The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-12-03
GOULD's HELPFUL SONS.
Two Young Lieutenants Busy With Great
Enterprises.

Two Young Lieutenants Busy With Great
Enterprises.
II may easily be that the son OF famous
man in New York has q bleak time of it.
He is apt to be overshadowed by his faith
er's prominence. jay Gould believed this.
An old campaigner in the street once said:
Either Jay Gould loves his sons George
ard Edwin TO the point of indiscretion,
or he has weighed them up in his keen
way and thinks there's lots of sand in
them.o
The old campaigner meant that Mr..
Gould believed that his sons had the tinau-
ciai ncumen to justify him in pushing them
to the front in the management of geat
corporations and financial enterprises with
which his own name IS so prominently as
sociated. George Gould is now p actically
a veteran. Pages have been written about
this young man of 35 who for u number of
years has been his fathers right hand man
in the management of the Western Union,
Missouri Pacific and other great corpora
tions. George Gould is practically in com
mand OF the Western Union building. His
father seldom visited the building. He had
wire from it to his homes on Fifth avenue
and in lrvinaton, and as his eldest son is u
proficient FOUNDER of the key, was in direct
aud confidential communication with his
father George Gould received all his
latD6f s FlslVDtSt anu Ill OtueE ways bolIe VI
the rays of his fathers prominence gild
him.
SO much has been head recently Of Ed
win Gould that he can very property be
couside. cd q factoc III the Gould fame.
We few apenz of him Us Edwin Gould. lie
is Eddie Gould to nearly everybody, and IN
Wall street he has lnherited the title of
"lkid Could" which was bestowed on his
brother George when he WAS first heard of.
This young man is 2S years old. He was
born in the old home of the Gouds in
Union square. lilo has voice and vote
in the management of S30O,o00O00 of rail
road telegraph and cable capital. He is at
the Western Union building with his
brother George eyery day. lie is director
in the Western Union telegraph company
and its cable companies and the Manhattan
Elevated. secretary and member of tho
executive committee of the st, Louis, Ar
kansas 4 Texas Railroad COMPANY, presi-
dent Of coal companies of the Missouri Pa
ciiic Railroad company, ana president OF
the Pacific railroad OF Nebraska. At dlreo-
tos' meetings his boyish face contrasts
with those of such veterans as j. Pierpont
Morgan, Samuel Sloan, Russell Sage, sid
ney Dillon and Cyrus w, Field.
lilo is moro like his father than George.
lie resembea him iii voice and ways.
George Gould can be easily recognized by
his olive skin and raven hair and mustache.
Young Eddie Gouid's skin is even darker
and his hair and muStAche blacker than
Georges. He has n ditiident air and speaks
very slowly and in the low tones which are
so remarked with his father. In manners
he il very much beyond his years. lie acts
like Young old mau. One would think III
talking with him that he never thought of
iun or was interested in the amuse nents of
young men. He occasionally smiles, but it
isn't the hearty tNploss,on OF youthful lol-
lity. Iii iuo,, in many ways he is an emf
nently serious young man. He can tele-
graph any number of messages bat says
he ID not an expert receiver, In business
hours he ia all business but i'll the after
noon he dashes through the park and out
on tho roads with u dark gray Kentucky
horse with white tail. lie is II member of
Troop A OF the First dragons, the first cav
ally troop to be admitted 10 the national
guard OF the state. All the hesitation in
young Gould's manner departs when he
talks of this cavalry troop, lie is earnestly
Interested IN its success, aud has frankly
said that If he hnd hobby in the world 1t
WAS this troop. Ho believes that in time il
will surpass tho famous Seventh i'll the pro-
icencY aud precision of its drills and dress
parndes. He ~ convinced that the time is
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