Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-05
HOW JAY GOULD LIVES.
The Cost of Maintaining His City and
 Country Establishments.

The Cost of Maintaining His City and
 Country Establishments.
 New York Letter to the New Orleans Picayune.
 MT. Gould's mansion on the northeast cor ner of Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street is plain looking double brown-stone house, the interior of which is literally palatial There are half a million dollars worth of paintings on the walls, and the furnishing and decorations are of the costliest descrip- ton. The suite on the second floor, occu- pied by the heads of the family, consists Of bedroom, boudoir, dressing room and bath room, decorated chiefly in pale blue and sil- yer. Across the hall Miss Nellie, the only daughter, has a similar suite in pink and white, On the third floor there is study and large nursery for the three small boys, Edward. Frank and Harold, whose tutors are paid two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars and eighteen hundred dollars year respectively. George Goulds apartments are on the same floor, while the servants oc- eupy the floor above. The butler receives one thousand dollars; buffers assistant, four hundred dollars; Mr. Gould's valet, six hun dred dollars; head cook and assistant, fifteen
 hundred dollars, and housekeeper, one thou
 sand dollars year. Two laundresses, two cham D9rmalQS, u pdI1OI IlAdLIA, enO hoANAt-S maids, two lady's maids and two kitchen oirls are puid from fifteen to twenty dollars each per month. The food in the servants hall is entirely different from that of the family table. Mrs Gould spends two hours day with her younger boys, and they read only what has been inspected by her. Since she joined the Forty second street Presbyte; rian church. several years ago, she has been liberal in religious benefactions. Miss Nel lie. A, graduate of Mme. Reeds famous school, is perfecting herself in music at 6 cost of twenty dollars lesson. She has ar allowance of five thousand dollars per year for her wardrobe. The Gould stable, or Forty-fourth street. is handsome building of brick, with brown n-stone trimmings ana plate glass windows. Six horses are kept in | it during the winter, and closed carriage, a landau and two coupes. The stain consists of 8 coachman, two footmen, two grooms and two stablemen, and their wages range from forty-ive dollars month down. The expense of keeping up the stable is six thou sand dollars year.
 Mr. Gould's country seat at Efv1ngton was considered by it's original owner, George Dawson Merritt, the most elegant, attractive and thoroughly equipped summer residence | in the country. MT. Gould paid two nun dred thousand dollars for the property in 1880 and it is now worth one million dollars | at a low estimate. The house is Gothic 1n style and is three thousand feet from the Hudson river, commanding a magnificent view It has twenty rooms above the base | ment. On the second floor is fine art gal | lery extending the entire depth of the house. Mangold, the steward at Irvington, has been l in MT. Goulds employ over twenty years and I receives a salary of two thousand dollars. l The lawn about the house is ninety five acres l in extent and the macadannized road leading to the entrance IS a quarter of mile long | There are in the estate five hundred and ten
 acres two hundred of which are woodland l The live stock consists of twenty horses, a' many cows, drove of Southdown sheep ant
 a lot of blooded fowls. Eighteen men ar' | on the place constantly and in summer thu number is nearly hund1ed The hot-hous
 es and conservatory cover space of nin | hundred feet long and four hundred and if ty feet wide. and with their contents are val ued at two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars At fair estimate it costs MT. Goul,
 three hundred and eighty dollars day t
 keep up his Irvington place. The taxes O it amount to two hundred and fifty dollars
 month.
 MT. Gould paid one hundred thousand do
 lars for his steam yacht Atalanta, and to ru
 the same costs him seven hundred and fit dollars month for wages, two hundred do