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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-11-21
Hello, Folks:

Hello, Folks:
Howdy Folks:
Well, this week certainly did roll
round fast for me. I guess that's
because our copy had to be in
earlier this time on account of this
is the Thanksgiving issue. You
know our Editor must have
thought you'd be able to enjoy
your Thanksgiving feast better if
you had your local paper on hand.
When some of you read this you
may just be sitting down to your
sumptuous dinner, or you may be
on your way to the football game
or, perhaps, the Bonneville Dance.
Anyway, I'm sure each and every
one of you will have some fun on
the holiday.
Did You Know: That Johnnie
"Satchmo" Armstrong and his
mellow orchestra will be here to
play for US at a dance given on
December LIST at the Marigold Ball
room? EUNICE BROWN,
TIMOTHY MILLS, BERNICE
BROWN and EVERETT HARRIS
all motored down to Iowa City to
attend the Iowa-Minnesota game?
They had too fine time, especial
ly at some of the frat dances.
SYLVIA ROSS, coed round town,
is kinda ill in the Health Service
with a touch of pneumonia?
A number of married couples of
Minneapolis are starting social
club which will show the Twin
Towns that they are not asleep as
far as, social activities are con-
cerned. ROBERT WRIGHT,
Minneapolis shoeshine boy at the
Elgin Valet Service, won $4,000
on a New Jersey horse race. First,
he quit his job and then gave his
buddy a $500 bill to shine his
shoes, and now he's in Chicago
"trying" to run his bankroll into a
bigger one.
Folks In and Out of Town:
MISS w. GERTRUDE BROWN,
our former Head Resident of Phyl-
lis Wheatley, is in Minneapolis at
present visiting friends. She is the
house guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce
Lucas, and has been the recipient
of many social cOurtesies while in
town. MRS. ARTHUR FRA
ZIER of Fergus Falls, Mimi, is
visiting in Minneapolis and is the
house guest of Miss Iva Patrick.
A TIP FOR A CHRISTMAS
GIFT: A young medical graduate
of one of our western colleges was
asked the other day by his doting
father what he should get him for
Christmas. The old gent turned
pale when the would-be-medic ex-
claimed: ooh! Dad, if you would
only go to the hospital and buy me
the head and arm of someone I
would be the happiest fellow alive.
I could dissect them on the kitch-
en- table, you see." Now, folks,
wouldn't that be a merry Christ
mas?
Campus Snapshots: ORRING-
TON C. HALL, JR., perusing a
certain book in the library. .
PERRY MCGEE, having trouble
with his car out in front of the
Union while a gang of lassies
waited on him. LOUISE HOW
ARD and CRYSTAL BURGESS
looking quite collegiate in the
Union.
Sob Story of the Week:
They've Descended from Their
Seventh Heaven and are now sing
ing the Cellar Blues.
Why? Well, our little Twin
City couple (leading characters in
our drama this week. have been
having in-law trouble (on our
hero's side), ever since they first
married. First, papa-in-law lost his
job so he and mama-in-law and
sister all came to live with our
connie Then nama-in-law stirred
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-11-21

is my suggestion that you make
friends and choose someone around
your own age for a husband.
A. R. dam / making the best
move to stay with these people or
what should l do? What do you
think is best for me?
Ans: Be fair with yourself and
with C. B. also and tell the truth.
don't think that you should make
change under the present circum-
stances wait and think things
over. Get your mind cleared once
and for all and you won't always
be sorry for jumping at cOnclu-
siOns.
M. Sim a girl of Is and I
found out that l was &. and the
man is already married. He tells
me that he wants to take me and
leave this state. I am greatly in
love with him and l want to know
what I should do about it?
Ans: Your problem, my child,
doesn't concern only you and this
man it also concerns his wife.
What a shame to be so thOughtless
and incOnsiderate of your own self
as well as the other woman
both you and the man are in pref
ty serious situation. At your age,
the only sensible thing to do is dis
cuss your condition with your
mother or some member of the
family and let them help you as
best they can. l don't think you
should run away with a married
man if he will get a divorce
and marry you, then go anywhere
that you desire.
A. WI wish to hear from you
in the column real soon. I turned
my property into the hands of a
lawyer some two months ago to sell
and I want to know if this is right
and do you think he will sell it?
Ans: 1t is to the lawyers .ad-
vantage that he get a sale for the
property ,. he will make his per-
centage from the deal when it is
sold. I also advise that you make
an effort to sell it too in time it
seems to me that you can Oppose
of the land.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-11-21

