{"id":135,"date":"2023-07-12T17:03:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=135"},"modified":"2023-07-12T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:32:37","slug":"solace-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/solace-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Solace Tobacco [published Dec. 11, 1881]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/solacetobacco.jpg?resize=233%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Anderson, the great tobacconist, millionaire and philanthropist, died recently; and that reminds me of some years since, and not so very long ago, but many livin\u2019 men remember it, John Anderson, Ben Wood and Fernando Wood sat on the same bench together makin\u2019 cigars. Anderson used to keep a cigar store on Broadway, opposite Pearl Street, near a big hospital with green shutters, that has long since moved uptown. But it was in a little store near Ann Street that he laid the beginning of his success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Anderson&#8217;s big hit was made by his \u201cSolace tobacco,\u201d and this tobacco owes most of its luck to a name; and this name had its origin in the brain of an old New York bohemian called Williams\u2013Thomas Williams\u2013who was a very curious character, and had led an eccentric existence he was a big, fat fellow, very dignified and carried a heavy gold-headed cane. He was an Englishman; belonged to a \u201cgood family\u201d and at one time had handled a good deal of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But he had two hobbies, both expensive one\u2013the stage and the lottery. He was all the time following actresses about, and buying tickets in all sorts of schemes. He followed Mrs. Siddons all over England with some friends in a four-in-hand coach, always takin\u2019 a private box at all the lady\u2019s performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; These two hobbies soon brought him to grief, and he came to this country to make a living with the only things he had left\u2013his education and his brain. He got some translating to do, and he worked a while on a paper that was popular in its day, called <em>Winchester&#8217;s New World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One day he dropped in at Anderson&#8217;s shop and saw Anderson there. The two got talking, and Anderson said he had been tryin\u2019 for some time to think of a nice name for some tobacco he wanted to introduce. \u201cCan&#8217;t you think of a name for me,\u201d&nbsp; he said to Williams. Williams tried the tobacco Anderson spoke of, liked it very much, and said he would take some of it to his rooms to serve him as a \u201csolace in his lonely hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBy the-by, Anderson,\u201d he said, \u201cI believe I have hit the very name you want\u2013\u2019solace.\u2019 That&#8217;s it. Call your tobacco the \u2018Solace\u2019 tobacco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Anderson did so and either the name or the tobacco made a tremendous hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; About eighteen months afterwards Anderson met Williams on the street, and asked him to call at his store the next day. Williams, wonderin\u2019 what was up, did so, and to his great surprise and no little gratification, Anderson handed him a check for five hundred dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhat&#8217;s this for?\u201d asked Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhy, it&#8217;s for one word,\u201d&nbsp; answered Anderson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cFive hundred dollars for a word, says Williams. \u201cThat&#8217;s mighty good pay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cPshaw!\u201d replied Anderson. \u201cI have made over five thousand by it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And then he explained to Williams that this money was in return for the lucky idea that Williams had given him that day on the word \u201csolace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Anderson was always liberal. He never let a man do somethin\u2019 for him for nothin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Williams I have spoken of was probably the best judge of painting that ever visited New York. Several thousand dollars were pendin\u2019 one day on a paintin\u2019 bein\u2019 all that was it was represented to be, an original by some well-known artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To decide the matter the paintin\u2019 was submitted to Williams, who at first pronounced it genuine. The purchaser was then about payin\u2019 over his money, when Williams suddenly cried, \u201cHold; I don&#8217;t believe this is the original after all for up there,\u201d pointing to the corner of the canvas, \u201cthere was on the original a little birch tree which I don&#8217;t see here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The man who was tryin\u2019 to sell the picture, and who really believed it to be what it he represented it to be, tried to pooh-pooh this little difference. But Williams stuck to his point and his \u201clittle birch tree.\u201d Then they examined the canvas, and, lo and behold, just where the little birch tree ought to have been the canvas had been knocked about a little, and the little birch tree had been knocked out. If it hadn&#8217;t been for this fact that little birch tree would have lost the picture dealer several thousand dollars. They don&#8217;t have such art critics in New York nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The only time Williams ever won anythin\u2019 in a lottery he did it by bein\u2019 honest. He told a friend one day to buy a ticket for him in some drawin\u2019, and then forgot all about it. One day his friend came up to him and said: \u201cWilliams, did you consider that you really bought through me a ticket in that lottery the other day?