The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-29


ssovercommit'' himself IN print
George Gould won't be seen except
between IL and O'Clock and then only
on certain subjects. When he wants
particularly to avoid callers, he takes
the elevator to the floor above and comes
down private stairway into his Office.
Very often, whom very busy, he comes
and goes this way without having to
Run the gantlet of callers in the Office
The GOuIds and sage.
Edwin Gould will be interviewed on
certain subjects, but he always looks
hopelessly bored He has a way Of pre-
ceding all his remarks when thus bored
by drawing out, ''O-ohI" just as
Stuart Robson did in 1.-The Henrietta y
remember once talking to him when
boy came in with a card. Mr.. Gould
glanced alphabetically at the card, then
drawled, Ooh, say I'm way out in
the country and WON'T be back for three
monthsi' The boy laughed outright,
and Edwin Gould smiled. Neither could
help doing So
Russell Sage will submit to an inter
viewer only after he has made the in
reviewers personal acquaintance. But
the first time Russell Sage can be seen
only by using the utmost amount Of
nerve. - At his Office in the Arcade
building even nerve won't get a
strange interviewer into his presence
There are too many watchful pickets to
pass, especially since the bomb throw
ing episode. ! interviewed Russell Sage
for the first time last spring, and I'll
never forget that first meeting with
him. During the woman s suffrage ram
page his name suddenly appeared as one
of the converted. Result-he must be
interviewed. How? went to his Office,
and hot skirmish with the outlying
pickets took place. was defeated The
evening Of that day I rang the doorbell
Of his home in Fifth avenue, next to
Forty-second street. The elderly maid
who opened the door called to a tall,
thin gentleman who stood, pulling on
his gloves, in the rear of the hall, "a
gentleman to see you, sir. .
'fWell, what is it?''
explained.
''Oh, you'll have to excuse mel' He
smiled Then he put on his hat and
said he wished 1 would 60 away, as he
had to 60 out.
All right, I would go away. would
go out with him. He smiled again and
tried to button that faded overcoat,
which he must have worn when a boy.
It was a stormy night, but there was no
carriage waiting Russell Sage raised
an umbrella, and I went away with
him under his umbrella. He was only
going around the corner to DR.. Paxton's
church. He was going to vote against
DR.. Paxton's resignation. He told me
so-told me SO very pleasantly. Some
how his manner had changed.
I asked him a question about woman
suffrage. He said be hadn' studied it.
I asked him another question on the
same subject. He answered as if he had
studied it. By the time we reached the
church around the corner he had ex-
pressed some very original views on the
question.
MAY I quote you, Mr.. Sage?"
Yes, if you'll say what I've said -
And published an interview with Rus
sell Sage, and the interview contained
what he said. And Russell Sage will be
interviewed if you use nerve.
The Havemeyers, Gerry and STorosini.
Mr.. Henry o. Havemeyer, the sugar
king, president of the Sugar trust, will
usually talk to interviewers if he's not
busy; but, then, he is always busy.
When he does see you, however, he lays
down his pen, wheels around in his
chair, facing you, and gives all his atten-
ton to you, just as if he hadn't a thou
sand claims upon his time of far greater
Importance than an interviewer. It's
often so with a very rich man. He IS
seldom a snob. Mr. Havemeyer will not
talk sugar, positively, but he viii talk
about his Rem brandt paintings, and his
Japanese potteries, and his viOlins, of
which he has the finest collection in the
country, but he won't say a word ex-
cept to answer questions, which he does
direct and without waste of words.
Mr.. Theodore A. Havemeyer, the
vice president of the Sugar trust, is
much more approachable than his broth
er. He receives you affably-nO airs
just as if he WASH a sugar king broth
er at all. but just an ordinary, very
we'll bred gentleman. He viii talk to
you courteously in refined and elegant
language, but simply answering ques-
tions Just as his brother does, and inter
viewers must be quick
Elbridge T. Gerry is one Of the bust
est millionaires- He will make an ap
pointment and make you smoke his ci-
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