The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-26
That Is What New Workers are Paying for the Latest Fashionable Flower The Metropolis to Have Taste of Real war-A Hundred Billion Talks . Year to Be the Future Record--Hst Trimming Contests the Latest Fad Scheme to Rear Perfect Children.

New York, April 25.--(Special. )-- Fashion rules in flowers just as 1t does in hats, gowns and hair. and April. being the height of the flower season in New York. is the time when its de- crees are promulgated.
 This year the members of the 400, who pride themselves on Knowing the latest wrinkle in everything, from poo ale dogs to automobiles. have been wearing and sending to their friends white violets.
 These flowers are obtainable only at the fashionable Fifth Avenue florists and sell at 10 cents apiece or $l0 for a bunch of 100. A bouquet such as one would deisn to give to society friends therefore costs $50 and the purchase of a dainty buttonaire, involves separation from a s5 bill ,.
 Next in favor to these flowers come orchids. the rarer and more beautiful varieties selling at $2 and s3 apiece. Ordinary purple violets bring 8 a bunch in the fashionable stores and from 50 cents to $1 in other parts of the city.
 In spite of these prices the florists are complaining that their receipts this year are less than half what they are in ordinary seasons and they estimate that New York's Easter bill for how- CTS was only $200.00o. as against half a million a year ago. This is due of course to the cutting off of luxuries that still continues as result of the panic of last fall
 Two months from today the metropo- lis will be in a state of real war, and the center of the country's naval and military activity will be transferred temporarily from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast.
 Even if the war is part of the spring manoeuvresg and technically game it will be the nearest approach to the real thing that has been seen here abouts since New York was captured by the British in the Revolution. '
 For one week the city will be in a state of siege and will be defended by it's great coast defense forts. The fea. ture that lends reality to the affair Is the fact that this is not to be battle of blank cartridges. as has been the case previously.
 Real projectiies from the big mortarl and twelve-inch rifles will be used and a fleet" stationed four miles out al sea will have plenty of these giant missiles bursting about 1t. Of course these huge projectiles will not be turn- ed loose on the city, will the lives of the attacking force be sacrificed. But the fact remains that 12-inch shells will be fired and that all the big guns and mortars will hurl these giant projec- tiles.
 Any ship careless enough to invade the zone of ire may find 700-pouno shell in her boiler room. Of course such an occurrence will be guarded against in all possible ways. but the waters of the lower bay will be churned up by, these missiles just the same.
 Great interest will attach to the siege because of these new features. As a result Father Knickerbocker. whose nose has been put out of joint by ths visit of the fleet to the Pacific. Is be- ginning to cheer up again in view oi inc attention which the nearest ap' oroach to real war which he has known In many generations is sure to attract
 Tn thirty years. New York, according to experts. will have more. telephones than exist at preseHt in twenty-five oi thA largest cities in the whole country At least. in view of the statement made bv President Vail, of the American Teleuhone and Telegraph Company thai the development of the telephone IT the United States during the next three decades is likely to be as grea' as in the past thirty years. this i' -~Svsl, a@xy9 If atatiSticianS who have