St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
Corner Third and Cedar Streets.
what sort of a looking man is Pierre

What sort of looking man is Pierre
| pont Morgan?"
HE is a tall man. with most whey
looking nose; his nose is of that large
bottle-veined kind which would Indicate
port wine in the immediate and past
generations. He is an Episcopalian,
and a good deal on the model of an
MISUNDERSTANDING"
You have referred to COrbin; what
is the opinion among the best authori-
ties in Wall street of C0rbin's manage
ment of the Reading raiIroad?'
1T is not favorable. Corbin is hard.
selfish man in the estimation of many of
our fraternity, and perhaps IN the esti-
nation of the majority who have come
in contact with him. He draws a salary
of $4,000 year from the Reading rail-
road and does not do any work COM
mensDrate with his salary.
DO you see much of Jay Gould in
these days?''
81 see him about every week. Gould
is. however, very careful of his health !;
the last time saw him he told me that
1t was requisite for him to be strict in
everything he did. Every good day he
goes out riding in the park with his
daughter. His daughter is a young
woman. Gould lives closely within his
family"
HAS the former hostility of what is
called society in New York ceased its
opposition to Mr. Gould?''
''Oh, [ suppose it has, but he does not
care to go into the clique or cliques
which nominate themselves to be So
clety. How can any man busy all day,
and successful in his business, let 90 of
his Infinite concerns and his own family
life, to have his house overrun with re-
turn calls and flying broughams and
victorias. A business man might as
well be in hell. Some of these people
whose fortunes have been made,
and who merely go to
the bank in the morning and
cut Off their coupons, can cultivate
circle which takes the name of New
York society. Most of us have too much
company as it is. A man absorbed down
town, or staying home, with telephone
wires running into his house, so that
he is called up at all times
BETWEEN BREAKFAST AND MIDNIGHT
to answer questions. cannot go into So
ciety, and cares nothing about it COM
mensurate with the wear and tear Of
it,"
''How do you measure up prominent
operators like Mr.. Brice, who desired to
enter the United States Senate?"
We'll, case like that is exceptional.
Mr.. Brice is not a man who cares any,
thing about money. His wealth is
greatly overestimated. though he has
had luck in most of his operations. He
might become poor man; and l sup
pose there is no other man in the range
of my acquaintance who would pay as
little attention to having become sud
denly poor as Brice. Money to him is
the mere instrument for the employ
If
otherwise genial SenSibilities. He likes
to do favors to oblige his family, to full
fiji the social measure OF those around
him and to carry out what he may be-
lieve to be his old Presbyterian fathers
public ambition. You never could
make out of a man like that a close
money-lending and money-shaving
financier.''
''What is the estimation put in Wall
street upon Chauncey NJ. Depew?"
HE stands well there as an unusual
type OF parliamentary orator, incident
ally connected with property interests.
He serves the large interests which en-
plOy him, as we'll as many subsidiary
interests which do not employ him, in
Keeping the tone of the community
sociable and hearty. Since he was
elected to the head of the New York
Central railroad, we have not had rail-
road quarrels as we formerly had.
DepeW gets around, fraternizes,
and is kind OF good pastor
to a railroad congregation. He
breaches the discourse about every
week, smooths out difficulties, calls on
the sick financiers, prays with the dying
financiers, eats dinner with publicans
and sinners, and at the head of large
property in which he has probably
very small interest he keeps up the hy-
giene of things. The Vanderbiits found
a man already manufactured to their
hand"
do you think the exhibition is COM