The age-herald., 1900-12-02
NED BRACE SEES AND
 HEARS IN NEW YORK

attended my first New York Horse Show last week These shows occur once a year at Madison Square Garden, lasting one week. It is the great annual oppor- tunity for exhibition of wealthy and fash ionable people and fancy fashionable horses.
 The one appears in gay plumage, so to speak = the other in fancy trappings Wealthy women spend five hundred dollars for conspicuous boxes in whieh-to sit to display dresses and jewels costing many thousands Between these boxes and the show ring is a planked promenade about twenty feet wide, around which those who attend stroll to look upon those fashion ables displaying themselves in the boxes and occasionally to look upon the fancy horses cavorting about in the show ring.
 Of course, one sees good hoFsesNand fine dresses, but beauty is sorely lacking among the gaudily- dressed.
 For some reason not explained the beauty and wealth of the country is not thorough ly combined, but the world seems to ac- cept the old adage that fine feathers make fine birds, and the world looks with admi- ration or else with curiosity upon the fine feathers, and pays fancy prices for the privilege.
 However, at the Horse Show it is not all fine dressing One sees all manner of peo- pie in all sorts of costumes. Men go in full dress with white ties and white gloves. and men go in the costumes of business and the race track. You see all sorts of things and everybody
 Of course, you see good horses-the best in the land-coach horses, racers jumpers. fancy trotters and everything bearing the
 proud title of horse It is show worth seeing.
 Birmingham was well represented. Among the attendants were MT. and Mrs. Walker Percy, br. and Mrs. Henry Badham, MT. and Mrs. Rufus Rhodes, MT. and Mrs. Allan Haskell, MT and Mrs. Frank Grider and many others.
 Speaking of New York. all the newspaper owners of the country met there last week. As rule they are prosperous set, though few of them admit it. Several, however have incomes bordering on a million dol lars annually from their newspapers. The Washington Evening Star, which is classed dIAOliS COulltIu newspapers dOSo hOt iiiiSS the million dollar mark far in its annual net income.
 Perhaps the most prosperous newspaper in the Middle South is the Atlanta Consti- luton, which is now making a net annual profit of one hundred thousand dollars. The Memphis Commercial Appeal earns something like $6OOOO year. For afternoon papers the Nashville Banner shows pros- perity to the extent of about $40,0O0 annual net earrings, and the Atlanta Journal does not drop far behind in the prosperity class.
 "1f the farmers and country merchants in the south are able to hold back their cot ton and not rush it all to market in the next two or three weeks, I believe they will get from Il to 12 cents for it. The cot ton producers have the market in their own hands. It is with them what they shall get for their cotton
 So spoke one of the wealthiest members of the New York Cotton Exchange to me on Friday.
 He added that the spinners of this coun- try and Europe had @ short supply on hand either the crop was short or it was being held back. If the farmers continued to hold back the price would go up a cent or more a pound. Otherwise, if all the cot ton already ginned and packed was dumped on the market within the next two weeks, then the price would go down He, how ever, expects to see 12-cent cotton next spring, if not earlier.
 It-was clearly manifest to me from talks with dozen prominent cotton men that the farmers of the south have it fin their power to get a big price for their unmarketed crop, and l hope they will do it.
 The eye of industrial investors in New York is upon the Birmingham district. Everybody asks questions about it, and many know much about it. Though denials have been made, it is thoroughly evident that both the Carnegie interests in the iron and steel world and the American Steel and Wire people-better known as the John w. Gates interests-have loving eyes gazing Birminghamward, and I should not be sur prised to hear of some big purchases being made public in a few weeks. At least such $ is the opinion of