The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-08
THE RICHEST HEIRESS.
Is Helen Gould and She will Soon
Enter Society.

Enter Society.
s15 200, 900 in Cash Her Portion and
Beautiful Home on Fifth Ave-
nue., New York, and One
on the Hudson.
Copyright, 1899
If that large class of ubiquitous per
| sons who claim to know all the ms and
outs and doings, private and public, Of
what is known as the social world OF
New York, may be depended upon, the
coming season is going to be an uncom.
monty lively one.
There is an unusually large field OF
debutantes to enter the race for social
supremacy, and their fond mammas are
preening and grooming them as only
fond mammals who own rich and gen
erous husbands with plethoric pocket
books can.
Not only is the number of young
buds that are expected to bloom in
the fall with impressive magnifcence
large, but the class is high, represent
as it does some of the most prominent
families in the golden circle of society.
The young women represent families
whose wealth runs into the tens of
millions, and as yet there seems to ex-
list no inclination to cavil at the man.
ner in which the foundation of wealth
was laid.
Among all the many social debuts
that are coming the one that will eX-
cite the most interest is that of Helen
M. Gould, only daughter of the great
financier and his favorite among all
his children.
The entrance into society of this
young woman is likely to be accom-
panied by not little stir and COM
ment, Miss Gould has passed the age
when young women are as rule intro
duced to the social world in formal
way. She is no longer a young girl
in the strict sense of the word, for in
the matter of years she is very fairly
into the twenties and is grave and
womanly beyond her years.
She will represent SIS, 600, 900 or more
of her own, all good hard cash, or what
is as good, railroad securities whose
tendency is ever upwards, and property
that is always steadily increasing in
value. She owns the splendid Fifth
avenue residence her father so long oc-
cupied, and the great mansion at Irv-
ington-on Hudson, where the Gould
family spent the summer. These great
properties are the exclusive possession
of Miss Gould, and they are gorgeously
and completely furnished throughout.
Together they are worth quite 81, $780,,
900
So while Jay Gould in his life time
had many and fierce critics, and
although that sometimes ne bulous ele-
ment known as the best society, rather
looked down on the famous money
maker, there is no likelihood that his
daughter will be cavilled at, unless it
be by ambitious matrons with young
daughters of their own in the market
for disposal to the highest legitimate
bidder.
Miss Helen Gould is not strik-
ing'y handsome, but she is very
sweet and womanly in her manner
and she has SO. 900, 900 and more in
money that is absolutely her own and
that will compound as the years go by.
So she need not fear that she will be-
come languishing wall flower in the
ball and reception rooms that she will
figure in during the social season now
drawing near. Her recommendations
to favor are toe many and too weighty.
But as for fortune hunters they may
IS well keep their distance. Along
with her mothers anna bility and
sweetness of character she has much
of her fathers keenness and strong
common sense. Hence while she will
be bud worth the plucking, the man
well TO himself for he Will have no
gushing damsel to deal with.
Few young women who figure, or are
soon to figure in New Io-ks social
swirl are so little known as is Helen
Gould Even the leaders in the circles
where she is TO enter do not know the
Young woman well They know TO be
sure that she is the daughter OF the
late jay Gould, that she is said to be
good and charming girl and that she is
enormously rich Their fund of In
formation runs ont at this point and
they are waiting with some curiosity
to add TO it by means OF personal OBJ
servation.
The. social debut OF Miss Gould has
been delayed considera bly, beyond the
time tina, it would have been made. By
the deaths Of her father and mother
There never was daughter more de-
voted 20 their mother than was Helen
Gould to hers during the latter's de-
Ginning years The two were very like
80 Commencement and their constant COM