The Dickinson press., 1888-02-18

Under Abuse-personal Habits-His
Two Sons-Georgc Gould's Wife.
Meeting a friend who has grown more than
middle aged in the railway service between
Ohio, Baltimore and New York, l said to
him: SIS not Gould in about as good shape
es lie ever was"
ooh, yes" said my friend, whom l have
known since about 1870, 'he is the most
powerful factor in the way of speculation
this 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-
tltion among the spectators and promoters
who tried to cheat him, and having failed,
turn round and bite at him, rs the snake
gnawed the file. l will give You an instance
of that which happened under my own eye,
when no person was in the room but Gould
and myself. had been severely prejudiccd
against him, and would not have dared to go
and see him but for the intervention of q
very quiet chap by the lame of Guppy,
whom Gould found in the Eric railroad when
he went there. Guppy was a poor, broken
down, spine and chest crippled man, who
never had the least reason to suppose that
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but Gould found that under his diseased cy-
terror was a bright and fiery mind, circum-
stantial in its correctness and completeness
and reliable Us we'll as brave. 1t is strange
that these powerful men in our finances are
often oundo out the first by the humble and
broken down men, who are sensitive about
friendship and often get the most of it.
"He came to me once and told me that op.
ponents of mine who had succeeded to the
krie railroad would break me down. Said
lie: you have the right and logic on your
side, but they have got the New York city
press and prevailing courts of justice and
the big lawyers, and they will mash you to
pieces. The only man who can save you is
Jay Could Them said l, i will not be
saved, for don't Il to know jay Could
But my quiet friend talked the matter all
over again from the outset, and the conse-
quence was that, against mydesire and pur-
pose, l found myself one evening calling on
Jay Gould. That first evening he upset all
my traditions. l had learned so much
against him from what l had read and heard
that l was charmed to find him about the
the easiest man to understand l had ever
known. l will tell you directly or at an
other time why be gets along; it is because
he is SO simple and not because he is SO dex-
%terous.n
SIS Mr.. Gould a man of any gratitude"
"Yes, it is very seldom that any person
does him q kindness but he feels it and
warns to an opportunity to repay it. may
also say that he is u vindictive man. He
does not seek an enemy out and does not re-
sent mere mercantile opposition, but persons
who lay for him and humiliatc him he re-
members; and he has got a good long memory
for them. Whoever picks up Gould for n
man without mental traits and memory,
undertakes one Of the greatest contests of
this life. He is not a person to do a dirty
thing, but he understands this business of
finance and everybody who is i'll it. And he
acquires his information about them in
general from how they behave to himself,
when he has given them u fair and equal
opportunity, either as opponents, wayfarers
or friends"
"Has Gould any suffering under public
abuse, such as newspaper abuse!"
"He keeps u calm exterior and affects not
to DO troubled by what is said against him,
but 1 think that all the same it gives him
suffering. As l said before, he is like most
other men, and is not exceptional to the
themes of the successful men of the time.
But he never swears nor uses epithets nor
severely discusses any private character.
That is why he is often taken by schemers
and visitors to be an overrated man. He
takes no delight in being considered n smart
person. As to his other habits, he never
drinks, and he never smoked but one cigar
in his life. He told me when that happened;
it was after he and his associates had beaten
old Commodore Vanderbilt, who desired to
capture the Erie railroad. They were
somewhere in Jersey City, I think, and all
the rest of them were playing billiards and
smoking cigars, and Gould was offered a
cigar, and feeling sociable he tried to smoke
it. and it made him so sick that he has never
made the effort any more"
"Is he a domestic man 3"
ENTIRELY SO. His strong hold is his fam
lily. He is far from being the man he was
once considered, without higher associates
and opportunities from persons who were
much less abused than himself, and also rich.
But Mr.. Gould has never lost his head about
social recognition. Those who meet him find
man plain and quiet, and in my Judgment
there is something very lovely about him, if
you go to seek private and family character
there. If you 60 after him for u sensation,
or to pick his eyes out, you may tind that lie
knows how to defend his nest like the eagle
care his sons persons of capacity?"
Eyes, they are smart boys, and just the op-
posite from what you would expect in this
day Of very rich mems sons. They are eco
nomical, and have served their apprentice
ship to the mechanical part of the railroad
business, such as telegraphing and type
writing, and they are now proficient in Their
fathers business of finance. Ed Gould, ]
think, is a %cleverer fellow in his wits thar
George Gould, the eldest son. The father il
1vor1.srr hin, sr$0 l;c,nEor,I:-, .1z..y.. -
that he can pick up the financial business. II
is q popular mistake, however, to p
that Jay Gould dictates telegraph dispatche:
to either of his sons. Gould has a very re
markable character of literary ability.
suppose there is no man connected with ou1
finance who can write as rapidly us lie does
and you can never read anything between
the lines when he signs a telegraph dispatch
Those who search through his communica
lions to them to see if they can find out wha
he is about are invariably disappointcd.n
us George Gould happily marriedf'
YES. 1t may not be generally understood
but George Gould married tho first girl h
ever fell in love with, and that was why nj
father and mother fastened to appreciate hi
choice. He met his wife, warmed to her, 70
lowed her and married her. They nave
lovely child, and she is a very accomplish
woman. There is another instance of Gould
appreciation of brightness and talen
Georges wife was a lady who made her Ii,
ing, through both necessity and clevernes
upon the stage. The parents nave nothing
the prig about them."-"Gath" in Cincinna
Enquirer.
Proud Chicago.
Charles Dickens, Jr. ARRIVING in Chicag
Bless me! London over again.
Proud Chicapn Man-AhI nm dalinht