The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-04
,JAY GOULD
something About tho Railway Magnate a,
He Appeared in Boston.

something -iDout tno halfway MegnAte al
He Appeared in Boston.
Imagine mite of man, hstless AMI
shaken in appearance, weighing but it'll,
over 100 pounds, with no particularly intel
Gsent expression, and in fact, with hardly
manifestation of any kind of power or force
in his whole showing. Physically, indeed
he is weak, and it is said of himself and
another distinguished New York capitalist
that they have but one lung between them
Mr.. Gould came into the New York and
New England meeting and took his Sent
upon front settee, near the platform. He
,louched down upon the bench SO that his
head rested upon the rail of the settee back.
and he entered INTO the proceedings yery
much as a stunted farmers boy is wont to 10
in a country church, so far as position and
apparent interest in the exercises are con
cerned. During the routine he was thus
partially hidden from many would.be in
spectors who were peering anXiously in his
direction, his neighbors on either hand
overlapping and outbulking him. When
tic formal business was over aud snencb.s
were order, cries of Gould! Gouldh' fIled
the hall, and the little great man worked
himself into q standing position. If he
had been q country pumpkin essaying n
first speech in village lyceum, he mnst
have been laughed at as he stood there
His faced was wreathed in shippers, and his
whole manner was an exaggerated sinner
When he at last did speak, his utterance
was Iaoored and Insulating and
still simpering, his voice light
and with no taking quality, and
improved by many to get a good look at
Gould. He appeared nervous and wotc%.
tul, regarding the close approach TO himsel,
of any stranger, as though not entirely free
rom apprehension that, even in such a
place, and surrounded by friends, some
enemy might be seeking him. 1t is said that
since the attack made upon him some time
ago, he has never appeared abroad without
the company of u striker" who Would
protect him If danger threatened and he
would certainly need such a heller If ot.
tackled. even though, as is probably tho
case, he IS IN no degree coward physically,
SO much for the personal appearances
OF man who made his first entry
INTO New York city during the Crystal
Palace exhibition, and who, until the
year 1869, had never been reckoned other
thah a poor man. True, he was a mere
iDoy al the time OF that first visit, and all |
hopes and expectations for the future were
IN mahogany box under his arm, and |
priced inordinutely--a wonderful mousse |
trap, that was all His mouse-trap brought |
nm nothing but trouble, and it turned, as |
y mas turned one thousand times even in |
AeW YORK, that mouse-trsp, even though |
It be a wonderful affair, is Of no account IN |
less it be found in the right hands, These
are not the traps which Could was best fit |
le1 to manipulate. Mr.. Gould is now !
torty-hve, years old and his friends
apparently admire the statement |
there was not sympathetic or winning
feature about him. lnvOluntarily his crit |
him now for the first time |
said to themselves This is not the mighty |
Gould of the Stock Exchange; the dictator, |
almost absolute, of railroads worth $50, OOO,. |
lO0' Yet this was, indeed, the very man, |
TINS slight built apparent body of weakness, |
'i iorty-ilve years continuance. His reply |
20 the calls OF the assemblage was, so far as |
words were concerned: II will make you a |
speech after our first dividend is declared" |
tie will never keep his word, whatever |
,urns, for he can no more make n speech !
than he can weigh ton. The meeting
'ver, the company sauntered and loitered |
about, exchanging words before |
;etting upon the street again.
This was the golden opportunity |
when they say he has made for himself |
5 10000 for every year he has lived in the |
world. They probably under-rate him in |
his direction, and his solid individual |
wealth is, without doubt, greater than
.hese figures would represent. But on |
earth there is probably no harder worker |
no greater slave to q fortune, no more persist |
mt follower of destiny than this same Jay |
Gould. In business affairs he is an abnor- |
NAL development of humanity, and all his |
are strokes of genius How |
yer, it does not now appear that this sort of
hing is to die with him, for he has son |
reported to be of greater genius than his
father, in the same directions.