Salt River herald., 1878-11-09
SALT RIVER HERALD.
Saturday. November 9. 1878.
JAY GOULD.
Some of the Characteristics of the Great OperatOr-A Man
 Who Trusts Nobody.

He is a queer little creature, this Jay Gould, small in frame, scarcely bigger than puny boy of sixteen, with black beard. black hair. black eyes and shrinking, cowardly way about him. And thorough coward he seems to be. You remember when one of his dupes fell upon him a year or two ago and beat him and threw him into an area, Gould's ouly thought seemed to be to run away as fast as he could. There was none of that manly warmth about him which would have made even Dominic Sampson or William Penn himself turn and grapple with such an assail- ant. Gould's methods of operating are just as cowardly and subterranean as you would expect them to be, ju lg- ing from a good look at his face. It is said that his own partners are ob- liged to watch him as carefully as if he was one of their opponents on the street, and not one..of themselves. He is quite as likely to undermine them as any one else. No one will doubt this who has read Charles Francis Adams, Jr's, account of the gol con spiracy of 1868, and remembers that wonderful scene he describes where, after the bubble had burst on Black Friday, and gold, having gone up like the rocket, had come down like the stick, and Fisk was pacing up and down in his office, crazy with excite ment and seeking in his frenzy tD send up the price of gold again by buying all that WIS offered him. H, bought millions and millions for which he was no more able to pay than he was able to buy the State of California. Millions kept pouring in from some source or other, and Fisk kept buying, buying. And in the back office was GOuld,-quiet, dark, sardonic, pacing, too, as he thought of the failure of this tremeelous scheme and sending out stealthily, every few moments, orders to sell all his gold to Fiskl It was in this way that he poured out all his millions on his part ner, andibroke the back of that elas- tic person-or would have done so if his back had been honest enough to break
 HIS FEAR OF NoToRIETY.
 An amusing story was told me not long since by man who had at one time intimate relations with Gould. It was when that strange partnership was in full swing, and when Fisk ap- peared every day at the gang plank of the Boston steamers dressed in an admiral's uniform, and surrounded by a glittering array of steamboat captains and promoted deckhands in blue and gold. It was when Fisk used to contrive to get himself inter- viewed at least once day, and always had a brass band as close to his au- gust person as possible. One day the stewardess of one of these great boats recognized MT. Gould moving quietly about in the upper saloon, which was almost empty. She thought she would at least please the great man by recognizing him, and stepping up, said: How do you do, MT. Gould ?" The hands of the little black figure went up in horror. Hush!" he said and then looking around, added in a sepulchral whisper, Don't ever do that again. 1 don't want to be known here at all, or to have my name men, toned. Don't ever recognize me In that way again" Here was a con- trast to the Admiral, the Colonel, the Manager of the Grand Opera House, the head of the Twenty-third street harem, and, incidentally, the leading spirit of the Erie railway.
 A MAN WHO TRUSTS NOBODY.
 Gould is said to carry the same manners elsewhere. Let some one wait upon him On business. II he does not know or recognize the caller, a mask seems to gI W .n An instant over his lace, add Ac d..~s nIs bead in almost as turtle does. Then If he secs that it is familiar race, he emerges with all Oh.' and tiie iur- ties head comes up. ue ls secretIvc in everything. Il is said ol Nali street that, When GJu.d Is vIsIoie there, they know tile Weather wall pe | good, for he has q habit when hc Is about to explode some Jig m.Ic Vi withdrawing to his Fin aTclue \ house and UdrrOwiAs tIerc uni It Is all over. He is so careful not to con tide in any member oI the human species besides himself, that When he has great operation in hand 1t Is said that he has as many as three or four telegraph operators i'll different rooms in his house, whom he keeps locked up, and among whom he di- | ,,;los m, tl,n 1isnnfshns so th1t up cup