Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-05
JAY GOULD At WORK.
How the Railway King Manages to Dis
pose Of His Vast Bas mess.

Jay Gould is president or director
in more than twenty great corpora
tons, writes a correspondent of the
Utica Observer. He keeps the run
of the business of each OF them, and !
attends also to the care Of 800. .000.- |
900 that he owns. To do this re-
quires an immense amount Of work,
but Mr.. Gould is manager of no
mean ability, and he does a vast
amount OF work with the same ease
that almost all people do o little
work. There is connected with oil
great corporations some man who has
the details of the entire business of
the corporation at his instant COM
mand. There are men who have
learned this detail Through long IA
miliarity with the work. Gen. Eek
ert knows every in and out Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
He can tell instantly whether the
company has line to Hastings Cen
tire, Mont, and If not how long time
and what cost will be required to
stretch wire there. Superintendent
Toucey, Of the Hudson River rail-
way, knew every foot Of track so per-
fectly that he did not hesitate an in
slant when it flashed to him that
Sing Sing convicts had captured q
train running through the prison
grounds and were escaping on it.
He telegraphed to an agent at town
four miles below. 'tOpen the switch
and run train No. 80 into the Hud-
son river" and the station agent
obeyed orders. The managing edi-
tors Of the big newspapers know
levery four-line item of news that is
printed in New York City, and they
know instantly, from long experience,
Just how to get news and how to use
it. Men in such places have vast
amount of routine and detail to at.
tend to each day. Mr.. Gould in the
same manner has thousand letters
/ and questions to answer. He get
through his work as do manager'
: generally, by the use of one to fiv'
, assistants, whom he directs. Goult
is an early bird. He Is up befor
eight in the morning and by nine b
q has skipped over to the West Sid
elevated railroad and is on his wa
down town. Mr.. Gould detests cal
riages and hacks, and he does nc
enter one unless compelled to do sc
At his Office in lower Broadway b
finds his partner, Washington T
q Connor, his confidential assistant, {
P. Morosini, and his son, Georg
10 Gould. There are In Mr.. Gould
l. Office two or three young men wh
le make themselves generally useful i
writing letters and following dire'
If tions. They have opened the Oh
10 hundred or more letters that hay
ID been directed to Mr.. Gould, and ha,
smoothed them out in broad sheet
h and have piled them one on the 9th
" in convenient form for readinI
,f Mr.. Morosini first goes through th
IT, mass of correspondence, and TAX
:. from it such letters as lie thinks ne
essary Mr.. Gould should see. II
others he attends to himself. II
~ twenty or thirty that remain tn
s. occupy Mr.. Gould's attention. II
er first may ask if Mr.. Gould wou
ig like to put money into new copp
o. mining company in Michigan. I
at reads it carefully, takes up pen al
r. writes "no" on the letter that mea
'c' that one Of the young men will I
~ ply to the writer thanking him
at his kind offer to make MIR. Gould
We stockholder in the company, but !,
no GREETING Mr.. Gould's inability
KS present to avail himself of i, e
'ss The next letter may be from the CO
'ts mander of Mr.. Gould's yacht, sayi
ey that she has smashed her machine
en and must be fixed right away. A
eo other grab is made for the pen a
lat something like this is written, "Hs
me her towed around to John Roac
up and repaired as soon as possible
OF must be done in six days" Aim
DEB anyone else who owned so valuabl
elr piece of property would make VI
'no to her and spend half day look
ors her over, and ascertainlng whet
leo 900 could not be saved by send
'er. her to the man that made her;
tor Gould has no time to do so. He
get not time even to write his instructi
me to the commander. The third lei
one has anott er terse sentence of
ior struction written upon it, and 30
ing through the entire pile. Then t
are handed over to the clerks, ,
last write out the answers in full.
en- this time the visitors begin to gait
ex- They are halted in the ante-re
# a and George Gould or some of
of people connected with the Office
nal, certain on what business or for v
apt. purpose they wish to see Mr.. Go
md. and it is decided then and Il
icle whether Mr.. Gould should see th
oc- If they come to beg, as scores
.ack persons do every day, they are
ost- on their way In q hurry. II
uin, errands seem legitimate they are
pare ed to step inside,and Mr.. Gould lis
um. to them and dismisses them and
subject with wave OF the hane