . . . .
The Finest Shade-Grown is

The preceding cut is a
now used by the members
facsimile, in
of the Cigar
ages which bear these stamps were manufactured in Cuba.
actual size, of the new PRECINTA or warranty stamp which, as authorized by the Government of the Republic of Cub*
its
and Cigarette Manufacturers* Union of the Island of Cuba as a guarantee that cigars, cigarettes and cut tobacco pack-
Raised from Our Own Plantations

The consumers of these goods, who wish to acquire the genuine article made in
loaf packages but those which have this PRECINTA or stamp of the Cigar and Cigarette
from pure
Manufacturers' Union of
CUBA CUBAN
LEAF, should buy no other cigars, cigarettes, or cut
the Island of Cuba, who, jointly with the Govern-
ment of the Republic of Cuba, or separately, will prosecute before the courts, anyone who may attempt to counterfeit, imitate, or in any way render useless the guarantee
covered by this stamp. Colors of the PRECINTA facsimile: black with pale blue ground; facsimile of the seal of the Presidency of the Republic: dark blue.
It is to your advantage smoked by our public, it will damage us protected basis, we feel justified in as- "Is not that enough? are favorably adapted to the growth of
while the matter is being tried out, and, suming that the measure of protection "The wages paid to Philippine labor tobacco which will soon successfully
tosee our tobacco before from the false stimulus received by the
Philippine cigar industry, will result in
accorded the tobacco interests is ours
by right; and as long as the policy of
are such that no American can compete with that grown in any other
possibly enter into competition with country, an advantage ours does not
the great and certain injury of the cigar universal protection obtains, our rate of
placing orders elsewhere manufacturers of the islands. The
cigars whose effects we chiefly fear are
protection should not be lowered in
favor of any one else whatever against
them.
and
We voted last fall for
we
protection
are getting.
possess.
"A good cigar can
it is not protection be bought i
those that sell at from $10 to $15 per our welfare. However, the growers have by no means Manila for a cent, while the home pro-
thousand. They are well made and pre- It is an indefensible scheme to put to-
Even, Uniform Colors 1

sent a good appearance. At the pro-
posed reduced rate of duty, the duty on
these would be $15 on an average. They
would have an advantage, additional to
bacco in practically the same catt^gory
as hemp or copra, tropical products
which have always been granted free ad-
mission under our protective system be-
given up hope that the bill will be seen duced cigar sells for 5, 10, and 15 cents
in the proper light and a tremendous apiece.
industry protected."
Under the proposed reduction
a cheaper grade of cigars could be laid
San Francisco for I17.63 per down
Before this speaker retired he answered at
Burn
Perfect
the sixty-six and two-third per cent, re-
duction from present Philippine duties
of $3 per thousand, as compared with
our cigars, as the Internal Revenue De-
cause they compete with no domestic
product. We grow enough tobacco our-
selves, and our cigars are within the
reach of the poorest of our citizens. We
a number of questions as to prices in thousand, and the higher grades from $4
Pennsylvania and the average condition to $6 above this price.
of the crop. 'Give this Oriental cheap labor a mar-
partment haa ruled that cigars coming cannot consent to a tariff rate that will G. W. Perkins, president of the Cigar- ket here, and the results will be ruinous
Enormous Yield from the Philippines need not have our

revenue stamp attached, although it is
affixed in the case of both Cuban and
Porto Rico cigars. This is a dangerous
cut our industry from under us, and we
should not be asked to do so.
makers' International Union of America,
then presented the side of the cigar-
to our industry. We cannot understand
by what right Congress can justify legis-
Mr. Curtis, father of the objectionable makers, and began his remarks by say- lation which will surely result in lower-
bill, interrupted Mr.Bijur once to declare
ing the standard of living of such a large
precedent, and likely to cause many ating that his constituents had no ax to
army ol loyal .\merican citizens.
Reasonable Prices tempts to defraud the Government, and

should receive special and prompt atten-
tion by Congress.
that he understood there was a great
grind, but were simply looking out for
decrease in exportations from the Philip- their livelihood.
pines.
Mr. Perkins gave a
We protest against being pitted against '
'
Oriental labor in our struggle for exist-

very comprehensive and complete history ence. The act proposed will simply tend
A
great deal has been made, with ap- "There was a decrease, but I under- of the cigarmaking industry, showing to drag us down to the level
We solicit the privilege of competing for your business parent seriousness, of the part transpor-
tation charges are to play in giving pro-
tection against Philippine cigars and to- increase," said Mr. Bijur. practically nothing to its
of the Fili-
stand that it has been followed by an how it had grown in a half century from pino rather than raise him to ours. More-
present magni- over, I understand that all the cigar fac-

bacco. How absurd any such consid- "A small increase," responded Mr.
tude.
tories of Manila, thirty-one in number,
eration is when directed toward tobacco Curtis. "Isn't that a sign that the The increase in the output of cigars are owned byforeign capital, except one.
Floridsi Tobacco
can be seen from the fact that we im- "This protest is respectfully submitted
^ ported more than 6,500,000 pounds of
Sumatra tobacco, which were transport-
smokers don't want that product?"
"I don't think the smokers have ever year,
since 1863
or
is
3700
about 7,205,000,000 per
per cent," said Mr.
on behalf of 47i00o organized cigar-
makers in particular and the entire craft
ed from the island to Amsterdam, un- had a chance, commercially, to get Perkins. "The value of the output
in general."
loaded and put in stores, and then again them, " was the answer. during 1900 was $160,223,152, showing This closed the morning session and
loaded on steamers and brought here.
B. Ezra Herr, president of the Lan- an increase of 1159,223,152 over the the committee adjourned until a o'clock.
131 Maiden Lane, In addition, we paid $1.85 per pound

duty on them. This should dispose pret-
ty well of the transportation argument,
caster County Growers' Association, of value of the output of the Connecticut The second session did not last more than
Pennsylvania, submitted resolutions Valley in i860, which at that time was fifteen minutes, Congressman DriseoU,
as it affects the unmanufactured leaf. which had been adopted by his associa- the principal cigar producing center of of New York State, representing a large
NEW Y0RK, N. Y. i The reduction in duty proposed would be

from seventeen and a half to ninety-two
and a half cents per pound, and the
transportation charges urged as an offset
amount to perhaps a cent per pound. In
tion, and spoke in endorsement of them. the United States. For the fiscal year body of growers in his district, speaking
He said that the cut would be particular- of 1904 we paid a revenue to the Gov- on geneial termsagainstthe passage of the
ly detrimental in Pennsylvania and Ohio, ernment on cigars of 120,498,711.84.
for the reason that they are great filler In 1863, less than 2,000 persons
bill. Mr. Driscoll said that he knew the
New York Growers' Association would
consent to a cut of 35 per cent., making
regard to cigars, the cigar trade of the States. were employed in the cigar industry,
Pacific Coast is supplied mainly from
the altered rate 50 per cent of the Ding-
It will injure us much more than while Government statistics show that
New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. ley tariff, and urged the committee to
Wisconsin and the other tobacco growing there are now employed in the cigar report such a recommendation as the
It is the custom for the manufacturers
of these States to allow jobbers $1 States," said Mr. Herr, 'and we wish to trade about 125,000, fully 80,000 of most satisfactory compromise.
per thousand to cover freight charges to make the very strongest sort of a protest. whom are skilled workmen. In the Thid ended the hearing in the tobacco
the Coast, which would place our cigars We have given our money to better the Philippine Islands about 20,000 people interest. M. B.
J.
delivered in San Francisco at a disad- pay of
situation in the Philippines; we have are employed, at an average
vantage, as to transportation, with cigars
built schools forthem we have sent our $ia2i per month, or 37^ cents a day.
The San Telmo Cigar Manufacturing
delivered there from Manila, whence the ;
Co., of Detroit, Mich., has increased its
freight would probably be inside of fifty daughters to teach them; we have put "The American manufacturer now has capital from |i 0,000 to 150,000.
centa per thousand.
As it is declared the policy of our
down insurrections and we have estab- to pay a tariff of $1.85 per pound on The Beck Cigar Co., of Canton, O.
lished the Filipinos in everything they Cuban wrapper tobacco and 35 cents per has been incorporated with a capital of
Government to put every business inter-
are capable of carrying out. pound for fillers. The Philippine Islands lio.ooo.
est of the community on an adequately
( < THK TOBACCO WOELD THB TOBACCO WORLD
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'%
The Gilt Edge

Cigar Box Factory v
9'CeAi "Clga*"
Cigar Labels, This
the cigar for you to sell-it will please your trade
is
and increase your business.
It IS an exceptionally good nickel
Boxes cigar-strictly hand-made, from delightfully blended
Edgings long Havana faller and imported Sumatra wrapper.
and
and A winning feature of the "Quo Vadis" is its handsome, up-to-date
Shipping
Ribbons
Cases Diplomatico Shape,
which insures a rich and satisfying smoke and will attract attention in your show case.
you are not already selling Quo Vadis cigars let us ship
If ' '
Cigar Manufacturers' Supplies of all Kinds. you some.

' '
Somebody
in your town is surely going to make money selling this
cigar, so why not you?
Daily Capacity, Five Thousand Boxes. Price $33.00 per lOOO,
attractively packed in boxes of 50.
We
invite correspondence from responsible dealers
everywhere.
J. FRANK BOWMAN, Exclusive control given to prominent jobbing houses
covered. Write us to-day.
for territories not alreadv
51 MdLrket Street, LatacdLster, PaL. vSample hox of 25 Alfred Eyer 6k Co., Ciâr Mfrs., Allentown, Pa.
sent to dealers for
$1 00, es press paid.
Gco.W. Newman, who went West last a picture of the cigar machine arc in
A. COLLINS. GBO. A. BUDDY. gagement been connected with one of Leonard Friedman & Co 94 bales
J. week for Young & Newman, has already black on a white background, the whole M. Atak & Co 50
the largest and most successful tobacco
made some good returns, and writes that sign being about fifteen feet high. It Calixto Lopez & Co 50
plantations in the South.
Edward Arendt & Son
The Littlestown he is highly satisfied with the way terri can easily be seen and distinguished at a
tory is opening up. considerable distance.
In any event those interested in Flor
ida tobacco would no doubt do well by
G. Salomon & Bros
Hamburger Bros. & Co
33
27
< <
Cigar Company W. C. Jackson, Manufacturer of

*^
L. P. Kimmig, of L. P. Kimmig&Co., J. S. Vetterlein
%%
has been in Boston
is dividing his time between Philadelphia for the last week, returning today.
looking carefully into the merits of the
offerings of this company, which for the
convenience of the trade in the North
Mr. now has an office and sample room at
and Lancaster these days. This house is Vetterlein was looking over the New 131 Maiden Lane, New York, at which
I. C. Calmet
E, Rosenwald & Bro
E. Ellinger & Co
J. Bernheim & Son
25
20
20
6
<<
II
C. Castellanos & Co 6 II
doing a good business in Pennsylvania England trade with a view to increasing address samples and other particulars C. Castellanos & Co
Littlestown, Pa, broad leaf. are obtainable. Jas E. Ward & Co
38 bbls.
Fine
their business in that section. I case
Julius Eckerson will take an extended Rowe, the Virginia repre-

Jasper L. HAVANA CIGARS
business trip through the West as soon as
resentative of Vetterlein Bros was in ,
Imports
Of Tobacco, etc. Str. Havana, arrived Jan. 22:
his brother, head of the firm of F. Eck- the Philadelphia
office this week for a Arrivals at the port of New York from (14 cases.)
# erson & Co., returns from Havana where few days. Mr. Rowe thinks it will be foreign points during the week jas. E. Ward & Co 10 cases
Cigars he is buying for the house.
With MaLf\ufaLCturer& and Jobbers.

a banner year in his territory
Charles S. Oettinger has been engaged

by the Vicente Portuondo Co,
and
ending Jan.
cigarettes.
Liverpool
23,
Havana Jas.

1905.
E.
Morten
Ward &
American Tobacco Co, 2
& Co
Co., i case
4 *
PORTO RICAN TOBACCO.

Str. Ponce, arrived Jan. 23:
Orders arc coming in ni( ^1*, now with started yesterday cases tobacco Amsterdam
; Supply Co, 30 181 Lales.)
for a three months
cases cigarette paper.
Factories No. 34 and No. 1596, :
the manufacturers and it seem.^ evident
that the holiday glut is well out of the
selling trip through the East and South. Palermo Order, io}4 cases snuff and Order
C. Mendez i ig
60
bales
1
Mr. Oettinger s long suit is on clear Ha- tobacco. Durlach Bros

way by this time and jobbers and re- vana goods.
Ponce Rojas, Perez & Co, 4 boxes
4 i
tailers are ready to fill up again. There cigars.
are no kicks coming on the way the The Vicente Portuondo Co. is pushing Trieste
M. Arkossy & Co., 2 cases PORTO RICAN CIGARS.
East Prospect, month is closing up, and quite a number its nickel orands on the local market
of Philadelphia firms are increasing their and has quite a number of extra city
cigarette paper Order, 19 barrels tobacco.
;
SUMATRA TOBACCO.
Str. Ponce, arrived Jan.
(204
American Tobacco Co
cases)
23:
corps of salesmen. A good proportion salesmen out. Str. Ryndam, arrived Jan. 18.
62 cases
American Cigar Co 28 II
of the business is still in the West and
West
Penna. South, and very few manufacturers are NEW CROP FL0R.1DA.
H. Duys & Co
(239 bales) Indies
126 bales Durlach Bros
Cigar Co 7
16 II
1
running very heavily on this market just On another page of this issue will be Pretzfeld & Co 50 C. D. Stone & Co 3 1
now. Everything points to a very good found the announcement of the Florida A. Blumlein & Co 27 Am. W. I. T. Co II 1
Oorrespondence with Wholesale DeaUM F. Bonilla & Co

spring. Tobacco Company, offering fine Florida United Cigar Manufacturers 18 9
II
Manufacturers of and Jobbers Invited. S. Rossin & Sons 13 Victor Malga & Co II
tobaccos of the new crop which is claimed 9
Otto Malchow & Co C. Mendez II
STRICTLY VNION-MADE CIGARS

5 9
The Liberman Manufacturing Co., to be the finest ever grown in the South. Arguelles, Manrique, Sola & Co II
'Telephone Connection.' 7
Lord Bute,
OUR LINE:
The Buddy, Union Riders, Sweet Tips, .' manufacturers of modern cigar making Mr. D. A. Shaw, President of the Florida
apparatus, has a striking sign painted on Tobacco Co., is one of the best known
the side wall of the building at Third and growers of tobacco in the Peninsula, hav-
HAVANA TOBACCO.
Str. Havana, arrived Jan. 22:
(474 bales; 38 bbls; i case.)

New streets. The name of the firm, and ing for years previous to his present en- Jas. E. Ward & Co
Cadiz Cigar
DcFord & Co
Co
G. W. Sheldon & Co
Order
7
5
5
4
It
II
II
II
Cuban Emulator, General Post, Pretty Nell.

I
99 bales Mateo Rucabado 3 11
C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
THK TOBACCO WOtD THB TOBACCO WORLD
Largest
Plain and Fancy Ribbons.
Cigar ribbons.
Manufacturers of
Assortment of
Write for Sample Card and Price Liot to Department W

We Guarantee them
OUR TWO BIG SELLERS-
to be Free from Adulteration, Full Weight, and Choice in Every Respect,
Bindings, Galloons,
Taffetas, Satin and Gros Grain,
Wm. Wicke RibbonNEWCo.
YORE. 36 East Twenty-second Street,
CINCINNATI MARKET. A FEW CHANGES IN READING.
Latst Saturdays Sales Marked by Light But all are in the Nature of Business
Offerings. Enlarênvents.
DELA FLORA CUBAN STAR. Cincinnati, O. ,Jan. 24. Reading, Pa , Jan. 23.
The cigar leaf sales last Saturday were Chas. M. Yetter, of Mohnsville, near CO
GEO. STEUERNAGLE, marked with light offerings, the total be-

ing but 91 cases, all of which were sold
here,
built
who during the past six
up an extensive cigar business, has
years has
Manufacturer of
at one house. The quality of the offer- secured a charter, and the business is
Pittsburg Stogies, ings was very

generally good.
and the condition being transferred to the new corporation
fair
There was, though, an which will be known as the Chas. M.

almost total absence of high grade fillers Yetter Co. The capital stock will be
No. 2103 PenA Avenue, and wrappers. Good old Zimmers I15 020. pratically all of which will be
PITTSBURG. PA. ranged from 6 to loj^c and a few new held by the Yetter family.
fo'Sêrs't" 'SraUr
Connecticut Arrangements are being made
from 8>(
binders and
to 1
1
fillers
34' cents.
sold from I4. 10 to a new factory building a few miles out-
to build
I o
100 Wisconsins and side o ground CO
I $9 10 per lbs. f Reading, a t Edison,
Little Dutch sparingly and poor having been bought some time ago
offered
in quality. Prices on Little Dutch ran with that end in view. The present
from $2. 30 to $5.40. Wisconsins ranged factory is steadily busy, and plans arc
G. H. SACHS,
from $1.50 to $$. 10.
Mather
laid for an output of 5, 000, 000 cigars this
Newberger, one of the best year.
known men formerly connected with the G. Hansen having good success
AGOODÂCOOL
CHLW^ SMOKE
is
FINE CIGARS
J.
trade in Southern Ohio died at his home with his latest brand All Points and is
M!!5?[ctTOif
here week
last after a short illness with looking forward to a j record breaking
Factory No. 7. Ninth Di.t., Pa. LANCASTER, PA.

^
pneumonia. year.
The Tobacco Co., of
E. O. Eshelby John G. Spatz, of J. G. Spatz & Co.,
Integrity of Purposeand Earnest Endeavors, Coupled with Energy, *.
^
IT PAYS
Have Brought OUR CIGARS to the Front
TO SELL THE BEST. t&'WE MAK'E THEM.
this city, purchased on the Louisville summarized the conditions throughout
breaks last Thursday a hogshead of to- the country as healthful, and especially
bacco from Kentucky' s exhibit at the' St. n the West, where his firm's products
The Standard of Uniform Excellence in )
f
( Seed and Hand Made Havans. Cigars. )

Louis World's Fair, for |ii. It was put have a large sale.
Factory No. 38, YOM, PBNNA., U. S.A. Nintb Dist,, Pa.

Always the Same The Highest Quality and the Finest Workmanship. up by J. M. Vaughn, of Owensboro, who
from a purchase of
H. S. Dibert, of the Industrial Cigar
000,000 Manufacturing Co., also very favorably
selected it 3,' is
NOTES FROM THE YORK MARKET. his present location for nine years.
Will submit samples and quote prices to reputable dealers. Prior
pounds. impressed with the way in which trade is
to the time he went into busines for him-
York, Pa., Jan. 23.
Joseph Sebastian's cigar store and opening for the new year. The York county trade is rapidly get- self he worked Whelan. Mr.
for Lewis &
factory at 1047 St. Gregory avenue was F. P. Kalbach has opened his new **
ting back into normal working order Ostrander, Michael Whelan and Henry **
partially wrecked last Thursday evening factory at Sixth and Windsor streets and
by an explosion of illuminating gas. is very nicely located, with a modern re-
again, and the output for this month it Wood are the veteran tobacco dealers of La Imperial Cigar Factory
Pan-American Pan-American No. 2 Pan-American Special is believed will exceed that of January a the city.
Several customers were slightly injured department. His brands are the tail HOLTZ, PA.
PAN by the falling of the ceiling. All of
Sebastian's show cases were broken and
his stock badly damaged by falling
National Emblem, White Qwl, The Orig-
inal and F. P. K.
Chas. R. Albright has increased his
year ago.
is
Visiting leaf
business, notwithstanding the fact that
early in the year.
men find a fair
it
NEW FACTORIES FOR SEIDENBERG.
STIEFEL
&
41 CO.
whu have
/. F. SECHRIST, Proprietor,
Manufacturer of
AMERICAN He now has orders Seidenberg, Stiefel Co., a

The Dallas Cigar Co., of Dallastown,
FIRE eiQARS*
working force.
plaster. The damage to stock and fix- enough in hand to keep all busy until has closed its Windsor and number of factories in New York, have
factory at
tures entailed $1,000. Buhrman. February 15. decided to open a branch factory in Mid-
removed the busmess to Dallastown.
F. H. Deibert & Co., cigar manufac- dletown within the next eight weeks, and
Registered have changed their G. W. Gable, of Windsor, recently
turers at Orwigsburg, will begin work there with a force of 100
NEW TOBACCO FUBLICATION-
firm Deibert &
name to Yeager, but secured several large orders for goods
MADB BY
STOGIBS "Thc Tobacco Colonial Quarterly' is
new publication gotten out by "Tobacco"
purpose
' a business will continue as before.
SWISHER. BR.OS. BUY BUILDING FOR

that are to be sent to the Coast.
M. Katz & Son have commenced the

hands.
The company employs between
and 1,400 hands at the New York
1,200
city
Samuel Smith England.

