The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-26
Gould. Vanderbilt and Field Declared To Be
in Poor Health-Difficulty of Ascer-
tanning the Exact Truth.
DOings of the Religious and Medical
Cranks Who Assail Gen. Grant.
Probability that Tom Grady May Succeed
s. s. Cox-Defeat of Society Organized
to Restrain the Liquor Business.
THREE MILLIoNAIREs.
Walt Street Decides that Could, Vanderbilt
and Field Are in Poor Health.

Walt Street Decides that Gould, Vanderbilt
and Field Are in Poor Health.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW York, April 25-The bad health of three
millionaires is the topic for Wallstreet talk
at the close of the week. The men
are Gould, Vanderbilt and Field, and the
stories told of their Interpretation are
possibly intended, primarily, to affect the
prices of stocks in which the three capitalists
are heavily interested. The truth in these cases
is at the bottom of well so deep that the job of
bringing it up to the surface is almost hopeless.
The most careful belief is that Gould is anxious,
for the sake of ease in mind and body, to retire
from strenuous business, and that he will do so
as sooH as his losses through the drop of stocks
after the Garfield assassination aggregating to
him Lot less than enty-threes millions, if the
calculation be based on the highest and
lowest quotations Of the securities in which his
wealth is chiefly invested-have been made good.
Goulds temperament IS intensely nervous, and
in order to save him from prostration the recent
trip in his yacht was deemed necessary. Since
his return he has worked very hard, not less
than eight hours day. at the most harrassing
operations The strikes on some of his railroads,
the new law compelling the burying Of his tele-
graph wires in the cities of this State, the Ger
tainty that his elevated railroad companies will
have to pay enormous damages to the injured
property along the lines, and the failure of stock
prices to advance as expected-these things
have combined to make the present period about
the most straining and depressing in his whole
career. He looks bad, and that is about all
that can be positively known of his physical con-
ditiou, save that he is under doctors care, and
admits that he means to seek recreation in
yachting as soon as he can get away from town.
Vanderbilt is unquestionably ILL., But there is
no good reason why that fact should have any
effect in Wall street. for he is not active there,
and pays only the most cursory attention to the
management of his railroad interests The peo-
pie in his Offices say that the only instance of his
personal interference within months was early
this week. when he undertook with success to
have the name of new street alongside tho
Grand Central depot changed from the one
which the Common Council had given to it An
annex is being built. To get site, authority
J was obtained to close short section of public
thorougnfare and open new one There is
rich and popular butcher in the neighborhood
named Hubbard, and, influenced by his friends,
the aldermen named the street Hubbard avenue.
that did not please the Vanderbilt people,
and they determined that Chauncey M.
Depew, the counsel for Vanderbilt. and noted
afterdinner humorist, should be honored in
place Of the butcher Vanderbilt was appealed
to- Depew is closer to him than anybody else
outside his own family. He not only authorized
the use of his name to secure what was wanted,
but went to some personal exertion in the mat
ter. The consequence is that the Common
Council has voted change of name from Hib-
bard avenue to Depew Place.
But Vanderbilt has for a month been confined
almost entirely to his house. He has been
missed from the road on which he is wont to
speed his horses His face shows an occasional
twitehing, and lack of mobility, which is said to
come of incipient paralysis. The assertion is
even made positively that he has had mild
stroke of that disease, and is in constant dread
of fatality from that source No balls or recep-
tions have been given in his mansion lately, the
picture gallery has not been opened to the pub
JIG. and the millionaire keeps sedulously out Of
sight. Dr. Fordyce Barker makes calls two or
three times week. and they are understood to
be On Vanderbilt himself though the physician
declines to say yes or no to questions
The third millionaire to whom Wall street has
assigned physical collapse is Cyrus w. Field.
That willy operator with Gould announces that,
on the completion of half q century of fnancier
ing. he now retires from activity He has resigned
from the directories of several companies, and
there seems to be no doubtfulness that, what
ever may be the fact as to his health he really
means to take rest His fortune is estimated
OF twenty five millions.