The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-10
HELEN GOULD
TO Be welded
The Heiress Engaged to
Bishop Potter's Son.
HOWARD HAS RETURNED
HE ARRIVED FROM EUROfE
LAST THURSDAY.
AL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE SILENT
The Young Woman is Worth at Least twenty
Million DoIars--Her Fathers
Fayorite Child.

New York. Oct 9.-Society Is dis
sussing the reported engagement OF Miss
Helen Gould, the daughter of the great
capitalist, and Alonzo Potter, eldest son
of the Episcopal Bishop of the Metro
politan See. The engagement was whls-
pered about in exclusive drawing rooms
before the Bishop and family went to the
Lambeth Conference in June, and 1t was
understood would be announced just as
soon as all the members of both famll1es
would meet after the summer vacation.
All are here now except Howard Gould,
and be is on the Campania, which will
arrive Friday.
rsa not been for the dalliance Of
It's arn3s Of Europe Il
Is -JS~i 'E ,1sf til4 az
uou 4.l "a tl4e engagement would
nave been made nearly a month ago.
Miss Gould, who is at her home in Tar
rytown. was not "at home" to anyone
this evening. At the see house, where
Alonzo Potter lives, orders had been Civ
en- to the servants not to take either to
him or to Bishop Potter the card of any
reporter.
A SUSPICIOUS PRECAUTION.
Under the circumstances positive cor
roboration of the report is not possible
It is entirely probable, however, for it
is not conceivable that AlOnzo Potter
would take special precautions to avoid
reporters in a case where his name was
mentioned as the probable bridegroom in
a marriage with Miss Gould if the report
were not true. The position of the young
woman could be understood, because Of
the deIicacy of the situation, but Mr.
Potter's silence is interpreted in club
circles as an admission that he has won
the heart of Miss Gould. There is no
denial to be had anywhere, and that
source from which the rumor comes is
one entirely friendly both to Miss Gould
and to Mr.. Potter.
The fact that Miss Gould is not this
fall going on the European trip she
promised herself is cited as, in some
measure, corroborative Of the report. She
Is one OF Bishop Potter's most enthn-
siastic supporters of the Eastside mis-
sions, but does not limit her charity
TO the denomination of her religious
preference.
Miss Gould's fortune must be about
$20,00O,0OO. On her fathers death it
was estimated that he bequeathed to
her, in good railroad and other securities,
$15,0OO.000. In addition he gave to her
and the beautiful abbey-Eke Lyndhurst,
the mansion which stands between IT.
vingtOn and Tarrytown. It's cost was
more than 81. 100000. The railroad secur-
tiles have enhanced in value, and it is
not trenching upon romance to estimate
that her annual income is above $3.50
600.
BRIDE WORTH CATCHING.
This fortune is hers exclusively, to do
with as she pleases. She was her faith
er's favorite. He admired the business
tact of George, looked forgivingly upon
the eseapades Of Howard, land approvingly
upon the studious tastes of Edwin, and
applauded the sprightliness of Anna, but
he loved Helen.
In making his will he testified this fact
In an exceptional manner. His unmar-
Eied children were to receive certain
sum only, in lieu of all requests, if they
married without consent of the other
members of the family. The consent
OF George Gould was a condition prece-
dent upon matrimony with them if they
wished to participate fully in the estate.
Helen'S portion be put to one side and
declared to be hers without qualification
Of any character. She was to have it
and do with it as she pleased-an anus
ual trust to be given by the most care
full of men to a girl not out of her teens.
But Jay Gould knew his daughter, and
so did her brothers and sisters, to whom
she had been a mother from the time
of the death of their mother Since her
fathers death Miss Gould has lived at
Lyndhurst among her paintings and
books and flowers. The Conservatives
are the finest in America and represent
an outlay of 100000. She is an expert
horsewoman, and is fond of rambles
about the estate, but her principal en-
joyment is with the flowers. When she
comes to this city she stays at the Plaza
Hotel. Almost every Sunday she comes
from Lyndhurst TO attend church.