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...graceful 320-ft. yacht was built at J. & G. Thompson's shipyards, Clydebank, Scotland, painted white, launched as the Mayflower, sold to Manhattan Landlord Ogden Goelet for $1,250,000. Two years later the U. S. Navy bought her for $430,000, ran her as a dispatch & gunboat in Cuban waters. Thereupon the naval auxiliary Mayflower cruised in U. S. waters and abroad, carried such potentates as Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, made history as the signing place of the peace treaty following the Russo-Japanese War. In 1902 she became the Presidential yacht of Roosevelt...
Engaged. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime operatic Soprano Alma Gluck, half-sister of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; to Ogden Goelet, 30, once-divorced Newport & Manhattan socialite...
Tracing the history of Manhattan's housing problem, the Voice denounces such early settlers as Astor, Wendell, Goelet and Rhinelander, who, the Federal Theatre dramatists fervently proclaim, first grabbed the land and have snugly sat on it ever since. Less through their own foresight than through the industry of the masses, their land increased in value. And the masses got higher rent bills, housing that ran rapidly ramshackle...
Married. George Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, 22, 9th Duke of Roxburghe, Premier Baronet of Scotland, rich grandson of the late, rich Ogden Goelet of Newport; and Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, 20, youngest daughter of the Marquess of Crewe; in London...
Grand Duke Boris said Newport society was the most luxurious he had ever seen. His visit brought to a head the quarrel between Mrs. Goelet and Mrs. Fish, who were fighting over young Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet entertained the Grand Duke at her home. Mrs. Fish invited guests to meet the Grand Duke at a dinner and ball, but refused to include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry...