Show MONEY KINGS FEAST Tho Banquet to Millionaires Becently Given In London by Baron Hirsch Baron Hirsch is a highly susceptible millionaire who believes in royalty who has followed the fortunes of the Prince of Wales assiduously and who is supposed sup-posed to have staked that personage on many occasions For awhile ho dropped out of the papers but he is back again now and his genius for doug do-ug things that cause people to talk seems again to be in good working order or-der The dinners of rich men have been frequent but Baron Hirsch conceived the idea of getting tho 12 richest men I in London together and giving them a dinner which would rank as the most expensive one in the long history of that great dinner giving metropolis According to a correspondent it was a feast of money from beginning to end Not a single guest was admitted whose fortune was not estimated in millions of pounds and tho English papers havo become delirious in trying to figure out the exact wealth represented by the barons bar-ons 11 guests The baron himself made no pretense of giving the dinner for a special object ob-ject except to see how good a dinner he could buy The chef of the HotQl Savoy and the proprietors of that establish I dent entered cheerfully into the barons scheme and the result was a diuuei which it took four hours to eat was paid for in about four minutes and cost upward of 5500 cannot be wondered wonder-ed at that the Prince of Wales is fond of Baron Hirsch |