The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-06
HOW SOME RICH MEN LIVE.
They Hustle as if They Had Not the Price
of a Dinner.

| Jay Gould is at his desk in the West
ern Union building shortly after nine
every morning. His office is in the
southeast corner on the second floor. A
long-distance telephone, private tele-
graph wire to his home in Fifth ave-
nue, which in summer is switched so
| to connect with 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 a hired hack. He
drives away at his desk until I o'clock.
On some days he talks with POO visi-
tors; 200 minds, acute and marvellous
ly incisive minds that cannot he
matched anywhere out of the financial
world, rubbing against one! The fric-
ton is frightful. Besides, there are a
thousand important matters associated
with the Gould corporations which re-
quire his attention. When he starts for
home Mr.. Gould is very much more
exhausted than q laborer on the acque-
duct. The days friction frequently
brings on nervous headaches, which
completely wilt the owner of S7,000,-
600.
John Jacob Astor is on the go from
his early breakfast hour to dusk. He
trudges about Wall-street like an er-
rand 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 week in his cab so
revives his energies that when the new
mouth is ushered in he is ready to
start again on his daily tramps among
his real estate agents and bankers.
EverJ day in his life is devoted to the
hunt for substantial investments for
his money. He has other folks to col
lect his income. 1t is his business to
see that it is reinvested satisfactorily.
Great labor, untiring industry and re-
lentless attention are necessary to do
this. He is in the city winter and sum-
mer. His fortune of Sl00,000,000 chaius
him to the city just as tight as the
driver Of a leased hack with a big fam
lily on his hands.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is at his office
in the Grand Central station ahead Of
some of the Central's clerks. He works
six times harder than any one of them.
He has a dozen meetings Of directors on
hand nearly every day in the week,
with all their conflicting interests and
myriads of important details. He could
not WORK harder if he really wanted to
earn the interest on his individual for
tune of S100,000,00O. After long day
Of this monotonous drrdgery he fire.
quently 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 McAlliS-
ter ball. But the lectures and the
dances are in measure recreations,
and they revify him for the daily strug-
r,In To ntoi, /, fDr =,
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 is requires daily Get
tysburg, Seven Years War, a stern
battle every day, to keep your fortune
after you get it and to scutte and ward
off the pirates and brigands bent on
getting it from YOU"
Coils P. Huntington for two months
has hobbled on one foot in and out Of
his office in the Mills building. \ book
keeper in a dry goods shop would have
had every excuse to have remained at
home until his sprained ankle was
cured. Mr.. Huntington couldn't do
that, and yet he can point to bank ac-
counts and personal investments ag-
gregating S50,0O0,000. But the vast
machinery by which he obtained this
fortune was in full motion and steam
ing ahead like a Pennsylvania flyer.
1t was absolutely necessary that the
engineer should be aboard. His power
full and determined hand must be upon
the throttle valve or wrecks and disas-
ters must follow. So Mr.. Huntington
has been assisted in and out of his cab,
had many vince and wrack, but has
been compelled to watch his millions
or lose some Of them.
Russell Sage is in town every day in
tie year save holidays and Sundays.
He hasn't had a days vacation in years.
The bleakest and most miserable SAM
Piles Of wintry weather and the most
exhaustive days IN summer find him at
his desk in his Broadway office oppo-
site Trinity churchyard. With thirty
minutes notice he can lay before you
$50 100000 in cash. He prides himself
on keeping more ready money than
any other man in the world.) With
another half hours notice he can pro-
duce S20,000,OO) in securities, all his
own. The only recreation Of his life
occupies half an hour each day when
he joins Mr.. Gould and Sidney Dillon
at luncheon in the Western Union
building. He gets his midday meal for
nothing there, and, between ourselves,
| mllionaires are as anxious to get some-
thing for nothing as the poorest men
are. Sage works eight hours day. He
would be positively miserable at pic
mic and would fret and fidget through
4 Thomas concert. He would consider
it an expensive evening that he had to
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