The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-07-14
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1850 new York Millis1airs1
Began Their Career.


- Jure is. an elaborate srstc1s
-sss.a sssfflionaifes Of New York
- & rmffted the most interesting
= me subject. which won1d
-hov these men Of fertility q
-ss.l resource got on theirfes and
~ - foundations Of their fortunes.
= !. 80 feature Of the matter, there.
~afch the Sunday PseD opens M
- which II will follow up nsxt
.r.isv OF al phases Of the question
% get on in The 6nanciAl
- none is 50 attractive 70 -
~~nan Is the means By which
~ have gathered large wealth
odopted 10 start. 70 build up and
-~rure their fortunes
- many reasons Jay Gould stands
- n the eyes Of the American
= he most fascinating and In
linx figure among Americas
%-Sseweirss. And this comes In no
s1 drrYee from a certain mystery
his methods and his
- vslkys While he il. on
IN nntii recently, easily
10 newspaper men.
S - In that accessibility
. mystery. This comes
E frum his quiet, u~npreteti0us
A md the thought in the mind
Of the wonderful results
the activity of that r.
oeil poised head carried on
efrnme.
~. Gould was . witness be-
Pncifc railway commission.
r.. III. be summed up in . nut
Nv Of the whole situation
11fne every man in his search
@Ss11k' Twas an expression oi
sGt. and yet one which Russell
-. 6olis r. Huntington. Austin
John d. Rockefeller John
letor. Cornelius Vanderbilt. r.
f1rnum. Lsvi p. Morton, Andrew
ffss. Claus Sprcckles, George
U~f. PHfjp Armour. Robert Bonner
30 Ihfner Miller might with strict
rcri6tY and with . view to careful
fni1ion have applied each TO bis
IN ease. These were Mr.. Gould's
uoeds:
Il have been eli my life dealing In
miiYoeis-fh&t Is, since / Was OF age
- eleays in futures. l have made
NJ money. The first railroad bonds
ever hsd / bought 1t ten cents-ktit-
Ind and Northumberland not only
bonds became good, but sold my
tuck out q i23. just 80 in the Union
Paci6c. saw = future there. Just
70 10 The Kansas Pacific. l saw that
the Kansas Pacific was going TO de.
voiop faster than the others. because
e vas run through . better country.
Yes, cir, there Is = better way OF judg'
ing d railroad values than any you
have mentioned, and IL Is in the future
q It"
HOW GOULD SAW HIS FUTURE.
II saw q future there.'"I have beer
Ill my life dealing in futures" Ths
fortunes Of all Of the millionaires JUS
mentioned hinged upon the same
thing: II saw . future there"
Various stories are afoat rs to where
Mr.. Gould saw that future" before
be went into railroads after he came
70 this city In 1sos. It Is said he was
cowboy on . Delaware county farm
that u, one whose duty IL was 30 drive
the rows to and from pasture and
hslp milk them. Then comes the story
Of hts psddling maps Of the county
and Of hts writing q history of ii and
selling H. But. whatever he was do
ing, ~ Vas always looking for fu-
tufsA The future be saw in the tan.
merry business In Eastern Pennsyl.
vania has been told over and over
and always coupled with IL Is the story
that Nj. Gould saw q future there
In playing sharp on his partner. One
Of the cautious me of this city, who
knows Mr.. Gould well, said the other
day.
sThe story that Mr.. Gould whee-
died his partner out of his money and
the tannery business Is false, hut il
has been industriously circulated by
his enemies. Mr.. Gould's partner
made . fortune out Of the bushes,
and Il Was through Mr.. Gould's in.
sight into the future In the business
that made that fortune"
1t Was the tannery business that
gave Mr.. Gould his start. put him on
his feet and enabled him 10 come a.
New York To turn that wonderful
brain OF his to the future of railroads,
c. P. HuSriSaroS's START.
A friend OF Coils p. Huntingdon
well sersed in his financial affairs.
made this positive assertion last week
Mr.. Huntington is, I believe. and
have good reason TO believe. the
weAithiest single individual in the
United States OF America TODAY"
This view Is not generally held. but
there Is abundant evidence OF the
truth Of the statement to those who
have seen some OF the working az the
Huntington financial machinery one
confidential clerk is kept at work
wssks q . umc semi-annually cutting
coupons from Mr.. Huntington {
ooads, and each six months the
oonRons alone figure up a quarter of a
n1tatpo Of dollars.
huntington was born in Con-
eseecut IN ls2l. hranched out NJ "a
tos himself. settled AZ % in oneonfa
ossSo county, this state, as a general
ssnsnt. In ISIS be made q shin.
ment OF goods 10 California. land In
sae sold rush OF 10 he sailed around
w morn the following March
sM.nesed contact with the soustters
Z Francisco. paid his p~assawe As
|. ueek hand at 81 an hour by steamer
- sacramento, and there set up a
slnaii tent. with a limited SUNNY al
AL and embarked ON the career
'.aa n subsequently made him the
'ess'Ins merchant of the state. Then
S.Iae MS Efforts with Mark Hopkins,
".Iies Crocker and Leland STANFORD,
- we great railroad project which re-
'uasea IN the Central Pacific and lei
= vac great iron arteries uniting Cali.
..hsa 10 the East 1t Is asserted tina,
ms project prevented the Pacific
suir from seeding from the United
ases, Mr.. Huntington has q
'p'enaid physique. ANA has always
future IN methodical habits
aose attention 10 business aud in
leepsng an ever satehiul eve on Oh
portanity.
RUSSELL sAGE
Russell Sage dealt in futures loag
he developed puts and calls
ma straddles" IN New York city
seout lsG0 lie was born i'm Verona
'aesaa county, isit, on a little farm
mere ciayey soil and crops II stones
acaa sway. Ills futures from tn,
east We're formed in saving. wher
. ne became y clerk in his hreths,
aenry grocery store AZ Troy. Hi.
ayes were his board and 81 re.
Hat ont Of that small sam hs
No. something. lie was always
ssas Tor a swap. aud he MANAGED
. drop on ~ the leeward side og ths
After thra~ wave akark