The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-03
TIE DEATH OF jay GOULD.

! As few names are more familiar 20 the
world than that of him who so quietly
passed away from earth and his home
On Fifth avenue. III the city Of New
| York, Yesterday morning, SO the world
| Las produced few as great minds. Small
of stature, gentle as women in all his
intercourse with men, kind in voice and
action to a marked degree to those de-
| pendent upon him, he yet was giant in
intellectual powers. A poor boy, with
out backing or influence of any charac-
ter and only the training Of common
school education, he looked out upon
the world of business with that degree of
comprehension in which the first Napol-
con looked out upon the world of poll
tics, and by the power of his genius he
became its master. His success, logical
ly, opposed every othec mans
hand against his, out of which fact
grew the idea that he was
hard man. And so he was for all those
who encountered him in his chosen
arena. He had 10 hold the mastership
as against the antagonis,ic emergencies
Of all the stock markets and their cham
pIons the world over or otherwise 90
down in defeat. He carried the victo-
rIous pennant 10 the end of his race.
Despite a very delicate physique and
often, and almost continually of late
years, an enfeebled condition, he held in
the mighty grasp Of his wonderful mind
all the intricacies of all the vast inter
ests which he represented for himself
and for thousands of others liz his own
name. Even after gaining great wealth
he could not be persuaded to become a
miser of property or hoarder Of bonds
and money, but every dollar he had and
every dollar he represented was
kept at work acquiring new interests,
developing new enteIpr and sustain
ing old ones, so that he became directly
and indirectly the employer of many
thousands of men with profitable labor
under round salaries. His victims
were only of his would be captors. As
financier in legitimate channels this age
has not, if indeed the world ever has,
produced his equal. He believed in men |
only after thorough test, but once |
believing his faith was hard to shake. |
No proposition, however complex, but |
that he grasped it in all its details as
soon as presented, yet he was easily per- |
suaded in ali matters outside of business. |
Probably no man of such eminence was |
so little understood by the world.
While he would touch no business
transaction that did not offer him !
the best of the bargain, his |
for the welfare of all the thOus- /
ands more or less directly connected with
his holdings and operations was unques-
toned by those who knew of the inside
of his life
Mr.. Gould was loyal man, very proud
Of his country and of its Institutions.
He held railways to be but improved mod
ern public highways owned through stock
controlled by corporations, .,ut necessa-
rily operated for and in the interest of the
people. He believed that railroads
should bear their full proportion of tax
alton upon the one hand but that upon
the other the government was bound to
protect such property as against every
character of Instruction. His public
were comparatively few because
or misrepresented,b but his
private benefactions were numerous and
in the aggregate great.
The above was written immed-
lately upon the receipt Of the
bulletin announcing his death. As for
"details, and changes and effects follow
ng Mr.. Gould's demise, the dispatches
IF the afternoon and night will deal.
doubt his great interests will
all under the control and care of his
oldest son George, and perhaps also those
IF his younger sons. NJ. George Gould
las had not only the advantage of an
training. but for many
months past has been the representative
IF his father at their business headquar-
e!S in the Western Union building.
Jerry Simpsons majority was 1856