Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-11
GOULD ON powoEatY.
Vivid PEN Pictures of the Leaders In the
Labor Crisis.

Vivid PEN Pictures OF the Leaders In th
Labor Crisis.
Lsaader Riehardsos 90 Bosfos Henald.
Mr.. Jay Gould, millionaire railway owl
or and operator. and Mr. Terence Powdel
ly, Master Workman Of the Knights q
Labor, have, within the past few days. q
tracted to themselves and held popular q
tention all over the United States. On
of them lie at the present moment the greal
est labor organization ever brought to
gether in the universe. Mr.. Gould VI
found in his Office down Broadway. Quiet
sedste snd selconisined, he replied to in
qu;iies with frsnkness. but entirely without
effusion.
what" asked, lis your impression Of
Mr.. PoSderly, as gathered from the differ
ent conferences you had with HIM con-
corning the existing difficulties between
the southwestern system and the Knights
OF Labor"
AT these interviews" responded Mr..
Gould, leaning back in his chair, and a.
lowing his right hand to rest for moment
upon his beard, which is, as yet only
slightly tinged with gray. "Mr. Pouderiy
was quite i'll, and, therefore, did not take
as active part in them as would other.
wise have been the case"
Butt urged, you must have seen
enough ofhim to form some clear idea Of
his disposition and mental weight"
Yes" continued Mr.. Gould, he i'm
pressed me as being very fair man, and
he expressed himself strongly as being op-
posed to strikes and boyco,ting"
"a feature" / interposed. which doubt.
less struck you as being rather odd in .
man acting as q mouthpeice Of, or rather
as the power controlling, strikers and boy.
cottersY'
II believe" Mr.. Gould went on, without
needing to any noticeable extsnt this in.
that il the labor organizations
in this country follow the counsels of Mr..
Powderly snd men of bis weight there will
be hereafter q great deal less contention
between capital and labor than has hitherto
existed"
Mr.. Go1ld did not care to 70 into the
matter of the strikers and their justification
It this time, but what he had to say con.
,erning Mr.. Powderly impressed me as be.
ng earnest not only in the words employ. |
ID, but in the matter Of speech which &c.
them.
The fact of the matter IA that Mr.. Pow
lerly and all his ssliGtsn,s-but Powderly
more then all of them put together-have
lsd q very hard time Of it since they came |
o New York. In addition TO the tremen.
Ions wear and tear Of carrying the vast re, |
possibilities resting upon them, they have
personally done all the routine work con.
'ected with the negotiations at both ends
# the lihs. Dispatches and letters have
lowed in upon them in an almost unend. |
ng stream, and these CT necessity have
been answered as rapidly as possible.
Powderly has impressed everybody With |
whom he has come in contsc. ss z man OF
Iuiet but strongly developed faculties, pos
essiDg great powers of perception and ab
orptiaa. ifthe counsel had been enabled to
mplcy large force OF assistants, the work
1ould have .allen upon them more lightly
ham it did, and they might have come
trough it with complete absence to all
appearance Of being even slightly rufilsd
If. Gould is quite as undisturbed, 50 far
s anyone aay Judge, as he has ever been.
his is due, in the first place, suppose 10
be fact that he bas for years carried u ire,
1eudous load Of responsibility, and ia used
0 it, aud in the second, 70 his having early
earned the lesson Of saving up his vitality
y doing very little mechanical work and
himself TO the thinking process,
esying the actual execution to those sur.
GUIDING him. His winter trip in South.
m wsters has been Of material benefit to
i'm, and hi, physical coalition has not
cen as good in years az it is at present
Ie has gained hesh and buoyance, and in
bis face lights up nowadays
0 an unaccastomed extent.