The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-02-03
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IL was on the afternoon OF reD ., leJo'
that Miss Anna Gould and the Count Paul
Ernest Bond de Castellane walked into the
drawing room OF Sir Roderick Cameron's
house in Arrochar, Staten Island. and an
nounced to those assembled there that
they were engaged 10 be married.
They also said the. wedding would take
place within three weeks, and the count
subsequently assured his friends that he
would receive settlement OF $2,O0o 600
from his wife on the day OF their mar
riage.
II Is announced now, however. on the
authority OF intimate friends. that Miss
Goud's dot" was f.S5, 600 600, or $l7, coo.
which had been settled upon her with the
proviso that in case OF legal separation
or divorce II should revert 10 her
The announcement OF tho engagement
confirmed reports that had been current
in society for some months.
The count had been a frequent visitor
10 George j. Gould's house in Lakewood.
had followed the hounds with parties Of
which Miss Gould was always one, and
his attentions had assumed such marked
phase that all other potential suitors with
drew
AN ENGLISH PRINCE.
Miss Gould was then only 21 years old
X,
height. with big. soft brown eyes and a
mass of raven hair.
She was educated in Miss Greenoughs
seminary I'm Boston and was there at tho
time OF the death OF her father Jay
Gould. In 1898. but she was so modest and
unassuming that few OF the other pupils
knew she was the daughter OF one OF the
wealthiest men in America.
soon after her fathers death various ~
n 10 ho cfr .
she had become engaged.
One OF the men mentioned was the
Count Talyrand- Perigord Then IL was
recorded that she had been successfully
wooed by Harry Woodruff. an actor.
Then when this story was exploded as
merely n girlish romance. William l.. Har-
riman was named as her iance
Great therefore. was the astonishment
OF society when in May. 1894 a dispatch
from Paris announced that the engage
ment with Hartman had been broken by
common consent.
After that Miss Gould was launched into
society and Il was not long before q
report reached New York that Prince
Francis Joseph OF Battenberg. brother
OF the Queen Of Englanfs son-in-law was
a suitor for her hand.
APPEARED AT NEWPORT.
Count De Castellane made his bow TO
America I'm Newport In the following
summer. and It was on March 4, 1895 that
the marriage was celebrated in the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George j. Gould. $50 Fifth
avenue Archbishop Corrigan officiating.
After the religious ceremony n civil
ceremony was performed by Judge
George T. Andrews OF the supreme court.
The count and countess left the Gould
residence Immediately after this and went
TO Irvington. where coach was In wait
house, Lyndhurst.
The wedding was one Of great magnif-
cence, and while the ceremony was being
performed the streets outside the Gould
residence were crowded and tho windows
OF every house I'm the neighborhood filed
with spectators.
In honor of her sisters marriage, Miss
Helen Gould gave n feast 10 1909 children
OF two OF the largest and poorest OF the
Home Industrial schools.
Three days after the wedding the Cas-
tellanes sailed for Europe. Their enter
tainments I'm Paris and the exploits and
extravagance OF the count have been be-
fore the public almost continually.
The counts name was mentioned fre-
ouently In connection with alleged royal
ist movements. and his wife's because ot
her popularity In French society, her
splendid entertainments and her large
gifts 20 charity
DERTs OF S44o.oco
In the fourth year of their union II was
repeatedly asserted both In this country
and I'm France that the counts financial
affairs were In n bad condition and al
though he always emphatically denied he
was being pressed by creditors the an
came from Paris In 1900 that
his wife's fortune had been placed by the
French courts under the trustceship OF
her brother. George T. Gould.
II was stated at the time that this
measure had been taken az the request
OF the Gould family. who had been alarmed
by the prodigal eXtravagance of the Cas-
tellanes. who In four years had spent
s.. O60. poo. were involved IN debt TO the
extent OF 81 400. 600 while the annual In
come from the dowry Of the countess had
dwindled 10 $500 900.
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