Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
GouLD's ESTABLISHMENT.
A Correspondent Pretends to Give tho
M%illlonaire's Living Expenses.

M~1lllOna1re'8 Living EXpenHeSs
Nh. Gould's mansion, on the NORTH
east corner of Fifth avenue and Forty
seventh street, is a p%lain-looking double
brownstone house, the interior of which
is literally palatial. There are half a
million dollars worth of paintings on
the walls, and the furnishings and decor
ations are of the costliest description,
The suite On the second floor, occupied
by the heads Of the family, consists of
bed room, boudoir, dressing-room and
bath room, decorated chiefly inpale blue
and silver. Across the hall, Miss Mel
lie, the only daughter, has a similar
suite in pink and white. On the third
floor there is astudy and a large nursery
for the three small boys, Edward, Frank
and Harold, whose tutors are paid 1000,
$4,000 and $1,S00 a year respectively.
George Gould's apartments are on the
same floor, while the servants occupy
the floor above. The butler receives
$1,000; butler's assistant, $500; Mr.,
Gould's valet, 5000; head-cook and
assistant, 81, 800, and housekeeper, ST..
600 a year. Two laundresses, two
chambermaids, a parlor maid, two
waiting maids, two lady's maids and
two kitchen girls are paid from SIS to
500 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 young
er boys, and they read only what has
been inspected by her. Since she join
ed the Forty-second street Presbyterian
church, several years ago, she has been
liberal in religious b%enefactions. Miss
Nellie, a graduate of Mime. Reeds IA
nous school, is perfecting herself in
music at a cost of 500 per lesson. She
has an allowance of $4,000 a year for
her wardrobe. The Gould 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 win
ter, and a closed carriage, a landau and
two coupes. The staff consists of a
coachman, two footmen, two grooms
and two stablemen, and their wages
range from $45 a month down. The
expense of keeping up the stable is &c.
600 a year.
MI. Gould's country seat at Irvington
was considered by its original owner,
George Dawson Merritt, the most ele-
giant, attractive and thoroughly-equip-
ped summer residence in the country.
MI. Gould paid 5000, 900 for the proper
ty in 1880, and it is now worth $1,0O0,-
600 at a low estimate. The house is
Gothic in style, and is 5000 feet from
the Hudson river, commanding q mag
rifcent view. 1t has twenty rooms
above the basement. On the second
floor lisa 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 receives a salary of 50, o The
lawn about the house is ninety-ive acres
in extent, and macadamized road lead
ing to the entrance is a quarter of a
mile long. There are in the estate $40
acres, 200 of which are woodland. The
livestock consists of twenty horses, as
many COWS, a drove of Southdown
sheep and lot of blooded fowls. Eigh.
teen men are on the place constantly,
and in summer the number is nearly a
hundred. The lighthouses and conser-
vatory cover a space 900 feet long and
| $50 feet wide, and with their contents
are valued at $3.50, 900. At a fair esti-
mate it costs MI. Gould $3.50 a day to
keep up his Irvington place. The taxes
on it amount to $3.50 a month.
Mr.. Gould paid 800, 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 a
baker at $40 a month each, with two
walters, a valet, a lady's maid and a
parlor maid. There are separate din
ing saloons in the yacht for the family,
the officers and the servants and sailors.
Breakfast is served from six to eleven;
luncheon at two; tea and ices at four
and dinner at eight o'clock. George
Gould's allowance before he attained
the dignity of partnership with his
| father was $40, 900 a year. His Young