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PERTH AMBOY EVENING NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1013.

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By CHARLES Ν. LU RI Ε. are millionaire families ill America whose fortunée member of one of the oldest and grfAt-i The all men date back many feneration®, committee, of wealth* eat famille· of the French and German TilSiHEto the early day· of the colo- stared, handled and were convinced. In 1910 he succeeded his nies. There are others whose founders aristocracy. Then the little man with the full beard are father as the Duke of Talleyrand. asked them If were convinced still among us clipping coupons. they that There are still others whose origina- The Family of Jay Qould. he could meet hie obiigatlone. assured him no waa tor» have but recently gone to th· Jay Qould, most daring, Ingenious They further proof place where there is no talk of bond· and successful of American railroad needed. "Well," he said, "I have $20,- and stocks. Of the third class prob- speculators, died In 1892, leaving six 000,000 more you may look at If you wish." Such was the of the ca- ably none le more interesting than the children, all of whom survive. They climax reer of the as a Goulds, since they represent about are George , born In 1864; man who began life and at one time rat every possible phase of the use and , 186β; Mrs. Helen Gould surveyor peddled for a livelihood. enjoyment of millions. Shepard, 1S68; , 1871; traps The Goulds are far enough from the Duchess of Talleyrand (), Jay Gould'· Testament. date of the foundation of their fortunes 1876, and Frank Jay Gould, 1877. There The name of Jay Gould was connect- to have acquired the habit of "think- are fifteen grandchildren of Jay Gould ed Intimately with many of the largest ing in millions," and they are not far and four great-grandchildren. Mr. and railroad and financial operations of the from enough the generation of shirt Mrs. George J. Gould have three sons twenty years preceding his death, sleeves and eating in the kitchen to be and four daughters. The eldest son, which occurred on Dec. 2, 1892. The glorified beyond the reach of the im- Kingdon Gould, who was born In 1887, "" sensation and other of agination the "common people." In Is unmarrlad. The second son, Jay great financial coups threw high lights others words, they stand in a class be- Gould, born in 1888, was married to on h 1b career. In his will he gave small tween the Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Miss Annie Douglas Graham In 1911, amounts of money and real estate to the Goelets, with gen- and the young couple have a baby various relatives, and after disposing /Hhlnôiâfiders,erations of millionaires, and the Rocke- Miss Marjorie of his domestic his ^ daughter. Owynne property among and and fellers Morgans Carnegies and Gould, eldest daughter of the George children gave to his eldest son, George who Guggenheims, are still In the ac- J. Goulds, who became Mrs. Anthony J. J. Gould, $6,000.000 as special compen- tive hunt for wealth or are but recent- Drexel. Jr., In 1910 has a daughter and sation for his services during five years ly retired from the chase. a son, and Helen Vivien Gould, now the in taking charge of his father's varied Wosith Well and III Used. wife of Lord Decles, head of an old Interests. Irish has a born last GouJd directed that the rest of ^ From the carefully considered and Photo» @ 1913, by American Prexj Association. family, daughter Jay γ The other children of sensibly applied philanthropies of August. George his estate be divided Into six equal Helen Gould Shepard (until recently Jay Gould range in age from seventeen shares, to bo held In trust and invested 2 and 3.—Duke to seven. Edwin Gould has two for Miss Helen Miller to the colos- 1, of Talleyrand, the duchess (formerly Countess de Castellane end sons, the benefit of his children. He pro- Gould), before that Anna Gould) and their son, Prince of Sagan. 4.—Edwin sal Gould, wife and ton. Mr·. Gould the Duchess of Talleyi-and has four hibited them from bequeathing any personal expenditures of Mrs. How- 5.—George J.Gould, and daughters Edith and Gloria. 6.— Mr and Mrs, Frank J, Gould. 7.—Finley J. Shepard, with Mr». Shepard, Helen M. Gould. sons (three by her first husband. Count part of their shared to any but their ard Gould, the descendants of Jay formerly 8.—Jay Gould, second son of George J. Gould. Q Boni de and Frank Gould and their "in-laws" typify about Castellane), Jay own issue and from marrying without Gould has two the children th· consent •very manner In which can be daughters, of the majority of them. money or FMiaaeipnia, Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. Job." The same la true of thing George many pagres of newspaper articles. On and Mrs. Edwin Gould. Mr». of hie flrst wife. In all cases of spent Among them there are hard- The George controversy among hie children of the third generation, J. head of the but of Long: Island stands Gould, family, Castle Gould, the Gould wu Edith Klngdon. whose Nowadays no name Is Inscribed high- children affecting the various proper- working, Industrious, Intelligent men counting Jay Gould as the first, aa la him more la printed, owing to his large sumptuous house built by Howard promising stage career ended when she er In the temple of finance than that of ties he declared that the of business