Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-16
JAY GOULD AZ WORK.
How the HALLWAY kiug Manages to Dis
pose Of Iiis Vast Business,

iticd ObScrrcr. He keeps the run of
the business of each of them, and at
tends also to the care OF the 500, Co.,
900 that he owns. To do this requires
an immense amount of work, but MIR.
Gould is a manager of no mean ability,
and hC does vast amount OF work
with the same ease that almost all pco-
pie do little work. There is connected
with all great corporations some man
who has the details of the entire busi-
ness of the corporation at his instant
command. They are men who have
learned this detail through long famili-
artv with the work. Gen. Eckcrt
knows every in and out of the Western
Union Telegraph company. lie can
tell instantly whether the company has
n line to Hastings Centre, Montana,
and if not how long time and what cost
will be required to stretch wire there
Supt Touccy, of the Hudson River
railroad, knew every foot OF track so
perfectly that he did not hesitate an
Instant when it was flashed to him that
Sing Sing convicts had captured a
train running through the prison
grounds and were escaping on it. lie
tclcgraphed to an agent ut town four
miles below; "Opcn the switch and
turn train No. SO into the Hudson
river" and the station agent obcyed
orders. The managing editors OF the
big newspapers know every tour-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
Mr.. Gould in the same manner has
thousand letters and questions to an
swer. He gets through his work as do
managers generally, by the use of o.e
to tive assistants, whom he directs.
Gould is an early bird. He is up before
: in the morning, and by he has
skipped over to the West Side Elevated
railroad and is on his way down town.
Mr.. Gould dctcstS carriages and hacks,
and ho does not enter one unless com
PEELED to do so. At his Office in lower
Broadway he finds his partner, Wash.
ington +. Connor. his confidential
assistant. G.. 7. Morosini, and his son,
George Gould.
There are in Mr.. Gould's office two
or three young men who make them
selves generally. useful in writing let
ters and following directions. They
have opened the one hundred or more
letters, that have been directed to Mr..
Gould, and have smoothcd them out in
broad sheets, and have piled them one
on the other in convenient form for
reading. Mr.. Morosini first goes
through this mass OF correspondence,
and from it takes such letters MS he
thinks necessary Mr.. Gould should see.
IN, ,tb1r. bn pttruI. tn himself I'm,
twenty or thirty that remain then Occu-
py Mr.. Gould's attention. The first
may ask if Mr.. Gould would like to put
money into new copper mining COM
pany in Michigan. lie reads 1t care
fully, takes up pen, and writes NO
on the letter. That means that one Of
the young men will reply to the writer
thanking him for his Kind offer to make
Mr.. Gould stockholdcr in the COM
pany, but rcgrettlng Mr.. Gou!ds ina
blity at present TO avail himself OF it,
etc.
The next letter may be from the
commander OF Mr. GouId's yacht, say
ing that she has smashed her machln.
cry, and must be fixed right away. An
other grab Is made for the pen and
something like this Is written: 'Ilaro
her towcd around to John Roach's and
repaired soon as possibIc-must be
done IN six days. Almost anyone else
who owned SO valuable a piece OF pro
pcrty would make visit to her, and
spend half day looking her over. and
ascertaining whether -, 900 could not
be saved by sending her to the man
that made her; but Gould has no time
n Ip 40 He has TINA avon A Nvrit 20
his instructions to the commander.
The third letter has another tersc SEN
tence OF instruction written upon 1t,
and so on through the entire pile.
Ticn they are handed over to the
clerks who write out the answers.
by this time the visitors begin to
gather. lhcy are halted in an ante
room, and George Gould or some Of
the people connected with the office
ascertain on what business or for what
purpose they wish to see Mr.. Gould,
and it is decided then and there
whether Mr. Gould should see them. II
they come to beg, as scores OF persons
DO every day, they are sent on their
way IN hurry. Ii their errand seems
legitimate, they are asked to step inside.
ana MT Hou.a listens to them and dis
misses them and the subject with a
wave oil the hand, or disposes of their
business through CLERK. If Gould is
trading actively he keeps jumping up
ana running to the ticker while talking
with his visitors, and he keeps a very
sharp eye on prices while transacting
othGr business al! day long.
lie does everything without the
sAghtest flourish or theatrical effect,
ana Us quietly aS though 1t was of no
Importance whatever. In an hour from
his arrival he dlsposeS VI everything