Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-11
THE GoULDs.

a.he SON of His Distinguished Father
Not a Chip OF the Oid Block-0ossip
About the Boys Mother.
Passing through Dalmonico's uptown
nlace last night, says a special corre-
enoudent of the Pittsburg Gazette, saw
a group of young men at one OF the tables
emoking cigarettes and drinking. My eye
WAS caught by the peculiar pallid com,
nlaxlon of one of the party-''etiolated,'
mink. is the right name for it. Looking
,,ore closely | saw that the young man OF
Dqllid hue was Jay GOuld's son, George
His companions were all more or less
bronzed. healthy-lOOking young fellows,
md the contrast, perhaps, made this son
ami. father look worse that he otherwise
would have appeared.
When jaw Gould took him into partner
chin in his stock exchange nrm OF w. II.
Conner & Co., , years ago, the young man,
o,though low in stature, was robust and
viyprous But he began 10 keep later
hours. Everybody knows that there are
many gay fellows among the stock brok-
nrs and the Young man was naturally
,,oda mueh OF on account of his name
oitbouqb he is SAID TO be personally very
,jsaaant. unassuming fellow, albeit not q
fi,ht cOnVersationalist. Like most
,,onnc men George has been attracted by
;bo theatre. and be has given some not
able Deht S0upeTS to pretty actresses. IL
"a NOT known, however, that be has per-
1,i+tad himself 10 be ''stuck" or fascinated
hv ony one Of them. Still he is said to
AID pleasure In the green-roOm of
theatre rather than on board the ocean
sfesmer which his father is pleased to call
a YACHT. or on his own tidy sailing yacht;
and the gossip mOngers say that Gould
senior masses anxious hours in the fear
mat his Oldest son may not develop his
own powers of application and taste for
affairs.
Cured to you that in all the talk about
him and his very peculiar methOds-talk
that YOU hear in the club and in "the
street" and see in endless columns of
INSTRUMENTATION never hear Mrs. Gould
mentioned? 1t is wonderful how CON-
pletely this lady has withdrawn from
public view. Like her husband, she seems
TO have no social aspirations whatever,
but lives completely In and for her family.
The society mugwumps OF New York have
never had chance to patrOnlze the
Goulds not to curry favor with them, nor
bestow social favors in indirect return
for points" on the market. as they
have with some other magnates OF Wall
street: the GOulds shave had no use
tor these people, Now, however, that.
MR.. GOULD's LITTLE GIRLS
are shooting up toward young ladyhood,
women are beginning to gossip and
wonder whether the Goulds will not try to
"get into society," for the sake of launch
Ing their daughters.
was talking yesterday with a neigh.
Dor Of the Goulds at lrvingtOn, and he
told me some interesting things about
Mrs Gould. Although he has passed
several summers in that vicinity, he does
not know that he ever saw the lady, but
ne learned these things from casual con-
yersations with residents at various
times Whenever any Of the poorer resi-
dents Of the village or vicinity are sick,
Mrs Gould is always told by some of her
servants. She never sends them mOney;
indeed she never sends anything. She
personally visits the family and brings a
lot Of cut flowers from her garden, or if it
be winter perhaps some hot house fruit as
present. II the family is in need she ex-
tends help, but never, they say, gives
money; she thinks that the gift of money
pauperizes the receivers. She buys cloth
ing, food or whatever may be necessary,
and gives them good, practical advice, but
money never.
popularity is that she will have moth
ing to do with the people from the churches
in this work. Sometimes a lady or two
from one OF the local churches will make
avisit to the house OF a sufferer so to get
there While Mrs. Gould is present. When
this happens Mrs. Gould departs sud
denly and calls at that house no more, al
though she may send delicacies thereafter.
She has a hatred OF the tattling, scandal
m0ngering type OF female that is often
found IN connection with church vista
tlous Of the poor. The mass of people at
l-yington thinks a great deal of Mrs.
Jay Gould, but all the good that
a regiment of such wholesome chart
table women cOulddo in lifetime would
90 but q short distance toward alleviat-
ing the misery spread among thousands
OF families by her husbands peculiar
methods in the manipulation of railroad
stocks.