The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-29

have had the pleasure of her acquaint-
Rnce unite In pronouncing her the love
Hest of the debutantes of many years
past.
Miss Goelet has spent the last three
years In Europe, and returns with no
lingering affection for any member of
the titled aristocracy who paid court to
her Her name is of the proudest Knick-
erbocl1er origin. Her father was the late
Ogden Goelet, who died three years ago
In Europe. Her mother was Miss VIII
non. daughter of the r. 7. Wilson's, and.
sister to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.,
who, despite her successful marriage, is
Ear from being as important person as
fwenty-year- Miss Goelet. When Con
sula Vanderbilt married the Duke of
Marlborough, May Goelet, who had never
been introduced to society, was brides
maid Not long after she was taken by
her parents to London, where the social
position of her married sister, Mrs. Mich
Eel Henry Herbert, wife of one of the
nobility, guaranteed her introduction
Everywhere.
WAS POPULAR IN EUROPE.
Miss GoeIet's social triumphs since her
presentation to the London social world
Ire sufficiently well known.
Her father, Ogden Goelet was an in
Tense patriot He had no dearer ambi-
lion iCr his pretty, slight, dark-eyed
daughter than to see her happily married
to some man who satisfied his concep-
hon Of the best type Of American1sm-
And, seeing no magic In foreign titles,
Ogden Goelet is known to have declared
lust before his death and after repeated
attentions to his daughter on the part OF
of the young Duke Of Manchester.
'I would rather see my daughter dead
than Duchess of Manchester"
May Geelet respected her fathers wish
es, and the duke went his way.
RESPECTS HER FATHERS MEMORY.
Certain astute persons declare that In
rejecting her subsequent suitors she has
likewise been paying a kind Of tribute
to her fathers memory and that her visit
this summer to Newport, with its re-
newal of old acquaintance here, is in
tended as an emphatic proclamation OF
her nationality. At all events it is plain
her triumphs have not turned her head.
All of which is welcome news to every
mother with an eligible son and a most
absorbing subject for speculation to every
spectator of the social game which may
result before the summer is over in Miss
Goelets betrothal. Speculation has, in
deed, even gone so far as to suggest the
most likely candidates. Who stands
"
yuitors have failed? What American can
be predicted to carry off this most brill
liant and-it has been proVed-elusive prize
of the season? Newport is not likely to
have q more interesting question to con-
slider.
AS everybody remembers, the Duke of
Manchester was the first of a most re-
markable procession of suitors for the
hand Of the lovely American. For q
time Manchester was considered to have
a rival in the Duke of RoXburghe, cousin
of the Duke of Marlborough. Then it was
reported that Roxburghe, who is young,
and rich enough to be considered disin-
terested in his advances, had triumphed.
Rumor had Miss GoeIet a second time on
The very eve of becoming a duchess
Then the Earl of Shaftesbury appeared.
The earl is one Of the most distinguished
pr the younger noblemen, Is lieutenant
In the crack Prince of Wales own Tenth
hussars, and is extremely popular. But
at this time Miss Goelet appeared to pre-
fer the Marquis of Tullibardine, who is
the future Duke Of Athol. However she
married neither, and the next sensation
was that she was about to become be-
trothed to Prince Francis of Teck to
carry out an ambition said to be cher
ished by her mother.
DISAPPOINTED THEM ALL
All England talked of this possible
match. The Duchess of York, the princes
sister, paid conspicuous attention to Hiss
GoeIte, and the affair seemed settled 1t
was claimed that in this single instance
Queen Victoria's insistence on caste had
yielded to eXpedicncy. Americans looked
to see Miss Goelet the sister-tn Jaw of the
future queen OF England. But Miss Gee
let proved capricious, or the princes ad-
-visers obdurate. At all events, the matter
dropped.
At this point appeared Viscount erich
ton, said to be the handsrlIcst man In
London, and eldest son of The Earl of
Erne but on the viscounts departure fer
the Transvaal an enterprise said to have
been undertaken expressly to win Miss
Goelets favor, his place as a possibly
successful sutton was quickly filled by
Prince Henri Of Orleans. who, with M
Paul Deschanel, president of the French
chamber of Deputies, and Capt Oswald
Ames, the tall, handsome, but poor young
life guardsman, is among the most recent
of Miss Goelet's cavaliers. Capt. Ames,
who is six feet eight inches high, and one
of the handsomest men in Europe, led the
great procession in honor of Queen Veto
ria's jubilee.
To not one of this titled array, h9wev-
err, has the heiress betrothed herself In
few weeks she returns to her own courl-
try from Paris, where she is now visiting
the exposition. Not In years have the
young men admitted to Newport society
had so fair an opportunity Who will