The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-18
OUR new YORK LETTER
G. p. MoROSlNI, THE BANKER, ONCE
MORE SEES HIS NAME IN PRINT.
He Has Been More or Less Before the Pub
lie For Twenty Years-He First Became
Prominent rs Jay Gouid's Bodyguard.


millionaire and close friend of Jay Gould,
was forced into the newspapers once more
by three bicycle riders who upset and ran
him down one after tho other on Fifth av-
enue near Forty second street while he
was crossing the former thoroughfare a
day or two ago
do not remember to have seen Moro
sini's name in print before since last No
vember, when some of the papers pub
lished illustrated articles about Elmhurst,
his up the Hudson country place.
The house Is of picturesque design, and
stands in the midst of unusually large
grounds, but its climatic glories are all
within and not outside the walls. In its
furnishing the Morosini taste, unique, In
tensely individual and possibly somewhat
bizarre, has had full sway 1t has resulted
In an extraordinary blending of the an
tique and the modern. A massive mahog-
any sideboard that did long service in
| Dutch mansion and was centuries old
when America was discovered stands not
far from huge orchestrion of the latest
pattern which automatically plays hun
dreds of modern airs at one winding, while
| the profusion of old armor, the writing
| desk guaranteed to have been Napoleon's
/ and the ancient cannon which are scat.
tered over many parts Of the house are
| illuminated at night by hundreds, maybe
thousands, of incandescent electric lamps,
and modern paintings and other works OF
art are everywhere to be seen sandwiched
in between the relics of forgotten ages
When We First Heard of Him.
We first heard Of G.. p. Morosini some 20
years ago or Whereabouts when he began to
do duty as bodyguard in ordinary for Jay
Gould, and ever since then his name has
come to the front at intervals
Gould had been in trouble with the re-
doubtable James r.. Keene, sometimes
termed James Ramfeezle Keene by certain
newspaper writer's, and q muscular friend
of Keenes had dropped Wall streets mas
ter into an area by way of getting even,
much to the disgust of Gould, who rarely
afterward went anywhere unattended by
Morosini. Morosini was half way between
30 and 40 then, short, stocky chap OF
passable comeliness, with legs little too
short and the shoulders and torso OF a
giant Although the public had never
seen much of him down to that time, he
had long been in Gould's employ, having
served first at some mental capacity in the
offices of the Erie railroad and later as
Gould's confidential secretary.
Morosini had long stood well with Gould
when Keenes friend made the memorable
assault on the millionaire. After that
confidence between master and man grew
and hourished like green bay tree. In
such circumstances 1t would have been
surprising had not Gould given his friend
and protector many points regarding the
ACQUISITION of wealth, and, in fact, that IL
, Just what he did. Morosini profted ac
cordingly, being a very rich man when
Gould died and now fairly ranking among
New York's multimillionaire bankers.
Many who know how poor and friend
less he was when taken up by Gould de
clare Morosini to have been and still to b'
, an ignorant uncultivated man, Whose
! coarse and vulgar characteristics are only
the more clearly shown by the way he use
his comparatively recently gotten wealth
AS to the truth of this assumption presen
deponent cannot say, but 1t Is worth men
tioning that the contrary view Of his per
sonality is strongly held by some wh'
know Morosini best. They say that he i
cultivated broad minded and Of liberal cd
ucation. Though an Italian, as his mann
would indicate he was a cadet in the Aus
trian army when youth, belonging, 1t
? stated, to the same branch Of the Morosini
as the Countess Annina, whose beauty ha
: SO often been reported to have captivate'
e the Emperor William Of Germany
j When only youth, however, u.
n Morosini Joined himself to the fortunes
e Garibaldi. This Is understood later t
$ have driven him to America and to hav
$ been accountable for his poverty stricke
y condition on arrival here.
g Morosini Not In Society.
$ In spite of his riches and although
: has q wide circle of wealthy and cultivate
:. friends. G. p. Morosini has never bee
: able to enter the charmed circle we a
= term society. 1t Is true that this circle ha
r admitted many whose beginnings In III
d were far below his, but no man who eve
n served as a bodyguard has ever yet OF
e tanned an entrance, and society Is nc
o ready to make beginning OF this Sol
e with Morosini. This Is known very we
n by Morosini himself and has been accepte
y as final for years by him, but there was
h time when he believed he could eventual
d overcome every prejudice and proudly eI
Is roll his name alongside those OF the A
tors, the Jays and all the other old timer
Morosini thought he could force the CT
IS adel by reason Of his daughter victoria
y personal beauty, which gave promise
something phenomenal even when she W,
"a a child. To the end that she should
| =
IA utmost he had her education attended
with scrupulous care. Teachers the mo
q expensive in every branch were engage
% for her tuition, and, that she might und
~ no circumstances think OF marriage un,
# the proper parti made his appearance, 81
was guarded from tho outside world Wi
care almost unparalleled.
"a IL was this extraordinary care tn
N brought her fathers most cherished schen
n to naught Never meeting young men
"a education and culture, she fell desperate
>, in love with the family coachman a q
- cade ago, and one day the two eloped al
70 were joined in wedlock, to the wonder
20 the world at large, the cynical hand
- lifting of all society and the intense On
=, grin of her father, who promptly cut her
~ without so much as shilling.
ne This left the young couple witho
~ means of support and later led to thu
.e appearance together on the concert STAG
=. though without much success. Still ia'
Il a. rkov~n