The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-16

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ardor as his youngest son. The grounds
are secluded, and the millionaire can jump
fences, turn hand-springs, go in swimming
indulge in game of Zone old cat, or play
the cornet without anybody but his OWL
family being the wiser There is gener-
al impression that Jay Gould has only one
son, because his wife never appears in So
ciety and his children are almost unknown
He has large and interesting family
His eldest son, George j. Gould, is so to-
tally different from his father that those
who know him seriously doubt whether he
will ever be business man. Jay Gould
has given him such opportunities as no
young man ever had by making him di-
rector in most of the Gould corporations,
and in some of them making him respon-
sible officer, but George has evinced no par
ticular liking for the career of finance.
Jay Gould's daughter, Nellie, who christ
ened mis- yacht, promises to be beauty.
She is a slim girl, neither light nor dark,
with charming habits She has been un-
der governesses all her life. There is a
son, Edward, who is older than Nellie and
younger than George. l imagine he must
be 1S. He is studious, well-bred and re
spectful He thinks Of becoming civil
engineer, and has the same elf-contained
manners of his father. Howard, who is
about Is years old, has been in delicate
health for long while. He knows almost
nothing about books, and his father keeps
him in the open air. Belle, who is in the
neighborhood of IL or 13 years, promises
to be the beauty of the family. She very
much resembles Mrs Gould The "baby"
is Frank
Jay Gould's city and country residences
are magnifcently furnished. He doesn't
run to fine horses, costly stables and blooded
steeds At night, when he dismisses his
operators from his offices, he does not go
to club to carouse, to banquet to steam
up with champagne, or to theatre; he re-
tires to the recesses of peaceful library,
and with his young sons about him reads
the Latin classics, the world forgetting, but
not the world forgot, He was born in
Roxbury, N. Y, on May %, 1886, and
began life when fourteen years of age as a
blacksmiths clerk. He had taste for
mathematics and studied surveying. He
realized his first capital, about $4,000, by
making survey maps of Delaware and Al
bany counties. He also wrote very cred
table history of Delaware county, N. Y,
which is now scarce and out of print.
After the panic of 1857 he came to New
York and invested his little fortune in rail-
road securities, and has continued in this
line until his millions now crowd close to
those of Vanderbilt He is man, how
ever, of finer texture than the old commo-
dore's son. Mr. Gould's friends say he is
a liberal man, although when he makes a
gift he does not have the information writ
ten in manifold and sent to all the news
papers.
Near Irvington is also the residence of
another remarkable man-Cyrus W. Field.
He has fine country seat, surrounded by
the homes of his sons and daughter. 1t is
whispered in New York that Cyrus w.
Field is the second richest man in the
United States That may or may not be
so; but he is rich, shrewd and clever, a
hard worker, will take no rest, and will
probably be richer. His head is phren-
illogical study. There are fine points all
over it. His forehead is broad and high,
time having extended its point of retreat
over the back corner and downward toward
the shirt collar; his nose is decidedly
Roman his eyes wide apart and deep set,
with very strong colors of blue and gray,
with fash of brown in them sometimes
his figure is erect and his face has only a
few lines on it. His manner, if not one
of repose, is at least that of good breeding,
and he manages his intercourse with great
tact and address, indeed almost as master
fnesse. Thus one sees Cyrus w. Field as
he appears to-day in the midst of his active
career at over 65 years of age. Upon be-
ing asked when he was going to stop work
he replied: "When am put in the grave,
l guess. Why, bless me, haven't been
still since was boy at Stockbridge. 1t
seems to me that have got agoing and L
can't stop. 1 wish could" | then
asked him if he was not at one time the
travelling companion of Church, the artist
He replied: "Yes, indeed, l was. 1t was
when he painted for me the Heart of the
Andes 'Cotopaxi, and the Falls of Fe-
quandama' [ had made fortune then
after six years struggle with the paper
trade, and [ had to rest. was told to get
where l could not have anything to do with
business. We climbed the Andes to BO-
gotta, descended to Guayaquil and Ecuador
and the western coast. thought | was
quite traveller. But after that, in the
interest of the Atlantic cable alone, 1 made
fifty one voyages across the ocean. Then
| got interested in the cable In 1854 1
was at work at it. Three times it failed,
and each time we up and at it again. By
1857 we had the cable made. In August
of that year we landed the end of it on
Irish soil. We had gone $50 miles before
it parted, 1t was almost death blow.
NV own fortune had been lost in the inan-
cial revulsions of that year, the American
men-of-war had gone home, and the plan
by my most cordial supporters was declared
impracticable The next year we tried to
lay the cable by starting in the middle of
the ocean, with two ships sailing for either
shore. That proved afailure, and then the
directors gave up and would not stand
another trial. Nevertheless | made it, and
successfully The first message is histori-
cal: GLORY be to God in the highest, and
on earth peace and good will toward men.
In three weeks the cable parted, when came
the severest blow of my life. The public,
which had been so enthusiastic over the
success, became ashamed of the approval il
had bestowed Three years later we were
involved in civil war, but even while it wa:
in progress l was working, and in 1864
had the capital again secured. Twelve
hundred miles of the cable were down wher
it broke again, and the project was aban-
doned until 1866. Then it finally succeed
ed, the Great Eastern having done the
work
Fishing in China.