London, Its i s to
manufacture of scrap tobacco for cigar
Sz supply the colonies of England with full NEW FACTORY. filler purposes, and occupy a part of H.
factory,
The
98th street and
cigars manufactured are the
First avenue.
Grand
JeffersoA Street, and complete information of events in Chillicothe, O., Jan. 24.
W. Heffener's old box factory building
112116 East Swisher Bros., the stogie makers, have Republic, William Tell, and the Buffo
the home trade and the happenings in
on Boundary avenue.
Special Prices to Jobbers. bought the big building formerly occu- cigars and cigarettes, all tobacco. Will-
Mention The Tobacco World. Allegheny, Pat. the tobacco centers of the world. For
pied by a wagon works here and will J. Stanley Winger, of this city, has
iam Hollander, formerly of Newburgh,
those interested in the tobacco trade in convert into a factory at once. It will gone on a through the South in the
trip
it
who has been employed at the Newburgh
the English colonies the new journal be made the distributing point for all the
interest of some cigar manufacturers factory for the past two years, is men-
will be found to fill the bill. other factories in the State.
whom he represented at St. Louis World's tioned as the probable superintendent of
Fair. the Middletown factory.
VETERAN IN SYRACVSE TRADE The company is also negotiating for
/. B. Milleysack
\Yedeles Q^^^^^'* >
SELLS HIS BUSINESS. another factory
establish at
which they hope to
New Haven, Conn., in the
Homer A. Ostrander, one of the veteran
Manufacturer of
PloriddL SumatrsL
tobacco dealers of Syracuse, N. Y., has
sold his cigar store in the basement of
course of a year.
lOc UNCLE JOSS 5c.
î'JSîr CIGAR S 1 182 E. Lake Si. CHICAGO, ILL
BRANCHES:
the Gridley block to Charles Ball, who
will take possession immediately. Mr.
Ostrander has not decided what he will
A NEW LEAF TOBACCO BOARD OF
TRADE IN LANCASTER.
A new Board of Trade was organ-
go into next. He says that he has been ized in Lancaster, Pa., last week by a
York Nick 5c. Best Known
Oak Mountain Bouquet Boston Beauties
O15, 617 and big Lsike St.
UNITED CIGAR HirscbhorUf Mack&&Scbiffer, 1
Kerbs, Wertbeim in the business so long he has tired of it. number of the leading leaf packers and
Co. His first business venture was in 1875, dealers. The following officers were
I/ancaster, Pa. Manufacturers} Straiton & Storm <

^
when he and John J.
Town formed a chosen: President, J. Gust Zook; Sec- Correspondence with Wholesale and Jobbing Trade Only Invited.
Lichtenstein Bros, Co, partnership and opened a stand in the retary, Charles E. Long; Treasurer, M, Capacity, 25,900 per Day. TelegraphYork, Pa.
1014-1020 Second Ave., YORK. NEW old Syracuse house. He has been in Rosenthal.
THE TOBACCO WORLD THK TOBACCO WOKLD
ao* coe eOs 909 eoe CO* 4 Q COS cos ?03 soa coa cos I
Delegations Reach Washington. attention. The factory buildings arc

Factories: ^ 9(h District
L. E. Ryder,
I clean and light and are supplied with
1 26 and 517 I
PeivnaL. Leaf Tobacco Men are Ready to Meet the pure air. Everywhere are unusual sani-
C COS eot eos (oo :'Os cos c I
6JOSIOSJOC :<>:eO3?0J
Ways and Means Committee. tary provisions. In the polishing room,
Manufacturer of Washington, D. C, Jan. 24. the air changed every fifteen minutes,
is
A delegation from New York headed and the emery dust is drawn down by
ei@ARS.
For the Jobbing TrsLde Exclusively
by A. Bijur arrived here at 9 o'clock this
evening prepared to appear before the
Ways and Means Committee tomorrow
morning to protest against passage of the
suction into a general exhaust pipe
conveyed out of the building.
and
Good to Keep Good Ci

Curtis John Landstreet, President
Bill.
of the Independent Manufacturers' Asso-

LANCASTEI^, PA. ciation of the United States arrived
earlier in the evening. President Frye
The Best Goods for the Least Money. of the New England Tobacco Growers'
Association accompanied by a few other
Your Jobber Wilt r
MflRTir^ SliABACH. gentlemen also arrived during the even-
ing and registered at the St. James, the give you a Certifi'
DENVER, PA. other party stopping at the New Willard. The Lock and Drill Department.
cate covering small
e
Manufacturer of A number of others will arrive from New Quantities, and When
York and other points tomorrow in time The young women are provided with
High-Grade Union Made for the hearing. high back chairs and foot rests. They you accumulate Cer^
SPECIAL BRANDS: United Labor (5c.) Union Stag (5c) Cuba-Rico
Some little time was spent by the party are also supplied with immaculately clean tificates showing
(loc.) aprons and sleevelets
this evening in an informal discussion of to protect their purchases of 6,000
gowns while
HENRY GOTTSELIG & BRO plans for the most effective presentation
of arguments tomorrow, and it is now
at work.
Every building has its bathroom with

C'KEMO EXPOK.T
Cigars, you Will be
1:
No. 828 St. Joseph Street, thought that everything can be gotten tubs and shower appliances, and em-
through with in one day. Company's time entitled to one of
LANCASTER, PA. ployes are given for
bathing. All employes are given Satur- these handsome
Manufacturers of EMYLOYES ARE LUCK IN THIS day afternoon as a half holiday the year
IN Humidors free. :: ::
FACTORY. round.
igh Grade A physician, two trained nurses, a
class in first aid for the injured and beds
Union Made for emergency cases are some of the
many precautions taken by the National
Cash Register Company, o f Dayton,
Cigars Ohio, for the health and welfare of
employes.
its
**The Great Poet Needs no Praise.** Jobbers and Dealers Become Convinced at Sigh'. The Company believes in good health
Samples and Particulars to Reliable People on Application. for itsemployes, has followed out such
a policy for a number of years, and it is
JBEA^B safe to assert that there is not another
Bear Bros. manufacturing concern in the United

States which has healthier or happier
employes.
Rest Room for Women Employes.
Dining rooms are provided where em-
Manufacturers of
ployes may secure warm lunches at a
FINE CIGARS nominal charge.
foods are served.
None but the purestjof
Lectures on health and
R.F.D.No.8,Y0RK,PA. food are frequently given in the Assembly
A specialty of Private
Brands for the Hall for all the employes by recognized
authorities on these subjects. All the c
Samples on application.
known hygienic laws are observed Size, 30 in. long, 22 in. wide, 25 in. high. Weight, 60 lbs.
throughout the factory. In addition to
Brands: 5^ Bear. S^ Cub, Essie, and Matthew Carey.
THEpacked
above
and
illustration an exact representation of the Humidor in which Cremo Export Cigars are
is
shipped by the manufacturer. This Humidor holds 6,000 Cremo Export Cigars in boxes
A. F. HOSTETTER, containing 100 cigars each. It is metal lined, metal covered, with strong brass lock, and heavy brass
Manufacturer of # drop handles and brass trimmings, with moistener pad in top of lid, ventilator in each end, and attractively
decorated in imitation cedar wood.
Kigh-Grade Ready for Emer({ency Cases.
Each humidor is shipped in a wood case to protect it from being scratched or damaged in transit.
Domestic When
employment
a person makes application for
at the factory one of the first
The purpose of the Humidor is to protect the cigars from the deteriorating effects of changes in temper-
Cigars requirements he shall submit to a
is that
ature, and to preserve them in the same good order and condition in which they leave the factory. This it does
HANOVER, PA. physical and medical examination, as it

is the aim of the Company to take into
c perfectly for any length of time in any climate on the globe, until the last box is used.
Cremo Export Cigars are made only in Londres, which means a straight cigar, being practically the
'ÔK Favoritk, a 5-ceflt Leader, its employ only strong and healthy men The Tool Room. same size from end to end. This shape is more generally smoked than any other, the world over, which fact
known for Superiority of Quality
and women, and its employes must be is a pretty convincing proof that it is the most popular as well as the most desirable shape in which cigars can
all these precautions, the employes of the
protected from all contagious diseases. be made.
GEORGE W. McGUIGAN, A special study of
health of employes is
its
means topromote the
made by the
factory
which
have
its
a Relief Association
members are entitled to sick
in
If you serve your customer with a Cremo Export Cigar out of a Humidor, you give him the best five-
benefits and the services of a physician cent cigar in the world in the best condition to please him and hold his patronage if he is pleased with one
Red Lion, Pa. Welfare Department of the factory.
when needed. he will be pleased with every one.
;
Maker of A physician employed by the Com- There is also a Men's Welfare League,
High Grade Domestic pany is at the call of all employes while Send your jobber an order for 6,000 Cremo Export Cigars, and he will have them shipped to you direct
which is the means of providing outdoor
in (he factory without cost to them, who athletics of all kinds for the men em-
from the factory in the Humidor, freight paid, and billed as 5,500, at $35.00 per thousand.
Cigars conducts classes in first
aided by two trained nurses, who, them-

aid to the injured, ployes of the factory.
The CREMO CIGAR is by several times THE LARGEST SELLER IN THE WORLD.
LIGHT HORSE HARRY selves, are in close touch with the young
LA-DATA
Leaders \ LA PURISTA women employed in the factory. The
G. Teese, of the S. Omicron &
J.
JISK YOUn,SELF WHY?
Co., manufacturers of Turkish cigarettes,
J INDIAN PRIDE rest room in which the girls may go when
[LA GALANTERIA at 430 Walnut street, this city, who was
ill is under their charge.
Ci^scity SO.tMH) per Day.
Prompt Shipments Guarsntecd. Ventilation and light receive special
confined to his Thirteenth street home,
ii now able to be out again. d
THE TOBACCO WORLD
f.
COMMinEE ON WAYS AND MEANS WILL^HEAR TOBACCO MEN
HAN U FACTO Rtf? OF ALL KINDS OF Various Branches of the Trade are Gathered in Washington and will
Today Protest Against the Curtis Bill to Cut the Tariff on Phil-
ippine Tobacco to One-third Present Rate.
138 a 140 Centrist

Cigar Box Labels
AND TRIMMINGS.
'
Washington, D. C, Jan
The House Ways
24. 1905. would name this rate.
pine bill When
and Means Com- tê measure was introduced on January
NeiW YORK
i
mittee of Congress will give a hearing to- H they learned for the first time of the
morrow to all those in the tobacco trade 25 per cent provision,
Philadelphia Office. 573 Bourse Bldg. Chicago, 56 P'ifth Avenue, San Francisco, 320 Sansome Street,
who are interested in the tobacco trade Under the provisions of the Curtis bill,
H. S. SPRINGER, M<(r. E. E THATCHER, Mgr. L. S. SCHOENFELU, Mgr.
ar d a large delegation will be on hand Philippine cigars could more than com-
INTERNAL REVENUE FOR DECEMBER. m.ide up from the majority of the largest pete with the domestic 5 cent cigar and
cigar and tobacco organizations in the would create a situation compared with
Cigars and Snuff the Only Commodities that Show country. which the complaint of domestic manu-
The hearing will be given in the Capi- factuiers of clear Havanas against the
an Increased Output.
D. W. riUBLEY. The Revenue returns for the month of December, which have just
Internal
tal at 10
Chairman Payne and
o'clock tomorrow morning by
his committee and
Cuban treaty is as nothing.
y^^^^^ j^^ q^^^^^ ^^jj, jj^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^j^^^.^
been officially announced, show an increase in cigars and snuff during the month will continue until each spokesman is and
would be cut from I4.50
cigarettes
Thomasville, Pa. of December as compared with the previous year, while little cigars, cigarettes and heard. per pound and 25 per cent ad valorem.
tobacco show a considerable decrease. In comparison with the month of Novem On the other hand, Secretary Taft has \o %\.\i% per pound and 6^ per cent
ber last, all commodities show an expected loss in output. The figures are as addressed a letter to Chairman Payne, ad valoiem. On wrapper leaf the rate
Ci&3,r ]V[anufacturer follows:
Dec. 1003 Dec. 1904
explaining his purpose in
to Congress the
transmitting
bill to
would be cut from $185 to 46^ cents
amend the Philip- per pound and on
fillers from 35 cents to
For Wholesale and Jobbing Trade. Cigars, $L 658. 768 95 $1,708,854.43

Decrease.
Increase, $50,085.48
6.433.91
pinetariflF. was found ^-^ cents per pound. A still further re-
TheSecretary says it
Cigarettes, 255.654.54 249,220.68 that the original tariflF act of 1902 had a duction on the duty would be realized by
Snuflf, 85.542.72 Increase, 99,775.15 14,232.43
Correspondence Solicited. Samples on Application. number of defects, such as the prohibi- Philippine importers from the provision
Tobacco, 1,736,910.33 Decrease. 1,584,437.55 152.472.78
tion on the importation of machinery and of the 1 w which exempts the cigars of
In figures, the comparative output was as foUoi.vs :
certain other duties not producing suflfi- the islands from the internal revenue tax
Dec. 1903 Dec. 1904
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Little Cigars, No. 58,860.000 51,856,112 Decrease, 7,003.888 I was prepared under
he present bill The matter is one of great interest to
Cigarettes, No. 255.526.415 250,266.178 Decrease, 5.260.237 the direction of Mr. Taft while Governor Pennsylvania, and growers, manufactur-
:
F. B. SerilNDLER Manufacturer of
I
Snuflf,
Tobacco,
Lbs.
Lbs.
1,425.710
28,948,505
In comparison with the
1,662,919
26.407,293
month
Increase,
Decrease,
of November, 1904, the
237.209
2.541.212
figures are as follows:
of the islands after public hearings and ers and dealers have been working
the most careful consideration by the steadily against the passage of the bill,
commission and business interests in the Pennsylvania is now the largest manufac-
Nov. 1904 Dec. 1904
No. 602,481.067 560,287,800 Decrease, 42.193,267 United States, criticism and amendment turing State andthearmyof cirgarmakers
Fine Domestic Cigars,
Little Cigars, No. 60,162 185 51,856.112 Decr*'ase, 8.306,073 by the latter employed would feel the eflfect of the cut
being specially invited.
Cigarettes, No. 290.355,587 250.266.178 Decrease, 40.089.409 Under the existing law the duty paid at once. As a matter of fact the grade
Snuff, Lbs. 1,730.076 1,662.919 Decrease, 67,157
K- Cigars Tobacco, Lbs. 28.264,337 26.407.293 Decrease, 1,857,044
on the Philippine tobacco is 75 percent, of tobacco raised in this State would
of the Dingley rate. Tobacco men have come most directly into competition with
expressed awillingness to accept a cut to the cheap labor product of the islands,
Red Lion, Psl
CHICAGO TRADE SATISFIED. firm working along its usual lines, and
is
50 per cent and they consider that they Virginia and North Carolina, bright leaf >4j4-4-
reports a very good condition in trade. centres being but
JOBBING TRADE 'were given to understand that the Philip little affected.
Busii\ess in the Windy City in liea.lthy The new national board of directors of
SOLICITED
Condition. the Cigar Dealers* Association of America
ii* ******* *^*^* ***** * * * * * * * * * * * * *^*^*-K+ Chicago, III., Jan. 21.
met Thursday under the able leadership HERE AND THERE IN DAYTON, O. nspected the new warehouse of
Trade conditions for the past week of President M. W. Diflfley to discuss the
have been on the wkole very satisfactory, best program for future work. While no
and retail dealers in general report a details for publication were given out, it
healthy condition in business.
selling fair amounts in
Some are is evident that the
box lots, which to take up the battle with renewed energy,
new board is preparing
of 1904 Zimmers.
The buyers of the American Cigar Co.

Heeter, on Hawthorne street,
West Side,
American Cigar Co. is Buying Large Lots and was very favorably impressed with
its excellent facilities for handling.
Dayton, O., Jan. 23.

