St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-10
Fair Representatives Of the
Houses Of Gould, Letter,
and Havemeyer.
Their Appearance and Royal
! Way of Enjoying Life's
Z Good Things.
Why Some Beautiful Heir
eSseS Have Not Married.
Gold Gossip.

| 500, 000, 900 in American heresses who
might be procured by ambitious young
men without money, although not alto
| gether without price. 1t was not abso-
lutely necessary, this very astute young
man thought, that the sutton for the
hands of the young women should be
able to put up shekels, but ne would
| have to possess something, either in the
way of family name, or social position.
| or physical beauty, to barter off and
make some kind of fair trade.
The remarks were addressed to a
young Englishman who had just come
over to this country, and who has some
| chance of succeeding to title in the
| future, and the aristocratic foreigner
listened to the remarks just indicated
with a good deal of enthusiastic atten-
| zion. The conversation. it may be men,
toned. was apropos of the approaching
marriage of Reginald Ward, of Boston,
to Miss Edith Newcomb, the daughter
| of FL. Victor Newcombe one time ''boy
PRESIDENT. of the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad, and how millionaire
| operator in Wall street. Mr. Ward, it
| is said, has no money, but he has fnan-
cial ability, demonstrated by his brief
career on the Boston stock exchange,
| and was chosen by Miss Newcomb's
faith Ell because of the possible assist
| ance Mr.. Ward may be to MIN in his
! business.
The young English man asked, of
| course, just where the S100, 600, 900 was
| and TO what girls attached, and in an
| SWering him the energetic young Amer
lean seemed disposed to put the daugh-
| ter of Sugar Trust HaVemeyer at the
head of the list. The young man had
just returned from Newport, and was
evidently impressed with the magnii-
cent expenditures for which the Have
meyers have been responsible during
| the summer season just past. New
porters seem to think that Theodore
Havemeyer has made something like
Sl5,000,000 out of the sugar trust during
| the past year by the selling of sugar
| trust certificates and incidentally gath
| ering the profits Of the refnerieS; and,
if anything can be judged from
| Mr.. Havemeyer's way Of living.
Newport cottagers are probably not
| Very far away from the truth. 1t is
| stated by men who have some knowl-
! edge OF extravaganza living that no man
in the country is spending more for
| than Mr.. Hayemeyer is, and from all
accounts he proposes to follow up his
| gorgeous and Kaleidoscope Newport
| season by a season in town
EQUALLY GOLDEN AND BEwILDERING.
He is building an extension to his
! town house in the shape of ball room,
| simply to mark out and give Importance
to the debut of his daughter, whom the
young man at Delmonico'S referred to.
| The addition to his house will cost prob
Isably 100000, for the reason that the
decorations as now planned will be ex-
| tremely rich and the finished apartment
| will be quite as splendid as the notable
| ball room in Mrs. ClewS' house at New
| port. The Miss Havemeyer for whom
this ball room is building is the third
daughter of the house. the two other
daughters being Mrs. Myers and Mrs.
Edward Potter.
She is rather pretty girl about nine
teen years old, but will probably never
be regarded as beauty. How much
money she will have it is impossible to
say. The story in Newport is that Mr..
Sl0O, 600, and made present of S500,000
to his wife, and has done this out of
sugar trust profits. When it is consid-
cred, however. that sugar trust certifi-
Gates have fallen from 156 to below 80
within the last three or four months,
and that Mr.. Hayemeyer is understood
to have S15,00O,0O0 in them, it will be
seen that the sugar trust magnate is not
so rich man as he was, at least on
paper, by 81, 900, 900 or 5000, 900.
The millionaire's daughter who will
undoubtedly cut the widest swath in
society this winter, and who will be fol-
III hue ft,1
and accomplished fortune hunters, is
Miss Mary Letter, the daughter of l.. z.
Letter, of Chicago. Miss Letter is a
tall, slender girl, who has yiyacious
and attractive manner, and dresses in
exquisite taste. She is only twenty
years of age and accounted very beauti-
full. She has spent season Or so in
Washington, made very brilliant sue
cess at Newport this past summer
season. and the Letters, it is now under
stood, have taken house in New York.
Thea have all the money necessary to
carry out any social plans which the
ambitious daughter may have in view.
Mr. Letter is the retired partner of
Field. Letter & Co., of Chicago, and it
is believed that the S., O00,0 900 with which
he retired from that firm has been in
creased by Judicious Investments in
Wall street. He is now building an i'm
menSe structure in Chicago to cost
10000 The daughter is the pride
both of her father and mother, and, as
she has undertaken to establish the
family at the highest pinnacle of social
distinction, her father will undoubtedly
give her all the money necessary to do
so. She has had two or three indus
trious cavaliers at Newport, including
handsome widOWer we'll advanced i'll
years, popular leader of Delmonic0's
cotilliOns in addition and the scion of
famous American family. But, from
all appearances, she starts in On her
first social season in New York.
There are two or three heiresses in
New York, daughters Of well-kn0wn
financiers and millionaires, who do not
go into society, and of whom very little
is heard. One of them is, of course,
Miss Helen Gould, the daughter of Jay
of age. She is pretty girl, but very re-
firing in her disposition, aud devoted to
her father. She is with her father now,
on his trip through the West. She in
herited $500, 600 from her mother, so she
is An heiresS without any reference to
the little wizard of Wall street. Miss
Goqld's life has nothing to do with soci-
ETY. whatever. She is very much given
to charitable work, and has class in q
sunday school OF Well-kn0Wn freSDy-
teflan church on Fifth avenue. and
finds her only diversion, it would APP
pear. in driving through the country
in the neighborhood of her fathers
house at Irvington on the Hudson. She
was at Saratoga with her father last
summer, but the people at the United
States hotel saw very little of her.
Mrs. Guilla MoroSini, the daughter Of
G. p Morosini, who was at one time
Mr.. GOuld's lieutenant. was at Sara
toga at the United States at the same
time with the Goulds and attracted a
good deal of attention by reason of her
equipages. She drove out OH Union
avenue every afternoon. usually behind
q pair of cObs arranged tandem, and |
| she managed the reins with noteworthy |
skill. Miss Morosini has dark eyes,
ripping dark hair. with good deal of |
cnloring in her face and very trim and |