Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-24
WAYS OF THE WICKED.
Notices of Gould. Vanderbilt, Sage, Hate
and Other Bad Rich Men.


Notices of Gould. Vanderbilt. sage, Hatch.
and Other Bad Rich Men.
lChicago Herald.l
The other day there appeared In n
contemporary a series of replies that n
well-known clergyman had received
in answer TO a circular he had sent
around to oil the well-known million
aires, such rs Jay Gould, William II.
Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Uncle Rufus
Hatch and others, asking them to let
him know, for the benefit of the rising
generation, what, if any, were the
favorite texts and notices that had
been their guide through life. and en-
abled them to make the fortunes that
they had acquired, and if any texts
learned in Sunday school had ever
been before them as shining lights.
The first received was from jaw
Gould. He writes.
Western Union office. Broadway.
New York, July Dear Sir: | am
most Internally buoy with the tele.
graph strike just now, and inspecting
remedies for sea sickness preparatory
TO my supposed voyage around the
world, which, between you and me.
won't extend beyond Long Branch.
that have not been able to reply to
your interesting circular sooner. You
ask me what my iavorite notices
have been that have conduced to my
success in life. Wells | have had
many that have always rung in my
ears. For Instance. Never pluck
the tail feathers OF pigeon when you
ca pluck its wings.o For my part
always sa When you ca'ch the
pigeon pluck every feather in its body,
tail feathers and ALL Another Is.
suck the orange dry yourself, and
don't trust TO another man To squeeze
the juice into your MOUTH In re-
ligion have always gone to the text,
God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb With these before him I
think a young man ought to do well.
Yours truly,
JAY GOULD.
7. ST. just remember that the re-
ligious text gave you is from Sterne,
and is not in the Bible, but it's the
only one | know. JIG.
Vanderbilt's reply is very character
istic of the man. His unseiiish, self.
denying nature peeps out in every
line:
60 Fifth Avenue, New York, 25th
July, 1883. Dear Sir--Maud ;. has not
been very well for the last week or
two. and some of those pests of society,
in the shape of poor relations, have
been bothering me for money, which,
| need hardly state, they didn't get,
or else | should have replied to your
letter ere this AS you are doubtless
aware, | didn't make the dollars; as
the old song says, Papa did it all;n
but what he taught me to lisp with my
childish lips every night after he had
laid the old boat up on the shores OF
Staten Island was, Billy, allus make
a pint His language was vulgar, but
| knew he meant point for even
then the old gentleman always
put his surplus money into
Wall street. Another of his favorite
sayings, later on, was. "looil out for
the little black man, ! thought he
meant the devil AT first, until discoy-
cred that it was only Jay Gould.
None of my relatives have ever been
bank cashiers, so | am sorry that /
cannot give you any Sunday-school
favorite motto was, is, and ever shall
be, "the public to be d--d.n Very
truly, WM. II, VANDERBILT.
ENNGbSt i'SiiuNht . lSplt NbS SHoi
| and to the point:
WALL STREET, July %, 1888 DEAR
| SIR:-I have no time to reply ut length
to your circular, as | have been
very much worried with to-day's trial.
and my son Perry has been bothering
me. The only text know is, think,
Solomous saying: at is a wise man
that knows his own father Yoars
truly, AUGUST BELMONT.
Russell Sage writes:
i Wall Street, July II, 1888. Dear Sir:
In reply to yours, have never taken
n whole text as my motto, but we all
know what an influence even small
word has had in shaping our destiny.
4 | heard a preacher once say, Put your
trust in me,n and he read from a
chapter that samuel called etc.
never trust in any man, but tooE
two words out of each text, putt and
"call," and / may say that have
never regretted il. Yours truly,
RUSSELL SAGE.
/ Uncle Rufus Hatch writes:
Wall Street, July -, lssS.-Dear Sir;
have no motto, but my favnrite story
ia the Bible has always been Pharaoh :
dream about the lean kineand Joseph
deal in wheat. Yours tiuiy,
RUFUS HATCH
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