Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-08
Entered at the Newport News. va.
FostofIice 40 second.clnss matter.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL $, 1908.
SPECTACLE A MOST DISGUSTING
ONE.

ms newspaper reports OF the cnSc
swauld seem to Indicate that Nine. An
ma Gould's desire to wed decaycd
relic OF the French nobility is about
Ito Nre gratifed The members of her
family very properly fought the pro.
posed union aud they thought they
held the whip hand In the will OF their
father, Jay Gould, which provides for
the reduction Of one-hnlr of any
ohild's share of the fortune who mar
Ties without the consent OF the ma.
jpflty Of the executors. The Goulds
had every reason to believe that the
Denniless prince did not want the
woman for her own sake alone and
: thought that when ii was shown to
him that her fortune would be great
~ lessened by her marriage to him,
hia desire to wed would not be quite
so Intense, but Nine. Gould is fun of
the Gonld spunk and resources and
she announced that she would con-
test the Will II the family persisted
an obiectlng to her marriage. The
Gould family Just at the present time
" not In n position to desire will
ccntest. The securities of the family
sgare already in more or less bad odor
ssiit the, stock market, and 1t Is not de-
sired by any means, to make them
mere so, So II would seem that the
discrimination OF Nine. Anna to have
her worthless prince would win after
asl.,
She was divorced but a short time
ago from Count Boni. and now would
wed her former husbands relative.
i whose title Is bit higher, so the yul-
garity OF a d!vorcee's quick marriage
Is added to n situation which may
perhaps bs made more scandalous by
{ & hght for money. III commenting on
tine humiliation which the other mem
hers of tho Gould family are suffering.
We'll known sociological writer says:
"Its first beginning was the mar
Tlage of an American girl TO French
dehanchee and pauper count who
after years Of infamous living has
4 teen got rid of to make room for No
2~a member of the same family who.
81 possible. passes No. In the record
5ts.l d useless and evil life. In course
~ time, after the wife wearies of pay
8 ing the expenses of dressing this man
t:ttll, he, too, willebe divorced, aid the
American fortune will he again IN the
market to purchase another title. The
gAneral record OF these title buying
.sfasASches is this-either divorce or sep.
sfaSion--at all events, unhappness
and scandal. But 1t is not often that
tne titie hunter persists, as in this
anSe, the awakened girl being gener-
sally satisfied with one experiences
What an unhappy, disreputable thing
20 make of life!--and in contrast to
HE made so beautiful aud benefl-
esiit as that OF the sister in the case"
IS we'll to say that the whole at.
ssain IS disgusting and humiliating ia
+ Mo American people, but they should
lsstoW by this time that they have
HNthing to expect from some of their
s Hint2cracy but the production of scan
els which are a disgrace to the ma
sfNn. because these representatives oil
= go millionaire class are erroneousl,
asiesi abroad as the highest type OF
Hi American people. 1t seems that nc
ssss:ar does scandal of the "gildet
disappear from the stage thar
\ ss1tIleF $ put on. and at the present
tse disgracefui Vanderbilt case