The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-26
ROYALTY AND WEALTH.
Lavish Entertainments and @
Dinners by Walsh and othel-
New York WORLDLY

Dinners by Walsh and Othe1-
New York World)
/ There have been royalties enough and
| to spare in Paris during the season that
/ is now at its last gasp, but the real
/ royalties have been the milIiondires OF
America.
! All other visitors have been overshad-
J owed by them. They have, to use an
/ Americanism, owned the town" They,
/ their wives. their children, their pal
/ aces, their fetes. their jewels. their
manifold extrava gances- have created
/ more noise than any other feature of a
I season that will be historical
Money was the keynote of the revel-
money used as club, to stupefy be-
wilder. stun. The mOneyed Americans
who filled Paris with the glare and
noise OF their OstentatiOn could, If they
combined their fortunes, come pretty
near paying off the national debt of
their country. The money they spent
in France would pay the salaries of the
presidents of France and the United
States for years.
To say that American millionaires
paid five times over for what they re-
ceived would be no exaggeration. To
say that American travellers of small
means have been made to suffer for
the extravaganza of their rich fellow
countrymen is sad truth that will be
attested by any returned traveller.
A modest New OrkeF took his wife
to lively restaurant the other night
They had a simple dinner without wine
such q dinner as might be had in
New York for $3.50 The bill was 50
francs $50.
Mrs. Potter Palmers little difference
with Commissioner Peck, for example
was sort Of chaste joy to the ma
uVes, and so We're many other small
feuds with which the American ranks
were torn. An axiom of the spectators
was that the more rivalry was deveI-
oped, the more money would be spent.
This was well eXempIified by the be
havior of the United States national
commissioners at large. Sighted for
the most part by American milliOnaires
Of the second and third generations.
they fell to rivaling one another in the
giving Of bizarre entertainments.
There was Thomas F Walsh, the
Colorado mine owner. He was a COM
missioner, and he scattered money like
chaf to uphold the dignity of his Of
flee and convince the people of Paris
that the Astors and Vanderbilts were
not the only spendthrifts there.
The Parisians learned to look upon
Mr.. Walsh as peculiarly entertaining
specimen Of the genus American. They
circulated fabulous stories about his
Colorado mine which an English syn
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a well defined expression that Mr..
Walsh was likely to be the next presi-
dent Of the United States
Pointing at him the bOulevardier who
prided himself on being up to date
would eXclaim. III a du, money to
burn &c garcOn la"
Money 10 burn" il should be ex-
planned. is the latest prize -wrested by
Paris from the American vocabulary.
One hears It on all sides. expressed in
a bewildering variety of accents. In
the French language it bids fair to
endure as memento of the exposition
harvest.
One of Mr.. HWalsh's first acts of
hospitality was 20 give boating after
noon on the Seine. All his fellow COM
missioners and their WOmenfolk were
his guests, together with some Paris
ians of more official than sociaI i'm
POrtance. Such Americans as the Van
derbilts, GOelets and the Ike could not
have been driven to the revel with Cat
ling guns.
Later on Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh helped
Commissioner Charles Nagelmacker to
show Europeans how to live on a train
They took a trip through northern
France and Belgium in a special train
of five palace cars, sumptuously fitted
and proVisioned.
At no point did they sleep or ear off
the train except a Ostend, where they
accepted an Invitation 10 dine with