Sbptbmbbb 30, 1920 



The Florists' Review 



25 



OBITUARY 



[See also page 23.] 



Horace B. Hughes. 



Horace B. Hughes died at 407 South 

 Lincoln street, Chicago, September 26 

 and was buried . privately at Forest 

 Home cemetery September 28. 



Mr. Hughes was 57 years of age, a 

 native of the city in which he lived his 

 life and died. His mother, who pre- 

 deceased him twenty-three years, was 

 one of Chicago 's earliest florists and the 

 two sons were born and brought up in 

 the business. Before the motheir's 

 death Horace had taken over the store 

 and greenhouse on West Van Buren 

 street, which for many years formed 

 one of the bright spots on the great west 

 side highway. Eccentric to a degree, 

 Mr. Hughes was a pioneer in flower 

 store publicity, developing many new 

 ways of attracting public attention. 

 His window displays and printed ad- 

 vertising were highly unusual in the 

 day he employed them most freely, a 

 time when he was practically alone in 

 such work. The business prospered and 

 he accumulated considerable property. 



Many florists throughout the United 

 States, know Mr. Hughes as the in- 

 ventor, patentee and original distrib- 

 utor of novelty flower boxes, the Moth- 

 ers ' day box, the Shamrock box and 

 others later taken over by T. E. Waters 

 for the Poehlmann Bros. Co., distribu- 

 tors. And Mr. Hughes sold to the trade 

 much of his unique advertising mate- 

 rial. He was perhaps the first to apply 

 the syndicate idea to distributing ad- 

 vertising matter in this line of business. 



Ill health necessitated some relief 

 from business cares and, instead of 

 being a daily visitor to the Chicago 

 wholesale cut flower section, for the last 

 two years he was rarely seen there. 

 Some six months ago the old stand, at 

 1859 West Van Buren street, was closed 

 and the proprietor thereafter was un- 

 able to leave his home. 



In addition to his widow, Mr. Hughes 

 leaves a brother, Lester C. Hughes, who 

 does business as the Hughes Plant Co., 

 at 4630 West Washington boulevard. 



Nicholas Thlnnes. 



Nicholas Thinnes, at one time a large 

 grower of carnations for the Chicago 

 market, died Thursday, September 23, 

 at the end of two weeks ' illness in a 

 hospital. His death was primarily due 

 to an accident in his greenhouses. He 

 and his son, Joseph, were engaged in 

 tearing up benches when a board flew 

 up and struck Mr. Thinnes ' hand, a nail 

 causing a slight wound. Blood-poison- 

 ing resulted and this developed into 

 lockjaw. A further complication set in 

 when he contracted pneumonia. He was 

 51 years of age. 



Mr. Thinnes in 1894 commenced his 

 business career in Chicago growing veg- 

 etables under glass. He continued as a 

 truck gardener for twenty years and 

 was well known among Chicago grow- 

 ers. In 1914 he branched out into the 

 florists' field and was soon one of the 

 heaviest shippers of carnations to this 

 market. In 1917 he was made a direc- 

 tor in Kennicott Bros. Co. and was in- 

 strumental in promoting the policy of 

 that firm in regard to cooperation be- 

 tween growers and wholesalers. In 1914 

 Mr. Thinnes was responsible for the 



founding of a large vegetable house, the 

 Chicago Growers Cooperative Co. He 

 was vice-president of this company at 

 the time of his death. Since 1918 Mr. 

 Thinnes had devoted himself exclusive- 

 ly to growing vegetables. 



Mr. Thinnes was a member of the 

 Knights of Columbus and of the Luxem- 

 burger Brotherhood. Besides his widow, 

 he is survived by six children: Joseph, 

 Margaret, Alois, Frank, Agnes and Cece- 

 lia. The funeral was Saturday, Septem- 

 ber 25, at his late residence, 7046 North 

 Western avenue, and at St. Henry's 

 church. Interment was at St. Henry's 

 cemetery. 



S. B. Faulkner. 



Samuel R. Faulkner, one of the pio- 

 neer florists of Omaha, Neb., died at 

 his home there September 22. Mr, Faulk- 

 ner was born in Liverpool, England, in 

 1850. In 1881 he chose America for his 

 future home and located at Omaha. His 

 first effort, which was a 20-acre truck 

 garden, was swept away by a hailstorm 

 just as his crop was about to mature, 

 leaving him nothing. He had at that 

 time a wife and four small children. He 

 took a position with A. Donaghue, with 

 whom he remained ten years, and' in 

 1895 embarked in business for himself 

 again, this time successfully. He con- 

 tinued activi§ly In business until quite, 

 recently. Mr. Faulkner is survived by 

 a widow, three sons apd one daughter. 



