Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-15
SOMETHING ABOUT JAY GOULD.
HIS Napoleonic Iactics-Goula's Persona
anne1rdNce.

HIS Napoleonic Iacttcs-GOula's Personal
appearance.
New York Cor. to Cincinnati Gazette
The recent decline in stocks at time
when money is so abundant, at first awoke
general surprise. 1t soon, however, be-
came apparent that Gould had turned
bear, and was making himself felt
through his varied agencies. Gould had
gradually thrown SO wide an extent of in
fuence over the stock market that it
| enables him to carry his plans into imme-
date operation. His regular broker
(Connor) is only one of many
which are in his services. Other brokers
are employed by Conner himself for the
very purpose of carrying out these secret
schemes. 1t was in this manner that Gould
depressed the Elevated stock until it
reached the desired point, when he loaded
himself with all he could carry. He then
at once became bull, and the quotations
rose more rapidly than they had declined.
A vast amount of money was lost by those
who sold out under Gould's attacks, and
the advance on these very shares now adds
million or more to his wealth. 1t has
for ten years been Gould's rule to be on the
watch for weak stocks. When he has made
a selection he forces it down to a low
mark by series of we'll concerted at
tacks, and then makes heavy purchases,
and forces the market up as easily as he
forced it down. Only man of the high
est order of genius can carry on such a
system, and the fact that Gould succeeds
is the greatest proof Of his vast natural
powers. His method IS precisely like
that which Napoleon found so success
full. The latter massed his forces on
the weak point of the enemy, and,
having crushed it, soon obtained COM
plete victory. He then formed alliances
with his former enemies, who were COM
PEELED to serve him. The time came.
however, when this game turned against
him, and Gould, too, will yet meet his
Waterloo Like the former conqueror of
Europe. he only bides his time of doom.
Gould IS the most inferior of all lead
ing business men in point of personal ap-
pearance, and stranger would take him
for a Bowery clothes dealer rather than
a railway king. He has the rapid motion
of counter jumper, the air of spruce
tratficker in cheap goods: Both front
and side face are inferior, but the lower
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beard, so intensely black that it suggests
artificial means. Gould leads hard life.
He labors with close application, and is
driven by the pressure of his engage
ments until he may be considered mere
bondman. He has no leisure, mo society, no
reading, no recreation, but is simply I'M
der the whip and spur of necessity To
this has been added the consciousness of
impending danger. He has a body guard
of detectives to protect him when walk
ing the streets, but he spends most of
his time in his office, being as secluded.
as possible. The sense of danger is GER
tainly very natural. The fact that Major
Selover pitched him down the stairs into
the barber shop shows that personal vio-
lence may be repeated, and this gave
deeper power to these threatening letters.
l hardly think such man to be envied,
Notwithstanding his immense wealth.