and women who devote Include Judgment of meet. French, German and family of children and their recent Gould. It would be time and wealth to hardly exaggera- became the wife of the eldest eon and Gould, owing to the skill with which his son George should be authoritative. welldoing like British aa well aa a numerous progeny matrimonial alliances. tion to say of this place that every principal heir of Jay Gould. Mrs. Ed- George J. Gould has managed his On Deo. the will waλ George J. Gould and Mrs. Shepard. and of good American·. pat- II, 1891, offered Muoh In the New». stone has been the subject of a dispute. win Gould waa Misa Sarah C. It Is to for and the there are men and women whose Vary Bhrady, rimony. interesting, however, probate, executors swore ex- Of some member· of the Gould fam- Frank Of Gould's troubles with his first daughter of the famous Dr. recall the time, thirty-one years ago, to real property In New York state val- travagances of money are known the little la while the Howard Gould and Frank J. Gould physician, ily heard, tendency who was Miss Helen th· wife, Margaret George F. Bhrady, -who attended Gen- when Jay Gould called Into his office ued at $1,000,000 and personal property world over. In the latter class may be of othera to crop out Into the news every publlo knowa principally through daughter of a New York banker, eral Grant In hi· last a committee of financiers and Mrs. Howard Gould and the Kelly, illness. Of the spread aggregating $70.000.000. put Duch- once In so often Is a standing joke with their matrimonial misfortunes. The In in ended 1909 . In the same matrimonial career of Anna Gould It Is before them securities valued at $58,- A contemporary commentator says: ess of Talleyrand, who was formerly the American public. For Instance, former la separated from his who wife, year he married a young actress named to since all all registered In his own was Countess de Castellane and before that hardly necessary speak, the 000,000, name, "There nothing in the abstract very little la heard of Edwin Gould, his was formerly Katherine the Edith who is Clemmon», Kelly, not related to the world knows how badly her marriage to reassure them In regard to his finan- of the will which was published by his Miss Anna Gould. On the Gould fam- wife and son. He Is a railroad official actress. Her numerous with disputes first Mrs. Frank Gould. to Count Boni de Caatellane turned out. cial standing, which had been ques- executors to indicate that he had left list Is a member of the British aris- with extensive Interesta In ily the roads dressmakers and milliners and house On the married life of George J. It ended in a divorce obtained by her tioned. It was possibly the most dra- a dollar to any servant or friend or Lord and the scion of with which hla father's name was and tocracy, Decles, furnishers other tradesmen and Gould there has never been a cloud, In 190). Two years later she became matic moment In. America's financial charitable, religious or educational in·* one of the foremost millionaire families closely identified, and he "stlcka to the women have furnished the basis of and the same thing may be said of Mr. the wife of Prince Hello de Bagan, history. stltutlon."

for an easier one In a land "overflow- ing with milk and honey." But contin- OUT OF PALESTINE GOMES AGRICULTURAL WISDOM uous cropping:, "soil robbing," through- an Evil From a out the centuries has taken the fertili- Attacking Ancient Scientific Standpoint > jCaSfik. ty out of most of the soil of Palestine. approaching the problem of the Besides, there Is Insufficient rainfall In •ocial evil, with Its allied wrongs most places. and crimes, from a scientific One of the most Important results of IN standpoint John D. Rockefeller, the three years' work of Mr. Aaronsohn Jr., and his associates are applying the In Palestine has been the discovery of principle that in no branch of human wild wheut Wheat as It Is grown in endeavor can anything be accomplish- the civilized countries of the world is ed unless the underlying facts are not a hardy plant It requires a soil learned and mastered. With this end rich in plant food, with considerable In view they have established the bu- moisture, and in other ways the plant reau of social hygiene. Their views and that supplies us with most of the "staff aims are laid before the public in a cir- of life" is not adapted to barren coun- cular recently issued. tries. In thinking over the develop- The promotion of the social health of ment of the wheat plant Mr. Aaronsohn the world through the diminution to figured that modern wheat must have the lowest possible dimensions of the come from an original stock of much terrible evil of the fallen woman is the hardier character. The problem, then, first objective of the bureau of social was to find that hardy stock. With this hygiene. There are no limits to the fu- in mind he discovered what proved ture ramifications of its work. It alms be later to wild wheat. to lay the ax at the trunk of all pre- He has been working with this plant ventable evil when the root system is and hopes eventually to develop a disclosed by systematic delving. With wheat that will grow and mature in lo- that end in view It will study the scar- calities of Palestine in which the soil lot sister not only as a malefactor, but is very poor and the rainfall Is lacking. as the victim of economic and social If this