The times., 1898-01-16
HELEN COULD
BRGk In TOWN
After Five Years She Reopens
Her Magnificent Home.
Only One Reception Given in 1t.
and That Was Seven Years
Ago.

New York. Jan. 15.- 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
Gould's death.
Miss Gould intends to remain in New
York for the rest of the winter, and her
fashionable neig hbors are W ordering
whether her return and the furnishing up
of the magnificent residence left her by
+ h,r father portend any startling change in
/ her method OF life and her attitude toward
! the world.
What Helen Gould may elect to do is a
matter OF some Importance, for she is the
mistress OF something like fifteen millions,
: I'm addition to her town house and the place
/ at Irvington, whsre her later years have
been spent. In other words, she is the richest
/ young woman in New York, with the pos
sbie exception or May Goelet, daughter
OF the late ogden Goelet.
Hitherto she has concerned herself but
4 little with the affairs of the world. She
I ndS ilNtu Tue Ul tDuUtrg EtItDT -
/ daughter, carrying soup and flannels to old
! women, housing and feeding orphans, study
! ing sociological problems, and sustaining all
manner or charitable enterprises with her
name and her fortune. Hers has been the
attitude of devofee who has put behind
/ her the pomps and vanities of the world.
The hoiae her father bequeathed her is
/ superbly furnished and decorated, and con-
| tains many very precious works of statu-
! airy and painting. 1t is seven years since
! the lofty rooms echoed with the voices of
! guests, and that was on the one occasion
when Helen Gould faced the fashionable
world
Jaw Gould gave a mammoth reception in
! his eldest daughters honor. With the old
financier's characteristic love of the
/ grandioSa, he made extraordinary pro-
visions for the event, and issued no fewer
than 5000 cards.
The hours set were from to Z O'Clock.
Tall servants in livery Thanked the wide
steps. Back in the large dining-roon was
an elaborate buffet, where Delmonico had
eXcelled himself 10 provide the most deli
cate foods and the rarest wines. Between
this and the wall were four or five wide
steps streWn with the most prodigsl mass
OF American Beauty roses ever furnished by
a florist before or since.
-Four O'Clock came, and the minutes
licked off. No carriage rolled up to the
door, no name was bawled by the butler.
Miss Gould waited calmly in the drawing
room, supported by her father and by her
sister-in-law Mrs George Gould. Quarter
past 4, half past-still the street was
clear, and the servants fidgeted on the
stoop.
The minute h8 d climbed ON to the hour
of .. and then-there was omething the
atrical a boutit-a carria ge rumble d up, and
the butler put all his lung power into the
announcement of the guests names.
The first ca rriage was followe by others,
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 more tireless nurse thai this
young heiress of many millions Mrs.
Goulds death was followed by the seizure
OF Jay Gould, and until the end came his
devoted ds ughterIived almost wholly in his
sick chamber.
Since that time, except for the fleeting
reveiry OF the Casteilane wedding, Helen
Gould has devoted herself to her flowers
and her orphans and her old women