The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-15
HELEN COULD
BHGK In TOWN
After Five Years She Reopens
Her Magnificent Home.
Only One Reception Given in Ii,
aud That Was Seven Years
AGO.

New York, Jan. I5.-After secluding
herself in the country for five years, Helen
Gould has returned TO town, and yester-
day the great house on the northeast cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh
street threw Off the mantle of gloom
which had enveloped it ever since Jay
/ Gould's death.
Miss Gould intends to remain in New
York for the rest of the winter, and her
1 fashionable neig hbors are W ondering
whet her her return and the furnishing up
1 OF the magnificent residence left her by
! her father p0Ttend any startling change in
I her met bod o. life and ner attitude toward
the world.
WHAT Helen Gould may elect To do il
matter OF some Importance, for she is tine
mistress of something like fifteen millions
in addition u her town house and the place
at Irvington, where her later years have
I been spent. In other words. she is the richest
Young woman in New York, with the POS
sibe exception OF May Guelet, daughter
OF tie late ogden Goelet.
Hitherto size has concerned herself but
lutte with the affairs OF the world. She
has lived the life OF a country rector 5
daughter, carrying soup nd flannels L Old
women. housing and feeding orphans, study
ing sociological problems. aud sustaining all
manner OF charitable enterprises with her
name and her fortune. Hers has been the
alt tIda OF a devotee WHO mas put behind
her the p1mps aud vanitIes uf the world.
The nalse her father hequeath he'd her a.
suparily furnished and decorated. nj con
taiu> many very precious works OF statu-
ary snd painting. ~ j. seven years since
. the L,ffv Rooms echoed win the voices 81
guests. ana that was on the one occasion
when Helen Gould faced the fashunatle
world.
Jaw Gould gave mammoth RECEIPT Ion IA
has eldest daughter's honor. With the old
ftnancier-s characterize love Of the
graudiose, he made extraordinary pro
visions for the event, aud issued no fewer
than ; 1000 cards.
The hours 81 were from TO O'Clock.
Tan servants I'm livery Thanked the wide
steps Back In the large dining-roou was
an elaborate buffet. where DelnoBico had
exceIed himself to provide the most deli
cate foods and The rarest wines. Between
this and the wall were four or five wide
steps StiFN II " lAl tue IlDsi liDltEhl ltla~h
OF American Beauty roses ever furnished 10y
florist before or since.
-Four O'Clock came, and the minutes
licked off No carriage rolled up TO the
door, no na me was bawled by the butler
Miss Gould waited calmly in the drawing
room, supported by her father and by her
sister-in-law W, Mrs. George Gould. Quarter
pas 4, half past-still the street was
clear, and the servants fidgeted on the
stoop.
The minute ha climbed on to the hour
OF >, and then-there was something the
atriCala b0utit-a caTria ge rumhled UP, and
the butler put all his lung power into the
announcement of the guests names.
The first ca TriaEe was followed by OF hers,
troops of them, and the day was saved.
1t was only a brief glimpse that Helen
Gould had of society, however. Her mother
was taken i'll soon afterward, and there
was never a more tireleSs nurse than this
young heiress of many millions. Mrs.
Gonld's death was followed by the seizure
Of Jay Gould. and untfl the end came his
devoted da Ughterlived almost wholly i'm his
sick chamber.
Since That time, except for the fleeing
revelry of the CaStellane wedding Helen
Gould has devoted herself 10 her flowers
and her orphans and her old women.