AUGUST 23, 1917. 



The Rorists' Review 



89 



FLORISTS FOLLOW FLAG 



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HEEDING THE BUGLE CALL. 



Florists in Service. 



Florists everywhere are joining the 

 various military services of the United 

 States, preparing to go to the battle- 

 fields of Europe. Some are in the 

 army as privates, others are either 

 going to the officers' training camps 

 or have returned with commissions, 

 while in some cases they are learning 

 to become aviators. The Eeview will 

 be glad to hear of those who have for- 

 saken the pursuits of peace for the 

 hazardous duties of a soldier. 



Learning to Fly. 



Walter Young, of the C. Young & 

 Sons Co., SI. Louis, Mo., has enrolled 

 as a student in the United States Signal 

 Corps at Austin, Tex. He now is in 

 the midst of the preliminary training 

 period, at the end of which he will be 

 assigned to the aviation camp at the 

 Texas State University. 



Gets a Lieutenancy. 



W. A. Elder, of the Lord & Burnham 

 Cleveland office, who enrolled as a mem- 

 ber of one of the first officers' training 

 camps, has been commissioned a second 

 lieutenant. He is on a furlough, but 

 expects within a week to go to Camp 

 Sherman, at Chillicothe, O., to assist in 

 training the new army. 



Seeking a Commission. 



J. E. Cowgill, of Canton, O., is get- 

 ting his business affairs in condition so 

 that he can join the second officers' 

 training camp at Fort Benjamin Harri- 

 son, near Indianapolis. Mr. Cowgill 

 spent several years in the national 

 guard, and this experience, he expects, 

 will be of great help to him in securing 

 a commission. 



Physically Fit and Beady. 



Frank Eitzenthaler, of Knoble Bros., 

 Cleveland, O., has passed his physical 

 examination and expects soon to be 

 called into service. Mr. Eitzenthaler is 

 one of the best known young men in 

 the trade at Cleveland. He is an en- 

 thusiastic fisherman and only a few 

 weeks ago returned from a successful 

 battle with the black bass in a southern 

 Ohio lake. Consequently, he will un- 

 doubtedly enjoy the outdoor life of a 

 soldier. 



Three Brothers May Go. 



"They are all I've got, but Uncle 

 Sam is welcome to them," says Charles 

 W. Wors, of St. Louis, Mo., regarding 

 the probability tliat liis three sons will 

 be in tlie service of the country before 

 long. Joseph Wors enlisted in the navy 

 some time ago and is stationed at Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; Charles Wors, Jr., last week 

 was accepted for the army, while 

 Arthur Wors is of military age and 

 registered, but has not yet been called 

 for pliysical examination. 



Working and Waiting. 



Harry Schlechter, of the George H. 



Angermueller wholesale house, St. 

 Louis, Mo., laid off long enough last 

 week to take his physical examination 

 for the army. He had been drafted 

 and did not claim exemption. After 

 the examiners told him he was fit phys- 

 ically and had been accepted, Mr. 

 Schlechter returned to the store, and 

 is waiting the call to the mobilization 

 camp. 



In Motorcycle Corps. 



Edward A. Manda, a son of Joseph A. 

 Manda, West Orange, N. J., is one of 

 the many motorcyclists who will speed 

 for Uncle Sam in Europe when the 

 American troops now in training at Sea- 



£. A. Manda and His MouDt. 



girt, N. J., reach the front. He is a 

 member of the Twenty-ninth division 

 headquarters troop. As will be seen by 

 the accompanying illustration, the ma- 

 chines such as Mr. Manda drives are 

 supplied with places for a second sol- 

 dier. 



Is Made a Captain. 



Joseph H. Barnett, Jr., of Chicago, 

 111., was given a commission as captain 

 at the conclusion of the three months 

 of training at the officers' camp at Fort 

 Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis. 

 Mr. Barnett studied horticulture at the 

 University of Illinois, and resigned the 

 position of city forester and landscape 

 gardener at Gary, Ind., to become an 

 army officer. 



Jared Moore a Soldier. 