It
comprises a two story

cement basement, thoroughly equipped
building, with
. SB MFG. CD.
MaNUFA CTURERSh weie last week actively engaged in the and finely adapted to the purposes for
indicates a return to
after the usual overloading
during the holidays.
normal conditions and will in due time be heard from.
experienced
The wholesale what
Monroe Adler, who has been some-
indisposed for several days, is again
purchase of the 1904 Zimmers. If reports which it is intended.
be true, the said company have purchased The Louis Heitman cigar factory was
heavily of last year's crop of Zimmers, badly damaged by fire last week, entail-
Cigar Boxes
houses as well appear satisfied with able to be at his office prepared for
The behef and have shown no disposition to discon
ing an almost total loss to the stock. The
January business thus far. is
business.
The activity shown by them has
general from
that the year
that pretty fully
all
is
sources in the business
opening in a
meets expectations.
manner of
Albert C. Becker has bought the store
S.
adjoining the
Marco,
Home
at 197 LaSalle street,
Insurance building.
tinue.
past
building, however.was not injured beyond
stimulated others to follow, and in the repair, and carpenters are now busily
two weeks buying in general has engaged restoring the charred woodwork.
Cigar Box Lumber
T. D. Hene, who represents the well It is perhaps better known as the Inder-
been very noticeable. The stock was fully covered by insurance.
known firm of Wedeles Bros., is at York, O'Neill & Ruge, the well known local It will be several weeks before work in
mille stand, having several times been
and reports a very satisfactory packers, have vacated their old quarters the old factory can be resumed. Mr.
Pa., owned and by Mr. Indermille. The
sold
Largest stock of
in the Logan street property and are now Heitman has secured temporary quarters
business in Florida Sumatra stock in that bulk of the stock of the late owner, Mr,
section. installed in the Rosenwald warehouse in
H. C. Mahrt building, where the
in the
Marco, was moved to his Fifth avenue
The American Tobacco Co. on Jan. 16 store. Mr. Becker has for several years
Edgemont, which, with its increased 175 employes of the company will be Sawed Mexican and Cuban Cedar,
reinstated former drop shipment deal, conducted the stand in the Home Insur-
its facilities for handling, is better adapted engaged in their various capacities until
and on 50 pound plugs and over, deliv- ance building. to their rapidly growing business. The the needed repairs are completed. Mr.
O'Neill warehouse has been leased to Heitman's trade, therefore, will not suffer
Veneered Cedar,
ered direct from the jobbers' stocks, will Albert Breitung has again added to his
check of one cent per pound George Kemp, the local agent of Elias in consequence of the unfortunate occur-
return to
purchasers.
its growing business, and lately
the retail stand in the Old Colony build-

purchased
Bach & Son, New York. This firm is rence. Imitation Cedar.
and has Among
The Steele- Wedeles Co. 's headquarters ing from Alfred Moos. The business now packing in this section,
excellent judgment in the selection

the out of town visitors to the
week the following
^ ^ %
present a busy appearance, and good qualifications of Mr. A. B. can best be shown local trade the past
sales in their popular brand, the George summed up in the expressive phrase, of its representative here. representatives of well known houses
WRITE FOR PRICES
W. Childs Cabinet 5 cent cigar, are "Nothing succeeds like success." The rising temperature, accompanied were noticed: Ray C. Sutter, Sutter
Bros., Chicago, and Charles Goldsmith,
by recent rains, has served the growers
reported. Sol Hamburger, of A.Santaella & Co., of Charles R. Goldsmith & Co., New
and a considerable amount of
..<"'A.B.CLIME> The pioneer firm of Sprague, Warner left recently for the company's factory at
& Co. are enjoying their usual good Tampa, and will from there go on a
trade, as is evidenced from
business trip to San Francisco.
the business
E. R. L.
well,
tobacco has been taken down. However.
the opportunity thus afforded must be was
York.
Fred W. Miller, the Queen City broker,
a guest of Germantown, O., packers
COLOMBIA AVENUE and SIXTH STREET
STRICTLY UNIOK FACTORY of their several tobacco departments. well utilized, for at this season of the
this week. Nix.
PHILADELPHIA.
FAB RICO NAROLFEiS CHOICE A gratis deal of twenty Hoffman House A new invention is a thread inserted year the uncertain weather conditions

American cigars imported into Porto
in the band of a
- POINTEDARROW-SHARPKNIFE
VAMPIRE
,
little
will
cigars free with each 100
be in effect until Feb. 15,
magnums removal
1905, at
cigar, to facilitate its
without the danger of punctur-
ing or injuring the wrapper with the fin-
behooves quick action.
The writer a few days since personally

Rico pay a local tax of $1 80, as against
I3. 60 for all other foreign cigars. ^>
the J. & B. Moos headquarters. The ger nails.
THE TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORLD
^ffffififfif^ For Gentlemen of Good Taste
LIBERMAN J-SyiN
R A HIGH GRADE
FELieE^
R^
k3C. CIGAR F R () iJC.
Lditest Suction Machine! Sold Extensively by Leading Cigar Dealers and Druggists
THE DEISELWEMMER CO., Makers

LIMA, OHIO
DOESN'T WANT TO BE A LABEL. other cities and to handle only imported

%^^%i%^
and high grade cigars and tobaccos.
Cover nor of NinnesoU Turns Down
The connection of the Whelans with
Manufacturers Who Want a New Brand.
Adopted Palm Rolling Unlike the majority of public officials,

the United Cigar Stores Co. has revived
by the ! Essential
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota has
resisted all appeals that he allow his
the rumor that the firm would take over
,
the Whelan stores in this city, but this is

Those familiar with the doings
J. M. MITTLEMAN
denied. Dealer in
mame and picture to be used as a label
of the big company, however, say that it
Leading to for a cigar package.
More than a dozen applications of this
is but a matter of time before the local
Leaf Tobacco
stores will belong to the big company,
Manufacturers. Hand-Work. Mature have been received by Frank A.
and it is only on account of the influence
Day, private secretary, and have been
of the Whelans that the company did not No, 1619 South Street
placed on file until the governor gets
open several stores here sooner.
leisure to decide whether he wants to go PHILADELPHIA
lown to posterity as the champion of the
NEW WAREHOUSE GETS BUSINESS. Goods Sold in Any Quantity.
weed.
One impetuous manufacturer, impa- Open Mvenings Until Ninee o'clock. |;|
Cincinnati Sales Suffered On Account
tient to get theconsent of the governor, of Kentucky Convpetition.
yesterday called him up and beseeched Cincinnati, O., Jan. 20. lv%%%
kim over the wires to allow his picture to
For some time business on the local
fo upon a brand of cigars he is about to
breaks has been quiet for the season, so
place upon the market.
THIS IS THE SIMPLEST AND MOST PRACTICAL TOOL connection with Cij:ar-
yet introduced in> much so that certain men in the leaf
making. The cutting rollers are so equipped with ball bearings and exterior springs that they only
The applications began to come in al
most before those of the office seekers,
commission business of the city have be THE AROMA THOUSANDS PRAISE,
produce enough pressure to cut the leaf, thus maintaining a sharp edge on the die and assuring a perfect, clean gun to believe that the stagnation may
cut, superior to hand- work. The oircumference of the cutting roller being greater than the length of the die,
makes tearing or streaking of the wrapper impossible. Then, after the leaf has been cut, a slight depression
and continue to come in with the same
regularity. Gov. Johnson has been too
busy to give them a thought, but it is
be a result of the opening of a new to-
bacco auction warehouse by the Burley
Loose Tobacco Co., at Lexington, Ky.,
Havana Box Aroma
with the right foot pedal will lower the die even with the table, thus making a perfectly smooth and rigid said that the manufacturers will have to
$12 per Gallon.
which it must be remembered is in the
Mrface, enabling the operator to Roll with the Full Palm of the Hand, instead of pushing the cigar cast around for a new name for their
heart of the growing district.
ITS EQUAL UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE
Along with the finger tips. products.
Sales at the local warehouses were a
Changing of the die to any shape, or from right to or the reverse, a very simple matter on tkk
left, is
ANOTHER WHELAN IN NEW YOR.K. trifle better last week but were below the Cindnoati Fruit Refining Company, Cincinnati, 0.
Uhl%, and can be done within two minutes time. average. Farmers who are interested in
These points of merit, coupled with others not mentioned, have won for this table the high standard ( MichLel J. Will Manage United States the Burley Growers* Association are hold-
Co.'s Ma.il Order Business. ing their tobacco until the Association
Kcellence maintained to-day, a fact that cannot conscientiously be claimed by any of our competitors.
Wt stand ready to prove our statement, and all we ask is for the opportunity.
Michael
Syracuse, N. Y.
J.
Whelan
, Jan. 20.
of this city has
either raises sufficient funds to
the combine or else disbands.
combat
C. S. COOPER,
We Think IT WILL PAY YOU to Investigate. keen selected by the United Cigar Stores
manage mail order department
It is reported in a semi- official way Manufacturer of
Co. to com-
its
that if the Growers' Association is
and from now on will spend most of his

followers will ship
pelled to give up, its
LiBERMAN M^^ÂCTURING
time in New York. their tobacco to Lexington, where it is
WEST EARL, PA.
Manufacturers of
Co The new manager was until a few days
thought the combine can be better fought
ago confined to his residence at 612 East than in the markets at Cincinnati or
Genesee street by illness, but has recov-
New York.
Louisville.
ered sufficiently to go to
many years been
Last year at the local warehouses on * ************** ************** *^
Mr. Whelan has for Front street 23,629 hogsheads were of
Cigar Machinery proprietor of the cigar store at the junc- 65,893 hogsheads in 1903.
fered, against
tion of East Genesee and East Washing- The aggregate cash amount of sales dur-
ton streets, which has been run under the ing 1904 were 12,415,760.53, compared
J^ A. Z. SHERK,
The V. A.
President,
Collins Cigar Co.

E. L. NISSLY, Treasurer. %
and Tools name of Lewis & Whelan. Since the to 15,435.453-58 during the preceding
death of his former partner Mr. Whelan year, a loss to the city* s trade of more
has retained the old firm name. than three million dollars. It will be re-
*
^^'fssf ' Marietta, Pa.
MAKERS OF
'"^ToSr""
George Whelan is president of the called that the combine purchased heavy
High Grade Union Hand Made Cigars
240-42 North Third Street,
J.
United Cigar Stores Company and C. A. supplies direct from the country, and the
Whelan is vice president. Both were decrease in the year's business is largely
Whether
f
JULIAN
SUSQUEHANNA
HAWTHORNE
6c. Cigar
10c Cigar
formerly in the cigar business here. John atttributed to that account or Oor Leaders S. & N. 6c. Cigar
PHILADELPHIA. PA., U. S. A. r. Whelan, proprietor of the Yates cigar
of
not the new ventures at Lexington
much
will
I
^ OUR LEADER
5c Cigar
continue to take away
stand, was recently chosen president that of the
\ B^'Olstrlbutors Wanted Everywhere.
Everyw^ ere.4|t
the Royal Cigar Co. which proposes to
, city* s business in tobacco remains to be ***************v**:^*
* * * * *Hi * * * * * * *^* *** *^**
******:fc**
* * * * *^*** * *
:tijf
open a chain of stores in New York and seen. :n ;
C. A. ROST &: CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA. C. A. ROST, & CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco, RED LION, PA.
f8 THE TOBACCO WORLD THE TOBACCO WORtD a
IMPHOVEMENT IN BOSTON. ever. S. A. Frank, who represents L
Miller & Sons in this section is placing
Brief ILepor(t|of WhaLt is Doing with the
VICTOR THORSCH COMPANY Trade at the Hub.
the Grumbler and 1 Cife cigars with
good success.
BACHELOR CIGAR
Makers of the
cles for the

provement; the
Boston. Mass., Jan. 19.
Business in the cigar and tobacco
week past shows
com-
retailers
signs of im-
are not
cir-
A. S. Bearse &
are enjoying a good sale
tle cigars and Kozy
Co. , 9 Greene
cut plug.
on Puritan
street,
lit-
AMERICAN
ALLENTOWN, PENNA. plaining so much as they have been, and
Visiting salesmen, when calling on D.
Benditson, the popular Hanover street
the jobbers seem to be satisfied, as
many of them have been ordering goods
just as if business was at its best.
jobber, are always given the glad hand
by Israel Dane, the buyer, but when i^^
comes to giving orders, Mr. Dane alway^P^
Leaf Tobacco INCORPORATED.
Go.
Many manufacturers of cigarettes and
m n tobacco who heretofore packed coupons

in their goods, have followed the American
Tobacco Co.'s course, and have notified

the trade that hereafter they would cease
manages to creep out of it somehow.
Frank Grim, the principal jobber of
union and independent goods in Boston
and surroundings, is also the financial
Successors to
Packers of
S. L. Johns,
C E. MATTINGLY S CO.
secretary of the Cigar Dealers' Associa*
doing so on account of the new State law, tion of America. The Boston local
which was aimed to do away with the ports that at present the Association is
re-
and
MANUFACTURERS
"JUFACTURERS OF
HIGH GRADE
trading stamp business, but is effecting in good financial condition and the mem-
nearly every branch of business, where
bership is gaining daily.
UNION MADE Cigars premiums,

the sale
they may
of
etc.,
be.
are given away
goods irrespective of what
to help Gordon Bros, have purchased the
candy store located next. door to their
store at 999 Washington street and con-
template enlarging the same in connec-
LEAF
For Wholesale Trade Only, Victor Sheppard who is now the gen- tion with their cigar business, Ben All
ial representative of the Khedivail Co.
McSherrystown, Pa. in this locality, is doing some clever REDUCED ACREAGE IN TODD CO.. KY
^
and
m
work in advertising placing the
Turkish Delights and one by one the Pl8k.nfers* AssociLtion Adopts Resolu-
jobbers are taking hold of these goods. tions io Reduce 7 1-2 Per Cent.
At a recent stated meeting the Todd

On
age
account of the similarity of the pack-
to another brand made by the trust,
County Tobacco Planters' Association Main Office,
adopted resolutions pledging the mem-
these goods are being rapidly pushed by bership to a reduction in acreage this
THE LOUIS NEWBURGH

live dealers. year as follows McSherrystown, Pa.
CO. Ed. Leader, with
Co., is about to start on an extended
the Allen Tobacco
trip,
Five acres in tobacco for every fifty
acres of tillable land and 2% acres for
PACKERS OF Branch Office,
and h e declares that Telonettes are every additional fifty acres, making an
average of 7^ acres to the hundred.
Zimmer Spanish and Little Dutch selling better than ever.
H. Van Buren, with the American To-
The average planting in this county
for the past four years has only been
Reading, Pa.
bacco Co. who is working on Cubanola 2 y^ acres per hundred. Steps were also
MAIN OFFICE, HAMILTON, OHIO. ,
cigars, and Sam Marcuson with the same taken looking to the prizing of the
Warehouses: Hamilton^ Ohio, and FrankliUf Ohio concern, on Hassan cigarettes, are bdth present crop.
in Lowell this week.
LA.&PEARSON, rice
The engagement is announced
Hanauer, who is connected with the
of Mau-
i
A. K. MANN, HUNT. A. G. MARTIN.

Packer Dealer in All Kinds of
firm of Louis Jesesohn, and Miss Fanny
Friedlander, daughter of the popular
south end jobber, S. Friedlander.
rA.Huml F. M.
HUNT & MARTIN

Ci^^^ I/eaf Xobacco Miss Baumgrass, who formerly was
saleswoman for the Cafe Noir Cigarette LEAF TOMCCO CO. Grower and Packer Manufacturers of
ZIMMER SPANISH, CONNECTICUT BINDERS & WRAPPERS, OF
>
LITTLE DUTCH.
GEBHARDT SEED,
IMPORTED SUMATRA,
IMPORTED HAVANA,
Co., is now
the Khedivial Co., of
Wm.
traveling representative
New York. 1
for
High-Grade Stogies
PENNA. BROAD I.EAF, DOMESTIC SUMATRA & HAVANA.
day &
Norton, formerly with
Sons, of
Hammond, are now
New
Thorsch Co. doing missionary work on

York,
with
S. Mon-
and Doc.
the Victor LEAF BMTHBSDA, OHIO.
Branch Yorkshire, O. the Bachelor cigars.
,
Recommended for their Exquisite Aroma and

Chas. Vetterlein, of Philadelphia, spent
a few days here last week looking after
the sale of their Saborosa brand which
be one of the best cent goods
is
TOBACCO All
Goods Strictly First-Class.
Mstin Office, West Milton, Ohio. said to

sold in this market.
5
Julius Becker and H. Burger, of the Jobbing Trade Only, Solicited.
Manhattan Briar Wood Pipe Co., of
Millersville, Pa. -
BILLMAN BROS. New
THE BEST ORGANIZED
^^
York, are still in town going the
rounds.
PACKERS OF Sam. Harris, of the Khedivial Co., is MOST COMPLETE AND Located o n Line of Millersville Trolley. Fred Holtzintêr. W. H. Seitz.
expected to be in Boston in a few days. J.
LARGEST MAIL ORDER
Ohio Leaf Tobaccos Sam. is very popular with the trade.
Rosenthal Bros, have taken the Boston LEAF TOBACCO CIGAR BOXES,
\ Geo. M. Wechter, I
HOLTZINGER . SEITZ,

agency for the William the Fourth clear
ESTABLISHMENT IN X SHIPPING CASES. X
1903 Zimmer Spa^nish 19021903 Havana cigars made by Cans Bros. of ,
AMERICA LABELS,
Manufacturer of Manafactorers of High Grade CIGARS
-I
I I New
^^
ZIMMER SPANISH^ York. and
4 Fancy Natural Bulk
WRAPPERS and Sweated, Closely Julius O. Cohen, proprietor o f the EDGINGS All Grades of Pennsylvai\iaL Cigars
^
Gebhart
Too
FILLERS
short for our^
Fancy Packings. 4^
^Tabled and Hand-
X
somcly Finished.
Npne Better.
Market Man's Cigar
nice order for
the Straitton &
some Espina
Storm Co.
Store, has placed
cigars with
a
NEW YORK % RIBBONS,

and
:*eieAR B0XES*!
4 4
Controlling
Write for Samples, t
Little Dutch ^Write for Samples.
Lee Hammond, of 4317 Boyleston CfflCAGO .1 X CIGAR X
Our Leaders in Five Cent Cigars:
has a nice window display [this
South Ninth DON SEGNO HEGAL DUK GOV. WRIGHT
ST. LOUIS
street,
West Carrollton, Montgomery Co., O. week of the John Drew cigar. & Manufacturers' Street,
DISTRIBUTORS WANTED EVERYWHERE
^
The Centre of the Best Zimmer Growing District.
" Leroy little cigars on accountj of the
new gratis deal are selling better than
X
X
SUPPLIES. X
\
Established
1883. Akron,
Atrrfcfl
^%IÎ Pa
UII^ Pa.
ra* Telephone,
Connection.
Onr Capacity for Manufacttiring Cigar Boxes Is I I Ci^ll^ffe OUll)
QAn OCIICI O lllCf Pa
^pllprCVlilp
AI..VAYS Room for On Moke Good CuSTOsmm. Le U OCIICI 5 IX O* 1
to TftM TOBACCO WOELD .

THE TOBACCO WORLD s
CIGAH BOX EDGI]iGS 1

Wt have the Urgtii ftssortven' * * dgu Box Bdgiagt in the United States, having over i,ooo designs in stoclc. N. KALISCH . CO. i^P 'ftRlG.OENeHAL'^Ô^
Manufacturers of
T. A. MYERS & CO. Printer* and Engravers, - YORK, PENNA. A Large Line of
HIGH GRADE and MEDIUM
Embossed Flaps* Labels, Notices, etc.
W. B. HOSTETTER ^ CO. BLAME GOVERNMENT FOU LOSSES ON SHADE-GROWN.

