Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-25

rect In width. 1t Is two stories high and
surrounded on three sides by wide piazzas,
1t has high peaked roof, out of which
look the dormer windows of our better
days-when we We're younger. Through
the center and ends of the building rise
great chimneys of field stubble that give
vent to goodly fireplaces that put to shame
parlor stoves. The walls are of massive
saw mill not far away, the slabs still
having their bark on. The columns of
supports OF the piazza are posts of black
birch with the natural knots still upon
them.
Mr.. Gould has spent a deal of money in
trying to undo the work of pot-hunters and
spoilers of game fish, who in spite of the
game laws of New York state rave driven
the rarest of the game from it, and are kill
ing off its fish. His game preserve is enc
of the finest though not the largest E.,ks
shake antlers at tou ever twenty foot
barb-Wire fence, and two score of deer have
well nigh the run of the whole estate Both
deer and elk are practically wild
Mr. Gould has his stables and cottages
for most of his employees near by. His wife
is good horsewoman. He has no preten-
sion that way.
But the young man cannot get away from
business. In the room he most freduerts
there is telegraph instrument that con-
meets with his private office. SO that when
he is $50 miles from New York he does not
lose his grip upon affairs.
The one dissipation of the millionaire
quired this when as a boy he had the run
of the Grand Opera House in New York.
then one of the features OF the city, and
owned by his father and James Fisk, ir.
With his beautiful wife he is to be seen at
most of the theaters, but more especially
at Days, where Mrs. Gould as Edith King
don made her reputation as a conscientious
actress of almost if not quite, the first
class.
Probably Mr. Gould Is at his best, from
practical standpoint, at his fathers desk
One might think that the shadow Of the
nrst Goulds achievements would fall upon
him. 1t does not. The Gould of today is
very practical young man.
At $50 of the clock or thereabout he
arrives at the Western Union TELEGRAPH
building on lower Broadway, and from that
time until late in the afternoon he is hard
at work. Visitors he does not want and will
not see unless their business is of the first
Importance. He makes an exception of
newspaper men. His father. who was a
morbidly, sensitive man. had a fear of re-
porters except when he had some scheme
In which he thought they would be of as
sistance to him. AS a club man and man
about town prior to his marriage George
Gould formed many friendships among the
newspaper men, and he has main tanned
them-besides forming new ones. He never
attempts to mislead one of these and they
accept anything coming from him as be-
ing given in good faith
IL is useless for an outsider to attempt
to see the millionaire when he is at work.
The entrance to his office is through a
small room that is locked and barred save
for one small window and a door, the lat
ter guarded by a giant of a colored man.
who served Jay Gould and with whom 1t is
idle to argue.
There is an immense amount of business
transacted behind these closed doors in
the course Of day. In that room on the
second floor, looking out on Broadway, GEN.
ter the interests of the Western Union