The Sub Deb girls are having a
supper meeting on Monday, No
vember II, at 4 p. m. This club is
made up of II girls between II and
Is years of age. They have planned
to have one supper meeting a
month at which time different COM
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Have No House

The mere thought OF Mr..
Shepard having TO pull up
stakes at his time of life and
settle in an apartment where
there would be no organ for
him to play is something that
causes Anna de Talleyrand and
Howard Gould TO shudder.
Yet they. themselves. have no
home in New York City-and
occupy suites at the Plaza Ho-
tel,
Robert Walton Goelet's death
released him from a death-bed
promise made TO his mother,
Mrs. Robert Goelet. never to sell
the Goelet house in the SOUTH
east corner of Fifth avenue and
4Sth streets.
The mother of BERTHE Goelet
loved her now rather antiquated
Fifth avenue home and disliked
the thought of the house ever
passing out of the family, or
being torn down. It's just pos
sible she also had an eye 10 the
increased value of the house as
years rolled by.
Be that as it may, she made
BERTHE promise never 10 sell
and he kept that promise, hav-
ing died recently at the age OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Married in 1913

Added TO which she was so
devoted 10 her fathers memory
she never wanted to change
anything inside the house
which the late Boni deCastellane
first husband of Helen's sister.
Anna, now the Duchess de
Talleyrand) described with such
neat viciousness in his How l
Discovered America"
After an extended spinster-
hood, Helen Gould. in 1913, mar
ried Finley J. Shepard.
She had presided as mistress
Of the Gould mansion ever since
her fathers death in 1892. And,
as she had taken little or no
interest in society during the
many years she was Miss
Gould" she made no change in
her routine after marrying the
not-so-social Mr.. SheYsrd.
Which probably accounts for
the fact that the Gould house
today is not nearly so we'll
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Tract Worth Millions

Today that Buchanan tract is
worth millions and millions of
dollars and on ii stand build
ings whose total worth runs we'll
over q billion dollars.
Two of Tom Buchanan's
daughters, Almy and Margaret,
married Goelets - descendants
of Francis Goelet, who fled to
this side of the Atlantic in 1916
TO escape religious persecution in
the Old World.
A grandson of the founder"
Francis Goelet, married the
daughter of q rich New York
grocer of the pre-Revolutionary
days. And set an early prece-
dent followed by many Goelets
marry money"
Even BERTHE Goelet, who has
Just died and who inherited some
$4,000, 900 worth of New York
real estate when his father died
on the Goelet yacht, "Nahma,"
in 1899, in the harbor at Naples,
Italy, followed the family rule
and married money"
His widow is the daughter OF
a man who amassed a large
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Had French Estate

His great estate, Sandricourt,
not far distant from Paris, con-
tains one of the finest pheasant
shoots in the world and he mar
ried a daughter of France, Anne
Guestier.
He spoke French in preference
to English and worry over the
disasters that have come TO
France brought on the stroke
that eventually caused him TO
die Of heart failure.
Many always felt thai, due TO
Berries promise to his mother,
the Golet house would be the
last of the old Fifth avenue
homes to disappear via the
house-wreckers. His death-and
release from his promise-has
given the Goulds their opportu-
nifty to win whatever honor goes
with being the final "holdout"
against trade.
The Goelet Fifth avenue house
stands on land that once formed
the farm of Thomas Buchanan,
a far-sighted New Yorker, who
in 1914 bought a large tract of
land in what is now New York's
Fifth avenue sector for $1,000
and felt he had, to lapse into the
parlance, been "stung."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

fortune i'm the wine business in
France, Daniel Guestier.
For years BERTHE Goelet was
billed on two continents as "the
richest bachelor on EARTH" He
married Mile. Guestier 10 years
after his graduation from Har-
ward.
Certain Goelet relatives who
had high hopes Of BERTHE Goe-
let living and dying a bachelor
were none too well pleased when
he conferred his name on Mile.
Guestier and proceeded to pro-
duce three heirs and one heiress
10 his millions. Millions that
now will be hard hit by federal
and state inheritance taxes.
One of the first bits of prop
erty to be sold to meet the
staggering tax that will be
levied against the large Goelet
estate will be the Fifth avenue
house.
The other Goelet homes, Sand
ricourt in France, with its $500
acres which BERTHE bought from
the Marquis de Beauvoir; the
old-fashioned Newport villa and
the fine fishing camp on the
Restigouche River, in Canada.
are not exactly saleable-for one
reason or another.
But Berries mother, II she
knows what has happened, no
doubt Is pleased. For her only
son kept his promise to her-he
never sold her home.
And that would mean much
10 Harriette Warren Goelet,
who adored BERTHE. She was
one OF the last OF the Great
Ladies" OF her era, a woman
who steamed across the Allan
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
A Costly Bequest

