Fbbbdaut 12, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



39 



[See also page 37.] 



Samuel Cape. 



Samuel Cape died early Saturday 

 morning, January 31, at St. Margaret's 

 hospital, Fittsburghj Pa., after a serious 

 illness of only two days. Pneumonia 

 had developed from a severe cold. 



Mr. Cape had just passed his thirty- 

 fourth birthday, having been born Janu- 

 ary 22, 1886, at Mount Washington. He 

 entered the trade as an errand boy for 

 Mrs. E. A. Williams, when she was lo- 

 cated on the south side; later he went 

 into the employ of the A. W. Smith Co. 

 and then to the employ of Lincoln I. 

 Nefif, whose branch store at 4010 Butler 

 street, in the Lawrenceville district, 

 Mr. Cape later purchased in order to 

 have a business of his own. Steady 

 growth forced his business to move to a 

 larger store at the corner of Fisk and 

 Butler streets, and at the beginning of 

 this year he purchased the yet larger 

 building just opposite. 



Mr. Cape was an Episcopalian and a 

 member of the Pittsburgh Florists' and 

 Gardeners ' Club and of the Masonic or- 

 der, lodge 484, The funeral services 

 were held Tuesday afternoon, February 

 3, at 7043 Frankston avenue, the home 

 of his sister, Mrs. Ellen C. Logue. Mr. 

 Cape, who was unmarried, is survived by 

 three sisters and three brothers: Mrs. 

 Ellen C. Logue, Mrs. Laura C. Greena- 

 myer, of Salem, O.; Mrs. Olive C. Sny- 

 der, Joseph Cape and Frederick Chester 

 Cape, of Pittsburgh, and John H. Cape, 

 of Dunkirk, N. Y. Another sister and a 

 niece died in the flu epidemic of a year 

 ago at Woodlawn, where Mr. Cape's 

 greenhouses are located. They were the 

 wife and daughter of the superintendent 

 of the range. E. E. S. 



Albert M. Boop. 



Albert M. Boop, Mingo Junction, O., 

 died at his home on Grand View avenue, 

 Wednesday, February 4, at the age of 

 60 years. 



Mr. Boop was born at Harlem Springs, 

 O., October 13, 1859. He lived for a 

 time in Bloomfield, O., and for the last 

 twenty-five years had been a resident of 

 Mingo Junction. 



He is survived by his wife. Sarah 

 Olive Boop, and six children. 



F. A. Haenselman. 



F. A. Haenselman died at his home at 

 Boulder, Colo., February ."5, at the age 

 of 59 years. He had been in poor health 

 for a number of years and had been con- 

 tinuously failing. 



Mr. Haenselman was born in Stutt- 

 gart, Germany, September 11, 1861. He 

 started his florist career in the Royal 

 Palace gardens at Stuttgart. He came 

 to this country at the age of 19 and 

 worked in various stores and green- 

 houses in Chicago, St. Louis, Mo., 

 Louisville, Ky., and Denver, Colo. In 

 Denver he started in the business known 

 as Chapman & Haenselman, five years 

 later buying Mr. Chapman's interest 

 and running the business alone, until 

 he lost everything by fire, in 1896. He 

 was then appointed landscape architect 

 for the city of Denver in the park de- 

 partment. He held this position until 

 1903, when he took charge of the Canon 

 Floral Co. greenhouses at Lafayette, 

 Colo. A year later he started the pres- 



Samuel Cape. 



ent business, known as F. A. Haensel- 

 man 's U. of C. Flower Shop and Boulder 

 Greenhouse. In 1908 his health started 

 to fail and he grew steadily worse until 

 the end, but although he was so crippled 

 for twelve years that he could not walk 

 without crutches, he kept doggedly 

 working and actively managing the 

 business. 



He was a member of Boulder lodge 

 No. 566, B. P. O. E.. the W. O. W. and 

 the Masonic fraternity. 



He is survived by his wife, Carrie Ida, 

 and three children, Minnie, Carl and 

 Florence. He was buried from the Elks ' 

 home in Elks' Rest at Green Mountain 

 cemetery, Sunday, February 8. 



The business is to be carried on by 

 his son, Carl F. Haenselman. 



Raymond E. Cooper. 



Raymond E. Cooper, Cohoes, N. Y., 

 died Friday, February 6, at the Cohoes 

 hospital, as a result of the setting in of 

 pneumonia when he had an attack of 

 influenza which he contracted when at- 

 tending the funeral of his mother in 

 Poughkeepsie two weeks ago. He was 

 M years of age at the time of his death. 



Mr. Cooper was known by everyone in 

 the trade around Cohoes. He had a 

 genial disposition and understood his 

 work and that of the men under him, 

 :ind therefore was a most capable su- 

 perintendent. He came to Cohoes as an 

 employee of Ansel D. Carpenter ten 

 years ago and grew up with the firm. 



He was a member of the Albany Flo- 

 rists' Club, Cohoes lodge No. 116, A. F. 

 & A. M., Cohoes chapter R. A. M. and 

 St. John's church. 



He is survived by his wife, three 

 brothers, a sister and his father, L. H. 

 Cooper, of Poughkeepsie, N, Y. 



The funeral service was held Monday, 

 February 9, at his home. Rev. Ernest J. 

 Hopper officiating, as well as the Ma- 

 sonic funeral service. The burial was 

 Tuesdav, February 10, at Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y. 



CHICAOO. 



The Market. 



In spite of a considerable increase in 

 the supply of flowers available, the mar- 

 ket has stiffened still further this week. 

 Nothing like the present condition ever 

 has been known. Ordinarily at this 

 time of year flowers are abundant, in 

 comparison with the demand, and every- 

 body is pushing for sales. This year 

 the supply probably is as large as it ever 

 was at this date, but the demand is so 

 much greater than normal that any 

 wholesaler will tell you he would have 

 no trouble in selling twice as many 

 flowers. Of course, if everyone had 

 twice the present supply, that would be 

 a different story, but there is no doubt 

 that from twenty-five to fifty per cent 

 more flowers could be sold close to pres- 

 ent prices if good stock were available. 



For the last two or three weeks there 

 have been predictions that a change was 

 approaching, but the only change thus 

 far apparent is a further increase in the 

 demand and a gradual advance in prices. 

 Everyone who reduces a price finds him- 

 self on the wrong side of the market. 



The St, Valentine's day demand was 

 just beginning to be felt when this issue 

 of The Review went to press, but it was 

 apparent that the call for flowers will be 

 greater in the closing days of the pres- 

 ent week than it has been at any time 

 since Christmas. There seems to be no 

 limit to the retailers' ability to sell 

 flowers. Their business is limited only 

 by their ability to obtain stock. Occa- 

 sionally a buyer says he will have to 

 stay off some item until the price comes 

 down, but in a general way prices have 

 ceased to be a consideration. The buy- 

 ers appear to have become accustomed 

 to the present values and they pay the 

 price without protest. The result is a 

 wonderful total of sales for the whole- 

 salers and big checks for the growers. 

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