Connecticut Farmers Who Have Gone Broke Trying to Raise Sumatra^^
A^S
Wholesalers and Retailers of lêd Lion, Pa.
Leaf, Declare That Misleading Reports of Govern- ^f
LEAF TOBACCO Correspondence with Wholesalers invited.
-f
ment Experts are Responsible.
Free Samples to Responsible Houses.
A number
Shade-Grown SUMATRA, in
gave a working basis for alert promoters,
of tobacco growers in Con-
"
Bales
We make SCRAP Filler, Ready for Use.
necticut are complaining bitterly of the and numbers of stock companies were
Government's experts, who, they claim, organized into which scores of farmers
^^^> ^
submitted reports which were so mislead- came with what money they could raise,
Oqf LeaJm: """Sis""" Cigars-*., 3 Sizes
^2 S. GcoFê St., YORK, PA.
| 1
>ones{v-;;.^No.î8o. ing as to cause them to make bad invest banking on Secretary Wilson's summing
ments.
The principal grievance has to do with
up of his experts* reports with
diction that there would ultimately be
the pre- WILLIAM J. NOLL Successor to J. Neff L. R. BROWN,
MANUFACTURER. OF
A. SONNEMAN l SONS,
the
fiasco,
much-mooted shade grown Sumatra grown
which failure cost those concerned Sumatra
in this section the
leaf which is
|6,ooo,ooo of
now annually
WHOLESALE
^%ei\irit Leaf Tobaeco

in
who
placed
it considerable money.
assert that they are victims of mis-
confidence, declare
The growers,
that the
imported into the United
The
erative
1901 crop sold readily at remua-
prices, the
States,
purchasers being
gh Grade Cigars I
Cigar Manufacturer,
Urge Line of 1900. 190! and 1902 B's.
experts employed by Department of curious packers, who were anxious to try
the
: Brownstown, Pa.
Agriculture made directly misleading the much-heralded leaf,
ROBESONIA, PA. BROWN,
CHARLES D. Salesman. J
No. 105 S. George St.. YORK, PA. reports of the results of their labors. Gradually unwelcome truths became
because of erroneous deductions. Ac- known. The tobacco was "papery."
J^.*
cepting these favorable reports, the com- Other defects were a bad burn, a bitter
JJ^-f^^
D. A- SCHRIVER ^ CO.
Wboleuleand Retail Dcaltts
plaining growers say that they have lost taste and an odor far from fragrant. By
not less than 1 1, 000, 000 in their attempt degrees it was admitted that the big
La Adelphia Cigar Factory John McLaughlin. J.
Kauffman.
K. KauflTman, !
CradM of to raise Sumatra under tents in the crops of 1902 and 1903 were unsold and |
in All
Connecticut Valley. unsalable except at sacrificial prices. THOMAS A. WAGNER, Proprieter,
JOHN Mclaughlin co
CO.
linn Government experts stated that the The 1904 acreage of this tobacco did
Sellersville, Pa. Wholesale Dealera in All Kinda of
1
<si il
imiestlGilniiioitiiilTOBAC tents produced conditions similar to those not amount to much, but the late report
29 East Clark Avenue,

obtaining in Sumatra. In view of the of the Bureau of Soils seemed to indicate
fact that there is a tariff of 1 1. 85 a pound that the venture was considered quite
Manufacturer of Plug . Smoking Tobaccos
YORK, PA. on imported Sumatra tobacco, the pros- successful. LA ADELPHIA, 5-Cent /^ T f^ A T^ Ql Alao. All Gradea of
KKB 8UMATRA8 a pcdalty. LA FLOR DE A. C. F lo-Cent L/ fjrJ.J\.VJ

perity which awaited Connecticut growers Those growers who blame the Govera-
provided Sumatra wrapper tobacco could ment for their losses now voice a doubt
Fine Cigars , Leaf Tobacco
Samples and Prices Sent to Responsible People,
fl. KoriLER & eo.

be successfully and economically grown that actual sale was made of the experi-
in that State was apparent. mental half acre crop grown in Windsor No. 307 North Queen St.
fsoMm Finft Cigars If

was
Government
at least $1 a
reports stated the profit
pound, and that under and the question
ordinary conditions the yield should be
under Government supervision in 1900,
is being asked was the
cost of the crop ultimately paid for out of
P. G. SHAW
Manufacturer of
LANCASTER. PA.
not less than 1,000 pounds to the acre. the Government appropriation for soils
Fine and Medium *^^#****^t*^^****************
DALLASTOWN, PA. These reports and official statements experiments in Connecticut.'*
Oipncitsr, 75,000 per day. BsUblished iStC
Factory No. 79
Leflf TobflCCO MorketS*
I
down and
ished the
stripping of tobacco was fia-
last damp time, and it is all
S. N- MUMMA *
BsUbllshed 1870 CONNECTICUT VALLEY sold with the exception of one or two lots.
Dallastown, Pa. PsLcker of
S. R. Kocher Sc Son There is much riding in this sec- The last sale heard of was
not that of R.
A OPECIALTY of,...
Leaf Tobacco
NASH Private Brands
tion for tobacco. One reason may be Shattuc at 14c in bundle." r GEO. F. ^ ^ ^ .
^^^ ^ for Wholesale &Jobbmg Trade
*

Montague, Mass. "Tobacco is all sold special JOHN SELDEN *
Manufacturers of that the weather something fearful;
Brands: GOV. THOS HUTCHINSON
is :
*
snow one day, the next rain, and for here. We feel that one of the harde^^ BEN DE BAR Samples on application.
Pine Havana Cigars some days thereafter the ice that covers
not only the walks but the roads, and, in
so that walking out
features of raising the crop is to sell it oa
its merits; that is, if you have a good crop
to be able to realize a fair value for it."

*
Penna.. Seed B's
Warehouse at RailrosLil
a. Specia.lty
Crossing
And Packers of fact, all the fields, is
of the question and driving perilous to Feeding Hills, Mass "Tobacco buy-
LEAF TOBACCO LANDISVILLE, PA.
:
man and Then, another ers have been around this past week,
both beast.
C. A. KILDOW. W. T. BOLON.
thing, the first bought will hold the and several crops have changed hands,
Wrightsvilie, Pa.
Diamonds,
shops for some time
the going is, I
ing with F. P. Jones of this town.

yet.
saw Mr. Mendelsohn

But, as bad as
rid-
Edward M. Wright sold his crop of six
acres to E. H. Smith, of Springfield, for
i8c in bundle. Two small lots on West
T. M. KILDOW
Brilliant as
Fragrant as Roses,
Our correspondents write:
Suffield, Ct.:, "Tobacco buyers are
street have been bought by a New York
party. These had dark leaf. B. C CIGAR CO. R. E. Jacoby
Good as Government Bonds, plenty, and I have heard of several sales, Roberts sold to same party, price not
Wholesale
all at good prices. One crop sold at 19c, known, as did T. O'Brien and T. Griffia
Rothsville, Pa.
A.r6 tn6
**
Brilliant Star"
vldAKo
Clear Hayana,
Registered Brands:
. . IOc.
one of Havana at
the crop was seed leaf, but pole sweated,

22 ^c. The rest of on Front street. An offer was made te
the Taylors on their 9 acre lot, but not
Cigar Manufacturers Wholesale Manufacturer
<i
S. B.'' Half Havana, .... 5c.
and brought only i6c
sold for 20c, still
Another crop
another crop at better
accepted.
hail"
This last was hit lightly by
Bethesda, Ohio.
of Strictly Uniform
Quality of
**S. B.** Uttle Havana*, 9C. than 2oc, and one crep brought a little Conway, Mass. "The tobacco is al-
HIGH GRADE
:
Honest Bee"
* I JC. less than 20c." most all sold here now, only a few crops Our Leader; HALF SPANISH, 3 for 5c.
Those who have sold have not aM
"2 I No" MUdaat Cigar Made. 2 fOF 5c. East Deerfield. Mass. : "Tobacco is left
Specialty: Cigar Shaped Stogies.
Stauf
^
fer Bros. Nfg. Co., New
Special Branda
We
Made to Order.
Holland, Pat.
5Te Ye Meaey.
all
aad
taken
I
down here and most all stripped,
think
around 15c in the bundle."
all sold but one crop, at
North Hadley, Mass. "The taking weighing out at about a ten

deUvered their tobacco yet The buyers
seem to be holding it back for some rea-
son. That which has been delirereil is
=:
=:
Seed Yoar Cigar Bayer Here. Will : to the acre^
1 " :
S2 THE TOBACCO WORLD

E. A. G^^^^ <&
IMPORTERS O
O AVANA 123 N. THIRD ST
HILJkDeL^HIA 33
CIGAR MOLDS
IF YOU WANT A LEADER OUR MOLDS GRADE, and Our
are the Best
THE LOWEST.
Prices
WRITE TO
of
We will Dxiplicste
who made your Molds,

Any Shspe you
Sample Sections submitted

or Furnish
for
are now using, regardless
Any New Shape.
your approval Free of Cost.
The American Cigar Mold Co

C. RUPPIN-LANCASTER. PA. ABOUT THE
121-123 WEST FRONT C INCINNATI,
ST.,
"BENJAMIN CONSTANT'IOc. and "THE CRAFTSMAN" 5c.

THEY WILL ANSWER YOUR REQUIREMENTS. Williams Suction Rolling Tables
by the Manufacturers as being the
and being a nice light leaf, it weighs meetings, and are now contracting to STANDARD Cigar Rolling Table,
W. E. KRAFT MANUFACTURER
pretty well. have the crop prized. Conventions of
North Hatfield Mass.: "E. C. War- the planters are also regularly held,
ner has sold his tobacco to Bock, 1 2 tons which are largely attended and o'ten
after an experience of 18 years.
at 15c, mostly in bundles; the balance is with much excitement, and ratios estab-
1 he John R. Williîns 0^0.
Havana and Seed Cigars in cases, all assorted.
sold 13 acres,
Willis Holden has lished
partly assorted, for 21c;
for the reduction
this year.
of the planting
'
'
What Can Be Done by learners and
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
|4j/v 10 fi Di^s#t^ Qf-*AA*
that in bundles for something less per For Old Tobacco, we quote l^W-IÔ raCITIC Otreei,
East Prospect, Pa. pound. "Âmer. Cultivator. Low Lugs 1350 to I3.75
OUR SPECIALTY Is the Common Lugs 3.75 to 4.00 lucim/AOi^
I^lcyVAKK, lU 1
409 East Seventieth Street New York. PI* J*
Medium Lugs
"THREE BEAUTIES" EDGERTON,
Buyers are riding the growing districts
WIS.
Good Lugs
Low Leaf
4.00 to 4.25
4.25 to 4.75
4.75 to 5.50
Established 1877 New Factory 1904
put up in 80th packages only, and a ready seller everywhere. in search of both old and new leaf, but Common Leaf 5.75 to 6.7s
the movement has not resumed large Medium Leaf 7.00 to 8.00
proportions as yet The bulk of the
H.W.HEFFENER,
T.L. #ADAIR.
Established sales of the week probably concern cured BALDWINSVILLE. N. Y.. WANTS A GOV-
WHOLBSALE MANUFACTURER
WHOt^BSALE MANUFA
1895.
OF
leaf, for which there continues to be an
active demand, though prices are kept

ERNMENT STATION.
A meeting of the Tobacco Growers' YORK. PWK'A
Our Leader: within the limits heretofore established, Association of the State of New York was
Dealer in X Steam
WEALTH PRODUCER Fine Cigars which are generally too low to deserve held at Baldwinsville last week, when
mention in this column. Sales of the plans were formulated to induce the
Cigar Box Lumber, X
Labels,
^wy x-s
Y\ Y Tf\ \r
JvJj/J^ J^J.KjJ^f
VA
Jl./m,
Telephone Connection.
new tobacco run from 6 cents upwards, Government to establish an experimental
but hardly equal those of the early station in Baldwinsville. A number of Ribbons, X
Cigar Box
contracts. well known growers and others in the Edging, X
trade were present
L. Severson sold 73CS of '01
John Evans, 53CS '03 at 6^ and 2^c.
at 8j|^c.
1 Brands, etc, X
Manufacturer
USED TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT A FAULT Albert Maas, 38CS *oi at 8 and ic. NEW CIGAR STORES.

Albert Maas, 6a of '04 at 6:. Freedolph H. Wester berg, will open a
The deliveries of the new crop are cigar store at Crookston, Minn., and D.
Havan^L Flavor
Purely Ve|(etable. $12 per Gallon.
coming quite plentifully to the ware- H. Troxel, of Arnsworth. Neb., and H.
houses now, and the yield and money W. Hotchkiss, of Marshalltown, Ia will
returns are proving quite satisfactory to open a shop at Winona, Minn.
PA. YORK.
DO NOT EXPERIMENT WITH OTHERS. the growers. Dealers find but little to
Cincinnati Fruit Refining Co., Cincinnati, 0.

complain of regarding the condition of
the tobacco when received and settle-
PATENTS RELATING to TOBACCO.
780,362 Match box holder; Oscar C

Etc.
ments are effected with scarcely any Manufacturers of
Luther, Brockton, Mass.
trouble. Help is plentiful and the work
780,057 Machine for boxing matches;
of packing is going forward with well William H Parker, Passaic, N.
organized forces and with but little
J.
780.223 Match machine; William H
Cigar Boxes^Shipping Cases
Dealers in
friction. Parker, Passaic, N. J.
Shipments were 783CS. Reporter. 780. 224 Making matches ; William H Labels, Ribbons, Edgings, etc.
Parker, Passaic, N. J.
780,068 Match box delivery holder; 716728 N. Christian St. L.ANCASTER. PA
CLARKSVILLE, TENN. WSelander, New Athens, O.
offerings
M. H. Clark & Bro.
Our receipts this week were 60
on the breaks 20 hhds., public
hhds.,
Jonas
7 80, 46 5 Cigar cap Alexander Woods,
Montreal, Can.
37,295
;
Design receptacle for to-

bacco, cigars and cigarettes; Arthur Q.
ABEN BHSEf^ MANUFACTURER OF
1 and private
The
sales 115 hhds.
qualities oflfered were
lower grades of leaf,
mainly the
as for the past few
Walsh, New York city.
Cigar Boxes and Cases DBALER IN

months; the market was firm and un- R.K.Schndder&Sons Lumber, Labels, Edging, Etc.,
changed.
Some hogsheads of new tobacco appear
in the receipts, but are not offered for
PACK9RS OW AlfD DBAIBRS IM
R. F. D. No. 3, YORK. PA. F NBOSSED CIGAR. BANDS
A-' Are All the Rage.
sale
M. D. BOALES, We have them in large variety. Send for Samplea,
There doing
is
tobacco market; a crop

but little
is
in the loose
sold here and
Leaf Tobacco Broker William Steiner, Sons & Co.
there. LARGEST LitKograpKers, cuttnn
The ruling committees of the^Dark
436 &.437 W. Grant St.
Tobacco District Planters* Protective ^liitS^îrriill^ Hopkintvllle. Ky. 116 and 118 B. Fourteenth St., NMW YOBK.
Association continue to hold their regular Lancaster, Pa.

THE TOBACCO WORLD THK TOBACCO WORLD

Kstablished 178. Factory 15u;>, \nh Uisi. , Pa.
PATRICK HENRY JACOB G, SHIRK, ^4jJt^44^444^4^ Specially Cleaned and Care-

fully Graded.
B. BUDDING, Sr. 40 W. Orange St., LANCASTER, PA. J
Combination We make tbeni for 6, /'i, 9, 10
I
J. Plug and Smoking Tobaccos and J 2 cents per pound, licudy
York, Pa. f(w use in Cigar and Tobacco
Maiuifaciurer of
i
KING DUKE 2H oz.
or Smoke,
SCRAP ^ Factories
: /. / Ml I ZGHR
.
.
Fine CigOLfs Exclusively Our Leadln({ Chewing and Smoking Brands: Ti.ih.'U'co Co.
CAKCASTER LONG CUT KING DUKE GRANULATED
Made
JOSEPH REED-IOC.
Go to the Trade at $('.0 per 1000. KING DUKE CUT PLUG vSHIRKS BEST TWIST "Filler-- Dealers in il-AI TOBACCO
in Four Sizes.
REBATE LONG CUT 44 J,Ay( ASTl-R. PA.
PATRICK HE:NRY-5c, Ifamifectttrer of Hlgh-Grade Turkish & Egyptian Cigarettes.
Made in Six Sizes. Go to the Trade at $:;:, per 1000. R 8.Itn*nnfftctureall gradesof PLUG, SIV10KING and CIGARETTES .6~- -^
Dealers Catering to Fine Trade Should

All Goods Sold Under Strict
Place a Sample Order.
Guarantee.
to suit the odd. Write for samples.
E. RENiNxi Established 1889,
Maintaining the Standard of Our Product Five Cent Cigar Established 1834
Ten Cent Cigar Our Interest in
is a Guarantee of Quality and
Wotkmanship.
WM. R COML Y & SON Manufacturer of High and Meditini Grade
'
.3,i.;)!,:>#.'kJ.*/..j>s*!**lS,"
SOMETHING NEW AND GOOD

Business CKaLnges, Fires.Etc.
248 S. Front St and 115 Dock St.
Cigars
WAGNER'S California
D.
Los Angeles Brodia, cigars and
PHILADELPHIA Strict ly Un ion- Made Goods. DdlVCF PS,
Chban sto
^^ MANUFACTUBKD ONI,Y BV
tobacco, sold out; George W. Walker,
wholesale and retail cigars, loss by fire,
insured.
Cigars, Tobacco, Smolders' Articles Do^^n^'C
I^dLCOLvi
Design-Patents, Copyrights, ciflk
Connecticut
LEONARD WAGNLR, and SPECIAL SALES OF LEAF TOBACCO
Waterbury D. G. Davis,
tobacco, petition in bankruptcy.
cigars
Consignments Solicited Advances Made John A. Saul,

..ctory NO. .. 707 OWo St, Allegheny, Pa. Delaware Settlements Made on Day of Sale IM Orott Baildifig. WAS HI NOT ON, D. ,

Wilmington W. R. Edwards, whole-
sale and retail cigars, dead; S. Kasdin,
The Cigars You Want jobber in cigars, petition in bankruptcy.
Albion
$1,200.
Fort

Indiana
Ira Kiblinger, tobacco, deed,
Wayne Joseph F. Getz, cigars

The Easy Truck
4> METAL ENBOSSLD LABELS METAL PRINTED LABELS 4- -f
CtGAR BOXES
Union Cigar Factory and tobacco, sold out.
MALLEABLE IRON, Il <! r leiscKkauer SKETCHES AND
Scottsburg Ambrose
W. Thompson.
Bennett, cigars,
Made of
au'l fitted
with
Cigar Labels

psunnsoF
AA for Samples AKRON, PA. Correspondence Solicit
succeeded by
Cedar Rapids B.
Iowa
F. Games & Co.,
It won't leive
when
its position on the floor
a case falls tn
you have at old wooden truck, or
it.
ARTisnc
QUOTATIONS
238 ArcK
44^^^
If
cigars, sold out. no:ie at all this is the Cheapest and Best Street, Philadelphia. niRNISNED
Lewiston P.
Maine
Adelson, cigars, etc.,
JOHN L. DARON,
TELEPHONE 1561
CIGAR WRITE m
C.A
succeeded by Adelson
Holyoke Frank
Massachusettft
& Co.
Rainault, cigars. etc.,

Care of iujx 184, York, Pa.
'iiîi,
4- 4- LITHOGR.APHING SPECIAL DESIGNS 4 4
SAMPLES m
Wholesale Dealers in chattel mortgage, $312, discharged. LABELS RIBBON PRICES
Si All Grades of Michigan
yilllliKXiJillll Parmenter WAX-LINED
Rîpids George A. Rysdale
Grand Coupon CIGAR POCKETS
f acco Cigar Co. (not inc.), manufacturers, style
^ÔR SALE.
PROTECTION against
Afford perfect
CI GAR RIB SONS

changed to C. J. Kern & Co. u\)\j '^Z lONA TOBACCO CO. MOISTURE, HEAT and BREAKAGE.
Missouri
jj6-'33S North Charlotte St,
A Specialty of
joplinJ.W. Rosborough,
succeeded by F. D. Price.
^;*
cigars, etc.,
Z^'
LANCASTER, PA. # I #
Indorsed by
the MOST KFFECTIVK
medium known.
advertising
R Light Coni'êcticiit
New York
E. S. SECHRIST, RACINE PAPER GOODS CO. For Sale by All Dealers
Wrappers and Seconds Homer Charles L. Brown, cigar man-
Dallastown, Pa.
Sole Owners and Manufacturers*
ivacine:. 'WIS u s a. .
R ufacturer, damaged by fire.

R Choice Assortment of
New York City Hirtenstein & Alex- uiufacturer of
Manufacturer
ander, cigar and retail

manufacturers Fine and WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICKS TO
I Seedl^ *
1 lifers Binders dealers, dissolved; succeeded by Adolph
Common Ciga
g
R
R
WISCONSIN OHIO
Hirtenstein.
etc.
Schenectady H.C.Benthuysen.cigars,
, dead. Capacity,
Established 189a
@ iPRiES Bros. Nai\ufaLCturir\g Chemists
Meagher & H.
R
R
riorida and Imported
Syracuse
Meagher, individually, R.
Cody, J.
E. deed, $1; 92 Reade Street, NEW YORK.

R Sumatra and Havana H. A. Ostrander, cigars, etc., sold out,
R Troy R.
sheriff in possession.
T. Black, tobacco and cigars,
'
%
Red Lioiv, PaL.
R
Cable Addre.
etc.,
Pittsburg Kilgore
closed by
Pennsylvania
sheriflf.
Washington
& Jamison, cigars,
prnmrtlr
("inputs'
SpuiI
on
How
nUainM OR HO FEE.
<noi\>-\,
(
pnt-ntaViilitv
HAND-BOOK FREE.
..pv-riKlito
TWENTY YEARS' PRACTICE.
nkfUh
All
r.r
nd
j.lx.tn.
livisineo*
Tra<i>-Mrk,
I-ftlils
KitTl*i"'<'^*'''.Tt''i"K-
What
reuiiitered.
IligMi-st rpfprenoci.
for fr.-e report
cnfidentiftl.
Tellj
IiiYentioni
r
eLveesiNE 550 Times Sweeter than Sugar
$
Clark &Bro
to (itihiin an^t Sfll t<'iits.
MIXTURE
I
Will Mow (ipt a Purtiior. explaint bfi
M. // "CLARK." verett Strickland Bros., cigars, etc.,

I'lv.
meoluini.ftl
ubjHili iif
tn
!ii.>v(>mMit, contains 300 othtr
importance to inTentonj.
fttirl
Addrcti,
of sale to P. E. Spencer. Also Headquarters for VANILLIN, COUMARIN,
Leaf Tobacco Brokers, bill
SpokaneJ. Q. Yocum, cigars, sold H. B.

