Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

sat on there In the thickenlng shadows
with the warm red flames playing
about them, the little daughter In Jay
Gould's arms in the center of the high
light from the fireplace, her face trans
figured with the ecstacy of that idea
of self-sacf1fice that had inspired all
heroism since the world began.
That was long ago, and all the pic
ture in the freight has faded from the
great canvas of life. But from the
nebulous setting of the years has
emerged woman who is all that the
little girl dreamed would be beautiful,
lust like that"
The Helen Gould of To-day.
If you turn the pages of Who's Who
to-day you will find entered Helen Mil
Ter Gould, philanthropist, the daughter
of Jay and Helen Day Miller Gould.
born in New York, June 20, 1868, dis
tinguished for her services to her coun-
try. Two older brothers, George and
Edwin Gould, and two younger broth
ers. Howard and Frank, are all record
ed as capitalists with an enumeration
of railroads, telegraph lines, steamship
lines, banks and CORPORATIONS in which
they are officers and directors The
younger sister, Anna, now "Mme.
Could" as the Countess of Castellane
has had her name enrolled among the
list of international marriages.
Helen Gould's share in her fathers
fortune of S100,000,0O0 was $4,000.
COO Invested. it has now multiplied
to something like $30,O00,OOOI She EN-
ploys seven secretaries to help her in
the Office suite that she has set apart
in her mansion at the corner of Fifth
avenue and Forty-seventh street. Here
she works at her desk eight hours a
day, wkiie cards of regret represent her
at dinners, teas and luncheons that
worlen all about her enjoy day after
day.
Like other young women Of wealth
and position. Helen Gould came OUT
and at magnificent social function in
1891 was voted as charming and prom
Using young queen of society as New
York had known in years. She smiled
and exchanged merry small talk with
the hundreds who passed before her,
as in a sheer. clinging white gown she
stood In the great ball room, but all the
time her misty eyes looked down the
ways of life that beckoned her. On
one side laughter. snatches OF song and
dancing feet On the other side tears,
sorrow and wounds to be healed. When
the people were go1e all1 lights were
dim she stood at me window. a little.
womanly figure. watching the snow
flakes falling on Fifth avenue. and she
was saying softly and very earnestly
Il live for those who love me-"
Helen Gould has what has been
termed the Puritan sense of right and
wrong. She will not travel on Sunday
and she never allows wine to be served
on ner table. A member of the Col
legiate Reformed church. her faith is
simple and reverent and as frm as
granite. As a memorial for her be-
loved father and mother she built for
New York university its beautiful H.
0rary with the colonnade approach
known as the Hall OF Fame. This and
later gifts to the New. York university
now aggregate 100000. Besides, to
Wellesley college she has given several
thousand dollars. TO Berea college SI0.-
600. TO Rutgers $4,000. to Mt Holyoke
$4,000 and to Vassar SIS, 1000. Because
of what Chancellor MacCracken has
termed her eminent services to the
cause of education. New York univer-
sity has bestowed on its pr;ncely pat
roness the title OF master of letters II
is altogether an honorary degree
Helen Gould is not a college woman
though she is sometimes inaccurately
classed as such by reason of her at
tendance at the Woman's Law Class
OF New York university, a years course
OF lectures covering simple legal points
and designed to fit woman to admin
lister her own property.
Dusng her fathers lifetime abe In.