The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30
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New york. June 2s-Nothing more clearly indicates the rapid transform
 fion which New York is undersoins
 than the building records or the pas. pas'
 six months, which constitute the most active real estate season of the year
 During that time, Greater New aork buflders have spent $l20,0O0,OOO on constuction work alone, and the totai il1yestment including the land upon which tle buildings have been erected
 has been more than $250,00O,OOo. II is significant of continued prosperity
 despite reactionary conditions Tn Wal
 Street that the greater portion or thls amount has gone into small one and fwo-family houses in the outlying
 suburbs, which are being eargerly Z bxorght up by people of moderate
 means who welcome the opportunity
 ko get square with the landlord at last and are sdeserting the narrow confines
 Of Flat life in the heart of the city TOT more attractive suburban surroundings fin anticipation of the opening to pas manger traffic of the rapid transit tun- nels now nearing completion. Many heme sections opened last year have been removed from the market, and long stretches of former farm lands have been converted into populous residential sections. While the build ing of these small homes in the supurps has broken the best records, Man haftan's home construction, which
 xalxes the form of flat buildings, has fallen almost to nothing, vacant flats are becoming numerous alN over the city, and rents have fallen to point which promises to average lower for 1eoS than 1907, and free rent for month or two is offered by frightened landlords who want to get tenants.
 Two hundred of the Texas Bankers Association breezed into town and out again late last week in cheery south western way which has done much to dsspel the feeling of depression oc- caaioned by the somewhat critical atti- tude assumed by the seventeen young ladies from oregon who preceded them few weeks ago. New York is generously disposed and allows that the pronunciamento of the Oregon
 maidens to the effect that her streets are crowded, her public wants rude, hnd her women overdressed was prob ably inspired by the fact that they were dependent upon one lone man 1or escort and a woman's hotel for Entertainment. Nevertheless 1t was a0othing to civic pride to hear the President of the Hone.- Grove remark 1o the president of the Venus bank. when about a million of Coney Islands selectrkc lights jumped into life and 9iashed red, and white, and green from xoWex to tower as they sat at dinner fin the revolving cafe This sure does beat Boston, but they can't come fast for Texas The remark was in part reminiscent of their last stopping place. The Texans, all bank presidents cashiers, and capitalists from the Pan- handle to the Rio Grande and side sHays in both directions. are on their annual pleasure tour subsequently to the convention of the Texas Bankers
 nm in a special train on June and since that time have beSn entertained in Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Mon treal and Boston. They stopped off in New York, where few of them had ever been before. as sort of bracer before moving on to Philadelphia, where they look for an opportunity
 to recuperate.
 Without exaggeration it can be said that V York is the greatest summer resort city in the world. The number of people who annually leave its limits for the mountains the seashore would populate a city the size of Balti- more or even larger. Yet the city scarcely feels the difference, for
 thousands of people arrive here every summer to spend t,:eir vacation amid the sights which the resident New Yorker wants to forget with the ap- proGch or warm weather Iney 1n- clnde not only buyers from the South and West, who find this the most favorable time to lay in their winter stock of goods, but professional men, school teachers and thousands of other people whose duties are not so pres sing in the summer time,, as well as persons of means, who can afford to go elsewhere, but prefer to come to New York They arrange their affairs so that necessary business may be
 transacted during the morning hours
 lunch in some shady restaurant or
 hotel where the air is kept well cooled, where palms, plants and flowers pro- duee the illusion of out-of doors, and where there is good music to cause one to forget the turmoil of the out side streets. The afternoons are spent on the rivers or beaches within a few miles of the citys centre, the evenings on some of the numerous roof gardens. So popular have these roof resorts become that a number of the better class of hotels hare fitted up these gardens in the air, where sum- mer guests may --c- esh themselves
 after a strenuous day of sightseeing
 The roof of the Hotel Astor. indeed, where the unusual advantage of space has made it possible to arrange a per den, with shaded walks, and waterfalls
 and many quiet, retired hooks, is really a summer resort in the heart of the cit While the regular residents of