Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-18
FRUITS FROM A MUSE TRAP

| low IN pennsylvania was making q
stake" by selling mouse traps.
He made money.
He was energetic; he drove sharp bar
gains.
In time he brought UP in New York.
Suddenly he came to the front as the
controlling influence in great railroad en-
terprlses.
He was Jay Gould.
He bought more railroads and made
more millions.
lie wrecked other roads and packed
away other millions.
They called him hard names, and he
doubtless deserved some of them.
When he died, about fifteen years ago.
he was hated by great many people and
loved by but few, but he was worth
close to a quarter of a billion of dollars
He left some likely children The ED
est boy. George Gould, has developed into
enc of the best business men in the coun-
try.
He rs not a railroad wrecker.
lie Is a buIlder-up; he Is a helper of
cities in many ways.
His wealth IS piling up.
While he makes good bargains for him
self he makes good bargains for railroads,
for cities, for men and states
The enterprises that the Goulds con
troll are adding millions OF dollars yearly
to towns where they have investments
Tens of probably not one
less than 100000 men-are given en-
ployment by the Goulds.
Their payroll goes up into the millions
OF dollars a month
Take Richmond, Va, for instance. They
own the street car and electric plant and
are extending lines to Petersburg and
Appomattox; to Ashland and other
points.
They are building 4 railroad that will
tap the rich Northern Neck, the beaut-
! full country between the Potomac and
Rappahannock river, where Gov. Fair
child and Gen. Bragg took the Iron
brigade the winter of 1863; they are soon
to invest 100000 in a steel plant on
Belle Isle, where a great many northern
soldiers spent various months of the year
during the war.
That viii give employment to 500 men.
They are planning other factories for
Richmond, Petersburg and neighboring
towns.
These new enterprises, planned and
some of them unuer contract, mean a
boom for Richmond. such as any city in
1t is hard to tell what they do not
mean.
In view of what the Goulds have done.
are doing and what they are to do, it is
not strange that the people of Richmond
are slow to engage in a move looking to
municipal ownership of street car and
electric light plant, proposed by some of
her citizens.
But all of the Goulds are not men.
There were girls in that family.
Helen Gould is one of them, and she is
one of the grandest women of her time;
all of the time watching out for chances
to do good with her great wealth.
Men of the army and navy have great
admra ton for Helen Gould
She has been very kind to them
She has expended hundreds of thou
sands of dollars for their comfort and
pleasure. She has provided them with
a thousand or more libraries. OF carefully
selected books.
She gave Uncle Sam 100000 when the
last war began.
From her purse came much of the
money that sent representatives of the
Y. NJ. c. 4. to Cuba. Porto Rico and the
Philippines, where they wrought well for
both the army and navy and the natives.
All through the Philippines can be
found the Helen Gould libraries, and al
ready thousands of the natives who have
been taught to read in the public schools
which are doing wonders for their far
away American possessions, are regular
patrons of them, and by their reading
and schooling are fast becoming Amer-
canized
When the good work in the way of de-
Velopment and tine employment of vast
army OF men. by the Gould sons, and the
superb womanhood of Helen Gould. and
the blessings her efforts are bestowing
upon the world are taken into account.
we need not regret. seriously. that their
father lived wrought and left a vast for
tune to be used by his children in many
desirable channels.
We need not worry about the money
used by the new crop Of Goulds being
tainted
For that matter, do you recall that
any one refused Jay Gould's cash be-
cause it was taintcd2
Hasn't much good come to tie world
from the efforts Of that early trader in
mouse-tra ps.--Evening Wisconsin.
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Oak Trees as Memorials.