Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
NOT UNDER SAME ROOF
Since Early in September the Couple
Have Seemed to Disagree.
HUSBAND OFF ON HIS YACHT
Mrs Gould is Said to Have Fallen
Out With Her Spouse Because
an Official Was Retained.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, October 6.-Mrs Howard
Gould. who witnessed the Vanderbilt cup
race from her touring car today. surround
ed by circle OF friends. was as unap-
proachable as her husband, somewhere out
in the Atlantic on the yacht Niagara, when
effort was made to learn if there was
truth in the rumor that the millionaire and
his actress wife had agreed to separate.
A few close friends of the couple there are
who may be in a position to know the pres
ent status of the Gould domestic affairs,
but they are saying nothing.
Because since their return from Europe
during the first week In September Mr..
Gould and his wife have not been living
under the same roof. gossip has had II
that rift had appeared between them and
that the woman who was pretty Kitty
Clemmons Of San Francisco and London
had given over her schemes OF living in a
castle the wife OF one OF Americas
wealthiest men.
Mrs Gould left the ST. Regis. where she
has been living alone for the last three
weeks on Friday. and with her trunks and
dogs travelled to Castle Gould the country
home OF herself and husband. at Sands
Point, L. I.
She did not leave word at the hotel
WHetHeE she WOulo soon or not.
Howard Gould. who has been staying at
the Waldorf-Astoria since he returned from
his European cruise on his yacht Niagara.
went out on the sound on his yacht yester-
day and has not yet returned.
1t has been whispered that the reason for
the apparent break between Gould and his
wife can be traced to the cause for last
years fruitful trouble, the projected Castle
Gould. which Is to be built in semblance OF
Kilkenny Castle, on the Gould estate at
Sands Point
Superintendent Not Liked.
The superintendent Of the grounds that
surround the present summer home there
and the man who has in charge tho laying
out of the landscape features that are to
give the proposed castle a fitting setting.
has fallen into disfavor with Mrs Gould
and has had his case supported by Mr..
Could so 1t is said Because her husband
would not discharge this major domo of
Castle Gould report has II that the mistress
of the estate has refused longer to live
under the Castle Gould roof
Whether or not the offending superin-
tendent was on the premises when Mrs.
Gould made her trip to Sands Point on FRI
day could not be learned today.
1t Is possible that the fate of the pro-
jected castle at Sands Point hangs on the
settlement OF the present reported difficult
ties between Gould and his wife. Already
Mrs. Gould has asserted her authority In
the matter OF the construction of the pro-
posed 100000 building. Abner J. Haydel
the architect secured by Mr.. Gould to de-
sign his castle. was the one who incurred
Mrs. Gould's displeasure last, and who
brought his grievances into court
When Gould determined to reproduce
Kilkenny Castle on his estate In Sands
Point. Haydel was taken to Ireland by the
Goulds to view the original castle on the
estate of the Marquis Of Ormonde.
The old pile in ireland contained sixty
rooms. Mrs. Gould decided that she would
have 200 rooms In her American reproduc-
ton.
Reputation at Stake. =
The architect did not see how his profess
sional reputation would allow him to graft
the extra number OF rooms onto the orig
inal model and stoutly contested the point
with Mrs Gould The mistress OF Castle
Gould was obdurate. AS a consequence
Hayden threw up his contract with the
Goulds and sued to recover his fees on the
basis OF $4,000 900. the amount that the pro-
posed castle was to cost. Haydel. won his
suit in the Nassau county supreme court.
but an appeal was taken from the judg-
ment. and final decision in the case has not
yet been rendered.
At the time OF the trial of this case the
plaintiff testified to some stormy scenes be-
tween himself and Mrs Gould. He cited
one instance when at a conference between
himself and the Goulds at the Waldorf
Astoria Mrs. Gould told him to get out be-
fore he was thrown out.
Mrs. Gould figured in another suit as
lately as April last, when Henry Jones
Thaddeus a portrait painter. sued her to
recover 5000, the alleged value of a por-
trait he had made of her which she had
refused to accept when completed. Mrs.
Gould's defense was that the gown in
which she was represented In the painting
was lot at all the same gown that she had
worn during the sittings. and that, any
way. she did not consider the picture a
truthful portrait.