The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
'.WAR BRIDES" MILLIONAIRES TO TAKE FELLOW -TOWNSMEN
 ON JUNKET ALONG BROADWAY

Wilmington, Nov. 2sr-In two char tered Pu1lmans, a party of forty-tWo men and women, wealthy and socially prominent, leave here today for New York. They will spend a weekend there in a luxuriant style that would have made Coal Oil Johnny jealous ana Butch McDevitt feel like a spiker.''
 Ror six months, ever since the rise .e in du Pont common and General Motors stocks turned millions loose in Wilznington, individuals who pro- fited thereby have been itching for some place big enough to make a splurge. Millionaires were getting as common as cab drivers in Whining ton. So they're going to visit New . York.
 Two foot All the Bills
 They leave at 5:1o o'clock this af- afternoon From the time they land ? in New r YoTk,-until they return Sun day night, they will dine. dress, motor and dance from end of the gay White Way to the other Forty rooms on < the third floor of thes Hotel Astor have been reserved for them. Two men in the party will foot all Ahe bills They are John. J. Raskob, Treasurer of E. T. du Pont de Ne mours & Go. and Frank J. -Lackey. a stock broker They have both gotten rich on war brides.
 sLeaye your poeketbooks at home. said. Raskob and Laclxey, in their, invitations.
 Fhe for8y-two excursionists are members of a dancing class, which up to year ago met every week at Miss 1dcCaffertyss studio in Pythian brides to wiTnfn gton, Miss McCaf- ferty's dancing class, like everything else, started to dance to the tune 9f millions
 Hundreds2 A Mere Trff1e
 They left Miss McCafferty's studio and chased out to the Country Club or the Century Club or the Hotel du prefixed their dances with receptions and suffixd tIra with dinnrs and other things They spend hundreds a week on these dances and snap their fingers at the eost-pif piffle--Jusf like that
 At the end of last season the treas 11rvs of Miss McClafferty's dancing class had something like $250 on the credit side Raskob and LackeyI bought war brides wit hit Now the $250 is the money is coming from for the dip i into the Great White Way
 When they land in New York to- l night they will be met by automo- biies4-not taxis. mind you but fufA4 crown cars They will be driven i'm
 
 to dress for dinner. Dressing for din- ner is going to be one of the principal z 1uxuries Of the trip
 For several weeks. eyer since the trip was first planned, Wilmington and Philadelphia, dressmakers have in the party will take trunkfuls with her After dinner tonight they will hon to the Hippodrome, with a caba- ret supper and dancing later Satur- day night there will be dinner at an other big hotel with more cabarets and dancing.
 Tea Dansant on Saturday.
 sandwiched in between some place on Saturday there will be a ten dan eant with luncheon at still another big hotel. In the mornings they may do as they please breakfast wherever and on whatever they please-the only restriction being that they let Raskob and Lackey pay the bills.
 Sunday they will take an autono- bile trip up the Hudson, stopping at road house for tea Then home again in the chartered Pullnans-
 Ernest & Taite, Manager of the Hotel 6u Pont, will be director of the tour He was formerly Assistant Manager of the Hotel Astor Mr. and Mrs. Taite are both members of the dancing class
 Other members of the party, includ-  Mrs Lackey, will be Charles War ner of the Charles Warner company coal and cement dealers. and Mrs Warner: Robert smith, vice president of the HiIles 6 Jones company, one of Wilmingtonss big industriee and Mrs. Smith; James stirling of the same firm and Mrs sterling: Alfred B. Moore, real estate dealer. and Mrs. Moore; MT and Mrs. Leslie P Mahoney, who will take their baby and nurse
 Raskob, who is the leading spirit in the Junket. is building new $200, 900 home at C1aymont, a suburb. He has a very attractive home there now but it is being torn down to make way for the new one
 s5,OoO for s4OO Shack.
 He is transforming his property which extends from the Philadelphia Pike to the river, into elaborate gar dens and lawns. He has bought uu every property he could get which stood in the way, paying whatever the owners asked for them.
 One man, it is reported, had a small plot of ground with a little shack on 1t. Raskob wanted it. He sent an agent to negotiate the sale.
 How much did you pay for the placer Raskob,s agent asked.
 Four hundred dollars replied the owner
 what do you want for it?'.
 ssF4ve thousand dollars" was the reply
 Sold" said the agent. and he went away with the bill of sale.
 Raskob expects to buy a yacht very shortly Between his estate and the river is the PennsyIvania railroad He is planning tunnel under the rail- will be anchored
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