JONB 6, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



19 



OBITUABT. 



Albert I. Bradstreet. 



Albert I. Bradstreet, a florist who 

 had resided for twenty-five years on a 

 farm near Dayton, O., died suddenly of 

 heart trouble early on Sunday morning, 

 May 26, at the age of 68 years. He 

 was born in Warren county, where he 

 spent many years. During his entire 

 residence in Montgomery county he had 

 lived on rural route No. 7, on the Lamb 

 road, just off the Cincinnati pike, about 

 four miles from Dayton. Besides his 

 wife, he is survived by two daughters. 

 Mis. Ava McCassy, who lives in the 

 same neighborhood, and Miss Nellie 

 Bradstreet, who resides at home. E. W. 

 Bradstreet, of Xenia, is a brother, and 

 Mrs. E. E. Dearth, of Detroit, is a 

 sister. Numerous distant relatives live 

 in Dayton. 



D. E. Stevens. 



Daniel E. Stevens, of the Stevens 

 Floral Co., Port Huron, Mich., died 

 May 24 in his home, at the corner of 

 Sixth and Pine streets, in that city, at 

 the age of 70 years. He had been in 

 feeble health for over a year, but his 

 final illness had continued for only 

 about two weeks. He was born January 

 19, 1842, in East Durham, N. Y. He 

 removed to Port Huron from Canada 

 thirty-four years ago. For fifteen years 

 he had charge of the art department in 

 the store of Barrett & Goulding. Leav- 

 ing that business, he embarked as a 

 florist and in this business he was en- 

 gaged for fourteen years. During his 

 first few years in the florists' trade he 

 was located on Water street, later mov- 

 ing to the corner of Sixth and Pine 

 streets. He had resided in the same 

 house for twelve years. 



He was a member of the Modern 

 Maccabees and the Woodmen of the 

 World, He leaves a widow, one daugh- 

 ter, Mrs. Charles E. Kean, of this city, 

 and one son, Mart Stevens, of Seattle, 

 Wash. The funeral was held Sunday 

 afternoon, May 26, from the family 

 home. Burial took place in Lakeside 

 cemetery. 



H. Glenn Fleming. 



H. Glenn Fleming, for many years one 

 of the leading florists of Fairmont, 

 W. Va., died May 22. About two weeks 

 previously he had gone with Mrs. Flem- 

 ing to Asheville, N. C, in the hope that 

 the change of climate might benefit his 

 health. His friends, however, who saw 

 him depart, could plainly perceive that 

 the end was near. He was still a young 

 man and was the only child of his 

 parents, both of whom survive him. 

 The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, 

 ^ay 26, from the Methodist Protestant 

 Temple, of which church he was an hon- 

 ored member. There was a profusion 

 of floral tributes. The entire chancel, 

 before which the casket lay, was em- 

 banked with flowers, tributes being sent 

 oy friends and relatives far and near. 

 The burial was at Woodlawn cemetery. 

 The business for a long time has been 

 joly conducted by his faithful foreman, 

 ^r. White. 



Ernest Kitzinger. 



Ill the death of Ernest Kitzinger, 

 J^hi'-h occurred at 12:30 a. m. June 3, 

 l^huago lost a retail florist who had 

 oeen in business continuously for nearly 

 ^ quarter of a century. Mr. Kitzinger 

 ^'} been ill for a long time, with 

 'leht's disease. He was born in Ham- 



burg, Germany, October 25, 1864. Emi- 

 grating to America when in young 

 manhood, he made his way directly to 

 Chicago and almost at once started in 

 the florists' business, on Milwaukee 

 avenue, later removing to 2852 West 

 FuUerton avenue. He is survived by 

 Mrs. Kitzinger and one son, 15 years 

 of age. The funeral was held from the 

 late residence Wednesday morning, 

 June 5, and was largely attended, for 

 Mr. Kitzinger had an extensive ac- 

 quaintance in his section of the city. 



Thomas F. Eeenan. 



In the sudden death of Thomas F. 

 Keenan, which occurred at 6112 Went- 

 worth avenue. May 31, there passed 

 away one of the oldest florists in Chi- 

 cago. For many years Mr. Keenan had 

 run a retail store at this address, with, 

 for some years, a branch store at 1306 

 East Sixty-third street, conducted by 

 his son> Arthur F. Keenan. The cause 

 of deaih was heart disease. Mr. Keenan 

 had been around the same as usual, 

 even on the morning of his death. A 

 short time ago he had closed his store 

 on Wentworth avenue and had recently 

 been employed by the W. W. Barnard 

 Co. 



Thomas F. Keenan was born in Penn- 

 sylvania, May 30, 1856, and celebrated 

 his flfty-sixth birthday anniversary on 

 Memorial day, the day before he died. 

 He removed to Chicago when a young 

 man and had spent practically his en- 

 tire lifetime in the business on the south 

 side. A widow and two sons survive. 

 Arthur F. Keenan plans to continue the 

 Sixty-third street store. Burial was at 

 Mount Greenwood cemetery June 2. 