Jox 2.
WILLSON
WillBon BIdg.
& CO. .KU
WASHINGTON. D. 6.^ TOBACCO and FRUIT FLAVORS. fHI IMKMOAH TOBACCO CO. FIW Ytm
?AwcAHyKv.^
''''
Clarksville, Tenn. out to B. W. Daries.
""^
t&lLfj.:.^.
,
84
THE TOBACCO WORLD THB TOBACCO WORI^D
Specially Cleaned and Care^
Kstablished ls78. Factory 15(t;;, '.tih Dist. , Pa.
PATRICK HENRY G. SHIRK,

JOSEPH REED
IJQS B. BUDDING, Sr. 40 W. Orange St., LANCASTER, PA. J Combination i and
We make tbeiu for
fully Graded.
6, 7>^, g, lo
J. pound. Ready
Plug and Smoking Tobaccos 12 per cents
for use in Cigar and Tobacco
York, Pa. PLAIN SCRAP, SELECT BUTTS-Chew Smoke.
lOS^^*^ Maiiufacuirer of
KING DUKE 2y2 oz.
or
iSCRAPt Factories
J. L. MMTZGMR
Fine Cigars Exclusively Our Leading Chewing and Snnoklng Brands: Tobacco Co.
REED- IOC. CAKCASTER LONG CUT KING DUKE GRANULATED
Made
JOSliPH
Konr Co to the Trade at ^co per Kmmi. KING DUKE CUT PLUG SHIRK'S BEST TWIST l--Filler--i Dealers in LEAF TOBACCO
in S./es.
REBATE LONG CUT LANCASTER, PA.
PATRICK HENRY- 3c. Murafoctmrer of HIgh-Grade Turkish & Egyptian Cigarettes.
Made in Six S./cs. (W, to the Trade at ^:;r. per Kkk). F. 8.X manufacture all grades of PLUG, SMOKING and CIGARETTES
Dealers Catering to Fine Trade Should
Place a Sample Order.
AH Goods Sold Under Strict Guarantee.

to suit the orld. Write for samples,
E. RENIN INGER,
Established 1889,
Our Interest in Maintaining the
Standard of Our I'nMurt Five Cent Cigar Bstablished 1834
is a Guarantee of Ouality and
Wo.kn.an.hip.
WM. F. COML V cS: SON Manufacturer of High and Medium Grade
Cigars
>
SOMETHING NEW AND GOOD Business CKaLi\ges, Fires.Etc. '

WAGNER'S California
D.
I
Los Angelcb Brodia, cigars and

PHILADELPHIA Strictly Union- Made Goods. DCIlVCr Pft,
Cuban MANUFACTURED ONLV BY >
;
I
tobacco, sold out; George W. Walker,
wholesale and retail cigars, loss by fire,
insured.
Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers' Articles
pj X^^^^X^
r^fllCO Lo
Design-Patents, Copyrights,
Connecticut
LEONARD WAGNER, and SPECIAL SALES OF LEAF TOBACCO
Waterbury 1). G. Davis,
tobacco, petition in bankruptcy.
cigars
Consignments Solicited Advances Made John A. Saul,

factory No. ,
The Ciilars
707 Ohjo St., Allcghcny, Pa.
You Want
lit
sale
jobber
and
Albion
$ 1 200.
,
Delaware

Wilmington W. R. Edwards, whole-
retail cigars,
in cigars, petition in

Indiana
dead;
Ira Kiblinger, tobacco, deed,

S. Kasdin,
bankruptcy.
4-
Settlements
^ METAL EMBOSSED LABELS

^4
Made on Day of Sale
METAL PRINTED LABELS 4-
tt
>
*^K;S;Sr-
CIGAR BOXES
^ ^^ BaUdbifl, WASHINatON. D. 9
Fort Wayne Joseph F. Getz, cigars

The Easy Truck It. cl. f leiscKKauer
Union Cigar Factory and tobacco, sold out.
Scoltsburg .Ambrose Bennett, cigars,
Made of M4LLKABLE
Hw] fit'td with
IROiN, t^t
PRUnERSOF SKETCHES ANO
AKRON, PA. Correspondence Solicilec

succeeded by W. Thompson. STEEL kULLER BEARINGS. tit
Cigar Labels QUOTATIONS
A.k for Sa,nple5
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
H. F. Games cS: Co.,
j
{
It won't
If
le ive
when
you have
it.s
a case falls
r. \
position on the floor
m it.
old woolen truck, or

tiX
ft
238 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
msBc FURNISHED
j
cigars, sold out. noae at all this is the Cheapest and Best
Maine Truck made. Write at once to
TELEPHONE
I
X X 1661 X X
l.ewiston P. Adelson, cigars, etc.,
JOHN L. DARON, CIGAR WRITE FOR
-uc reeded by Adelson & Co. Care of Box 18 4, Yofk^Pa. 4 LITHOGRAPHING SPECIAL DESIGNS
C.A. Rostra Co.

4- - 4^
^ IMatsa^busettft SAMPLES ANI>

Hoiyoke Frank Kainault, cigars, etc.
Wholesale Dealers in chattel mortgage, #312, discharged. LABELS RIBBON PRICES
All Grades of Michigan 1
Darmenter WAX-LINED
R.ipids George A. Rysdale
Grand Coupon CIGAR POCKETS
Leaf Tobacco FOR SALE. r ^Cb^^M
Cigar Co. (not inc.), manufacturers, style

PROTECTION against
Afford perfect
lONA TOBACCO
CIGAR RIBBONS
changed to C. J. Kern & Co. .;>K> ;^_\,^ CO. MOISTURE, HEAT and BREAKAGE.
Missouri 7^
A Specialty of
.
JJ6-33S North Charlotte St,^ Indorsed by all Smokers, and are
Light Connecticut
joplin J.W. Rosborough,
succeeded by F. U. Price.
cigars, etc.,
LANCASTER, PA. #
^ the MOST EFFECTIVE
medium known.
advertising
1
RACINE PAPER GOODS CO. For Sale by All Dealers

New York
SECHRIST, ^^
1
E. S. ^ 1
Wrappers and Seconds Homer Charles L. Hrown, cigar man-

Dallastown, Pa.
.---. _. __ 1
Sole Owners and Manufacturers,
RACINE. WIS .USA*
ufacturer, damaged by tire.
Choice Assortment of New York City Hirtenstein & Alex- mufacturer of
Manufacturer
cigar manufacturers and retail Fine and WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TO
Seed Leaf Fillers ^ Binders
ander,
dealers, dissolved ; succeeded by Adolph
Common Cig
WISCONSIN (h OHIO
Hirtenstein.
etc.,
Schenectady H.C.Benthuysen.cigars,
dead. Capacity,
Established 1890.
@ iPRiES Bros. NanufeLcturing Chemists
Meagher &
Syracuse
Meagher, individually, R.
Cody,
E. deed, $1;
J. H.
Sumatra and Havana H. A. Ostrander, cigars, etc., sold out.
Troy R.
sherifif in
T. Black, tobacco and cigars,
possession.
4-%
Red Lioiv, Pa..
etc.,
Pittsburg Kilgore
Pennsylvania
closed by sheriff.
Washington
& Jamison, cigars,
promptly nhtnined
Cav(!!it.<. (Oiivrifflitu
TWENTY TEAR8' PRACTICE.
Send model, gkeUh or
on pntontiihilitv.
HAND-BOOK FREE.
All
OB NO
and
FEE. Trade-Marki,
Labels renisterea.
Higie8t reference*.
{ihoto. for free report
businew confidential.
Explain* everything. Tell*
Obtain and Sell latentn. What Inrentioni (
eLYeesiNE
M. H. Clark &
Cable AddrcM. IIow to
Bro "CLARK." Everett Strickland Bros., cigars, etc.,

Will V:\y. How to Get a Partner, explain! bett
mechiinii'al moTementa, and rontaina SOO othw
ubJHctn of im|M)rtance to inrentora. Addret$t JttlXTTURE-^
bill of sale to P. E.
Spencer.
Also Headquarters for VANILLIN, COUMARIN,
Leaf Tobacco Brokers, SpokaneJ. Q. Yocum, cigars, sold H. B.
Box 2.
WILLSON
Willgon BIdg.
& CO. aKU
WASHINGTON, D. ft.^ TOBACCO and FRUIT FLAVORS. fHZ AHIBICIH TOBAOCO CO. HIW TW?.
?ADucAHyKY.^
''''
ClarksvUle, Tenn. out to B. W. Darics.

AVANA 123 N. THIRD 3T
PHILAOmL^HIA
IMPORTERS O
AND THE MEANS

ir There .re more w.js than ONE to do eTerrthlng-bat .Tery way Isn't the BEST way. One Dollar per Annum.
j
GOOD cigars, yon need ftOOD Cigar Tools. 1905.
nr If It 18 any part of your baslnesB
to produce EsrABiîSHED IN i88i
I PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 1, \ Single Copies, Five Cents.
BETTEB -aud a little bit CHEAPEE-tha. Vol. XXV., No. 5-

are just a little bit
, NATIONAI, TOOLS
YOUR tools.
TSTcanse we haTe the patents, the
adrantages, and we know onr
basiness.
gauged
.killed labor, nnnsnal mannfactnrlng
correctly, rlTcted handle, self-.harpening

and Belling
knife,
iP i^pmo^giîff^^^^^îi^îi
^ NATIONAL CIGAB CUTTEES,
tempered tool steel, and pnre brass spring.
knots, streaks
BOARDS, hard, strong, heaTj and smooth; no
m NATIONAL CIGAR
or spots; can't warp or
split. rATATAl
KNITES and CUBAN BLADES hold their edge and neTer rATATAl
H NATIONAL CIGAR
botch the job.
don't charge seyeral prices for MATIONAL TOOLS, yTo^
U Another thing, w.
and we glte your money back
If they don't suit. ^^ ^
iAskfoFonr Special Proposition,
brings
meant particnlarlj for YOU. ^<^^y7^ 1903 Crop
^ The coupon it.
National Selling Co.

FLORIDA SVMATRA
Allentown Pa. WRAPPERS
All Grades and Sizes.
I
Light, Medium and Dark Colors.
Excellent Quality.
Uxt-
Lowest Prices.
ÔVI'VA-
Schroeder ^ Arûiinbau|
No. 178 Water Street
JOHN SLATER & CO
Manufacturers of HaLnd-Made
NEW YORK
STOGIES
LANCASTER, PA. r
AND
Main Street, Washington, Pa. ~ J
No. 2 North
1
L
ROSENWALB
C. A. ROST 8z: CO., All Grades of Leaf Tobacco,
THE TOBACCO WORLD
RED LION, PA. E.A.G :
<& Go. <o>H
IMPORTERa OF^'^
PniLJiOCl^HIA J
^TriE TB/ieeO WORLB^ ANOTHER INSTALLMENT FROM THE

GOOD siTVATioN IN owENSBORO. HOW FLORIDA TOBACCO HAS BECOME A FACTOR. CHICAGO JOUR.NAL.
'
Movement ofTobacco will be More Interesting History of the Plant's Struggle for Recognition in the State. The following dreamed exclusively
is
Satisfactory to Auction Men. Which Began When it was a Territory Inhabited by Hostile for all those careless enough to read it,
Owensboro, Ky., Jan. 28. Indians. Shade-Grown Has Gained Prestige. by the Slush Editor of the Chicago
s [Written for The Tobacco World. Journal:
A well known tobacco man in this city ]
come in this and The Women's

Tobacco Anti- Trust
declared that tobacco will When Florida was a territory, Gadsden cate an article as wrapper tobacco
club is the latest development in the
year as it ought to, and in a way that will
county was settled by people from the turn to the culture of cotton which then fight of the independent cigar and to-
be perfectly satisfactory to auction house old Colonial States mostly from North brought fabulous prices. bacco dealers of Chicago against the to-
(lord LANCASTER. lOc.) people. For some seasons now, condi- Carolina and Virginia. These sturdy Tobacco culture languished until Carl bacco trust.
Voghts' Sons, of New York, bought a
The club was organized by a dozea
tions under which tobacco was marketed, pioneers planted their homes in the
South side women whose husbands,
have been not at all good. According to
midstof hostile tribes of Indians, because few crops in 1887 from one or two per- smokers.
brothers, or sweethearts are
the man who predicts a beneneficial
of the rich alluvial hummocks in this sistent growers who had continued in the
Already the movement has spread to a
change there always have been consider- partof the territory, and on account of its face of all difficulties to market their considerable extent.
M^NgrociGAi^ Manufacturers,
able quantities of tobacco sold by contract healthful hills and fertile valleys, watered crops, under conditions more or less ad-
who sold their tobacco by contract brought Among these settlers was one Smith, invested largely in real estate in C.adsden
The women will use their influence
with the men, asking them to boycott the
and considerable quantities at auction. by immense bubbling springs |and ever verse. These crops resulted so satisfac- trust cigar stores and to use only the bet-
When good tobacco seasons came those flowing brooks and rivers. torily to Messrs. Voght that they at once
ter quality of goods made by the inde-
pendent manufacturers .ind sold by the
615 M arket St., P hilada. it to town as rapidly as
possible. At the and to distinguish him from the numerous county.
Then Siraiton & Storm, Schroeder &
independent dealers.
The plan of the women originated at a
same time those who depend on auction others of the perennial Smith family, he cinch club. While the game was in
sales rushed their crops to the market. was called Virginia Smith. He conceived Hon, and A. Cohn & Co. also
bought
114 (NICKr LBY, 5c.)
crowded These firms grew
progress the husband of the hostess came
The result that the buyers were the idea of growing tobacco there, which heavily in real estate. home smoking a cigar.
with the tobacco bought under contract soon demonstrated the fact that (^.adsden large acreages of Havana seed
tobacco and One of the women remarked on the
N 7**^ St bad odor of the tobacco, and the smoker
and were too busy to take much interest county was naturally adapted to the pro- thereby induced the growing of large
Channing Allen , Co. in the auction sales. Under this state duction of a marvelously fine wrapper quantities of the same by the independ-
himself agreed the cigar was a poor one.
He said he had paid 10 cents for it in
^^Philadelphia Manufacturers of
of affairs those who sold at auction did
leaf. ent farmers, but this paid only in a noni-
one of the trust stores.
not get as good prices as they
would Buyers were attracted from all over inal way until in 1896 D. A. Shaw, of the The conversation turned on The Journ-
the first al's articles against the tobacco trust
have gotten had buyers been more at the world for what was then called the Florida Tobacco Co., erected
HARTMAN & KOHN, FINE leisure.
This time, as usual, many farmers have
spotted Florida
among these
wrapper,
buyers were
and
Mr.
notable
Bergman
shade
has
over tobacco
revolutionized
in the world which
wrapper growing,
Some of the women told instances in
which they heard their male relatives
express dislike for the cheap class of to-
sold their entire crops by the
contract from Connecticut, and Mr. Vetterlein At first the idea was laughed at as
bacco palmed off on the public in the
419 Locust St. system. A great part of this has been from Philadelphia, the latter the father being contrary to nature, but now Florida trust's retail stores under the names of
being of our "Prince of Brokers," Herman Vet- shade grown tobacco has passed the ex- popular brands.
delivered and the remainder is
Those and we see Florida One of the women suddenly sprang up
Philadelphia. brought in as rapidly as possible. terlein, of Philadelphia. So this leaf perimental stage
indi-
and cried.
who propose grew to be the standard of merit as the again reaching out for the prestige
to sell their crops at auction "Let's form the first women's anti-trust
American finest, thinest wrapper known tc the cigar cated by the soil and climate in produc- tobacco club."
and who do not belong to the
beginning to manufacturers of the world, as any of ing such fine tobacco as the old Florida The proposition was put to vote and
^99 Society of Equity are
old times carried unanimously.
*'The Philadelphia market their holdings and the rush
be on in a short time. But the
will
buyers
our good old time manufacturers will spotted wrapper in "Ye good
testify. of long ago."
The women believe the movement will
prove a prominent factor in the war of
are through with the heaviest
part of
This condition continued until our war Sumatra seed, grown under shade in
extermination on the trust stores in Chi-
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK. be at leisure between the States, by which the planters Florida 1903 and 1904 has established cago.
Jobbing and Wholesale Trade solicited. One of IôedePs Best their contract work and will
to devote their time
to auction sales. were so impoverished that they were com- Florida shade grown tobacco as a factor
A large membership
looked for.
the club is m
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DBAL Better prices will thus be realized on the pelled to give up the growing of so deli- in cigar manufacturing without a doubt.
Samples sent to Reputable Distributors same grade of tobacco than ever before. MOR.E SUN-CURED IN RICHMOND.
harmless in-
WILL REMOVE MOULD FROM LEAF. by only applying certain
Warehouse Men Vrê Farmers io Make
BROUGHT TOBACCO IN STORM. gredients, which fill the want to make a
Philadelphia Cigar Factory New England Inventor Offers Process perfect leaf tobacco. The mfluence of
Larger Planting.
Big Offerings at Richmond

Warehouses to Remedy Annoying Fault. L. B. Vaughan & Co., proprietors of
W. K. ROEDEL CO., in Spite of Blizzard.
this preparation is carried throughout the
the Crenshaw warehouse, of Richmond,
A New England man, named Knox, entire leaf, removing all mould and mus
41 N. nth Street. PHILADELPHIA. Richmond, Va. Jan. 27.
claims to have invented a satisfactory Va. have made a statement declaring
and giving desirable capacity for hold
, ,
that there is every reason why farmers

CHALLENGES COMPARISON The great storm did not interfere method of removing mould from tobacco,
ing fire.
movements of the to- which really does make good, will be should plant more sun-cured leaf. They
greatly with the if it
No odor or taste due to the process can
Offerings at the local of decided value to those interested. say:
bacco farmers. be present, this infusion removing mould
"The good prices should stimulate
White Knight tobacco warehouses on
reached nearly 200,000 pounds
Wednesday The inventor claims that his process is
according the result of forty years laboratory work
and must in all conditions short of rot-
ting, as it cannot exist in its presence
larger planting of sun-cured leaf, which
is so much needed for the wants of
the
spite of the bitter and that its action will permanently re-
FIVE-CENT CIGAR to estimates, and in permanently restoring the tobacco leaf to
cold weather and snow,
farmers appeared move must and mould from the leaf oy trade. We beheve the prosperity of this
a healthy condition.
MADE BY The wheels covered the natural law of capillary attraction. valuable tobacco is hindered by the in-
in large numbers. The plans hitherto adopted to rmedy
mud, attested the It is a compound, which, being applied sufficient quantity raised."
to hubs with snow and this mouldy and musty condition of leaf
Neumann & Co.
^ Morris D. hardships of travel in many cases. to the butts of the tobacco leaf, as packed
tobacco have proved to be only tempo-
The proprietors of Crenshaw warehouse
have kept tab on local tobacco conditions
EEKAHLER PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prices received were satisfactory.

