St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-11
HOW JAY GOULD LIVES.
The Cost of Maintaining HE'S City
and Country Embellishments.

Ae Cost Oh WG31t1lMaES fzao ChLy
and Country Establishments.
New York Letter to New Orleans Picayune.
Mr.. Gould's mansion on.the northeast cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second
street is plain-looklng double brown-stone
house, the interior of which is literally pal
atial. There are $500, 600 worth of paint
ingS on the walls, and the furnishing and
decorations are of the costliest description.
The suites on the second floor, occupied by
the heads Of the family, consists of bed
room, boudoir, dressingroom and bath
room. decorated chiefly in pale blue and
silver. Across the hall Miss Nellie, the
only daughter, has similar suite in pink
and white. On the third floor there is a
study and large nursery for the three
small boys, Edward, Frank and Harold.
whose tutors are paid 3d. 81, 600 and
S1, 500 year respectively. George Gould's
apartments are on the same floor, while the
servants occupy the floor above. The
butler receives 81, 600; buffers assistant,
$500; Mr.. Gould's valet, 5000; head cook
and assistant. $1,000, and hOusekeeper,
$1,000 year. Two laundresses, two
chambermaids, a parlor maid, two waiting
maids, two lady's maids, and two kitchen
girls are paid from SIS to $50 each per
month. The food in the servants hall is
entirely different from that of the family
table. Mrs. Gould spends two hours a day
with her younger boys, and they read
only what has been inspected by her. Since
she Joined the Forty-second street Presby-
terrain church, several years ago, she has
been liberal in religious benefactions. Miss
Nellie, a graduate of Nine. Reeds famous
school, is perfecting herself in music at
hn hoe oil
ance OF S., 600 per year for her wardrobe.
The Gould stable. on Forty-fourth street, is
handsome building of brick, with brown
stone trimmings and plate-glass windows.
Six horses are kept in it during the winter,
and a closed carriage, landau, and two
coupes. The staff consists of a coachman,
two footmen, two grooms and two stable
men, and their wages range from S45
month down. The expense of keeping up
the stable is $4,000 year.
Mr.. GOuld'S country seat at Irvington was
considered by its original owner, George
Dawson Merritt, the most elegant, attrac-
tive and thoroughly equipped summer resi-
dence in the country. Mr.. Gould paid $780,
600 for the property i'll 1880 and it is now
worth S1,O00,000 at low estimate. The
house is Gothic in style and is 5000 feet
from the Hudson river, commanding a
magnificent view. It has twenty rooms
above the basement. On the second floor
is fine art gallery, extending the entire
depth of the house. Mangold, the steward
at Irvington, has been in Mr.. GouId's
employ over twenty years and
receives salary of $4,000. The
lawn about the house is ninety-fve acres in
extent, and the macadamized road leading
to the entrance is quarter of mile long.
There are in the estate $40 acres, 200 of
which are woodland. The live stock con-
sists OF twenty horses, as many COWS, a
drove of Southdown sheep and lot of
blooded fowls. Eighteen men are on the
place constantly, and in summer the num-
Der Is nearly a hundred. The lighthouses
and conservatory cover a space 900 feet
long and $50 feet wide, and with their con-
tents are valued at $3.50, 600. At fair es-
innate it costs Mr.. Gould $3.50 day to
keep up his Irvington place. The taxes
on it amount to $3.50 month.
MI. Gould paid 500, 900 for his steam
yacht Atalanta, and to run the same costs
him $3.50 a month for wages, $500 month
for coal, repairs, etc., and $500 month
for general expenses when he is aboard
with his family. Besides the fifteen sailors
and five officers, forming the crew, there
are four cooks and a baker at $40 month
each, with two walters, valet, lady's
maid and parlor maid. There are sep
arte dining-rooms in the yacht for the FAM
lily, the officers and the servants and sail
ors. Breakfast is served from 6 to II,
luncheon at 2, tea and ices at and dinner
at s. George Gould's allowance before he
the dignity of partnership with his
father was $4,000 a year. His young
brothers have S. week apiece for pocket
money.