The younger William II. Van
derbilt died while a junior al
Yale and when George w. Van
derbilt breathed his last in 1914.
$40 Fifth avenue went, accord
ing to the terms of the older
William II NaHGerbiltS will to
the present Brig. Gen. Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
1t was a bequeSt that cost
him almost as much as 1t was
worth,
Prior TO moving 10 the brown
stone house that stands on the
northeast corner of Fifth ave-
nue. oand Forty-seventh street,
Jay Gould lived on the opposite
side of Fifth avenue.
His new home was hailed as
a marvel Of righteousness when
he took possession in the sos
and he remarked to a friend in
Wall street that he hoped the
house would stand for many
years as monument TO what
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

The recent death OF hopeil
Walton Coeiet and the an
nouncement that Mrs: Cornelius
Vanderbilt, at long last, Is 10
reIinouish the Vanderbilt house
at $40 Fifth avenue. TO me
English Astors-who purchased
the property more than a year
seo-ali but clinches the Flftn
avenue "home" honors for the
Gould family.
In the last decade there have
been only three private dwell
ings left on Fifth avenue be.
tween Fifty-ninth street ana
Thirty-fourth street.-the Van
derbilt house, the Robert Wal
ton Goelet home on the south
east corner Of Forty-eighth
street and the Gould mansion
on the northeast corner or
Forty-seventh street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

tic on her private yacht, who
entertained for the ex-kaiser OF
Germany during the imperial
regatta in Germany's Kiel har-
Dor and who staged dinners with
King Edward VII as principal
guest whenever she happened to
be in London, which was fire.
quently.
JUST AS BERTHE Goelet cher
ished no great love for his
cousin, also named Robert Goe-
let. Berries mother disliked Rob-
ert's mother. Mrs. Ogden Goelet.
and many in New Yorks inner
tircle can recall the time when
}the two Mrs. Geolets engaged
in a keen rivalry as to which
should be known merely as THE
Mrs. Goelet.
1t greatly resembled the merry
little social war OF a generation
earlier between Mrs. William
Waldorf Aston and Mrs. Will
liam Aston.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Sentimental GouIds

And there's more sentiment
than good business mixed up
with the decision OF Jay Goulds
surviving children, the Duchess
de Talleyrand, Howard Gould
and Frank Jay Gould, not 10
dispose of the Gould house until
after the Angel Gabriel toots
his trumpet in the direction of
their brother in-law, Finley j.
Shepard.
After Jay Gould's death his
house passed into the hands of
his unmarried and philanthropic
older, daughter. Helen Gould,
who died in December. 1888.
For years she lived amid the
rather dated" grandeur Of the
house now surrounded by bust
ness concerns and loft build
ing, devoting more of her time
10 charitable work than 10
society.
- Many grand danes OF New
York society who can describe.
with minute detail, the interiors
of the Vanderbilt and Goelet
houses couldn't tell you a thing
about the decorations of the
Gould house. For the excellent
reason they never crossed the
threshold of $40 Fifth avenue.
Suffice that the house, today.
remains much the same as ii was
when Jay Gould died. For
daughter Helen wasn't one TO
Squander her Gould $$S$ on new
furnishings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25


the most i'm
portant and
pic tureSque
figures IN
w all Street
so years ago,
realizes the
Gould dynasty
will be the
last of the
Wander b &
Astor-Bel J.
mont Gould
Goelet SS$$
ms TO re-
tain architec-
tural repre-
sentation on
Fifth avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

known. socially, as is the Goelet
house at The next corner in the
same block.
The Jay Gould house, today,
is assessed at 1865, 900. and is
an ideal site for a business
structure.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Rivals for Years

