Nevada County picayune., 1891-01-08
JAY GOULD'S POVERTY.

as he had an income of S10, 0,000, ,0O0 a year, attracted great attention in Wall street, and was eagerly dis cussed by the brokers.
 "l know man who is not nearly as poor as Jay Gould" said pe- troleum broker.
 II should like to hear of someone who is farther from the almshouse than Mir. Gould" replied a leading bear on the stock exchange.
 "Why John D. Rockefeller. He is believed by brokers who are well posted to have a fortune of S2O0 ,0OO, GOO, and an income of S20, 1000, ,0OO a year.
 "The salary of the president of a life insurance company is small change compared to that. ''lt 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 dependents. The king of the Standard Oil has more than the income of any four monarchs in Eu- rope. He could pay Queen Victo- ria's salary and scatter Sl0O, ,000 cer- tiiied cheeks among all the little princclcts without missing the mon- ey.
 "Twenty million dollars year. It takes ones breath away. It makes millionaire feel like paupcr in q free soup-house. Let me see how much that is."
 Why, it is s1,666,66 ,66S a month.
 "Leave out the cents. MT. Rock efeller can afford to lose them"
 "Well, it is S3S4,6l week. As Rockefeller is Baptist, and doesn't | labor on Sunday, it is S64, 102 for every work day in the week. Assum- ing that he tolls, like many other men. ten hours day, it is SC, ,4l0 every hour he works. It is Sl05 for every minute in the ten hours, and q little more than S1.75 fer every sec ond.
 Every time the Standard Oil king breathcs he earns an ordinary days wages. Counting twenty-four hours in the day his income, asleep or awake, is S2 2,670 an hour, S41.50 minute, and about 74 cents sec ond. The precise figures are little more than those figures which have given, for l have dealt in round num- bers only"
 Counting every hour in the twen- ty-four, Mir. Rockefeller's income would, you say, be S2,G70. Then if he should come down town in the morning in street car, and should be three-quarters of an hour on the way, he would earn S2 ,000. 50 on the route. He would pay cents fare, and would save S2,0O0.45 on the journey"
 "Yes, and if he were to spend five minutes in having his boots polished before he went into his office he would pay dime for the service and be S222.30 richer when he got up from the bootblack's chair than when he sat down in It."
 And if he rushed into a barber shop for a quick shave his income would be S627.50 during the fifteen minutes he was in the barber's s chair. He would give the barber D cents and rush out of the shop SGG7.25 richer than when he en- tered it."
 "A Turkish bath would come cheap to him."
 "Why"'
 "Because it costs only S5, and he would earn S2,67O in the hour he was taking it.
 And the theatre cheaper still, for after spending three hours at the play, at a cost of l.50 for an or chestra chair, he would leave the theatre SS, S,00S.50 richer than when he entered it short time before.
 And just think of the beneficial effects of good nights sleep on a man with an annual income of S20,- 900, ,000. He would rise in the morn- ing refreshed and S2, ,360 richer than when he went to bed. In the eight hours he was snoozing or dreaming he would earn the salary of a good bookkeeper for twenty-one years, or the salary of twenty-one bookkeep- CTS for one year.
 II know" said the reporter as he was writing out an item for the pa perl know this is only rumor,