Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-22
American Duchess 10 Spend Millions.
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n is a Prospoc rive sn Worrying

tanning IT is a gigantic sum and Pc
ter Goelet would probably have taken
a fit IL he could have fOresoen this day
when he was scrilnpmg and saving
at the sign Of the Golden Key" in
New York. and laying the foundations
Of the Goelet fortunes. If all accounts
be true, however. his t-grandChild
is not going to feel this immense out
lay to any extent. 1t Is said that
since her marriage she has not spent
one-fifth of her income, and that her
expenditures this year will be more
than covered by saving on the interest
ON her fortune from the time she be-
came a duchess. So much for the
shrewd-and emlnently SCotch--coun-
sells of the duke, now no longer en-
forced.
OUGHT TO BIZ SATISFIED.
1t would he rather surprising. how
ever, ii RoXburghe did not feel a good
deal of satisfaction over the changes
that the duchess already has made
and the far greater ones which she is
planning To make. In the ancient sea.
OF his ancestors. though he would have
none of them at the outset, He cOn-
sidered that it was not IN the fitness
Of things that a womans wealth should
redeem mans estate, which was an
other original point Of view In a nohle-
man. But the promised visit from
the Prince and Princess of Wales fur
nishod the duchess with an excellent
excuse for getting her way just as
She since has obtained II la the mat
ter OF entertaining I'm town. The OK
ponditure she urged, would be re-
garded merely as proof of commend
able loyalty and devotion to the reign
ing family-and so the American
nancy began to fly,
there is little doubt that the Laird"
OF Roxburghe win enjoy showing tho
Walesos how the Innos Kers were in
the habit Of receiving their over-lords
IN the good old days when his kith and
kin We're among the greatest families
In Scotland. And even should the
Prince and Princess of Wales again
postpone their visit, tho rcfurnishing
and rofurblshing Of Floors castle Will
not have been wnsted for the ancestral
seat Of the Dukes OF RoXhurghe has
long been in need of thorough over
hauling,
TYPICAL CASTLE.
Tho castle was rebuilt by VaubrIgh
IN MS, and, though he also designed
Blenheim palace and Castle Howard,
he regarded Floors as his chef d'oeuyrc.
This huge white palace or the RoX
hurghes stands ON the bend Of the river
Just above tho little town Of kcls0.
The gray ruin of it's abbey With the
Norman arches and broken butticssc1
choir, rises I'm the very center of the
town close by the bridge thar spans
the minglns streams OF Tweed and
Toviot IL would be difficult "a hud In
all Britain a fairor doWcsno and a. Is
quito understandable thar the American
duchess should see III ia lavish even
80 colossal Il sum In restoring the DOM
mating castle 10 It's ancient splaudor.
holly bush IN the park marks tho
spot where King James II was killed ln
1860 by the bursting NJ a cannon. Here
the duchess is laying out "a garden Of
which the tree ~ the center, aud there
are TO be mountains after the style OF
those IN the gardens Of Versailles
COSTLY IMPROVEMENTS
AZ Tor the redecorating and reuovat-
ing Of Floors Castle itself that is ln
the hands OF NJ. BOulanger the famous
French designer who has carte
blanche, He took possession OF the
castle some time ago, and carloads OF
costly things have been arriving since.
He has procured some wonderful oll
tapestries with which the walls OF the
state rooms are To be draped, and spec
cial brocades 10 his designs are being
woven for curtains, Those apartments
are an m French style, severely simple,
bat perfect M every detail, For months
past HE duchess, Who takes 10 herself
the credit ~ being perfect Judge OF
objects ~ art, has been searching for
the furniture which viii eventually
adprn The rooms, and she believes she
has succeeded in finding drawing
room suite which was in one of The
apartments OF Marie Aniolnette, To-