Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-15
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
A German Bar0n's FOurteenth-Street
Beer.6arden-The Fascinating
Jessie Maillard.
Jay Gould's Titled Body Sidney
Dillon and Russell Sase-Life
at the Branch.

emjnence was not altogether due 10 a lifting
at birth, but was somewhat owing to genius
IN the family, for he was 8 nephew OF Muhl-
bach, the novelist. A very dignihed and
handsome man was he, and yet not ashsmed
of his busiress, for his name was letiered on
the iron. window, without the tile, but with
appended references to beverages and cigsrs.
The baron csme TO America a few gears sgo,
travelled about the country awhile, and theo,
in the midst Of a nights carousal, baTgsined
t, buy this resort. The proprietor was as
touisbed next day when Muhlbach came
with the money in hand 10 take possession;
bu', as the price was double the worth, he
did not delay the transfer. The story goes
that the baron had won the money
BY risking the remnant of his for
tune at faro; but be denies THE,
and says il was provided by his father on
condition that it should be used in come
promising business venture on this side OF
toe ocean. You are mistaken if you pre-
sumo that an aristocrat necessarily impsrts
an exalted tone TO the beer-garden which he
ruus. Indeed, from the respectable German
drinking place which it was when The baron
took il, il has become a gathering place for
vicious women. They must be well dressed
aud reasonably polite, it is true, but their
characters may be taitered and rude.
JESSIE MAILLARD.
A drinker at one of the tables was a girl
not far within the baron's loosely drawn line
as to demeanor, but she was handsome in
person and dress, and had a dash of manner
quite disqualifying her for ladyship. In
snort, there was no mislaking her social
status. She would never have been picked
out by sympathetic readers of the case OF
Jessie Msillsrd as that heroine, whose
wrongs at the hands of Joseph L=vy have
not been accompanied in print by any ac-
count of herself. She was u regulator ir-
regular-soveriiser in the Herald. Some
| times she estensibly offered her 9 rvices as a
teacher OF the piano or Languages, and again
| IS a letter writer or amanuensis; but she in
variably hinted at employment by men e1-
clusively. II was in this way th at che made
with Levy an acquaintance which developed
into sentimental ~attschueat, then a dispute
as to whether he ought 10 marry her, and
finally a prosecution Of him 10 court. She
had WYOMING ways and several philanthropic
women eapoused her caJse, but Withdrew
their countenance on learning all about her,
| However, il she was a mercenary adven.
| luress, Levy was so much meaner about
money, and 80 hesrtless in his treatment o.
her, that she got nearly all of the sympathy
that the affair aroused. She was tried on 8
charge Of perjury, the theory Of the pros'cu'
1 tlOn DGlQI Ia at, kOf the puG pOsc VI c4kOItlQS
money from her lover, she borrowed a baby tC
take the place Of her own dead enc. See die
so we'll before the jury, and Levy 30 badly
that her acquittal ensued without much ref
erence to the evidence. Since then she has
been leading a more openly Careless life thar
before. CO.. Spencer, her counsel, now tell
me Of a queer phase OF her case. she hai
just been paid several thousand dollars By
The Levy Brothers, the firm 10 which JOSEPH
b .lopga, and at the same time he has beer
dropped from the partnership. This courst
was taken, the lawyer explains, in order t
win back lost favor with their customers
Jessie was a Jewess, and her wrong" seri
ouslv damaged the trade of the L.vys will
The Jews throughout the country. By thu
amply recompensing The girl, and getting ric
of the young man, they commend themselve
10 the good rrsces of their people, who ar
informed of the facts By circular.
A GoULD's BoDY-GUARD.
There were plenty Of reputable people il
the baron's beer garden, though most of then
we're males. The count whom l mentione,
was one of them. He was Count Morosini
an Italian, who had FURNISHED his Academia
title with such merits as bravery and patriot
ism as q follower of Garibaldi. That hap
pened ia 1858, and it sent him 10 America,
penniless and friendlees exile. He now hs
a fortune estimated at 100000 That fac
is enough TO make him interesting to tn
aversge American. How did he make hi
money? By attrition with Jay Gould. 500
after his arrival in this country, and Will
living on Staten Island, he saw a mob OF boy
pounding a young man. He went to the i'm
perilled chaps rescue, and effected il by
lively and plucky use Of his tremendou
physical powers. He was then, as now, O
big physique, and Il trained athlete. Thi
was a lucky encounter for him, for the CRATE
full object Of his care proved 10 be 4 son @
Manager Morris, of the Erie railway. Mex
day he was given a clerkship in the com
papy's Office. He was still there whe
Jim Fix and Jay Gould capture,
Ere. H. became Gould's private eec
Rotary, and his body-gusrd as we'll. Goul
is fearful of attack in the streets, and nc
without re son, for one day he was knocke,
into an area by Mai; selover, whom he ha
exsspsrated by a trick in stocks. But NOR
than o~nslaughts from Wall street loser
Gould breads assassination by some cranl
Therefore, ne employs Morosini in a doubl
capacity of secretary and guardsmaD. The
are together nearly all of the time ths
Gould spends down town. Nobody else knox
Gould's secrets, and by using the knowledg
in judicious stock operations, in such way
as do not involve unfaithfuiness 10 his EN-
ployer, be has made bis millions.
