Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw47amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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354 The American Florist. Aug. 31,
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GENERAL VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE S. A. F. CONVENTION, AUGUST 80-28. cheering, led by John Westcott, and this was followed by three cheers for Mr. Westcott. proposed by Patrick O'Mara. W. F. Gude, of. Washington, D. C. suggested that Judge Vesey es- cort President-elect Farquhar to the platform. Judge Vesey complied with the request and introduced the presi- dent-elect, asking for him as kindly treatment as the members would know how to accord. Presldent-Elect Farquhar's Speech. President-elect Farquhar acknowl- edged the honor centered by his elec- tion, as follows : Mr. President. Judge Vesey and fel- low-members of the S. A. F. & O. H.: I thank you for the marvelous dem- onstration of confidence that you have tendered to me on this occasion. I left Boston with the idea that I would not run for the presidency, and so stated to my friends not only in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, liut also in Chicago. They would not take "no" for an answer. They forced me here, and here I am! I keenly feel the honor that you have conferred on me, and I feel too the responsibility which attaches to and is coupled with that honor. I realize that this growing and progressive society Is becoming of greater and greater im- portance, is doing a larger work, has a larger membership, is widening its in- fluence each year, and that with this increased growth there is al.so an in- creasing responsibility resting on him whom you place in its first otfice. As 1 stated before, I appreciate the honor, and I also appreciate the re- sponsibility attaching to it and the amount of work that will devolve upon your executive head. It shall be my earnest endeavor to promote every interest of the society, and we shall need your helpful co-operation with- out which but little can be done: but with your help this society has won- derful possibilities. In the several so- cieties with which I am now connect- ed it has been my endeavor to do my duty, and I assure you, gentlemen, in thanking you again for this honor, that I shall continue the endeavor to do my duty in this larger sphere of usefulness to which you have now called me for thr- Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- ists. (Applause.l "Has any one else any special busi- ness to offer before we call for the final resolution?" asked President Vin- cent. "If I am in order—and I think I am —I would ask that the privilege of the floor be accorded to Wallace R. Pierson of Cromwell. Conn., chairman of the publicity committee of the New York Florists' Club, who has some- thing of interest to present to the society," said W. F. Gude. W. B. Pierson's Speech. Mr. President and gentlemen, in aji- pearing before this body in this Coli- seum, which has been the center of at- traction in the greatest publicity movement that the world has ever seen, and in the hall which has been the scene of our recent great political conventions, I feel that I am address- ing you as a body of business men here for business purposes, and that the principal thing in our business is the return that we can get from the Hower business as a whole. The New- York Florists' Club is in- terested in publicity for the flower in- dustry not only from one standpoint but from all standpoints. We have had samples of what newspaper pub- licity can do. American baseball is a newspaper game. Practically every large movement is a newspaper game. Are we as a body of men going to al- low the greatest privilesc that we may utilize as a business organization to escape from us merely because we neg- lect to take advantage of the opportu- nity that is presented to make the florists' industry one of the greatest in the world through the aid of the pub- lic press? The New York Florists' Clvib have prepared a resolution that we wish to Iiresent to this society calling for a general publicity committee, such com- mittee lo include in its membership rei)n scnlatives from all of the florists' clubs in the I'nited States, to meet 1-., V Mniui:illy concurrently with this ccinvcntlfin as an advisory body, to iiiusidcr ways and nu'ans. so that each uum when he returns to his own florists' ilub can lake back a report tf that club that It may co-operale in an organized movement for publicity In

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