The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-26

William ]. Elkins. the Philadelphia
street car. man. whose fortune is esti-
mated al $5ocJ0,0oo, determined not to be
outsneile Dy mere youngster with a
paltry million TO spend, gave dinner
more eXtraVagant and ostentatious than
anything ThaW had attempted. The floral
9ecoiatio1s alone cost as much as Thaw 5
most costly entertainment.
Every loyal Philadelphia in Paris re-
lc,ced that Pittsburg had been taken
down a peg or two.
c. Oliver Iselin and his family remained
IN Paris during nearly the whole period
OF the exposition. Mr.. IseIin was an OBJ
@ect or interest to Parisians because of
ms connection with yacht races for the
America cup He did a great deal of
entertaining, but, instead Of emulating
the newer milliOnaireS, he maintained at
nllatlons as far as possible with the Fifth
avenue crowd.
William X Vanderbilt easily maintain
ed MS reputation as the most popular of
Americans to visit Paris. '.Afeestaire
Nahnderbeeit was pointed a { eVervw here.
as true blue follower of lie sport" and
one who knew how 10 spend money like
2 monarch without making a fuss about
Paris, which dearly loves an episode
with the swish of petticoats in it, has
not forgotten Mr. VanderbiIts chivaI-
rous behavior many years ago. when he
took pains to be seen everywhere with
Nellie Neustretter and encouraged that
interesting young woman TO drive in the
-tasz behind the Vanderbilt livery.
lhat was TO enaDle Mrs NJ n. Van
derb1it now Mrs. o. H. p Belmont to
procure a divorce. The bOulevardS ap-
preciated the husbands magnanimity and
no visitor to the exposition this summer
was accorded more distinguished consid-
Grafton than the great New York Cen
trail magnate.
Then there were the GOuldsETAoIN-
Then there were the Goulds. They
of gossip. The Castellane connection i'm
parts to them a special interest beyond
all other Americans. 1t earns for them
at once the smiles Of the Fauburg Saint
German and the vicious sneers of the
anti-royalist papers.
George Gould began this year by paying
Count Castellane's debts, and that won
for him the golden opinions of Paris So
ciety. He enjoyed all the homage that s.
due to q fairy g0dmOt Their. Shortly after
ward he and Mrs Gould were taken for
a ride to the clouds in the Count de la
Naulx's balloOn-an honor that other
Americans sighed for in vain
Mr. Gould, in his turn, entertained roy
The Edwin GouIds were also on hand
They comforted themselves modestly and
were esteemed for their modest be
haVior.
Howard Gould and his wife, formerly
Miss Catherine ClemmOns, put up at the
Hotel Ritz and attracted more attention
in their way than all the other Goulds
combined. They were not on speaking
terms with the other members of the fam
ilv because of the disapproval excited by
=
Mrs Howard Gould set the Castellane
faction at defiance by giving extravagant
entertainments. and for a While all Paris
talked of the family feud-
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman took hand
some dwelling in an aristocratic quarter
and kept UP the Pullman reputation for
hospitality. She excited interest as the
widow of the man that invented sleeping
cars and the mother of two typical Amer
lean sDendthrifts.
Another Chicago notability was Charles
7. Yerkes. who, with his handsome and
VivacioUs wife, saw a great deal OF COM
Danv. The Yerkes entertainments were
what one expects of Chicago and were
riValled in Enthusiastically only by those Of
their intimate friends. the De 4oungs OF
San Francisco.
w A Clark of Montana. Travelled with
all the pOmp and circumstance of a reign
ing prince Artists, hearing that he had
paid So coo for Fortuny'r THE Choice of
a Model, were hot on his trail night and
day. and the Latin quarter lay IN wait 70
capture him. but he was disappointment
to the studios, not being in mood to
buy pictures.
a Variety of stories. more or less anus
ing, of his attempt to buy his way into
the United States senate caused him TO
be looked upon with awe
John ". Gates, head of the steel ana
wire trust. came to Paris with a pocket
full of money he had won in England
backing John A. brakes horses He spent
part of it here to the great delight OF the
Sporting fraternity
Marshall Field, the Chicago dry goods
nan spent a quiet summer, but bought
soD1a pictures
freely but did nothing uncommon enough
to be worth recording were Clarence H
Mackay. John Jacob Aston, Senator
Chauncey NJ DepeW, Henry o. HaVemey-
CT, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Claus Spreckles,
George Croker. and Robert Walton