The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-02
Never Mentioned Marriage.

When Gould was but rs years old, for
mer Judge Champlin testified, he con-
ceived a plan TO map the different coun'
ties of the state and 70 get "a bill through
the Legislature TO have the state gov,
ernment place the maps in libraries and
in the different county seats. He hrst
mapped out Albany county, In lSoa ana
during the early part OF that year was IN
Albany endeavoring TO get his Din
through the Legislature. :,
He often wrote To young Champlin.
who was then living at Roxbury, about
his doings at Albany, even during the
month OF the alleged marriage in April
Is,a but i'm none of these letters TO his
friend did young Gould ever intimate that
he was married or lead him TO believe
that he was counting any girl Young
could wanted to- map Delaware county,
where he lived, and proposed that his
friend and he should become partners In
this scheme.
He even made proposition to hire
Champlin and TO give him sl2O for six
months and allow him $50 for expenses
for that time, (which is much more than
it cost ME for the same time last sum
mcr' He also agreed to pay half the
money when duo and the other half with
interest nwhen the map was made, ana
10 give him 80 cents for every subscriber
he got who was good. :.
Cnampiin, who was then school
sented to work for young Gould for $50 a
month. They began their work In
August and completed IL in the latter
part Of the year 1858. They had great
deal of difficulty In getting the necessary
tools, and yr9urg Gould had To resort to
original ideas and improyise some to meet
the exigencies of the work. They wanted
compass. and Gould told his friend that
he could get one by going to Kingston, u
distance of 10 or 90 miles, and III he would
wake him up at midnight he would start
and get back as soou as possible.
Chnmplin aroused the young man about
half past IL O'Clock in the morning, and
be started on his journey, but returned
before night, having gone TO Andes to q
surveyor there and hired compass.
Champlin was i'm Gould's company In
carrying out this work all during the lat
ter half of 1881 and went walking with
him on Sundays, but never heard men,
tion of a marriage. Champlin I'm 1854 went
10 Michigan TO live and during the sixties
he learned that his friend Gould had been
married TO Miss Miller, the mother of
George and the other Gould children.
Judge Champlin stated that he was con
WINGED that young Gould must have been
In or about Albany in April, 1853, although
in one of his letters to him Gould speaks
OF having made "A trip during that month
TO Sauvarties New Brunswick. New
Haven and New York city where he saw
four colleges and tho crystal palace lie
produced several letters that he received
from Gould during their youthful days,
which showed that the young fnancier
was of an imaginative turn of mind and
knew something as 10 the resources and
possibilities of this country. In letter
OF April .. 1861, Gould wrote TO his friend,
In part, as follows:
II don't like your contemplated emigra-
tion To Michigan much. / would much
sooner 90 To Oregon and lay myself out
= few thousand acres of land in the fertile
valley Of tho Columbia, which is yet %
become the garden Of the world. IL is
there that enterprise and luxury will revcl
when the eastern half of North America
will only be remembered -
The evidence of Judge Champlin will
be used when the snit comes TO trial