The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28
A CHANGE OF HEART
Jay Gould is Said to Have Got
Religion.
This Causes Many People to Think He is
Seriously Sick-SpecuIating OF the
Effect OF His Death.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.l
NEW York, Feb. 27.-The fact that Mr..
Gould has of late experienced change of
heart as they say in good prayer meeting
parlance, is accepted by great many men
of tie world as a positive sign of Mr.
Gould's failing health. He has frequently
attended DR.. Paxtons church with his
daughter Helen who is a member, and has
DISCUSSED RELIGIOUS MATTERS
with DR.. Paxton in view of possibly joining
his congregation. On the night when he
donated $1,000 to the Church Extension
society, his spokesman declared that Mr..
Gould's modesty prevented him from
speaking for himself, but he felt, neverthe-
less, that the Presby terrain religion was
the most benehcient to mankind. Prob
ably no event in the marvellous history of
Mr.. Gould mas SO affected him IS the death
of his wife. He has always been
A MOST DOMESTIC MAN
and her death seemed to make most sari-
Gus impression upon him, for they ell live
together. Georges house nestles against
the parent manson, being at No. l, Last
Forty seventh street. Mr.. Gould never
goes anywhere unattended. He is always
accompanied by one of his sons. Since
Mrs. Goulds death Mir. Goulds health has
been matter of the deepest concern to his
children. Frequent attacks of illness to
Mr. Gould have been reported. When he
returned from the south little over year
ago he was a vsry sick man. President
| Dillon, John r. 1nman and his son George
| BROUGHT HIM HOME IN GREAT HASTE
and when ne arrived on February IA, 1891,
he had to be carried bodily from his car to
| his house. Many of his friends expressed
doubts at thai time as to whether he would
ever resume his old place In Wall street.
After few months in the country, how
ever, he regained flesh and apparent
strength. A journey TO the Pacific coast
during the summer was also OF benefit to
| him, but / was not later than September
when the financial world was thrilled bY
the report OF mis- collapse at the directors
/ meeting when, in arguing with Russell
Sage, he broke into lit of
TEARS AND HISTORICAL LAUGHTER.
Following this attack there was a long
period of absence from his Office during
which time he WAS said to be recuperating
under the care of mis- physician.
From the tone OF conversation at the
| Windsor hotel to- night the Wall street
men have looked upon Mr.. Gould's re-
peated attacks as omnious. He was in
Washington recently and stood at the right
hand side OF President Harrison during O
White House reception. Yet it is related
that when asked to subscribe to the bonds
issued for building .he Mammoth hotel, to
be managed b. Joseph Chamberlain, Mr..
Cornelius Vanderbilt's subscription of
$1,000 being held up TO him as an example
he placed s., 600, 90 after his name. When
these figures were called TO his attention
he erased the last three ciphers, and re-
marked that he was
SOMEWHAT ABsENT-MINDED AT TIMES.
There was some talk ABOUT the illness Of
Mr.. Gould On the street to-day, but it was
not enough to be used as an argument to
effect prices. For long time past, acting
under the orders of his physicians, MIR.
Gould has made it a practice to remain
awey from his downtown Office on Friday
and Saturday of each week. This relieved
him from personal contact with his bust
ness associates, but it does not mean that
he does not know what is going on down
town for wires run here, there and every
where froEi where MIR. Gould may be al
any moment down town to his agents alG
he is always promptly informed of every
twist and turn in the market. 1t is {
ouestio Just what the effect Of the death
of Mr. Gould would have on the market
His influence on the market has been K
MAKE everyone weary OF touching any
thing in which he has control or anything
approaching 1t. tor thls reason, say some
his removal by death would tend to stiff er
prices on his line of properties, and by the
, riddence of an arch and
NOT OVER soRUPULoUs MANIPULAToR,
clear the speculative atmosphere anC
strengthen the whole list. On the othe
! hand, the uncertainty which would follow
> the sudden ending OF such career as tina
of Gould and with the enormous resources
, of money and scheming brain which h
commanded, would naturally depres
: stocks, or at least cause halt in any up
: ward movement which might be undo
i way until the programme of his successo
/ in ownership had been outlined and it
speculative bearings taken into account
Jay 6ouid Rapidly Improving.
= NEW York Eab 27.-It is statsd at Ia