Albert Bobert Seidewitz. . , 



Albert Eobert Seidewitz, one of the 

 most promising young men connected 

 with the trade in Baltimore, Md., ,died 

 of appendicitis, September 22, at' the 

 Maryland University hospital. Mr., Sei- 

 dewitz was 24 years of age. With his 

 two brothers, William E. and Edwin W., 

 he conducted the business of his father, 

 the late Edwin A. Seidewitz. He is sur- 

 vived by his mother, three brothers and 

 one sister. The funeral, which was 

 largely attended by members of the 

 trade, was held at the home of his 

 mother, on Belvedere avenue, Septem- 

 ber 24. The funeral offerings were 

 many and handsome. Tate. 



John Carney. 



John Carney, for the last fifteen 

 years head gardener at the Newport 

 summer estate of Herbert M. Harri- 

 man, of New York, died at his home in 

 that city September 21, after an illness 

 of two weeks. Mr. Carney, who was 

 77 years of age, had been a resident of 

 Newport, R. I., for fifty-two years and 

 was employed on the estates of Mrs. 

 T. Shaw Safe and others of the sum- 

 mer colony before going to the position 

 on the Harriman estate that he oc- 

 cupied so long. He was an expert in 

 his profession and had a wide circle of 

 friends. He is survived bv six chil- 

 dren. W. H. M. 



Samuel F. Pratt. 



Samuel F. Pratt, a wealthy landscape 

 architect of Cohasset, Mass., died at his 

 summer place at Newport, R. I., Sep- 

 tember 23, in his ninety-fifth year. He 

 had been ill for ten days. He had not 

 practiced his profession for a number 

 of years. His body was taken to Bos- 

 ton for burial at Forest Hill cemetery. 



W. H. M.' 



Mrs. James K. Allen. 



Mrs. James K. Allen, the wife of the 

 veteran New York wholesaler, died 

 September 20 at the home of her daugh- 



ter, Mrs. E. D. Morgan, Yonkers, N. 

 Y., after a long illness. She was born 

 in London, England, sixty-eight years 

 ago and was married to Mr. Allen forty- 

 two years ago. She was an ideal help- 

 mate, contributing much to the happi- 

 ness of the family home at Kearney, 

 N. J., and was well known to many in 

 the trade. Funeral services were held 

 September 23 at the home, in Kearney, 



J. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



It is remarkable how good business 

 was last week. None of the conditions 

 were favorable, because large supply 

 and low prices are listed on the other 

 side when recounting the things which 

 make business good from the point of 

 view of the wholesale market. The 

 weather man may deny it, but the 

 week seems to have been the hottest of 

 the summer (it was 90 September 25), 

 and retail business was dormant in manji 

 other lines than ours (State street wa« 

 asleep). And still the wholesalers 

 rolled up a good daily total of sales, in 

 many cases better than a year ago, when, 

 conditions were much better. Then 

 there had been frost, general business 

 'was on the boom, tlje spirit to spend 

 was rife and prices were much better 

 than now. To be selling now more in 

 money value than last year is some-, 

 thing to marvel at and is a tribute to 

 the continued ascendency of the mar- 

 ket. It would be impossible except for 

 the fact that the shipping trade con~ 

 tinues to grow. So many retailers look: 

 to Chicago for their regular or special 

 needs that there always is something 

 doing here nowadays. A frost should 

 start a boom. 



The rose is the principal item in thia 

 market, in supply because in demand 

 for the shipping trade. Warm days and 

 cool nights made roses plentiful and 

 good last week. Columbia is the most 

 abundant variety, but there have been 

 enough Premier and Russell, with tof 

 many Ophelia. Butterfly has begun V 

 arrive in considerable quantity, is ot 

 fine quality and sells well. Red is not 

 yet in request, but a few buyers order 

 Hoosier Beauty regularly. Any spurt 

 in funeral work cleans up the white 

 roses, but such spurts have not been 

 frequent during September. New-crop 

 Beauties have made their appearance. 



Summer-like as the weather has 

 been, the summer flowers are on the 

 wane. Those who planted gladioli for 

 the flowers have cut them nearly all; 

 the growers for bulbs will cut some 

 flowers until frost, but the quality is 

 not of the best and the demand is sub- 

 siding. Asters, too, are near the end of 

 their season, mostly burned up. Au- 

 tumn-blooming perennials are seen in 

 some quantity, but they do not cut the 

 figure the summer bloomers do. 



Chrysanthemums have become mod- 

 erately plentiful and are of splendid 

 quality for summer; they are in all 

 the retail windows, but do not seem in 

 strong request by the public. Pompons 

 are here in daily increasing quantity. 



Carnations are so abundant there is 

 plenty of stock for work even with 

 asters going. The quality varies, but 

 some of the carnations are good stock 

 and as much as 3 cents was obtainable 

 for them even in last week's heat. 



There still are more lilies than the de- 

 mand calls for. Valley is equal to r«- 



