The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01
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and talk TO him. He seems al ways holding
an impromptu levee. Among the men who
talk with him is Fred Vanderbilt-or rather
among the men who talk to him-for Jay
Gould only listens. II were Fred i would
keep away from Gould. The old Commo.
dore left his grandson Fred two million dol.
lars and Fred, through all the tudee OF
stock jobbing mas kept It William a., Cor
nelius and William K lost in the aggregate
some sixty or seventy millions this last year,
but Fred held his own and added 10 it.
Somebody asked him, il is said, how he kept
from loss when he owned 90 much Lake
Shore.
WELL" said the flial fuancier, I'VE
talked il up az home, and concluded that it
was good stock to bug: then l unloded the
old mani
Bot il Fred gives Gould his confidence,
Gould will get away with him, as he got
away with William II. and the other boys"
last summer, and thus partly retrived his
losses by increasing theirs. L stand and look
at hr. Gould, yielding to the general fasci
nation. 1t is most interesting face for an
artist 10 study. He speaks only in mono
sylables. He casts furtive looks about him,
then retires behind his black beard with q
suspicious shudder, like a hermit crab try
ing to back into a she'll that doesn't at him.
You look into his eyes, aud he isn't there 1t
all; he is in ambush, fifty miles beyond.
Just come in, deserving his own reception st.
the UHion League Club, where people will
be dropping in for an hour yet (it Ii only 12),
and wondering where is the new senator
they came to nenor."
II could not stay away" said Mr.. Evsrts
to Mr.. Field. Il can sleep better now that
have clasped your hand. Then | know faith
or would wish TO have me here.
The father" alluded TO was Jeremiah
Evarts. He lived in Madison. Conn, near
the Field homestead, and in 1896. he entered
Yae college with David Dudley Field, faith.
er of David Dudley, who is now the guest of
this evening. They roomed together
throughout the college course, and always
kept up the warmest affection.
I'VE occasionally visit Madison yet" said
Rev. DR.. Field to me during the evening.
-Four years ago, May 20, 1881, we four
Dudley, Stephen, Cyrus and went up
there and visited the old house where
100 years before, during the Revo-
lutionary war, father was born. His father
was Captain Timothy Fidld, of the Revolu-
ton. Then we went to the parish grave
yard and saw three hesdstones, side by side,
of three Immediate ancestors, aid, near by
the ancestors OF Mr. Evarts."
At 1880 David Dudley Field stood, a. he
had stood for hours, as straight and tall .
wild Indian. a pr0fare person might have
thought what fine pc liceman was forever
lost to the world when re became law
yerl" he has had three wives, oil OF whom
are dead. The first was a cousin of the fs-
nous Mark Hopkins. He attributes his firm
heath 10 temperance, regularity Of habits,
and exercise in the open air. Daily he walks
seven or eight miles-from Thirty-eigth
street TO his office and back. Mr.. Field Ia
now a Demcc;at, but he was origin ally a
Free Soiler, helped organize the Republican
party, and Thurlow Weed taid: Field aud
Greeley have nominated Lincoln" Other
members OF the Field family have won
prominence beside these four brothers An
other brother, Timothy, not now living, was
an officer in the United States navy, and
helped put down piracy in the Greer arcni-
pelago; and nephew, Stephen ID. Field, In
an eminent electrical engineer, his patents
covering the motor TO be used to propel the
II aims on the elevated aud other railroads.
David Dudley's only surviving child, Jean
ME, was married fifteen years ago to Cir An
taony Musgrave, an English publicist, aud
there Is no finer sight than TO see the grand
children harness him up with twine and
drive him around the summer lawn at
Stockbridge. w. A. CRoFFUT.