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ALGUST 5, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



Top Row-N. Chrlstatos, N. Lecakes, J. Caparell, J. Tryforos, Geo. D. Nicholas (Pree.), N. Lalas, 

 Cbatt. Davis, Geo. Comatas, Christ. Casino. 



Kottom Row-James Pappas, Geo. Polyliranas, P. Theophine, Geo. Cotsonas, Theo. Karampas 

 M. i Rovatzos. 



Committee in Charge of Outing of Greek Florists' Association of New York. 



other crack bowlers got in some needed 

 practice for Cincinnati, while their wives 

 made welcome for the strangers and the 

 press. 



Tlie clam bake was an elaborate one 

 and where Robert Berry and J. K. Allen 

 stowed away the soup, clams, crabs, tripe, 

 lobsters, chicken, watermelon, corn, sweet 

 potatoes, ice cream, beer and coffee, it 

 would take an expert mathematician to 

 determine. It was a perfect success in 

 every way. 



The rise in real estate values on Long 

 Island since the new bridge was com- 

 pleted has made some of these growers 

 wealthy, so that a clam bake once a week 

 from now until Thanksgiving would not 

 seem out of place. 



The plant growers will next have their 

 innings and in September the retailers 

 have something up their sleeves. 



Outing of the Greek Society. 



Thursday, July 29, the third annual 

 outing of the Greek- American Florists' 

 Association was held at Wetzel's Point, 

 li. I., 476 attending. The steamer Isabel 

 was chartered and the sail and breakfast 

 and dinner were all up-to-date and thor- 

 oughly enjoyed. The weather was de- 

 lightfully cool at the grove, while the city 

 s\v<ltered in a hot wave, with a tempera- 

 ture of nearly 100 degrees. Mr. Kemp- 

 ner, A. J. Guttman's partner, took the 

 interesting snapshot reproduced on this 

 P<tge, showing the committee in charge of 

 thf affair, which in every way was a 

 •suecess. About twenty per cent of the 

 attendance was American. 



The spirit of fraternity and good will 

 ^^.''3 much in evidence. A good orchestra 

 \\i;s provided and dancing of every na- 

 t' 'iiality was indulged in. The playing 

 "' the Greek and American national 

 li' inns created great enthusiasm. Henry 

 lackers, of J. I. Raynor's, was floor man- 

 •'-,'<r, and Herman Berkowitz, of Nugent 

 •^ Son, lieutenant. The $10 vase pre- 

 *-''ted by Mr. Rovatsos to the winning 

 '"'Seball team was won by the Americans 

 !uu] by them presented to Captain Rick- 

 •'-"'. whose two-base hit won the game 

 atter two were out and two on bases and 

 I'ie Athenians one run ahead in the last 

 inning. The score was 8 to 7 and the 

 faintest was exciting from start to finish. 

 t. Good was a good umpire. The Amer- 

 ican team eousisted of Messrs. Rickers, 



Goode, Murray, Hanft, Dick, Whitey, 

 Murphy, Dewy and Volk. The Greek- 

 Americans consisted of Messrs. Schloss, 

 Miders, Turney, Gretch, Arthur, Reidel, 

 Daniels, Wolff and Schreiner. 



The girls' race, 5 to 10 years old, was won 

 by Mary Pllnn; silver hand bag. 



Boys' race, 5 to 10 years, was won by Mas- 

 ter Reidel. 



Young ladies' race. Miss Anna Levitt, of 

 A. J. Guttman's office force; gold bracelet. 



Boys' race, 12 to 18 years, Theo. Cbirikos; 

 silver watch. 



Married ladies' race, Mrs. Kimbell; silver 

 set. 



Sack race, Mr. Tolson; gold clock. 



Three-legged race, Messrs. Kempner and 

 Wolff; alarm clock. 



Discus throwing, George Kiolis; kodak. 



Long Jump, George Georgas; pair Douglas 

 shoes. 



Fat ladies' race, Mrs. Reidel; silk umbrella. 



Fat men's race, George Cotsonas; watch. 



Marathon race, George Tervakos; mandolin. 



The bowling prize was won by G. Scbuephau- 

 ser, with M. T. Rovatz as second after a tie 

 score. 



At the close of the banquet the prizes 

 were presented by George D. Nicholas, 

 after which he made an address in Eng- 

 lish and afterwards in Greek, stirring the 

 big audience by his eloquent apostrophe 

 to fraternity, loyalty and national pride. 

 The association has every reason to feel 

 proud of its annual celebration. 



Various Notes. 



Rumor says one of the aggressive re- 

 tailers in Brooklyn will invade New York 

 this fall and has already secured the best 

 of the department stores for the venture. 

