Dbckmbbb 21, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



15 



One of the Billboards that Keep the Alpha Floral Company Before the People of Kansas City. 



tlip sums was large, the remittances 

 were sufficiently numerous so that the 

 a^fjiegate loss was important. Conse- 

 qiiLiitly The Review addressed an in- 

 'Hiiry to the Department of State at 

 Washington, requesting information as 

 to what could be done to recover the 

 money. In most cases, no doubt, the 

 remittances are in the form of unne- 

 gotiable paper, which may be confis- 

 cated but on which collection of the 

 funds is impossible, so that in the course 

 of time the sender should be able to get 

 his money back. 



In a letter to The Review Alvey A. 

 Adce, Second Assistant Secretary of 

 ^tate, made the following offer: 



DEPAKTMENT OF STATE 

 WASHINGTON 



October 30, 191C. 

 Florists' Publlshinft Co.. 

 Chicago, Illinois. 

 Oentlemen: The Department has received your 

 letter of the 12th instant in which joii ask to be 

 advised as to what disposition the British Gov- 

 ernment is making of the German mail it takes 

 off neutral steamers, more particularly, what 

 bei'unes of the remittances contained in this 

 mail. 



In reply you are informed that if you have in 

 tii'i'l a particular case in which you are inter- 

 *^'' 'I and will furnish the Department with n 

 complete statement of all the facts in con- 

 "'■(tion therewith, the Department will be glad 

 *o I (insider the matter and to advise you as to 

 wli, ther, in its opinion, it can be of any assist- 

 8111,. to you. 



' am. Gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant, 



For the Secretary of State. 

 „ Alvey A. Adee, 



**1 "U/1119 Second Assistant Secretary. 



'^ he Review printed the letter for the 



oeiiefit of all concerned. 



Remittances Are Contraband. 



-'»s a result, C. C. Schaffer, president 

 ^ the La Crosse Floral Co., La Crosse, 

 ^J" J wrote to the State Department at 

 /^ shington advising that July 15 an 

 iitornational post-office money order for 

 ^ had been forwarded to Ferd Fischer, 

 ^ 'esbaden, Germany, on a steamer sub- 

 seniiently reported to have been relieved 

 °' its mails when calling at a British 



port. Mr. Schaffer asked that the State 

 Department do what it could to ascer- 

 tain what had become of the post-office 

 money order and procure its return to 

 him. The following reply was received: 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

 WASHINGTON. 



December 7, 1916. 

 La Crosse Floral Co., 

 La Crosse, Wis. 



Oentlemen: The Department has received 

 .vour letter of November 18, 1916, advising that 

 .luly 1.") you forwarded a money order for $9 

 to Ferd Fischer, Wiesbaden, Germany, which 

 you consider "must have been confiscated by 

 the British Government." You ask the De- 

 partment for an investigation. 



In reply you are informed that according to 

 the Department's information, all remittances 

 intended for persons residing in the territory of 

 the Central Powers are treated as contraband 

 of war by the Entente Governments unless ac- 

 companied by satisfactory evidence that the 

 money Is for the relief of the citizens or sub- 

 jects of neutral tountries. 



In view of the foregoing, therefore, the De- 



partment would not be disposed to request an 

 investigation unless furnished with satisfactory 

 evidence that Mr. Fischer is an American citizen. 

 It is suggested that you endeavor to trace the 

 money order through the Post-offlce Department. 

 I am. Gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant. 

 For the Secretary of State, 



William Phillips, 

 841,711/1546 Third Assistant Secretary. 



While remittances may be contraband, 

 commercial paper which requires the 

 signature of the payee to become nego- 

 tiable is otherwise uncollectible and any 

 reader of The Review who has failed to 

 hear from remittances sent to Germany 

 is advised to seek a refund from the 

 ■source of which the remittance paper 

 was purchased. If a post-office money 

 order was sent, ask the postmaster for 

 a refund. If bank paper was bought, 

 ask the bank for a refund. 



Brattleboro, Vt. — Carl S. Hopkins has 

 completed the erection of two houses, 

 one 12x50 and one 17x65, bringing the 

 square footage of the range to 20,000. 



Durham, N. H. — The first flower show 

 given by the horticultural students of 

 the New Hampshire College, which was 

 held in the Agricultural Club's rooms 

 November 27, was a marked success. 

 Besides flowers and plants from the col- 

 lege greenhouses, exhibits were made by 

 Penn's and H. M. Robinson & Co., of 

 Boston; W. H. Elliott, of Madbury, N. 

 H., and Charles Davis, of Dover, N. H. 

 Short talks were given by John S. El- 

 liott, J. B. Scherrer and James Mac- 

 farlane. 



Webster, Mass.— Edward Gustafson 

 has sold an interest in his greenhouses 

 to Olaf Marthius, formerly of Crom- 

 well, Conn. 



Aubumdale, Mass.— F. W. Fletcher & 

 Co., Inc., say they have come across an- 

 other "scrap of paper." In this case 

 it was an arrangement with a coal man, 

 sometimes termed a contract, by virtue 

 of which certain quantities of fuel were 

 to be delivered at a specified price. 

 Many growers having similar arrange- 

 ments are unable to understand how it 

 is that cars have not been obtainable 

 for the contract deliveries and still were 

 to be had when the grower, in his ex- 

 tremity, agreed to pay the market price. 



