AMERICAN HEIRESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 3

AMERICAN HEIRESS.

DOLLARS PREFERRED TO CORONETS. Unusual interest-attaches to the announcement, writes a New York correspondent, of the betrothal of Miss Mar-, jorie Gould, the beautiful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Jay Gould, to Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, a member of the great banking family of Philadelphia. Since her magnificent debut at New York a year ago, when her parents are reported to have spent .£IO,OOO on cotillon favours, the matrimonial fate of Miss Gould has been a source of constant anxiety to the "patriotic" press, which now proclaims that after twelve months spent in reviewing the most attractiveunmarried princes and noblemen of Europe, .this wealthy heiress, "spurning the lure. of coronets," has bestowed her hand on aii American. The betrothal was made known at a grand ball given at the Fifth Avenue mansion of the Goulds, which was recently redecorated ii} the most lavish .manner. Among the guests wero Lord and Lady Robert-Innes-Ker, Mr. Georgo Keppel, Major Collins, and Lady Evelyn Collins, Lord Aclieson, and the leading families of New York and Philadelphia society. The scene as the cotillon began was most brilliant. Favours ■in symbolical colours, indicating that the match was an American one, were s distributed, the ladies receiving Empire hand-mirrors in gilded wood frames decorated with ribbons of tho .national colours, and the men silk scarves. In the last figure gold pins j and rings were presented to each couple, 1 . and when the danca was ended every dancer received five costly' favours. Mr. Drexel is aged twenty-two, and at present is-engaged as a clerk at .the bank founded by his grandfather. He is a- son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony ' Drexel, of London and Philadelphia..