The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
GOTHAM HAUNTED BY WATER FAMINE Storage Reservoir Supply
 Very Short RESORT IS ON A BOOM Hotel Mems Association Appoints In- vitatiOn mmittee-Garage for Baby Carriages is Latest
 Enterprise
RESORT Is ON A BOOM
BY ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York, June Special )-New York, that is that section of the city remote from Long Acre Square and Con. i Ire of a water famine. Of course the l habitues of the Great White Way anc of Coney Island use so little water fol drinking purposes that the idea of g water famine has little terror for them
 It appears that in the storage reser. yoirs in which is contained the city's re- serve water supply there is water enough for only POO days use if reasonable care is used as this would carry us pretty nearly to Christmas even if there is nc rain in the meantime, it is hard fol man not an expert in water supply tC see where the great need for alarm exists.
 | It is one of the characteristics of New York to love to be alarmed, however and we are having all sorts of delight. ful shivers about the prospect of being without water to drink before the sum mer is gone.
 And in a way typical of the big city going ahead wasting water as lavish1y as though we had a supply sufficient foi 2000 instead of measley 200 days 1 In spite of the prospect of having no
 water, the work of booming New York as the finest summer resort in the world 1 is going merrily on.
 The Hotel Mems association has ap- pointed committee consisting of H. F. Stimson, chairman: George c. Boldt, Fred A. Reed, William c. Muschenheim, Gustav Baumann. Fred Sterry, Edward H. Tierney, A. H. Thurston and W. E. Woolley, to write the rest of the country to drop in and see us during the warm season, pointing out the many attractions we have to offer, in the way of amuse- ment, instruction and comfort
 Chairman Stimson very truly remarks;
 "The great trouble with us New York CTS is the fact that we have become so thoroughly accustomed to living the strenuous life, that we have forgotten the thousand and one beauties that sur round us on every side. That Is the reason that the hotel men of the city are raising s100,0o0 this year to spend in telling the people of America that we have something here besides the greatest business center of the world. We are going to try and educate them. and we are going to be successful in our efforts too.''
 A garage for baby carriages recently was started by an enterprising girl ir New York. It appealed at once to moth CTS who live in apaprtment houses and who found great difficulty In getting the carriages in and out of the apart i ments, especially those in upper floors | As a result the promoter of the plar
 quickly built up a large business and k | making an excellent profit weekly iron the idea. The girl was out of work anC
 as she stood by her window thinking
 what she could do, she observed
 mother struggling to get a baby car t,ta Tw,e,t & z1.. thought: 'Wouldn't it be a good ide; to have a garage?" She set to worl and. renting a commodious room, be gan charging 50 cents a week for hous
 ing baby carriages. She arranged t,
 see that each carriage was in front O the house where the owner lived at certain hour each day or in answer tt
 a telephone call. Her garage soon wa. l taxed to it's utmost. She turned nex
 10 providing sand piles and swings fol
 children. Her profits are increasing
 rapidly.
 Governor Brown of Georgia was tho l principal guest at the annual Luncheon
 of the Dixie club given at >elmonico's s
 It was the first affair to be given by the club since the election of the new pres
 ldent. Mrs. Augustus Milton Anderson I The tables were decorated with Flor. l ida moss and tulips Seated at the
 honor table were Mrs. James A. Allen
 Mrs W. H. Davis. Mrs. Sidney Hall
 Mrs. I. z. Duke, Miss E. M. Pelletreau
 Mrs Henry Pearson, Mrs. Donald Mo. l Lean, Marion Harland, Lillian Bell, Mrs 1 W. G. Brown, Mrs. MacNutt, Will Carl
 ton and John Temple Gravesf A touch
 of informality was given the Luncheon by the signing of number of south crn airs, everybody joining in the chorus.
 President Cooper of the American Cot l ton Manufacturers association In his address before the annual convention al Richmond. had some good advice for the growers of cotton in the south. He told them that the south is fin as much or | more danger of losing its supremacy by | short crops, abnormally high prices and | manipulated markets than 1t would be | with larger crops at steady, fair and re- | munerative prices" which is beyond ques- | ton true. The former, he said, would stimulate the growth of cotton in coun-
 tries that require cotton for manufac.
 turing purposes, referring not to growth
 in those countries, but to efforts in them
 to promote the, growth of cotton wherever | outside of the United States conditions are | adapted to it. He urged the American | grower not to be contented to stand stil | and merely hold his present position, bu | to "bestir himself to keep pace witt | increasing demands for American cotton. ! "The growth of cotton' he said. "shoult l and can be controlled by the American
 farmers, and to this end the southern 1 farmers should be protected and encour aged to use improved methods of culti vation and 10 make greater efforts tt | grow larger and better crops"
 l If President Cooper has the idea itha 1 the southern cotton planters with cottor
 at IS cents & pound are not raising every pound they can he has another guess | coming
 1 New York is preparing to handle the
 tramp problem in a scientific manner.
 It costs approximately s200O.OOO a year tt
 care for the habitual vsgrants ol
 'tramps" in New York state in public almshouses, jails and hospitals in addi 1 ton to the contributions of money, food
 and clothing for them by individuals | There are over 100000 of the gentry | in the United States. their number is in.
 creasing steadily, and they very naturall, | drift fin increasing numbers into tn,
 most populous and richest state in tn, 1 union.
 II Their maintenance or the disposition 0
 them has assumed the proportions of a SC rious problem in this state. and tn, Chanler bill now pending in the Legislature
 aims to solve it by tho establishment O
 a state farm colony. The state board 0
 charities has formally indorsed the bill
 '"rhe state farm colony plan." 1t says il its recommendation to the legislature
 "has been tried with success in othe
 countries ana it can undoubtedly be dp
 erated with equal success in this state The large expose entailed upon the publi directly by the institutional aupport a