Arizona silver belt., 1890-01-04
Jay GsuId's Methodieal Life.
(Boston Herald.)

Like most Of the successful men Of the present age, MT. Gould is extreme ly methodical and systematic in his habits. He rises every morning at precisely 7:30, seldom varying from that hour more than 10 minutes. Al 8 o'clock he sits down to his breakfas which. in his case, Is usually French rolls and a cup of coffee, and expects 10 find every member of the family present at that meal. Breakfast ovel :. his private secretary Is called in, and the numerous Legglng letters of the mornings mall are lald upon the ia ble. Each member selects at random a number Of these letters and reads them over. If any one of them are impressed by any of the letters, 1t is laid aside for future reference, while the others go into the waste basket. Those letters which have been laid aside are then taken up and discussed, and if d majority of those present con- clude that It Is case which really de- serves assistance, the assistance is sure to come within a very few hours in a very substantial form and without he slightest hlnt as to the identity of the donor. This part of his work~over, MT. Gould turns to his business cor respondence, which he diSposes of very rapidly, having his -9wn stenographer --t -at home; his prrvate wire to hls house and special telegraph operator to work it. Then he goes to his office. usually taking the Sixth Avenue EIe- vated road. over which It is hardly ne- cessary te say he has pass.
 Ten o'clock finds him in his office at the Western Union building, where he looks over the officlal reports of the various enterprises in which he is en- gagged. It is about this time of the day that Mr. Gould is pOpularly supposed 10 spin that complicated web in which Financial flies are allowed to entangle themselves. What he really does while he is in that office probably no man on earth knows, for it is well known fact that even his son George never knows just what the old man is doing. About 12 o'clock or little ai- ter. Dr. Norvin Green, President ot the Western Uniou, comes down for balf-hours chat with hls principal. There are no two men on earth more exactly unlike than Norvin Green and Jay Gould, yet Dr. Green is the only one with W .om Mr. Gould seems to be upon entirely cordial terms After these two gentlemen have discussed the affairs of the Western Union com pany, they nearly always lock arms and go to lunch together, either in the lunch room of the Western UnIon building, the Astor House or the Cafe Savarin. When Mir. Gould has fin lshed his luncheon he goes back to his office and weaves more spider webs until about o'clock. Now, right here may be noted very peculiar fact. GG0u!d never looks at a stock sticker, and has never been known to ask the price Of stock, and yet his brokers say he always knows within an eighth the quotation of al most every stock on the list. Where he gets his information nobody seems to know; may be it is instinct.
 At 4 o'clock Mir. Gould goes home, spends half an hour in the library, and then goes out for drive, which usually lasts until 6, hIs dinner time. After dinner he goes into his library and reads. His favorite author, strange to say. IS Dickens, and then It IS that the millionaire is brought more closely to the multitude than at any other time in hls life. He seldom goes to the theater, unless, indeed, to the opera or some dramatic performance of very high character; but there are exceptions, of course, to this rule, he and George having been seen at the Star Theater last Thanksgiving after noon listening to Billy Scanlan ssongs with evident relish. Ten o'clock usu- ally sees Mr. Gould between the sheets, and at 10:30 he is generally asleep, being S10.000 richer by the natural ac- cumulation of interest and dividend than he was when he got up at 1:3O' m the morning. When he rises agaln the next morning another $lO,OOO will have accumulated from the same source, and another cycle in bis life rlli have ended