The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-06
JAY GoULD's KINDLY SIDE.
NEW ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING
HIS QUIET CHARITY.

His QufcxneSs to Help the SuherihS
Farmers of Kansas and the Nil
grating Negroes-His 500 Tip to
Porter-His sOIicItude for an Emu
barrassed Reporter.
Cy Warman in New York Sun.
There's the sunny side of tree where
the bark is bright and the dark, damp
side where the moss grows. There's the
sunny side of a 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.
shirt waist and sailor hat, and an
other walks on the shady side In seal
skin.
Every man has his sunny side and his
shady side. The shady side, unfortunate
ly, is usually the best known.
Nov, SIR" said 1, 81 am looking for the
sunny side of Jay Could"
IT'S all sunny" said the general mana
ger, enthusiastically, as ne arose and be
gan to pace the floor. There never was
but one Jay Gould, and there will never
be another If he were alive to-day you
would not see AN the splendid railway
systems of America going to pieces. Out
of all this wreck and ruin he would
build
Calm YOURSELF my friend" said, 1.-THE
world knows all about Jay Gould, the
railway king, but tell me something bet
ter, if you can. of Jay Gould, the man."
"Well, then" the railroad man began,
."he was kind ana loving husband and
father, was extremely gentle with all his
employees, save, perhaps, those immedi-
ately under him, and the most charitable
man / ever knew.
IF it is hard to work for a man who
knows more about railways than any 9TH
er man can ever hope to know, then Mr..
Gould was a hard man to work for.
There was nothing dreaded so much
as to have him begin asking questions
about the road L met him at Pueblo once
by appointment, and We were Joined there
by his son and Mr. Clarke
You are not feeling well this evening
father said George Gould. Suppose we let
business go for tonight Tell me, Mr..
Blank the young man went on, are the
trout rising in the Gunnison YETI"
- 4 notice., said the elder Gould, that
Bills is not shipping as much hay from
BillsvilIe as he did last year. Surely the
crop was good. See what's the matter and
if the rate is not right, make it right. Last
year we were getting ten cars farm slack
riding; now we get but eight, and the out
put has 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 a while asked:
What's the daily average tonnage into
Denver, Mr. Blank?'
II explained that I could not answer
but could ask my chief clerk and find
out.
"'Ohl never mind he said, Il could find
out, only it's well enough to know these
things. suppose it is about thirty cars a
day." he added and closed his eyes again.
vi looked the matter up upon my re-
turn and found that he had guessed 1t
exactly. l was afraid he knew and that's
why l did not venture a guess myself
| "Once l asked Mr.. Gould why he sold
the Rio GTande, 1t having been at that
time seemingly a profitable piece of prop
erty
"'Well, l bought 1t at twenty-five and
pretty soon 1t went up to a dollar and
twenty-five. But 1 couldn't get along
with Gen. Palmer, so l sold 1t, and he
added after brief pause, pretty soon it
was at twenty-five again.
Few men knew Jay Could better than
Sylvester T. Smith, who was with the
Gould system for many years, but after
resgning the general managership of the
Denver and Rio Grande. having made
money out Of the mines of Creole, quit
railroading entirely. 1t should be under
stood that every word uttered by Mr..
Smith on this subject can be accepted
without shade of doubt.
TITS no use" he said when / began to
ask him about his deceased friend. THE
public is so prejudiced against Jay Gould
that what you say win not even be taken
seriously"
insisted that a new story about any
one was interesting, especially II II were
true, and being true, II ought TO be told.
IF you want my opinion" said he, 1T
Is that Jay Gould was one OF Ithe few
truly great men the world has produced,
and know of no man alive or dead, who
did so much good and got so little credit
for doing good. To certain extent that
was HIS own fault for he would never
give anything until he had found some
way to cover the act up. He did not
do charity with a brass band.
Mr. Gould had two great objects in his
life; one, which the public knew, was to
make money; the other, which the public
ala not know, was to spend Il where II
would do the most good. In the latter
part OF the 7Vs there was n great crop
failure in Kansas The farmers had 10
seed wheat nor money with which they
might buy seed wheat. The receivers for
the Kansas Pacific railroad had been fur
nishing seed to such farmers as had APP
piled for aid and taking the notes Of the
unfortunate people, payable after crop
could be raised
AT meeting Of the receivers and d.
rectors Mr.. Gould being among the 9i-
reetors the question of explaining their
action TO the United States court came up
and the receivers agreed that they must