AN AMERICAN WEDDING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13713, 21 April 1910, Page 7

AN AMERICAN WEDDING.

FORTUNES TNT PRESENTS

United Press Association— By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 19. Mr Anthony Drexel, juri., was married to Mi6s Marjorie Gould in New York to-day. The bride's father gave her a house valued at £100,000, and Mr Drexel'e family gave her a large silver coffer for lines. Immense quantities of jewellery also figured among the gifts. Aβ ie their wout in such cases, Americana have been greatly excited over this match. the engagement was announced in January, the ''Daily Telegraph's" New York correspondent wrote:— ■ "Miss Marjoric Gould, whose engagement to Mr Anthony Drexel, jim., of Philadelphia, is formally announced, is to-day paying the penalty which fashionable New York papers invariably exact from an American heiress of great ■wealth and beauty on the eve of her marriage. Miss Marjorie is the daughter of m.t and Mrs Oeorge Gould, and granddaughter of the fabulously rich railway king and pioneer Jay Gould. Mr Drexel is the eon of Anthony Drexel, of' the well-known Amerivan banking firm. . Both families are as well known socially in London as in New York. It is recalled by the newspapers that Miss Marjorie Gould and Miss Margaretta Drexel, sister of her fiance, Iμ ye been 'engaged' at least in print, to more persons of distinction than any other American heiresses, and it 19, therefore, with a certain sense of relief and patriotic pride that the present engagement is trumpeted to an attentive -world this morning. To speak frankly, it was feared that Jay Gould's beautiful granddaughter might follow the prevailing fashion, and give her bend and millions to some suitor from Europe possessed of a big title and a heavfly-encumbered estate. "Mies Marjorie, srpurning the courtship/of princes and the lure- of coronets, has bestowed her heart on a jplain American, and the vest fortunes that both will inherit are to remain on this side of the Atlantic," is the triumphal announcement of the "New York American," which advocates an export duty, on the dowries of American heiresses. "An American triumph" is the comment of another great journal, which also resents the prevailing tendency of American heiresses to marry Europeans. And nearly all the papers publish beati-. tiful half-page pictures of Marjorie Gould and glimpses of. her beautiful home, called I, the Georgian Court," at Lakcwood, New Jersey. Neither the Goulds nor the Drexels relish such extravagant publicity, but it is the penalty always exacted here from great wealth, and .is invariably patiently endured. All Miss Marjorie Gould's suitors &T6 recalled to-day, and a faith* fnl record is universally . published of her "rumoured" engagements during the last few years.