The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-19
A Strike of the Laborers Employed on
the Millionaire's TarrytoWn Farm.
itful and Uncertain Temperament of the
Man of Money, and His Habits When
Living at His Country Place.
Iints of a Serious Disagreement Among
General Grants Physicians.
DR.. ]. N. Buckley's Persistent and Successful
Pursuit of Spiritualistic HumbugS-New
Phase of Skating Rink Diversion.
JAY GoULD,s FARM.

JAY GOULD's FARM. .
a Strike Among the Laborers-Home Habits
OF the Millionaire.
Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, April 18.-Jay Gould's farm la
borers at his country residence, about half way
between Irvington and Tarrytown, up the Hud-
son. struck for raise Of wages, few days ago,
and didn't get it; so they Quilted the farm and
went to their houses They occupied little
houses in the hamIets If East Irvington and
Penny Bridge, which are not on the river, but
TO the east of Mr.. Gould's 700 acres. Mr. Gould's
difficulty with his men, who concluded that they
could not live on dollar day, was caused by
the manner i-i which he manages his farm He
manages It. and yet does not manage it. The
brains of the place, so far as management is con-
cerned, belong to Augustine Mangold the super
intendesat To him Mr.. Gould intrusts all de-
tails put when Mr. Gould has remarked to his
supe rintendent, in Napoleonic way, that the
iabfsrers are to receive certain price, Mr. Man
gold knows that that settles it. The men are
not to receive penny more, even
If they earn it hundred times over.
Thirty-two of them had been working all
winter..fo 81 day. When spring opened before
them harder work, they wanted more money.
, AL Of Mr. Gould's neighbors were paying from
$1.50 to $1.75 A dozen workmen in the big
greenhouses were getting $40 to $50 month,
and Mr.. Mangold $l0O Wouldn't Mr.. Mangold
give TO them what they earned! Mr.. Mangold is
. model for painter of genre pictures Latin
names of flowers run off his tongue but he does
not know anything about human nature, except
ing Mr.. Goulds human nature. He was educat-
ed for a gardener in Berlin, came to America
over twenty years ago, and went to work on the
same place where he is now. He was greatly
shaken up by the strike. To give the men what
they asked for ne did not dare, and so he came to
New York to hunt up Mr.. Gould. The old man
went to Wall street He does not visit that re-
gion once in five years. And he is worth over
500, 900. This fact his nephew Henry Ehrmder
VINO lives with him. vouches for. 1t was made
in iudicious local investments in real estate
Mr. Mangold did not find Mr.. Gould, and re-
turned home. Two days afterward came the
strike. Then Mr. Gould learned the condition
OF affairs, and gave the order to allow the labor
ers 80 EACH They have now returned to
work.
Mr. Gould to his employees seems to have fit
full temperament He likes flowers, but does not
care for any thing else on the farm. Everything
is left to Superintendent Mangold, who loves his
gardeners Latin. his flowers and trees, and his
improvements better than he does his employer.
When the superintendent thinks OF some new
thing he does not consult Mr. Could but goes
straight ahead with the project From expert
ence he knows that such is the best way. 1t Mr.
Gould sees the result and doesn't like it, he says
so in few words. and Mr. Mangold's work goes
He hac q Of cat-
tie, and stables with seven fine horses in them,
but Mr.. Gould does not know whether the cows
are Jerseys or Holsteins. He is content if the
milk he is fond of is of the richest, and the
horses which take him over the MacAdam road
way to and from the railroad station are feet
enough to exhilerate him. The horses have no
pedigrees ar 4 their names are not in any book
of record.
and eating supper, to wander through his green
houses. If with visitor he talks stream of
words about the size OF the greenhouses, and
the floral prizes he has. which no one else in
America can boast of. The greenhouses cover
two acres. Under the central mosque-like dome
are 325 kinds of tree palms. Some of them are
the only specimens in North America In an
other department is the largest collection of air
plants in the United States There are crotons
from the Figi islands, including all the
species in existence but two, and Mr. Mangold
is after them. The blooms of these air-plants
Mr, Gould especially likes to have in bouquets
on his dinner table. Such bouquet is priceless
Some of the curiosities in plants are ferns, from
their resemblance named elephants ear,
moose horn, birds nest and deers horn ferns;
Egyptian water lilies, scarlet rod and blue; lace
plants, fiat leaves which look as though their
interstices were made with pen-knife, leav-
spaces, and Japanese persimmons Of deep orange
color. single ripe peach, as large as those sold
for five cents at street stands in August, hangs
from fragile stem, and is tied up in network
of string A large space is taken up with grapes
in all stages of growth. Mr.. Gould's favorite
varieties are the Hamburgs and Muscats.
Most of the property was bought by Mr.. Gould
in 1880 from the George Merritt estate Mr.
Merritt made fortune in car-spring patent
The adjacent estates of Mrs jackson and Mr.
Benedict swelled Mr. Goulds to 700 acres. The
Merritt mansion he had lived in before be
bought it. 1t remains exactly as 1t was when
Mr. MERIT built it. and is so near the water that
from Broadway, which runs through the estate
half a mile from the Hudson and is a continual
ton Of Broadway, New York city, only a
tower of the grayish marble building can be
seen. 1t is covered with gables and piazzas
The Merritt property was sought for by num-
Der Of Roman Catholic prelates, who wanted it
TO build the what is now Manhattanville Con-
vent. They would pay 5000 900, but Mrs Mer-
sitt refused it. She liked Mr.. Could and offered
It 20 him. He gave $275, 200. It is said to be
worth 81, 500 900 to-day.
1t is likely that the strike Of Mr. Goulds
dollar-a-day men will be taken up extensively as
q text by kbor agitators. There are in the case
all the elements for agitation. Nearly all of the
men have families to support, and on such wages
could do it only in the most meager fashion. Mr..
Gould himself refuses to say anything on the
subject; but it liz said for him by his partner,
Washington Conner, that he is willing to pay
exactly the wages that poorer men do for similar
work He does not think that his millionairesm
ought to affect the question. one way or the
other. AS soon as he became satisfied that the
market rate was 81 so per day, he readily agreed
to pay It.
THE CASE OF GRANT.