The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
JAY GOULD At WORK.
His Mass of Correspondence How Let
tiers Are Answered Receiving Visitors.

HAS MASS OF Correspondence How Let.
tiers Are Answered l. Receiving Visitors.
lcor. Utica Observer
Mr. Gould gets through his work as
do managers generally, by the use of
one to five assistants, whom he directs.
Gould is an early bird. He is up before
8 in the morning, and by 8 he has
skipped over to the West Side Elevated
railroad and is on his way down town.
Mr.. Gould detests carriages and hacks.
and ne does not enter one unless com.
PEELED to do so. At his Office in lower
Broadway he finds his partner, Wash
ington Z. Common, his confidential as
sislant, 8. z. Morosni, and his son,
George Gould. There are in Mr.. Gould's
office two or three young men who make
themselves generally useful in writing
letters and following directions. They
have opened the 100 or more letters that
have been directed to MIR. Gould, and
have smoothed them out in broad sheets,
and havepiled them one on the other in
convenient form for reading. Mr.:
Moro iini first goes through this mass of
spondence, and from it takes such
letters as he thinks necessary Mr.. Gould
should see. The Others he attends to
himself.
The twenty or thirty that remain then
occupy Mr.. Gould attention. The first
may ask if Mr.. Gould would like to put
money into new copper mining com
pany in Michigan. He reads it care
fully, takes up pen, and writes "No"
on the letter. That means that one of
the young men will reply to the writer
thanking him for his kin offer to make
Mr.. Gould stakeholder in the company,
but regretting Mr.. Gould's inability at
preset to avail himself of it, etc. The
next letter may be from the commander
of Mr.. Gould's yacht, saying that
she has smashed her machinery, and
must be fixed right away. Another
grab is made for the pen and something
like this is written: Have her towed
around to John Roach's and repaired
soon as possible be done in six
days. " Almost any one else who owned
so VALUABLE piece of property would
make visit to her, and spend half
day looking her over, and ascertaining
whether 1000 could not be saved
by sending her to the man that made
her; but Gould has no time to do so.
lie has not time even to write his in
structions to the commander The
third letter has another terse sentence
of instructions written upon it, and so
on through the entire pile. Then they
are handed over to the clerks who write
out the answers in full.
By this time the visitors begin to
gather. They are halted in an ante.
room. and George Gould or some of the
people connected with the oihce ascer-
tain on what business or for what pur-
pose they wish to see Mr.. Gould, and it
is decided then and there whether Mr..
Gould should see them. If they come
to beg, as scores of persons do every
day, they are sent on their way in a
hurry. If their Grand seems legitimate,
they are asked to step inside, and Mr.,
Gould listens to them and dismisse,
them and the subject with wave Of
the hand, or disposes of their business
through clerk. If Gould is trading
actively he keeps jumping up and run
ming to the ticker while talking with his
vi.itors, and he keeps very sharp eye
on prices while transacting business al
day long He does everything without
the slightest flourish or theatrical effect
and as quietly as though it was of NJ
Importance whatever.
In an hour from his arrival he dis
poses of everything demanding atten
ton, and he skips up Broadway to tn
Western Union building, where he ha
another Office, and where fresh batch O.
) important business awaits attention. HI
rattles through this with the same cas-
and rapidity and hurrles out to attend
meeting of the Wabash directors, which
over, he steps back to the lower Broad
way Office and finds score of person
waiting to see him. These are sool
scattered, and it is lunch time, SO owe
to Delmonico's he goes for brace o
chops; then makes trip to the Mer
camille Trust company, where yet an
other string of questions must be de
= ,ided. And so it goes all day long.