Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-08-06
JAY GOULD.
How the Great Railroad Spec
ulator Lives.
The Cost of Maintaining his City and
Country Establishments,

Mr.. Gould's mansion on the northwest
corner of Fifth avenue and Forty seventh
\strcct, says New York letter to the New
-0tleans Pieayu"o, is plain looking do,l-
bic brown-stonc house, the interior OF
which is literally palatial. There arc half a
million dollars worth of paintings on the
walls, and the furniture and decorations
urc of the costlicst description. The
suite on the second floor occupied by
the heads Of the family, consists of bed
room, boudoir, drcssipg-room 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, Harold and Frank,
whose tutors are paid So, 600, 81, 600 and
$1,000 year respectively. George
Gould's apartments arc on the same
floor, while the servants occupy tho
floor above. The butler receives 81 900;
buffers assistant, $500; Mr.. Gould's
valet, 5000; hcatF.cook and assistant,
$1,000, and housckccpc5 81 900 year.
Two laundrcsscs, two chambcrmaids, n
parlor maid, two waiting maids, two Ia
dy's maids, and two kitchen girls arc
paid from S15 to SEQ 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 street Pres
bytcrim church several years AGO. she
has been liberal in religious bcncfactons.
Miss Nellie, graduate of Nine. Reeds
famous school, is pcrfccting herself in
music at cost OF $50 per lesson. She has
an allowance of So, 600 year for her
wardrobe. The Gould stable, on Forty
fourth street, is Il handsome BUILDING of
brick, with brown-stonc trimmings and
platc-glass windows. Six horsts are kent
III it during the winter, and n closed car
rage, landau, and two coupcs. The
stall consists of a coachman, two foot
men, two grooms and two stnblcmcn
and their wages range from $ij Il month
down. The expense of keeping ND the
stable is Sc, 900 year.
Mr.. Gould's country seat at Irvington
was considered by its original owner
George Dawson Merritt, the most attrac
tive, elegant, and thoroughly equipped
summer residence in the country. Mr.
Gould paid $500, 900 for the property in
1851, and 1t IS now worth 81, 600, 600, 600
Mt low estimate. The house is Gothic
in style and is 3, 900 feet from the IIud-
son river, commanding magnificent
view. 1t has twenty rooms above the
basement. On the second floor is n fine
art gallery, extending the entire depth Of
the house. AIangold, the steward at
lrvinSton, has been in Mr.. Goulds en-
ploy over twenty years and receives n
salary Of 50, 500. The lawn about the
house is nncty-iivc acres in extent. and
the macadamizcd road leading to the on
trance is n quarter of Il mile long. There
are IN the estate so acres, 200 of which
are wooded. The live stock consists of
twenty horses, as many COWS, n drove of
Southdown sheep, lot of bloodcd fowls
Eighteen men arc on the place constantly
and IN summer the number is nearly ono
hundred. The lighthouses and conscrvo-
tory cover space 900 feet long and 45O
feet wide, and with their contents orc
valued at $3.50, 900. At n fair estimate
1t costs Mr.. Gould $3.50 per day to keen
up his lrvington place. The taxes on it
amount to $3.50 MONTH
Mr.. Gould paid 100000 for his steam
yacht Atalanta, and to run the same costs
him $3.50 month for wages, 5000 n
month Tor coal, repairs, etc, and $500 n
month for general expenses when he is
aboard with his family. Besides the Gf.
teen sailors and five officers forming the
Crew, there are four cooks and bol,cr n
Slo month each, with two walters. n
valet lady's maid and a parlor maid
There are separate dining-rooms in the
yacht for the family, the officers and the
servants and sailors. Breakfast is served
from to II, luncheon at 2, tea and iccs
at d. and dinner at s. George Gould's
allowance before he attained the dignity
Oh partnership with his father was $40,
ooo year. His young brothers have s5