East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-27
GOTHAM GOSSIP,

New York.-If there is such a bug
as the love microbe-and Sunday
supplement scientists affirm that
there is-it has certainly been busy
in the family of George Jay Gould
Miss Marjorie. who is now Mrs. An
thony j. Drexel. jr., was the first vic
tim Of the affection-inspiring bacillus.
Next came Miss Vivien, who was
scarcely out of short dresses before
she became engaged to Lord Decies,
and her matrimonial alliance with the
titled Britisher speedily followed.
Jay Could, at the tender age of twen-
ty two, is soon to be the head of
house. his marriage with Miss Annie
d. Graham being set for Saturday
next. And now Dame Rumor is
whispering that Kingdom Gould is
smitten with the charms of a certain
fair Philadelphia girl to whom he
has offered his hand and heart and
such few millions as he will inherit
from the goodly estate founded by the
first Jay Gould, wrecker of railroads
and financial pirate.
Miss Graham, who becomes Mrs.
jay Gould next Saturday, is a charm
ing maiden of twenty. More, she is
a princess of the blood royal, although
at present her family is not working
at the trade ow ruling. Queen Lydia
Kamekeha Liliuokalani of Hawaii
commonly called Queen lii" for
SHORTS her grandmother. Her
father was John Graham an Ameri-
can, and her stcpfather is Hubert
Vos. the famous portrait painter. Miss
Graham shows traces of her Hawai-
ian ancestry in her face. VIII. \ is
p.Guant rather than beautiful
Another wedding in high life is ex-
pected before long, when Miss Cath
/ crime L. Hamersley. an heiress to
| millions, will become the bride Of
Vincent Astor. only beloved son of
/ Col. John Jacob Astor. The word
beloved" is not used in any facetlous
spirit since Damon and Pythias "had
| nothing on col Astor and his hand
some offspring in the way Of INSOFAR
! ableness. Young astor is by no
! means n society fop, but a sensible.
| studious and father quiet young man
| who at times appears rather weight
! ed down with the responsibility OF
the hundred or two million dollar es-
tate that he will some day he re-
Huired to take charge of.
Mss Catherine Hamersley, Vincent
Astor's intended" is one Of the two
! children Of the latc J. Hooker HAM
ersley, who died some ten years ago.
The Hamersley children, l.. Gordon
and Miss Catherine, share an estate
valued at between forty and fifty mill
lions Until they reached maturity
the youngsters were kept in ignorance
Of the great fortune that awaited
them. The courts gave them very
moderate allowance and they lived
plainly and dressed simply thus
avoiding the development of the in
stinct of snobbishness that is so often
in evidence among the children OF
the very rich,
President Taft will spend busy
two days in New York next week on
Wednesday he will open the Blind
Workers Exhibit at the Metropolitan
opera house, review the Seventy-frst
regiment en- the fiftieth anniversary
of its starting for the front, and dine
with the Hungarian Republican club
on Thursday he will attend the an.
nual dinner Of the Associated Pres!
and the American Newspaper Pub
lishers' association and has alsC
promised, if possible, to look in a
the banquet of the Aeronautical so
cicty.