The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-12
M'DEvlTT, ASKING
 BRIDE, IS GUEST OF ATLANTIC CITY
'MiIlfonaire-for-a-Day'' at Re sort to Give Girls 
 E'Once Over."

Atlantic City, Jan. 12-''Butch'' McDevitt, millionaire for a day. is Assistant Mayor of Atlantic City until further notice. The appointment was made by Mayor William Riddle yes terday afternoon after McDevitt ar rived at this resort in a Pullman car attached to the o'clock train from Philadelphia with his party, which in cluded Frank McDeVitt of Mo- 201O North Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia. his brother, and Charles McDade,l of Wilke Barre, his secretary. They are occupying suite No. 3 in Louis Kuehn1e's Hotel, South Caro- lima and Atlantic Avenues, a square from the City Hall. The papier- -mache statue of Butch that accompanied him to Washington is a. member of the party. Temporarily it has been placed in the meeting room Of the Board of City Commissioners at City Hall, where it will remain until Me Dewitt formally sewishes'' it on the resort as a token of gratitude to the city for producing a girl he thinks enough of to make his bride.
 He came here after getting pern1is- sion from Mayor Riddle to give the girls the once over.,' tHe has $2,oo0 and expects to remain in this city un- til that has been squandered or he has found bride.
 The $2s00o is the price he says he was paid by the Democratic Conn., rnfttee of Luzerne County, Pa, where he had entered the race for County Treasurer, a job that; is worth from $12,000 to $17,000 a year in fees. They were so sure 4Butch'' could be elected that they paid him to get out of the fight. he says.
 When the B o'clock train pulled into the station a thousand persons, in- eluding 200 young women. were lined along the platform. The Mayor had appointed a committee to meet him, but McDevitt, wearing a dark green form-fttfng top coat, a dark green derby, with a tie. of the same shade, a suit of similar color and shoes with verdant tops, went unrecoghfzed. He looked entirely too prosperous for the tsButch'' who had paid a visit to this resort four years ago.
 The committee finally /spied him when he stopped to look over the crowd of girls. Say, some of you removing his hat and starting toward them.
 s.He doesn't look like a nut. re- marked a girl as McDevitt was con- ducted to the office of Mayor Riddle in City Hall.
 The mayor called in all the princi- pal city officials to meet McDevitt. Then ali the girl stenograpters were introduced to him
 Then the statue arrived in a pine board easkets The ssix7foot replica of @Bntch. showed it had gone through some wear and tear in it's four years of travel, but was sufficiently nfelike to be recognizable,
 There. he iss mayor. Find me a bride, and it belongs to Atlantic City, announeed "Butch.,'
 After the reception NcDevitt went to is apartment Last night he was errtertafned at the local home of the EIks as the guest of Commissioner Harry Bacharach.
 He received one proposal by mail from a person who called herself Olive St. Clare of Milford street, Brooklyn. Telepone calls from girls came so fast his secretary took down the names and numbers, so McDevitt mi ght get in touch with them.
 Miss St. Clare, who sent her picture, announced she was 21 and wrote:
 Dear Stranger: heard you was looking for a wife with hair and a clean face with, lots of smiles.
 Well, am possessed of lots of long, golden hair and have a smile that won't come off.
 T am as good as possible, but no Z ssyVoufd sure like a home in Atlantic City. was born in Norfolk, Va, \ and have no parents. so you need not fear a mother-in-Iaw.'
 After inspecting the portrait, Butch said: ..sfae doesn't look like a very good housekeeper.
 McDevitt visited Bridgeport when he made his famous eM1llionaire-fo a-Day'' trip to New York a few years ago.