, 1885-05-21
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Mr.. Could gets through his work as
do managers generally, by the use of
one 10 i've assistants, whom he directs.
Gould IS an early bird. He is up before
s in the morning, and by y he has
skipped over to the West Side Elevated
railroad and is on his way down town.
MIR. Gould detests carriages and hacks,
and he does not enter one unless rom
PEELED to do So. Al his o1.ce in lower
Broadway he finds his partner. Wash
ington T.. Common, his confidential is
sistant, =. L. Morosini, and his son,
George Gould. There are in Mr.. Gonld's
oaice two or three young men who make
themselves generally useful in writing
letters and following directions. They
have opened the 100 or more letters that
have been directed to Mr. Gould, and
have smoothed 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 as he thinks necessary Mr.. Gould
hould see. The others he attends TO
himself
The twenty or thirty that remain then
occupy Mr.. Gould's attention. The first
may ask if Mr.. Gould would like to put
money into a new copper mining com-
pany in Michigan. He reads il care
fully, takes up a pen, and writes mo"
on the letter. That means that one OF
the young men will reply to the writer
thanking him for his kin1 offer to make
Mr.. Gould q stakeholder in the company,
but regretting Mr.. Gould's inability ut
preset to avail himself of it, etc. The
next letter may be from the commander
of Mr.. Gould's yacht, saying that
she has smashed her machinery, and
must be fixed right away. Another
grab is made for the pen and something
like this is written: Have her towed
around to John Roach's and repaired
soon as possible-must To done in six
days. Almost any n else who owned
80 VALUABLE a piece Of property would
make a visit to her, and spend half
a day looking her over, and ~ascertaining
whether 81, 900 could not be saved
by sending her to the man that made
her: but Gould has no time to do so.
He has not time even to write his in
structions TO the commander. The
third letter has another terse sentence
OF instructions written upon it, and so
| VII AhAObkn NhJ tnlnt HnO. 1uCu lutl
are handed over to the clerks who write
out the answers in full.
BY this time the visitors begin to
gather. They are halted In an ante
room, and George Could or some of the
people connected with the Office ascer-
tain on what business or for what pur-
pose 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 ia q
hurry. II their er1and seems legitimate,
they are asked to step inside, and Mr..
Gould listens to them and dismisses
them and the subject with a wave of
the hand, or disposes of their business
through a clerk. If Gould is trading
actively he keeps jumping up and run
ming TO the ticker while talking with his
vi TORS, and he keeps a very sharp eye
on prices while ~transacting business all
day long. He does everything without
the slightest flourish or theatrical effect,
an Is quietly as though it was of no
Importance whatever.
In an hour from his arrival he dis
poses Of everything demanding atten-
ton, and he skips up Broadway to the
Western Mon building, where he has
another Office, and where a fresh batch of
important business awaits attention. He
rattles through this with the same ease
and rapidty and hurries out to attend a
meet ng OF the Wabash directors, which
over, he steps back to the lower Eroad
way ofte and finds a score of persons
waiting to see him. These are soon
scattered, and it is lunch time, so over
70 ! ~clmonieo's he goes for a brace of
chops then makes a trip to the Mer-
camille Trust company, where yet an
other string of questions must be de-
eided. And 80 it goes all day long.