The sun., 1916-02-27

PALM >,H. ia. Feb, -, r1'
hotels nId been waning p",;'l" for "
n,onth NOT t. com, mere around Wash
ing,ons Birthday, nevertheless "uud %
1 tons reached puiut this weeh Wnci"
! the Board of Trade "allei upon IN
l cottagerN To giyc tourists e rlar. To
sleep There will be some room. fionl
presen, prospects. after March 10. How
ever. Cuba, according 10 al direct re-
ports here. j. su crowded with Aurri-
cans there are reasonable i'TI>pe = ui
the season, height III l'aiu Beach -
! tending to the last ut rrA; fhouth.
The amount uf ready money IN rsSn;
-, here IL simply anazn.. II j. h, ~
spent like water iu tHe clubs, rrsihu-
| rants and shops, and some of the lat'rg
:, have done from $1,000" to sl"".ooo
| worth OF business with individual Gus
| toners. The number OF men now her"
! who have made "a million and som" of
them ten times that SUM Sine. thrir
! last winters visit has multiplied until
| standards of value take on ''m AND
! huzy shapes.
Every o,lc has been duly m'o,cs;"
I'm Mr.. and Mrs, Vincent Astur. Who
have just arrived on their first visit.
tThey came down on their priNat" ca,
chaperonins four young people. Miss
, Mary Pine. Miss Harriet Post, J, Gordon
Douglas and John II. Prentice, and IN"
only cloud In their rosy sky IL that
they can't get into the Beach club. the
most exclusive place of the sort in the
country. and which even In season
like this has kept its list down to lo0
peoplA
Il 10 the age limit that keeps the
Astoro out. Young Hermann Oelrichs,
VINO was best man at their wedding.
scurried around. doing his best 10 show
Vincent Astor as being %. but there is
too much public Information TO the con-
trary. SO this In one case where II the
young man were not SO well known he
might enjoy himself better.
1lr. Astors entry into Palm Beach
vas unattended ny any pyro,echuics
He showed up at the Poinciana Hotel
register at o'clock in the morning
alone and burdened with a small hand
I bag and Jewel case and waited twenty
minutes while fifty fellow passengers
were being disposed OF. Then he picked
up . pen and modes,y wrote ~. Astor
and wife" Instantly there was grand
scurrying about, The front clerk had a
Ht and tho venerable head bellman and
his dusky assistants were aghast at
their former Indifference. Eve'i now it
is talked about as being the most awful
mistake that ever happened In this
t-enty-two- year-old hotel, A whole
rctinue. private detectives. clerks and
pellboys galore accompanied the well
como guest along the quarter mi, cor
rdor leading 10 tho station end wAcrr
they found the youthful Mrs. Astor and
her friends sitting on the steps to save
themselves the long walk before break
fast.
Mr.. and Mrs Hamilton Rice, the lat
ter OF whom was Mrs, George Widener
and who has host of friends here. have
Just arrived She was n distinctive Ngure
AZ the Beach club the other night. wear
ing her famous pearl necklace, which
cost s5nh, 900. Palm Beach has many
100000 necklaces. hut has seen IN i'ic
last few seasons ouly three al,,,is iscd at
tho other high hgure, Mrs. lean st,
f'yP took one OF them with her TO i'h!lH-
delpha whcn Sn" left = short time ago
and the other belongs 10 Mrs. Edward r.
Stoteehurl. who arrived with Mr.. Stoics.
bury on MorIay. H"r- WAS given her
by the late j. y, Morsan when rho MAR.