May 6. 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



OBITUARY 



J. D. Caxmody. 



Colonel Carmody, charter member of 

 the S. A. P., first president of the In- 

 diana State Florists' Association, and 

 famous for h's witty speeches at S. A. 

 F. conventions, died April 29, at the 

 Walker sanitarium, Evansville, Ind., 

 after a long and painful illness. He 

 lacked one month of being 85 years of 

 age. 



Colonel Carmody was born May 31, 

 1835, at Utica, N. Y. At the age of 18 

 he entered the Civil war and at the 

 war's end was discharged at Fortress 

 Monroe, Va. Here he met a Miss 

 O'Connor and they were married. They 

 moved to P^vausvillc, Ind., and he 

 started in the florists' business on 

 Water street, later moving to Hull's 

 Hill. About 1890 he sold the business 

 to Julius Niednagel and William Hal- 

 brooks. His inventions, the Carmody 

 hot water boiler and the Carmody ven- 

 tilating machine, were made at this 

 time and were developed by men whose 

 ability lay more in the business field 

 than did his. 



For the last few years Colonel Car- 

 mody spent the winters in Florida, but 

 more recently he was too feeble and 

 stayed at home. His wife died twenty 

 years ago and his adopted daughter, 

 Miss Bessie Long, has been his constant 

 aid. He leaves no children or relatives. 



Tho funeral took place Saturday, 

 May 1. 



John A. Nuth. 



The entire trade of Baltimore, Md., 

 received a great shock Monday morning 

 when it learned of the death 'May 2 of 

 one of its most pojiular mombers, John 

 A. Nuth. Mr. Nuth was a man of re- 

 markably robust health, but intestinal 

 trouble developed; he was operated on 

 Saturday and died the following day. 

 He was 45 years old. 



Mr. Nuth had been in the business 

 seventeen years and was one of the best 

 all-round growers in Maryland. He was 

 a member of the Baltimore Florists' 

 '"Inb, the members of which attciided 

 the funer.Tl in a body. The funeral took 

 I'lace at the home in Fullerton May 6. 

 Mr. Nuth is survived by his wife and 

 two daughters, Catherine and Anna. 



Tate. 



James Thompson Copas. 



^ James Thompson Copas, of Salida, 

 Colo., whoso death April 21 from pneu- 

 monia, resulting from exposure in a 

 blizzard, was recorded in the obituary 

 column of The Review last Avook, wn's 

 born at Kingstou-on Thames, England. 

 June 6, 1877. At the age of 3 years 

 lie was brought to the Unitetl States, 

 the family making their home in Elyria, 

 0. He received his early training under 

 the direction of his father. Willinm T. 

 Copas, who was a graduate of Kcw 

 Gardens, F^ngland. 



After the death of the father, James 

 Copas and two brothers continncil the 

 business until he moved to Colorailo in 

 1914. For three years he was witli the 

 Espelin Floral Co.. at Fort Collins, Colo. 

 Then he was called to Denver to build 

 and equip a greenhouse on the Veriier 

 Z. Reed estate. November 18, 191<t, 

 he jturchased the greenhouse and store 



J. D. Carmody. 



known as the Salida Greenhouse, which 

 he was operating at the time of his 

 death. He was a member of the Masonic 

 and Woodmen orders. 



The funeral was held Saturday after- 

 noon, A{)ril 24, at the Stewart chapel. 

 The Rev. I). C. Lees olliciated. 



Mr. Copas is survived by his wife, 

 his daughter, Aliee. and four brothers. 

 Fred T. Copas, of Denver; William T. 

 Copas and John T. Copas. of Elyria, O.. 

 and Robert T. Coi»as. of Kansas City. 

 Fred T. Copas reached Salida Wednes- 

 day, April 21, but the other brothers 

 were unable to attend the funeral. 



MILWAUKEE'S T. T. D. WINDOW. 



Milwaukee ineiiiliers ol' the F. T, D. 

 are cooperating this wetdv on a novel 

 window display in the main oillce of the 

 Western Union Telegraph Co.. 11(1 Wis- 

 consin stree; . 



The public is instantly attracted by 

 the complete transformation of the win- 

 dow, which otherwise appears unat- 

 tractive and is passed by without even 

 a glance. This week the live Milwau- 

 kee nieiiibers are stopping thousands by 

 their uni(|iie disj.lay. It conveys to the 

 minds of those wiio view it a better 

 impression as to the meaning of tele- 

 grai>h delivery. 



In the center of the window, banked 

 among hydrangeas and foliage plants, 

 is a huge map of the United State.^. 

 Extending from the center. Milwaukee, 

 are miniature wires connected up to 

 main wires on miniature telegrniili poles 

 that stri'tch across the entire win- 

 dow front, one end reiiresentint' New 

 York, the other S.aii Francisco. The 

 combination of plants, flowers and 

 telegraph instruments m.-ikes an inter- 



esting disjday and will bring much ad- 

 ditional busini'ss for Mothers' day and 

 the future. 



The memliers who are cooperating on 

 the displav are William Ziminermann, 

 J. M. Fox & Son. E. Welke Co., Edlef- 

 sen-Leidiger Co., Currie Bros. Co., A. 

 Currie & Co., Baumgarten, Inc., Gimbel 

 Bros, and William Lubliner. 



The C. C. Prdl worth Co., August 

 Kellner, Helton & Hunkel and Gustave 

 Busch, wholesalers, are donating the 

 stock for the displfiy. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Life in the Ohicago flower market 

 Timer is humdrum: there always is 

 something to furnish food for thought 

 and material for conversation. This 

 time it has V)een one of the not infre- 

 quent sudden reversals of form. Fol- 

 lowing the overstocked condition be- 

 tween Easter and April 28, both inclu- 

 sive, x\pril 20 brought the first signs 

 of the impending change; April 30 saw 

 a sudden acceleration in the demand 

 and May 1 found tho market bare and 

 prices on the rise. With a tolerable 

 clean-up on the last day of April, when 

 the market closed Saturday night, May 

 1, there was scarcely anything in the 

 iceboxes and the present week ofioned 

 with a strong and active market. It 

 was about as sudden a change as the 

 market has seen in recent years and one 

 which took a great many buyers and 

 sellers by surprise. They had expected 

 a good market for Mothers' day, but 

 nothing to compare with what took 

 ]dace. thi.' improvement having come 

 I ( "iitlniii'd oil |iu(rc :!0. 1 



