Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-12
4 YOUNG NONEYkING
At TWenty-Eight George Gould
Is Master ii q Hundred Mil
lion Dollars.
His Simple cremation Cere mo
MES and His Daily Pro
gramme for Work.
Specimens OF the Services fol
Which His, Father Literally
Compensated him.

tabs which the moral portion of the
| British public has been keeping on the
| Prince of Wales. nor because Mr.. Glad
stone, if living, may have made up his
mind by that time that the crown may
as well follow the church as the lords
into disestablishnent, but because
there will be no one alive who ever
assisted at a coronation.
/ Even at the last function Of this sort
the queens own, Of course-whlch
only followed her Uncle Williams at an
! interval of seven years, Clerk Greyille,
of the p1ivy council, noticed that only
one of the lords functionaries was up
in his part, and that her majesty fun
bled with the ring and finally got 1t on
the wrong finger. Such are the troubles
Of British coronations. When an Amer
lean king is crowned things are differ
ent.
It was in the ante-rOOm of the draped
palace at Broadway and Day street on
the morning after the American king
had been laid in his royal mausoleum
lat Woodlawn. The ambassador Of a
ineighboring first-class power, says the
New York Press has just opened the
ground glass door lettered in gold,
missouri Pacific and addressed the
lord in waiting, who stood with a pen
over his ear behind the black walnut
between the ante-room and the cabinet.
''When will George Gould return to
business?" asked the ambassador.
George Gould hasn't been away
J h.
''Then [ can see him.
go right ahead" said the lord in
waiting, wiping his pen on the sleeve
of his borba1ne coat.
Ground Glass Door No. 2, that Of in
gress to the cabinet, swung on its
hinges and the ambassador stood in the
, presence Of majesty throned in a pivot
chair before rolltop desk.
The taking Of that chair as absolute
master instead of director Of the Gould
interests was all there was about the
coronation of this American king, who
is American to the shaving cup, which
is boldly emblazoned with the name
George J. Could" in the middle OF
the third row of the end rack Of the
Windsor hotel barber shop. He had. OF
course. been away from business suf-
ficiently for the most devoted attend
ance at the bedside and bier Of the
father of whom it was once said that
Gay Gould would set New York on
fire if George wanted to warm his
feet" but he had not been away enough
to impress the lord in waiting in the
black bombazine coat with a sense OF
absence.
There is very little hyberbOle about
his kingship. His fathers income was
about SS,0O0,00O. some five or six times
as large as the queens civil list. The
remuneration fixed by his fathers will
for his services during the last five
years was $5,OOO.O0O. If the Prince OF
Wales put in a claim for One-tenth OF
that amount for the last thirty years
of his service. John Bull would draw
his purse strings with a louder snap
than they have emitted since the pro
position was brought in for Prince AL
: bert's 100000 a year. The white men
in the service Of the Manhattan Ele
waited, Missouri, Union and Kansas Pa
cifc and Wabash railroads and Western
Union telegraph line probably equals
the number of white men in the British
army, far exceeds the number on ser
vice in the British Isles and the king
will not be Twenty-Five years old until
the 9Th Of next February.
He is upon his accession by far the
American royal houses-Astor, Wander
bilt, Gould
When the second ruler OF the house
of anderbilt-William H.-was a boy
in a Thirteenth street private school
he used to take the other boys down
to his fathers steamers on Saturdays
: to be fed by the stewards with oranges
: and nuts; the staple discussion among
, the boys and all the boys Of New York
! was how John Jacob AstOr had given
, the AStor house to his son William 3.
'for a dollar That was the cOnsidera-
; ton named in the deed. That was a
part Of the partial abdicatiOn of King
: John Jacob in Prince William b S
!. favor. But Prince William B. did not
come absolutely into his kingdom until
1913, when he was fifty-siX years old.
As for Prince William H, everybody
knows how short was his kingship,
which he only enjoyed in the nine brief
years since 1876. when his father died,
and 1885, when he died-iust long
enough to build his house and warm it.
SO King George J. is for youth, though
not for fightiness. a sort of Kaiser VIII
helm II Comparisons. it will be seen.
are only made with the second Astor
and the second Vanderbilt, for King
George is only the second Gould in the
royalty Of millions.
His reign then promises to be long,
and on this account it is comforting to
know that its policy will be conserva-
tive. Those hundred million subject
dollars viii be marched to the defense
rather than to the subversion Of the
existing order of things. Henry Clews
says so. Washington E. Conner, his
tutor in ''the street. from the tender
age Of sixteen, when he entered Mr..
Connor's Office as a "boy," when his
weightiest duty was to run to the bank
with deposit until six years ago, when
his father bought him seat in the
board, says so, too. George never
speculated except, perhaps, in very
small way" says Mr.. Common.
Now. this. on such high authority as
the young kings tutor, is important and
comforting 10 the street, for the reason
that less than five years ago, at the