The Forrest City times., 1890-11-15
Jay Gou,d,s Poverty

The New York Morning Journals golden interview with Uncle Russell Sage, in which the genial financier said that his friend, Jay Gould, was far from being poor man, inasmuch as he had an income of $1O 900 900 a year, attracted great attention in Wall street, and was eagerly discussed by the brokers.
 "I know man who is not nearly as poor as Jay Gould,'' said . petroleum broker.
 II should like to hear of somebody who is farther from the almshouse than Mir. Gould" replied leading bear on the stock exchange. "Why, John D. Rockefeller. He is believed by brokers who are well post ed to have fortune of S200 900 900, and an income of S20,OO0,000 n year. "The salary of the president of a life insurance company is small change compared to that.
 1t is four times the income Of the czar Of all the Russias. Besides. Mir. Rockefeller doesn't have to spend his
 money in supporting an army of de- peud,nts. The king of the Standard Oil has more than the income of any four monarchs in Europe. He could pay Queen Victoria's salary and scat ter $lU0 GOO certified checks among all the little princelets without missing the money.
 Twenty million dollars u year! It takes ones breath away. It makes < millionaire feel like pauper in free soup-house. Let mo see how much i that is"
 "Why, it is Sl .G66 .66e 66i Il month ? Leave cut the cents. Mir. Rocke, l feler can afford to luse them" Well. it is SSsi.6i5 week. As
 Rockefeller IS a Baptist. and doesn :, ! labor on sunday. II is S64 .lo2 fur , every work day in the week. Assum- ing that he tolls. like many other men,
 ten hours day. it is s6.iln every l hour lac works. It is SlD5 for ever,
 minute in the ten hours, and Il little | more than Si75 for every second. Every time the Standard Oil king l breathes he earns an ordinary days
 wages. Counting tweniyfour hours | in the day his income. asleep or awake 1 is <2 eI0 An hour, Sil 60 a minute, and about 74 cents a second. The precise figures are little more chan those which have given, for have dealt iil round numbers only Counting every hour in the twenty. l four, Mr. Rockefeller income would
 you say, be Sa,610. Then if he should come down town in the morning in q
 street car, and should be ihree-quar
 iers of all hour on the way, he would
 earn E. ,o00 .s0 on tho route. He would I pay cents fare. and would save S2 ,O02 .i5 on the journey" Yes, md if he were to spend five
 minutes ln having his b,ots polished before he went into his office he would pay dime for the service and be
 s2,.2,2 30 richer when he got np from the
 bootblack's chair than when he sai
 down in 1t,
 And if he rushed into barber
 shop for a quick shave his income
 would be $667 50 during the fifteen
 minutes he was in the barber's chair
 He would give the barber a5 cents and
 rush out of the shop $667.25 richer
 than when he entered it. "A turkish bath would coms cheap
 to him"
 "WhyY"
 Because it costs only 6, and hs
 would earn sa,670 in the hour he was
 taking It.
 And the theater cheaper still, for | after spending three hours at the l play, at cost of sl 50 for an orches | tra chair, he would leave the theatel
 $s, ,00S. 50 richer than when he entered 1t a short time before.
 And just think of the beneficial ef
 fleets of good nights sleep on mar
 with an annual income of &20,000 ,DO0
 He would rise in the morning refresh
 ed and $2l .s6O richer than he went tt
 bed. In the eight hours he wa.
 snooxing or dreaming he would carr
 the salSry of good bookkeepsr fo ltwenty-one years, or the salary O
 twenty-one good bookkeepsrs for on'
 year"