SIDNEY DILLON AND RUSSELL SAGE.
"There are two men" said a Wall stree
fnancier to me, ".ho have become million
aires with Gould-not by following b
operations advisedly as in the case OF Nor
sini, but by essentially aiding him in then
I mean Sidney Dillon and RUSSELL Sag,
Each has accumulated wealth which / hsy
heard estimated at as much ss $4,000 90,
and certainly can in neither C Sc be less tina
SO 600 900. Gould is not a self-reliant mai
in spite Of his enormous success. He is cleve
in deviaing schemes, alert in detecting thei
strong and weak points, and sufficiently ur
s%crupulous to carry them out by means fai
or foul, but he timldly mistrusts HE per'oni
abilities, and could accomplish nothing with
out aggressive men at his side. Such q par
ner he had in Jim Fisk. Jay conceived, an
Jim executed. During several years sfe
Fisk's death, Gould used a number of me
as associates in different speculatiops, and b
DEVELOPED a habit of throwing them asid,
like squee zsd oranges, as soon as their juic
had all been extracted. They were Iittl
fellows. comparatively, and he found IT eas
to serve them in tina. unhandsome fashion
But the extension OF his speculative bushes
snd his failure TO acquire elf-conhdence, lie
him to attach two men OF a s)rt to suppl
the elements of brain in which he was def
cient. These were Dillon and Sage. d.
lon YVES q master of all the laws relating I
Corporations, and to him Gould inirusted th
a~lI-important legal problems involved in hi
great railroad and telegraphic feats OF az
QUESTION. Sage was an expert in stock
job6iog, had accumulated probably bali
million, and was quite able TO go shea
alone. And Dillon, toe, was the possesso
OF what in Old times would have been re
gsrded as q great fortuns-a million or II
Well, these men we're intellectual giants, bt
side whom Gould was in some respects
pigwy. He couldn't fool them, and probs
bly, never tried. He used them IN multipls
irg his own millions, but not without givin
them recommending shares OF the proht
Taus they nave vastly enriched themselvs
10 serving him. Aside from business cor
~nectior, they are rot in sympathy with hlr
or each other. Dillon makes a hobby OF ar
and is going TO build in Fifth avenue a res
dence which, in decoration and furnishing
will surpass in combination OF richness AM
taste any OF the Vanderbilt houses. Sage
exiremely pious. At all events, he Is re
lisious. He gives bouuteou.ly to churche
and charities, and his gifts to Cornell I'm
versity aggregate hall a million"
!, AT THE BRANCH.
Business and pleasure are alike nearl
suspended 10 the city, and one must go as Ia
"a L9pg Branch to ind a great deal Of eithe
: Nor il he bu-iness there coufoed BY an
means TO the process Of pleasure. That
the resort Of speculators and brokers, becaui
: it is within daily reach OF towo, and the
/ men carry down the bay with them evei
: afternoon I'll of their scnemss. Bargains al
: concocled, and often contaminated, ON Il
= hotel ~verandahs, and gambler king dream
| of the loungers are of plans for future spe
~slatioe. But the women are wide awak
while out Of he'd, and their visions asleep r
, Ia,e rs.her 10 spending money than to gellir
il. For them il is all 8 display Of dress dos
= here. Their cosrumiag looks, to q man, q
a samsness Of fluffy white, though 1 am tru=
, worthily Informed that there is a wide dive
sity in quality asd style Occasionally l 81
q dress That is distinctive enough 10 fix n
, uutrained attention. Sometimes this effe
Z is produced By color and sometimes |
: shape. In one instance, when suppress
/ eIggles followed 3 girl ali the way down
; long hotel cosrider, zad the merry scorne
were of her Own sex, I knew that / was rig
E in regarding her gsr5 as eccentric. She ".
tall, slim, and in herself commonplace. H
r gown WAS made Of light yellow Saline, huge