The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-04-21
A SPENDTHRIFT COUNT.
ANNA coULD's HAS COST HER
$2,O17 A DAY.
The Amazing Extravaaances Of Count
Boni Gle CasteiIane - In the Eleven
Years Of Their Married Life He Has
Spent Over So,C0G.O3c.


effects a reconciliation with tic
Countess. his income viii be SO cut
down as to practically eNt.uglish one
Il The greatest srendars tsal even
prOtiEal Paris has ever Ei4ata.
OF all the American Investments in
Old World titles Anna Gould's has
probably been the most costly.
Reduced TO cold Ii5ures, the price
OF her title had been approximately
S2,017 each and every day for the II
years they have been married, or the
equivalent every four weeks Of Presi-
dent Rooseyelt's salary for year.
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 expenditures of the Count.
his daughters eXtravagances for only
few weeks, while George Gould s
titled brother-in-law has hammered
away until he has made the record of
s3,o00,000 for the eleven years of his
married life.
The Count has smilingly spent 81
for a cherry and cheerfully given
enough to pay the bonded indebted
ness Of small city for piece of
bric-a-brac He has made fer himself
a reputation as a speuder that the
caused the famous literary men OF
this and other capitals to write about
him, and he has infamed the Partisan
populace more than once SO that he
has had to plaoate the city by great
gifts to charity.
One of his little foibles was a vaude
Vile performance given at Auteuil
when, for $50 guests, he presented an
all star bill no act of which cost him
less than $500.
Eclipse 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
has succeeded. He has lived to hear
his praises sung, and the Countess
paid the cost.
For his world-famed 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 palace that any king
in Europe might envy.
He was told when he started to
duplicate the historical Trianon at
Versailles, in which Nine. Pompadour
once lived, that it was going to cost
tremendously, but he smiled and
shook his handbook, and for spite
planned to spend an additional mil
ion in furnishing the place.
One of the few details of the palace
S a set of fountains built in the gar
len, which he could run for ten min
ties at the trifing cost Of 600. Then
lie got the idea that he wanted to be
yachtsman, so he bought the yacht !
for 100000 and planned to
ail her on a scale that totalled $780,
100 a year. Later he had to sell this !
oy, but that's another part of his |
tory
When he was elected to the Cham
,er of Deputies he felt SO good |
latured that he gave a feast that |
would have made Lucullus turn green. |
'he bill was 100000. He seemed to
ike that amount, for it figures fire.
uently in his accounts.
At another time he got the idea |
hat modern dress was all wrong and |
hat it only required daring individ
al to revive the styles Of past centu
les. Toward this end he gave a
ower ball and all men appeared in
he costumes of the Louis XVIII
eriod Bill s125,000. But then his
leas were always costly.
While his palace was building, some
f the lots he needed were occupied
nd although it was altogether I'M
ecessary, he impatiently bought the
ahabited houses and evicted the
anants That cost pretty sum.
Sometimes the Counts methods
|
-ere what might be termed question
bic, and in the light Of the recent
candal, it is probable that one of his
tile mysteries is revealed. About
tx years ago he presented to his wife
necklace that he had paid 100000
IF. Anna Gould realized how he was
raining her fortune, and when she
Joked at the bauble she didn't think
was worth tie money, SO she hur-
led to the joweller. She found that
G took a lefty attitude and insisted
rat his business was with the Count.
You have cheated my husband"
he declared holly, and you must take
lis back"
Then the secret was let out TIE