The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-15

body or in anything save that nursed news
paper which now is in tatters from the
usage it has suffered. The doctor ap
proaches: word or two without anima-
ton in them; then the carriage, the ride
the end of days experience Ia the life of
Americas richest land, mayhap' most
envied) citizen.
Thus goes the day, while Wall streets
turmoil keeps on in quite the old way, and
the ups and downs of the uncertain and
frisky quotations make all the Gould &C.
quaintances happy or sad, as the case hap
pens to be from day to day. And Wall street
has been insisting that in these recent ups
and downs the Gould genius and the Gould
nimbleness have had quite as much to do
as ever they had to do in the past.
It needs but days bservation of the
goings and comings of Jay Gould here to
set such stories at rest Saratoga has about
a dozen branch offices" of Wall street
brokerage firms open and at business now,
for there is IA large Wall street delegation
at the springs this season. Not once since
he arrived, however, has Mr.. Gould been
at one of these offices. He is not hanging
over the ticker" He is not watching the
tape He has no special telegraph wire
running into his cottage He Is not send
ing kilograms to Wall street. He is not
receiving kilograms from Wall street If
ever a man were careless of stocks aud
stock market fluctuations, jay Gould just
now is posing as that man. One broker,
urged by a generous heart, perhaps, or
possibly by an eye to prospective commits
sions, offered a couple of days ago to send
over to Mr.. Gould's cottage copies of stock
market quotations as fast as they arrived
by special wire from the stock exchange.
Il am obliged by your Offer" said Mr..
Gould, but you really need not trouble
yourself. | do not care to see TIE quota
tions."
Few people have the gener sity Tor au-
dacity, as the case may bel t. make calls at
the Gould cottage Nor are encourage
ments held out to callers or would-be callers.
Mr.. Gould himself does have an occasional
sociable moment, aud once or twice within
the last day or two he has appeared on the
big public piazza and engaged briefly in
conversation with friends whom he CHANGED
to meet there. Those who have had part
in this rare diversion have been deeply
panied at the spectacle. Mr.. Gould's
clothes fairly chang" upon him. As he
crosses his legs, leaning back in his chair,
the size of those legs appears slim to
superlative punness; they seem barely
more than of pipe-stem thickness. And
there is a listleSsness in the eye-the eye
that nobody knowing Jay Gould ever saw
there before No animation is in his speech.
His only comment is mild hammered as
sent to other peoples sentiments. His face
is spare, his countenance pinched, and the
head that has planned so many coups for
Wall streets astonishment leans forward,
limp, free from it's old resolute air-a sight
grimly pathetic.
Where oracles of the turf are met, you
hear sometimes of famed king of the race
track whose home stretch glories finally
gave way to natures laws, and the king
was sent to the pastures knocked out. "
But there came day after when the turf
was crowded again to see the tests of met
tie in new heroes of the track All was
ready for the start. Then up ambled the
aforetime leader. Lookers-on laughed out
their gibes and jeers, but the race went on,
and the old king was at the front again,
winner, prancing as proudly as ever.
And Jay Gould Be ye not yet too sure,
oh, Wall street, that the last has been heard
of the wizards" prowess. That old-tlme
racing quality may be lingering in him