Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-19
HOW JAY GOULD LIVES.
The Cost of Maintaining His City and
Country Establishments.

Country Establishments.
corner OF Fifth Avenue and Forty seventh
street is a plain looking doubl" brown
stone house. the interior OF which is liter
ally palatial. There are half a million
dollars worth OF paintings on the walls,
and the furnishings and decorations are OF
the costliest description. The suite on the
second floor, occupied by the heads Of the
family, consists OF bedroom, boudoir, dress
ing-room and bath room, decorated chiefly
in pale blue and silver. Across the hall
Miss Nellie, the only daughter, has a similar
suite in pink AMI white. On the third floor
there is a study and a large nursery for
the three small boys, Edward, Frank and
Harold, whose tutors are paid $4,000,
1000 and $500 a year respectively.
George Gould's apartments are on the same
floor, while the servants occupy the floor
above. The butler receives $1,000; buffers
assistant, $500; Mr.. Gould's valet, 5000;
head cook and assistant, $1,000; and
housek eel per, $1,000 a year. Two laun-
dresses, two chambermaids, a parlor maid,
two waiting maids, two lady's maids
and two kitchen girls are paid from
S15 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 Presbyterian
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 a
cost of $50 per lesson. She has an allow
ance of S., 900 per year for her wardrobe.
The Gonld stable, on Forty-fourth street,
is a 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, a landau, and two
coupes. The staff consists OF a %coachman.
two footmen, two grooms and two stable
men, and their wages range from $40 a
month down. The expense of keeping up
the stable is S $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Gould's country seat at Irvington
was considered by it's original owner,
George Dawson Merritt, the most elegant,
mer residence in the country. Mr.. Gould
paid 5000, 900 for the property in 1880
and it is now worth 81, 100000 at a low
estimate. The house is Gothic in shape
and is 5000 feet from the Hudson river,
commanding a magnificent view. It has
twenty rooms above the basement. On the
second t1oor is a fine art gallery, extending
the entire depth of the house. Mangold,
the steward at Irvington, has been in Mr..
Gould's employ over twenty years and re-
ceives a salary OF 2 1000. The lawn about
the house lis ninety-five acres in extent and
the macademized road leading to the en-
trance is a quarter OF a mile long. There
are in the estate $40 acres, 300 OF which are
woodland. The live stock consists OF
twenty horses, as many cows, a drove Of
S%outhdown sheep. and a lot OF blooded
fowls. Eighteen men are OF the place con-
stantly and in summer the number is near
ly a hundred. The lighthouses and con
servatory cover a space 900 feet long and
$50 feet wide, and with their contents are
valued at $25O,OO0. At a fair estimate it
costs Mr.. Gould $3.50 a day to keep up his
Irvington place. The taxes on it amount
to $3.50 a month.
Mr.. Gould paid 500, 900 for his steam
yacht Atlanta. and to run the same costs
him $3.50 a month for wages, 5000 a month
for coal, repairs, etc, and $500 a 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 bakers, at $40 a month
each. with two waters, a valet, a ladys
maid and a parlor maid. There are sepa-
rate dining rooms in the yacht for the
family, the officers and the servants and
sailors. Break fast is served from & to II,
luncheon at 2. tea and ices at 4, and dinner
at 8. George Gould's allowance before he
attained the dignity OF partnership with his
father was $4,000 a year. His young
brothers nave So a week apiece for. pocket
~money.-New Orleans Picayune.
Bairi's Minstrels is the best billed show
that has reached Butte for many months.
S.e II D-sl,, ,. ar -, ,ar1o ~ a rfISf10
in execution as it is outrageous III design,
which is saying a great deal for the printer
The Brigade and the Department are
working ] Ike beavers for their respective
nominees for Fire Marshal. 1t is a non.
political contest, the aspirants relying for
success entirely upon their fire-fightlng
abilities and records.
The firm OF Lee W. Foster 4 Company,
in this city, will be dissolved the LIST prox-
imo. but the firm Of Foster, Estes d Com
pany, at Anaconda, n L. K. MalIlett d
Company, in Butte, will continue business
AS heretofore.
One of the Montana Lumber & Produce
Company's teams INDUCED in a runaway
Yesterday morning. At the corner OF Main
and Park streets they collided with d. l..
Franks delivery wagon, taking off one OF
the hind wheels, and damaging the wagon
in other respects.
Street beggars are becoming a nuisance in
Butte, and they ought to be given to under
stand this is one OF the towns tina
will not harbor or feed them. A majority
of the street-beggars are able-bodied, ana
able-bodied laborers are in demind just
now by railroad contractors and Others.
Mr.. James McCaig, agent Of the Northern
Pacific at t is city, is notified by denerai
Agent Stokes, OF Helena, that the Nortnern
Pacific Company has arranged to retorn
delegates to the Knights OF Pyth'as con
v~ention, to be held at Helena Inc ensuing