Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-23
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD WINS
HANDSOME WIDOW.
HOW ACQUAINTANCE BEGAN
The Famous Luncheon PARTY on
the Yacht Mayflower at Which
the Princess of Wales Was
Present. Division of the Goe-
let Estate.

was engaged to marry the earl of Ches-
terfelo has caused a tremendous fiutter
OF gossip on both sides of the Atlantic.
Mrs. Goelet bears one of the great
names of the old New York aristoc-
racy and possesses in her own right a
tidy little fortune-not vast, as for
tunes go nowadays, but well into the
millions.
The earl of Chesterfield is the lineal
descendant of the Lord Chesterfield
whose letters" tc his son have a per-
manent place in English literature and
whose fame rests upon his repute as
the master of the most polished man
ners of his time.
A wedding will enable Mrs. Goelet TO
write Countess before her new name.
1t will enable Loro Chesterfield to sup
port in princely magnificence the fam
lily estate in Herefordshire, Holme
Lacy, which has as yet seen little of
him during the forty-five eventful
years he has lived.
Mrs. Goelet is tall, dark and of strik-
ing appearance. Until her bereave-
ment she dressed in the extreme of ele-
gance and in a somewhat SNOWY man.
ner.
She is daughter of R. T. Wilson.
sister of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
jr,, and connected by marriage with
the Astors and Gerrys. Her mother.
having wed one daughter to Goelet.
another to Vanderbilt and a son to
an Astor, is called the best match
maker on Fifth avenue.
By her. marriage Mrs. Goelet en-
tered one of the most powerful fam
lilies in New York. The old Goelet
house, on the corner of Nineteenth
street and Broadway, was long the
most familiar mark of the grip upon
New York of the Goelets. The aged
mother of Commodore e. T. Gerry
long lived there, refusing to sell even
at million dollars or more. The
house only gave way to commercial
buildings after her death, three or four
years ago.
The Goelets own the Hotel Manhat-
tan, the Imperial the Sherry building,
the Manhattan and Murray Hill thea
tiers. They own great block of prop
erty running from Fifth avenue to the
East river, below Forty-ninth street.
and running south to Forty-second
street, besides scattered blocks on
Broadway.
The Ogden Goelet mansion in New
port, designed in the style of Nor
man chateau by the late Richard M.
Hunt, is the finest there as costly as
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilts marble pal |
ace, and far more beautiful. The
Goelet mansion on Forty-eighth street
ana Fifth avenue is one of the hnest
in New York.
For himself Robert Goelet would |
hardly have built the Newport place
He was a simple, transformations man,
democratic, quiet, fond of attending to
business in the quaint little Office at
No. SO Nassau steet, carefully pre-
served in huge modern building, Just
as 1t was in the old days, even to the
old sign of Peter Goelet hung on the
wall.
But Mrs. Goelet had social ambi-
tons. When her husbands health be.
gan failing, several years ago, she an
ouced him to charter Mrs. Langtry's
yacht, The White Ladye, on which they
took an extended cuise in the Riviera.
and were seen at Cowes. Mr.. Goelet
took a genuine interest in yachting,
as his gift of the Goelet cup, to be
raced for at Newport, would indicate,
and he readily gave the order for the
building of the Mayflower. She was
the most magnificent steam yacht at
that time ever built; she cost $500, 900.
After Mr.. Goclet's death she was used
by j. Pierpont Morgan. Last spring
she was SOLD to the United States gov
eminent by the Goelet estate, far be-
low her cost, and became fast yacht
of-war doing creditable work In the
war against Spain.
Both in the White Ladye and the
Mayfiower, both on the Riviera and in
magnifcently. The fact that they
had daughter who would inherit mill
ions made British mammas the more
anxious to make their acquaintance
II was during the splendid series Of
festivities given cu the Mayflower In
Cowes Roads in the summer of 1897
that Mrs Goelet met the earl of Ches-
terfield, whose London duties as Cap
tain of the Honorable Corps OF Gentle
men-at-Arms did not keep him very
closely cribbed in Engine Yard, st. |
James Palace, among the merrymak-
ers. The Prince OF Wales and others
were also entertained at this time.
The festivities we're continued even
while Mr.. Goelet himself was quite Ill.
II is probable that no one realized how
grave was his situation. The men on
the yacht say that on one occasion
when the yacht was being prepared for
the famous luncheon party at which
the Princess OF Wales was present An
cognito, Mr.. Goelet tottered into the
saloon, and. looking slowly about, said: