The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-05

into the wilderness and took charge
himself OF the tanneries started there.
Incidentally, he started new town.
The workmen were all given chance
10 buy corner lots. Gouldsborough
sprang up. This was Jay Gould's first
chance to fame. J'i.it ial' ls'f
TWAS about this time, too, that young
Mr.. Gould quit his accommodating way OF
making sacrifices. Col. Pratt began to
take his turn at making them. There
was big row, or which history gives
something like a dozen different ver-
sions. in which the Gouldites and the
Prattites divided into hostile legions
and tried to pepper one another with
buckshot. Mr.. Gould came to New
York. People who have been unfriend-
ly to Mr.. Gould say that most OF Col.
Zadoc Pratt's fortune came along, too.
no COMMENTS on EARLY STRUGGLES.
Mr.. Gould was not given to the atfec-
tation of telling folks how he had start
ed out as poor boy and had made all
his millions himself. On this account
down in Wall street he was rather lone
some. All the rich fellows down there
like to tell how they earned the first dol
lar they ever had. That sort of thing, in
fact, seemed somehow to appeal to Mr..
Gould's sense OF humor.
Said he to the writer one day: do
you know that my fathers poverty was
never worth u single thousand dollars
to me?" By which remark he wished
it to be understood probably that he
didn't have much OF liking for trat-
ticking upon early struggles.
Sometimes the lamented Travers got
credit for it, but really it was Jay Gould
who remarked down in Wall street one
day:
"They say Henry clews still claims
to be a self.made man. What pity it
is that he didn't have taste enough to
put hair on the top OF his head"
THE EEToRT COURTEOUS.
Mr.. Gould did not have any OF that
quality which descriptive persons call
presence" No stranger would have
ever been impressed by any mere look
at him that he was much OF man. He
was courteous always. In public he
was never known to get mad, or, indeed,
even to say rude thing, except it be
on one occasion, when, with more or
less quietness, he remarked to an ambi-
tious young gentleman who more re-
Gently became figure in Wall street:
"You make me feel very sorry that l
am so busy. Ii l had time I'd really
enjoy taking day of to send you to
state prison"
OF course, Mr.. Gould was in lots OF
scenes where passion ran high. Every
body in Wall street recalls the historic
day after Black Friday when Mr..
Gould's old partner, Henry n. Smith,
shaking his finger in Mr.. Gould's face,
shouted:
"Tll live to see the day, sir, when
you have to earn o living by going
around this street with hand organ
and monkey"
"Maybe you will, Henry, maybe you
WILL" was the soothing response. And
when l want a monkey, Henry, III
send for you" f8ff az SH;ii
GENEROUS TO OTHERS.
Among the brokers OF Wall street
Jay Gould had long been renowned as
the most liberal payer OF commissions
the street had ever known. He never
disputed brokers' account, being sat
listed with the brokers' work.
Mr.. Gould didn't distribute gifts for
public scrutiny, but, none the less, he
was big in his generosities. His wife
and his daughter were provided with
funds in abundance wheFewith to do
good. But they always acted on his
wish that publicity be avoided.
Many brokers and spectators who
have come to grief in Wall street have
proclaimed that their i'll fortune was
directly traceable to the wickedness OF
Mr.. Gould; but there are other in
stances, not few, that 60 upon the
other side of the Wall street ledger.
One OF the former figures OF the street
for whom Jay Gould, with the rest OF
folks, had an especial liking was Tom
nv" Warner. twas that tinancier who
bewailed to Mr.. Gould once upon q time
that a slump in the stock market had
Just desolated him.
why" said he, 1--WE lost $1,000
and S62 so OF it was my own money"
GouLD's LAST BIG DEAL.
Mr.. Gould's last big deal in Wall
street was in 1885. Ever alter that he
was fond Of saying that he was out OF
the stock market, and was going to stay
out. In 1884 Mr.. Gould had hard
time. The financial smash-ups-Grant
& Ward and the rest--caught him on
the bull side of the stock market,
heavily loaded with a dozen conspicu.
Gus stocks. He made bold fight, and
against tremendous odds. All the ac-
tive, alert, and powerful spectators OF
the street, outside OF his own coterie,
were on the bear side.
The little man gritted HE teeth ener-
getically, and declared that he pro.
posed to sustain the quotations OF his
own stocks, whatever the cost might
be. This struck the bear campaigners
as most encouraging. Now they would
break the little black-bearded fellow
who assumed to get in the way OF
natural conditions"
On to him they pounced. Charles F.
Woerishoffer was in the heyday OF his
glory then, and Addison Cammack was
in his stalwart prime Henry n. Smith,
too, was driving and influential factor.
Together they all went merrily at
every one OF the Gould stocks.
Quotations went down. The Gould
stocks did not show the strength Mr..
Gould had promised. Wall street was
full OF rumors to the effect that Mr..
GouldAwas staggering under his load,
that he had borrowed all the money he
could get from Russell Sage, that his
corporation treasures were drained,
that his financial institutions wero una.
bic longer to provide him with funds,
ana that the money lenders outside Of
his own rrnnn wore fighting very shy OF