At in the cases, will pass up through the
Shockkoc warehouse a pile was sold for stems and veins of the leaf, removing
M. P. Stanley, of Hanover, at $27, the mould and must, and at the
all
same time
rary, as the agents used are conducive to
mould and must, and do not restore the
healthy condition.
for thirty years or so and know what they
are talking about. They are by no means
READING. PA. highest price of the day at the
time. improving the burning qualities, without
tobacco to a
the only ones who see that the demand
also changing its normal color, but giving to for sun-cured tobacco is ever on the in-
MANUFACTURtR Will Hazel, proprietor of Shockoc, BALTIMORE FIRM BANKRUPT.
ranging the leaf brilliance, liveliness and silki- crease and that the farmers are justified
reported several sales at prices Charles H. Klemm, Jr., of Baltimore,
CHARLOTTE CUSHMANt? from I13 to 120.50. Two
piles, each ness found in the highest grade only. in increasing tkeir acreage of this crop
trading as Charles H. Klemm & Sons, and watching it more closely than ever
weighing more than 500 pounds,
were It is a well known fact that crops of
PALACE SMOKER M. T. Cobb, of Caroline, tobacco, wherever raised, vary in quality,
cigar manufacturers, has made applica- so as to produce the best
possible leaf.
sold there for
tion in the United States Court for the
Tobacco men agree that there is little
Monkey BranAND !|?Yh at I17.50 and |1S.

respectively. much being so poor that it is unsalable,
benefit of the bankrupt law. The Ua- danger of
growing too much sun-cured.
and on this account accumulates in various
White Chi bilities are placed at $11,799-78 and
^The American Cigar Co.'s
sorting markets. To improve defective stocks
assets 13,663. 18, of which $2,005.42 ae
John Duley, president of the Mays-
sution in Sparta, Wis., has opened
for Trade, declares that
National Bird J Igf of the ordinary tobacco leaf of commerce, debts due on open accounts and $1,648.41 ville, Ky. Board of ,
with a crew of 300 fair to be held in that town

the season' s business, by the simple law of capillary attraction, stock in trade. There are no secured the tobacco
King Louis J>^ persons.
ceived.
Considerable leaf is being re-
must be distributed throughout the leaves claims.
on Feb. 22 will be the biggest ever held.
THE TOBACCO WORLD
RED LION, PA. E. A. C^^^^s cS Go <o>HAVANA 123 N. THIRD ST
HILJKtymL^HIA
^w--*
THE TB/ieeO WORLB

GOOD SITUATION IN owENSBORO. HOW FLORIDA TOBACCO HAS BECOME A FACTOR. ANOTHER INSTALLMENT FROM TH
CHICAGO JOUKNAL.
Movement Tobacco will be More
of Interesting History of the Plant's Struggle for Recognition in the State. The following dreamed exclusively
is
Satisfactory to Auction Men. Which Began When it was a Territory Inhabited by Hostile for all those careless enough to read it,
Owensboro, Ky., Jan. 28. Indians. Shade-Grown Has Gained Prestige. by the Slush Editor of the Chicago
man [Written for The Tobacco World.] Journal;
^1^ A well known tobacco in this city
^^ come in this Women's Anti-Trust Tobacco
The
declared that tobacco will When Florida was a territory, Gadsden cate an article as wrapper tobacco and
club is the latest development in the
year as it ought to, and in a way that will
county was settled by people from the turn to the culture of cotton which then fight of the independent cigar and to-
be perfectly satisfactory to auction house old Colonial States mostly from North brought fabulous prices. bacco dealers of Chicago against the to-
people. For some seasons now, condi- Carolina and Virginia. These sturdy Tobacco culture languished until Carl bacco trust
n the Voghts* Sons, of New York, bought a
The club was organized by a dozen
tions under which tobacco was marketed, pioneers planted their homes i
South side women whose husbands,
have been not at all good. According to midstof because few crops in 1887 from
hostile tribes of Indians, one or two per-
brothers, or sweethearts are smokers.
the man who predicts a beneneficial of the rich alluvial hummocks in this sistent growers who had continued in the Already the movement has spread to a
change there always have been consider- partof the territory, and on account of its face of all difficulties to market their considerable extent.
MWNETOCIGAR Manufacturers,
able quantities of tobacco sold by contract healthful hills and
and considerable
When
quantities
good tobacco seasons came those
who sold their tobacco by contract brought
at auction.
flowing brooks and rivers.

fertile valleys, watered crops, under conditions more or
by immense bubbling springs |and ever verse. These crops resulted so satisfac-
torily to Messrs. Voght that they at once
Among these settlers was one Smith, invested largely in real estate in Gadsden
less ad- The women use their influence
will
with the men, asking them to boycott the
trust cigar stores and to use only the bet-
ter quality of goods made by the inde-
pendent manufacturers and sold by the
615 ^larket St., Philada. it to town as rapidly as
possible. At the and to distinguish him from the numerous county. independent dealers.
The plan of the women originated at a
same time those who depend on auction others of the perennial Smith family, he Then Straiton & Storm, Schroeder &
cinch club. While the game was in
(NlCPrLBY. sales rushed their crops to the market. was called Virginia Smith. He conceived Hon, and A. Cohn & Co. also bought
GUMPERT 114 5c.)
The result that the buyers were crowded the idea of growing tobacco there, which heavily in real estate. These firms grew
progress the husband
home smoking a cigar.
of the hostess came
with the tobacco bought under contract soon demonstrated the fact that (iadsden large acreages of Havana seed tobacco and One of the women remarked on the
and the smoker
BROS. Channing Alien Co. and were too busy to take much interest county was naturally adapted to the pro- thereby induced the growing of large bad odor of the tobacco,
himself agreed the cigar was a poor one.
in the auction sales. Under this state duction of a marvelously fine wrapper quantities of the same by the independ- He said he had paid 10 cents for it in
Manufacturers ^'^Philade!pfiia Manufacturers of
of affairs those who sold at auction did leaf. ent farmers, but this paid only in a nom- one of the trust stores.
1 not get as good prices as they

would Buyers were attracted from all over inal way until in 1896 D. A. Shaw, of the The conversation turned on The Journ-
HARTMAN & KOHN,

419 Locust
mi St.
have gotten had buyers been more at
leisure.
This time, as usual,
sold their entire crops by the
system.
many farmers have
contract
A great part of this has been

the world for what was then called the Florida Tobacco Co., erected the
spotted Florida wrapper, and notable shade over tobacco in the world
among these buyers were Mr. Bergman has revolutionized wrapper growing,
from Connecticut, and Mr. Vetterlein At first the idea was laughed
from Philadelphia, the latter the father being contrary to nature, but now
at
first al's articles against the tobacco trust.
which
Florida
as
Some of the women told instances in
which they heard their male relatives
express dislike for the cheap class of to-
bacco palmed off on the public in the
trust" s retail stores under the names of
the ex- popular brands.

delivered and the remainder is
being of our "Prince of Brokers," Herman Vet- shade grown tobacco has passed
One of the women suddenly sprang up
Philadelphiao brought in as rapidly as possible.
Those terlein, of Philadelphia. So this leaf perimental stage and we see Florida and cried:
' who propose to sell their crops at auction grew to be the standard of merit as the again reaching out for the prestige indi- "Let's form the first women's anti-trust
and who do not belong to the American finest, thinest wrapper known tc the cigar cated by the soil
and climate in produc- tobacco club. '
Equity are beginning to

manufacturers of the world, as any of ing such fine tobacco as the old Florida
The proposition was put to vote and
Society of
times carried unanimously.
"The Philadelphia market their holdings and the rush
be on in a short time. But the
will
buyers
our good old time manufacturers will spotted wrapper in "Ye good old
testify. oi long ago."
prove a prominent factor in
The women believe the movement will
the war of
are through with the heaviest part of
This condition continued until Sumatra seed, grown under shade in
our war extermination on the trust stores in Chi-
1552 and 1554 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YOKK. their contract work and will
be at leisure between the States, by which the planters Florida 1903 and 1904 has established cago.
Jobbing and WholesHle Trade solicited. One of Jôedel's Best to devote their time to
auction sales. were so impoverished that they were com- Florida shade grown tobacco as a factor A large membership m the club is
looked for.
THAT IS SAYING A GOOD DBAL Better prices will thus be realized
on the pelled to give up the growing of so deli- in cigar manufacturing without a doubt.
Samplff Rent to Reputable Distributors same grade of tobacco than ever before. MOR.E SUN-CURED IN RICHMOND.
harmless in-
WILL REMOVE MOULD FROM LEAF. by only applying certain
Warehouse Men Vrê Farmers to Make
BROUGHT TOBACCO IN STOR.M. the want to make a
gredients, which fill
Philadelphia Cigar Factory New En/{la.nd Inventor Offers Process

perfect leaf tobacco. The mtluence of
Larger Planting.
Big Offerings at Richmond Warehouse* to ILemedy Annoying Fault. L. B. Vaughan & Co., proprietors of
W. K. ROEDEL CO,, in Spite of Blizzard. A New England man, named Knox,
this preparation is carried throughout the
the Crenshaw warehouse, of Richmond,
entire leaf, removing all mould and mus
41 N. Ilth Street, PHJLADELPHSA. Richmond, Va., Jan. 27. claims to have invented a satisfactory
and giving desirable capacity for hold
Va. , have made a statement declaring
storm did not interfere method of removing mould from tobacco, that there is why farmers
every reason
CHALLENGES COMPARISON The great ing fire.
movements of the to which really does make good, will be should plant more sun-cured leaf. They
greatly with the if it
No odor or taste due to the process can
local of decided value to those interested. say:
bacco farmers. Offerings at the be present, this infusion removing mould
White Knight tobacco warehouses on

reached nearly 200,000 pounds
Wednesday The inventor claims that his process is
according the result of forty years laboratory work
and must in all conditions short of rot-
ting, as it cannot exist in its presence
"The good prices should stimulate
larger planting of sun-cured leaf, which
is so much needed for the wants
of the
spite of the bitter and that its action will permanently re-
FIVE-CENT CIGAR to estimates, and in permanently restoring the tobacco leaf to
cold weather and snow,
farmers appeared move must and mould from the leaf oy trade. We beheve the prosperity of this
a healthy condition.
MADE BY The wheels covered the natural law of capillary attraction. valuable tobacco is hindered by the in-
in large numbers. The plans hitherto adopted to rmedy
and mud, attested the It is a compound, which, being applied sufficient quantity raised."
to hubs with snow this mouldy and musty condition of leaf
Morris D. Neumann & Co. hardships of travel in many cases. to the butts of the tobacco leaf, as packed
tobacco have proved to be only tempo-
The proprietors of Crenshaw warehouse
At in the cases, will pass up through the have kept tab on local tobacco conditions
Prices received were satisfactory. rary, as the agents used are conducive to
PHILADELPHIA, PA. for thirty years or so and know what they
Shockkoc warehouse a pile was sold for stems and veins of the leaf, removing
all
mould and must, and do not restore the
the mould and must, and at the same time are talking about. They are by no means
M. P. Stanley, of Hanover, at $27, tobacco to a healthy condition.
time. improving the burning qualities, without the only ones who see that the demand
highest price of the day at the
also changing its normal color, but giving to for sun-cured tobacco is ever on the in-
Manufacturer (m Will Hazel, proprietor of Shockoe, BALTIMORE FIRM BANKRUPT.
sales at prices ranging the leaf brilliance, liveliness and silki- crease and that the farmers are justified
reported several Charles H. Klemm. Jr., of Baltimore,
CHARLOTTE CUSHMANo from t\^ to 120.50. Two piles, each
ness found in the highest grade only. in increasing tkeir acreage of this crop
trading as Charles H. Klemm & Sons, and watching it more closely than ever
weighing more than 500 pounds, were is a well known fact that crops of
PALACE SMOKER fc^^
It
cigar manufacturers, has made applica- so as to produce the best possible leaf.
M. T. Cobb, of Caroline, tobacco, wherever raised, vary in quality,
sold there for
tion in the United States Court for the
Tobacco men agree that there is little
Monkey Brand at 1 1 7. 50 and ^15. respectively. much being so poor that it is unsalable,
benefit of the bankrupt law. The lia- danger of growing too much sun-cured.
and on this account accumulates in various
White Chief bilities are placed at $11,799-78 and
The American
Sparta,
Cigar
Wis., has
Co.'s sorting markets.
opened for
To improve defective stocks
commerce,
assets $3.663. 18. of which 12,005.42 ac John Duley, president of the Mays-
Ky. Board of Trade, declares that
sution in of the ordinary tobacco leaf of
debts due on open accounts and $1,648.41 ville,
National BirdjIJ^ the season' s business, with
a crew of 300
attraction, There are no secured
,
the tobacco fair to be held in that town

is being re-
by the simple law of capillary stock in trade.
Considerable leaf on Feb. 22 will be the biggest ever held.
King Louis J> persons.
must be distributed throughout the leaves claims.
wfomssniGlO^ ceived.
[*'* '

123 N. THIRD ST THIRD ST
J.Vetterlein Co. and Packers &

DOMESTIC LEAF Tobacco
of
PHILADBLfHIA

I The Old Salesman's Musings. F. V.
1600 Arch
ESHLEMAN,
Street,
123 N.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia,
115 Arch Street, Philadelphia. HOW AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE also reminded me that they had in no
STARTED ON THE ROAD. manner agreed to pay me unless I earned MAKER OF
met an old time friend of mine the something; that most of the sales were
I
fOUNDBD 1855.
other day and we had a great chat on the worthless, and that would get my com- I !
dead past. And the dead past, by the mission when the buyers paid for the
way, is never so dead that its contempla- goods they bought,
T. Doham D 8lT < tion does not beat out the actual present. "1 got back home and broke the news
"I tell you, we had a lot of fun in as soon as 1 could and dug out my con-
those diys," is a common enough,extract and went over it carefully with my
d^ DOHAN & TAITT, pression, and when we

believe that ninety five per cent of what-
get down to |it,
was no way of holding the company for

I father. We soon discovered that there
what 1 had spent. This so disgusted me

Importers of Havana and Sumatra ever might be called pleasure in this life
D J
j^ is gotten from our reminiscent
and an- with traveling that I went back to fizzing
scda and selling pills, and stayed there made in various sizes,
/^*^^^^ IO7 Arch St.
Packers of ticipatory moods. What wcj actuiUy until 1 had a bon.i fide offer from a A Cigar of Real Quality,
have, isn* t valued. square house, and that was the beginning ranging from $33 to $300 per thousand.
Leaf Tobaccos ^S^^ ) philada. For instance, 1 have a very vivid ot my real life on the road.
memory that when I was a kid sporting "I have found that to sell anything, a
man must learn to size up his prospective
around among the dames, somehow the customers. Without being a sucker, he
girl the other fellow had, dways seemed must like what they like; talk about Sulzberêr-
r--^**'"* ^%5 BREMER'S SOAr
_ ^^^ty^
more desirable than the one 1
If I'd been with the second girl and seen

was with. things that interest ihem; be triendly to
everybody, and never try to get ihe best
\^0^ IMPORTERS OP I
JACOB LABii SIDNEY LABB mine with ..u
'
else, u
^-.u^^.. io
somebody have of a man, for if you
..r/M.M Hav*
it wouia /
do, he will find it
,.,
out, and it wont be long until everybody

. , . .
Oppenheimer Co.
LABE
Bl Havana and Sumatra IBNJ.
been the same way. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ j^^
(Limited)
d PACKERS of BENJ. LABE & SONS, But the only thing this has to do with <0nce 1 sold a lot of 20,000 Havana
the present subject is its relation to the fillers with rather a cheap wrapper. 1
Ciâr Manufacturers
Importers ot
s> Leaf Tobacco SUMATRA and HAVANA happy chat we had in a little German
r ; ,, 1 A
rathskellar over our, I daresay, common-
^,,,rr.
was instructed to sell them around $22
H^^thousand, and when I found a man
per
^^.^ ^.^ ^^^
Broad & Noble Sts.
^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ j
We
& Dealers in LEAF TOBA CCO hadn't stenographer
Street, Philadelphia
place lives. a
^^^ ^^^j g^j j^ Qne of the other sales- Philadelphia
322 and 324 North Third Packers with us, and I'd need the whole paper, men also had a few thousand to sell at
231 and 233 North Third Street, anyhow to reproduce all that was said, $22, and he let them go at that The
two buyers happened to be cousins, and
/ULIUS HIRSCHBERG
HARRY HIRSCHBERG PHILADELPHIA, PA. but my '
friend made some remarks which
when one visited the other, the stock
.
HOLURD & SONS,

Julius Hirschberg ^ Bro. IiEOPOliD LiOEB CO.
8t
I believe will be interesting to every ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ,^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^-^^
reader of this column.
first, how he came to go on the
and I can just state,' he declared,

He told me, ^^s said: 'Well, old man, I sec you
road, have some of Jimmie's specials
20, 000, and he let me have them for $35
I got
'
JOSEPH
Makers of
Hollard's Premiers,
Havana and Sumatra
Lmporiers of
Packers
AND
of Seed Leaf Tobacco Importers of Sumatra
AND
and Havana being my last
_^ ^^^
and

'Thirty-five dollars!' exclaimed the
-that my first experience came near ^^^^.^ J^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^.^
house for |22.'
"You

The
and
Franklin Club,
Luxury,
NUMEROUS PRIVATE BRANDS.
232 North Third St., Phlla. Packers ot Leaf Tobacco

"I was only twenty years old,
thought 1 would make just about the house offered and

can imagine the fireworks.
did make up the dif- Seal Cigar Factory,
and like the devil to
j .Ko .,r i*.ft a Qamnle
cutest drummer that ever lett a sample
ference. I
,/..
lied
square m) self, but I never
- .. a. a
did i \^.t

2203 South Street, Philadelphia.
BAMBERGER & CO.

I lost
306 North Third St., Phila. case while he went around the corner.
store, and in
,
^.^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ j^ ^^^^^ ^^ forever from

STANDARD OF ALL HAVANA CI OARS. '^ ^
L. I was clerking in a drug
spite of the fact that we handled the

working a double deal. Sell your goods
at the list price, and you wont have some
CLEAR
;-Ê-BO
HAVANA
THB A OCO
SUMATRA X V/JLFXa.Vy
and
LEAF
V/V/ GEO. BURGHARD
Importer of
oods of only one house. I was firmly
all the
u
different
T J J . 1 .>
confident that what I d.dn t know about
. . .
kicker on your neck for soaking him for
oK.. a quarter more on the million,
brands w.isn
^.^^^^j,^^
.,
t worth
-^
^^^^^
^^j^g
^^ j^^ ^^j^jj ^^ ^y^^
j ^^^^^^ ^^^^
customers of my
^
HAVANA ^
remembering. customers. It never hurt me to stop and
Philadelphia
111

Arch St.,
Lancaster, Pa.; Milton Junction, Wis.; BaldwlniTillclf.Y.
Sumatra and Havana I saw a want ad. which conveyed
generous
^ informatian that al salesman
.
the chin awhile with them, and 1 always
managed to say a good word for the man
^Y^^ ^^g retailing to them. Every httle
and Packer LEAF TOBACCO of could earn big money selling cigars, kindness was likely to win a friend. The
liberal expense money allowed.' This ^g^y fellow I might be talking to
fVEYWE&T
seemed as if they had heard of me, so I would sometime, perhaps, own a store,
238 North Third Street, Phila. sent in a bond, signed by my father and
and would look me up sure thing." CIGARS
A 1. ,-,:. tri
The Oi.D Salesman.
another business man, and also remitted
. ,
_ _ %*^^^^^(%( , DUNCAN l MOORHEAD. inc . Makers. PHILADELPHIA. PA.

