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HORTICULTURE 



February 22, 1919 



Obituary 



Frederick Aigner. 



Frederick Aigner, aged 62, superin- 

 tendent of city parks of Niagara Falls, 

 N. Y., died Tuesday morning, February 

 11, in Memorial Hospital, Niagara Falls. 

 Mr. Aigner had been gradually declin- 

 ing for several weeks following an op- 

 eration which he underwent three 

 months ago. 



The late Mr. Aigner was born in 

 Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany. He 

 studied botany in a university there. 

 After graduating from the university 

 he served a term in the Germany army 

 and shortly afterward was engaged in 

 the laying out and planting of the 

 wonderful palm garden at Frankfort- 

 on-the-Main, Germany. Then he went 

 to Africa where he. made studies' and 

 researches in tropical and other 

 branches of botany. While in Africa 

 Mr. Aigner assisted in the creation of 

 the royal gardens for the Khedive at 

 Alexandria, Egypt. Shortly afterward 

 he came to America and was engaged 

 as a private gardener by John D. 

 Rockefeller, Sr. Mr. Aigner remained 

 in Mr. Rockefeller's employ for several 

 years during which he built the mag- 

 nificent park which is the setting of 

 the Rockefeller home at Cleveland. 

 Ohio. During this splendid work Mr. 

 Aigner had charge of between 1,500 

 and 2,000 men for several years. 



About 19 years ago Mr. Aigner came 

 to Niagara Falls from Cleveland and 

 was engaged by the late Arthur 

 Schoellkopf to beautify the land sur- 

 rounding the Hydraulic Power Com- 

 pany plant on the bank of the Gorge 

 here and also his own residence with 

 distinctive gardening effects, and un- 

 til his death he had been in the em- 

 ploy of the Schoellkopf family, during 

 which service he designed, built and 

 personally attended to the maintain- 

 ing of Schoellkopf Park, and Gluck 

 Park. 



About five years ago under the ad- 

 ministration of Mayor William Laugh- 

 lin Mr. Aigner was appointed by the 

 then park board as the first municipal 

 rintendent of parks in this city 

 and had been continued in this office 

 until his death. Mr. Aigner built and 

 brought to its present stale of beauty 

 the New Porter Park in Buffalo avenue 

 here as well as the splendid municipal 

 swimming pool. He also built several 

 small parks for the city. Mr. Aigner 

 is survived by one son Robert Aigner. 

 who recently returned from overseas 

 where he served in the lOSth Ammuni- 

 tion Train, 34th Division. A. E. F. 



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Mrs. Alice Kent. 

 Mrs. Alice Kent, widow of Otis L. 

 Kent, died early Friday morning, Feb. 

 14, at her home on North Atkinson 

 street, Newburyport. Subsequent to 

 the death of Mr. Kent in 1915 she eon- 

 ducted the greenhouses of the old 

 firm of Kent & Marsh and also oper- 

 ated two retail stores, one in Ames- 

 bury and one down town in Newbury- 

 port until poor health made retirement 

 advisable in the spring of 1918. Al- 

 though a great sufferer, she kept up 

 her interest in things pertaining to 

 floriculture until the last. Funeral 

 services were held Sunday, Feb. 16. 



Manns Mutillod. 



Marius Mutillod, proprietor of the 

 Exotic Nurseries, Secaucus, N. J., died 

 Feb. 10, after a week's illness, of pneu- 

 monia, aged fifty years. He was born 

 in France, and had been connected 

 with the New York trade for over 

 twenty years. His widow survives 

 him. 



Mary Belle Henderson. 



Mrs. Mary Belle Henderson died in 

 her apartment in the Marie Antoinette 

 Hotel, New York, Feb. 8th. She was 

 the widow of Alfred Henderson, who 

 was connected with the firm of Peter 

 Henderson & Co. She leaves a son, 

 Peter, and three daughters. 



Dean Thompson. 

 A sufferer from insomnia for some 

 time, Dean Thompson, florist, fifty-two 

 years old, shot and killed himself at 

 his home in Ocean Grove, N. J., on 

 Feb. 4th. He leaves a wife and one 

 daughter. 



John Maurice Hunt. 

 John Maurice Hunt, gardener on the 

 estate of Mrs. Theodore Douglas Rob- 

 inson, Jr.. Mohawk, N. Y., passed 

 away Jan. 16, aged 33 years. 



Mrs. Mattie McFarland. 

 Mrs. Mattie McFarland, wife of 

 William P. McFarland, florist, Akron. 

 O.. died January 31, aged 60 years. 



TAKE UP THE SLACK. 



"Let Public Works Take Up the 

 Slack" is the subject of an interesting 

 editorial from a recent number of the 

 Engineering News-Record: 



"Each day that labor is unemployed 

 there is an economic loss to the com- 

 munity. Every man not employed is 

 either a public charge or an idle pro- 

 ducing unit, and since it is certain that 

 return to a peace basis will take some 

 time, public works should absorb la- 

 bor as fast as possible, even under con- 

 ditions which might seem uneconomi- 

 cal on account of high wage scales 

 and high prices of materials. Even if 

 the public pays a greater price for 

 public improvements, it prevents the 

 economic loss due to idle man power. 

 If, to prevent unemployment the Army 

 is demobilized slowly, the public pays 

 for the maintenance of the soldiers. 

 It would be better to demobilize as 

 promptly as the military situation 

 permits, increasing the amount of pub- 

 lic work to such an extent as to pre- 

 vent unemployment. Such a course 

 would mean permanent and substan- 

 tial returns for the money spent, 

 whereas the maintenance of men in 

 camp after the military necessity 

 ceases is a dead loss." 



Private capital will be a little slow 

 in investing and public works should 

 take up the slack during the period of 

 adjustment. Practically every city, 

 county, state and Federal project 

 which was stopped at the outbreak of 

 the war could advantageously be re- 

 sumed now and help keep the indus- 

 trial sails full of wind. 



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