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Show RICH TURN TO CARDS Since the war babies of Wa 1 street have ceased to thrill as they did when the main crop of war fortunes wasbe-ng wasbe-ng reaped, New York's millionaires-he millionaires-he old the new and the near ones-U ones-U seeking excitement at cards according ac-cording to the New York Mail Tne Y)rk have been pretty well c up since the newspapers told of their attempts to resume business, and gam-b gam-b e with no amateur standing were driven to cover. Yet so long as it is PoIible t0 hire a private parlor in a pub c hotel there will always be an opportunity for men with money and the desire to play it to get all the rapid fire action they seek. 4s an example, the millionaire son of a multimillionaire father, whose money comes from the banking bust-ness bust-ness has dropped $250,000 this winter at chemin de fer, vingt-et-un and other lightning shifts of indoor sport where thousands change owners between In a hotel in Fifth avenue above Fnrtv-second street, bearing a name famous in the days of Ward McAllister McAllis-ter two young New Yorkers one night recently attended a chemin de fer party and each quit $12,000 minus. It's Swift action the millionaires demand, and they get It At one of the newer hostelries with a European name a famous New York club held its monthly dinner the oth- er night. As usual, the dinner was $50 a plate, and the post prandial en-I en-I tertainment consisted of swift turns I of the cards in a private suite. Present at this golden harvest was ' a young man from Pittsburgh who had ' piled up the nuggets during the rise in steel and had come to New York hoping to put some of it into circulation. circula-tion. He came to the party as the guest of a widely known New York man, and bristled with eagerness to sit into a "gentlemen's game." When the party broke up at about five o'clock in the morning young Pitts-I Pitts-I burgh found his big wad of available bank notes had vamsnea, ana mar, nis signature rested on I. O. U.'s with a face value of $25,000. |