The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-10
INCOME OF B0N|
WILL Be SLASHED
ANNA GOULDS INVESTMENT I'M
OLD WORLD TITLE COST
MILLIONS.
IS A GREAT SpENOER
In Eleven Years Of Their Married Life
the Count Has Spent s2.o17 Each
and Every Day In Toss
Years.

Paris, Feb. 9.~Eyen ii Count Boni
effects reconciliation with the Coun-
tess his income will be 50 cut down az
to practically extingnish one or the
greatest spenders that even prodigal
Paris has ever known
OF all the American investments IN
Old World titles Anna G. uld's has
probably been The most costly,
Reduced TO cold figures the price Of
her title has been approximately 81
OF each and every day for the eleven
years they have been married, or the
equivalent every four weeks og Presi4
dent Roo evelt's salary fr q year
Gives s4 for Cherry.
The count has smilingig spent S4 for
cherry and cheerrlly given enough
to pay the bonded indebtedness Of a
small city for d piece OF bric-a-brac.
He has made for himself reputation
as spender that caused the famous
literary men Of this and other capitals
to write about him. and he has In
famed the Partisan populace more
than Cnce so that he has had to pla
cate the city by great gifts TO char
ity.
One OF his little foibles was vaude
Vile performance given at Auteuil
when, for $50 guests, he presented an
all star bill, no act of which cost him
les than $500.
For his world famed mansion on the
avenue Bois de Boulogue, known az
he RED Palace" Boni spent more
money than he can ever accurately
ell He liked the location so we'll
hat he paid $4,000 for the land
alone and before he had got through
le had produced palace that any
ling in lsarope might envy.
One Of the "details of the palace IL /
,ot Of fountains built in tile garden
which he could run for ten minutes at
be trlhing cost OF $1,000. Then he
yot the idea that he wanted 10 be
gachtman, SO he bought the pacht
galhalla for 100000 and planned to
all her on a scale that totalled $3.50
700 year Later he had to sell this
oy. but that's another part of his
story.
Gives 100000 Banquet
When he was elected TO the chamber
If deputies he felt so good natured
hat he gave feast that would have
made Lucullus turn green. The bill
haf
mount. for II figures frequently in HIS
accounts.
At another time he got the idea
hat modern dress was ali wrong and
hat Il only required daring indiyid-
nal TO revive the styles Cf past cen
uries. Toward this end he gave a
1ower ball aud all men appeared in
costumes of the Louis XVIII period.
B.ll. $I25,000. But then his ideas were
always costly.
Sometimes the counts methoJs were
what might be called questionable. and
n the light Of the recent scandal IL Is
probable that one Of his little myster-
es Is revealed About tx years ago
he presented to his wife a necklace
hat he had paid 100000 for Anna
Gould realized how he was draining
her fortune, and when she looked a.
he bauble she didn't think {, was
worth the money, so she hurried to the
iewelor She found that he took
'cfty attitude and insisted that his
business was with the count
you have cheated my hu band. "
she declared hotly. "ani you must
axe this back
Then the secret was lei ont The
icweler lost hi temper. and taking the
necklace in one hand. said angriiy;
"If you think. madame have cheat
ed vou are wrong. when 7 sold this
necklace to NJ 10 Comte ii had four
rows II diamonds I has but two rows
now. Can madame tell me where the
-ther two rows areg'