The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
NEW YORK HOTELS BEGINNING ID FILL Fall Buyers Coming From
 Every State SEPTEMBER IS IDEAL Colonel Hayne Davis Who Has Just Made Trip Thinks Prosperity
 of the South Simply
 Amazing
SEPTEMBER IS IDEAL
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York, September 2.-(Special.) )-The hotels are beginning to fill up with visitors from all sections of the country, buyers and merchants most of them. but good sprinkling of just plain visitors and vcy agers returning from Europe,
 No matter what part of the country you may be from, if you walk up Broad way, say from Madison to Longacre squares, and keep your eyes open, the chances are good that you'll meet some body from home. There is no place on the face of the earth unless it be Wash inngton where the chances of meeting for that very pleasant function like tho route of brilliantly lighted Broadway mentioned above.
 September is the best time in New York. It is there that the amusements of the summer and autumn meet Coney Island is still in full blast The amuse- ment parks there are open and the water is fine. This Is true of all the nearby resorts. While the season is supposed through the month.
 Then with Labor Day the town amuse- ments start the season. the theatres be- gin to open up, people are getting back from their vacations, the weather as a rule is Ideal and there is every reason why the New Yorker should be glad he is living. And by the same token the stranger within our gates has reason to be glad he is here.
 The New York suffragists have some thing more than the vote on their minds They have been Investigating the legal status of women in New York state with the idea of having 1t improved by the state legislature. Here is how they find woman starts in the Empire state
 Your children belong first to their father, according to the law, and your right of guardianship Is second to his.
 You are not entitled to your chidrens earnings; they must go to their father.
 You cannot inherit your childrens property: it must go to their father
 You are not entitled to damages for your children if their father be living
 Your household services belong to your husband, and you can make no binding legal contract with him to receive pay for them.
 You are entitled to none of the prof It's from any joint business engaged in with your husband-even though, as in
 
 falls to you.
 You have the use of but one-third of your husbands real property for life. though he has the use of the whole of your real property for life.
 Your husbands real estate property never descends to you but in case he has no direct heirs, it escheats to the state. Under similar circumstances your real estate descends directly to him.
 Your household furniture, unless it can be specifically shown to be your prop ety, belongs to your husband, though your savings may have gone into it's purchase.
 Your subsequent marriage is consider ed to revoke any will you have made. But marriage does not itself revoke a previous will of your husband"
 They are determined that some of these things shall be changed and small blame to them
 I met Col. Hayne Davis, well known New York lawyer. who recently returned from visit to his old home in the soutk The prosperity of the south is simply amazing" he said. The cities are pros porous looking: the people you meet are prosperous looking: the farms and homes are well kept and everything, in fact, looks good. There is no surer sign of good times than the railroads. I found that the roads were rNnning three times was last in the soutMr and they were crowded Why, in the Pullman car in which I rode from Atlanta to Washing ton, there were al one time 40 passengers. I see by a recent census report that the farm lands of the south have increased in value since 1900. more than double, about 11S per cent to be exact and l am 1, l., crease is still going on. l find that not only northern capital but nothern set tiers are going into the country and helping to develop it. I look to see a. more remarkable era of prosperity in the southern country from now on
 "The most phenomnal growth enjoyed by any city in the country in recent years, has been that of Los Angeles said William Boone, of that place, and the best part of it is nearly every one knows it. l lived in New York city until about some 12 years ago. when some one suggested that I take a little trip 10 Los Angeles. did so. and liked the place and it's people so well that I returned east, got my family, and moved there. have made the city my home since.
 In every respect Los Angeles is one of the garden spots of the North Amer ican continent. The climate is a delight full one, and it is cool all the time. Then, business is snappy. The entire population is the jump all the time. They take an active interest in everything that eff fleets the city, too. If there is a ball game, every body goes. At night the whole city attends the theatre, or goes out some where. There is something do- ing every moment. The people spend ev cry minute of their time in enjoyment. These are the things which have increased the population and the business. Los An geles is one of the greatest fruit and early vegetable markets in the world. good percentage of the California fruits, which you get here in the east, are shiped from Los Angeles. The great est care is taken to pack the fruit so it will reach the consumer in as good con- dition as il leaves the yards.
 Isn't it funny said Mrs. John Aker- man, of Seattle, that American women become so dreadfully stout after they have lived abroad for a few years? In