St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-14
JAY GOULD'S SONS.
Two Young Lieutenants Busy
With Great Enter
ppiseS.
How the Old Man Has Piled
Work Upon the Young
Fellows.
The Different Companies in
Which They Are Active
Directors.
Their Personal Appearances,
Habits, Tastes and Daily
Life.

| famous man in New York has bleak
| time of it. He is apt to be overshadowed
| by his fathers prominence. Jay Gould
| believes this.
Anybody who talks to MIR. Gould can
| not but be impressed with his marked
| philosophic temperament. 1t has been
| said that he loses his composure about
once in every six years. On these Occa-
sions some of his closest friends believe
that he is imprudent even to reckless
| ness. The rest of his time he is a keen,
| calm observer of everything and every
| body around him. These casual obSer-
| vationS on some of Mr.. Gould's char
acteristics, and they have been spoken
of many times in Wall street, will go
along with the remark of of an old cam
paigner in the street.
either Jay Gould loves his sons
George and Edwin to the point of indis
cretion,'' said he, cor he has weighed
them up in his keen way and thinks
| there's lots of sand in them"
| The old campaigner meant that Mr..
Gould believed that his sons had the
financial acumen to justify him in push
| ing them to the front in the manage
ment of great corporations and financial
| enterprises with which his own name is
| so prominently associated.
George Gould is now practically a
| veteran. Pages have been written
| about this young man of thirty, who
for number of years has been his
| his fathers right-hand man in the man
| agement Of the Western Union. Mis-
souri, Pacific and other great corpora
lions. George Gould is practically in
command of the Western Union build
ing His father seldom visits the build
ing He has wire from it to his
homes OH Fifth avenue and III Irving
ton. and as his eldest son is a proficient
FOUNDER of the key he is in direct and
confidential communication with his
father. George Gould receives all his
fathers visitors, and in other ways some
of the rays of his fathers prominence
gid him.
SO much has been heard recently of
Edwin Gould that he can very properly
be considered factor in the Gould
fame. Very few speak of him as Edwin
Gould. He is Eddie Gould to nearly
everybody, and in Wall street he has
Inherited the title of kid Could"
which was bestowed on his brother
George when he was first heard of.
The young man is tWenty-three years
old. He was born in the old home of
the Goulds in Union square. He has
voice and a vote in the management of
$780, 100000 of railroad, telegraph and
cable capital. He is at the Western
Union building with his brother George
every day. He is director Of the Western
Union Telegraph company and its cable
companies and the Manhattan Elevated;
secretary, and member of the eXecu-
tive committee Of the st. Louis, Arkan-
sas d Texas Railroad company, and
president of the Pacific Railroad of
Nebraska. At directors meetings his
boyish face contrasts with those of such
veterans as j. Pierpont Morgan, Samuel
Sloan. Russell Sage, Sidney Dillon and
Cyrus W. Field.
He is more like his father than
George. He resembles him in voice
and ways. George Gould can be easily
recognized by his olive skin and raven
hair and mustache. Young Eddie
Gould's skin is even darker, and his
hair and mustache blacker than
Georges. He has a diffideEt air, and
speaks very slowly and i'll the low tones
which are so marked with his father.
In manners he is very mu CHI beyond his
years. He acts like young old man.
One would think in talking with him
that he never thought of fun, or was i'll
terested in the amusements OF young
men. He occasionally smiles, but it
isn't the hearty expression of youthful
jollity. III fact, in many ways he is an
eminently serious young man.
But he is just the young man that
would interest some one of our fair
country girls. He likes the theater and
opera. He has the same enthusiastic
zest for the theater that the average
city young man begins life at fifteen
with. Young Gould would make fine
beau for the little country maidens who
would go to the theater every night in
the month and have SmOthered regret
that there were any Sundays to keep
them at home.
He can telegraph any number of
messages, but he says he is not an eX-
pert receiver. In business hours he is
all business, but in the afternoon he
dasheS through the park and out on the
roads beyond on dark gray Kentucky
horse with white tail. He is men,
Der of Troop A OF the First Dragons,
the first cavalry troop to be admitted to
the national guard of the state. All
the hesitation in young Gould's manner
departs when he talks of this cavalry
troop. He is earnestly interested in its
success. and frankly said the other day
that if he had a hobby in the world it
was this troop. He believes that in
time it will surpaSS the famous Seventh
in the proficiency and precision of its
drills and dress parades. He is con-
vinced that the time is approaching
when interest in these troops will sup
plant the Juror which the Seventh and
other famous infantry troops excite.
Young Gould is a member of the New
York Athletic club, and when at
Columbia rowed in the freshmen crew
at New London. ''But we got licked"
he laconically said, in speaking of the
occasion. Before going to Columbia
young Gould went to the New York
School of Languages, but he says he
wasn't interested enough to learn to
speak the languages taught at the
school. When he went to Columbia he
only stayed three years. He quit the
college two years ago because, as
he says, he became interested
in stock speculations Oh the Con-
soidated Stock and Petroleum eX-
change. He was familiar figure on that
exchange even before he left college,
and occasionally he cut quite dash
with his speculations. He smiled when
he recalled the stories circulated at the
time that he always coppered his faith
er's tips. ''Were these stories true?''
he repeated, ard he replied, Il wouldn't
want to say anything about that" But
his speculations began to attract atten-
ton. and he relinquished them to take
the place in his fathers office. He infer
entially expressed the idea, though,
that the Western Union building was
near enough to Wall street to suit any
reasonable person. If young Gould
has fancy for stock operations he i'm
presses one with quiet indications of
shrewdness and cool determination in
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