The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11


 - man, so he bought the yacht Yalhalia | for $200,060 and planned to sail her on scale that totalled s15o,000 a year. Later he had to sell this toy. but that's | another part of his story.
 Gives a s2O0,000 Ba1auet. ] When he was elected to the Cham Der of Deputies he felt so good patured | that he gave q feast that would have l made Lucullus turn green. The bill was $2e0,00 He seemed to like that amount. for 1t figures frequently in his | accounts
 At another time he got the idea that ] modern dress was all wrong and that 1t only required a caring individual to revive the styles of past centuries. Toward this end he gave a flower ball and all men appeared in the costumes of the Louis XVIII, period. Bill $125.- 900. But then his ideas were always costly.
 While his palace was building. some of the lots he needed were occupied | and although 1t was altogether un- i necessary. he impatientiy bought the I inhabited houses and evicted the l tenants. That cost\a pretty sum, Sometimes the Counts methods were !, what might be questionable, and in the light of the recent scandal, it is prob | able that one of his little mysteries is revealed. About six years ago he pre- | scented to- his wife necklace that he 1 had paid $100,000 for. Anna Gould realized how he was draining her for tune, and when she looked at the i bauble she didn't think 1t was worth the money, so she hurried to the | jeweIler. She found that he took a l lofty attitude and insisted that his l business was with the Count You have cheated my husband" she declared hotly, and you must l take this back"
 | Then the secret was let out The jeweller lost his temper. and taking
 If you think, madame. have cheated, you are wrong. When I sold this necklace to M. Le Comte it had four rows of diamonds. It has but two rows now. Can Madame tell me where | the othe two rows are?"
 l Then the one time Anna Gould went home and thought 1t over. Pos sibly she knows now where the other half of the necklace went Perhaps 1t may be mentioned when her divorce comes to trial
 Buys q sGO.OOO Clock. . .
 The costly addition to the Gould family thought 1t might be useful to know the time occasionally, and he decided to have one of the finest clocks in France. When the art dealers heard of this they started to procure what he wanted. In the en l he paid S60.- 900 for a Sevres creation, and 1t Is said that for year a clockmaker had the task of making it keep time.
 For his Countess he bought tortoise shell wardrobe in' which Louis Seize once kept hs royal robes. About s25o,- 900 is said to have been the cost of this. In his boudoir be has the bed used by Napoleon on the night of his coronation, and the rest of his pri- vate quarters had decoration in keep ing with the bed. One of his bills was for $10,000 for a small set of tapestry furniture.
 One of the greatest extravagances was the purchase of the Palazza della Scala, in Verona, that he might get the eleven ceilings painted by Ti4polo Scarcely had he written his check for a gigantic sum to secure the palace when he made the artists of the world gasp by rutting force of men at work tearing it down. Tiepelo was a native Venetian who died in Spain nearly 15C years ago and his mural decorations are | of enormous value. The Count had the ceilings cut out intact and then set up in this city.
 For three caladon vases with old French mounts he gave $16000; for a set of two Rose du Barry jardinieres and two plates of the same rattern siO. GOO and for two pairs of Louis xV gilt candlesticks s4O00. One bill he received for $104,0 covered a Louis XVI table in dove marble. a pail articles of old Serves vases, Louis XVI Enter-Deux, a pair of old French silver vases and several minor articles.
 Another bill for $1S0.00 represented among other things a wardrobe cabinet small and large writing tables of the Louis XVI antiques were contracted one for $S5,050 on May 27, 1896, and another for $62,200 on June IS. 1897 The Count could show innumerablt bills for $1O,0o0. s2o,000 O. s30,0JO, fol 1 little odds and ends.
 For the pleasure of insulting Presi dent Loubet he paid $100.00o to engag, Monttarrett once the nostiIlion of the French Renublic. Montiarret became the little Counts outrider, simply be. cause Roni didn't like the republic ol the president, and he was willing tt ray Montiarrets price. The outridel had led the processions of all tn, French presidents since Grevy and h, was always cheered when he appeared at the head of a state procession.
 These are some of the things Anna Gould has had to pay for to be 6 Countess. Given in detail the lis would fill seven or eight columns of ; newspaper.