The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17

than work.
George Gould is an excellent ex-
ample of the young man born to mil
lions, who, in coming into his fortune,
shows both the Willingness to work
and the ability to work effectively
Clarence Mackay seems about to de-
velop along exactly similar lines, as
his determination to sell his horses
and go to work indicates.
George Gould was a hard worker
years before his fathers death;
indeed it was his desire to get into
working harness more than anything
else that made him cut short his school
days and go into the office of his
father. There is a story that the lat
ter opposed the sons inclination for
work in preference to study, feeling
anxious that the advantages of col
lege training which he had himself
missed should be enjoyed by the son.
However, the boys desire to master
the ms and outs of the complicated
Gould enterprises was acquiesced In,
and George was fairly loaded with
work forthwith. He attacked all sorts
of details which the head of great
corporation need never concern him
self with. He learned biography and
for years had a key and sounder on
his desk, retaining them long after he
was the head of the family and it's
properties, though the Geographic in
struments have since been displaced
by the telephone. Nor have the habits
of industry thus acquired been impair
ed as yet, despite his present greater
tendency toward play. Save when on
vacation or when inspecting some of
his roads he puts in regular and fairly
long hours at his desk and when there
he works with his might and entirely
without frills, sitting in his shirt
sleeves in warm weather and often
running his own errands instead of
making use of one of the many mes
sengers constantly at his command
Once when he was going to the ground
floor of the Western Union building,
coatless, hatless and with a big splotch
of ink alongside his nose, he was OBJ
served by two strangers from out of
town.
I'D like to see that fellow Could"
said one of them soto voce, this chap
is one of his clerks, likely. and he
probably does more work in an hour
than Gould himself does in a week"
The recent ruling of Secretary Shaw,
allowing the free entry of many sorts
and grades of goods brought over by
first-class passengers which have had
to pay duty ever since the Dingley
tariff came into force has made the
life of first-class cabin customs in
spectors at this port much easier than
formerly, yet very many of them pre-
fer to put in their time inspecting the
baggage of steerage passengers, not
withstanding the obvious drawbacks
of this duty.
Storage baggage must be examined
at Ellis Island in stuffy rooms and
crowds much denser than those on the
light and airy piers of the steamship
companies where cabin baggage is in
spected, while the crowds themselves
are generally unsavory and the goods
are far more unpleasant to examine.
These drawbacks are offset, however,
by the greater docility of the steer |
age passengers and the smaller pro-
portion of dutiable articles which they |
try to get through. Besides, the pro- |
portion of American citizens in the |
Storage is much smaller than among |
the cabin passengers and American |
citizens are proverbially quite as hard |
for the inspectors to get along with |
as those of any other nationality, bar /
ring only the English.
1t is the general opinion of the in
spectors that the Englishman is the
most difficult of all. Both he and the
American, in many instances, are |
prone to insist that actual examina-
ton of baggage implies lack of con-
hdence in the accuracy OF the passen- /
gers previous declaration, made I'M
der oath, as to the contents Of his
trunks. This popularity Of the Eng /
fish speaking passengers and the fact /
that dressmakers. tailors and import
ers OF precious stones, making up a
large proportion of those who ATTEMPT
to run things through" are first-class
cabin passengers. add much 10 the ar I
duousness Of the cabin inspectors life. /
In 50 large a body OF men there are
bound TO be some who are below the
VIII bear comparison very well with /