The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-27
DELAWARE DANGERS
ON ADUTCH TREAT,
Who Said Millionaire SPEND
ers? Here's the Truth About
the Wilmington Party.
IN BUSES TO THE Aston

A few minutes after 6 o'clock last
Night, when the lobby aud the cor
fdors of the Hotel Astor were damned
with army folk j%oyously shouting each
others names and getting in tune for the
biz football game to-day, two Fifth
avenue buses. hired at SO n bus. lum-
bered up to the Forty-fourth street en-
trance OF the hotel and were emptied Of
their forty-two and onc-half passengers.
the forty-two being the twenty-ono mar
ried couples Of the Friday Night
Dancing club of Wilmington, Del. and
the half passenger being the baby
proudly displayed by Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
J.. Mahoney of the club.
The arrival OF the Wilmington week
enders didn't make "A perceptible dent In
the early evening life of Broadway and
few persons at the Astor except Mr..
Muschenheim, his clerks and the bell
boys. whose hopes were doomed TO n
fearful blow. were even aware that the
dancing set of Wilmington had realized
a four year ambition to spend a few days
in New York. see n few shows. try their
steps on the highly polished floors of
Broadway dancing places. shake the
wrinkles out of their evening clothes and
In general enjoy n regular time.
What is more. they didn't want 10
make n splash. II there was one thing
they were ~poignantly anxious to do 1t
was not TO make n splash. They yearned
for privacy and a great deal of u, and no
shrinking litigant was ever half 80 eager
TO siuertep inquisitive reporters.
club Members Are Perturbed.
In the first five minutes conversation
with John J. Raskob. treasurer Of the
f.. |. du Pont de Nemours Powder Com
pany Of Wilmington. II was strikingly
apparent that some very earnest detec-
tive work will be done by the Friday
Night Dancing Club OF Wilmington. Del.
after the club has tasted economically
and modestly the commonplace and re-
spectacle pleasures offered by New
Iork's hotels. theatres and restaurants.
Mr. Raskob and his friends of the club
were IN n state OF mind when they got
here over the description of themselves
which had been sent from Wilmington as
newly ami enormously rich from specula-
ton In war brides and in "A great hurry
40 scatter easy money along Broadway.
But let Mr.. Raskob tell his own story.
ITS a damn shame. 80 began the du
pont treasurer. I'VE men don't mind II
so much. but 1t was maliciously unfair TO
our wives. There isn't "A millionaire in
our crowd or any man who Is very far
along toward being a millionaire. Most
~ US are on salary, some on fairly good
salaries. but we have no money to throw
20 the birds.
our little dancing club has been in
existence for four years. and almost
Prom the beginning of the time We or
ganized We had had "A notion that some
day II would he pleasant to get together
and spend "A couple 81 days In New York.
Well n few weeks ago We set this
Thanksgiving period as the time of our
New York visit and We decided that II
should he a Dutch treat affair, every
man paying his share. I have figured
out the expenses pretty closely with
Ernest :. TAFT Of our club. who used 10
he an assistant manager here at the
Aston. These expenses will run about
s3o a person, or about l.500 for the en-
tire party Of fort That doesn't
sound as II W. were here to ~splurge and
buy champagne and make silly asses uf
ourselves, does IT. We are young or
middle aged business men, home lovers,
plain American citizens. with no banker
ing to do extravaganza. foolish things.
Trouble ON the Way.
"Wnurver started the story-and when
We get back to Wilmington. il may in
terest that person TO know, We intend to
mi out who Il was-did it either for a
practical joke ar TO satisfy petty. little
small town malice. II l. perfectly true
that some OF W. may have made a little
money in stocks because some of US had
excellent opportunities, being IN the thick
of things and having had a chance to
own Il few shares Of war stocks that in
creased in value greatly, hut 1t Is alb
surd to say that any man OF the clut
made millions or hundreds of thousands.
or that the money for this trip was the
result of a club speculation which turned
a few hundreds into thousands. II il a
Dutch treat party economically planned
and each man paying his share"
In a husinessllkr way a schedule was
made out for the guidance of Ia" party
and the schedule will he followed to In.
minute. The Friday Night Dancing Gu
left Wilmington at $40 +. NJ YESTERDAY.
travelling in two special Pullman cars,
and arrived here at ! SO l.. VI. over the
Pennsylvania Railroad, The members
avoided the extravaganza of taXiCabs
and Went 20 the Astor in buses. They
hustled into their evening clothes and
dined AT : l.. VI. in the o~rangerie at the
Astor and 1T . i. NJ. We're on their way
10 the Shuberts' Forty-fourth street
Theatre and Alone at Last" After the
theatre they returned 10 the Astor and
danced in the rose room.
After breakfast this morning and the
signing of the checks for breakfast and
"A sup covering IN" WATERS ups thtN
VIII do as they like individually until
l2:i5 l.. NJ. when they will lunch II.
tire rose room. In the afternoon they
will see the Hippodrome show, "Hip-itip-
uouray." and later will dine at the Bilt-
more. Then they will go to zee Hit the
Trail Holiday al the .Astor Theatre and
will finish the night with a supper dance
a. Castles n the Air.
Tomorrow they will lunch AT Nip
nichsen Terrace, Spuyten buyvil, the
home of william G Muschenhelm, pro-
prietor OF the Hotel Aston, and then they
will leave for home at 3:3i i. VI. \
note In the programme specifies that on
arrival At Wilmington trolley cars will
be taken to Eleventh and Market street,
the Hotel du l'ont, where everybody Will
have supper ana the party will officially
come to an end.