One of the members of the trade who 

 did not wait to be drafted into tlie army 

 is Jared B. Mooro, son of Frank L. 

 Moore, Chatham, N. J. He has enlist- 

 ed and expects soon to be sent to 

 France. 



Boston in Arms. 



At least twenty-five members of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton liave enlisted in the army or have 

 been drafted up to date, and the num- 

 ber is expected to reach fifty. Among 

 others are Gordon Fisher, nephew 



of Peter Fisher, of the Arnold & 

 Fisher Co., Woburn, Mass.; Julius 

 Snyder, of B. A. Snyder & Co., Bos- 

 ton; H. Heckel, salesman for H. M. 

 Eobinson & Co., Boston; A. Erickson, 

 of Budlong's, Boston; J. J. Comley, son 

 of N. F. Comley, of Lexington, Mass. 



Joins Hospital Service. 



Eobert V. O'Connor, of South Boston, 

 Mass., has quit the florists' business and 

 enlisted in the hospital service of the 

 army. 



PRESIDENT CUTS COAL PBICES. 



Reduction $1 Per Ton. 



President Wilson took a hand in the 

 coal situation August 21 and, by execu- 

 tive order, cut the prices to approxi- 

 mately $1 per ton less than the maxi- 

 mums fixed by the Council of National 

 Defense and the coal operators at their 

 conference June 28. The action was 

 taken under the powers given the Presi- 

 dent by the Lever bill. 



Ever since the action of June 28, The 

 Eeview has contended that the prices 

 fixed at that time were no reductions, 

 but merely an affirmation of the prices 

 that obtained previous to that time and 

 since the coal operators got together 

 and raised them January 1. The Ee- 

 view 's position brought protestations 

 from Francis S. Peabody, the Chicago 

 coal mine operator, who was the gov- 

 ernment representative at the June con- 

 ference. The President's order, the 

 newspaper reports of the action say, 

 was a complete surprise to Mr. Peabody. 



The prices fixed by the President, he 

 announced, are based upon the actual 

 cost of production and "are deemed to 

 be not only fair and just, but liberal as 

 well." 



The Prices Fixed. 



Run of Screen- 

 mine Lump ings 



Illinois $1.95 $2.20 $1.70 



Indiana 1.9.") 2.20 1.70 



Iowa 2.70 2.95 2.45 



Pennsylvania 2.00 2.25 1.75 



West Virginia 2.00 2.25 1.75 



West Virginia (New Riv- 

 er) 2.15 2.40 1.90 



Virginia 2.00 2.25 1.75 



Maryland 2.00 2.25 1.75 



Ohio 2.00 2.25 1.75 



Utah 2.60 2.85 2.35 



Washington 3.25 3.50 8.00 



Kentucky 1.95 2.20 1.75 



Alabama 1.90 2.15 1.65 



Tennessee 2.30 2.55 2.05 



Arkansas 2.65 2.90 2.40 



Kansas 2.55 2.80 2.30 



Missouri 2.70 2.95 2.45 



Oklahoma 3.05 3.30 2.80 



Texas 2.65 2.90 2.40 



('olorado 2.45 2.70 2.20 



Montana 2.70 2.95 2.45 



New Mexico 2.40 2.65 2.15 



Wyoming 2.50 2.75 2.25 



The Federal Trade Commission, at the 

 President's order, undertook to deter- 

 mine the production costs in various 

 producing districts. This report was 

 submitted to the President last week 

 and the prices tentatively decreed are 

 based on these costs, plus a reasonable 

 percentage of profit. 



Albion, Pa. — A new boiler has been 

 installed at the greenhouses of the 

 Church Floral Co. A good crop of 

 cukes came in handy — coal, delivered, 

 was $.j.8j per ton. 



Springfield, 111. — Fire August 17 de- 

 stroyed the Dome building at the state 

 fair grounds, in which the flower show 

 is staged. The loss, estimated at $150,- 

 000, according to B. M. Davison, super- 

 intendent of the department of agricul- 

 ture, will not interfere with plans for 

 the fair, wliicli will ojicn September 7. 



