The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29
A GLIMPSE OF GOULD.
BoMETHiNG ABOUT HIS PERSONAL
HABITS AND RELATIONS.


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Hev ri. somet,m.. vr,..t. An .n. r..
oiio"' oo"0onns am-"ratitude
Under Abuse-fersonal Hsbits-Hil
Two sons-Georxe Gould's Wife,
meeung niend VINO mas grown more thar
middle aged In tho railway service between
Ohio, Baltimore and New York, I said to
him: as not Gould In about as good shape
as he ever wasp
"Ob. yes.n said INV friend vbor, rh.r.
b,o,,r s;,,no -. ,o,o ~ -, nA,.
"'ou' .o0' no iS 'ne moS'
"eiiui ia's'f IN 'ne way Oh speculation
TINS country has seen. But he does not do
anything while abroad. However, they will
never lose their fear Of him wherever he may
be. And Gould gets nearly all his bad repu-
tation among the spectators and promoters
who tried to cheat him, and having failed,
turn round and bite at him, as the snake
gnawed the file. will give you an Instance
ot that which happened under my own eye,
when no person was In the room but Gould
md myself. had been severely prejudiced
against him, and would not have dared to 20
and see him but for the intervention of q
very quiet chap by the name of Guppy.
whom Gould found in the Erie railroad when
be went there. Guppy was a Door, brokeu
down, spine and chest crippled man, who
never had the least reason to suppose that
f3ould wo,,ld treat him llka a bun,s, h.;,,,.,
but Gould found that under his diseased az,
srior was bright and fiery mind. circum.
tantial in its correctness and completenes.
md reliable as well as brave. It is strange
Mat these powerful men In our finances ara
bften found out the first by the humble and
/hroken down men, who are ssnsitive about
hiendship and often ret tbe most !, N
aHe came to me oncs and told ma that nm.
tpnents Of mine who had m,ccee5ed y, II.
. Lie railroad would breok me- doxn ssiJ
- =; tYou have the RIGHT and logic Al, ,1o,,r
G<de, but they have got the New York citv
|ress and prevailing courts Of iustica and
- big lawyers, and thew win mash vor 70
n1sces The only man who can sav. vo,, Il
Nv Could, eTben, said 7 II Vii, - -
ave.i. for don't want n Lno,, ~, CO. os -
ID nv quiet friend talked tbs msttsr u,
- sga,n fron, tha ,ntaat ..s I ,,a''I Al
-nce WAS that ara;nst nv dssir. % .ns - 9onse-
e. 1 found mvself one eyan;,,a caIi;nd pa -,
~ Gould. THAT f,rst svaninr. 10 ,,,as III om
traditions had Ia.rs.J ~ up'oS a,
n1nst him from what 7 Ind rsod and hauss aSa
ii was charmed to t;nd h;n, 'u st.a,.t neatu ~
* easiest man to understand 7 hoJ ouau uu
{, ,1rown, 1 viii tell Won sdirectlv ar At snl
cher time why he gets along. Il il bacarso
/ ~ Is SO simple and not because he IA "a Jay.
terous.n
Z ISIS Mr.. Gould a man of snv orot;t,,aom
ayes, il is very seldom fbst snw w.,
does him q kindness but he seels Il snd
warns to an opportunity to renav n grau
also say that he In a yindictiva NAV q,
does not seek an enemy ont and does not no.
sent mere mercantile Opposition. INIT nerson.
who lay for him and humiliate him ba ,o-
members; and he has got a good long memory
for them. Whoever picks up Gould for a
man without mental traits and memory.
undertakes one of the greatest contests ~
this life. He is not person to do a dirty
.thing, but he understands this business of
onance and everybody who is In IL And he
Rnquirea his information about them in
ssneral from how they behave to himself.
Ehen he has given them a fair and equal
opportunity, either % opponents, wayfarers
- frieuds"
Has Gould any suffering under public
31nee, such as newspaper abusef'
Z y, ne Keeps calm exterior and affects not
troubled by what is said against him,
think that al the same 1t gives him
erng. a. SAID before, he is like most
p men, ano II not exceptional to the
mes OF sne successful men Of the TINA.
~ ne never swean nor uses epithets nor
veleiy oi6cusses any private character.
1nss why he u eftsn taken by schsmsrs
end v1nbors 70 be an overrated man. BE
ekes NO oehgnt IN being considered amars
?sison. A. 70 his other habits, he never
drinks. and No never smoked but one cigar
- nls nia he told me when that happened;
va after ne AND his associates bad beaten
'oid commodore Vanderbilt who desired to
capture the Erie railroad They were
somewhere In Jersey City, think, and all
tne ress OF them were playing billiards and
emokng cigars and Gould was offered q |
cigar, and feeling sociAbie be tried to smoke
y, and IL made him 10 sick that he has never |
made the enort any more
ne domestic man y
Entireiy 50. His strong hold Is his fam
ny. he is far from being the man he was |
once considered, w1thout higher associates |
md opportunities from persons who were |
much less abused than himself, and also rich. |
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