Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-01-14
At Twenty-Eight George GouIG
Is Master OF "a Hundred Mil
lion Dollars.
His Simple OrOnuti0n Cere mo
MES ard His Daily Pro
gramme for Work.
SPECIMENS Of The Services for
Which His Father Literally
Compensated Him.

When the queen dies there viii be
lots of trouble. Not ON account OF the
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 disestablishment, but because
there viii be no one alive who ever
assisted at coronation,
Even at the last function Of this sort
the queens own, Of course-which
only followed her Uncle Williams at an
interval of seven years, Clerk Greyille,
Of the priyy council, noticed that only
one of the lords functiOnaIies was up
in his part, and that her majesty fun
bled with the ring and finally got il on
the wrong finger. Such are the troubles
of British coronations Whe an Amer
lean king is crowned things are differ
emit
1t was In the ante-rOom of the drlped
palace at Broadway and Day street on
the morning after the American king
had been laid in his royal mausoleum
at Woodlawn The ambassador Of q
ueighboring 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 pen
over his ear behind the black walnut
between the ante-room and the cabinet
when viii George Gould return 10
businessF" asked the ambassador
George Gould hasn't been away
from business" he was answered.
''Then / can see him
go right ahead" said the lord in
waiting, wiping his pen ON the sleeve
Of his bombazine coat.
Ground Glass Door No. ., 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 AZ absolute
master instead Of director " the Gould
interests was all there was about the
is American to the shaving cup, which
is boldly emblazoned with the name
George J. Gould In the middle Of
the third row Of the END rack Of the
Windsor hotel barber shop lie had, Of
course. been away from business suf-
flciently 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 II George wanted TO warm his
feet" bot he had not been away enough
to impress the lord in whiting in the
black bOmbazine coat with a sense OF
absence.
There is very little hyberbole about
his kingship. His fathers income was
about $1,000 900, some five or six times
as large as the queens civil list. The
remuneration fixed by his fathers win
for his services during the last five
years was 100000 If the Prince OF
Wales put In n 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 $4,000 a year The white men
I'm the service Of the Manhattan Ele-
waited, Missouri, Union and Kansas Pa
cific 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
viii not be Twenty-Five years old until
the 9th Of next February.
He Is upon his accession by far the
Youngest Of the kings Of the three
American royal houses-Astor, Wander.
hilt, Gould.
When the second ruler Of the house
OF Vanderblt-Willi H.-was 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 Aston house to his son William p
''for n dollar" That was the considcra-
ton named i'm the deed. That was a
part Of the partial abHcation Of King
John Jacob IN Prince William BIS
favor But Prince William r. did not
come absolutely into his kingdom until
1913. when he was tifty-siX years old.
As for Prince William IT,, 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 flrhtnCSs, 4 sort Of Kaiser vii
helm II. Comparisons. It viii 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 70 be long,
ana on this account It Is comforting ia
know that is policy win be conserya-
tive. Those hundred million subject
dollars viii be marched to the defense