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EXPORTS OF CIGARS FROM HAVANA 



Cigars 



Great Britain 2,285,515 



United States 852,812 



Chile 77,000 



Portugal 02,700 



Canada 52,250 



Argentine Republic 40,000 



Australia 30,450 



Norway 24,000 



Denmark 19,350 



Panama 18,000 



Dutch West Indies 17,550 



British Africa 10,381 



Brazil 10,000 



Honduras 7,500 



Costa Rica 3,850 



Venezuela 2,300 



United States of Colombia 600 



Total from Apr. 1 to Apr. 15, 1915. 3,514,858 

 Total from Apr. 1 to Apr. 15, 1914. 5,943,357 



Dee. dur. first half of April, 1915 . . 2,428,499 



Total from Jan. 1 to Apr. 15, 1914. 

 Total from Jan. 1 to Apr. 15, 1915. 



43,616,924 

 27,669,299 



Dec. dur. first 3H mos. of 1915 . . . 15,947,625 



Decreases by countries, during the first 



half of April, 1915, as compared with the 

 same period of 1914: 



Cigars 



United States 723,038 



Great Britain 563,048 



Canada 384,775 



Germany 330,908 



Australia 181,646 



Spain 115,700 



Chile. 97,520 



Argentine Republic 83,720 



Spanish Africa 51,500 



Total 2,531,855 



The only increase of importance, during 

 the above period, was Portugal with 54,300 

 cigars. 



CIGAR BOX CEDAR FROM CUBA 



Cuba, cedar, cigars, Cadillac — that's an odd 

 combination of words beginning with the let- 

 ter "C," which came to light today in a talk 

 with Thomas F. Fitzsimmons, of the Cadillac 

 Cigar Box Co., 1011-1013 St. Aubin avenue. 

 The finest tobacco for cigars comes from Cuba, 

 so does the cedar from which cigar boxes are 

 made by the thousands yearly in the plant of 

 the Cadillac Cigar Box Co. 



"Very few persons," said Mr. Fitzsimmons, 

 "are aware of the many interesting phases of 

 the cigar industry. One goes into a cigar 

 store for a cigar, picks out his favorite brand, 

 after a glance at the label on the thrown-back 

 cover, lights the weed and goes out. 



"We use more than a million feet of lumber 

 annually in making cigar boxes, and we can 

 tin-n them out at the rate of 4,000 daily. All 

 the cdcar for the boxes comes from Cuba and 

 is sawed u]) in the big lumber mills in the 

 southern part of the country and shipjx'd 

 here. There is about a foot and a quarter of 

 lumber in each box, and the pieces are 5-32 

 of an inch in thickness. A box goes through 

 about 15 hands before it is completed. It 

 takes five operations for the naiUng alone, 

 and all are done by machinery that works with 

 startling rapidity. These machines are oper- 

 ated by men. When the sides and bottom of 

 the box are ('omi)lete, the top is nailed on tem- 

 porarily. The box then passes through the 

 hands of several girls, who paste on the cotton 

 hinge attaching the cover and the several 

 labels inside and outside of the box. Then 

 there is the printing, some in black and some 

 in gold, not only on the box itself, but on the 

 labels. 



"Cedar is the best wood for making cigar 

 boxes because of the oil in the wood, which 

 gives to the cigar an aroma that it obtains 

 from no other wood. Thousands of boxes are 

 used by the cigar factories of Detroit yearly, 

 and the industry is one that plays an interest- 

 ing part in the prosperity of this big city." 

 —Detroit (Mich.) News. 



TURKISH TOBACCO 



It is estimated that there is now stored in 

 London warehouses sufficient Turkish tabacco 

 to last three vears. 



ELECTRICITY AND WATEFOR THE VULTAE 

 ABAJOR 



Dr. Luis Cuervo, acting for Sr. J. Rovira, 

 has presented to the Secretary of Public Works 

 the plans for vast public works and improve- 

 ments in the jjrovince of Pinar del Rio. 



The company, of which St. Rovira is the 

 representative, propose to give electric light 

 and a new water s J- stem to the towns of Vinales, 

 Esperanza, La Palma and San Cayetano. 

 which, when accomplished, should have a vast 

 influence on the social life of these little towns. 

 It is said that the new company will utilize the 

 water falls from the mountainous districts 

 round Vinales for its power. 



TOBACCO WORKERS FROM KEY WEST 



The cruiser "Cuba" of the Cuban Navy has 

 carried nearly (iOO toliacco workers and their 

 families from Key ^^"est to Havana. Owing 

 to the dejjression in the tobacco market, 

 Cuban tobacco workers at Key West have 

 been reduced to a state of destitution. It is 

 thought that the "Cuba" will make one or 

 more trips from Havana to Key West to 

 bring back other tobacco workers who are 

 out of work. 



