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Peter Reinberg's Force of Greenhouse Employes. 



the carnation growers near Oxford and 

 in Chester county lately. 



The Lord & Burnliam Co. have, through 

 their indefatigable agent, D. T. Connor, 

 secured the contract for constructing and 

 heating a rose house 100x19 feet for 

 Kichard E. Lange, of 7001 Eidge avenue. 



Charles Gray, formerly with Dumont 

 & Co., has returned to Leo Niessen. 



Kichard Umphried, of the Flower Mar- 

 ket, is back from his vacation. 



Ralph G. Sheigley. lately with S. S. 

 Pennock, will on .Monday commence work 

 with Leo Niessen. 



Eobert Scott & Son are sending in 

 some of their new rose, Florence Pember- 

 ton, to Samuel S. Pennock. 



Better go to Milwaukee and cheer for 

 •our bowlers. Phtl. 



BUFFALO. 



Club Picnic. 



"We can't afford much space for busi- 

 ness this week, as the picnic will take 

 tip all available room. It did not rain 

 on Wednesday last, so the adjourned 

 picnic came off', not with such an at- 

 tendance as there would have been if 

 Tuesday had been fair, for all ad- 

 journed events are sure to suffer; but 

 still there were about 100, young and 

 old, and the verdict of all was that it 

 was the banner affair of all the club's 

 picnics, and this is due largely to the 

 well laid plans and most excellent work 

 of the committee, Charles H. Keitsch, 

 Rowland P.. Cloudsley, W. A. Adams, 

 Emile P.rooker and Fred B. Lewis. Gar- 

 denville is an ideal place for such a 

 party as ours. There are shady seats 

 for the old and infirm, a fine hall for 

 the two-step, a well kept diamond and 

 field for the young athletes, a bowling 

 alley, a dining-room, a commodious and 

 well stocked— well, everything that you 

 would want at a picnic. The officials of 

 the sports were W. F. Kasting, starter; 

 Captain Braik and Prof. Cowell. judges; 

 Lewis H. Neubeck and R. Cloudsley, 

 handicappers; W. Scott, announcer; Wil- 

 lie Donaldson, general utility man, and 

 William Heuson. chief rooter. 



The sports began with a well contest- 



ed game of baseball. West Side against 

 the East. The western men were drawn 

 from anywhere this side of Erie, Pa., 

 and the east extended almost to Syra- 

 cuse. But if the west did win by one 

 run. then' was the best of feeling. The 

 battery for the east was composed of 

 Mathewison Weise and David Corfu 

 Scotl ; for the west, W. Belsey Scott and 

 Robert Burns Scott. The playing was 

 so brilliant all around that it would be 

 impossible to speak of anyone in par- 

 ticular. The umpiring of Wm. Kasting 

 was perhaps the best feature. The 100- 

 yards dash was won by Deerfoot Reich- 

 ert, the prize a house and lot on Dor- 

 ehester avenue. In the old man's rare 

 Geo. McClure won first prize, a thou- 

 sand pieces of ornamental wall paper. 

 The race on all fours, 50 yards, brought 

 .iut brilliantly the peculiar talents and 

 conformation of good old Joe Neubeck, 

 and he looked so much like one of the 

 large anthropoids running from one tree 



to i ther that a farmer looking over 



the fence wanted to shoot at it. The 

 prize was a copy of Huxley's "Descent 

 of Man." The quarter-mile race was 

 won by the same speedy Mr. Reichert 

 and the prize was ten shares in N. Y. C. 

 R. R. 



The ladies' race of 7.5 yards was a 

 very close affair and was won by a nose 

 by Mrs. Bailey. The prize was a cellu- 

 loid baby carriage. The track, however, 

 was heavy, and if it had been fast Mrs. 

 W. F. Kasting would have won. She 

 was heavily backed for the place, how- 

 ever, and pulled out her backers. This 

 race gave the starter much worry, as the 

 majority of the contestants were maidens 

 and quite fractious at the post and there 

 was considerable backing, rearing and 

 bumping before the barrier rose. Next 

 year I would advise all starters in the 

 race to wear blinkers, so that they 

 wouldn't see who their neighbor was. 



The sack race was won by W. B. Scott 

 with both feet through the bottom of the 

 sack. The prize was a box of "Green- 

 house Perfeetos. " The potato race, a 

 very amusing but exhausting event, again 

 went to the swift, Mr. Reichert, and the 

 prize was a bottle of Wilson Family Dis- 

 turber. The hop, step and jump went 



to Wm. Greever, with a fine effort of 

 thirty-nine feet, the prize being a fine 

 kodak. The broad jump was won by 

 David Scott, of Corfu, with nine feet 

 and ten inches; the prize was a gross of 

 corn brooms and a week's meal ticket at 

 Maplelmrst. The three-legged race was 

 won by Messrs. Weiss and Reichert. The 

 prize was two bottles of elderberry wine. 

 The one-legged race was won by Mr. 

 Slattery, the prize four eases of Dr. 

 Pierce 's Golden Medical Discovery. Now 

 I pause to say that Mr. Slattery, late of 

 New York and now of Byrnes & Slat- 

 tery, of our city, is an athlete and an 

 all-around good fellow. Half a dozen 

 like him make a picnic an assured suc- 

 cess, and if he had had running shoe3 

 instead of stockings, he would have given 

 all his competitors a posterior view of 

 himself in several events. He is an ac- 

 quisition to our club. 



A shoe race was won by one of W. J. 

 Palmer & Son's juvenile assistants, name 

 not given, and this ended the sports, af- 

 ter which appetites were appeased. Then 

 the music started the waltz, the rattle of 

 the pins was heard and a select few took 

 a vocal exercise. The sentimental singing 

 of Jake Bailey is alluring— a treat— and 

 the duets by he and Charlie Kaiviteh are 

 most enjoyable; but of all the vocal ef- 

 forts the song by Charlie was the thing. 

 The words were Peking Chinese and the 

 air Hiawatha. Finally, there was not an 

 unpleasant incident during the whole day 

 to mar the enjoyment and everyone got 

 home, even if some don 't remember how. 

 I forgot to mention that there were good 

 second and third prizes for every event 

 ami scarcely a contestant but that earned 

 something. Strange to say that "Old 

 Hoss" Warring won for second prize in 

 the old men's race, a beautiful German 

 stein holding at least a quart. How 

 touchingly appropriate! And now we 

 hear frequently the pathetic appeal, 

 "Kind sir, won't you fill my stein!" 

 To the Convention. 



I don't know that I have mentioned 

 before that the Buffalo delegation to 

 Milwaukee will leave here via the Wa- 

 bash on Sunday at 8 p. m.. arriving in 

 Chicago on Monday at 10:30 a. m. If 



