The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23
BY cY wARMAN.
Copyright, 1896. S. S. Mcclure Co..

- - 4 W ALTMAN.
Copyright, 1896, S. S. Mcclure Coz
There's the sunny side of a tree
where the bark is bright and the dark
damp side where tbs moss grows.
There's the sunny side of q. peach,
where the blush is born and the shady
side where The fuzz is found In San
Francisco. a woman walks on the
sunny side of the street in a shirt waist
and sailor hat, and another walks
on the shady side in a seal skin.
Every man has his sunny side and
his shady side. The latter, unfortu-
nately, is usually The best known
Now. sir" said I. Il am looking for
the sunny side Of Jay Gould"
It's all sunny" said the general
manager enthusiastically, as he arose
and began to pace the floor. There
never was but one Jay Gould and there
viii never be another. If he were alive
today you would not see all the splen-
did railway systems of America going
TO pieces. Out of all this wreck and
ruin he would build"-
Cain yourself, my friend I said,
''the world knows all about Jay Gould
the railway king, but tell me some
thing better, Il you can, OF Jay Gould
the man"
We'll then" the railroad man be-
gan, ''he was a kind and loving hus-
band and father, was extremely gentle
with all his employees, save, perhaps
those Immediately under him, and the
most charitable man / ever knew.
If it is hard 10 work for a man who
knows more about railways than any
other man could ever hope to know,
then Mr.. Gould was a hard man TO
work for.
There was nothing l dreaded SO
much rs TO have him begin asking
questions about the road. I met him at
Pueblo once by appointment, and we
were joined there by has son and Mr.
Clarke"
You are not feeling well this even
Ing, father" said George after the
usual greeting. Suppose we let bust
.1ess go for tonight. Tell me Mr.. Blank,
the young man went on, are the trout
rising in the Gunnison yet?
Il notice, said the elder Gould, that
Bills is not shipping as much hay
from Billsville as he did last year.
Surely the crop was good. See what S
the matter and if the rate is not right
make lit right. Last year we were get
ting ten cars at Farm Slack siding;
now we get but eight and the output
was nearly doubled. 1t must be going
by the other line. They were short of
cars at Rushville yesterday. See that
that does not occur too often, Mr..
Blank
Leaning back in his chair the great
railroader opened his shirt collar and
after resting for aw hide asked:
Whats the daily average tonnage in
Denver, Mr.. Blank?
Il explained that / could not an
sTer straight off, but l could ask my
chief clerk and find out.
'.Ohl never mind, he said, 1 could
find out, only it's we'll enough to know
these things. ] suppose it is about
thirty cars a day, he added and closed
his eyes again.
Il looked the matter up upon his re-
turn and found that he had guessed it
exactly I was afraid he knew and
that's why I did not venture a guess
myself"
-Once I asked Mr.. Gould why ne sold
the Rio Grande, it having been at that
time seemingly a profitable piece OF
property.
well I bought it at twenty-five and
pretty soon it went up to a dollar and
twenty-five. But ] couldn't get along
with General Palmer, so 1 sold it.
and, he added after a brief pause,
pretty soon it was back TO twenty-five
again"
Few men knew Jay Gould better
than Sylvester T. Smith, who was with
the Gould system for saany years, but
who after resigning the general man
agership Of the Denver &. Rio Grande,
having made money out of the mines
of Creole, quit raflroading entirely. 1t
should be understood that every word
uttered by Mr.. Smith on this subject
can be accepted without a shade of
doubt.
ITS no use" he said when I began
to ask him about his deceased friend.
1.-THE public is SO thoroughly prejudiced
against Jay Gould that what you say
will not even be taken seriously
l insisted that new story about amy
one was interesting, especially if it were
true and being true it ought to be told.
If you want my opinion" said the
ex-railroad man, lit is that Jay Gould