Jamdaby 7, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



COIJ} SNAP BEINGS FIBES. 



Waterloo, la. — Fire starting in the 

 partition between the boiler room and 

 the garage at the greenhouses of Chas. 

 Sherwood December 27 destroyed the 

 delivery automobile, garage and roof 

 of the boiler room. It was checked be- 

 fore it could harm the greenhouses or 

 plants. The damage was $1,200, eoy- 

 ered by insurance. 



Hopkinsvllle, Bjr. — About $300 dam- 

 age was done by a fire at the green- 

 houses of T. L. Metcalfe, at Sixth and 

 Clay streets, Sunday morning, Decem- 

 ber 27. Between the time the night 

 man went off duty and the day fire- 

 man came on, the boiler became so hot 

 that it set fire to the woodwork. Be- 

 fore the blaze was discovered and ex- 

 tinguished, it had done about $50 

 damage to the building and $250 dam- 

 age to the plants. There was no in- 

 surance. *' 



Des Plaines, HL — Fire at the Solomon 

 Garland range December 22 destroyed 

 the boiler house, coal sheds, one green- 

 house and the automobile. The night 

 fireman, returning from looking after 

 the boiler in the violet houses, found 

 the boiler room in a mass of flames. As 

 the establishment is outside the fire lim- 

 its, the efforts of the neighbors were 

 all that saved the other greenhouses. 

 The plants in these were frost-bitten 

 and some are ruined. There was no in- 

 surance carried. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



New Year's business was reported 

 better than last year. The demand cen- 

 tered chiefly on cut flowers and was 

 quite as good as for Christmas. Con- 

 sidering that we had only four clear 

 days during the month of December, 

 stock of all kinds has been plentiful. 

 Killarney roses are away off in color. 

 The supply last week was made up of 

 roses and carnations. These were plen- 

 tiful and cheap, with no clean-ups re- 

 ported. Good stock in roses hardly 

 went over $6 per hundred and excel- 

 lent carnations were offered at $2 and 

 $3 per hundred. The dark weather 

 had its effect on violets and sweet peas. 

 These are scarce and as a rule clean 

 up daily. There were quite a few 

 gladioli in the market last week, but 

 the trade did not take to them. In 

 bulbous stock there is excellent valley 

 and plenty of Paper Whites, but Bo- 

 man hyacinths have so far been scarce. 

 Asparagus is reported to be somewhat 

 scarce, but of other greens the supply 

 has been as usual. 



Various Notes. 



George B. Windier, who had a loss by 

 fire recently, has his place in fine shape 

 again. The damage was estimated at 

 nearly $4,000. The fire coming when it 

 did, just before the holidays, caused 

 much inconvenience. 



The trustees of the Florists' Club, 

 who have charge of the club's enter- 

 tainment and dance to take place in 

 Westminster hall, January 27, say the 

 sale of tickets is progressing nicely. 

 The pasteboards will be mailed to all 

 members this week. 



December 28 the trade had quite a 

 busy dky furnishing flpwers for the 

 opening of the new baEiking rooms of 

 the German' ftavinra Institution, l^^any 

 beautiful designs were sent. 



THE MEN YOU MEET 



WTTJJAM J. KT.TMT.Ti. 



IN THE evening of January 7, William J. Keimel will succeed the man who is, per- 

 haps, his closest friend, as president of the Chicago Florists' Club. Keimel is a 

 pacifist; he is for peace and plenty and usually he gets what he wants, for success 

 has become almost a habit with him. Years ago, while with Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 he became known as a successful rose grower. Shortly he started into business at 

 Elmhurst, 111., with his brother-in-law and associates, as the Wendland & Keimel Co., 

 and the success was continued. Mr. Keimel is the treasurer and general manager. 

 Although for many years a member of numerous trade organizations, this is the first 

 time he ever has accepted an executive o£Sce in one, and his friends count on a year 

 of unusual prosperity for the club. 



The Lady Florists' Home Circle will 

 hold its New Year's meeting at the 

 home of Mrs. Fred C. Weber, on Ber- 

 lin avenue. 



Marion Uhlschmidt, manager for the 

 east side branch store of Grimm & Gor- 

 ly, says the holidays were satisfactory 

 in the sale of both plants and cut flow- 

 ers. 



Ostertag Bros., a« usual, had a num- 

 ber of good decorating jobs for New 

 Year celebrations in the downtown ho- 

 tels and cafes. 



W. C. Smith's flower show commit- 

 tee will meet this week and prepare 

 the final report to be presented at the 

 club 's meeting. 



Many telegraph orders came to The 

 Eeview's advertisers for New Year. 

 These orders have become quite large 

 of late, especially on holidays, and 

 advertisers again reaped a harvest this 

 time. 



Gladioli for Christmas and New 

 Year's were quite a novelty. H. S. 



Berning had quite a large shipment 

 of them from Florida. 



David Geddis, manager of Vander- 

 voort's floral department, says the holi- 

 days this year were away beyond his 

 expectations. 



J. Byers, traveling salesman for the 

 Chicago Carnation Co., Chicago, spent 

 New Year's here calling on growers. 

 He was much pleased with his first visit 

 here. 



The St. Louis Seed Co. is settled in 

 its new quarters at 411 and 413 Wash- 

 ington avenue. Last week was moving 

 week. They opened for business Mon- 

 day morning, January 4. 



Bobbers broke into George Wald- 

 bart's garage December 28 and took 

 a joy ride in his fine touring car, which 

 was later found in the country some- 

 what damaged. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club will hold 

 its New Year's meeting Thursday af- 

 ternoon, January 14. This meeting will 

 be one of great impQrtfince, as the 



