Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-08

while jay Gould would arrive AZ thcm by
inspiration.
George Gould, like bis father, has no
mnnners Of au nrWocvlt. 40 one time
when the physicians had ordered jay
Gould 10 walk three OF four miles day,
81 was familiar sight 20 see George
Gould and his father tramping ~ Broad
way. George with long atheleiic strides
and bis father with little hoppoty skip
steps, his left foot turned in O little,
trying 10 keep mp with the athletic son.
and ont of the pockets 81 Georges coat
bulgcd bundles. nor did he disdain 10
carry under his arm at times packages
that were inconvencntly unwieldy.
When awaiting train in the Grand
Central station TO take him 20 his IT.
vington home. u has been the custom Of
George Gould to talk with the traimmon,
10 ask The brakeman questions. TO watch
the coupling of cars, and he has never
lost bis interest In the new invention by
which gas is forced into q reservoir UNI
derneath some Of The palace cars, go that
they may Dc lighted. lie talks with any
body and everybody There Is no air Of
the arist0crat nbout him. and train hands
have been amazed sometimes when they
have heard that this swarihy checked
and binck-eycd young man. who has
shOwl so much inquisitiveness, was
George Gould. the son of jay Young
9,tOOWO. that Is to say the fortune In
has made himself. beginning with the
capital which his father turned over TO
bin. His desire Is 10 make a fortune
himself which shall be equal or as nenrly
go as may DC TO the inheritance which
he win some day receive from his father
George Gould is not nn exception to
the habits ol the gons OF very rich mon.
Tho exception is the other way. Howell
Claiborne aud one or two others whose
fathers made enormous fortunes. are the
only ones who seem bent upon throwing
10 away. 10 was Commodore Wander
bilts idea that it wag q great deal better
~ loave q young man Sl.OOO.0OD than
SiOO.OOO. for the scnse III responsibility
which comes with the Inheritance OF
colossal fortune Is usually sufficient to
steady q young man, That was Couspicu-
ously illustrated i'm Commoior Wander
hlfs family. II anyone steps into the
Offices of the New York Central railrond
during business hours he is likely to see
4 medium sized man. rather nervous of
movement. stepping from one room TO
another like one driven by important
business He b. Conclius Vanderbilt.
who knows what work Is as well as any
man in New York CITY He has always
worked aud while hc has no consuming
desire 20 become richer. yet he has the
ambition to 20 maintain the rcspoFhil-
tiles OF his wealth that 1t shall be- said
of him that he has done ms well with 10
ne those who made 10 and left il to him
did
Now aud then there appear IN the
newspapers reports of coaching trips iu
which Colonel WIN. Jay. the descendant
of that mighty intellect of the Rcyolu-
tlpnnry times, who with Hamilton aud
Madison wrote the Fodoralist ~ rcprc-
scutod us holding the whip. And so the
ID Id Mua al. Il.
ccndmt of john jay has become a fash
innOhle idlcr who tools a four-in.hnnd for
excitement Yet Colonel jay * q busy
lawyer having the management of vast
cstntcs 20 look after. with whom q four
iu.hhud drive across country Is only u
brief recreation.
The SONS of August Belmont are nc-
tive bankers. who are carrying on the
great business created b. their father
EN-Mnyor Grace, ono of the very rich
men uf New York educDteg his children
with Democratic simplicity. and has one
SON in college and another about 20 enter.
who viii WHOM they close their books.
take up The responsibilities Of Mr.. Grnce's
commercial houses.
The two branches Of the Astor family
who have recently come into their iu-
hcritancr William Waldorf Astor scmc
three years ago and John Jacob Astor
lat winter, are Illustrating the energy
which enabled the Astnrs 10 lay the fOun-
dat0ns for the colossal fortunes. VII
liam Waldorf Astor Is just completing
two hotels mammoth and towering be.
you'd amy other carayonscry ON the At
lanuc slope, and proposes whom he re-
turns 20 America To erect other large
buildings, modelled after the newer urch-
itpcture. aud those cmployments viii
make him a busy man. John Jacob
Aston, who was before he came into his
inheritance OF SIa.OOOOOO, esteemed as
only Euod-naurcd young man of rather
trihng habit of mind, seems 10 have
been changed by this ncw responsibility.
~ TINT hU gives close attention 10 NJ.
lnrs and IL q model OF business rcpu.
lntty. That lac has nu active mind.
which has been stimulated by this re-
sponsbility, X evident from The fact that
he Inns just invented and patented a me-
chnn.cal street sweeper which the au-
thoritcs of New York city say A. the
only mnchiue invented that does the worl,
perfectly.
4 son Of General Francis A. Walker.
who while not the p0ssessor Of consider
able wealth, was very rich IN influence.
ana had me- expert training as the
schools Afforded, has become infatuated
win me telephone business and n lenrn-
ing i Ike any apprentice There Is ON
wall street a Woodworking LAWYER.
whose income Is large mud who never
quails before the drudgciy of his profess.
sion, who nevertheless Inherited great
wealth, and who would have been the
grandson OF q president of the United
states had the people not preferred
Zachary Taylor 90 Lewis Cass for that
office. Lewis Cas l.edyard might have
spent his days in the ease OF mn idlor, hut
he chose 10 work as though mis- living do
nCnded upon H. Aud so the list of those
MRlo Delng tho sons lt worry rich men have
them With their inheritance and ara
among the workers, might be greatly ex-
tended, e. JAY EDWARDS.