The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12
RESTLESS RICH AIR
MARITAL TROUBLES
Howard GOuId's Sait for Divorce
and Prince de Sagan's
Case Sir Society
Detectives Dog Nife's Footsteps
and Investigate Life of
Noble Suftor
By G. 9. Carlton

tive maritaE troubles OF the restless rich
have thrown ''society'' into a fermens
of excitement There have been IN
:ternational alliances and International
divorces and rnmors Of more to cone
10 sooner were the Boni d Castelianss
separated than Prince Helis de sagan
and Madame Anna" were here with
. their t-osslslts and caused x snersl row
: IN the Goald family
f.. The suit of Howard Gould for divorce,
with all its unsavory details, is soon
TO be tried. Howard Gould having this
= week answered his wtfe's cross com
plant and the answer contains mucn
that. Is sensational against his wife.
the former San Francisco actress, kata-
. e1-ue Clemmons
Tt is wei known here that while
Howard Gould has had detectives dog
sging his wifes footsteps. George Gould
has had sleuths in Paris looking up
the record Of Prince de Sagan. me
prince, probably anticipating the ma
tt,re OF. the report that viii be submit
ted TO George Gould, protests that ne
. Is "a normal man"
It Is a noteworthy and interesting
fact that both Mrs Howard Gould ana
Madame Anna Gould took refuge IN the
St Regis hotel Mrs. Howard could
more ago. when she left Castle Gould
madame Anna" took up her apodo
here when she ouarreled with hef
/ rrothers and sisters q few days ago
cxer Prince de Sagans wooing. Nohe
Of the G0ulds has ever given M >
Howard Gould social recognition
It IS veu understood mere that
q George Gould holds the bigsest Par
OF Annals fortune IN trust Tor heI' anu
as the late panic hit the Goulos hard
the family's finances are az low eoo-
Mss Helen Gould has even been com
pelled TO cut Of sher charities II is
small wonder. then. that the Goulos
oppose Prince Helie's wooing, arter ms
cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. NAG
souandered 100000 OF the Gould
patrimony.
The coulds have been greatly NOR
tffed over the recent disclosures made
in the public press. Especially nave
they felt humiliated over Howard
C-ouId's suit. the marriage Of his wife's s
sister to a Chinese in san Francisco,
and the plight OF aged Mr.. Clemnons'
who. blind and poor, has been COM
1nitted TO a poorhouse IN Georgia
Marital infelicitv seems TO be an &C
compartment OF great wealth. Ine
troubles Of the Kanoerbilts began with
the divorce Of Mrs. ". X Vanderbilt
and its attendant scandal and her sub
seoueut marriage to o. Il. P. Belmont
Her daughter has been il New York
the past month. having separated from
the duke Of Marlborough.
The marriage Of Cornelius Wander
bflt TO Grace wilson. daughter OF Rich
ard T. Wilson. August 8. 1885, caused
a great futter In society, because II
was forbidden emphatically by the
elder Cornelius. Strong appeal, when
prohibition failed, was made by the
father 10 the son. It was not wholly
because Miss Wilson was older than
young Cornelius, but as an echo OF an
ancient feud between the Gwynnes and
the Wilson's that Vanderbilt was cp-
posed 10 the match.
The son paid no heed to his fathers
wishes. though Threatened with disin-
heritance. His refusal Prostrated his
father. but when the elder Cornelius
lay at deaths door the younger Cor
nelius did not so much as call TO ask
how he was. Toward the end OF the
fathers life, however, a return Of the
afectfon he had for his son was indi-
Gated, and il was said II he had lived
six months longer there would have
been a reconciliation.
Reginald Vanderbilt married Cath
Ieen Nelson, daughter OF Mrs. Freder-
ick Nelson, niece OF Frederick Geb-
hard and sister Of Mrs. Arthur 7.
Kemp, who gave up her little daughter.
Chiffon Kemp. that she might get a
divorce from her husband and become
the bride Of Hollis z. HunnewelL
Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt's uncle,
Frederick Gebhard, who first gain ed
1 publicity through his relations with
Lily Langtry, October %, 1901, was di-
vorced by Louise Morris Gebhard.
daughter Of John B. Morris Mrs. Geb-
hard acquired fame before she got to
the divorce court, for in June. 1896, she.
with Harry Lehr and Moncure Robin
son, thrilled a home going party OF
merry makers by wading in evening
clothes through the fountain in Mount
Vernon square. Baltimore.
Reginald Vanderbilt was for several
months NJ 1906 & refugee from New
York. He lived in Newport and dared
not come to this city, fearing Jerome's
process servers, who wanted him TO
testify against Garfield. the Saratoga
gambler. 1t was commonly reported
and quite generally believed here that
II was Reginald Vanderbilt who lost
500, 600 in Canfield's gambling house
in a single night. as related by Je-
rome
Before Alfred G. Vanderbilt left col
Iege his father made It plain he was
TO head the family IN his generation.
The elder man. when Alfred was only
20 years old, August Is. -1S9s. gave a
dinner for his favored son in the
Breakers, the Vanderbilt home IN New
port, al which Sc persons sat down. one
for every million the guest Of honor
was TO inherit Alfred July 27, 1893
a month after his graduation, started
with Ernest Iselin William P Burden
and Douglass Cochrane on a trim
around the world He was in Japan
when his father died, IN September.
and hastened home to find himself, az
p, head Of one Of the richest families
in the world and certainly one Of the
rooSt Scsuentisl in finance.