St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-27
SICK MILLIONAIRES.
New York Agitated over the Poor Health
of Gould, Vanderbilt and Cyrus
W. Field.
Little Jays Losses -Czar William Missed
on the Road-Field's Pile
Sized Up.
Religious and Medical Cranks Who
Have Annoyed Gen. Grants Fam
lily With Advice.
The Hero. Lively and Cheerful, Spends
a Happy Sabbath--Hfs Birthday
to be Celebrated.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, April 26-The bad health
of three millionaires is the topic for Wall
street talk. The men are Gould, Wander
bilt and Field, and the stories told OF their
Interpretation are possibly intended, pri-
marily, to affect the prices of stocks III
which the three capitalists are heavily in
terested. The truth in these cases is at the
bottom of a well so deep that the job OF
bringing it up to the surface is almost hope
less The 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 soon as his losses through the
DROP OF STOCKS
after the Garfield assassination, aggregating
to him not less than S23, 900, 900, if the cal
culation be based on the highest and lowest
quotations of securities in which his wealth
is chiefly invested, have been made good.
Gould's temperament is nervous, and in Or
der to save him from prOstration the
recent trip in his yacht was deemed neces-
sary. Since his return he has worked very
hard, not less than eight hours day, at
most harassing operations. He looks badly,
and that is about all that can be positively
known about his condition, save that he is
under
A DOCTORS CARE.
and admits that he means to seek recrea-
ton in yachting as soon as he can get
away from town.
Vanderbilt is unquestiOnably i'll, 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 people in his offices
say that the only instance of his per-
sonal interference within months was early
this week. when he undertook with sue
cess to have the name of
NEW STREET
alongside of the Grand Central depot
changed from the one which the common
council had given to it.
But Vanderbilt has for month been con-
fined entirely to his house. He has been
missed from the road on which he is wont
to speed his horses. His face shows an oc-
casional twitching and lack of mobility,
which is said to come of incipient paralysis.
The assertion is even made that he has had
a mild stroke of that disease and is in con-
slant dread of fatality from that source.
No balls or receptions have been given in
his mansion lately. The picture gallery has
nOC Deen opened UO IHe puDllc dllu
THE MILLIONAIRE
keeps sedulously out of sight Dr. FOrdyce
Barker makes calls two or three times a
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 who
announces that on the completion of half
century of fnanciering he now retires from
activity. He has resigned from the direc-
tories of several companies, and there seems
to be no doubtfulness that whatever may be
the fact as to his health, he means to take a
rest. His fortune is estimated at S25, ,000,-
OOn