| Show t ss Casteflane Must the 11 Up A = ch = Millions to Retain Her Children I City Choice of Paying Counts Debts or Allowing Him to Keep the Boys Tragic Ending of Sordid International write to Marriage Anna Gould the countess of 1 ae probably will pay 5000 b ter three sons I Bonl I do Castellane father children demands possession children and gives the daughter J first great American million st ler < chofco between paying his Irldl lvln is up her children Un ihe pays the debts the Fronch probably will hold that sho cane can-e them from Franco without assent of tho spendthrift noble fbo since March 4 1895 when i JIrled her has squandered over 000 of Jay Goulds fortune and reeks to make it 14000000 bee be-e will release her tthe t Goulds will pay tho 5000 ittlo the debts of Bonl do Cas even those of tho usurers who I j5 i 2 2 ry IS 1 ISbe on in c ing ink I any t t n I I I preyed off him for years Is boll bo-ll j by their friends and by coun tho case If the Goulds remain I Count Bonl will ask the court to II the mother to tako her children ales d 1 the jurisdiction of the French I Ho will plead that if the chill ire given into the custody of the they may be taken beyond tho ot tho courts and if J the court Ids his contention as the law AH I believe it will the count may children for whom the countess roe pay 1666666 each are toz1I I do Castellano aged ton years i go Gould do Castoliane aged de Castollane aged four years 1S at It months tzI laps every mother In the world ferc aId she would not tako a million hhuA v for her baby and now the gather lean girl who became the best hurl a It not the most famous noblo rtulJr ia In Europe through the lavish e of money has tho opportunity LY ling her children at a price little 80 cess of what she paid only a few ago for a bed ffii the final payment of 5000000 is Anna Gould will havo paid 2 J a day for her husband and her and her children which oven ho may lose ren May Prefer Father J e attlludo of the children them PTr s toward tho warring parents is usher r Inclined toward the father J mid are more French than American g been raised In France and In cinlra luxury and extravaganvo that eiheo tout scarcely know tho meaning of cdaUj 1 tho thing that has caused all J almost alltho woes of the flb1l lean girl who allied her millions rte doubtful French title aaad elr loyalty to their mother Is un ulckel ted but between America and l cJ ce they choose France because older ones have been trained Inch ° oJ I In-ch schools and deeper than that I loo ise they have been reared In the euW on of their father If tho choice lth them It will be Franco and tcssid I Roman Catholic church on one ma and the love of their another wa4 money on the other The coun herself has become almost LLs 1 4 s a > 5000000 children are bandana band-ana clever youngsters and the lest who bears tho name of the and piratical pioneer million Is declared to be tho hnndsom told in Paris Ills portrait has Painted by tho most famous art sFrance and as a baby his beau Wracted attention everywhere Physical perfection of the chll Is l marveled at by sociologists S Ie the mother is undersized sal Hi Irregular feature whllo the i j v Is small effeminate and yet tame In his way lie might bo I 1 Pretty rather than handsome i bat the Anna Gould of 11 years I tho Is fighting for freedom and afS Udrcn and willing perhaps toe to-e remainder of her magnificent t lee for the privilege of returning Lire aerlca with hor children It is e Countess do Castellano lender Qb eroyalists In Paris the proud 1 the proudest society act IB the IPLI world It Is the mother of three man ly boys She Is older sadder and wiser as well as poorer Story Is Tragic The story best can bo told by years the story of tho little girl overbur doned with the wealth that Jay Gould had won by fair and foul means In tho railroad world and tho stock job bing market who married a French nearnobleman noble In name and Ignoble Ig-noble In almost everything else < except ex-cept his ability to light with others of his typu On March I 1895 Bonl do Castel lane alleged nobleman of France married mar-ried Anna Gould She had mot tho pink and white dapper Frenchman by special arrangement ot his < ownot which she know nothing and perhaps she had loved him In a way Perhaps sho dreamed he was her Prince Charming The Frenchman came to America Ho lived In a back room over a dressmakers establishment Ho had come to America to marry money Ho said It himself And before be-fore he married he asked for a marriage mar-riage portion ot 5000000 and got 3 1 000000 Ho hadnt oven met Miss Gould when ho privately announced that he would marry her lie had little lit-tle money but he was determined towed to-wed He went toa hotelkeeper and explained Then ho moved to one of the greatest hotels In the world and gave n little dinner and a friend asked Miss Gould to attend Within a month thewedding was arranged A month later the engagement was announced an-nounced The day of the announcement announce-ment Castellane moved to tho Wal dorfAstoria and began buying on credit The day after tho weddlng the bills began to pour In They went to Paris and Bonl de Castellane began spending Jay Goulds millions Ills first great exploit was 1 n 0 StJ oD ar THE 3cIfB t rSPErID111RIFT the purchase Ida site In the famous Avenue Malakotf and to order workmen work-men to reproduce Petito Tralnon the retreat lit Louis XIV homo of the famous Mine do Malntenon to copy the most