Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-03-23
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD WINS
HANDSOME WIDOW
HOW ACQUAINTANCE BEGAN
me Famous Luncheon Party on
The Yacht Mayfower at Which
the Princess of Wales Was
Present. Division of the Goe-
let Estate.


the widow of the late Ogden Goelet
was engaged to marry the earl of Ches-
tertelo has caused 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 so nowadays, but well into the
millions.
The earl of Chesterfield is the lineal
descendant OF the Lord Chesterfield
whose letters to his son have 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.
- Wedding will enable Mrs Goelet to
write Countess" before her new name
1t Will enable Loro Chesterfield to sup
port IN princely magnifcence the fam
lily estate in Herefordshire, Home
Lacy, which has as yet seen little Of
him during the forty-fve 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 somewhat SNOWY man
ner.
She is daughter of r r. Wilson.
a sister of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt
jr., and connected by marriage with
the Astors and Gerrys Her mother,
having weo one daughter to a Goelet,
another to a Vanderbilt and 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
HES 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 T.. T. Gerry
long lived there, refusing to sell even
at a 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 Hin thea
ters. They own great block Of prop
erty running from Fifth avenue 10 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 NJ
Hunt, Is the finest there; as costly Us
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 a huge modern building, lust
as It was in the old days, even to the
old Sign OF Peter Goelet hung on the
wall.
But Mrs. Goelet had social ambi-
lions. When her husbands health be.
gan falling, several years ago. she in
duced him TO charter Mrs. Langtry's
yacht. The White Ladye on which they
took an extended culse in the Riviera,
and were seen at Cowes. Mr.. Goelet
took genuine interest in yachting.
a. 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 Maynower. She was
the most magnificent steam yacht at.
that time ever built she cost $500. 900
After Mr.. Goelet's death she was used
by j. Pierpont Morgan Last spring
she was solo 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
Mayhower, both on the Riviera and IN
British waters, the Goelets entertained
magni6cently. The fact that they
had a daughter who would inherit mill
ions made British mammas the more
anxious 20 make their acquaintance
II was during the splendid series Of
festivities given on the Mayhower IN
COwes Roads In the summer OF 1897
that Mrs Goelet met the earl OF Ches-
terrified whose London duties as Cap
tain OF the Honorable Corps OF Gentle
men-at-Arms did not keep him very
closely cr1bbed In Engine Yard, 81.
James Palace, among the merrymak-
ers The Prince OF Wales and others
were also entertained at this time
The festivities were continued even
while Mr.. Goelet himself was quite H.
Il 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 vas present ir.
coRnito. Mr.. Goelet tottered into the
saloon. and. looking slowly about, said:
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