New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-26
PETER GOELET'S ILLNESS.
4 BJSY LIFE NEARLY ENDED.


THE ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE THOUGHT 10 bh
DYING-REMINIsCENCEs OF HIS BUSINESS 'N'hhi'
his PKCULARITIES.
pater Goelet the well-known millionaire
o,d owner Of a great amount of immensely valuable
ral estate is living dangerously i'll at his honse al broau
way and Nineeenth-st., and is thought to be dying
Mr. Goelet mas been sick 10 days A week ago last
Friday from exposure TO the untiney sho"-''oih vi
tot date he caught cold which at first did not promise
a. no osneciollv severe On Saturday though complain
i ~ weakness and discomfort. he was able to attend
IN his business but on Sunday be seemed so Hucn
fo.bcr that his physician Dr. Mark"e' was cdiieu'
That afternoon, by the doctors aoVlcc' l'o N'"'
10 bed and has not risen SINCE Oh on
dow symntoms OF pneumonia appeared, which
ranidly developed, and on Tuesday IL was e'-
i,, that his chances OF life small the disease De-
Co., acgravated by age and consequent weakness since
tbe latter part OF last week his death mas Deeu ou!
nossblc and since Friday evening almost ho"rY eA
nected Friday night he seemed to be sihAhg apulS'
and his friends and his physician Thought lie couu ho'
live until morning. During the folo"lns ai''i"ooA n0
,vel little and lie passed Saturday night more COM
-,.,J, II was felt Yesterday that he might dle nj
,oet any moment or that he might linger through
t,i,bt His recovery has been thought scarcely pos
sible from the first appearance OF pneumonia
Known TO old friends shrcwd ana upright business
- 90 a multitude OF tenants in different parts OF the
,t "a landlord and to those somewhat familiar Win
,,t,,o,ts "a one of the richest men in the State,
po,or Goclet has been known 10 the general puphc
chiefly ~ the eccentric gentleman who had demonstrated
t rural life IN the heart of the metropolis was possipIc'
stroroers visiting the city gazed In astonishmeh' al
enc nbcosants storks, peacOcEs, ana the COW, MI
oet,s Latest favorite all seemingly as lhueh ~ nome
mid the roar Of Broadway as Their owner was
cd ros,dcnts OF the city never rrcd OF COM
,non,inc ON the singularity of such mooe Oh me-
Tho Goclct family is of French descent ana the name
ro formerly spelled Goelette The founder OF 'he la
~ Is country was Jean GOclette, HuguenOt refugee
ho came TO America in 1900 and who marrying eigh
tc.p wears later the daughter Of John cannon Ne"
yok merchant of 20 years standing became the ancts
tor of long line of business men, III inc hie Vi 'ho
lost century Peter GOcct, the grandfather OF inc TWO
hrotbers SO long known to the modern ety. estaDSheu
himself In the hardware business in partnership WIN
peter r. Curtenius at No. As Hanover-square' under
Tho sign Of the Golden Key. After the year l'oo'
H continued the business alone at the same Phee'
ord the liberal advertisements OF his wares
an tine newspapers OF day attest the extent OF HIS
business and the enterprise with which II was
The property thus built up for his grandsons refer anu
pohert was largely increased by them carly III their
mercantile career through juccious real estate pui
cbases and some of finest buildings In the city stah
on land belonging the Goeets Peter 6oeet owns the
land on which the Windsor Hotel was buit large part