The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-22
BROKERS HAVE HE PARTY
IN REAL MONEYS" N
Stock Exchange Men Rejoice at $25 Per. Over Passing
OF Lean Years-300 Frolic at Castles-in-the-Air
Save $4,000 for Charity.

honest truly and to goodness. there
wasn't the slightest reason why any wife
any mother-in-law even-cou,dn't have
tucked her satin slippers under the ,ab,es
az the Stock Exchange mems prosperity
frolc At Castles In the Air, atop Of the
Forty-fourth Street Theatre, last night,
not a single wifely. mother-in-iaw, me-
~cuiousl correct reason. Nary a one,
1t was a fine. wholesome party, sym
oolixins the return Of real money to
wall street after many lean and painful
years; a party wherein 400 young Tor
theoretically young) brokers of the Stock
Excnsnge and their guests called upon
M. Louis Roederer. NJ. Pol Roger, NJ.
and NJ. st. Marceau to witness
mat ,hey were happy. happy. happy
some country. New York a regular town
ana that there never was a cloud In the
world that didn't have a silver lining.
leader. give US a little onestep. for
Charley knoblauch and Lorry worden
are going to show just how little Vernon
and Irene really know about the art of
dancing.
II has been a long time since before
the dreadfu autumn OF 1907 that the
wall Street men have had a frolic as
was a frolic. Gloom had settled over
the great canyon that runs from Trinity
Church to tho East River. There had
been no customers. no business. no CON-
missions. no JOY. Bang! The great
war came along. bringing a bull ms
and sending a God OF gold seething
down the dried UP courses of finance.
Everybody made money. grew cheerful.
loved his n%eishbor. wanted to play. So.
a Few weeks ago. the young men who
do things down at the Stock Exchange
put their heads together and planned a
real old time Wall street party. expense
no object. go as far as you like, have
all the fun In the world. but don't get
messy.
Answer Ia Base Slander.
Somebody-and several husky young
men who have helped Harvard beat
Yale and Yale beat Harvard would like
very much to meet that somebody I'D In
Billy Browns gymnasium, say-started
the rumor that the frolic was to be
wen. one or those things that are held
behind locked doors; United that the
woman relatives OF the brokers had
raised Cain about the proposed ceiebra.
Noh in~sinuated. in short, that the ia
nous Mttle Egypt party In the years
gone by would be outwriggled and out
shocked by the dinner that was TO mark
the restored fortunes Of the stock mar
ket men. Well, the only answer the
STOCK Exchange men made to that sian
oer was TO give a feast which was lust
one whoop OF Joy after another and
which. from first to last. no reasonable
woman could have objected 10.
They made the ante fairly high to
oegin with. II wasn't because food costs
so much. ever In these days Of war
prices, but because the occupation of
certain districts In france by the troops
OF william III. has sent up the price of
the only liquid refreshment that Ats
with a real Wall street party up to
war bride figures. So they taxed every
person S25 for his ticket. and all yes
terday afternoon there was weeping and
wailing In the neighborhood Of Broad
and Wall streets by persons who would
have liked to contribute. but who, scme
how, were not asked. OF the 100
brokers connected with tho Stock Ex.
change only 500 were invited to kick
in. as sammy Feinste,n. the bidder Of
the exchange. said.
Perhaps. almost at the start. the menu
Of the dinner that Pierre and Louis OF
Castles in the Air served to the merry
lads of the exchange ought TO be set
| forth so that one may thoroughly realize
! what goes with a $25 dinner on Broad
way these days.
Yum, Yum:
Here IL 10:
Canspe Russo
| CAleri Amandes Olives
Tortue Nerte. Amontillado
Filet de sole. Bonne Femme
I Baron g. AGneau de Lait
HAricots Nerts au Beurre
Pommes Macalre
Poussin Roti a la Broche
Salade de Romano aux Fines Herbes
Bonnie Glacee aux Fruits