 It will make things hum in the Fifty- 

 ninth street section, where so many now 

 hold sway, Hauser, Hanft Bros., John 

 King Duer, Myer and Warendorff among 

 them. These are enterprising days and 

 the opportunities for enterprising florists 

 grow with great rapidity. 



Messrs. Traendly, Young and Pierson 

 are active now in final preparations for 

 the Cincinnati jubilee. The berths are 

 filling rapidly and for the last time the 

 warning is sent out to delay securing 

 your accommodations no longer. Write 

 Secretary Young at once. Remember the 

 Second Empire special leaves New York 

 at 12:40 Monday, August 16, and it wiU 

 stop at any city between New York and 

 Cleveland for the florists who secure their 

 transportation in advance, commencing at 

 Tarrytown and Poughkeepsie. The train 

 arrives at Albany at 4 p. m., where the 

 Boston and New England boys are ex- 

 pected to join us; Herkimer, 5:47; 



Utica, 6:08; Syracuse, 7:23; Rochester, 

 9:10; Buffalo, 10:50, and so on to Erie 

 and Cleveland, where we expect the De- 

 troit and Cleveland host to come on 

 board. 



Robert Berry has been appointed man- 

 ager and captain of the New York bowl- 

 ing team, and Friday, August 6, Tuesday, 

 August 10, and Friday, August 13, the 

 members will bowl at Thumm's alleys to 

 decide by their averages the five who will 

 represent New York. Only those taking 

 part in the bowling on these three even- 

 ings will be considered and Manager 

 Berry has so advised the club members. 

 Because of a contemplated trip to Europe 

 next year, Messrs. Donaldson and Mies- 

 sem, the best bowlers of the Astorias, 

 have cut out their Ohio trip, much to the 

 regret of the New Yorkers. Mr. Miessem 

 won the silver cup last year at Buffalo 

 for the highest individual score. 



A unique decoration of water lilies, 

 ferns and fountain, with ducklings, like 

 the one in Small & Sons' window, is 

 about all that will halt a pedestrian. 

 Alex. McConnell, M. A. Bowe and Clarke 's 

 Sons also keep the observant eyes open 

 and Nugent and Myer always have some- 

 thing out of the ordinary, even in the 

 dog days. 



Monday, August 9, the Liberty theater 

 in New York opens with a new play 

 called "The Florist Shop," staged by 

 Savage, a play that it is hoped will prove 

 a practical advertisement for the florists' 

 trade all the season. 



Reed & Keller have on exhibition in 

 their show windows many novelties that 

 will be seen at the convention, one repre- 

 senting the ship Half Moon of Hendrick 

 Hudson, the Robert Fulton and the great 

 modern palace steamship, the Lusitania, 

 in comparison. Their exhibit will occupy 

 900 square feet at Cincinnati. 



Clarence Moore, of the Moore Seed Co., 

 of Philadelphia, was a visitor last week. 



A. T. Boddington will have an exhibit 

 covering 200 square feet at the conven- 

 tion and H. A. Bunyard will be in charge. 

 Mr. Bunyard has spent the last six weeks 

 at Oradell, N. J., with his family, 



Mr. Weise, representing David Sachs, 

 of Quedlinburg, Germany, is in the city. 



R. E. Berry, of the park department, 

 superintended last week the replanting of 

 a gingko tree eighty-five feet high and 

 weighing sixteen tons, moving it from 

 One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street to 

 Mount Morris park. If Mr. Berry man- 

 ages the bowling club as well as he did 

 the tree moving, there will be some prizes 

 won by its members. 



H. Schmidt, of Union Hill, N. J., spe- 

 cialist in primroses and begonias, was an 

 attendant at the Greek outing, as well as 

 many other American growers and flo- 

 rists. He is enthusiastic over his new 

 Primula Kewensis. Herman Scholzel, the 

 originator of the Scholzeli fern, was also 

 at the outing. He has a large plant at 

 New Durham, N. J., the old Asmus place 

 there, now thoroughly up-to-date. He 

 has 20,000 small Scholzeli and 5,000 large 

 plants. 



All the lady bookkeepers and male em- 

 ployees are coming back from their vaca- 

 tions brown and beautiful and ready for 

 the greatest season ever known. Most of 

 the wholesale magnates are taking their 

 holiday in the Cincinnati trip and will 

 take in the mountains and the baths on 

 their return. 



Charles Schenck is back from the hills, 

 brown as a berry. A. J. Guttman hag 

 taken on avoirdupois in Maine, and i« 

 ready for business. J. Austin Shaw. 



