Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-14
VERY LITTLE STYLE
Exhibited by Tie GOulds in Their
Spring Hunt for Health.
TIE WEE WIZARD AS A BOTANIST.
Baseball Players Find the Springs Haven
for Training.
A CELESTIAL MIXTURE OF MEDICINE
rrRoM A STATE CORRESPONDENT

Hotel this aiternoon just as the small band
of baseball cranks were returning with
hoarse voices and perspiring hands from the
field where the ST. Paul team had snatched
victory from the Cincinnatis (Association) }.
The hack was open and on the back seat sat
a little man with a great many wrinkles in
his face and gray hairs in his dark
beard Beside him sat very pretty girl
with q sailor hat and jaunty air to match.
Then vis-a-yis was young man, OF very
small importance if appearance were to be
trusted. The dust raised by the shuffling
horses and tie rickety rig had not subsiGed
before a New Yorker among the baseball
cranks said irreverently: ''Tnere goes old
Jaw
Everybody turned at once, and as if to
crafty the curiosity Of some of his sub biects
Mr.. Gould hooked his umbrella into the
hsckman's neck and signalled him to wheel
about Then as they passed we all had a
good look at the Little Wizard" aud the
New Yorker further identified the pretty
girl and the commonplace young man as
George Gould and his young wife, about
whom thousands of young men raved when
she adorned the stage as Edith Kingdom.
Not Putting on Much style.
Another hack of equally ple5eian aspect
the climate will be colder here when the
supply OF moth-eaten chariots and spawned
steeds run out-iollowed in the wake of Jay
Gould's, containing Miss Helen Gould and
DR.. Joha P. Mum, of New York, the ply
sician who accompanies the railroad mag
nate on all his journeys. The Gould
party arrived to-day on their special car
and they GOT into the hackmen's hands of
course. Even the wonderful strategic skill
of Mr. Gonld could not save him from the
common fate OF all who get out at the Hot
Springs TERMINUS. 1t is my belief that Mr..
Gould visits Hot Springs from time TO time
to study the hackmen, the druggists the
hotelkeepers anc the rest OF the fnanciers
here. Anyhow, he drove all over town TO-
Gav, and looked at the new hotels, the
building boom, of which many new stores
are the results, and paid the hackmen with
out a protest-which astonished them no
doubt.
Ofcou-se Jay Gould's visit to Hot Springs
st this time is only an incident OF his usual
tour over the great system Of railroads
which he dominates in the Southwest, but
some people see significance of another sort
in it, 4 man who has had some dealings
with Mr Gould in the past said 10 me just
now: Il have noticed that whenever a man
of anv influence in financial way in this
country dies jay Gould very often comes
up6n the scene OF the Geceased's late activity
before the estate is settled up. Observe the
coincidence now that Diamond Joe
Reynolds is hardly cold in his grave
before Mr. Gould happens to
appear in Arkansaw. Diamond Joe, YOU re-
member, practically owned the Hot Springs
Railroad, which IS such valuable feeder of
Gr Guuld'S Iron Mountain road, and he
had q Good many other interests in which
Mr. Gould had concern indirectly at ali
events. When 4 millionaire like Diamond
Joe Gies there are always some loose ends in
his estate, and who SO well fitted to pick
them IN as a brother millionaire2 You
may rest assured that jay Gould will know
ali about the distribution OF Diamond Joe's
estate and his knowledge will be obtained
at trss hands, too, before he goes back to
New York.
Gould MS Bctanist.
"That is the secret of Jay Gould's won
derful success in finance, or for the matter
o. that in everything be has turned his
hand to, " remarked a New York banker
who had listened 10 the above description of
Mr.. GOuld's methods. HE knows his own
business thoroughly aud doesn't trust any,
body TO look after If for him, unless it be
that his Ill health has forced him 10 aban-
don some OF the supervision OF his enormous
interest TO his son George. Thoroughness
IS Gould's creed and standard. l guess if
ii is true that he peddled rat traps once, no.
body ever peddled them with such assiduity
ard enterprise as he did. l was astonished
r year or Two ago at an exhibition of
Gould's versatility which was also tribute
10 his thoruughGess. a party OF US, bankers
and Wall street men, went out to Gould's
country seat at Iryington-on-the-H Hudson.
at is a beautiful place, as most people
know, and Mr.. Gould took US about before
dinner 10 see the lions. Among other
-l5urrs hn chnEra1 11S tho hnfn aol aofi
which he had made. 1t contains, believe,
the principal plants OF almost every ceun-
try In the world-some growing out of
doors, others in the hot houses. But tnat
was not ali. Mr.. Gould himself as we
wandered among the flowers and leaves
told the two gentlemen who were lucky
enough to be beside him most of the time
the name, character and life history of every
plant they chauced to notice, or he stopped
to point out. His acquaintance with botany
went tar beyond the text books; it spoke of
personal observation and painsta6ing
analysis. II opened my eyes more than
anything Wall street had shown me to the
positive genius o! the man."
Baseball in ArI1ansaw
Everybody knows that Hot Springs is the
purgatory OF baseball PLAYERS. In this re-
gard no doubt the natives are correct in
thinking that they are as near Paradise as
they can get. Not so many baseball players
as usual have come down here TO boil out
this season; at least think this Is true. st.
Augustine has taken your brave boys and
good many others, aud the Doodle of not a
few dazzlers 81 the diamond has diminished
to such Q extent that the Hot Springs visit
has had u be pa; off till another year shall
have replenIshed. their pockets. Two teams
of more or less professional eminence have
been playing exhibition games here
for a week or two. The Cinein-
natl Association club has been
battling daily with the sturdy st. Paul
team Of the Northwestern League. The
CincinnatiS include some faces familiar
enough to Pittsburg admirers of the game.
The great and only Arlie Latham is CAP
tanning the Cincinnati team, in which are
to be found also McPhee, Tony Mullane,
Harrington, Reilly and Holiday. The ST.
Pauls are 4 very heavy crowd o. giants, and
they have had the very best of the contest
with Cincinnati so !ar.
The sports here talk very enthusiastically
about the batting abilities of st. PauIs'
left fielder, Hamburg. He is a terrific
slugger with the stick, and no doubt is des-
tined to achieve a national reputation. OF
the Cncianatis the veteran Mullane and
little Holiday who reminds me of Fog
horn" Miller in his sharp spirited fielding
and base running, are the only stars. Hol-
liday would be immensely popular with
Pittsburg crowds.
Pfeffer Is Training Hard.
Pfeffer. the great second bascman of the
Chicago's Brotherhood team last year.
whose services are still retained by the
Taosvna oluh n tho Wipd- rjfv .ront t,raa