Evening star., 1923-06-10
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Indians May Have Taken Body of Pocahontas
Back to Virginia Rest Among Fathers,
Grave Seekers Fear

were committed to Mr.. Wheeler, with
Mrs. Wheeler as his able assistant.
Mrs. Taft has always remembered
those days with tender feelings. the
beauty of the scenery, the perfection
of the service and the solace OF Mrs.
Wheeler'S companionship. In becom-
ing the guest of Japanese royalty 1T
is customary 10 decide whether you
will be entertained in native or in
European fashion and Mrs. Taft
boldly selected the native. Mrs.
Wheeler having studied the question
from every angle smoothed her path
and her days were like a lovely
dream, from sails on the water in
gorgeous boats to journeys in hand
Somely decked sedan chairs TO the
hills in the cool of the evening to
watch the shadows grow on the lakes
and on the distant mountains.
Americans are beginning to revisit
Vienna and word comes that in some
ways the fine old city of the waltz is
recovering her beauty, ease and gen
eral poisc. One thing which visitors
10 Vienna enjoy is that the Prater'
that glorious park which was FOR
so many centuries an imperial pre-
serve and kept inviolate for the en-
peror. his family and friends to ENJOY
is now open to all corners and bands
are placed at intervals and the music
adds much to the pleasure. The
chestnut trees of the Prater are the
oldest in public use in all Europe
and were planted in stately rows
in 1887. They have not reached stu
pendous heights. but their rotund-
ity and denSeness is indescribably
grand and make shade reminiscent
of the most remote forests for nun
dreds of years, the youth and beauty
of Vienna Cantered through the
prater. and then came a long line OF
ra rI,ia a q
through the city for miles. Now the
children of artisans play on the grass
and make parties under the trees
and the lridle path is no more. vi
emma. say the recent visitors, offers
the same divine music, Strauss. par
excellence. and the opera house is
open through the summer with an
excellent local company to produce
the old time favorites.
Those who know and admire the
sterling qualities of Mrs. Finley ].
Shepard, formerly Miss Helen Miller
Gould, are not surprised to hear that
she has taken immediate steps to
secure from the estate Of her late
brother, George Jay Gould. the farm
at KirkSide. near RoXbury. y. Y,
where her father and the two preceding
generations of his family. then called
Gold, were born. Mrs. Shepard about
ten years ago acquired the Old
fashioned brown-stone dwelling al
5I9 9TH avenue, where her parents lived
for many happy years and where they
| both died. 1T was the first preten
tious home which the financfer pur-
chased after his fortune was secure
and il remained his favorite donicile
Mrs. Shepard retains all the family
furnishings which were dear to her
mother and her fathers small der
back of the main salon is just as he
left it when he was claimed by death
In getting the Kirkside property
which was hitherto held by George
jay Gould, Mrs. Shepard Will retain
in the family their first real estate
which came to the founder of the
line, Lieut.. Col. Nathan Gold. who
fought in the New York line during
the revolutionary war and received
this fine farm land as reward OF
John Burr Gould. was the first to
insert the 'u" in his patronymic
| though all charts show that so was
it spelled in England. The head Of
the next generation, Abraham. emf.
grated to Connecticut and formed
separate line there. The second
| brother also Nathan. laid the founda-
tions of the huge fortune and was
the father of the railroad king. Ed
win Gould. who Is happily married
and has a fair-sized family. is the only
Gould who has not become an ex.
intends that his eldest son shall in
herit these estates so thoroughly
identified with the family history.
Another family we'll known in
American financial history are the
, members have chosen homes in Eng
land or on the continent. and have
ceased to be citizens of this country
One of the latest to join the per-
manent colony at Mentone, France is
Mrs. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren. former
wife of Eric Dahlgren. who resides
in the old homestead of his family or
Massachusetts, avenue, here. The
marriages of Miss Elizabeth Drexe
and John Vinton Dahlgren and OF
Miss Lucy Drexel and Eric Dah1grer
occurred in the chapel of Georgetown
ago, the day after both bridegrooms
had taken their A. B. degrees and the
brides had graduated from the Visi.
tation Convent, and it was a brilliant
social event. John Vinton Dahlgrer
died five years after his marriage anC
is inferred under the high altar ot
Dahlgren Memorial Chapel, before
which he had been married His
widow afterward married Harry Lehl
of Baltimore. and they, too. are resi-
dents of Mentone. Mrs. Lucy Drexe
Dahlgren is accompanied by he sor
III w. anu olld lam lit
two younger children, Eva and JOSEPH
DreXel Dahlgren, are with their wild
owed sister, Mrs. Katherine Dahlgrer
Emmett at Las Animas, New Mex
Those Americans who have recently
met Sir Robert Bromley-Wilson. NJ
p. for East Stoke. and a magistrate
of Southwest London, where his home
Is situated. have difficulty in recalling
that slender young Robert Bromley
attache of the British embassy, anL
who on February "a, 1900. married
the Honorable Lillian Pauncefote
daughter of Lord Pauncefote OF
Preston, then serving as ambassador
Ny Bromley was a distant cousin OF
| his bride, the Pauncefotes and Brom.
leys having been unitel by roya
patent in 1857, and it was evidently
in the mind of the venerable ambas.
sador to secure his barony to his
| daughters offspring. who would be
in line of succession through Robert
bromley. But there are no sons OF
this marriage, and Sir Robert. who
is now seventh baronet of Bromle,
and OF Wilson, will be succeeded b1
| his brother. Maurice Bromley. ;
colonel of Hussars. who Is married
and has four sons. The barony ~
Preston has lapsed though the sur
viving daughters Of Lord Pauncefote
| the Hons. Sybil and Aubrey-tbt
oldest. Maude, is dead-retain the Ole
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