The San Francisco call., 1897-10-24
IS LIVING
BEYOND HIS
Bic INCOME
Has Count de Castellane
SQuandered His Wife's
Fortune?
THE GOULDS' MONEY
10 OOINO.
Extravaganza That Has Been
the Cause of Much Talk
at Paris.
MARLBOROUGH'S RUPTURE
WITH CHURCHILLS.
Only the Influential Hamilton
Branch of the Family Invited
to the Christening.
Extravaganza That Has Been
the Cause of Much Talk
at Paris.
MARLBOROUGH'S RUPTURE
WITH CHURCHILLS.
Only the Influential Hamilton
Branch Of the Family Invited
to the Christening.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

NEW YORK, Oct. % "A cable from
London says: Is Count Boni de CasteI-
lane living beyond the splendid income
he acquired by marriage 20 Anna Gould?
That question is being asked in high So
clai circles in Paris. and the tendency is
to answer in the affirmative.
The cable dispatche recorded two weeks
ago that Couns Boni had disposed of his
steam yacht Valhalla unexpectedly. The
yacnt had been in his possession only two
months and he sold her for no known rea-
son except TO get profit of $3O 600 on the
transaction. Now it is rumored he paid
only deposit on the purchase money up
to the time of the yachts resale. The
further significant fact mas Just come to
light that within fortnight the Count
and Countess of Castellane's financial
agent has been in London arranging to
raise money in anticipation of dividends
on stock offered by the Countess. Count
BonTs extra vagance has been the talk of
Paris for some time, but it was fancied his
resources were equal to the drain he was
making on them. 1t is an open secret
that his new palace in the Avenue du
Bois de Boulogne involved him in enor-
nous expenditure beyond his calcula-
tions. for the actual outlay nearly trebled
the original estimate.
There is rupture in the Churchill
family over the christening party OF Baby
Blandford. The CnurchilIs com plain that
the Duke OF Marlborough invited only the
Hamil ION section OF his relatives. 1t is
quite certain, with the exception of the
Dukes two sisters, no one OF the Churc bill
name was present. Lady Blandford, a
sponsor and the Dukes mother, is Ham
llton. Sois the Duchess OF Buccleugh and
the Countess OF Pembroke, and the only
other guest is also OF Hamilton blood
Ever since the divorce between the
Dukes father and Lady Biandford the
Hamittons and Churchills have been at
outs. The young Duke, after keeping on
terms with both sides very cleverlY, hes
now deeply affron ted the Churchill rela-
tives by ignoring their existence. On this
important family occasion he has
shrewdiy taken his stand with heavy ar
tillery, for the Hamiltons are the most
powerfu family clan, both politically and
socially, in British aristocracy in the pres
ent generation.
Nor was one of the ChurchilIs at the
ceremony at Woodstock on Wednesday of
this week, when the Duchess of MarI-
boroush placed a Lew chain OF office
around the neck OF the Mayor of that
borough. The chain was present from
the Duke, and as said to have cost $500.
Lady Randolph ChurchilPs elder son.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill, is acting
as correspondent for the Daily Tele-
graph in the Indian frontier war. His
contributions are printed as "by a young
officer" The letters are graphic, show
ing that the lieutenant is seeing great
deal of fighting with his reg ment.