Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-05-12
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| D JAY GOULD, ,r
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prcuLIARITIEs OF THE GREAT MoDER,
opERAroR--IIis RECENT SPECULATION,
j AND PRESENT scHExEs-rnE cApruRl
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| Wall street 50 much derided b,
commonplace cities as the Devils Ex
change, is at this moment q mirror o
wna. ~ tasng p,sce everywhere, IN
s.eao oi = aoIen heroes IN its rantheoh
pnere ~ out one---ssy Touid' ne ha'
hca,iy proken Dsn'c, Drew, .he neae
Oh tne peais, MUM liatch, whose op
ernuon IN Micnignn southern STOCK u
100, hetted sI1'ioo,vVv, mas oeen OK
Pioucu py uouiu' anu mas sa'ied iol
ruroPe. nc"ry hccp mas .ueeh .nV'
years asieep unner eioo,oVV inauso
ieum, ana ms WE VIZ nus iound husband
ior ,hc es,vVo'ooo nc leit her IN Jpog'
9cmey, oi ueorgm' 'ahderolt ne
,onSer Vis"s .he street' anu ms stoch'
hoiu tneir hign inquire from tne inieg
rity Oh the man that Is, 'anderpii,
wiii not permit nis own stocks 70 ial
on ms irlehds' aithough the CONDITION
oi the Lake Shore haiiroad seems tt
be anything but sound. JIM FISK
died the brawlers death he coveted
Horace Clark passed away with tn.
serenity he had lived, ! saw Leonard
Jerome a few days ago lunching in thu
park, passe and Indifferent He wai
the Sardanapalus Of the street, ant
under his domination Pacific Mail sole
at 329, With more intelligence thar
any other broker, educated at Prince
ton, he lost millions oy iooiishly re
naming uptown at pleasure on th'
DAY his company held ITS annual meet
ing lie Is now worth three quarters
oi u miilion, which he husbands al
closely as no can and avoids the street
Iom Durant dropped out oil prom
nence very much Tor the reasonswhicf
exhausted Jerome-pleasure and OK
travagance'
There are no such times AZ present
Tor RAPID speculation as IN the perIoc
oi ine war ana succeeding u Dr
shelton, me hermit operator, who nsec
10 appear iatc IN the autumn irom hl'
country estate ana carry 1o,ooo shares
at a umc, bearing gold meanwhile, II
only . tradition now. Amnsa stone
ana Alexander Mitchell, who are great
railway oilieials, SEND IN ther order'
a' l'mes, put nave grown conservative
jay Gould, despite his great unpopu
larity has shown more tenacity, appli
cation and clearness of head.than any
modern operator He is not as tricky
as Daniel Drew, with whose circum
stantial aid he and Fisk contrived the
celebrated panic and riot OF Black
Friday, supposing the President Of the
United States had been gained to then
interest, through his sisters husband
Corbin. Corbin, an INSCRIPTIONS par
renu, had played false with Fisk and
Gould, and also with the President, but
IT took the resources OF the Secretary
OF the Treasury and enormous houses
like Barring Brothers to defeat Gould't
speculation. He merely locked up al
the gold he could get, and depressed
railroad stocks while pushing gold uT
to 100. Alter Fisk was murdered by
a fhiladeiphia boy could held the Eric
haiiroad until tne mysterious coup
aad1 oi ian Sickics was made, ana
inc Erie rresidents ONCE was carried
py storm uould then aodlcated, bn'
nc Is th0ught 70 nave come out with
very iuil hahds. Inere Is no otheI
way OF accounting ior his subsequent
capital ia i1
The tradition as to Gould is that he
was originally tanner in the Lehigh
Valley, but of New York stock, with
little Hebrew in it. He failed in
business and came to New York "a
make way, which he did by chance
trading until, with the rise of the
Tweed power and Fisk 8 fertile inven-
ton, he captured the Erie Railroad
from Drew, and consented to the series
OF frightful corruptions devised by Fisk,
who was the daring spirit. The fall
Of Tweed, tho Impeachment and ruin
Of Judge Barnard, and the death Of
Fisk by bullet, were consequences OF
that coalition, After Fisk's death
Gould was oif-color, but like Josie
Mansfed, he has since reappeared.--
His alleged domestic purity, temper.
ance and frugality gave him some foun-
dation TO rebuild upon. Anticipating
the present conflict between the Balti-
more and Ohio and the three Northern
roads, Gould spent his exile in cx-
tending his short and profitable piece
Of rail from Sandy Hook to Long
Branch, on tho Delaware river, through
Vineland. This brought him within
seventy miles of Baltimore by airline.