Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-16


derived from occasionally travelling with
him over the so.callcd Gould system Of
railroads But George was always a
handsome boy, and the home influence Of
most worthy and lady-like mother made
OF him young man OF very
pleasing manners He was at
first a fayorite with everybody who
came in contact with him, whether II be
At his fathers office, at the now deceased
Turf club, or behind the scenes Of the
theater. He continues still to be what is
called young man Of fine address by
outsiders, VINO call for him TO talk on
matters Of business, or whom he meets In
the park or at the Racquet club. But IL Is
now several years since he began 70 show
his claws in the inner sanctum Of his
fathers office. For the first TWO years he
was In the firm he behaved very mod
esily, and outside OF the fact OF his giving
occasionally some "puts and calls" to
theatrical managers, who admitted him
behind the scenes, neither his father nor
any Of the partners bad anything TO com
plaiu Of But step by step, Us he became
! Initiated, both in the routine and the de-
tail of his fathers and the firms business,
he began TO show pronounced DISPOSE
ton for framing the shop"
II seems that the first serious conflict
between him and w. T.. Conner was
caused by George Gould's demand that
the salaries Of the clerks should be re-
dnced and their luncheon cut off. But
Conner, as the head of the Grm, opposed
il point blank, saying that nobody more
than jay Gould needed trusted and loyal
employees, and that those could not be
got unless well paid aud well treated
For the last three years disputes Of this
and OF a more important nature occurred
very frequently, and sometimes resulted
IN George Gould and MoroSini not speak
ing for six months ut q timo. Connor'g
conflicts with the young man seem to
have been less frequent, for Connor had
his own room, and did not come IN con-
tact with him unless 1t was absolutely
necessary But Moroslni had his desk in
| Jay Gould's own room, and consequently
came IN constant contact with the young
| man Their relations were still more I'M
pleasant for Morosini when Jay Gould
/ either renamed up town or was out of
town, for the young man, dlsregardiug all
1 the courteses OF partnership and all the
| Intimacy of his father with Moroslni, was
| all the time sending him telegraph aud
| telephone messages, Of which no one In
! the office knew the contents. He oper-
ated the Instrument himself and with
closed doors He seems to have done so
even during the bank panic OF 1884, when
| Conner and Morosini were using all their
efforts to save him.
Such Il condition Of affairs could, OF
course, not last, and the partnership had
to be broken. That was the aim young
Could always had in view. He worked
systematically against everybody whc
had played any part In building up his
fathers fortune and who exercised any
marked influence upon him. Gen. Dodge
Capt. Hayes, Common, Morosini and one
or two OF the other intimate associates o.
Gould are no longer with him. 1t woult
be absurd TO suppose that the young MAJ
can take all these places and do the wOrl
of a number of very superior men single
handed. Yet he IL systematically work
ing at the isolation of his father and tn
concentration of all the power aud tn
whole OF the Immense fortune In his Owl
hands, RGGOLO
~
There Is kind of fog of bad musl
resting oh our city. There's mill u
town that sends out continual strear
of 10. They call It the Casino. The mis-
rests on everything. The singers bio,
log-horns, put they wear snort dresses
solomon, VINO nus nice llltle Valeht AZ
, a nice little wife, the latter carved on tn
role OF fame as Lillian Russell is settin
up another mill at the Union square,
peulcose person named McCaull Is wal
my Win MS seauIily uiapeu lalents 10 &c
; possession ui NaliaGks naVlNe smai
Oh uittiesi vuleu nc LlItle l-ycooh,
70 urlil On US own glamour INT
lhe COMEDY theater' lou can ou
'Mlhauos IN German OF Enslish LOT MI
cents Duhcn hut as costulher sal
y 10 me inc olher usy III u wasn't it
: comic opera What would society 90 WI
us unemployed Blrls1 give IL up bl
: there Is worse cohuhurum win com
opera, what does society 90 Wltho'
themF
Nohic opera Is SuIellng excuse Il
the eNhloition o. good-lookingl womel
. III SOMEBODY would put some new tun'
n INTO IL ia forgive IT'S existence,
IT Ihere are about TWO hundred girl
l. waiting TO be made prima donnas by Il
z American opera company talked vii
q one oil them the other gay. She told II
ID TO look at Patti' Didn't she commend
n young ana struggle There were twent
< hve oil these girls IN MI Locke's ant
e. room, patiently waiting there Tor laure
x ana things Ihey hadn't had an "appea
ance" yet. Some OF them white-iac'
N ana hungry looking But they were
IN resolute ana all thinking OF Patti, exec
k one or two who were thinking OF Emr
4 ABBOTT
ID by the way, what combination Emr
al Abbott and Mrs. Thurber would make