The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
ASTOR FAMILY IS
 NOT WELL LIKED Fail to Be Popular on the
 Upper Thames SENSATION IN SOCIETY
A RothschlId and His Bride Separate Almost Before the Honeymoon Is oVer-Jay Gould Living
 Quiet Life.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.

BY PAUL LAMBETH.
 Special Cable to The Age-Herald. Copy
 right, 1907, by W. R. Hearst)
 Londcn, May 1S--The Astor family do not appear to be able to make them selves popular on the banks of the Upper Thames. When MT. William Waldorf As tor, who was always at loggerheads with the residents settled his magnificent river side home Clveden, on his son after the latter's marriage to Mrs. Shaw, it was thought that new and happier epoch had arrived for the neighbors. Unhappily, the residents have now discovered fresh grievance against Mir. w. Astor, Jr., whom they accuse of influencing that very staid body known as the Thames Conservancy. Young MT. Astor wished to save time and money by taking his horses and motor cars across a private ferry instead of crossing the river by the bridge at Maidenhead, which is considerable distance, so he asked the conservancy 10 allow him to construct chain ferry. The board were rather scandallzed at first, but they have sucoumbed and the residents are very indignant at this sac- rilege" on the part of an American mil lionaire. If Mir Astor's ferry were one which the public could use the feeling would probably be different, but like his father, Mir Astor will allow no one to land on his extensive side of the river.
 Those two popular American girls, Miss Nellie Post Qady Barrymore's daugh- ter) and Miss Frewen, niece of Mrs. George Cornwalis West Q,ady Randolph ChurchilD who both spent six weeks at the Court of Stockholm, with the Duchess of Skane, Princess Adolphus of Sweden. and had "the time of their llves,' are now busily engaged in collaborating on a book. The volume. which will be publish ed privately and distributed among per sonal friends, records the impressions left upon these two American girls by the simplicity of the court life in Sweden. where the royalists walk about among the crowd and receive any visitors who care to call. The book will be filled with snapshots taken by the two authors and by original sketches and will be dedi- cated to their royal hostess.
 That handsome actress, Miss Julia Neil son (Mrs. Fred Terry, is confiding to her very intimate friends her hopes that her daughter now aged IA, will be one of the great singers of the future The daughter according to those who have heard her, is wonderfully gifted, but she Is not allowed to perform in a casual way and is being very strictly trained. She is nearly as tall as her mother and bears a remarkable likeness to the Trilby of the late George du Maurier. It is not generally known that Miss Nelson her self was trained as girl for the opera and not the theatre. She was 'dscovered'' 70 I Sullivan fame, and took to the stage only because she was found to be "the idear' for that popular play of years ago, "rhe Dancing Girl" in which she made her first bis success. In Sweet Nell of Old Drury Miss Nelson charmed and sur prised her audience by her singing in the second act.
 The sensation of the hour in society is the quarrel which has resulted in the separation, which may be temporary, of a couple who had barely finished their honeymoon. The bridegroom and bride were the Hon. Charles Nathaniel Roths- child q son of the eminent financier, Lord Rothschild and Fraulein Roszka von Werthermsten. The bride who was, of course, of the Jewish faith, like her husband, belongs to a very influential and wealthy Viennese family. The we'd ding which took place in Vienna in Feb ruary last, was a very big affair and the pair left to spend their honeymoon in Venice. whence they journeyed to Florence and Milan. The rupture appears to have taken place somewhere in north ern Italy, where the bride declined to live with her husband any longer. Every effort is being made by both the power full families involved to hush up the af- fair, which is still shrouded in mystery MT. Charles Rothschild, who is thirty-one of a pa ie Inv fri as being rather morose and eccentric. Very little is konwn of him socially, but he is a great entomologlst and had long lived recuses life in a Northampton shire country house.
 Mir Jay Gould is living a very quiet life at Claridge's hotel, with his big, broad-shouldered companion and secre- tary, Mir. Crane, himself a great tennis player and athlete. Mir. Gould is so dead ly in earnest. over the amateur tennis championship that his meals are of the most frugal kind. He occasionally invites friend to lunch between the intervals of practice or play at Queens club, and one of his recent guests was another fa- nous American tennis player, Mir D. B. Thomson. The gallery at Queens club Is crowded two hours before the game starts when Mir. Gould is announced to play, and all sportsmen are sympathizing with the young Anerlcdn III rekdru to the strange attitude taken up by MT Eustace Miles, the English champion. 'I came over on purpose to play and, if possible, to beat MT Miles," said MT. Gould to a friend. "He must have known this before I left America" Mir Goulds father Is to re- ceive a wireless telegram from his son today asking for instructions. Mir Jay Gould, being an obedient son, does as his father tells him. The original plan was that after competing for the champ ionship of England Jay Gould Is to join his father and leave at once for Paris, where he is to play In the French champ ionship in Paris and afterward at Bor-