The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-16
IN THE BACHELOR CROP

This wears summer girl will have an
unusually likely bevy Of eligible bach
elors upon whom to try her wiles.
Among the great multi millionaire
families OF the Four Hundred the year
offers four debutants Of more than
passing noticc-young bachelors just
turned twenty.one. These are Jay
Gould, Raymond Belmont, Hamilton
Fish. third, and William Astor Drayton-
Catch of the Season.
OF these the catch Of the season de-
cidedlv is young jay Gould, grandson
of the great prince Of finance OF the
same name and son OF George Jay
Gould, iho present head Of that multi
millionairr fumily. Lie iB tho prospeo-
tive hoir 10 one.seycnth Of his father 3
fortune, anti rs this latter is estimated
10 be about S70,000,000, this would
make young jays dot s10,000,000,
which will 10 far townrd keeping the
wolf from tho door of u young couple
going 60 housekeeping. Young Jay, be-
sides all this prospective wealth, has
nlso rn lntcrns tional athletic record. He
has challenged France once and Eng
land twice ut court tennis, and IN 1906
won tho queen Is cup and the champion
ship of the world in that game,
VIII Be Head Of House Of Gould.
His brother kingdom is but year
older. or twenty-five. He is the pros
pective head of the house of Gould, and
is said to already display some of the
financial genius of his grandfather. Ills
share of George Could S fortune is also
estimated ri $4,000. 900 He was
Edith Kingdom.
At these two enormously wealthy
lads the Four Hundreds grande danes
with marriagcablc daughters have been
squirting through their lorgnettes these
several seasons past.
No other American BOYS have been
brought up more strictly, for their
natic on moral and physical discipline.
First. he had private tutor for them,
and they said their lessons in a special
schooroom built for them at Georgian
court, their Lakewood palace They
had TO devote certain hours each day
to gymnastics. and $4,000 polo
ground was laid out for them on the
grounds of GeoTgiaucourt.
Their father. who never has drank or
smoked, has tried TO bring them UP
under the same abstinence. Both Of
these young men have travelled cXten-
sivelv abroad. and both speak French
and German fluently.
Young Belmont Debutant.
Young Raymond Belmont, mentioned
second among the scions of multi
millionaires families to come of age
this year, is one of the three children
of August Belmont Their mother, who
was Miss Elizabeth II. Morgan, died
eleven years ago, and young Raymond
makes his home with his father IN
Thirty fourth street. He is the nephew
of Perry Belmont, and bears the same
relationship to the late Oliver II. z.
Belmont, who thirteen years ago mar
ried Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. Being
heir to onc-third of August Belmont's
fortune, this young man is a catch who
in the immediate months 70 como viii
cause many anxious tlutters IN the
hearts Of ambitious mammas.
Two Others Just Turned 81.
Hamilton Fish third, the third men
toned of these debutants of the Four
Hundred IS ulti-millionaire families, is
the only son of Representative Hamil-
ton Fish and the grandson of Hamilton
Fish, first, who was governor of New
York and secretary of state under
President Grant. His mother, who was
Miss Emily y. Mann, died few years
ago, leaving four daughters. besides
young Hamilton.
William Astor Drayton. the remain.