Elijah A. Wood. 



Elijah A. Wood, of the well-known 

 Boston family of florists by that name, 

 died at 706 Buckingham place, Chicago, 

 June 1, after a brief illness of spinal 

 meningitis in its epidemic form. The 

 body was taken, June 2, to the old fam- 

 ily home at Newton, Mass., for burial. 

 Mr. Wood was born in the Bay State 

 April 22, 1859. After many years in 

 the trade there, he removed to Chicago 

 a couple of years ago to take employ- 

 ment in the office of a trade paper. He 

 was of a likable disposition and made 

 friends wherever he was known. A 

 widow survives. 



Miss Jennie Lautenschlager. 



The mjlny friends of Fred Lauten- 

 schlager, of Chicago, will sympathize 

 with him in the sudden death of his 

 sister, Miss Jennie Lautenschlager, 

 which occurred at the family home, 

 3707 North Kacine avenue. May 27, of 

 heart disease. Miss Lautenschlager was 

 born in Germany,' October 22, 1877. For 

 a time the family home was at Cin- 

 cinnati and the burial took place there 

 May 29, in Spring Grove cemetery. 

 Miss Lautenschlager is survived by her 

 mother, Mrs. Louise Lautenschlager, 

 and her brother, Fred. 



WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS. 



One of the valuable labor saving de- 

 vices designed especially for use in con- 

 nection with mechanical water supply 

 systems is a series of valves which en- 

 ables liquid fertilizers to be taken into 

 irrigation systems and distributed with 

 the water. In a recent catalogue of 

 the Standard Pump & Engine Co., 

 Cleveland, the method is described as 

 follows: "This is accomplished by 



means of a special regulating inlet 

 valve which can be adjusted to take in 

 a definite quantity of fertilizer with 

 the given amount of water. In the deep 

 well pumping engines a special pump 

 is mounted on the base of the machine 

 itself for pumping the fertilizer into 

 the discharge pipe line against the 

 pressure. A person experienced with 

 work of this nature will readily appre- 

 ciate the great saving of time by dis- 

 tributing fertilizer in this way, as well 

 as the absolute safety in securing a 

 proper distribution of the fertilizer to 

 all parts of the system." 



PITTSBUKOH. 



The Market. 



The month of May closed in a satis- 

 factory manner for everybody in the 

 business. Cut flower people had about 

 all they could expect for the week clos- 

 ing with Decoration day. There were 

 flowers enough to satisfy all demands 

 and the prices were not high, but all 

 were satisfled. 



Plantsmen were never harder driven, 

 as summer seemed to have settled down 

 at once. Everyone wanted his work 

 done at once and could not wait an- 

 other day for window and porch boxes. 

 Some, however, are waiting yet. Bed- 

 ding plants of all kinds are selling well 

 and many of the plantsmen are pretty 

 well sold up. The annual cry of a 

 shortage of good geraniums is again 

 heard, but the wholesale price hardly 

 justifies growing many more, especially 

 if one has any other use for the space 

 they take. Almost any old thing will 

 pay better. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. McClements, of Eandolph & Mc- 

 Clements, says they are simply rushed 

 to the limit with planting and window 

 and porch boxes. 



The A. W. Smith Co. reports having 

 all the outside work that the large force 

 can take care of, and the office force 

 are busy trying to hold the late comers 

 off until they can reach them. 

 . The John Bader Co. reports an excep- 

 tionally good season, with everything 

 moving as fast as it can be hauled off 

 the place. 



Mrs. E. A. Williams had a beautiful 

 window display on the occasion of the 

 Knights Templar parade, May 28. A 

 grand stand was erected in the large 

 window, which was occupied by forty- 

 five ladies. This was surrounded by 

 ferns, making a most beautiful picture 

 and giving Mrs. Williams an oppor- 

 tunity to entertain her friends. 



Though it was an exceedingly busy 

 day, Mr. Clarke, of the Pittsburgh Cut 

 Flower Co., could not resist the tempta- 

 tion to get on his uniform and march 

 with the Knights Templar. 



After considerable talk, the baseball 

 clubs of the wholesale houses got to- 

 gether June 3, with the following re- 

 sults: Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., nine- 

 teen hits, twenty runs; McCallum Co., 

 eight hits, five runs. The clubs were 

 made up as follows: 



McCallum Co. 

 Spltzner, c. 

 H. Nigel, 2b. 

 E. E. Nigel, lb. 

 Welnhelmer, ss. 

 H. McCallum, rf. 

 A. Letscns, cf. 

 .Tack Martin, 3b. 

 Geo. McCallum, If. 

 Sicily, p. 



Pgh. C. Flo. Co. 

 Wlntz, 3b. 

 Gerwlg, ss. 

 Gormley, 2b. 

 Colllgan, p. 

 Ashcraft, lb. 

 G. Marshall, rf. 

 Gattl, cf. 

 Crongold, c. 

 J. Marshall, If. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



