Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
JAY oouLo.s SISTER.


She Teaches School. and His Old Sweet
heart Keeps Boarders.
The mild-looking, rather petite, but
dignified, woman just passing, must
have been quite pretty in her youth.
though she never probably could have
been called handsome. There is a GER
tain something, however, about her--a
sweetness in her looks and manner
that is more charming in a woman OF
her years, than any remains OF physical
beauty would be. She is very simply
attired in black, and black bonnet
modestly covers her silvery-gray hair.
Who is shep
She is Jay Gould's sister. She has
come over from her home in Camden
quiet little town across the river--to
do some shopping. probably. One
often meets her in the busy streets, but
as her identity is known to few. she
escapes the ogling and comment thai
she would otherwise be subjected to.
She is not rich, by any means. Indeed,
aside from moderate allowance that
the specializing Cresus makes her.
she derives her living from school for
girls that her daughters conduct The
school, it is said, is an excellent one.
and, Gould-like, it gets the cream of
the business in South Jersey.
The school house was erected at Jay
Gould's expense. Jay knew that his
sister had not married well from a
financial point of view, and that her
daughters were struggling for living.
but he was too busy piling up his mill
ions to give the matter much personal
/ attention. But his wife had her eye on
the girl, and she was SO pleased with
/ her earnestness that she brought the
matter to the attention of her husband
and insisted on his building the girls a
school. Gould did not object, and
now that his attention was directed tc
the matter, he gave orders that no ex
pense should be spared in making the
building model one in every respect
He himself takes as much pride in i
and in the success of the nieces as any
one whenever he permits himself thu
luxury of five minutes thought on ;
subject so far removed from stocks ant
bonds. His sister and the girls wer
spending part of the summer up a
Plattsburg. N. Y, with Jas Gould
first love, who keeps boarding hous
up there. She is elderly and gray
haired now. and is not strikingly hand
some, but in her day she was blithesom
and pretty. She was the daughter c
country store-keeper Jay Gould
after leaving his fathers farm, went
work in the store and promptly fell i
love with the rosy-che eked nader
But the old man had much highe
views of his daughters future than
marriage with a young man in his ow
shop would realize. He not only CAV
young Gould to understand that
marriage was out of the question, bt
dispensed with his services as wei
Jay took his rejection philos OPTICAL
enough and gave himself up to tt
work of making fortune. While
was growing richer and richer, an
piling million on million. his old 10,
was vainly trying to battle with mi
fortune. Her father. who had plume
himself so proudly on the ownership
his general store" failed; the hu
band whom she took after Jay Gou
had gone away brought little to he
j. and so at the end she endeavors
exc out an income by opening h
house to summer boarders. She has
wondrous amount of philosophy in h
makeup and very little envy. She
bright, good-natured and contents
= with what fortune has brought
ought one to say left-her. Some
G Jay Gould's relatives spend fe
# weeks at her farmhouse every yea
a but Jay himself never goes there.
r Cor Chicago tribune.