Dbcembbb 29, 1921 



The Rorists^ Review 



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the two big ranges located in Anacostia 

 and northeast Washington. Mr. Gude 

 purchased from the corporation the Ana- 

 costia range. This occupies thirty acres 

 (if ground and includes 200,000 feet of 

 glass. 



A new corporation, known as A. Gude 

 Sons Co., was formed, Mr. Gude be- 

 ing its president. With him were asso- 

 ciated his three sons and a daughter. 

 A. E. Gude, who upon his return from 

 sorvice in the aviation corps during the 

 war, had taken charge of the wholesale 

 department of the Gude Bros. Co. store, 

 at 1214 F street, northwest, became vice- 

 -)resident. The twins, Edgar E. and Ed- 

 win N., who had been with their father 

 ;it the Anacostia houses, became general 

 manager and secretary, respectively, and 

 Miss Esther C. N. Gude became treas- 

 urer. The new corporation secured prop- 

 erty at 1318 I street, northwest, for its 

 wholesale headquarters, in charge of A. 

 E. Gude. 



The Gude Bros. Co., with William F. 

 Gude at its head, has continued the 

 operation of the retail establishment at 

 1214 F street, northwest, and the green- 

 houses on Bladensburg road. With him 

 are associated his two sons, Ernest and 

 Granville, and his daughter, Amelia 

 Gude. 



November 20, 1888, Adolphus Gude 

 married Miss Mary E. Knoll, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. He had three sons and two 

 daughters. 



During the war Mr. Gude was chair- 

 man of local draft board No. 11. He 

 always was prominent in civic and fra- 

 ternal activities. He was one time presi- 

 dent of the Anacostia bank; was vice- 

 president of the Good Hope Orphan 

 Home; life member of the Board of 

 Trade and Chamber of Commerce; mem- 

 ber of the Anacostia Citizens' Associa- 

 tion; life member of the City Club; mem- 

 ber of Washington Lodge, No. 15, B. P. 

 U. E.; Central Lodge, No. 1, Odd Fel- 

 lows; grand commander of D. C. Grand 

 Commandery, Knights Templar; treas- 

 urer and past commander of De Molay 

 Commandery; past master, Anacostia 

 Lodge, No. 21; treasurer and past high 

 priest of Anacostia Royal Arch Chapter, 

 No. 12; past grand hig^ priest of D. C. 

 Royal Arch Masons; a thirty-second de- 

 gree Mason of Albert Pike Consistory, 

 No. 1; Mithras Lodge of Perfection, No. 

 1; Evangelist Chapter, Rose Croix; Rob- 

 ert D. Bruce Council, Kadosh; Adoniram 

 Council, No. 2, R. and S. M.; past poten- 

 tate of Almas Temple of the Mystic 

 Shrine; past patron. Electa Chapter, No. 

 2, Order of the Eastern Star; past grand 

 patron, O. E. S. of D. C; director. Ma- 

 sonic Mutual Relief Association, and a 

 member of Kallipolis Grotto, Veiled 

 Prophets. 



He was likewise active in trade or- 

 ganizations. He served as vice-president 

 of the Florists' Club of Washington. In 

 1920 he was elected vice-president of the 

 Society of American Florists and it was 

 with regret that the members of the 

 organization, at the Washington conven- 

 tion last August, learned that his ill 

 health would not permit of his accept- 

 ance of the office of president. Hard as 

 he tried to do his part in the convention 

 work and to welcome his fellow florists 

 when they came, he was compelled by ill 

 health to leave the city during that hot 

 month. His absence then was keenly re- 

 gretted and his loss now is felt poign- 

 antly by many florists. 



Herman G. Eretschmar. 



Herman G. Kretschmar, 71 years of 



Adolphus Gude. 



age, of 237 Lincoln road, Flatbush, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., died December 20, of 

 heart disease. He was born in Saxony, 

 Germany, and came to Brooklyn with 

 his parents, Gottlieb and Rosalie 

 Kretschmar, when he was a boy of 16 

 years. His father established the range 

 on Clarkson avenue. The business is 

 now being carried on by the sons, Armin 

 B. and Winfield F., at West Nyack, 

 N. Y. 



Mr. Kretschmar was a member of the 

 Society of American Florists and at- 

 tended the Schermerhorn Street German 

 Evangelical Lutheran church. He is 

 survived by a widow, two sons and one 

 daughter. 



The funeral services were held at the 

 home Saturday afternoon, December 24, 

 and the remains were later cremated at 

 the United States Crematory in Middle 

 Village, with interment of the ashes at 

 Greenwood cemetery. 



COAL OUTPUT SLUMPS BADLY. 



The cumulative output of coal for 

 1921 is 41,000,000 tons behind 1919, a 

 year of depression in the coal trade, 

 and^ 135,000,000 tons behind 1920, ac- 

 cording to statistics of the United States 

 bureau of mines, based on reports of 

 loadings of soft coal. 



The bureau points out that, although 

 soft coal production is normally at a 

 maximum at this season of the year, it 

 has in fact dropped back to the level of 

 last April, normally the lowest month 

 of the year. For two weeks in succes- 



sion production has hung around 1,- 

 200,000 tons per day, it says, whereas 

 the smallest output in any December 

 of the preceding eight years was 1,379,- 

 000 tons. 



In connection with this subnormal 

 production two facts must be remem- 

 bered, says the report. The first is that 

 the movement of coal up the lakes has 

 now virtually ceased. The second is 

 tliat during Ojetober, with a railroad 

 strike in prospect, consumers hastened 

 to increase their stocks, and some mil- 

 lions of tons flowed into storage. At 

 present the flow out. of storage, 7,200,- 

 000 tons a week, is not sufficient to meet 

 current consumption and exports. Clear- 

 ly, if continued too long, the draft on 

 stocks might carry reserves below the 

 danger point. 



"So great a curtailment of demand 

 has attended the industrial depression 

 that the total production for the calen- 

 dar year 1921 will probably not exceed 

 410,000,000 tons," the report adds. 

 "The last year in which the country 

 used so small an amount was 1911." 



The total output during the week of 

 December 10 is estimated at 7,235,000 

 net tons, as against 7,104,000 tons in the 

 week preceding. A year ago produc- 

 tion was 12,813,000 tons. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — A greenhouse, 

 24x100 feet, has been completed for 

 Wessling's Lakewood Greenhouses, 3538 

 Hennepin avenue. This greenhouse was 

 erected by Weeber & Race. 



