The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-24
EDDIE BgTROTHED
ENGAGED orHE sTlR-DAUGHrER
OF DR.. soRGH !. sHRADY.

Il.
Who is Or 1s-The Engagement
Formally anounced-Jay GouldA
Second Sc is 2e and a shrewd
Financier-n Ardent Lover.
Erote Neiv York World.
The engagsnt OF Edwin Gould. jaw
Gould's secouon. to Miss Sarah Cantine
Shrady, the lughter of DR.. and Mrs.
George F. SHY, Of No. East Sixty
sixth street,, formally announced last
evening.
The betrotEwas surprise to all but the
intimate friei Of the Gould and Shrady
families Ev since Jay Gould started
west in search health Eddie Gould. as he
is Familiarity led, along with his brother
George, has h indusoriously looking after
his fathers Ierests. Few people about
the Western ion Office or In Wan street
guessed that } practical, busy youth had
been brushed the wing of she little Gu
pid. Like orge Gould's marriage to
pretty EditKingdon, 1t Is a pure love
affair.
Mr., Gouldrst met Miss Shrady at the
coming out eception given to Miss Helen
Gould by heather last winter. Ever since
that night hhas been assiduous in his at
tentions Abe subscription dances which
were giveny Mrs. Shrady, Mrs. C. L.
Weatherbyd Mrs. James A. Newcomhe
young Goul was a constant attendant.
When the amblies were over he asked
permission give dance himself to the
subscribers honor Of Miss Shrady.
The affair me off at the Grand opera
house ia the sing, but was kept very quiet.
Since them r. Gould has been a more
ardent wooeran before, and has often
been seen drng Mrs. Shrady and her
daughter beh1 aspanking pair, or escort
ing them to ttheater. Last week early
Mr.. Gould asd for the young girls hand
in marriage.
Miss Shrads young girl. She Is not
yet Is. She it'll called "Sala" by every-
body. namele iisped herself when she
was baby. 10 is, however. tall. graceful
and dignified ibearing, and very pretty.
She has big. blwi eyes, fair oomplexion
and plenty way, brown hair. She is an
accomplished I'll md ready talker. She
was pupil at lis Springs school.
In reality Mr. tould's frances name is
Cantine. She TO the name of Shrady
when her mothe- ook the same name BY
DR.. Shrady's fl marriage he has four
children. Mrs. ohm +. Ambrose, the
daughter-in-law John W. Ambrose, the
railroad contraor, who built the IL"
roads; George S. hardy, the engineer, who
married the Danger of John w. Ambrose,
and Henry and Charles who are fellow
students at ColuDia college with Howard
Gould, the third N Of the millionaire. 1t
was through thefriendship Of the young
Shradys with Hoard Gould that the two
families became uuainted. Miss Shrady
is OF the old Knicsrbocker family of Can
tine Of Ulster couty.
The first person Inside Of Miss Shrady's
family notified of be engagement was Jay
Gould himself His said to be very fond
of Eddie Gould's seetheart. The follow.
ing telegram reachl her yesterday.
lDs, COL, June 20, 1897
Miss Shrddp, care fr. Edt0fn Gould, Nep
York: ......
We all send best vshes to you on your en-
gagement. JAY GoUID.
Eddie Gould sp1t last evening at DR..
Shrady's. He raI nimbly up the steps
about 8 o'clock. Ie wore a quiet gray
checked suit, a sinole black k-scarf and
wide-brimmed wite straw hat. A copy
ing clerk could lot have dressed more
humbly. When 40 door was opened to
him he bounded upstairs TO the family
quarters, where h hancee was awaiting
him. ......,.-..-
He came down gain when he was told
that several reporters were in the drawing
room to congratulate him. He blushed
like q school glrl When Fluctuations were ex-
tended
80. thanks, awnlly,"he answered with
beaming smhe, you are very kind"
In few words Ee announced that his
engagement was a act and added that he
had received duplicate of the telegram
sent to Miss Shrady by his father meant for
himself.
Mrs. Shrady and he daughter will soon
pay the Goulds visit at Irvington. The
date of the marriage not yet fixed upon.
But Eddie Gould is s.d to be as impatient
a lover as his brothF George was when
be was winning Edip Kingdom from the
stage
Jay Gould's second son is dark and
swarthy, with blsck hair. a black. full
beard and black, restless eyes. He looks
like Spaniard. Ee is now 90 years old.
In stature he is somewhat above the aver
age hight, is inclined 10 be thin and stoops
d little. He always dresses plainly, is
quiet in his tastes and exceedingly demo-
cratic. There ar, no airs about Jay Gould's
Sons.
Here is goodstory they tell about Eddie
Gould that illustrates his shrewdness in
coming money. He was launched early in
to Wall street, where he has always had the
A few years ago, when bull points were
being freely distributed from the Gould
and the Gould newspapers were
quoting Gould and his lieutenauts by pre-
1icting higher prices for stocks, young chip
lf-the-old-blOck kept very still. When his
chance came on both the stock and Consoli-
lated exchanges he had brokers at work
down prices. Even his fathers
pet stocks were sold short
1t was some time before his little scheme
was discovered, but when it was, Gould
Oere, etfectually squelched his ambitious
'on and the lad was forced to pull in his
lorns. But he had made nice little nest
'gg which he sailed away in the good old
iould fashion.
Now he is figure of Importance in the
world. He ia an officer In all of
he Gould companies. and, with George
fould, shares the active management Of the
sther's immense business.
He is fond of driving, especially so of
hoobing, and he is crack shot He is in
pector of rife practice in the Seventy first
eglmenJ, of which he is also a staff officer.
lie is very rich in his own right already,
md in addition to what be has made him
elf by keen speculative insight he inherited
me sixth of the $4,000, 900 left by his
mother.
George Gould's somewhat romantic mar
iage TO Miss Kingdom, Of Daly's company,
$ we'll remembered. Gould courted the
'retty actress from this side the footlights,
md chased her to Europe when Days
roupe went across for the summer That
vas in 1856 Miss Kingdom and her mether
anne back In August; g. did George Gould.
One afternoon early in August. Miss
NluQdOO and har Tnothat- xEara drivan down