Januabt 4, 1017. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



FIBE AT MONINOEB'S. 



Warehouse is Damaged. 



Fire originating from some unknown 

 cause at 2:30 on the afternoon of Satur- 

 day, December 30,. partially destroyed 

 the warehouse of the John C. Moninger 

 Co., greenhouse builders, Chicago, caus- 

 ing a loss on stock estimated at $20,000, 

 in addition to the damage to the build- 

 ing. 



It was a spectacular affair, the proxim- 

 ity of the Moninger, Sehillo and other 

 lumber yards adding greatly to the dan- 

 ger of a conflagration. At one time 

 there were twenty-three streams of 

 water being thrown on the fire. It was 

 twenty-four hours before the fire was 

 out. 



The building was a large one, of five 

 stories and basement. A part of it was 

 occupied by a tenant, the United Breed- 

 ers' Co., the basement being used for 

 iron work and the upper floors for the 

 storage of material, mostly steel, heat- 

 ing apparatus and greenhouse hardware. 

 The building was some distance from 

 the mill, the oflSce building and other 

 structures on the property. The loss will 

 be easily adjusted for the reason that 

 the annual stock taking had been com- 

 pleted the morning of the fire, which 

 was the last business day of the year. 

 As it was Saturday, too, the plant was 

 shut down at the time and no one but 

 the watchman was on the property. 



Damage to the Building. 



The loss on the building, also covered 

 by insurance, is the personal one of E. F. 

 Kurowski and the estate of N. J. Rupp, 

 his partner, who lay dead jit his home at 

 the time, awaiting burial; the building 

 and land were the personal partnership 

 investment of Messrs. Kurowski and 

 Rupp, leased to the company of which 

 they were officers. 



The fire will not interiupt the busi- 

 ness in the least, as the burned building 

 held nothing except articles manufac- 

 tured elsewhere and which can be re- 

 placed in the open market. It probably 

 will be some time before the building 

 can be used again, however, since the 

 east half will have to be practically re- 

 built. The three upper floors fell in the 

 center, but the lower floors held, protect- 

 ing the iron-working machinery. 



OHBYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The examining committees of the 

 8. A. have submitted reports on new 

 varieties as follows: 



At New York, December 18, Hamburg Late 

 White, sport of Hand Dean, white, Japanese in- 

 curred, submitted by O. T. Guenther, Hamburg, 

 N. Y., scored as follows on the commercial scale: 

 Color, 18; form, 13; fullness, 8; stem, 14; fo- 

 liage, 12; substance, 12; size, 8; total, 85. 



At Philadelphia, December 14, Hamburg Late 

 White, white, Japanese incurved, submitted by 

 ■C. T. Guenther, Hamburg, N. Y., scored as fol- 

 lows on the commercial scale: Color, 18; form, 

 13, fullness, 8; stem, 14; foliage, 14; substance, 

 13; size, 8; total, 88. 



At Boston, December 14, Hamburg Late White, 

 white, Japanese incurved, submitted by C. T 

 Guenther, Hamburg, N. Y., scored as follows on 

 the commercial scale: Color, 17; form, 13; full- 

 ness, 7; stem, 14; foliage, 13; substance, 12; 

 •iM, 7; total, 83. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



President Perle B. Fulmer has ap- 

 pointed the following directors for 1917: 

 Mrs. B. H. Tracy, of Wenham, Mass.; 

 Mrs. Anders Rasmussen, of New Al- 

 t)any, Ind.; Mrs. J. D. Fulmer, of Des 

 Moines, la. The introduction committee 

 for 1917 is composed of the following: 



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JOHN KBUCHTEN. 



EARLY training and environment combined to fit John Kruchten for the 

 position he now holds, as president of the John Kruchten Co. The son of 

 a grower, he was born in Chicago, November 21, 1882. After enjoying the 

 ordinary grade school education, he took the course offered by the Metropolitan 

 Business College and upon graduation worked for several Chicago business houses. 

 But the call of the florists' trade was strong upon him and in 1900 he entered 

 his father's greenhouses, remaining there until 1902, when he took a stand at the 

 Flower Growers' Exchange, then in operation at Wabash avenue and Randolph 

 street, selling his father's stock. August 28, 190.5, he started in business as a 

 commission merchant and May 23, 1915, -incorporated with his brother and took 

 up his present quarters in the Atlas block. 



Mrs. W. F. Sheridan, of New York, 

 chairman; Mrs. H. G. Berning, of St. 

 Louis, Mo.; Mrs. W. H. Sievers, of New 

 York; Miss M. C. Gunterberg, of Chi- 

 cago; Mrs. B. Hammond, of Beacon, 

 N. Y. 



Mrs. C. II. Maynard, Sec 'y. 



COGGAN SAVED THE GLADS. 



The following is part of an article in 

 a Battle Creek, Mich., newspaper: 



There are various kinds of thrilling rescues, 

 but S. \V. Coggan, of Battle Creek, performed 

 an unusual one last week, on short notice, and 

 by rather heroic means. 



Mr. Coggan made a flying run for a freight car, 

 caught it, claml)ered aboard ,with a few simple 

 weapons with which to flght an all-night engage- 

 ment against frost and ministered to a carload 

 of gladiolus bulbs all the way to Chicago. 



The temperature in the car was just at freez- 

 ing when Mr. Coggan arrived. It was 10 degrees 

 below zero outside the car when the train pulled 

 into South Bend, but the campaign for heat on 

 the inside was winning. 



The bulbs were the property of Vaughnn's Seed 

 Store, Chicago, and were being shipped from the 



Vaughan farms at Ovid, Mich. The weather 

 was mild when they were loaded and no feara 

 were entertained as to their arrival in Chicago. 

 AVith the drop in temperature, however, an 

 alarm was sent out. The car was then a part 

 of a freight train that was approaching Battle 

 Creek. Mr. Coggan was called from dinner 

 by a long distance telephone appeal to do some- 

 thing if possible. He made a run for a couple 

 of oil stoves and some lanterns, hastily requisi- 

 tioned a supply of oil, tried to hire a man some- 

 where on the street to make the trip in, but 

 wRg unable to do so, and then, although the 

 Christmas rush was upon his own business, he 

 caught the car as it arrived in the Grand Trunk 

 yards, and started to dig in and conduct a 

 trench warfare against the cold. The bnlba 

 were landed safely at the Chicago terminal, and 

 Mr. Coggan then spent several hours trying to 

 get into Chicago on a milk train that should 

 have made the run on fast express time. All 

 the tracks were jammed. 



Lancaster, O. — Business has set such 

 a lively pace since the Thanksgiving 

 boom that John Mayers, who operates 

 two houses on Columbus street, has had 

 to go to the wholesalers for much of 

 his stock. 



