The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-06-25
GOULD AVID YANDERBILT.


New York letter to Albany Journal:
Jay Gould is hard working man. He
goes down TO Wall street early in the
day and stays there late. Not a three
days vacation has he taken IN Just q
year. He h. a Thousand bits of details
to occupy his at 7ntion in the manage.
ment of his vast fortune end the various
corporations and business schemes with
which he is identified. aud he is yet an
active trs Ter in ,he Wall street markets.
The past year has been trying enough to
men Of money, and Gould has more than
earned his vacation. Hardly one day
month Is this wonderful little man miss-
ed from has place. He keeps the run of
the stock market as completely as any
man could, knows Just what his brother
operators are doing, answers u thousand
questions as 10 policy, gives tWeRty or
ders 10 buy or sell stocks or bonds, sees
tny different men who have axes 70
grind, directs how u score of letters and
n hundred kilograms shall be answered.
eats n lunch, runs up 10 the Western
Union building and goes through the
same performance there, never for an in
slant in all this busy day has an instant
10 spare or quarter of an hour ON his
hands. NJ riding III the park for Mr..
Gould-he has not the time. When At
eDgth things are over for the day, Mr..
Gould geIs INTO she elevated railroad and
hurrIes home. Prest0i No business
now. Ins DAY Is ended, and the eve
Elpg is devoted 10 the family. MIR.
Gouid has slA childreD, and as the en-
Lre l1m.ly, with tie exception Of
GeOrge, the oldest SOD, stay at home al
most invariably, they nave NO end Of fun.
could never could endure society or So
Gal lie. he goes nowhere OF an eve
ming. His wife Is not in any sense q
woman Of society. She goes somewhat
with little circle OF ladies with whom
she Is Interested Ia the church, but you
never hear OF her at balls or parties
The Astors or Vanderbilts or the best
society folks IN town might send her in
VitalOns forever. She would not re-
spuHd 10 them. 1t seems To be u hobby
vi the family TO keep away from other
people; not but that other people are
treated whenever they are
met by the GOuids, for the GouIds are
as cO-tial anu as unatfec, ID and as we'll
mas1ered rs could be desired, but they
seem not 10 seek publicity Ii any man
htr, such as public places. Yet at home
or Oh iue yacht or wherever they are,
tasy are Is jolly as the joiliest, and
everyone who meets them likes
them very much. The entire
family are to 60 on the trip eX.
cept George aud they are to board the
} acht at Charleston, George is going 20
stay ut home aud run his fathers busI-
ness. nj
GOuld's everyday life IS in marked
contrast with VandsTbilrs. Vanderbilt
h passion for driving, and when his
health permits, which isn't as often as il
USED to be, he may be seen ON the road
OF an elterueUn. Business he has
oropE ID. He has sold the bulk of his
railroad sticks, aud what he holds he
owns aud retains for investment. He
has s. -rranged things that all the details
OF his necessary work is performed by
others, aud ne simply directs In a few
words what shall be done. His time
- ut has disposal, aud he is
constantly seeking how he may enjoy
Now he takes run IN sum
mcr 10 sara, ga. Next heard of he sails
Tor Europe. Then &c is b. * again and
Ia the White mountains. All he while
he is buying picture of horses OF SINUS
ing himself with the newest novelty. He
never gC.s doHd into Wall sire 81. a
booker. VINO should know, said the other
day that to his knowledge Ve1derbIlt
had not been in tue So Get for more thru
two years. Wall Street continues to be-
lieVe, however, that VIZ 7derhiIt IS an ac-
tive buyer snd seller OF stocks. His near
friends say that he is not, aud that he is |
Z :tually ~ much out of business es q |
man IN 7 1ssession of $150.O00,000 or |
$500 900 600 Gun possibly BE-. The VsQ- |
derb!its : q Lot such a jolly IJllicking
household as the Gouids, probably be- |
, tge- there q. < not 50 many EoGng folks |
10 keep the lcl gong, but there Is moth |
lug affected or dlsaGTs able about them. |
Ihey &c plain uutspuken. common sense |
M Ii aud women, vino enjoy the good |
To iugs OF lille to marked degTee, and |
who are not spoiled by the possession of |
ANY millions. They are very social. |
The Vanderbilt house Ii always full of |
visitors, and the family Is forever going |
to the theatre or opera. The head of |
the house has been in poor health this |
winter aud has i..eE kept indoors much |
more than ever before, and there have |
been other reasons why the family have |
not been 50 CAV as Ia former seasons. |
Yet the inclination of all Is to 90 aud en- |
JOY life and spend money. The Wander |
bats are very much better citizens, so far |
ss contributing 10 the cltY's affairs and |
social life, 'hsn are the |
GOulds. Vanderbilt has built and |
adorned and beautified and entertained. |
Gould has kept his doors shut and has
within them.