The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-02-13
now SOME RICH MEN LIVE.
They Hustle as If they Had Not the Price
of Dinner.

They Hustle as If they Had Not the Price
of o Dinner.
Jay Gould is at bis desk in the West.
ern Union building shortly after every
morning. His Office is in the Southeast
corner on the second floor. a long. dis.
tance telephone, private telegraph wire
running into his home at Irvington, and
another wire running into the heart of
Wall street, are all handy to Mr.. Gould's
desk. Mr.. Gould does not have private
equipages. He uses the horse cars and
the elevated trains. Sometimes at night
he rides in hired hack. he drives away
at his desk until 4 o'clock. On some
days he talks with 200 visitors j; 200
minds, acute and marvelously incisiVe
minds that cannot be matched anywhere
out of the financial world, rubbing against
one The friction is frightful Besides,
there are thousand important matters
associated with the Gould corporations
which require his attention. When he
starts for home Mr.. Gould is very much
more exhausted than laborer on the
acqueduct. The days friction frequently
brings on nervous headaches, which
completely wilt the owner of $4,000, 900.
John Jacob Astor is on the 60 from
his early breakfast hour to dusk. He
trudges about Wall street like an errand
boy. He does this for about twenty.four
days in month, and by that time he
calls in his cab. He is tagged out, and q
week in his cab so revives his energies
that when the new month is usaered in
he is ready to start again on his daily
tramps among his real estate agents
and bankers. Every day in his life is
deyoted to the hunt for substantial in.
yestments for his money. He has other
folks 10 collect his income. It is his
business to see that it is reinYested salts.
factorily. Great labor, untiring indus
try and relentless attention are necessary
to do this. He is in the city winter and
summer. His fortune of S100,000,000
chains him to the city just as tight as the
driver of a leased hack with big family
on his hands.
Cornelius Vanderbilt! is at his Office in
the Grand Central station ahead of some
of the Ceutral's clerks. He works six
times harder than any one of them. He
has dozen meetings of directors on
hand nearly every day in the week, with
all their conflicting interest aud myriads
OF important details. BE could not
work harder if be really wanted to earn
the interest on hi, individual fortune of
s1OO,0OO,OOO. After long day Of this
monotonous drudgery he frequently
lectures at night to the Young Mems
Christian Association and other bodies of
the same character. On other nights he
dances until nearly dawn. He was in
every dance at the McAllister ball. But
the lectures and the dances are in q meas.
uro recreatiops, and they revivify him
for the daily struggle to retain his i'm.
mense fortune. It is we'll known that
the old Commodore and William H.,
after him, remarked that it was "easy
enough to get rich in New York. 1t
requires daily Gettysburg, Seven
Years War, stern battle every day, to
keep your fortune after you get it and to
scuttle and ward off the pirates and bri-
gands bent on getting it from you."
Coils P. Huntington for two months
has hobbled on one foot in and out Of
his Offices, in The Mills building. A
bookkeeper in a dry goods shop would
have had every excuse to have remained
at home until his Bprained ankle was
cured. Mr.. Huntington couldn't do that,
and yet he can point to bank accounts
and personal Investments sggregating
s5O,oOO,O0O. But the vast. machinery
by which he obtained this fortune was
in full motion aud stcaming ahead like
Pennsylvania flyer. 1t WAS absolutely
necessary that the engineer should be
aboard. His powerful and determined
hand must be upon the throttle valve or
wrecks and disaster would follow. So
Mr.. Huntington has been assisted in and
out of his cab, had many q vince and
wrack, but has been compelled to watch
his millions or lose some of them.
Russell Sage is in town every day In
the year save holidays and Sundays:
Ho hasn't had a days vacation in years.
The bleakest and most miserable samples
of winter weather and the most exhaust
i've days in summer find him at his desk
in his Broadway Office opposite Trinity
churchyard. With thirty minutes notice
he can lay before you s3o,0oo,0OO in cash.
(He prides himself on keeping more
ready money than any other man in the
worldly With another half hours notice
be can produce s2O,00O,Ooo il securities,
all his own. The only recreation of his
life occupies half an hour each day when
be joins Mr.. Gould and Sidney Dillon
at luncheon in the Western Union build
ing. BE gets his midday meal for moth
ing there, and, between ourselves, mil
liopaires are as anxious to get something
as the poorest men are Sage works
eight hours day. he would be posi-
lively miserable at picnic and would
fret and 6dget through Thomas concert.
He would consider it an expensive even
ing that he had to spend in such man
Der.
The Rockefellers, William and John D.,
with s25O,OO0,oOO at their back, and
their satellites, Renry II. Rogers and
John Arcbibold, with other numerous