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Show BABES WORTH MILLIONS. The richest assembly of babies in the United States, perhaps in the world, is at present collected within one modest apart-nant-house in New York the Warrington, Warring-ton, at 161 Madison avenue; Ten scions of families of great wealth, headed by little John Nicholas Brown, the richest baby in the world, and by the coming head of the house of Vanderbilt, the pmall son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, now are , - - '--hoarders" at this ".incubator of millionaires." million-aires." At 5 o'clock, when this small party of curly heads assemble each day for dinner din-ner in the little flower-decked dining-room, dining-room, games and toys, and not stocks or frocks, are the weighty matters of discussion. dis-cussion. Baby Vanderbilt. sitting at a center table with his bread and milk before be-fore him, looks enviously at youthful Brown, who is allowed to sit at a corner table without the mortification of a maid in attendance, and who is old enough to have sugar cakes with his cup of chocolate. cho-colate. But John Nicholas Brown, all unconscious un-conscious of his $10.(1.I0, merely gazs back at Baby Vanderbilt with his big round eyes of sympathy and shows his milk teeth in a friendly smile. Meanwhile at other tables ar- seated the 1wo sons of Edward Ridgely, 8 and 10 years of age; the four-year-old daughter of Alvin Lewis, aged 10 and 12: the twelve-year-old daughter of A. B. Cornell, end the children of other families of equal Importance. The Warrington has as Its giiostw e'even multi-millionaires, with homes in Tuxeda, mansions in Fifth 'avenue and villas in Newport, who, tired of the loneliness of the big houses and weary of the servant question, have at last solved the problem of living, without trouble or responsibil-. responsibil-. ity, and have followed the rush for the apartment hotel. .. |