Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

'"Then there were COO Oriental rugs, which
were strewn in a tasteful pell nell. any
where and everywhere. Think of 5000 gilded
chairs, placed on the sward for the guests.
The evening reception was preceded by
gorgeous fancy dinner of $50 covers which
were served by lis walters, twenty-four
powdered house stewards in Castellane
livery. Respondent in white and gold hang
ing strings, yellow waistcoats and white
knickerbockers, ffty-two other powdered
house stewards in black frocks, white
waistcoats and knickerbockers, thirty
lackeys and nine announcing doorkeepers.
Anna Gould's title has cost approx
mately s2,o17 a day. Recently Frank Work.
the New York millionaire. and his daughter
had a dispute that led Mrs. Roche to leave
his home because for a time she spent about
$3.50 a day, one-sixth OF the daily expendi-
lures OF the count. Furthermore, Frank
Work permitted his daughters extrava-
gances for only few weeks, while George
Gould's titled brother-in-law has hammered
away until he has made the record of 50 000,-
900 for the eleven years of married life.
1.-The count has smilingly spent "a for
cherry and cheerfully given enough to pay
the bonded Indebtedness of a small city
for a piece of bric-a-brac. One of his
little foibles was a vaudeville perform
ance, given Mt Auteuil. when. for $50
guests, he presented an all-star bill, no
act of which cost him less than 500.
"Eclipsel That has been the one idea of
the count from the moment he got his
hands on the Gould fortune. He waited
for others to give fetes or to buy jewels
or antiques only that he might eclipse
them. and generally he was successful.
He has lived to hear his praises sung and
the countess paid the cost,
Millions for Palace.
For his world famous mansion on the
Avenue Bots de Boulogne, known as the
Red palace. Boni spent more money than
he can ever accurately tell. He liked the
location so well that he paid $4,000 for
the land alone and before he got through
he had produced a palace that any king
In Europe might envy.
He was told when he started to dupli-
cate the historical Trianon at Versailles, in
which Nine. Pompadour once lived, that
1t was going to cost tremendously, but he
smiled and showed his bank book. and
for spite planned to spend an additional
million in furnishing the place. one of
the details of the place is a set of fountains
built in the garden which he could run for
ten minutes at the trifiing cost of $1,000.
"At another time he got the idea that
modern dress was all wrong and that It
only required daring individual to revive
the style of past centuries. Toward the
end he gave a flower ball and all men APP
peared in costumes of the Louis XVII
period. The bill was s125.0oo tt
''In 1900 five years after the marriage
the Goulds found out that the count was
sadly in debt. Just how many millions
could not be determined, but 1t was esti-
mated that he had spent 100000 in that
time, and an adjustment was necessary.
Just to show that he wanted TO pay, he
sold at auction the ancestral Castellane
estate, the Chateau du Marais, but this
sale Melted only a drop for the waiting
bucket. Then the count called on the
Gouds again and they helped him out.
Meanwhile, claims aggregating $4,oOo,ooo
were Jumped by his creditors, and Anton
Dittmar, as assignee Of Ascher Werthei-
mer a London art dealer, began an action
for payment. calling on the supreme court
in this city to prevent the payment of any
more money from the Gould trust fund to
the Countess until the claims were paid
After the bitterest kind OF litigation an ar
rangement was made whereby all of the
debts were acknowledged and yearly pay
rnents with per cent interest were begun,
while the income of the countess was cut
down to $500 900 a year. The count moaned.
but he had TO stand IT.
American booty for Titles.
The fortunes which American girls handed
over to titled foreigners during the last
quarter of a century is reduced to round
figures by the Chicago Record Herald as
follows;
Duchess OF Manchester (Consuelo
Princess PoniatowsM (Eiizabeth' 1890 '
Duchess eS of Marlborough CConsueio V'0'0
Vanderbilt) ......................... 10000, 900
Lady Curzon (Mary Leiter)....... 5000, 900
nasa) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100000
Wheeierl ,,..,..,.......:.-:..,:..... 100000
countess ls 'casteiiainie tApna Gould 10000
Mrs. George CORVALLIS West
QLady Randolph Churchill, nee
Lady d,0''' William Beresford CMrs. WV"
Louis Hammerslyl '........::..... 100000
Duchess OF Manchester Helen
D1eh is Of Roxburghe May 'O'
Countess Of STAFFORD iMrs. Col. -'''''''
Bate0 ........................ 1VOOVO
Hazard ,...,..'..,e................ 100000
Mrs rs Arthur Paget minnie Ste 1880
MRS sH'I Vivian (Mrs Marshail O. V''
MARTINI ,,................,..,....... 100000
Countess of Donoughmore ELENA
Baroness de Vriere (Annie Cut
IawrenceS ................:......... $4,000
Princess viic.ooviarroo' CEieanor spen-- ''''
cer5 ,.....,,..,...,,., ,,.....:........ 100000
miss GiiIander, .,....;....e.,...., 100000
Countess de Rohan- chabott MRS.
Herbert Galltinl .................. Loo, 900
Princess cey-Montbeliard (Miss
Princess Hatzfeid (ciara Hunting ....
windl ........:.',......,............. 100000
.Princess Ei;ngaaiitcheiii tHimiiy WV
Partridge) .......,.................. 1000 200
Duchess de Dino (Adela Sampson) 1000 900
gin1 ....'.,............,'E,. 100000
| Baroness de ZedlitE Miss Ehret. $4,000
| Lady Gilbert Thomas Carter
Miss Parker ....;........,...,... 100000
terfeldl ,..........,...,.........".,.- 100000
belle WILSON, ,....:...,,...,..... 100000
Stokes ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000. 900
/ Mrs. Burke Roche ORANGES Work. 100000
| Duchess ia ValanraW Miss Nor