Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-15
THE MILLIONAIRE.
Gould Romps About the Grounds
ofHis Home With the Children.
The Poker Players.

Once upon a time, and not so very many
years ago either, the traveller along GER
tain maple-sladed road in the beautiful
town Of Irvington-on-the-H Hudson, which
derives its name from Washington Irving
the gentle genius who idealized This whole
region, might have seen short, slightly
built, dark complexioned man, with pierre
ing black eyes, playing with two children
ON the stately grounds of a palatial coun-
try-seat. The children, boy and girl,
are turning rope and the gentleman
jumps with the agility of a rompiSh school
girl. Then they all stop and break into
merry laughter. 1t is beautiful spot; the
grounds are laid out in elegant parterres:
the lawn is closely cut and fragrant the
Landscape would charm him who is wise
enough TO be lover Of nature. At no
great distance is the roal which thu slab
iided, green-eyed schoomaster traversed
in lrying's SLEEPY Hollow on his way TO
court Katrina, the rosy-cheeked daughter
CT prosperous old Myuheer Van raSsel;
and it was on a fatefu night on this same
lonely highway that the pedagogue, having
just received the mtten from Katrina,
realized that TROUBLES come not singly
but in, batalliOns, when, dark against the
dim midnight moon he saw looming up be-
fore him the dreaded Headless Hoysem5n
carrying his head under his arm. The next
instant the mysterious equestrian throws
his head at the horror-stricken pedagogue,
which strikes his distracted pate with ter
rife force, and shattered pumpkin found
the next morning in ditch hard by, gives
touch of harsh realism to the doleful tale.
1t is upon this region that, by a curious
chance, fashion has alighted and dotted it
with palaces set in the midst of enchanting
greenery. The little black-eyed man, dark
almost as Persian, whom we see on the
beautiful lawn, has decreed a more stately
pleasure dome than did Kubla Khan in Ia
nadu, by Alf the sacred river. 1t is
man famous in two hemispheres-Jay
Gould. He filings aside all restraint as if
under the spell of one of Cotton Mather's
witches, in whom, by the way, the ancient
inhabitants Of this somniferous region i'm
pllcitly believed. He jumps the rope, he
plays tag" with the children he romps
like schoolboy. His daughter Nellie and
his son Edwin are his companions in these
juvenile pranks, which reveal the man at
his best.
All that most rnvy. tha cbi1Jra,, ho,-a
gone out into the world. But in few
years the same interesting spectacle may
be witnessed by astonished wayfarers, for
Mr. Gould has two grandchildren To-
; day, however, Jay Gould is a morbid man,
whose character is, so to speak, petrifying.
lie is becoming miser. He enjoys taking
drive with his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
George Gould, nee Edith Kingdom, formerly
a well-known actress, but his chief amuse-
ment now is his business. He deeply
mourned the death of his wife last year. as
he has always been domestic in his tastes.
He has not forsaken Wall street lie
seems to find certain amusement in spec
ulation. 'He amuses himself" said one
who knows, ''by fooling with the market.
He cares nothing for horses and has only
four in the city, which he keeps for the
use of his children. When at his place at
Irvington he often amuses himself by learn
ing the botanical names Of the plants in
his grounds and conservatories so that he
is now fair amateur botanist." But his
enc over-masterlng impulse is the acquisi-
ton of new millions He once said that
he no longer cared for money except as
means of carrying out his railroad projects,
but the character of the man has changed.
Gold is low his master. He cares nothing
for sport OF for men who Go.
Russell Sage likes fast horses. He wears
black goggles to prevent the gravel from
flying into his eyes as he drives spanking
span up the Boulevard. He has a weak
ness to be thought great horseman. He
drives well.
Coils p. Huntington cares nothing for
horses. He often drives down to his Office
in the Mills building, but is not horse
man in the ordinary sense One of his
greatest amusements is TO travel.
George Gould Is a member of the New
York Athletic Club and is very regular in
his attendance He is well built and greatly
'.enjoys the exercise at the club rooms Ed
win Gould's hobby is cavalry. He is
member of a troop of horses in this city
which he thinks will yet rival in popularity
the Seventh Regiment
Addison Cammack Is wholly indifferent
to sport unless 1t consists In worrying the
bulls In Wall street.