New-York tribune., 1888-03-25
JAY GOULD FREES HIS MIND
PLAIN TALK F0R HIS CRITIOs.
HIS VIEWS ON THE PRESENT RAILRoAE
SITUATION.
HIS SON GEORGE WARMLY DEPESDED--A MISSOURI
PACIFIC DIVIDEND or Ia PER cEST-UPs
HOLDING The oouLD-sAoE TRUsT-CnkT
Auour ar TRIP.


PACIFIC DIVIDEND or liz PER cESr-UP'
HOLDING The ooULD-sAoE TRUsT-cAAT
ABOUT HIS TRIP.
little man in plain, dark, business suit. Of sn
easy and quiet manner, sat in q plainly furnished
room on the second door Of the Western Union
Building yesterday afternoon and looked musingly
down upon the rush and roar of Broadway. lie
wore full beard with mustache, both touched
with gray. A pair Of piercing eyes, glntlng Win
secretive power, gave evidence that their owner
knew well how to look out on the world and leu
It at the same time see enough Of him to learn
that he was always there" His head well
poised bounded by lines which In the phrenologists
category stand for fertility Of resource, adapt
ability to circumstance, unremitting watchfulness.
keenness Of grasp, and frmness Of execution, was
joined by q slender neck to o pair OF shoulders
far from robust.
This slender man looked, withal. hardly nko
one over whom all Wall Street has been bowling
for week. one whose return such adept hnancien
as Cyrus w. Field, Russell Sage, Sidney Dillon,
Samuel Sloan, and small army of able men havc
been anxiously waiting for around whom ex-
pectation has been rife, at whom curses loud and
deep have been hurled, until, II wishes were fishes
he had been buried miles deep, around whom tho
best lawyers in the city tread II under the spell
of a magician, whose nod and wink stockholders
hang upon as the Roman Of old upon the scattering
of sIbylline leaves-yet such was the case. II
was jay Gould, who had got home after five
months absence from the pulse of this great city
ANOTHER ENEMY LEFT BEHIND
"Well" said Mr.. Gould meditatively TO aTsIB-
UNE reporter who broke In upon him, am
home again and, you see IN pretty good health
have gained ten pounds since I went away in
search of rest and recreation. One thing have
| = r. q. l.~Is n1
cere pleasure, and that is the neuralgia. Yea
sir, that enemy which has tormented me so long
has left me, somewhere in the deep Atlantic l
hope. Where have / been since / left hereP
Well, sailed as you know, to Liverpool on the
Umbria Then went to London for week
I desired to make a personal examination Of the
London underground railroads. that l might
compare them with our elevated system.
Z" In the first place found that the fares were
much higher. In London 1t cost me a shilling
and sixpence-thirty-one cents-to ride the dis-
tance equal here to that from One-hundred-and-
ffty-ffth-st to the Battery. which costs only nve
cents. The charge there is by the mile. There
this boasted underground system is actually slower
than our elevated roads. took the time OF
transit and the stops from my watch and found
the average speed to be less than on our elevated
roads. And then the tunnels were simply st'bing'
choked ont Of me. The consequence Of all this
is that Londoners RAPIDLY going back to the
omnibuses, end for short travel they use these
almost entirely. They wish to ride In the open
afr where they can breathe and take their chances
on reading. The cars in the underground roads
q passed week in London" continued Mr..
manaa ana .ne there went to Marsec
where / was met by my yacht, the Atalanta
Thence we coasted along the Riviera, touching At
Nice, San Remo-where the Crown Prince, now
Emperor Frederick, has been staying-thence TO
Leghon. Florence Naples and Rome | noticed
one peculiar and interesting thing IN France and
rounded by girdon, and every hen egg. piece OF
beef. potato, all supplies everything In fact: had
to pay toll: The railroad system is far inferio..
to ours. The service Is comparatively poor. and
the cost Of travelng-why,. 1t cost as much for
my trunk as it did for myself; And when il came
to telegraph messages-ln Italy especlalIy-the ex-
pense was q third greater than it Is here and
well, they seem to think there that any time
will do for the sending of message. ! enjoyed
the Riviera with its rich scenery and its vintages
very much.
TOO COLD ON THE MEDTTTRRANEAN
" From Rome we went through Sicily, thence TO
Greece from there to Egypt, then hack to Malta
to Tunis and Alders, to Gibraltar, to the Canary
and Cape verd Islands, across to st. Thomas and
then to ST. Augustine. found the Mediterranean far
from being pleasant waters as had anticipated
The cold winds from the snow-topped Alps and the
Pyrepees made the air far far from ron pleasant and
afforded rough vOyagng as did the Atlantic
Mr. Gould paused for q moment. as If running
ms Bac 70 b this
speech: "Mr Gould, you have been away for
five months. and yet there are people here, bulls
or bears or some such kind Of animals who say
that all this while you have been among us tuse
as much as II you were sitting right here and
manipulating stocks, as Of old
ing al by himself the !dea Of snch sn unreason-
able oonceptiSn, repled without moving in h:
went away for rest. / took care to leave all
my affairs in snug shape, rs not 70 be bothered
with the thought of business cares 10 save
myself from annoyance / went even so far as TO
instruct my son George that he should not under
any circumstances telegraph to me single stock
quotation; and he did not, with one exception.
and that while was at Alexandria
DEFENDING HIS SON GEORGE.
Again there was a pause, but not long one.
Mr. Gould was plainly rousing himself to what
for him was determined font, for he soon said:
"The talk that has been going on with refer
ence to my son George Is cruel-simply cruel
There is not morsel Of truth in the charge that
he has been going short Of the market, or has
been bearing it. He has not sold single share
of stock Of the Missouri Pacific He has his own
stock and has q personal interest IN FceIiny up
It's value. myself have more invested In Mis-
souri, Pacific than have invested In anything
Does that refer 70 any one stock or to all ?"
Mr. Gould was asked
ITO all put together" was the emphatic ans
stocks put together of former in, estments. And
have natural interest in keeping up the stock.
have 1t as investment that will grow Mis-
souri, Pacific is worth $50 to-day, If it is worth
a cent the resources Of the road, its earnings,
the country through which II passes, all make
IL as valuable as have said. irrespective of any
more fluctuations Of the market Last year, 10
Is true the corn crop was short In Kansas and Nc
braska for the first time since the road built
and the earnings fell of This year the net in
come is So OO0 900. Newspaper articles which
have said to the contrary do not represent the
true state Of Affairs
Mr.. Gould was plainly moved about the reports
affecting George Gould, for he returned to the
smb;eet saving: There is nothing In these re-
ports. / have not instructed my son how to act