The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-15
YOUNG GOULD.

YOUNG GOULD.
He u Said to Possess Much OF HIS Fa,1erss
financial Ability.
The young bloods of the stock ex-
change are waiting with considerable
anxiety for the first appearance Of Mi.
George Could among them, writes q
correspondent Of The Boston Herald.
Mr.. Gould, who is the eldest son OF the
king of Wall street, within the past
week purchased aseatin the exchange,
paying for it $4,000, and on Thurs
day afternoon he was put through the
examination which everybody has to
pass before he can be admitted as a
member of that lively mob Of old and
young boys. Young Mr.. Could an
swered all the questions satisfactorily,
and he may be expected to enter the
board-room about Monday. Tho brok-
ers have fixed up an exceedingly lively
reception for him. 1t is known that
there is nc place in New York where
vigorous goings-on r carried to such
an extent rs they are in the stock ok
change here. The pulling and hauling
to which the members are subjected at
certain periods and under certain cir
cumstances fully equal anything of the
kind seen in the desperate football
matches of Harvard and Yale. The
other day when G. P. Huntington be-
came a member, he walked down to
the door of the board-rocm and started
to 60 in, but one of the brokers in the
center of the floor yelled, "There he
isl' and the others set up instantly
such a terrific shout that Mr.. Hunting
ton stopped in dismay and went over
to his Office. He has aot yet appeared
personally upon the floor, because he
is afraid Of his initiation. 1t is, how
ever, unlikely that he would be much
hurt, as the brokers, with all their
roughness and tomfoolery, are notlike-
ly to do any serious damage to an old
gentleman like him. He has always
prided himself upon being an athlete,
and he is likely to make q very inter-
esting tussle with the first ono or two
Of the brokers who jump upon him
with q view Of giving him his initiation
to the board. The end of it will be, of
course, that, after some considerable
wrestling and knocking about, young
Mr.. Gould and his associates will cure
their bruises with internal applications
OF an exhilerating, il not exactly sooth-
ing, nature. MI. George Gould is re-
garded as a nan of great promise by
people who have watched him during
the past two or three years. 1t is said,
indeed, that he inherits much of the
great financial ability Of his father, and
that he is fully fit to step into the old
'gentleman's shoes whenever that per-
sonage may arrive at the conclusion
that the time for his retirement
has come. There is a wide diff
ference between the younger genera
ton of Gould's and the present set
Of Vanderbilts. Tho sons of the New
York Central millionaire are given to
slashing about and cutting Il great
dash in all directions. They drink in
ordinately of champagne, they carry
their heads very high, and their gen
eral attitude is that of persons who
think they are very far above the
range OF ordinary mortaIs. Mr..
Gould's children are, however, all of
them exceedingly quiet and refined.
They all have the deep olive complex
ion and flashing black eyes of their
father, whose unostentatious methods
of life are adopted also by them. Mr..
George Gould is somewhat taller than
his celebrated parent, and the two are
constant companions. If the old gem
tleman is over the ticker in his office,
George is always at his side watching
the figures as they are reeled off, and
gathering from Mr.. Jay Gould's con-
v%ersation the significance of the dips
and plunges of the market. Two or
three times a week l run across father
and son in the theaters. Both of them
are much attached to operate enter
tainments, and almost every night of
the regular season they IA be found
at the Metropolitan. On the off nights
n is apt to catch them at some fare
ical entertainment. Mr.. Jay Gould is
generally looked upon as some saturn
inc parsonage who finds no JOY in any
thing that strikes other people as be-
ing highly humorous. This a wholly
mistaken view of his character. He
laughed almost necessarily at Mestay-
er's ridiculous piece called ave, Us &
Co.." and l have seen him vcciferous-
w applaud the ~comicalities of Harry
Dixey in "Adonis." MI. Washington
Conner, who is Mr.. Jay Gould's part
ner. told me not long ago that he be-
lieved George Could would develop
into a financier at least as brilliant and
daring as the present swartby genius
of Wall street. The first formal ap-
pearance in the stock market will be
made in connection with the post he
has just purchased in the exchange.
When asked concerning his private
fortune by the committee charged with
investigating his application, he set
the sum down at $4,000. Young
Gould has speculated a good deal on
his own hook in the street, and has
made enough money in the past few
years to take care of himself in good
style and to lay away quite a solid
sum for future use. He hash drawn
upon his fathers capital, excepting for
the modest amount with which he
started, and the progress he has made
has been due entirely to his watchful-
ness of the market and his own judici-
0us investments. 1t is a matter of
pride on the part of both the Goulds
that no tip has yer passed from father
to son, and that the young man has
made his way without taking advant-
age of the paternal knowledge of the
situation.
A Neglected Industry.
The chief reason why grape-growing
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