But there is likely to he a change in this 

 method of shipping in the near future. The 

 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad people have 

 just launched their splendid boats at Newport 

 News and are now sending freight direct from 

 Virginia to foreign ports. . . . Hence we now 

 have a new line over which to send our to- 

 bacco abroad, saving, at least, the coast wise 

 shipping expense from Norfolk to New York. 

 Let our tobacco men rallij to the support of 

 this splendid line of steam. 

 By 1929, 71.01 percent of all tobacco exported from 

 the United States left from Hampton Roads. Overland 

 and coastal shipping of southern tobacco to New York 

 for export had become an anachronism. 



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igars take the lead. 



At the time of the War of 1812, cigars had appeared 

 on the American market. By the outbreak of the Civil 

 War, Philadelphia was still the leading manufacturing 

 city with a slight advantage over New York in value of 



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