$25 for the 'salesman s outfit. I was
pHiLA. TRAVELERS* PROTECTIVE AS-
permitted
first
home.
place
to
1
pick
hit
my own
was
route,
fifty
and the
miles from
elers*
SOCIATION IN NEW QUARTERS.
^^ ^ regular meeting of Post A, Trav-
Protective Association, held Satur-
J. JttRHliOIl BARNES
MAICBRS OP
CO.
"I sold about $5 worth of cigars and day evening, January 21, it was decided
P^/UAOEUVOAjik. sent in the order.
,,
I went on
.. r
pretty fair order.

to
.j^>
another
I
to move from the present quarters, at
1214 Arch street, more commodious
to
town and sold a
went on again and in the next town I
^^J ^^^^^^
sîturday, January 28,
^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^.^^^
the association TH) CO. CIGAR, Five Cents,
The Empire '""^rtm'!"?'"^'" made By this time I had
a water haul.
spent about $20. and my sales had not that
address.
Owing to the constant increase of
has invited all friends to pay a visit to
HAVANA TOPS, Ten Cents,
SEED LEAF, ^ much more than
footed up that At the
membership, it was found necessary to Made in Conchas, Londres and Perfecto Shapes.
J. S. BATROFF,
end of the week I sent in my expense ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ amusement ALL UNION MADE. RIGHT PRICES TO JOBBERS.
L^_^ eaf Tobacco havana

SUMATRA 224 Arch St., Philadelphia,
account which was $42. 5o ^"^ ^ item- f^j. ^ê many that use the rooms. In
ized my sales, showing that 1 had some line with this, there is being installed a
cash coming besides the expenses.
pool table, which will be a boon to many
of the members. There will also be a
Factory^
Park Avenue and Wallace

PHILADELPHIA, PA.
from Responsible Parlies.
Street,
Co., Ltd. II8N.3(lSt.Phila. Broker in LEAF TOB/IeO ,,T ,,

Well.
was a pippin.
T
*cii, AI 6"
They
** (^^^ fi,r fKnt
eot a letter from them that
told
pay my railroad fare nor

me they
my
..
wouldn
hotel
t
ex-
1
i-
reading room, supplied j .u
with
magazines, board room, ladies' room
and meeting rooms.
a
papers and
JOSEPH C. KOLB,
penses- that I might stay in my own Through the energy of the ways and
IMPORTERS of means committee there will be a play HAVANA BLOSSOM, the Leading 5c. Ciâr,
Manufacturer of the
Young & WeWinan,Siimatra&Havana(Jsr&sr

city and sell the cigars, if I wanted to.
m
Southeast Corner Second and Market Streets,
'
r 11 given some time ,
March, and judging I
but until the profits for the firm would ^^^^ ^^^ .^^^^^^^ ^j^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^
r] far exceed my expense account, they ^f jê members, it will no doubt be an
would not consider anything else. They assured success.
Camden, N. J.
2J^ 14. THIRD Leuf.
ST., PHILADELPHIA- Paekera of Seed
THB TOBACCO WORLD THB TOBACCO WORLD
t-^TtEALM oPT/iB l^BTAILBRS

PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK RE-
TO GET ALL YOUR PROFITS USE A NATIONAL
TACT AND DIPLOMACY INCILEASE five cents worth of cigarettes, thirty- five WOMEN BUY TOBACCO TO GET COV-
PONS. TAIL MARKETS VERY DIFFERENT.
SALES 300 PER CENT. centsof which he was counting on having
TXTHAT a difference in a man's sales with him when he left the shop. A CCORDING to the following from 'HERE is a curious difference between
^^ a little diplomacy and tact make. So it went on, until the three men- a New York paper, the coupon the retail cigar market of Philadel-
phia and that of New York. Of course,
The writer stood in a store for a half hour tioned in the first paragraph had been system is responsible for quite a num-
made Then the writer went out, but ber of women customers who want the it is common knowledge that the five
the other day and saw at least three dol- up.
cent cigar a Philadelphia institution, Neither of these old systems
worth of sales that wouldn't have it is to be presumed that the dealer coupons as badly as they do trading
is
lars
but the queer part of it that the average
been made if the salesman had not been continued to reap the value of his wise stamps, the two now being interchange-
is
Philadelphia smoker more and

gives an absolute check
No matter whether the first able at a number of places. The is critical
on to his job. methods.
and particular about his nickel cigar on your
The $3 was all in small sales, one or customer ever came back to the store article says that a young lawyer in a cash.
than the New Yorker is when he throws
twocigarsatatime.anditwasafairexhi. again, the dealer was ahead the few down town office building, who has
bition of the value of the clerk's methods, he made on him, and the more time to
extra sales look out of the window than a dime down on the counter.
For an instance, one man came in, a same way with the man who bought the he wishes he had, noticed that several A large number of the cigars sold in A NATIONAL DOES.
stranger i n the neighborhood, simply cigarettes. women were among the customers that New York for ten cents are practically
the same smoke that sells here for five.
stopping in the first cigar store he came If either of these customers were in a patronized a cigar store across the street,
to after he felt a desire to have a cigar. position to come back, because they were Next time he went in for a cigar he spoke
Some of them bear the same brand and
are put up in the same package. although
Give me a good medium cigar about pleased with the way they had been to the manager about it.
two for a quarter or three for a quarter," treated, the dealer had gained a regular "Those women all come in to buy," this is not the case where the brand is National automatically records every sale and every penny received
A
said he. few. a very few only, of said the manager.
customer. A "Some of them pur- universally known, which is true in only or paid out. All receipts must be on hand or accounted for. The little
The man behind him chase cigarettes, but whether they smoke a few instances.
the counter in a very these every day would suffice to give
A well known Philadelphia dealer was leaks that a National stops pay for the register.
few seconds had four or five different an ever growing business which would them themselves or not I do not know.
boxes open in front of the customer, and be particularly valuable owing to tljc fact You see, we are in the line of a good over in
New York a few days ago and
bad something direct and specific to say that he could take it with him wherever many women on their way to and from stopped in a store
on Broadway. He
"-
called for a certain cigar which he, him-
National Cask Register Company
'
about each brand in a way which at once

self, had usually sold for ten cents
cave you the impression that he knew
what he was talking about. IS THIS CARD SELF-EXPLANATORY.
straight, but which he had temporarily
The customer fingered the boxes and

been able to sell in small lots at about Dayton, Ohio
nine cents. He laid down a dime to In -n'riting fUase mention tin's f-aper
casually mentioned a certain brand, ten
pay for it
cent straight, that he had once tried. In
Fifteen cents," said the dealer.
a second it was down, and the dealer
showing its good points, regardless of the Wr^-CATLIK Why, that's a ten cent cigar," pro-
tested the Philadelphia man.

fact that the customer had apparently
No, sir; we always get fifteen cents
almost decided to take some at two for a STERNBERG :MANUFACTUR.ING CO. STILL GUNNING AFTER. PLEDGES.
was the answer.
quarter. He selected a couple from the ^ÊULs MY Cigars for it,"
This impelled the Quaker City dealer
SETTLED.
Burley Growers* Association Needs lO,*
ten cent box and tendered a dollar.
to look through the show case, and he 000.000 Pounds More From Farmers.
These will do, " he said. United CiârlStates Co. May Open More
The dealer punched the cash register
and then reached
Here's
for another package.
a very pretty size i n that '^
found that in a large number of cases
additional tariff was imposed.
too, in the rank and
the cigar stands in
This,
file of the stores,
the Tenderloin in
The
Stores in Milwaukee.
Sternberg Manufacturing
28.
Com-
As
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 27, 1905.
the result of a meeting in Cincinnati
of the Burley Tobacco Growers' Associa-
BLACK THREADS
brand," ;he said.
quarter and they' re
They
made
sell two
with unusual
for a iBli!22H Co.
Hl^'eKf
most cases getting even more money.
pany, which recently moved here from
Davenport la., is now located in
tion, buyers have been sent out under
whip and spur to solicit contracts for 10,
its fine

Long Cut
That's the main reason why th
still demanded
care. They' re one of the most satisfac- 'mi^jî new building. E. A. Sternberg, secretary 000, 000 pounds of tobacco The Finst Heavy Pipe Smoking Tobacco manufactured.
United Cigar Stores Co. 's places in New New York capitalists who are ex
tory sellers I've got" of the company, showed The Tobacco by the Packed by hand in 3)^ oz. packages
York have done so well," said the Phila- This quantity will be
The customer looked them over and who weeks ago conducted the ^^^^^.^ ^^^^.j^^ ^^^^ World correspondent over the large fac- pected to buy.
As they were u
\KTILUAM CATLIN, of New York, until a few
^^^^^^ generally
sufficient to give them control of the Union Made. The Wrappers are Good for Premiums.
selected a couple.
*^' ^ '^ N*^"'^ ^'^^'^ '*'"*' Pl'ilad^^Pî^ ""^'' *^ "^"'^ ^**^* ^*"' tory and said that while the floor space
stick to one price, and a five cent cigar
. u
pnt into a bag with some matches, K^
he Thorsch Co.. occupied just now was not more than the crop. Write ui for Samples and Prices.
.^ ^.^^ g^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ .^ ^^ ^ ^1,, ,,d for the Victor .^
^ ^^^ ^^^^ Of course, a
was attracted by a card over the counter New York from Providence, double that of the Iowa plant there The company is confident of contract-
^^ îi^,^^ ^^tes that he has just returned to
announcing . a special pnce on a certain
xamined one of the cigars
brand, and he examin
.i^^j^g p ^ ^^ry
^ ^^^^ .^
satisfactory
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^
trip.
will
Mr.
continue
Catlin
his
will shortly
energetic
leave
work on
for Maine,
.'Buster
making
Brown."
dealer is supposed to sell according to
^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ôrk people
p^^bably consider Philadelphia as a cut
were facilities for turning out triple the
amount of work in the same amount of days. June W. Gayle
ing for all
said there was i,-

the tobacco needed in a few
The company has been flooded 000,000 pounds in Henry county
unsold,
cf that brand in a near-by box.
Mr. Catlin is using a novel card to introduce his goods (he seldom needs introduc
price market At the same time, the space.
which he believed he could get. Mr.
DAYTON, OHIO.
The dealer at once explained why he ^j^j^ himself), a reproduction of which is made above, with orders since starting, as the removal
Phila delphian is apt to get a few sur-
Brown, of Owen, said there is yet 1,000, 2.
was able to sell the cigars at that price. prises when he is getting rid of his small
of the machinery, etc., and the engaging
000 undisposed of in his county awaiting
and told the truth about it It struck u !,- of expert workmen, put them far behind. the company's final announcement. Like
,. ^r r they /.,,

, ., t. ,^ t> chang..
went and likewise count on building the North River fnes Perhaps
U,e customer that he was at least sure of Mr. Sternberg said that they were so expressions were heard from other dele
getting
his money's worth, and he selected up
"P a new one whereverwncrcvcr uc wcv by
he went uy bu,
.j, the ..s-- for friends.
.. cigarettes
;- But we
^"J
^ ,u^,op,^,gj^ ^j SMOKES A HPE.
busy just now that they were actually not gates.
r r .u u- u exercise oi mc
of the same methods.
iiiciuua. have women who come in here regularly
It is a matter of great interest to the A LINE OF HIGH-GRADE
three or four of the cigars which were (( T HAVE a customer who buys noth- soliciting any new business, and were
The dealer did nothing remarkable in for cigars and tobacco. The coupon growers and tobacco dealers and manu-
cheaper in price, and then decided that not even sending out the new catalogues, facturers generally to know who are the
any way, or nothing that any man of business is responsible for that Men ing but fine cigars, usually three
be would take enough to make up the and to- for a half, but I have never seen him which have just been printed. It is the New York advance
capitalists ready to
ordinary intelligence could not have let their wives buy they igars ^^ For Cigar and Tobacco Factories
dollar's worth. ^^^ ^^^^^^
^
intention of the company as soon as they $8,000,000 or more necessary to pay for and Leaf Tobacco Dealers.
done. His conversation was not highly bacco so as to give them the beneht ol u Members of the Broad of
There was eighty cents which the man r L KiT^.^ ko /^n iôif tViA
, j
Milwaukee, dealer who runs a u- ,
big store, have caught up with their orders, to start
the product.
MISTING SPRAYING
nor crowded of jokes or the
t
coupons. More than one-half the '
^ Directors stated that the financial stand-
had not the slightest intention of spend- brilliant full
-1 ^ f^, ^ ofo*-^ "But, he continued, he is always
,
the manufacture of heavier machines.

FLAVORING CASING
a stated number of
Ti..TYiK*r r.f
the New York people operating WHITEWASHING
ing when he entered the store. A young striking in any way. At the same time articles we give for ^^^^.^^ ^ ^.^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^J^
ing of
fellow came in a little later and bought a

ten cent box of cigarettes.
he was Johnny-on- the spot, which
A remark or whole lot of those back of the counter or downtown, it is
a coupons are for women s use.
no strange thing
Uptown
now-
^^^^ ^j^^^ j ^^^j^j
^vith the fine cigars.
^^^ ^j^^^ j^^ ^^^^ ^^j^^^
He cuts them up
The rumor is again current that
United Cigar Stores Co., is negotiating

the with them, is perfectly satisfactory.
Mr. Mc Ivor, representative of the New
It York
capitalists said 'The syndicate
fillers ....
Fountain SprLyer for misting

$4.00
7.50
for sites for at least two more stores.
:
are not There are thousands of clerks adays to see women going into cigar and smokes them in the pipe, and he
back of me. which includes three trust Climax Tobci^cco Pump 10.00
two about cigarettes led to the mention of remarked that this method supplied him held on store
Little
in the business who would never sell a stores where coupons are given away." is known that options are companies, insurance companies, and Progress Spraying Machine 16.50
Jr.
a new brand that is being widely adver- with the best smoke he could get
single cent's worth that wasn't asked for rooms on the south side and on the directors of national banks, are simply Also make Urê Field Sprayer which cover*
tised, the dealer exhibited a package. the whole year round.
- -
In fact they '
'
"Many a smoker buys what his pocket four rows at one time.
west side, three blocks from the main using me as a blanket, as they don't want
They wait A NUMBER of tobacco dealers state book will stand. This man is president Send for free Catalogue.
the young man became interested, other don't see why they should.
brands were exhibited and dilated upon, on a man and give
him what he wants, "
that the cigarette habit among boys of the largest foundry concern in Mil- business street. Very little has been said
their names passed about. What the
different financial institutions have sub-
ve to a and that's
all they are hired and paid j, , .ê wane, and say there has been a
waukee, and is worth half a million or of late, however, as local dealers are ap- scribed, or are ready to put into this DAYTON SUPPLY CO.,
!nd
and !s there's
as there notle so attract
is nothing attractive
cigarette smoker as a new, rich looking ^^^

phaps that's all some of them îg falling off in the sale ot
-^ ^^^ ^^^ jf jêy'd get a little
. ^
' , ,
^f cigarettes
ciearettes
""2'^'
^^^J"^
'"'^*' * P'P^ continually,
, have other customers who also smoke
parently not anxious to join in the fight enterprise would amount to a mere baga- Suc'ors to Ni jon Nozzle & Mach. C
of the Chicago and San Francisco dealers telle to each one, such is their strength.
box, the young fellow was greatly inter, busy with their think tank, there might
d""ng the last six months, due to a fad pipes, but who do so from necessity,
against the chain stores. Anderson. BUHRMAN. DAYTON, O.
ested and presently departed with forty- soon be more doing in the
pay envelope, the boys now have of smoking pipes. rather than from liking."
/\^ QaLVES (^ Oo. <JO^HaVANA 123 N. THIRD 3T THE TOBACCO WORLD
RREMER RROS. & gOEHM, porters.

GEO. W. BRBMBR,
WALTER
Packers tLnd Dealers in
T- BREMER.
Jr.
-
R/ BAVTISTA
Cable RoTiSTA.
y C A.- Leaf Tobacco
NEPTUNO
Warehouse-HABANA, CUBA.
i70--l74, special Partner Gumersindo Garcia Cukrvo.
PHILADELPHIA
119 North Third St.,
Leaf Tobacco MVNIZ HERNANOS S ef\ C

y CIA
I
ESTABLISHED 1844
=1
Growers and Dealers of
VUELTA ABAJO, PARTIDO and REMEDIOS TOBACCO

Cable
Angel," Havana KeindL 20. HavaivdL p. O. Box 98
I
H. Upmann & Co I
I
ANOTHER ACTIVE WEEK IN THE HAVANA MARKET. I HAVANA. CUBA.
Remedies is Steadily Advancing and Vuelta Abajo Fillers are Quickly I
Cuba
Disappearing.
[Special Correspondence ol
Years. Sales, Exports,
is
The Tobacco World.]

More Prosperous Than
Etc., for the Week.
for
^ Bdcnkers and
Commission
Havana, January 23, 1905.
Another active week can be chronicled phia; W.
in the Havana market,
steadily advancing for Remedios and Co., Louisville.
with prices Boston ;
L. Scott, of W.
V. R. Bickel, of C. C. Bickel
L. Scott & Co.,
&
I
Merchadits
heavy Vuelta Abajo fillers, which are Departures: Lep Cohn, via Tama,
rapidly disappearing from first hands, for New York; J. M. Fortier, via Tampa,
Truly it may be said while sugar is boom- for Montreal Manuel Suarez, E. A. Kline, SHIPPEK^S OF CIGAP<^
and LEAF TOBACCO
;
ing, tobacco seems to be following in its Matt Berriman, for Tampa; W. C. Schutz
wake, therefore, the Island of Cuba is and F. Opp, for St. Louis; Simon Batt,
B0TTS&KEELY, Importers and Packers of

PftlLIPPJ.KOLB CDItt%MlT.COUiAN enjoying a period of unprecedented pros- Charles Jacobs, J. Cohn, Jose A. Suarez
perity which it has not seen for a long and H. Spingarn, for New York; William
number of years, and it is remarkable H. Yocum, for Reading, Pa.
IfANUFACTURBRS OP
W^
with what avidity the northern buyers Havan* Cigar Manufacturers
have picked up all the good tobacco in ^^^^ ^^^ experienced the boom which
CitfeLf
Leaf Tobacco sight,even overlooking small defects, as ^^^ j^^^ ^^^j^^^ ^^^ enjoying,
regards unclean packing, for instance. ^^^^^^ ^^^^j^^^
While many of them left last week ^^ ^^^^ j^ ^^.j^ ^^êrate, but
and while
during the
^^ ^^^^ j^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^
Tbe
Celebrated Br .Adi
No. 148 North Second Street, ORTH Third Street, others have taken their places, so the coming month a betterment
is confidently
chances are that by the end of February looked for. The trust is said to
be doing
I
PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia.
all of the 1904 crop will be in the hands jj^î^ ^^^
of manufacturers, or dealers
^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ independent
who carry
while the larger ones of the
f^^^tories, FACTORYt PASEO DE TACON 159-169
stocks for their smaller customers. The
only class of tobacco which has not been with the United States is a trifle
independents do not complain. Trade
I OFFICE: AMARGURA I HAVANA. CUBA.
IMPORTER OF slow
HIPPLE BROS. S.Weinberg, Sumatra andSeed

Nayaiic
Leal Dealer in all kinds of
in such active demand consists of the so-
called Vuelta
there is hardly
Abajo
any
factory
doubt that
vegas,
these
but
will
^^^ ^^^ London, Germany. France, South
^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^.^ ^^^ ^^^
Importers and Packers of and Dealers in ^^^^.-^^^ ^he last French steamer Remigio Lopez Benjamin Lopes
120 North Third Street, also be sold l"g ^^^^/^^
Philadelphia. Tobacco ^^^^^"^'^J^^^^

can make its appearance in the Havana
carried over 1,250,000 cigars, and the
Mexico took 3,426,892. RMMIGIO LOPMZ y HMRMANO
LEAF TOBACCOS market
All the commission merchants have their
had their hands full attending to the business
H. Upmann & Co. are doing well on
H. Upmann brand, and say that
O. K. with them. They
Manufacturers of the Imported Brands
L^ Mas Fermosa yMagnetica de Cuba

