The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-09-18
from America Because OF
His Second Marriage
LONDON, Sept. 8.


THERE we're three marriages of Amer.
lean millionaires comparatively re-
Gently which aroused much discus
sion in the States and abroad because Of
the social upheavals and family ill-feeling
caused by them The first of these was
the marriage of Robert Goelet. son Of the
immensely fashionable Mrs. Ogden Goelet
and brother of the Duchess of Roxburghe
to the Princess Riabouchinsky, the daugh-
ter OF poor Italian professor and divorced
wife of a not well-known Russian noble.
The second was that of Peter Cooper
Hewitt, the distinguished American inven-
tor, to fascinating Mrs. Brugiere. And the
third was the mating Of the well-known
yachtsman and immensely wealthy Alex
ander Smith Cochrane to Nine. Gamma
Walska, a Polish prima donna, with several
husbands in the background and record
of defeated operate ambitions.
Each of these men took, in his later
years, mate from an entirely different
stratum OF society than that in which they
themselves had been cast. The death Of
Peter Cooper Hewitt on the verge OF what
gossip declared to be separation from his
wife and the reported, separation of Mr.
Cochrane from his prima donna have d.
rected attention to the course of the ro-
nance between Mr.. Goelet and his charm
ing lady. .,.........
This interest has been keenly sharpened
by what can be called, at least. semi
official announcement that the elder Mrs.
Goelct intends to spend the balance of her
days with the Duke and Duchess OF Rox'
burghe, and will not again return to Amer
lea unless It be for a necessary and brief
business visit
At the same time It has leaked out that
Mrs. Goelet has made a will in which she
entirely disinherits the son who has SO
displeased her, and has left her huge for
tune, approximating seventy-five millions
o { dollars, in trust to her grandsons, Ogden
and Peter Goelet, the children Of her sons
FIRST wife, the former Elsie Whelen, Of
Philadelphia, and now Mrs. Clews, and hei
other grandson, who will inherit the title
and estates Of Roxburghe. ..t
The son of Robert Goelet and his second
wife, although equally the grandson Of
MrS. 6Oel6t, TeCtlNcS hOIhlhS.
The situation In the Goelet romance, sc
far as Grandma Goelet Is concerned, may
be likened to a tug-o'-war. in which MOI
only her son and his wife and their baby
but the two sons by her sons former wife
have tried to pull the proud grandparen
from her stubborn stand in the matter
The circumstances related would certainl.
seem to show that not only have they no
been able to bulge her, but that she hal
scored distinctly.
II is no secret that Mrs. Ogden Goele
set her face against the marriage at thu
very beginning. She has never received
her son since the announcement OF tn
wedding. The bulk Of the Goelet fortuna
came from Mrs. Ogden Goelet's father an,
her husband While the son that she ha
cut out of her will has fortune in his owl
right, left him by his father, the prospee
tive loss of half or two-thirds OF his moth
er's immense millions leaves him, In thes
peculiar limos at least, an almost poor ma
in the eyes of New York society. But actr
ally. while the disinheritance Is grea
financial loss It is not so serious to him an
to his beautiful wife as the obstacle 1t ha
placed In the way they want to travel
handicap practically impossible for them
overcome, since 1t serves definite motto