The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-16

all persuasions toward the gay world.
And she is busy. Her creed is a busy
one. Il expect to pass through this
life but once; any good that 1 can do
let me do 1t now; let me not neglect
it or defer it, for shall not pass this
way again" But it is not work with
out faith. In her the two are admir-
ably blended. She is a sincere, earn
est Christian, a communicate of the
Presbyterian church, and to her this
world is but the preparation for an
other and a better one. She is not
beautiful, though her face is woman
ly and sweet, but with fifteen millions
in her own right she might easily be-
come great belle. Only she will not.
She had one large party, which her
father insisted upon to introduce her
into society. She was part of the fes-
tivities of the famous Castellane we'd
ding. But that has counted for nearly
all the social junketings of her life of
thirty years. Most girls have had
more, if they have had any, and this
is the richest young woman in New
York
AS she says herself, she is busy. She
set for herself three tasks in life. One
was to fit herself for the proper care
of her fortune, another to clear her
fathers memory Of the stain black
mailers put upon it, and the third to
make a good business man of her
youngest brother, Frank. who is not yet
of age. No one can say that she has
failed in any Of these, while the first
two are accomplished facts. Her spirit
is absolutely dauntless. She is so I'M
swerving from a purpose that her fam
lily and immediate friends have dubbed
her "the woman of no compromise"
When Mrs. Angel claimed in court that
she was the first and only legal wife
Of Jay Gould, one Of the brothers in
the family council suggested that the
imposter be given a few thousand dol
lars to spare them further annoyance,
but to this Helen would not listen
Never" she said. 81 will spend my
life, if necessary, in clearing up this
mystery and proving our father innO-
cent" And she did. Evidence unmis-
taxable was secured and the imposter
confessed on affidavit.
TOOK A COURSE IN LAW
In order that she might properly
grasp business details, Miss Gould took
a course at the New York Law univer-
sity, and is a thoroughly equipped bus
mess woman and lawyer, upon whose
shoulders the mantle of her fathers
financiering ability seems to have fall
Ell, combined with many sweet, wOn-
AMY qualities. She is very liberal, and
her charities are so unoStentatiously
managed that her right hand scarcely
knows what her left hand dOeth. She
gave 100000 to her law school She
completed gospel hall at Chautauqua,
N. Y. She founded a scholarship at
Wellesley college and another at
Mount HOlyOke. Practical always, she
not long ago gave $4,000 to the Uni
versity of New York for it's school of
engineering, and in 1895 a gift of $780,
goo to the same university made on
the condition that the name of the giver
be kept secret, is believed to have been
from her. She gave 100000 for the
relief Of sufferers in the st. Louis tor
nado. This is her way of doing good.
When she made the magnificent gift of
100000 to the government to help in
the war with Spain, it was under the
pledge of secrecy, and it was to her
genuine surprise and regret when the
matter was made public. She built
memorial church upon the site Of her
fathers home at ROXbury, N. Y, and
at Woody Crest, near her home on the
Hudson, she has her pet charity.
home for poor children. Intensely fond
of children, she calls this her "recre-
atom" she personally superintends ev-
cry detail of the place, and when at
Lyndhurst goes across every day to
Woody Crest to personally visit her
little friends, who are usually crippled,
manned or defOrmed. She is q strictly
temperance woman, and was a great
admirer Of Frances Willard. She Is
level-headed and studious, never self
seeking and intensely patriotic. For
eign travel she does not care for as
she cOnceives her own country to be
best of all possible lands. She is neither
a belle, like her sister, nor a secretly
ambitious woman, like her charming
sister-in-law Mrs. George Gould She
was her fathers favorite child, and is a
shrewd business woman with a mind
Of her own. This was evinced pecu-
liarly when she sturdily refused to sell
her elevated road stock. and thus broke