No. 83 A Amistad HABANA, CUBA.
No. 23! Arch Street,
is
SU
VELENCHIK BR.OS. wants of from two to four customers at
the same time, thus hammering the iron
shipped half a million cigars
Cifuentes, Fernandez &
last week.
Co. keep as EstLbliahed 1860
ir R<ail Deprtmen<
i Strictly Up-to-Date. PHILADELPHIA. ar*!. LEAF T0B;ie(3O
while it was hot. Several dealers have
busy as ever in their Partagas factory,
sold out their holdings entirely, and and have no lack of orders. El fîco Hsibano FaGtoi^y
others are carrying greatly diminished INDEPENDENT OF ANY TRUST
Sumatra and Havana Por Larranaga is forging ahead under

stocks.
new
All that is published about the
crop is still
the pushing and well directed manage-
mostly guess work, and
ment of Don Antonio J. Rivero, who
Enrique Dorado &
OF
Co. Vuelta Abajo Cigars

Importer of T" ^ ^ "^
\^ the uncertainty continues. spares neither time nor trouble to please
Dealer in Leai
SUMATRA
looacco
LOUIS BVTSINBK
LOUIS BYTHINMR <& CO.
J. PRINCS
last
all,
week amounted
or 5,218 bales
Sales
to 11,762 bales in
Abajo likewise receiving a good share of the
of Vuelta
his customers.
Behrens & Co., of the Sol factory, are Mstrella No. iî^j,
caWe: chaoaWa. Havaua, Cuba.
Narciso Gonzalez. Vknancio Diaz, Special.
584 of Partido and 5,960 bales of orders coming in from the United States,
In Quantities to Suit Purchasers. Leaf Tobacco Brokers 30 8 Race St. p.. I 1 1 t* Remedios. The United State buyers Great Britain and Germany. Fine cigars
312 North Third St, Philadelphia.

and Commission Merchants. rilll&Cllpni&
Long Distance Telephone, Market 3025.
have secured 9, 724 bales, European ex- are bound to sell. Sobrinos de Veivaivcio Diaz,
porters only took 190, and local manu- j^ p. Rocha & Co., of the Crepusculo (S. en C.)
facturers 1,848 bales. factory, are reporting excellent orders for
The exports of leaf tobacco from the London, Germany and South America, Packers, Growers and Dealers in LEAF TOBACCO
L. G. HAEUSSERMANN CARL L. HAEUSSERMANN EDWARD C. HAEUSSERMANN port of Havana for the week ending ^île for the United States Nene and
f^.
January 21 amounted to 8,596 bales, of Jefferson are called for in fair quantities, 10 Angeles St.. H AV A N A Cuba. p. 0. Box 856.*

,
L. G. which over 6, 500 bales were to United

States ports.
1 Rico Habano is busy filling orders
United States and Canada, where
for the
P. NBUM ANN. G. W. M1CHABI.8BN. H. FraSSS.
Importers of Packers and Exporters of and Dealers in

Buyers Come and Go.
Arrivals:
the owners, Enrique Dorado & Co., have
Samuel Joseph, of the Siebcr always a good market for their products.
FEDERICO JSLEUJVIflHH & CO.
Sumatra-'Havana Leaf Tobacco Manufacturing Co., and Francisco Fon-
ceca, of F. A. Fonceca &
La mas Fermosa is working fairly well
Co., New York; for theAmerican market
Ramon AUones and Cruz Roja do not
SHIPPERS OF
CIGARS
LARGEST RETAILERS IN PENNSYLVAMA Julius Fecht,
crt, Milwaukee,
Ottumwa,
Wis. ;
la.
J.
; Geo. Reich-
Spectof , of seem to know any dull period, as Rabell. LEAF TOBACCO and
No. 240 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penna. Spector Bros., Chicago, IlL
&
; Felix Ecker-
and W. C.
Costa.Vales &Co. always appear to have
steady orders from London, Germany
Havana, ^Cuba.
ion, ofF. Eckerson Co.,
Crawford, of Dohan & Taitt, Philadel- and South America, and through their Office, Obrapia i8. P. O. Box a8. Telegrams: Unions
!
H.A. C <&. Co. <o>H
IMPORTERS O^^
"hh.adel.rhia
C. A. ROST & CO., All Grades of Leaf^Tobacco,
THE TOBACCO WORLD
RED LION, PA.
II
Leslie Pantin;^l^j;^.!^tt^;t.'.'Habana; Cuba

Eatabliahed 1834
Independent Vnelta Abajo Factory J. F. ROCHA &
CO. S. en C.
r jc^.^K^ ^\ PorLarraiiaga Celebrated Brands
iÊNS
Manafactorers of the
& ec Royal Cigar Factory ^/teAftpi^
^^V ^'^ÂV^^^ ^ WW^
^
Cigar Manufactory
ANTONIA LOPEZ CUERVO. Proprietress
ANTONIO J. RIVERO. Maivager
"Crepusculo," "Nene"
INDEPENDENT and
Celebrated Brands,
2 Belascoain (B), HAVANA, CUBA
Trade Mark Reeistered
Annexed Brands
Cable Address: Por Laranaga, Havana
Alexander IL, Flor de Rivero, Ready and Rou^K, Sir Walter Ralei^K
:
LaL Colunvnia de la^ Victories., Lbl Irma., and Lk Guipuzcoana.

"Jefferson"
The 100 San Miguel St. Habana, Cuba
Oldest MRTAGAS conneclion with the
they do an ever increasing trade in
National Cuba Co.
the of
Aixala
500 bales
& Co.
of
were sellers to the extent
Vuelta Abajo and Reme-
Cable: CHfcPUSCL'LO
Brand YC a United
Don
States.
Jesus Vales, of La Eminencia
dios.
Charles Jacobs secured his share by
No. gj Broad Street, New York,
4^BAl^ cigarette
from the United
fame, received some orders
States, notwithstanding
bu)ing 500 bales of Vuelta Abajo
Las Palmas factory,
for his
Bruno Diaz
DIAZ R. Rodriguei
SOL and the prohibitive duty on cigarettes. One Bruno Diaz & Co. made several trans- B. 8t CO.
^/s ivi ^^* Cif uentes, Fernandez y Ca. thousand cigarettes cost here a trifle less actions amounting to 450 bales of Vuelta
LUIS MARX ÂaJinf^ Proprietors than $2 while the duty is more than $11,
a barbarous protection which benefits
Abajo and Partido leaf,
H. Spingarn was a heavy buyer of
Growers
Vuelta. Abajo and PsLftido TobsLCCo
ativd Packers of
174 Industria Street only the trust in the United States, as Vuelta Abajo and Remedios. PRADO 125,
ClFER. Habana, Cuba* the latter has almost a monoply in this
article.
Antonio Suarez turned over 450 bales
of Vuelta Abajo.
Cable:Zaidco HABANA, CUBA.
SUAREZ HERMANOS, Buying. Selling Lnd Other Notes of In-

terest.
Manuel Suarez & Co. is the style of
the new firm that succeeded Mendelsohn. SRAU, PL/INAS Y I/I.
(S. en C.) Jose Menendez, J.
Bernheim & Son sold 1,000 bales of Bomemann & Co. , as per circular issued
Almaeenistas de Tabaco en Rama
rowers, Packers
^ggj TobaCCO Almacenista de Xabaco en R Remedios second capaduras.
Lep Cohn was a heavy buyer in our
market, securing about 4,000 bales of
on the 1 7th inst. The change was
made,asDon Jose Mendelsohn explained Cable
to your correspondent, in order to please
only
Graplanas.
Calzada de la Reina 22, -- .
Habana, Cuba
^ .
and Dealers in Bspecialidad Tabaco de Partido Remedios and Vuelta Abajo and he
leaf, the many friends they have in this island,
Figaros 39-41,
Vegas Proprias Cosecbado por el only bought the finest vegas and esco- as for the Spanish and Cuban population CHARLES BLASCO,
Cable Address:
Havana, Cuba.
jidas. the name of Mendelsohn, Bomemann &
COMMISSION MERCHANT
Cuctara." Monte 26, Habana, Cuba. Manuel Mendez Parra turned over an-
other 1,000 bales of his Remedios pack-
Co. is too long to be easily remembered,
There is no change in the partnership or LEAF TOBACCO and CIGARS,
SoBRiNos DE A. Gonzalez FERNANDO FERNANDEZ y HNO.
ing.
Otto and Gus Eisenlohr purchased
its relations to each other.
very busy in buying for their customers
They are
Obispo 2g, cbie-"BiMeo." Habana, Cuba.
GONZALEZ, BENITEZ & CO.
3,000 bales for their Cinco cigars during q^ the spot, and are also executing orders
Leaf Tobacco Merchants imacenistas de Tabaco en Rama
the past two weeks.
Sobrinos de A. Gonzalez shipped 1,839
by mail and cable for their United Sutes
customers,
Principe Alfonso 116 y 118 S|MdwJy in Vueltai Abaio, Semi Vuelta. j Partido.
bales of Vara tobacco in the Spanish Salomon y Hns. sold 414 bales
q. of AlmacenistasdeTabacoenRamayViveres
steamer Alfonso XIII., consigned to the Vuelta Abajo and Remedios.
CaMe: Amargura 12 and 14, and San Ignacio 25,
Habana. Industria. 176,
HABANA, CUBA.
Spanish Regie at Santander, and they
also disposed of 700 bales of Vuelta
Sobrinos de V. Diaz disposed of 250
bales of Vuelta Abajo. Cable: "Tcbenitex.* P. O. Box 396. HABANA, CUBA.
GAFêi/i Y e/1.
Abajo and Remedios to northern buyers A. Pazos & Co. were busy in turning
ANTONIO CSUAREZ GUSTAVO SALOMON Y HNOS.

and local manufacturers.
Matt Berriman bought some 400 bales
over 234 bales of Vuelta Abajo and Par-
tido to various customers.
S en more of Vuelta Abajo, thus making his Rabell, Costa & Co. made several
Almacen de Tabaco en Rama Especialidad en Tabacos Finos de total purchases 1,000 bales.
Rodriguez, Bautista & Co. closed out
transactions amounting to 215 bales of
Vuelta Abajo. MONTE 199,
BSPBCIALIDAD MN TABACQS FINOS Vuelta Abajo, Partidos y Vuelta Arriba 900 bales of Vuelta Abajo and Remedios Suarez y Hns. closed out 150 bales of Cable: Andamira. HABANA, CUBA.
de VUMITA ABAJO y PARTIDO
\
Monte 114,
last week.
A. Blumenstiel was a buyer of over
Vuelta Abajo and Remedios.
Jose Menendez sold 100 bales of Vuelta LOEB-NUNEZ HAVANA CO.
Rayo 110 y 112 HABANA (P. O. Box) Aprtdo 270. XJ o V\m 21
iXa,Ua.lXCl
1,000 bales of Vuelta Abajo and Reme- Abajo.
Cable: Zalkzoon. dius.
& turned over 700
Manuel Garcia Pulido turned over 100 Wenlstas He Tataco eq nama
AQ U N H E D ES A,
Grau, Planas
Remedios from
Co.
their stocks.
bales of Vuelta Abajo to a northern
142 and 144 Consulado Street, HABANA.
J I MARTINEZ.'hEDESA CO.
AIXALA . CO., Havana Leaf Tobacco
bales of
Alfred Ettlinger also secured 1,000
buyer.
Garcia & Co. have done a big business,
Cable: Rbporm.
Packer and Exporter of Leaf Tobacco Cardenas Z, and Corra.les 6 and 8,

bales of Vuelta Abajoand Remedios for but Don Manuel refuses to give particu- HENRY VONEIFF r. VIDAL CRVZ
Cable: "Ikdesa
"
102 Escobar Street,
CUBA.L HAVANA, CUBA.
OF AMERICAN BUYCRSâi
his firm of H. Hoffman & Sons, and has
now, with his son Victor, gone to the
i^rs.
Among commission merchants

the
^pj-^j^^ PAID TO THE WANTS
& Jorge
Branch House: 512 Simonton c. *
Street, Key w"^?^!!!^'
ir West, Fla.
Y. P. Castaneda
^
p.
ATTENTION
O. Box 298.
-
Cable Address, "Aixalaco." Vuelta Abajo to get an idea of the new
'''Û>eb-Nunez Havana Co. sold 600

^ô have done a good business were:
Charles Blasco, 2, 000 bales ;H.Upmann
'EtoTters^'of LEAF TOBAeeO
bales of Remedios and Semi Vuelta to
& Co., 1,500; Leslie Plantin, 2,000; Branch Houses: 616 W. Baltimore Street. BaHimore. Nd.; P. O. Box 433. Tinvp%., Fliu
JORGE 8t P. CASTAriEDfl GflRCIfl PULilDO B"^^^*' M^^fros & Co.. i.ooo; Silveira
GROWERS, PACKERS and EXPORTERS of

Jtt.
GROWER. PACKER. AND DEALER IN
their customers.
Simon Batt purchased three vegas of
Vuelta Abajo fillers from the lowland
& Co., i.ooo; Mark
Receipts
A. Pollack, 500.
From the Coantrr

EDEN CIOAR FACTORY
Havana Lieaf Tobacco VueltdL AbdLjo, P^Lftido dLi\d Kemedios section of and near San Luis, which will Week Ending Since -aStei.
BANCES & LOPEZ
Dragon es 108 no, HA VA NA Cable:- Pulido. ESTRELLA 25. HABANA, CUBA. sum up a
Gonzalez,
600 bales
trifle over 500 bales.
Benitez & Co. disposed of
ol Vuelta Abajo and Remedios. Vuelta Abajo
Jan. 21.
Bales
457
Jan. I.
Bales
2,810
HAVANA. <;VBA.
Semi Vuelta 8o irvv-:.--.
AVMLINO PAZOS & CO. A. M. CALZADA Sc CO. Sol Hamburger is still
his partners are closing out in

here, and while
New York Partido 392
593
582
Calixto Lopez & Co.
Matanzas
180 Water St.. New York
Almaeenistas de Tabaco en Rama Dealers in Leaf Tobaccbl his
stock.
purchases, he
His total
keeps on laying in
purchases now amount
3
S. Clara & Remedios 1,616 2.426
3
Will receive and attend to ordtrt*

aod COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Santiago de CiLiba 205
PRADO 123, to 1,800 bales. He knows he has to Cigtri Made strictly of tke very Usl
OM: Habana Monte X56, cbie-"CAij>A." HABANA, CUBA. make hay while the sun is shining. Total 2,448 6,610 VUELTA ABAJO TOBACCO
'
THB TOBACCO W O It I. D 3
13 THB TOBACCO WORLD rs*
HEARINGS ON CURTIS BILL END LAST SATURDAY.

Sessions of Ways and Means Committee Brought Close by Secre-
tary Taft, Who Addresses the Committee in Answer to the Strong
to a
COHN IMFORTERS OP
Protests Made by the Tobacco People Last Saturday.
Hayana and Sumatra
^'***
^^4
:
^^^
TOBACCO NEWS OF GREATER
THE WEEK'S MOVEMENT

The
ness almost
severe storm this week forced busi-
to a standstill as no shipping
IN LEAF.
New York,
NEW YORK
January 30, 1905.
Dave Nusshaum, o f Nussbaum &
Bower, left for the West to interest his
many customers in leaf
J
t
and incidentally
#
The scries of hearings before the
and Means Committee on the Curtis
sugar people held the floor on Thursday.

Secret iry Taft was
Ways
bill in
Wa.shingtgn, D. C, January
cigar manufacturers
the the
cent of the tobacco lands aie

have made his cultivated by natives.
to He tegarded the
argument before the committee Friday, fear of the cigarmikers of this country
Col. C. that the free entry of Philippine tobacco
and others interested
tobacco industry. Secretary
were brought to a conclusion today with Taft stated that the tobacco grown for
the appearance of Secretary of War Taft exportation was principally in Cagayan
as an ardent champion of the bill. The and Isabella provinces. About 75 per
owned and
28.
Seed Leaf
Jos.
AND
Tobacco
142 Water
Mendelsohn.
PACKKRS OP
St.,
Louis A. Bornemann.
New York.
Manuel Suaret.
Greenwood in fish stories fronr lake, but was unable to be present.
could be handled. All types of bced are
selling freely as the manufacturers are A. Cohn, Sr., of A. Cohn & Co., sails R. Edwards, Chief of the Bureau of In- into the United States would be injurious Mendelsohn, BornemsLnn Qi Co.
-
tLD
Kl Water S-h
8c B
^
shortofstock. p.icesarehigh fordesira on Saturday for Europe and later will
ble goods, Zimmer 1903 is changing arrive in Amsterdam for
the inscription,
sular Affairs of the War Department, to them to be unfounded, and thought,
appeared for him and submitted to the on the contrary, that they would profit Importers & Commission Merchants
committee much detailed by the introduction of it. But few cigars,
information Specialty HAVANA TOBACCO
Lep. Cohn arrive from Havana where
IMPORTERS AND PACKERSiS hands at standard price iSc, Pennsyl- New York Office:
he purchased over 3.000 bales for A. bearing on the subject in the way of ta- he stated, were made in the islands' as HcLVLntt. Office:
LPiAF TOBACCO vania broad leaf is being picked up
bles and statistics Many of these tables compared with the output in the United
U. S. ARCADE BUILDING. ANISTAD 95o
close and Gebhardis are coming to the Cohn & Co. ^
Water Street. Coriver Fulton, Room 1. HAVANA.
and statistics related to tobacco. He States, and in this connection it must be
front. fciHhIiib ed 1840.
The entire interest just ai present seems
POINTS FOR. MANUFACTURERS ON also submitted a number of cablegrams remembered that the demand in the Cable "Natia.'
OFP tecs
DETROIT, MICIi
:
New Yowi> to centre Firms that never

on Havana.
handled Havana before have been large It
FLORIDA WRAPPER
occurs to the writer that at this time

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MANETOCIGAR While Chicago will in all probability take is made

7^^ St which now

^^^ decision, we desire you to bear chminating the objectionable features, to

Jobbing and Wholesale Trade solicited.

and David F. Slade, counsel for the

(Incorporated) They tobacco and cigars on a

'*The Philadelphia Michigan avenue.

no 25 per cent advantage to ship tremen-

One of Roedel's Best [tional is looking forward with a good

EEKAHLER 41 N. nth Street, PHILADELPHIA. assured.

.EjJlLjm CAMO the same plane as near as

is concerned, they can do away with the

^TH T0B/ieeo WoKLB^ NO TRVST IN MIShlSSIPri.

this speciaUzed form of agriculture can operation in Mississippi,

^"''^ efforts made to prove the law

to tobacco culture and having supplies

Slade, counsel for the _ _^ _

board of the Chicago branch C. D. A. of

INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

115 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

^^ DOHAN & TAITT,

preachers who butt cheerfully in where a mixed up in it.

before I get any further I am willing

,, r ^^^^^ J J young fellows had succumbed to the

not speaking from the icy pedestal of the

there are per-

\JC*^^ IMPORTERS OP \ sons who J

JACOB LABE SIDNEY LABB which hme I had occasionally heard ot

BENJ. LABE & SONS,

making lots of money and spending it in

was an unusually interesting

conversationalist, was really witty without

306 North Third

Only High Grade Cigars

j^at he got home a few days later. It

Park Avenue and Wallace

under the table twice, and then go out inebriecy.

Thfi Importers and Dealers in

L eaf lobacco "avana

^:;;^-REALM OF TAB PETAILEPS

Snuff Out Old Methods

in this retail cigar dealers of the country might save

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