The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-29
GOULD'S GOLD
Said to Have Purchased His
Way In
To the Inner Circles of Royal
British Society.
HE LOANED 100000
To the Prince of Wales, So the
Story Goes
The GOulds Spending $3.50, 900
u Month in Europe.

LONDON, Aug 29.--When Mr.. George
Gould was asked yesterday regarding the
current report that he had loaned $780,
600 to the Prince of Wales, he declined
to say anything on the subject. Club
gossip, however, asserts that Mr. Gould
has actually loaned this sum, and by SO
doing has secured entry for himself and
wife to the innermost circles of British
aristocracy.
Great Sums sent Abroad.
NEW YORK Aug. 29-The sums now
being RENTED abroad to mem bers of the
Gould family are causing some financiers
to stand aghAst. 1t was stated that the
family went to Europe with credit of
81 900. 900 in cash at Coutts' bank in Lon
don, and if this be so it is impossible to
understand why the Goulds are drawing
as they undoubtedly do. The Gould
accounts have averaged $25O,0J0 a
month. drain which, it is almost
superhuOus to say. even the elevated
railway system of New York can hardly
endure very long. It has been asserted
that the GOulds propose investing in
large landed properties in England, a re-
port hardly credited at trst. but the
heavy remittances cabled for have occa-
stoned some degree of credence among
financiers.
Mrs. Edith kingdom Gould has herself
n.
These investments in her name have all
been made during the past two years,
and her realty is stated to be worth
million dollars at least. There is a story
that the idea OF the Gould spurge is to
exchange some of the late jays millions
for a title of which the brilliancy
and the ancient honor must be in some
degree commensurate with the wealth
involved. Il seems that the engagement
Of Miss Anna Gould to comparatively
poor American WAS not satisfactory to
Miss Edith kingdom Gould, who is prac-
tically the head Of the family now And
as New York is reservoir from which
her husband can practically draw dollars
at will, the lady has unlimited opportun-
tiles for carrying out her projects.
Yet there are difficulties even in the
golden path Of this lady. Lady Ran
dolph Churchill's set, which appears 10
be a clique within that gilded one known
TO the world as the Prince of Wales
crowd, has set its face against any new
cOmers. The consequence is that al
though His Highness bestOws the light
of his cOuntenance, the rest Of the blue
blood is onspicuoGsly somewhere else.
When the prince appears he appears
alone The Goulds have not been asked
10 a single Thames house, to one "shOot"
in Scotland or a town house in London.
1t seems that English society likes d
long wOoing.
But patience is a Gould characteristic,
and expense certaiuly need not be a
Gould consideration. Unfortunately MT.
George Gould is not desirous of making
a lengthy stay abroad, and tits an open
secret that he and his wife do not agree
on this point. The question, therefore.
that is agitating the 1inanciers of New
York has reference to the return of the
missed ones. Will George Gould come
home alone? Will he and the family
come home together? Will he come
D- all in
definitely?
The answers to these questions cannot
fail to have an important bearing upon
New York's rapid transit problems.