The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-07
Anacdotas OF Jaw Gould.

various New York papers, are the following:
Some years ago he was rendered the nomina-
ten Of Rex, the king of the Mardi Gras carnival
IN New Orleans. He declined this. Of course.
and when asked jokinzly by a friend why he
had put ambition away, remarked dryly:
| well don think the nomination was en-
tirely disinterested or that would have reigned
| supreme l have always heard that there was
/ e power behind the throne and in this case
am sure of 1t. -"
with this he thrust his hand into his pocket
and drew forth the letter notifying him of his
selection to the high Office. Inclosed in 1t was
q bill for 81 200. the price of the honor. The
functions of Rex that year were performed by
. st. Louis brewer.
Mr.. Gould could never eccustom himself to
take with eQuanimity the criticism and abuse
that were heaped upon his head. He was ex-
ceedingly sensitive of ridicule, and loathed the
term Little Wizard, " by which he was not in
frequently designated by the Wall street men
and the papers He often heard himself most
grossly abused. Once. it is related. during q
particularly vexatious series of delays to q
crowded elevated railroad train in which Mr..
Gould happened to be, tall. muscular indi-
vidual broke out into torrent.
Its ridiculous" he shouted. THE accom-
modations on this road Absurd! Soandalous /
| That man Gould won't put on an extra car.
| Valuable franchise for a song. but an extra
train means a dollar less or so in profits It's
shame. and I'D like to have that little rat Gould
here to tell him and then pull his nose"
Mr.. Gould stood by the blusterer's side almost
! crushed IN the crowd. he SAID nothing, how
ever, and the man continued his outburst until
he reached station, where he left the car. after
pronouncing a final malediction upon Goulds
head
well, well, said Mr. Gould, turning to an
! acquaintance, that was hot wasn't it? was
very much annoyed at the delays and crowds
myself and did not want to tell the man that
was not responsible for the limited number of
trains. If he had not been so abusive would
have told him that it was all Sages doings. He
| advised taking the extras off and suffer for it.
| crRn hQ va haa an I fnk
l would have told that fellow all about it and
let Sage get his deserts"
Among those who saw q great future for the
Erie road when it began to boom wasCommodore
Vanderbilt. He saw in it a powerful rival to
the New York Central and Hudson River rail-
road and determined if he could to gobble it up.
He tried at first to purchase majority of its
stock. He failed. Then he declared a freight
war. At the time cattle were brought from
Buffalo to this city at $la6 carload. The COM
modore reduced the rate TO Sle0. Fisk and
Gould made a cut of S25 less. The commodore
went to $50. Erie then offered to bring cattle
here at S25 per carload and when the Erie put
the rate still lower Vanderbilt issued an order to
bring cattle over the Central at 81 q carload.
The commodore thought this would ruin the
Erie's freight traffic. He waited to see what
card Fisk and Gould would next play. Just as
he was congratulating himself that not a steer
was being carried over the Erie, while the Cen
trail was compelled to refuse business, he dis
covered that as in previous contests he had been
outwitted.
when the commodore reduced the rate to 81
per carload, Fisk and Gould purchased every
COW and steer to be had west Of Buffalo. They
shipped them, not by the Erie, but by the Cen
ira, OF the oommodore's own rate. They had
sold enough IN this city to make fortune
before Vanderbilt found%out where he was at
| am told that the air was very blue in Wander
bhtdom when the commodore learned how he
had been trickee. He swore revenge, but first
put the rate back on the transportation of
cattle"
William R. Travers. so celebrated as a wit
perpetrated joke about Jay Gould that the
old-time brokers still remember One day,
although his office in the street was filed with
customers and friends business was dull. and
and Mr.. Trsvers strolled over so the window
and looked out. or sudden he yelled loudly
end excltedy: "C-come h-h-here, b-b-boys!
L-look, l-loOklH
Every one rushed to the window, falling over
each other Ia their eager hurry. They looked
and saw nothing but Jay Gould on the opposite
side of the street, whispering in the ear of one
OF his brokers But that did not explain
Travers' excitement.
well, what is it?" everybody asked; what
are you raising such deuce Of a row ebout?"
"L-look, Look" returned Travsrs; did don't
y-you se-see? There's Je-Jay Ge-Gould with
h his h-hands in h-his o-o-own pepper
pockets"
Travers was often credited with joke which
Jay Gould really perpetrated once at the ex-
penBe OF hepry CteWS, Inc banker.
'"They say that Henry Clevvs stin claims 10 be
a self-mRde man." Mr.. Gould remarked in Wall
street one day. what & pity it is that he
DIDN'T have taste enough to put hair on the top
of mis- head"
AIR. Gould didn't make many Jokes He was
too busy. But he had brains enough 20 If he
chose. He seldom lost his temper, but on one
| occasion in Wall street he said TO an ambitious
young flyer" who was causing him more or
less disQuietude:
You make me feel very sorry that am so
busy. II had the time I'd really enjoy taking
day off to send You to state prison y"
On that historic day IN Wall street following
the memorable Black Friday, Gould's old part
ner shaking his finger in the millionaire's face,
shouted:
IN live to see the day, sir, when you'n have
to earn living by going around this street With
hand organ and monkey"
Maybe you WILL Henry, maybe you WILL"
was the retort And when want a monkey,
Henry, III send for you"
An old neighbor of the Goulds at Roxbury,
Delaware county, told a story about the mill
ionaire's visit to his old home in the midst of one
of bis busiest financial seasons.
Jay and was always good friends, p" said the
old man, (which Is more'n l say for him
and most of the other folks here. You see old
John Gould married my sister for his second
wife, and there was always more or less of a
family feeling between the Goulds and U.S. SAYS
in whilef You're always goin' to get the best
we have, yo' know. Jay said suthin' bout
bein' always haydn season with him and couldn't
spare the time There wasn't anythin' he'd
like as much as visit up here, for he liked
the old folks, he said. He asked how I'd like to
20 down to York. | said farming was not 40
good as it was and money was mighty scarce.
He said that was all right. n he fumbled around
his pockets for something. but it was not there.
He explained that he thought he had his book
with him SO that he could give me pass for
myself and wife down to York. but he must
have forgotten il and left 10 at home. He said
he'd send the pass to me, but if he sent it some
| other one must have got it, for never did /
was a-speakin' bout it afterward down at the
hotel, and the boys said it was most likely Jay
Gould never sent it. One thing anyhow I'm
| certain of-that is, eff he had that air book with
| him that time we met he'd writ out that air
pass"
The ST. Petersburg Gazette referring to the
! latest inundation OF the Yellow river in North
ern China, which will again bring population
OF more than 1000, 900 upon the point of starva-
ton, points out that these frequent or period
| ical caamities are the work OF man rather than
| Of nature. Many centuries ago the Chinese In
| terfered so much with the stream as to compel
| it TO change its course and dig a new bed for
| itself But this bed the current has never grown