Berries mothers claim TO the
title OF feminine head OF the
family-she and her sister-in-
law were widows at the time
was based not only on the law
of primogeniture. but also on
the fact that her family, the
Warrens, was firmly established
in society long before Mrs. Og-
den Goelets wilson's were
heard of.
One OF Mrs. Robert Goelet's
first maneuvers was 10 have
the brass door plate on Box "a,
in the Golden Horseshoe" at
Continued on Page Ten)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Runors Not True

bit QlQn give ofu + ~
avenue 10 his nephew Briga-
dier-General Vanderbilt, because
he felt the latter had been
badly treated by his father in
that gentlemans last will and
testament.
And the house wasn't pur-
chased by ambitious r. T. VIII
-sS-a-Setting for his
daughters, Grace Wilson Van
derbllt. social activities.
Those are the two most widely
spread tales. But they are hc-
ton.
William IT, Vanderbilt, who
built the house, died in 1880
and bequeathed $40 Fifth ave-
nue. 10 his son. George w.
Vanderbilt. 1t was stipulated
however. that if George w.
Vanderbilt died without sur
viving son, the house was TO go
10 the eldest son of George w
Vanderbilt'S brother, Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
This last mentioned son had
been named William II. Wander
bilt for his grandfather and had
a brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jr., who is the brigadier-general
OF today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

Only few, outside the family,
know that Mr.. Shepard. now an
old man, has gone blind. He
knows his way about the Gould
house, upstairs and downstairs,
without the aid of an attendant.
And the chief JOY of his life is
playing, hour after hour, the
fine pipe organ that is feature
of the house.
Notwithstanding the fact they
have 10 pay taxes on a house
worth almost a million dollars,
in addition 10 losing the income
on the sum invested. the kindly
Duchess de Tallyrand and her
brothers, Howard Gould and
Frank Jay Gould. insist Mr..
Shepard shall spend the re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

81 and still in possession Of the
Fifth avenue Goelet mansion.
For years BERTHE Goelet. as a
result of that promise TO his
mother, lost the income on
81, $50, 900 (the assessed value Of
the house) and paid taxes TO
the city on that amount, not
withstanding he never spent
more than three months OF any
year in the house since his
mothers death.
Once, during a crossing on
the lie de France" from Cher
bourg to New York, BERTHE Goe-
let told me, while we were
enjoying sunbath on the upper
deck, that he once figured out
il cost him about $4,000 a night
for every night he slept in the
Fifth avenue home.
The late Mr.. Goelet adored
France, and in later years was
more French in manner and
speech than those born in
France.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
TA11lE TALES Of OLD NEwY0RK
Estate Taxes Doom GoeIet House; .
Vanderbilt Home Slated TO Be Raced

YOU can accomplish in life II
YOU have the will 10 succeed"
1t looks as il Mr.. Gould's
monument" will be the last OF
the monuments" erected by
multi-millionaires Of a by-gone
generation, 10 disappear from
Fifth avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Fortune Shrinks

The Cornelius Vanderbilt
mansion has been doomed for
some time past, due 10 the
shrinkage OF the fortune admin
istered by its occupants. Not TO
mention sky-rocketing taxes!
Assessed for $2400.000. the
Vanderbilt - or should l say
English Astor'-house tops. IN
value, the Goelet and Gould
homes.
II Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt
had that $4,000 invested in
some income producing prop
erty their gain. annually at
5 per cent, would have been
500. 900.
Which means they have paid,
all these years. the equivalent Of
$4,000 rent" per month for
the privilege Of living in the
house built in 1879 by Cornelius
Vanderbilt's grandfather, VIII
liam II. Vanderbilt and which
was remodeled about 1915 by
the Vanderbilt hostess now more
or less generally referred 10 as
Her Grace sobriquet / con-
ferred on her.
That $1,000 monthly becomes
an even more imposing sum
when you add the annual taxes
he VanderbiltS paid on $40
fifth avenue 10 New York City.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Rich and Rude

One doesn't include the VIII
liam B. Osgood Field house at
GAS Fifth avenue, inasmuch as
il has been standing idle, gath
ering dust, for many years and
il In the process of being trans
formed into a business struc-
ture.
When the late Jay Gould built
his spacious home on the Ave
nue." that thoroughfare was
lined with stately houses shell
tering the rich and rude OF
New York society.
II was the era when Wander
bits, Astors, Belmonts, Goelets
and others OF that opulent ilk
were scattered up and down
Fifth avenue.
As years rolled by and death
took its toll OF the monied
heads of families who felt a
pretentious Fifth avenue home
was the easiest way of impress
sing the multitude, and business
crept into what had been a
strictly residential thoroughfare,
homes of the Vanderbilts, Astors,
Belmonts. Goelets, etc, disap-
peared until today only the
Cornelius Vanderbilt. the Jay
Gould and the Robert Walton
Goelet homes remain.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

TATTLE-TALES Of Old New
Il York!
II a triumphant smile graces
the countenance OF old Jay
Gould in his last resting place
in New York's Woodlswn Gene
terry, tits because that canny
financier. who ranked as one OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Plan 10 Rae Home

