MILLIONAIRE FOR A DAY.
STATUE GIVEN TO AMERICA. The ex-tramp and professional politician, John Jay McDevitt, who gained fame two years ago as "the millionaire for a day'' by making a trip as a plutocrat from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, to New York, started recently from Wilkesbane in a special train for Washington to present a bronze statue of himself to Congress. It is not known how he got the money for the trip. McDevitt paid £140 for the statue, Which he calls " the living human being-" He declares that he does not believe in erecting statues to famous men after they are dead. If Congress decline* to receivet the statue, McDevitt will offer it to the Smithsonian Institution. Two years ago he admitted frankly that he had been paid £500 to withdraw his candidacy for the office of county treasurer, and declared that he proposed to spend it in being a millionaire for a day. He engaged a special train for New York, and travelled witfi a secretary, valet, and private physician. The party put up at New York's finest hotel, and after sampling all the joys of being a millionaire, McDevitt declared that he was tired of it. He returned to Wilkesbarre penniless.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15563, 21 March 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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