Arizona republican., 1907-06-28
NEW YORk'S EXPANSION
 COSTS $25O.OOO,O GOO
Flat Dwellers at Last Getting Square With Landiords-The Greatest Sum- mer Resort City in the Worid.

New York. June 2b-tSpecial Cor respondence of The Republican.)- Nothing more clearly indicates the rapid transformation which New York is undergoing than the building records of the past six months. which constitute the most active real estate of the year. During that time. Greater New York builders have spent $l2O.- 0O0. 900 on construction work alone, and the total investment. including the land upon which the buildings have been erected. has been more than S250. .O00 GOO. IL is significant of con- tinued prosperity. despite reactionary conditions in Wall street, that the greater portion of this amount has gone into small one and two-family houses in the outlying suburbs. which are being eagerly bought up by people of moderate means who welcome the opportunity 10 get square with the landlord at last. and are deserting the narrow confines of flat life in the heart Of the city for more attractive suburban surroundings. in anticipation of the opening to passenger traffic of the rapid transit tunnels now nearing completion. Many home sections open ed last year have been removed from the market. and long stretches of former farm lands have been convert ed into populous residential sections. While the building of these small homes in the suburbs has broken the best records, Manhattan's home con- Struction. which takes the form of flat buildings. has fallen almost to nothing. vacant flats are becoming numerous all over the city. and rents have fallen to a point which promises to average lower for 1908 than for 1907, and free rent for a month or two is offered by frightened landlords who want to get tenants.
 Two hundred members of the Texas Bankers association breezed into town and out again late last week in cheery southwestern way which has done much to disDel the feeling of de- pression occasioned by the somewhat critical attitude assumed by the sev- enteen young ladies from Oregon who preceded them a few weeks ago. New York is generously disposed and ai- lows that the pronunciation of the oregon maidens to the effect that her streets are crowded, her public ser cants rude, and her women overdress- ed was probably inspired by the fact that they were dependent upon one lone man for escort and a woman's hO- tel for entertainment. Nevertheless it vas soothing to civic pride to hear the president of the Honey Grove National remark to the president of the Venus bank. when about a million of Coney Islands electric lights jumped into life and flashed red, and white. and green fiOm tower to tower as they sat at dinner in a revolving cafe. This sure does beat Boston, but they can't come too fast for Texas" The remark was in part reminiscent of their last stopping place. The Texans. all bank presidents. cashiers. and capitalists from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande and sideways in both directions. are OU their annual pleasure tour subse- quent to the convention of the Texas Bankers association. They left Fort Worth in a special train on June :. and since that time have been enter tained in Kansas City. Chicago, De- uOit, Montreal and Boston. They stopped off in New York. where few of them had ever been before as a sort of bracer before moving on to Philadel- phia, where they look for an opportun- ity to recuperate.
 Without exaggeratiOn it can be said that New York is the greatest sum- mer resort city in the world. The humber of people who annually leave its limits for the mountains or the seashore would populate a city the size of Baltimore or even larger. Yet the city scarcely feels the difference for thousands of people arrive here every summer to spend their vacations amid the sights which the resident New Yorker wants to forget with the approach of warm weather. They in clude not only buyers from the south and west. who find this the most fav- orable time to lay in their winter stock Of goods, but professional men, school teachers and thousands of other peo- pie whose duties are not so pressing il. the summer time. as well as per- sons 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 tram Sacted during the morning hours, lunch in some shady restaurant or ho- tel where the air is kept well cooled. where palms, plants and flowers pro- duce 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 city's center. the evenings on some one of the numerous roof gar dens. So popular have these roof re sorts become that a number of the better class of hotels have fitted up these gardens in the air, where sum- mer guests may refresh themselves after 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 feet representation of an Italian gar den. with shaded walks. and water falls and many quiet. retired hooks. is really summer resort in the heart of the city. While the regular residents or the metropolis or as many as can afford to, flee the city every summer. outsiders who come in by the thousand manage 10 find a good deal of enjov- ment
 Already signs are apparent that the celebration of the glorious Fourth this year will be an international a,-art