Show Rich Americans in Paris Washington people arc very much amused at the stories that come from I Paris of time lavish expenditures of Commissioner Thomas Walsh a resident resi-dent of this city at the French capl I lal Mr Walsh who is a wealthy Colorado Col-orado mineowner came here last winter win-ter and astonished people by purchasing purchas-ing over S1COCOO worth of real estate shortly after his arrival He was not known In 1 Washington socially 16 Yashiugton social l any great extent but since his arrival in Paris he has blossomed out Into a terl table American Monte Crlsto Ills dinners receptions and entertainments have been attended by Mrs Potter Palmer Embassador and Mrs Porter and other notables and he has spared no money in paving the way for future fu-ture social successes The hiring outright i out-right of one of the most famousres I taurants in the Bois de Boulogne for a day and evening and paying a famous fa-mous opera singer 7000 francs to sing for his lncsts are a few of the things that this hospitable WeslerneY has done that have made him the talk of Paris Elkins the Philadelphia streetcar street-car magnate seems to be running him a close second for the accounts of a dinner given by him at the Hole Hit this week read like a fairy story Ten thousand dollars for a dinner for twen tyfive people is something of a record breaker even in these days of lavish expenditure A Washington hotelman hotel-man in commenting on this the other day said I is a curious thinS about Americans They will go abroad and spend thousands without a murmur and vet if an American hotel man charges thorn a good round sum for anything they begin to kick and complain com-plain that they are being swindled I suppose our rich fellow countrymen when they are In Europe spend large sums the way they do for the purpose of making a show and getting themselves them-selves talked about Brooklyn Eagle 1 |