Infamous licentious court of history Millions poured into tho building One bed alono cost almost al-most a million dollars Art treasures woro purchased Ono fete given Iby Don do Castel lano swept away a ninth of the yearly Income of his wife which was 900000 Millions were pert before they wero earned The girl with an Income of nearly a ml1llo1l dollars 1 year was in debt Finds Comfort In Baby Tho countess was not hnppy but then Dons was born and came to comfort com-fort her Her husband continued his wild extravagances until < even Paris marveled Millions seemed to have turned his head The nursery for Ills heir in Petit Trianon was furnished at the expenso of moro than the ordinary ordi-nary man makes in a lifetime In June of 1897 the Income for tho year was spent Bonl still was buyIng buy-Ing lIe bought from Asher WertheIm of London curios for which he could not pay This bill later proved one of the direct means of his downfai Among other things that ho wanted was an Italian palace He bought one at Verona at a stupendous price In It wero tl ceilings by Tiepolo and tho count wanted them transferred to Paris It was done and then they were sold at enormous loss The year 1898 was marked by Cas tellanos duel with Henri Turot and his blackballing In the Jockey club But still with her two sons the lit tlo countess was busy and found solace In them even when tho extravagance ex-travagance of Her husband and his wild actions caused doubt as to his sanity His eccentricities and his half Insane desire for notoriety amazed oven Paris He planned a riot directed direct-ed against tho president of Franco at the races at Auteull and he and his wife wero among the chief actors in the comedydrama which cost them a fortune Bonl was becoming ridiculous lIe proved himself skillful at fencing wounding one adversary Even his title was attacked ho was ridiculed openly In the chamber of deputies and at the end of the year when he came to tho United States to got more money 1io was charged with fleeing from creditors Tho countess came with him bring ing her two sons tho only solace sho had and they had an argument on tho ship neither of them knowing tho American flag when they saw 1C Millions to Save Name In 1900 financial troubles were at a climax Castellano had openly slurred the Goulds especially Helen Gould His family openly charged that Anna Gould was bourgeolse Bonl Was as reckless as ever Petit Trianon was incomplete Bonl came to America again to get money and failed The countess chateau at Dmrmrala was ordered sold for debt and only an appeal ap-peal to her family saved It Tradesmen Trades-men openly Insulted tho Castellanos and dunned them In public George and Edwin Gould gave 1000000 to save the family pride Dual had spent 3000000 besides his wife lincoino and owed over 1000000 I In 1901 the courts took a hand to save the fortune of tho little American Ameri-can A receiver was appointed In tho person of her brother George Tho family paid 1700000 of Bonls debts and held the countess fortune to protect pro-tect her and themselves Dy order of the court the income of the Castel lanes was reduced from 900000 to 200000 but they fought in court and I got the entire income In that year Bon I fouglit Henri do Hoday and shot him In the leg Also ho gave a boar hunt that cost 100000 for the Grand Duke Boris He entertained enter-tained the king of Portugal Early In 190 when Jay the youngest young-est baby was a few months old tho countess suddenly left the counl It was reported that they wero estranged es-tranged but foal came to America and denied this report Also ho was charged with refusing to pay debts of honor Debts were piling tip again and tho Goulds were stubborn refusing to hand out more millions tohbe thrown away With her three children comfort her and keep her busy tho countess did not care But in 1904 tho real trouble egan the trouble that changed the countess and mado her a woman amid a mother Instead of the reckles follower of a more reckless husband Bon Unfaithful Bonl set up a bachelor establishment establish-ment and the countess began to hear of ces dames the count entertained actresses models midinettes tho women ho could not invite to his home The countess could nothing Paris would laugh if sho paid any attention at-tention to them They were beneath her But at last the American woman was cropping out Her renewed devotion devo-tion to the children and her more t I to I CEg APIES Impressive appearance revealed e change Still tho money went furiously Tho king of Portugal was their guest and nearly a quarter of a million dollars was sport on him during his visit The countess had stood much But finally In 1905 the break came Cos dames wore one thingbut a woman of her own class was another Tho name ot the Duchess dUzcs was coupled cou-pled with that of Castellane Tim duchess hi her way Is as eccentric as Castellane The countess suffered In silence 110 Jonger She separated from her husband and then brought suit for divorce The suit was the signal for the creditors cred-itors to pounce down upon Bonl In France I tho wife It responsible foi certain debts jointly with her husband and tho creditors feared the Gould millions would escape The Goulds having lavished nearly 10000000 on the count refused to pay more Bonl the man who had refused to pay debts of honor calmly offered to wako terms And now unless the creditor are satisfied ho will use the children as his last weapon and force a uettlo wept |
