New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-27
WON'T PAINT CITY
RED,SAY VISITORS
Wilmington Party Harbors
No Millionaires, Organ
izer Contends.
q COUPLES HERE
ONLY FOR PLEASURE
Delaware Dutch Treaters in New
York on Two.Day Jaunt,
at S35 a Throw.

Twenty-one middle-aged, respectable
looking couples-one had a baby with
'em-arrived at the Pennsylvania Sta
ton last night, and no one would have
known that this conventional party was
the crowd of millionsires from Will
mington who were going 10 paint
Broadway in rainbow hue If ne
hadn't been warned beforehand to this
effect in many columns Of print.
A bevy Of waiting journalists, hop
ing there would be dollar signs en-
graved on the windows of the two pri-
vate Pullmans which housed the party
on the trip from Delaware and expect
ing every man to appear in SILK top
hat with a dollar Havana perfecto IN
his mouth, was irightfully disappont-
ed: but they weren't nearly so disap-
pointed as John J. Rascob, treasurer OF
the F.. /. du Pont de Nemours Powder
Company, who planned the trip and
was said to be financing it from sudden
and extraordinary profits made IN war
brides" =
Mr.. Rascob was indignant, ne was
angry and he was heartbroken, for ne
feared that the unexpected publicity
given his trip would spoil the good
time for the ladies'. At the Hotel Astor,
where the party went from the station,
ne voiced his woes. l..
"The whole story that appeared IN
the Friday papers was frame-up' ne
said. There isn't millionaire IN ,nis
party. We're just crowd OF plain
American people, and we came 10 Ne"
York on a little holiday to see SONS
shows and have a good time. We're
not sports; we're home-lovlng, married
couples Furthermore, no one OF US
has made any stupendous gains IN war
stocks. There are only three employees
of the Du Pont concern IN the party
as il true you are several times
millionaire ?" Mr.. Rascob was asked.
81 wish | was, one time" he answered,
adding that there was no truth IN the
story that he owned a S250,OOO house.
His house was seven miles out In the
country, he said, frame dwelling, hfty
years old.
Il was an utter falsehood that he
WAS paying all the bills, he insisted
also. The trip was Dutch treat
affair, and each man paid the expenses
of his own family. Mr.. Rascob esti-
mated that the expenses OF each couple
would not exceed $40. He said that
the twerty-one couples in the party
had known each other for four years,
meeting regularly at Friday night
dancing class.
At that, the party is not going 70
have such a poor time. The visitors
went to alone at Last" last night,
with supper and dance in the Rose
Room OF the Aston afterward. To-day
they will breakfast at leisure, and go
10 the Hippodrome in the afternoon.
Dinner will be served in the Biltmore
Cascades, and "Hit-the-Trail Holiday"
will be the evening attraction, with a
supper dance atop the Forty-fourth
Street Theatre following. Tomorrow
will he comparatively quiet, an auto
trip to Nipnichsen Terrace, at Spuyten
Duyvil Greek, being the only event on
the card. The party will leave on the
3:34 for Wilmington and will break
up after a supper at the Hotel du
Point there.
Here is list of the visiting merry
makers: Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Rascob.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Lackey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Tate, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Warner, Mr.. ard {Irs. Robert Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. James Stirling, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
ian A. Barr, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Mode, Mr. and Mrs. f. A. Wardenburg.
Mr. and Mrs. William Corey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Butler. Mr.. and Mrs. c l.
B. Henning, MI and Mrs. Winthrop
Wood. Mr.. and Mrs. |. 5. Jenckes, DR..
and Mrs. Julian Adair, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Wood, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin
Murphy, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward NJ. Phil
lips, Mr.. and Mrs. William Poole, MIR.
and Mrs. Leslie P. Mahony, with baby
and nnrse