Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-08
GoULD's LAST
The New York Grand Opera
house and its Queer History

Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer.l j
jaw Gould has bought the Grand
Onerabonse from President Jewett, OF
the Erie railroad. The price paid Is
said 10 have been $9OO,OOO, when l
Joubt. This is the principal Cincin-
matt monument in New York, M
Pike built it on the profits OF WHISKY,
hut was a few years too early. II is
NOW At a corner of ono of the greatest
10 New York, and large
stores for the middle and lower classes
have been built around it.. There is
row of neat brick houses in the rear
also belonging to the Erie company IN
which Messrs. Waite and Barber, as
sistants to President Jewett, D9Ln
married men, live. Mr.. Waite Is the
SON Of the Chief Justice; In the same
row Fisk and Mansfield long disport-
cd. and Judge Barnard often made his
he'd there after the %operahouse per-
eormance. Barnard was the son-in-
law of John Anderson, the tobacco
man, who died only yesterday, leaving
a large fortune, and almost slmulta-
neouslv il is read that Mrs. Fisk OK,
nressed her gratitude to Jay Gould
tor unexpected kindness, and the
old operahouse becomes Gould's
property again. nnu
about Fisk's connection with this
nronerty. The Erie railroad occupied
a block of old buildings far down
town. so unhealthy from their situa-
tion ON the river bank that Mr.. Jewett
and his whole staff have recently re-
moved from them to a new block near
Rrosdway. Fisk and Gould put on an
nntown ferry for the Erie railroad,
which brought them to the toot Of
Twenty. third street. Looking IN That
vicinity for offices, Pixies edifce was
for sale. only a few blocks up Twenty
third. or within five minutes by street
car Of the ferry. There was so much
of the building that its offices took W
only the she'll of il, and left the big
auditorium undisturbed. Fisk pro
nosed. on his own private account, t.
become a theatrical manager also. do
had an idea that by,giving the people
fine amusements in that building he
would be advertising for passengers OF
the Erie railroad. Having been {
peddler. in the habitof driving through
towns with four horses, his notions o
business credit were not antagonizet
by the ~operahouse scheme; yet 1t un
o~uestionably took him into worsl
company, and gave him a darker name
and was ultimately q cause OF HI
death. He undertook to make HI
mistress, Mansfield, jealous by plrad
ING Montaland, a French opera-singer
as her rival, whereupon Mansfei'
chose another lover, aud the two an
moving Fisk, he undertook to brin
his irregular legal appliances to bea
against them, awakened the wrath Z
Stokes. and was shot. Stokes is stl
living, and | think is in about th
: same condition as when Fisk lived
| that is, always in pursuit Of the evi
q %nescent dollar.
Q The late Judge Barnard, who WI
. the son-in-law of John Andersol
= though they did not speak to eac
Q other for years, told me during h
Q trial under articles of impeachment
! Saratoga that the %injunctions
g launched in the Erie suits had reFe
le ence in at least one case to the
women. They we're proposing to c.
nose the peccadilloes Of Fiska FRIEND
st and. said Barnard: Il would hs
], rained injunctions on them rath
than have my friend shown up
Dt these strumpets." had never hea
Mr.. GouId's name mentioned at th
er period in connection with tie Ora
n Operahouse at all, except as an ofiC
| Of the road. He has bought the pre-
81 erty merely as a business investme
be giving some coal lands for it. I
is operahouse has been renting for Of
about $4,000 a year until receni
'se when, having made a good deal
money, the rest has been put up, {
VI it can now earn probably $4,000.
al was in that operahOuse on the nj
IS Mr.. Gould's interest was revolution
'ur by General Sickles and others. N
So than ten years have passed since I
lief time, and in the revolution Of thi
I'm. Mr.. Gould is worth nearly as IA
ian as the whole Erie railroad, and vi
4 0 out its debts, and is again landlord
me the Grand 0perahouse.