can be done it means that he wrongs. Its spirit is scientific and its will have a variety of wheat adapted to work will be thorough. As essential reproduction in all, or nearly all, of products of Its work will come reports the arid and semlarid portions of the on everything that produces the fallen United States and other countries. woman, as well as everything and In an interview recently Mr. Aaron- everybody that batten on her misfor- sohn called American attention to the tune and her crime. The "white slaver" fact that a number of years ago the and the black and yellow slaver, most University of Arizona agricultural ex- abhorrent of human creatures, will re- periment station decided to introduce ceive consideration. date culture, as the climate of Arizona The statement Issued by the bureau r.mr is more nearly like the climate where say s SHEPHERD OF PALESTINE. dates than is other grow naturally any "In order to make & real and lasting the principle may prove applicable to United States. part of the improvement in conditions a permanent all classes of criminals and lead to lines HAT, Palestine, the land The found no 'yjK γ university difficulty In organisation should be created, to of action not only more scientific and % M whose development ceas- growing dates, but, so far as the scien- make continuous warfare, generation humane, but less wasteful than those ed thousands of years tists in charge of the matter oould de- after generation, against the forces of at followed.'· * W present ago and which has lain it was termine, Impossible to mature •vil. As the Initial step in the winter of Miss Davis' position has already been nnder the hand of the unprogresstve them. Thousands of dollars were spent 1911 the bureau of eoclal hygiene was named. She is considered an able, IWMoslem for thirteen centuries, teach in fruitless investigations and another formed. Its present members are Miss earnest woman. John D. Rockefeller, the United States something about ag- of appropriation $26,000 had Just been Katharine Bement Davis, superintend- Jr., the prime mover in the bureau, ia riculture Τ 8ounds preposterous, doesn't voted for the purpose of tackling again ent of the New York state reformatory the only son of the Standard Oil mil- It 7 But It Is true, Just the same, and the of the to problem bringing fruit for women at Bedford Hill·, N. T.; lionaire. He was foreman of the spe- the United States department of agri- when Mr. Aaronsohn visited maturity Paul M- Warburg of the firm of Kuhn, cial grand jury appointed two year· culture testifies to Its truth. the station, at Tucson, and the matter Loeb & Co.; Starr J. Murphy of the ago to Investigate the "white slave" From Palestine came lately to the was placed before.him. New York bar, and John D. Rockefeller, traffic in . Starr J. United States a man to tell the Ameri- The whole matter was made clear at Jr. As the work develops new mem- Murphy is a prominent lawyer of New can farmers what he had learned In Slice. He told the university investi- bers may be added. York, counsel to John D. Rockefeller, the Holy Land that would be benefi- dates gators how are matured in Ara- "One of the first thing· undertaken Sr., and also the adviser and assistant cial to them. This Aaron Aaron- man, bia. The Arabs dip a piece of linen by the bureau was the establishment completed it Is hoped that the labora- of the latter in hie philanthropies. Dr. eohn by name. Is a member of the an- cloth In a vinegar, cut off bunch of at Bedford Hill·, adjacent to the re- tory will be In position to recommend Abraham Flexner Is a prominent phy* cient race which held Palestine from Sates, wrap the cloth around it, hang formatory, of a laboratory of eoclal hy- the treatment most likely to reform the siclan and Investigator, whose reports the time of the exodus from un- It In an Egypt up airy place and allow it to giene, under Mies Davie' direction. In lndlridual, or If reformation in lra- on the medical schools In this country til the Babylonian He Is In a few captivity. Sry. days the dates become thl· laboratory It 1· proposed to etudy po»»lble, to rv__ permanent cui- and In Europe are well known. The the director of the agricultural experi- translucent and the tannin, whloh from th· physical, mental, social and todial car·. bureau sent him abroad to make a ment station at Haifa, estab- make Palestine, the dates astringent, disappears. moral eld· each pereon committed to "Furthermore, reaching ont beyond searching and exhaustive Inquiry into lished by wealthy American Jews. are The dates then ready for use. The the reformatory. Thl· study will be the Individual· Involved, It 1· believed the subject of the social evil before is- In the time· Palestine waa fer- tested early inJversity the method and found carried on by expert·, and each case that thua important contribution· may suing Its recent statement to the pub·* tile aa well as the t and was holy, Juatlfylng good enabled to announce will be kept under observation for from be made to a fuller knowledge of the Ho. He Is a brother of Dr. Simon Flex* promise of the Lord that the Israelites hat It could and grow mature dates thr«e week· to three month·, a· may condition· ultimately reaponclbl· for ner, director of the Rockefeller Instl* MBON AARONSQHH Mould exchange their bard Μ Ια u Arizona, Egypt TANCRED DAYOQA, b· required. .When th· diagnosi· is Tic·, IX Ull· e»p»rim«pt 1· «at·