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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 4, 1910. 



Schimmel is now at the Highlands or 

 Atlantic City. 



Benjamin Jacobs, with George Salt- 

 ford, leaves shortly for his holiday at 

 Saratoga. 



Charles Schenck, of Traendly & 

 Schenck, returned August 1 from a 

 month's stay at White Lake with his 

 family. Mrs. Saven, bookkeeper for 

 the firm, begins her vacation next week. 

 E. Anker has returned from Newburgh 

 and Pough-keepsie and Messrs. Heintz, 

 Duffy and the rest of the force, includ- 

 ing Thomas Martin, the manager, are 

 enjoying the usual courtesies this lib- 

 eral house dispenses. Mr. Traendly will 

 get his at the convention, but life with 

 him at any rate is one perpetual holi- 

 day. 



Walter Sheridan will begin his recre- 

 ative stunt also at Kochester, with Mrs. 

 Sheridan, and may end it on the Great 

 Lakes or the Yosemite. Charles Miller, 

 his lieutenant, has just returned from 

 a two weeks' rest at Stevensville, and 

 Eobert Monroe, the bookkeeper, departs 

 August 8 for a good time in the moun- 

 tains. 



The new store of the Geller Co. will 

 give ample room vvhen completed, and 

 the large display windows are already 

 in place. It is next door west of the 

 Forster Mansfield Co. 



A rumor of another wholesale cut 

 flower store between J. K. Allen's and 

 Sixth avenue, to be conducted by broth- 

 ers of many years' experience, was cur- 

 rent in the wholesale street August 1. 



Andrew Beanploe, manager of the 

 Forster Mansfield Co., is enjoying a two 

 weeks' cruise on Great South bay in 

 his motor boat. 



Mr. Hanfling arrived Tuesday, August 

 2, from Europe after a ten weeks' stay. 

 Mr. Eussin joins his family August 6, 

 for a four weeks' stay in the Catskills. 

 Leo Rosen, bookkeeper for the firm, has 

 just returned from Cold Springs, where 

 he spent his vacation. 



Gunther Bros, are already repainting 

 and improving their store and adding a 

 large icebox to their annex, in evident 

 expectation of a lively winter. 



J. K. Allen has been receiving some 

 grand asters, indoor grown, from P. J. 

 Schraeder, of Pine Brook, which he sold 

 at 75 cents per dozen. Mr. Allen will 

 be at the convention. Miss Mona Smed- 

 ley, his bookkeeper, will enjoy her vaca- 

 tion at Old Point Comfort and Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



John I. Raynor was bidding his 

 friends on Twenty-eighth street good- 

 bye Monday, preparatory to a month's 

 auto tour with Mrs. Raynor. 



A. S. Burns, Jr., of Spring Valley, 

 was in the city August 1, a guest of 

 P. J. Smith, who handles all his New 

 York lily shipments. He devotes over 

 50,000 square feet entirely to lily grow- 

 ing. 



N. Leeakes is back from a, two weeks' 

 vacation in Newt Hampshire. 



W. J. Raidle, Jr., bookkeeper for P. J. 

 Smith, has returned from u two weeks' 

 stay in the Highlands. 



J. J. Coan, of the Growers' Cut 

 Flower Co., complains of the overship- 

 ments of red gladioli. 



S. C. Hopkins, bookkeeper for A. J. 

 Guttman, is back from a two weeks' 

 cruise among the Maine seaside resorts. 

 Mr. Reidel goes to Canada for his vaca- 

 tion after the convention. 



Mrs. August Millang and family are 

 at Jeffersonviile. W. H. Miller, brother 

 of A. L. Miller, president of the 



Florists' Club, now with A. Millang, is 

 having a vacation at Belmar and As- 

 bury Park, N. J. 



A. J. Guttman says he will be at the 

 convention with samples, as manager 

 and president of the Best Oil Co., with 

 paint mills at Ellenville, N. Y. The new 

 offices of the company are in the Hud- 

 son Terminal building. Mrs. Guttman 

 and her two sons have been in Europe 

 since June and are now touring Switzer- 

 land. 



H. Kenney, of Brooklyn, is doing a 

 remarkable business and ships his goods 

 to every state in the Union. It looks as 

 if the big factory would need to be 

 enlarged. 



The sincere sympathy of the trade is 

 extended Mrs. C. W. Scott in her be- 

 reavement, her mother, Mrs. Andrew 

 Mills, having passed away last week. 

 The floral tokens of respect from her 

 friends were many and beautiful. Mr. 

 Scott is now at the helm of the Yoko- 

 hama Nursery Co, 



The seed houses are all busy with con- 

 signments of French bulbs and Bermuda 

 lilies and the shipping season has begun. 



Bowling. 



The Long Island Bowling Club devot- 

 ed Tuesday afternoon, July 26, as usual, 

 to preparation for first' honors at 

 Rochester. The scores tell the reason 

 why: 



Plaver 1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 



Donaldson 199 176 161 168 203 



Elnsmnn 163 141 135 154 136 



Elchman 178 159 156 161 176 



Slebrecbt, W., Sr 150 146 148 141 123 



Kessler 164 176 140 102 153 



Slebrecht, H 122 181 155 138 161 



Miesem will be home from Europe 

 this week and there is no doubt the 

 team will make a great record. 



