The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-06

go out of the grain-and charity business
or put themselves in a tight box. / was at
that time manager for the receivers, and
when their conclusion had been reached
Mr.. Gould come to me, and in the presence
of all the other aldermen said: These
people must have seed wheat. You will
please furnish it to all who apply and
draw on me personally-never mind the
notes. Wen get it all back in freight
next year."
There were no end to applications"
said Mr. Smith, land l thought 1 would
make Mr.. Gould squeal for once, but when
l showed him the slip @ith ABOUT mile
of figures on it, he just glanced down at
the total and said: We'll, I'm glad we
were able to help those poor fellows, for
they really needed it
You remember" the speaker went on,
''the great exodus of colored people from
the south some fifteen years ago? They
flooded Kansas City like a pest of grass
hoppers, and nobody knew what to do
with them. They soon became hungry,
then disorderly, and in a little while they
would have become desperate. Mr.. Gould
viewed the situation from New York, bur
even at that distance he foresaw a ca
lamity If these people were not taken care
of, so he wired me: Send those negroes
wherever they choose to gol' and closed
the message as he had closed many be-
fore: and draw on me-
II have spent fortunes of Mr.. Gould $
money, and the only comment usually
was, is that all Q Once.I said (for l knew
he was being imposed upon, These peo-
pie are not deserving, Nj. Gould.
Well he replied, you'd better help
them. They may be-
Then there were hundreds and hun
dreds of little things he did almost every
day-little for him but really big-which
the public knew nothing about; for only
such cases as the shipping of the negroes
or the giving of $1,000 day to Memphis
as long as they needed it. ever reached the
public ear
Il remember one day we were coming
over the old K. p. in my car, when we were
tagged at a way station and slowed down
to receive a message from the operator
When the light train began to whirl-away
toward the west again l could see that Mr..
Gould was anxious to receive the wire
for which we had been tagged, but we
waited for some minutes and no message
came to either of US
"In a little while I noticed that George,
the colored porter, was lettering around
the car and grinning like a negro in a
melon patch, and 1 said to Mr.. Gould,
jokingly, 1t must have been George who
got the message Finally the fellows
mirth became so offensive that 1 called
sharply: George, what's the matter with
you?
'Mattah,' demanded George, didn't
you see me git de wiah? rs got a baby in
Kansas CITY, and he teetered out at the
other end of the car.
Call him back said Mr.. Gould, and I
pushed the button and George waited in
again. Here, said the little man, that's
for the boy and he handed the father a
500 note, and the smile on Georges face
spread out another roof.
II have seen Mr.. Gould, great as he
was, when it came to handling big
things, get all 'balled up over the simplest
little incident. We were in the Windsor
hotel in Denver. A number of other
railroad men and Mr.. Gould with his
family were at a little old hotel just across
the street A reporter from the Republic
can came to me and assured me that I
had 1t in my power to do him world of
good: 1T won't hurt you,' he said, and
1t might make me- 1 liked the fellows
frank and earnest way and promised to
help him IL l could consistently do so.
He told me briefly that he wanted to
see Mr.. Gould, to talk with him person.
ally. so that he could say, Mr.. Gould
said
THE next morning I went over to the
little hotel where Mr.. Gould and his party
were at breakfast l told him about the
reporter who had called on me the night
before, and finished by informing him that
/ had promised the young man the per-
sonal interview
" Then it's all fxed?'
Yes
" And when do I show?'
" AS soon as you have finished your
breakfast l said, trying hard not to
laugh. AS we passed out into the office
Of the hotel 1 signaled my young man
ahead and he approached very shakv.
Mr.. Gould saw the boys embarrassment
and offered him his hand, which the
poor fellow seemed half afraid to take.
What do you want to see me about p
asked the railroad man to help him ont
When the reporter spoke his own voice
seemed to scare him and he stammered
till 1t was positively painful to hear
him.
I wanted-to-to-ask you about the
situation, what you consider the situation
that-is-the-what you intend to do about
the-about it?'
4 don't know said Mr. Gould with a
smile. Now. what would you recommend?'
This little by-play, instead of putting
the young man at his ease had the opposite
effect and filling up like rubber water
bag the boy bolted and left US.
Call him back said Mr.. Could, the
boy Is only embarrassed and he must be
helped out or he will always be embarrass-
ed.
I'VE tried to call him but he had turned
the corner and was lost TO us. One OF the
hotel boys was sent to bring him back.
but returned without the reporter. We tele
phoned to his paper. but he had not yet
reached the Office
Just at that time there was a great deal
OF guessing as to whether the X p. would
absorb the L. p or vice versa, and IL was
this the reporter wanted to talk about.
Mr. Gould had on his mind the great
scheme Of forming the Union Pacific sus-
tenn, but he put II all away for the time
and devoted half day TO looking for the
lost reporter, holding the special at the de-
pot at Denver for that purpose. Our con-
ductor and porter we're sent up town. but
the reporter could not be found. II was
little thing, but 1t was enough TO cause