The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-29
]. BY PAuL HAI.RIsoN..

Miami Beach, Fla -v- Among the thlpgGs About this place thatsmost astonished me Is the great num- Der of very. wealthy people who are generally unknown. By that 1 mean they are hots members of famous old1 families with inherited foftunes they dofnot figure often in sthe senaaf fiolsH lisms of society; they tare not eccentric, s1nor cape ciaiiy prohigate; they qufetlyS go their ways, making and snendinis their millions, enjoying their rela- tive obscurity.
 Scouting along the boulcvards with a native guide l have in- quired about ma ny 8 preTitcntious mansion, but seldom have recog- nized the name of an owner. Some of the largest yachts here belong not to eVanderbiits and Whitneys, but to Smiths and Joncscs who manufacture widgets in Indiana or sell bread In oklahoma.
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 Richest Club
 Take, for another example, the largest, richest and most beautiful of < the. exclusive ,clubs-1the Surf Club There's nary a. Morgan ot i, an Astor on its roster. A few ma tionally- known names - Harve ! Firestone, Colonel E.: H. R. Gree (sOn of Hetty), John iRaskob, T, A. Seiberling, Joseph F.. Widener, Gar Wood, Carl Fisher, Vincent k sBendix. But there are about 250 { other, names less prominent-a great majority from the middle WGSt. ~ ". .ds .l . 7 The Kansas City aAbernathys and Camphells;a the Pittsburgh Chapins, EhFhafts and .Scotts; the
 Neadsaof Rockford, ,s Iil; ,Nolls and HOneywells and Griffins- from Fort Wayne, Ind: the iCseiatts, of La Crosse, Wis--those provide a. fair croSs-sectiOn of then synartest so- cial organization hercabout.
 Allen F. Green, for instance, comes from Mexico, Mo, and 4 is the nations largest manufacturer of fire brick. There's Ross 4Beason of Salt Lake City, ian investment banker. And Calvin Bentley of Owosso, Mieh.,- banker, inanu- facturer ayld executive of General Motors. John Martindaic of Ins dianapolis makes hardware.
 You seldom hear of w. F., Mur- ,phy, of Chicago, yet he's one of the richest men in. the United States. Norman w. Peters is tire nations biggest private dabblcr m stocks. Claude and Allen Seims, Of St. Paul, are lumber kings. WIZ liam H. Danforth is perhaps the most respected of American fjnal- ciers;l he was short when cvei'y- body else, was long in 1929. pail- forth has a. 250-mile-an-hoar plane here, and scommutes between Miami Beach and New York. s'
 Cafeteria Style s
 I had lunch at the Surf Club with its manager, Alfred l. < Bar ton. SIncidefitly, he has an nhtln- usual background Ph Phiiadelphia society, S an artist, wartime coll onel; h member Of the InteraIlied Rhineland High Commission.
 Never have seen anything like the sbreath-taking elegance of the place-fte great lounges. the high h-vaulted dining <. rooms, the dance patios, pool, blue-and -goid mirrored terrace bar, the Mediter- anean Cafe, the curving line of 23b sdouble-decked cabanas on the ocean. front. These beach houses, by the way, all have been individ- uaily decorated by their tenants, and at heaven -on1y-knows what cost. .sYs..s
 We, lunched in what I suspect must be the worlds swankiest cafeteria. Everything from im- ported caviar to baked Alaska. Behind each dish,, a stiffiy uni- formed attendant; others to: carry, each guests tray along the line34 a maitre de cafeteria to make puG@ gestions about the, terrapin aud jellied fowl. Wine stewards; pros letarian beer, bottles glorified < n { pristine naperyl and silver chatile pagne buckets.,a Patio and palifiE A sten-pieces Eos1eetra: Z N ', fgsiia