Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-21
GoULD's TRIP.
The Railroad King Going Abroad TO see
Strange Countries.
Some of Ills Peculiar Traits Of Character
Exhibited in Print.

New York Timcsl
The King will amuse himself. Jay
Gould IL going abroad, strange coun
ties for to see. When Gould was
feted and toasted by company of his
| flattering admirers, once upon time,
he coniided to them that IL could not
he expected that man so rich as he
should keepon making money because
he wanted IT,. He explained that his
operations I'm Wull-street were under.
taken solely for the purpose offurnish.
| ing him amusement. 1t pleased him
to hear the blcatings OF the shorn
lambs. He snatchcd n savage Joy
| from the lamentations Of those who
were crippled by his occasional raids
upon the stock market. He did not
need the money, not he;
but II was II pleasure to pile up use
less and supertluous millions, just to
show that IL could be done. And when
! his faithful messengers had brought In
To his Office from their receptacle fifty
and odd millions TO show to u casual
caller, he asked, "ls there any more up
stairs, Morsini? ?" ~ II housewife
might say, is there any more cold
ham in the pantry, Mary Jane?"
Some men make money because they
have nothing else to employ their
time. Othets because they arc mlser-
~ and never satisfied with their ac-
QUESTIONS. Mr.. Gould has rugged the
market and has plundered corpora
tons simply for the amusement of the
missing 6onr IIe IL vour true Sv-
barite. Re long since made more
money than he really wanted. But
he has rnioved gcitinp money AWAY
from others nrcciselv ns one of The
old-fnshioned robber Harous enjoved
swoopiun down on peaceful travellers
strippinp them OF their poods and
whining them until they howled
right merrily. After n certain point.
Gould said, his Accommodations were
merely incidental.
But even this diversion has finally
palled upon the taste of the rich man.
He no longer takes pleasure in the
anguish of the shorn lambs. and there
are very few corporations left for him
to wreck. Stock holders now know
him so well that they drop their prop
erty and flee ut his approach and he
is denied the old delight of bringing
his craft and skill to overcome their
resistance. Nobody dares to oppose
him, and existence becomes monoto-
nous to q man of whom IL NAV be
said nobody differs with him because
he has such strong opisions and wears
such heavy boots. The rich man has
exhausted his own country In more
senses than one and he would go
abroad. He has used the boundless
continent as his playground and the
great commercial enterprises of the
Republic as his playthiups, Now.
with the wrecks of his broken TOYS
about him, he turns his ewes to other
and foreign lands and reaches out his
hands for experiences. Why should
he not roo With the loot OF innum-
erable corporations and mvrjnda of
stock raids I'm his Golfers ne NAV bu;ld
and enuin II, ei In aervo bis nieasurn
and comfort. No more ROYAL ~. i'm.
perial notentate cnn travel os Could
can If Ina chnse Thia choico ra,ro
sentative of honest toll con 90 forth to
the nation. of tho Old WnrIl nonyn,,od
Inv mnuni,;conra 10 wbi.h tLe ,yor'
room. romn M - Ncnoti.n Dooda ,n ,,ia
hc Inf q tn,vdrv show Va comtents
hin,sn,f with {, nna.ut a.n,n, yach,
thc f,stesf ~ Ito hniId aan,t MA ~,
c,st nf which No rnon ann o.t;r,atn
Tin kin~ will onuse hinself in +,
merelv rnv,i raahinn
pr,1.hl,v no nan o,,or uont ~, ,
lony vncotion foIIowed Inv an mnpv
wisnes far hia nnntinned onioynnan,
abroad no Mr. t,ouId ,vjlI drovy ne,nr
him when his Yacht oiides J"w, Tho
ahinin~ sons benrin% lie ,rao;an.
treight of cnnning wealth pnd nm.
T6n world NJ husi-
naos viii honn cor Mn, ,,a,at,nn 90
.eniovnhlo Inn he viii never want ~
come hnrl, Timid nponle Who w,kn
I'M q, night. md roncv ihnt thov henr
Inn hreSking into t4eir h,nE: ra;I-
road Offices and sofe de.osits n,nv
then sleen in neooe The steel, holI-
ers of lepitimnie business cornorntions
may breathe Treer when he IL gonn
and snndrv hard. ,yorLed iud~ea n,oI
then turS thnir ottnutinn ~ ~
nrnvers of clients vino hnva
nothiny but the iustice az tleir cjo;r,s
ia BRING into conrt The Inv md thn
LAWYERS may tnl,e ~ Iony vncation Eor
two wears 81, more there will ho no
nre.sinw demo,d for iniunct,ons ro.
rclvers mergers stays ~ nroroadiny,
intervenors ma the othar n,ocbi,,S'r,,,,
and chicnnerv of tbe conr,s III
new.pnners are now so well ,r,inaJ