Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-26

DEAITNILLE, September 10, 1870.
GREAT and astonishing thing
n Is being talked about. Here at
IA Deauville today a protective
1 \ combine of the millionaires OF
the world is beginning to be
formed. they say. 1t is completely
new thing. of vast import, so that
Paris and London papers refer TO II
delicately as a Worldwide posslolnty
world wide particularly.
There is. in fact no place in the
world so congested with millionaires
AS Deauville in it's season. You might
call 1t their international rallying
noint. They come down on DeauVille
from every country that is civilized
enough to have millionaires at all,
SAYS the London Daily Mail. Aga
Khan is from Persia and Arabia. ka-
purthala from India. Islam Pacha
from Egypt. and so on.
Out of 6S horses racing in one day
of August Q were owned by Ameri-
lean millionaires. Ralph Beaver
Stra ssburger of Philadelphia and
Paris has his stud farm at Deauville
itself. A. *. Macomber who has his
Paris house. bought the great stables
and stud farm left by the late w. X.
Vanderbilt Joseph r. Widener of
Philadelphia keeps up his horses un-
der Paris trainer. Ogden Mills OF
New York is another big owner in the
Deauville races. The others are Eng
fish, French. South American and
Spa nish, not to mention the great
vachtsmen of these countries and the
mass of milionaires who think 1000
francs per day at hotel. unheard of
heretofore in Europe. is reasonable.
IF ever millionaires. who are fast
becoming the most prosecuted OF all
classes, form a syndicate for the de-
Tense of their interests" the Daily
Mail puts it carefully. Its headquar'
tiers will certainly be Deauville.'
Deauville gambling tables have the
highest play in the world-to these
men a pastime. This year the new
oval yellow chips represent 100000
francs each, or about $4,000. The
small. oblong. white chips stand for
10000 francs. monkey OF 100. Ihe
| | 900. franc chips are small. thick. Oh
long and red. They are easy to pick
out and form up in counting. and their
introduction has speeded the game.
The baccarat gambling is grand
thing for the casino authorities. The
''takings" Of the tables are stated to
he 400. 600. 900 francs in front of the
takings of last year'-representin
such tremendous profits that the
French government taxes on them
(along with similar taxes at Cannes.
AK and so on) make a really impor-
tant item of state revenue.
The casino has probably never seen
such nights as on the Grand PrlX
DAYS this year. The restaurant is i'm
| mense. but every table had been en-
gagged in advance and could have been
taken three times over. Finally, the
huge ballroom was turned into a Sec
ond restaurant. At least 1000 diners
sat down. They were not all million
aires, but half of them, also, were not
staying at Deauville.
Hundreds of visitors" the papers
say. have been walking the streets,
and finally had to take the night
trains back to Paris" One villa pro-
prietor had friends arriving uneXpect-
edly and no place in her house to put
them. She managed to procure camp
beds and permission to install them
in the bathing cabins of the beach.
For Deauville polo playing the mil
lionaires from Englsld. the Argen-