San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11


which they do not. They live as
TRANQUILITY as any pair Of small trades
people having rooms over their shop
| in Sixth Avenue. Their residence is
at the northwest corner OF Fifth
Avenue and Forty.seventh street, a
spacious but plain house OF the regu-
| lar pattern, not distinguishable from
hundreds of others in the fashionable
quarters. 1t is very comfortably and
elegantly furnished, containing a
number of books, pictures and engrav-
ings, but with no attempt at display,
no SAVIOR of money. ,.l ,...,..
Gould very rarely gives even dim
ner party, and when he does it is
rather commercial than social in its
bjects. His pleasures are few; but
among them is the theater, where he
may frequently be seen, especially
on first nights, generally with his son
George, his eldest child, about fifteen
or sixteen years old. He drives too
with his boy in the park and along
the boulevards in very modest turn
out, but spends most of his evenings
in the bosom of his family-he has
four children--and among books, of
which he is fond.o He is often seen
at the Windsor Hotel, kind of stock
and railway exchange, on the d.
agonal corner, where he meets many
operators and money magnates. They
talk much to him, but he rarely speaks
more than few words at a time,
though often asserting and dissenting
by a motion of the head. He must
get a good deal from them; they can
get little from him. "a nroH -'!79h
In point of manners he is a model.
His discipline and breeding are per
feet; his face is as calm and unde-
cipherable as the obelisk in the park.
The most cunning mind reader could
not tell by the closest study of his
face whether he was making or los
ing millions. He always speaks in
very low voice; he never gesticulates;
he was never known to laugh; he
ne yer even smiles. But he has not
preoccupied or distracted air; he is
simply grave and everlastingly serene.
Instead of assuming, as operators
often do, to know more than is in his
mind, he pretends to know nothing;
he acts the part of a financial agnos,
tic. The one man who is acquainted
with the monetary and commercial
condition of the country better than
any man in it, will often effect to be
ignorant of the commonest financial
fact. If anybody asks him about the
markets he will be likely to reply that
he has not been doing anything for
some time, and has no means OF
forming an opinion. If anybody in
quires why money is tight, he will be
apt to say that he is unaware of the
circumstance, and refer him for IN
formation to somebody who is only
an agent or mouthpiece of the Mephis-
topheles of Wall street. He will ut
ter these transparent fctions, too,
with so sincere an air, in so gentle
and polite tone, thatfor the moment
the bearer is in danger of believing
him. Overrunning with affairs as he
always is, he is never abrupt, impa-
tent or irritable, even to those who
interrupt and bore him. Generally
when at his office in lower Broadway,
he is hard to see, but when he is will
ling to admit any person into his
private room, he is as courteous as
brevity of speech will allow.
Almost everybody knows from por-
traits and caricatures how Jay Gould
looks; but when seen he is found to
be younger than he is generally
thought. He is not yet fifty, and
his slight, short figure, and the alb
sence of gray in his black hair and
full whiskers with mustache adds to
his youthful appearance. His dark
eye is full of intelligence, and his
aquiline nose is decidedly intellectual.
The indications of his mouth and chin
are concealed by hair; but they are
unquestionably strong. He generally
dresses in black, and lisa pink of neat
ness without the least tendency of
dandyism. He is a plain liver; does
not use tobacco, and seldom drinks
stronger than claret. While his
health is good, he is not very robust,
and he takes excellent care of him
self, conscious, perhaps, that each
added year of his existence is worth
millions. He is generous with money,
making it a rule to give at least 500
to each and every charitable object
brought to his notice. He prefers to
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