The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-05-16
GOULD AND SAGE.
Their Daily Experience with Boress CranIls
and Begsars.

and Beggars.
To enter Mr.. Gould's presence one
mnst pass through three outside offices
and file among half score uf conf
Dental clerks, and then in nine ont of
ten instances he will he greeted by Mr.
George Gonld, who acts as loyal aud
Jealous buffer between the bores and
his father, saws the New York .S3tn.
Young Mr. Gould dispnses If lE,. visi-
tors who have no business there quite
as rapidly as could be desired But
there have been any number of the
bOre5 aud craDks and beggars who
have waylaid Mr.. Gould in tie corri-
doris of the Western Union, or on the
street, or on the elevated road to and
from his home. Their reward is a
cold stare and quickened pace by the
railroad magnate, OF a soft and unemO-
tiOnal please excuse me-" Mr.. Gould
once said that if he complied with all
| the requests made ou him in a day he
would have TO walk home at night and
start life anew the next morning.
Mr. Gould quickly learned that it
would be necessary TO employ clerk
especially for the purpose of receiving
the begging letters. Two capacious
waste paper baskets were bought at
the same time. Mr.. Gould says the
combination, the clerk and the bas-
| kets, work with expedition. In fact,
Mr.. Could never sees or reads one of
the thousands of written appeals sent
to him every week or month of his ex-
istence. The clerk at first had some
amusement glancing at the variety of
| appeals, but his entries have long since
| become wearisome and frigntfully
monotonOus. He can tell begging
letter before he rips it open, and after
| a pcrfuuclory glance it is flung aside
to join the myriads gone before
For several months Mr.. Gould's
Fifth avenue home has been his office,
aud a telegraph wire connects it with
his Western Union office, where George
Gould is at the instrument A couple
of years ago Wall street men talked
! about the '.new hobby of George Gould. "
They learned that the dark-eyed young
man was learning telegraphy, and
were highly amused at the stories of
Young Could pounding away on a
practice Keyboard. To these Wall
street men young Gouid's conduct was
nothing but joke or an amusement
necessary to leaden the hours at busi-
ness for this son of millionaire.
Young Could smiled and let 'em talk.
He is now proficient operator, and
he learned telegraphy for tie value i:
now is TO him in communicating quick
" aud directly with his father. His
father in his library, surrounded by
the choice flowers he is so fond of, is
as close to his office and his son as an
electric flash can make him.
Russell Sage has had Il like exper-
ience with beggars and bores and
nuisances generally. The fact that
Mr.. Sage can raise $S0,O00,000 in cash
in an hour, all his own, to throw into
the street if he chooses, has been made
known over the land. 1t is known rs
we'll that Mr.. Sage has no children.
Mr.. Sage enjoys the reputation of d
philanthropiSt with some, and this has
enhanced the interest of outsiders i'll
his cash box. Mr.. Sage thinks mosl
of his ''bore times" as he calls it, has
been taken up by colored clergymer
and school trustees and faculties thai
itch for rich endowments for their col
lege. Mr.. Sage is IL brisk, spry man
His step is as quick and his ways are a;
alert as they were forty years ago. HI
doesn't relish the requests of the facul
ties for endowments. They SAVIOR too
much of the tomb to suit his active lifC
and thoughts. He has Trinity church
yard over the way from his office tt
recall things solemn, and he is apt tt
be impatient with endowment hunters
Mr.. Sage is especially II magnet fo
stock-market bores. Not day Rasse,
that he is not the recipient of ''tips" OF
the market. They are pumped int
him by Wall street men who want tt
do business on the stock-exchange 70
him. Mr.. Sage is member of th
exchange, but he has never been on tn
floor. 1t wouldn't be safe for him t.
make a practice of visiting the ez
change. He would be besieged wit
brokers with most valuable informs
ton as to the future of the market an
all sorts of schemes to reap. million!
Mr.. Sage is good listener. He heal
all the tips and winks with his off ey
and chirps: "Hah! hah! hah! That
good. | never thought of that" :.
is, in many cases, freight-car to a
ash barrel that Mr.. Sage isn't runnin
some stock deal which will eventuall
show results directly opposite to thos
contemplated by sanguine tip purve.
ors.