THE BRIAR PIPE AND THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2711, 4 March 1916, Page 3

THE BRIAR PIPE AND THE WAR

According, to a London pine-mater who , 8 been cons,il ted, smokers need not be alarmed. by the report that briar pipea Me going to be dearer. It i s true that the supply of briars comes almost en- , y through- France, and that there is a large demand there for pipes for the !L r,n y% The best briars come from the French African colonies, and from .the South of Italy, particularly the region round Messina. It is said that since the earthquake the peasants refuse to diir or A , for S r } ars » ns th e y are afraid that if they disturb the ground thev will cause another upheaval. The best qualities of briar pipes cost no more now than before the war, and the price is not .likely to go!up These are mostly manufactured in England, and there is said to 1b no serious lack of the raw ljiateriai.-' What, does cost moro is the chean pipo with the vulcanite stem. The sixpenny pipe has disappeared from tile London shops. Cheap vulcanite stems were imported from Germany. The EnglisM makers are now usinpr horn or other substitutes. Amber and meerschaum wero also largely German monopolies. and the makers are still living on old stoclw; supplemented in the rase of amber by the pnialt quantities which.ouv fishermen oco.fs sionally dredge up from the bottom of the North Sen,