Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

In Chicago and New York they think
hat he must he having the time of his
Ifc-in gay Paris. When his father-in-
law died-an industrial baron-the family
came abroad.
There are hundreds like him in Paris.
Lots of us are over here with our
rtmilies'' he said, either because we
Thought that the time was propitious and
sold out to the trusts. or we had in
hcrited our money and got tired of play
in- at business, because il was managed
In other people and which we really
never did manage. So we gave it up as
nothing doing
In Chicago and New York you envy
this man. We of Paris know that he is
out FOR more than exercise, when he
slips away from his palatial apartment
to join a downtown lunch crowd of
Pars-Americans who earn their living.
Ogden Armour used.to say that three
weeks OF Europe was enough at a time.
he unused moodily And I'm beginning
20 have my doubts about Paris. I see
some men enjoying themselves-T. j.
Thorne Frank Jay Gould and Harry La
montague busy with their racing stables
I don't care a whoop-hurrah for racing
did not ask him why he neglected
toric Paiva mansion Of the Champs
E.lysees become Veritahlc center Of
rich American mea. Besides, he told us.
IF l should spend my time playing
bridge at the Travellers | should be Ill
ha said I'd sit round there all the
afternoon and get indigestion. When
Pierre Lorillard- Rohalds or Jefferson dc
Mont Thompson or ]. Pierpont Morgan
arrive in Paris they look in at the TRAY
elers' That's all right. When Foxhall
Keene runs over from Melton Mobray, or
Albert Lambert from ST. Louis, or Keep
from Chicago, or Sharpless from Phlla-
delphia, they pick mp the threads or farlS
life an the Travellers. But Americans
like myself who were active and prom1-
nent at home and are now Paris idiers-
bah
Then he let il out:
Paris as a pleasure ground, does not
satisfy American men who have hereto
fore been active IN business, happy and
successful making money, ne said
Paris IL not arranged to entertain this
class. who are not high rollers, automo-
bilists aeropIanists faddiSts or collectors.
see a hundred such boring themselves
10 death in Paris
WHY do they stay on?'' l asked
He tried suddenly to change the sub
ieCt But the facts were bound to corue
out.
I must be careful Of names Most of
these worthy rich are the very edge
of the New York -Four Hundred. Any
thing which they may consent to in the
way of publicity is seized on as "A striv-
ing to exploit themselves.
'.Tf we let ourselves be mentioned We
become Ridiculous mourned a brother
millionaire from Cleveland. I'VE are all
people with money who might love TO go
in for high social distractions: but il must
come To us; we cannot run after it,
That is why so many are in Paris
He too stirred his coffee wearily-the
exact gesture of the Chicago millionaire
Living in any one place in America"
he went on. Pittsburgh. CleveIans, Mem
phis. Kansas City. st. LOUIS, when we
have made our money we are discon-
tented with our environment-do not
achieve socially what we desire II is
not the case with my own family. as it
happens. hut ] speak of the class They
do not know exactly what they want but
certainly they want to associate with the
best. Therefore they come over here
where, of course, great natural Sc
lection is going on all the time. The
IVst people come TO Paris from all our
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