. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 34 The Florists' Review April 15, 1920 ROSES, CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS AND Home-grown Gardenias JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 160 North Wabash Ave. CHICAGO strikes, but there was considerable im- provement last week in the situation in Chicago. For a day or two the company- abandoned the market, because of the switchmen's walkout, but during the latter part of the week full service was given for shipments going out on the B. & O., Panhandle, C. B. & Q., St. Paul and Alton, except that there was a com. plete embargo agfa
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 34 The Florists' Review April 15, 1920 ROSES, CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS AND Home-grown Gardenias JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 160 North Wabash Ave. CHICAGO strikes, but there was considerable im- provement last week in the situation in Chicago. For a day or two the company- abandoned the market, because of the switchmen's walkout, but during the latter part of the week full service was given for shipments going out on the B. & O., Panhandle, C. B. & Q., St. Paul and Alton, except that there was a com. plete embargo agfainst St. Louis, East St. Louis, Kansas City and Buffalo, where the conditions were worse than here. No pickups were made for points on the New York Central, Bock Island, Nickel Plate, L C, Michigan Central, Big Four or Northwestern, but ship- ments of "funeral flowers" were ac- cepted if taken to the stations. It was no longer necessary to fee the station men. This week conditions in Chicago are still further improved, the express com- pany is giving a little better service each day, but there is a lengthening list of eastern points for which ship- ments are not accepted. The express clerks' strike in Chicago has ceased to be much of a factor, the present trouble arising from the railroad employees' strikes. Among the wholesalers the idea is fast gaining ground that conditions ap- proach the intolerable and that some- thing of serious character is likely to happen soon. What Coal Will Cost. The growers have a problem before them in the continual rise in the cost of fuel. N. J. Wietor says that if he ever had any question that Pocahontas is the cheapest coal for a florist to use, every doubt was dispelled during the war, while all Pocahontas was diverted from this district. Not so many years ago Pocahontas mine-run cost the grow- ers $1 per ton at the mine mouth. Last season it was $3. Recently it has been $4, with the prospect of a further rise to $ as the result
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