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March 13, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



Frank A. Frledley. 



The trade has lost another good man, 

 for Frank A. Friedley died at his home 

 in Cleveland Sunday evening, March 9, 

 the unexpected result of an illness with 

 quinsy and bronchitis of about ten days ' 

 duration, from which he was thought to 

 be recovering. Pneumonia set in March 

 9 and the end came within a few hours. 

 Mr. Friedley was only 37 years of 

 age. He was born at New Albany, 

 Ind., and started in the trade with E. G. 

 Hill, at Eichmond, Ind., just twenty- 

 two years ago, in March, 1897. He re- 

 mained with Mr. Hill for five years. 

 During the next few years he was suc- 

 cessively employed by the Miami Floral 

 Co., Dayton, O.; Frank Huntsman and 

 William Murphy, Cincinnati; the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co., Joliet, 111., during 

 the days when James Hartshorne was at 

 the zenith of his fame, and by Bell 

 Miller, Springfield, 111. In 1907 he left 

 Miss Miller to become superintendent 

 of the greenhouse establishment of the 

 J. M. Gasser Co., at Eocky Eiver 0., be- 

 ing perhaps the youngest man in the his- 

 tory of the trade to be engaged for so 

 responsible a position, as he then was 

 only 25 years of age. Mr. Fried- 

 ley remained with the Gasser Co. 

 until he went into business for himself, 

 with a partner, purchasing the green- 

 houses and retail flower store of the 

 James Eadie Co. This arrangement did 

 not prove permanent and the partner- 

 ship was dissolved, Mr. Friedley taking 

 over the greenhouses in East Cleveland, 

 which he had since conducted under the 

 name of the Friedley Co., growing cut 

 flowers and pot plants for the local 

 wholesale trade. He was a first-class 

 grower in everything that the term 

 implies and was just now engaged in 

 the dissemination of a new pompon 

 chrysanthemum called Christmas Gold. 

 Mr. Friedley married Miss Anna 

 Drehs, December 28, 1909. She sur- 

 vives. They had no children. 



The funeral was held "Wednesday 

 afternoon, March 12, from the resi- 

 dence, 14717 Shaw avenue. East Cleve- 

 land, interment being at Lakeview ceme- 

 tery. Practically everybody in the trade 

 in Cleveland was present, with a number 

 from outside points, and there were 

 many flowers. 



Mr. Friedley was one of the most 

 widely known florists, not only in Cleve- 

 land, but in the entire United St&tes. 

 For a number of years Cleveland has 

 been the scene of many large trade gath- 

 erings and Mr. Friedley always was one 

 of the active managers of such affairs. 

 No flower show or trade convention was 

 held without his being an active par- 

 ticipant. He was a life member of the 

 S. A. F., a member of the American Car- 

 nation Society, the Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety and many trade bodies. For sev- 

 eral years he was secretary of the Cleve- 

 land Florists' Club and usually he was 

 show manager when an exhibition was 

 given by that organization. He was a 

 bowler of unusual ability and a leader 

 in all the recreation matters within the 

 organizations to which he belonged. He 

 was an Elk, a Moose, a Mason and presi- 

 dent of the Chamber of Industry Bowl- 

 ing League at the time of his death. 



Frank A. Friedley. 



WILL TBY TO STASILIZE PRICES. 



Council of Defense to Act. 



The Council of National Defense is 

 authorized to announce the creation, 

 by William C. Redfield, of the Indus- 

 trial Board of the Department of Com- 

 merce. This board will be charged, un- 

 der the approval already given by the 

 President to the Secretary of Com- 

 merce, with the stabilization of prices 

 for basic materials in such a fashion as 

 to create a firm foundation on which the 

 consumer can base his future purchases 

 and the producer can form necessary 

 production cost estimates. Its program 

 will be supported by the Council of Na- 

 tional Defense. 



The full personnel of this board, to 

 consist of six carefully chosen men, will 

 be announced as soon as acceptances 

 have been obtained. Already it is as- 

 sured that the chairman will be George 

 N. Peek, of Moline, 111., formerly vice- 

 chairman of the War Industries Board. 



Through proper investigation and sta- 

 bilization it is expected that the founda- 

 tion can be laid for the resumption of 

 American business and for the furnish- 

 ing of employment to returning soldiers 

 and sailors — this through government 

 purchases, the publication of fair price 

 lists, and cooperation of the producer. 



To obtain this cooperation of the pro- 

 ducer, it is planned that the board shall 

 call the various leaders of industry into 

 consultation. The first of these confer- 

 ences will be with representatives of in- 

 dustries producing basic materials, such 

 as iron, steel, lumber, textiles, cement, 

 copper, brick and other construction 

 materials. 



It will be the endeavor of the board to 

 interchange views with these representa- 



tives of industry in the fullest and 

 freest manner possible. If these eon> 

 ferences result' in a general agreement 

 among the important basic industries 

 upon proper prices and bases for pricea 

 at which sales will be made, and this 

 agreement is approved by the board, it 

 is believed that the announcement of 

 this fact will induce the nation to feel 

 justified in properly beginning a buying 

 program. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There has been some falling off in the 

 city trade since Ash Wednesday, but 

 the houses which do the principal ship- 

 ping business say the out-of-town de- 

 mand is keeping up as strongly as it did 

 in the height of the social season. Be- 

 tween the shipping and local demand, 

 business continues better than usual at 

 this time of year. The supply of flow- 

 ers continues to increase and there is 

 an easier tendency in prices, but prices 

 have not fallen in the same proportion 

 that the supply of stock has increased, 

 with the result that the principal whole- 

 sale houses are doing a larger volume of 

 business, measured by flowers or in dol- 

 lars and cents, than at any time since 

 Christmas. The only complaint that is 

 heard relates to the efforts retailers are 

 said to be making, now that supplies are 

 equal to the demand, to depress whole- 

 sale prices. The retailers, in justifica- 

 tion, assert that they have not been able 

 to get prices this winter which would 

 give them their usual margin of profit, 

 that growers and wholesalers have been 

 the ones who profited by the good busi- 

 ness and that the retailer has yet to 

 make his money for this season. 