The New York boys are also ambi- 

 tious and improving. The following 

 scores were made July 27: 



Player Ist 2d 3d 



Miller 158 171 



Smith 115 156 135 



Berry 154 169 138 



Wlttbeck 175 212 195 



McColIom 181 2,30 166 



Fenrlch 152 146 143 



Manda 161 149 161 



President Miller surprised the mem- 

 bers with his skill. There is no doubt 

 if New York does itself justice at the 

 convention a bowling club will be 

 formed, backed by the president and 

 the best element of the club, something 

 that should have been consummated 

 long ago. J. Austin Shaw. 



OBITUARY. 



Anna L. Westman. 



Miss Anna L. Westman, widely known 

 Cleveland retail florist and member of the 

 firm of Westman & Getz, died August 1, 

 after only a few hours' illness. Strong 

 to the last in her Christian Science belief 

 that there was no such thing as disease 

 of the body. Miss Westman refused to 

 have a physician summoned and the case 

 was reported to the coroner, who made an 

 investigation and said that heart failure 

 was undoubtedly the cause of death. 



Miss Westman was 45 years of age. 

 For the past seven years she had been in 

 the florists 'business with Miss Hester A. 

 Getz, at 5923 Euclid avenue. The firm 

 was Westman & Getz and was well known 

 in the east end of Cleveland. She had 

 lived in Cleveland for a number of years, 

 although her birthplace was Sweden. The 

 firm was probably the best known in the 

 trade of any in the country in which both 

 partners were women. They did a large 

 volume of sales. 



Henry J. Bowden. 



Henry James Bowden, of Rochester 

 N. Y., died July 23. He leaves a 

 widow. Mr. Bowden was born in Bed- 

 ford, England, in 1848, his father, James 

 Bowden, being an instructor in Modern 

 School, where his brother now teaches 

 and came to this country to visit 

 friends in 1871. After a short stay here 

 he decided to remain, and entered into 

 the nursery business with Chase Bros. 

 Co., with whom he remained ten years 

 before deciding to start a business of 

 his own. He secured as a partner D. H. 

 Patty, of Geneva, and the two men con. 

 ducted a nursery business up to the 

 present time. His business associates 

 knew him as a man whose fair dealing 

 was not to be questioned and a person 

 whose judgment was always to be relied 

 upon. His success in business can be 

 traced to his unswerving honesty and 

 industry. Mr. Bowden was an expert 

 accountant, but his chief interest lay in 

 his nursery business, with which he 

 kept in touch up to the time of his 

 death. 



Mrs. Otto Kuehnel. 



Mrs. Kuehnel, wife of Otto Kuehnel, 

 a nurseryman and florist at 122 Mc- 

 Cracken avenue, Muskegon, Mich., died 

 July 26. She had been ill only a few 

 hours. ^ short funeral service was held 

 at the residence July 29 and the body 

 was taken to Chicago for burial. She 

 was 51 years old, and had lived in Mus- 

 kegon about a year and a half. The 

 members of the trade extend their deep- 

 est sympathy to Mr. Kuehnel. 



Oeorge H. Sheppard. 



George H. Sheppard, a nurseryman of 

 Lamonte, Mo., died of Bright 's disease 

 July 20, at the age of 78 years. He 

 was a native of Indiana. He removed 

 to Lamonte in 1868 and engaged in the 

 nursery business. For many years he 

 made fruit exhibits at St. Louis fairs, 

 winning large numbers of premiums, 

 and in later years he made exhibits at 

 the Missouri State Fair, at Sedalia. He 

 was unmarried. 



H. Beynolds. 



H. Reynolds, one of the pioneer resi- 

 dents of Monroe, Mich., and probably 

 the oldest nurseryman in the state, died 

 recently at the age of 91 years. He was 

 a native of New York and removed to 

 Michigan in 1840. 



Alexander Youngston. 



Alexander Youngston, for the last few 

 years a florist on Pearl street, in Barre, 

 Vt., died July 25 at his home on Upland 

 avenue. His death was due to pul- 

 monary edema, f oUowingf a light attack 

 of pneumonia. He was born in Elgin, 

 Scotland, May 5, 1855, and was mar- 

 ried in 1885 to Susie Kirton, of his na- 

 tive town. He came to this country a 

 short time afterward, living in different 

 New England cities, and finally re- 

 moved to Barre about eight years ago, 

 where he had made his home ever since, 

 with the exception of a visit to his old 

 home abroad. He is survived by his 

 widow and four children, Susie, Mary, 

 Alexander and Orville. 



Joseph Zellers. 



Joseph Zellers, Newark, N. J., died 

 July 26. He was for twelve years a 

 berry grower and lately had grown 

 pansy plants and other florists' stock. 



