The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

organization Is forming to take charge of the movement, which promises. 60 1t is said. to ripen into speedy success. Con- gress at its next session will be asked to appropriate s5.00o.0o0 toward the cost of the enterprise. and each of the State Lesis- latures will be asked to contribute s2o0,oo0 to the same end. It is argued in support of the scheme that most of the people who live in New York, as we'll as a quarter of . million visitors daily, are from other places anyway and that such a monument to the greatness of elsewhere staring the naughty native sternly in the eye from some prom inent corner of Fifth Aveinue. would do much to teach him how little he really counts and foster that feeling of proprietor ship and superiority so inadequately express ed at the annual talk-fests of the various State societies
 Tn view of the eappeal of a delegation of New York clergymen to President Roosevelt to aid them in Inducing the people of the metropolis to attend religious services it is interesting to note that there is one church in New York that is not troubled by the problem of filling it's pews, perhaps for the reason that 1t is an altogether new kind of church, based upon the doctrine of the brotherhood and interdependence of naan. and uniting all creeds while advocating none. The Peoples Church." as it is called fIourishes in the midst of New York's teem- ing East Side population under the auspices of the Peoples Institute. Its meetings are held during twenty-five or thirty weeks of the year in the large hall of Cooper Onion. and not infrequently the attendance is two thousand or more. Tn this unique church the personal views of the speaker upon con- troversial religious questions are never sought to be impressed, not only for the reason that the rules forbid any attempt at proselyting or any attack of creed upon creed. but the audience enjoys the unique privilege of answering back; and the cler- gyrnan who speaks for the first time from Cooper Union platform faces the novelty of having crude thought or inapt state ments challenged. and perhaps refuted. by some one of his hearers. According to the statement of Professor Charles sprague Smith, founder and director of the Institute, an occasional roll call of the audience by 'isms'' discloses philosophical anarchists. socialists of every phase. single taxers, and adherents of every creed under the sun as well adherents of no creed at all"
 New Workers spend more money for flow CTS and elaborate floral designs than any other of Americas buyers. and the combined profits of its florists are said to amount to S4,000.000. There are 10000 florists in the United States and an estimate of the money spent each year for cultivated flowers is pAVofOVV,VVV' a tQudl to Oue-IlItn the value of all the coal mines last year or one fourth the surplus in the national banks of the country, and almost equal to the net earnings of those banks. The citizens of Newport. Cincinnati and St. Louis pay S1,- 100000, and $2,0oo,o00 is spent annually in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Fits. burg. The popular flowers in the wealthy homes of Fifth Avenue and the vicinity are. first roses then carnations, of which thousands are used every day for dinner table decorations, chrysanthemums and vio- let's The great popular type. however, are pansies and geraneums and in these first warm days of spring the window gardens of the tenements blaze with their rich hues. A thousand men are constantly employed fin producing roses for the New York market and the cost of transporting them from the farms to the city amounts to more than $50.oo0 in the course of year
 Longacre