\u201d \u201cCertainly,\u201d answered Williams, now remembering the occurrence. \u201cI told you to buy a ticket for me and if you have done so, well I&#8217;ll pay you for the ticket now, though of course, with my usual blasted luck I haven&#8217;t drawn anythin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The friend took Williams\u2019s money for his ticket, and then said: \u201cYes, you have\u2013you have drawn one of the big prizes. Several thousand dollars. I wanted to see if you were a man of your word. If you hadn&#8217;t been I should have taken the ticket and the prize myself.\u201d Here was a case in which two men were \u201csquare.\u201d I don&#8217;t know which deserves the most credit, Williams or his friend. Though in this case Williams got the cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Williams died in New York of fat. He became a regular Daniel Lambert. He tried to reduce himself by dietin\u2019,&nbsp; but the less he ate, the fatter he got. For several months before his death he limited himself to one bowl of soup a day and one bit of bread. But he swelled terribly and finally died of obesity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I mentioned Fernando Wood just now. The world owes it to him, as much almost as to Morse, that we have the telegraph workin\u2019 to-day. Congress laughed at the telegraph, and wouldn&#8217;t do anything for Morse. But Fernando Wood was one of the few who saw somethin\u2019 in Morse and his idea, and it was to Wood&#8217;s efforts that the appropriation of $30,000 made by Congress to give Morse a chance to carry out his idea was due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Morse was well nigh tired of his life and all the \u201celectricity\u201d was out of him one morning, when he got up determined to leave Washington at once and give up botherin\u2019 about the telegraph forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a very blue mood he picked up a paper and the world fairly flashed upon him. Congress had granted an appropriation to him at last, late in the evenin\u2019&#8211;the very last thing, in fact, done in the session of the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All at once the \u201celectricity\u201d came back to Morse and he felt, as he said afterward to a minister, \u201cwhat it was to be born again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But we can hardly realize nowadays how little people, even educated and influential, knew about Morse&#8217;s ideas and the general principle of the telegraph. Why one of the officials of the government at that time, the Hon. John C. Spencer, while lookin\u2019 on at Morse gettin\u2019 ready his wires and batteries for sending his first message, asked him \u201chow on Earth he intended to send bundles of any size along that thing?\u201d pointing to the telegraph wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBut, my dear sir,\u201d said Morse to Spenser, \u201cI intend to send messages, not bundles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cOh, of course,\u201d said Spencer, \u201cMessages; but hang it, Morse, you will have to send your messages in bundles, won&#8217;t you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It took Morse some time to get it into Spencer&#8217;s head \u201chow the thing worked,\u201d and yet Spencer was a pretty smart man for his day and lived only a generation ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Morse was a great friend of one of the most prominent New Yorkers now alive, Cyrus W. 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They were trying to lay the first cable and the ship was two or three hundred miles out at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everythin\u2019 so far had been working beautifully and Field and Morse were beginning to feel as happy as two school boys. But they watched everythin\u2019 very carefully, though, and felt as if their very lives were hanging on the cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All of a sudden electric communication along the cable stopped, ceased in a second, as if it had never taken place at all. Do what they would, the apparatus wouldn&#8217;t work. It was dumb as an oyster or an obstinate woman when she won&#8217;t speak. \u201cIt seemed\u201d, as one of the sailors remarked, \u201cas if the lightning had given out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Field and Morse had been up all Saturday night and all Sunday night watchin\u2019 the laying of the cable; they hadn&#8217;t taken a wink of sleep, hardly partaken of any refreshment. But all that didn&#8217;t weary \u2018em or fall on them as hard as the first half hour durin\u2019 which the communication along the cable ceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Morse took the matter as he had taken everythin\u2019 else all his life, like a philosopher. But there wasn&#8217;t much of the philosopher about Field. He was too nervous for a philosopher. He walked up and down the deck of the <em>Niagara<\/em> like a lion or one of the champion pedestrians, and wrung his big hands every now and then and prayed\u2013some fellows say, swore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An hour passed. Every possible thing was done that Morse or anybody else could suggest, but the cable wouldn&#8217;t talk. An hour and a half, but the cable was still dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Field stopped walkin\u2019 about and went into the cabin looking black as a thundercloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis is an utterly unexpected blow,\u201d said Field to Morse. \u201cI was prepared for any amount of trouble in the layin\u2019 of the cable, but I was not prepared for any trouble in the workin\u2019 of it. 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