Connecticut western news., 1885-01-28
NEW YORK NOTES.

uuCCS, bne lbG6 I SUtI 1doOiO, NOOAS' Law, James Archibald, Captain Ryn- dus, Scuyler Colfax, and others.
 The sketch includes many prominent men of to-day, like William H. Van derbllt, Gen Grant, James Gordon Ben nett, Jay Gould. and others.
 Jay Gould's career is unparalleled fol it's daring, it's peculiar method, its heart lessness, but for its success in money point of view. Hundreds and thousands of men have lost fortunes in Wall street, but in scores of instances what was their loss was Gould's gain.
 All are aware that stocks have depre- 'ciated during the last four years, but only few know what an enormous shrinkage it is, yet the table of quota tions which appears at the close of this article gives an idea of it.
 We quote portion of the letter found in the Hartford Post, commencing with the paragraph =
 EXTINCTION NOTES.
 The removal of the l. road office to this place gives business importance to what has hitherto been merely sub- urban retreat Irvington, as most ot our readers are aware, derives its namt from the author, who in 1886 erected {, cottage there. The place was then S, remote from thIs city that when Irving attended the Brevoort fancy ball he start ed in the morning in his carriage ant drove all day. In 1850, soon after tht opening of the Hudson river railroad, { company was formed to purchase large farm and lay out lots near the authors residence. This was the beginning oi Irvington and though the speculation proved failure the place grew steadily owing to the demand for country resi- dences, until prices reached fabulous rate. At present the entire country is occupied by palatial dwellings and il costs as much to live there as in New York. u.s
 GoULD's PLACE.
 Lyndhurst Jas Gould calls it) has { peculiar history. It was begun forty years ago by the late Philip Paulding who inherited fortune and determined to make o display. He erected marbl, structure with an oriel window fronting the Hudson, but he never finished th' plan and after his death it passed througl several owners, the last of whom is Jay Gould. He added large tract of lant and also an extensive conservatory ant thus in the course of forty years th' place has reached rare degree of per lection. Among Gould's neighbors i John T. Terry, who succeeded B. D Morgan as director in Western Union As he is one of Gould's tools his resi- dence here affords opportunity for ire quent confab. It is now supposed tha the rem wal of the l. road office wa projected some time ago and that Gould \ absence was selected as the most suita ble time. As this movement is solely t avoid taxes, the authorities will endea1 or to en orce their collection, and tn public will be interested to see the re suit of the conflict
 GOULD FACTS.
 Gould was born in 1886, and hence now 49. He has kept abreast with Wa street operations for quarter century which is more than can be said of an other man-not excepting Commodor Vanderbilt. When Gould entered th stock market he was bright eyed, LII daunted young man of 24, and then | seemed ready to grapple with the king of finance Since that time what an e. perience he has undergone. He ht pHssed through two panics great severity Q873-1S76), and has seen ed to thrive through the worst misfo tunes. When he first appeared in Wa street Commodore Vanderbilt was u king of the stock market, with Augusta Schell and Horace F. Clark as his ass ciates. These have passed away and have Daniel Drew, Edward D. Morga Moses Taylor, William E. Dodge, A. Jerome, William B. Astor, Marshall ( Roberts, George Law, Anthony Mors Thomas Dickson, John M Tobin, all George Osgood and Daniel Torrenc the two latter being sons-in-law to Cor modore Vanderbilt. Three well-knoV stock operators have during this inte val died by violence-Jim Fisk, who W assassinated, and W. R. Garrison ar Webster Wagner, who were the victin of railroad casualty. Amid all this wol of death, which changed five hundrt millions of capital, Gould has held h onward way until he is now 8 far gres CT Wall street power than any man the time of his advent in the fnanci world Gould's future is now a pro lem whose solution will interest u world. He stands on dizzy heights, ,ar there are those who prophecy fate lii that mentioned by the poet-with b the change of single word
 '' He left name at which WoH str,
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 To point moral and adorn o tale. |"
 STOCK MUTATIONS.
 Gould's experience includes son wonderful changes in the stock marke He crushed New Jersey Central dow