BrigadicTy General Vanderbilt,
gho has been in III health for
some time. was all for giving up
the house years ago-but Her
Grace" declined 10 accept the
situation until the financial
Stringency reached point
where the city tax collector as
sumed a rude and demanding
attitude.
Then the sale 10 the English
Astors was brought about and
their idea Is 90 raZe the house
w which 80 much social his
tory has been made and replace
IL with a "tsxpayer"-the war
in Europe having called a halt,
for the time being. on their plan
10 erect a towering office build.
ing on the site.
So many conflicting stories
legends is. perhaps. better
word-hsve been told as 20 how
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
Home a Reminder

But it will stand as re-
minder of old Jay Gould'S words
about what you can accomplish
in life if you have the will to
succeed" just so long as Finley
]. Shepard lives. The late Helen
Gould Shepard's sister and
brothers have made that
decision.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

mainder Of his days in the Gould
houSe-their childhood home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25
by CAolly KNickGRbockeR

the Cornelius Nanderblits came
into possession of the house
they never could afford. this
might be the logical time 10
tel the true story.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

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Evening star., 1941-05-14
Association Votes Study
OF Recreation Bills

A committee Of four, headed by
walton s. Allen, was delegated by
the Summit Park Citizens Associa-
ton last night to study two bills
sntroduced by Representative Hunt
er for a new District board Of recre-
alton and to report its findings at
the next meeting. Other members
of the committee are Ural s. Fish
Evening star., 1941-05-14

tary of the national organization,
will be guest speaker and will dis
cuss Research in Air Conditioning" :"
The air-conditioning class Of the
national defense training course at
George Washington University will
attend the session.
Oficers to be installed are as
follows: F. A. Lesser, president; r.
8. Dill, vice president; F. M. Phuney,
secretary, and Karl F. Baldwin, jr.'
treasurer. F.. E. Spurney, r. K.
Thulman and r. Skagerberg Will
take seats on the Board Of Gov
ernors.
Evening star., 1941-05-14
Heating Engineers
viii Dine TONIGHT

The washington section Of the
American Society of Heating and
Ventilating Engineers will hold It's
annual meeting and banquet to-
night beginning at $50 o'clock ir
the garden house of the Dodge
Hotel.
John w. James, technical secre'
Evening star., 1941-05-14
Will Be Orduined Tonight

WINCHESTER, Va, May IA (Spe-
ciaD The Rev. Gordon Mason,
pastor of the Middleburg (Vao
Baptist Church, will be ordained as
q minister in a ceremony at the
First Baptist Church here tonight.
Taking part in the ordination serv-
ice will be the Revs. j. w. Brown,
Martinsburg, w. Va; C. w. Caulkins,
Leesburg, Va: E. B. jackson, D. D.
Manassas, Va; M. l.. Ragland, Gore
Va; z. It. Clark, D. D., and ]. w
| Morrow, Iayman, Winchester.
Evening star., 1941-05-14
er, George H. Marshall and G. A

er, George H. Marshall and G. A.
King.
The Association reiterated its re-
quest for the resurfacing of Bangor
street, on the motion of Charles l..
Hall. An investigation of traffic
| hazards at Bangor and Thirty
| fourth streets Sc. was asked. Five
dollars was donated to the Police
Boys Club.
An annual group party will be
held next month after the final
meeting of the year. Mrs. L. w.
Marshall offered her home for the
occasion.
Guest speaker of the evening was
Evening star., 1941-05-14

in a resolution adopted by the Ma
t;onal Parks Association at a recent
meeting.
The resolution also commended
the following international organi-
cations for their continuing efforts
to promote the protection of nature
In the Americas: The Pan-Ameri-
can Institute of Geography and His
tory. the American Committee for
International Wild Life Protection
and the an-American section OF
the International Committee FOL
Bird Preservation.
Representatives of II republics
in the Western Hemisphere alread!
Evening star., 1941-05-14
Legislation Is Urged
To Back Wild Life Pact

Enactment of legislation in all
countries signatory to the Treaty on
Nature Protection and Wild Life
Preservation in the American Re-
publics, ito implement and efiectu-
ate" the treaty's purpose, is urged
Evening star., 1941-05-14

Ellis Annett, representative of the
Community Chest. The meeting was
held at the East Washington
Heights Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1941-05-14

have signed the treaty, which was
ratified by the United States Sen
ate April 7, 1t was said.