The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-02
"A BIT OF BROADWAY.

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Young Edwin Gould Jr, who has sprung
into recent notice BY virtue of his effort to ho-
DO" his way back to New York from Connect
cut boarding school, explained To tht Chief of
Police of New Britain, Comm
I'm kid, maybe. but I've seen At bit
Of Broadway and I'm not blowing abou;
it, I'm Just telling you and 50 father
sent me up here in the country to this
school at Pomfret three weeks ago. There
are abou, 125 bovs there and it was
all right for awhile. but it didn't take
long for the attractions of the country.
even though il Is spriug, TO wear of.
So | quit
Several Of the children Of Jay Gould have been
exceptions to the growing rule of worthl"ssness
among the heirs of the very rich. Others have
exhibited the faint that to follow the posses
sion of money for which It's owner has not worked
or suffered Edwin Gould is of the exceptions, a
man of clean life and domestic instinct. In the
misfortune incident 10 son Of the character IN
Dictated by the quotation he l. entitled 10 the sym
patty of the country.
Young Gould boasts that he has seen Il bit
Of Broadway. although he admits that maybe
be is kid And, provocative OF disgust as pert
ness Of this sort l.. it i, true that the moral
furnace pictured in the phrase, "a bit OF Broad
way is sufficient to quickly scar and wlther the
fuel Of youth on which it feeds If young Gould
has indeed seen his bit Of Broadway, be has
not thereby become a man, but certainty he Is
no longer a boy. On the contrary, he has merely
snapped the charm and vgor and faith Of youth
for the disillusion and cynlcism and wees OF
manhood things that, SO far from constituting
manhood itself weaken it's powers and DENY Its
realization. The result, III the light Of the oppor-
tunity thrown away, is similar to- but more pa
thetic than, those ag,~old children of the Sums,
/ their baby faces distorted with cruel wisdom OF
life
1t seems that Edwin Gould. Sr., saw these
things happening to his son, and tried, too late TO
remedy them. The virus of Broadway had
struck deep In wholesome surroundings ITS
neophytc frctted and pinned for lis glitter and Its
dirt. There is one hope for the younger Could
a hope that his fAther may have eanrassed, but
which his mother heart will never permit to be
avaled or And that is work, the forced necessity
of 4elf-support, the violent throwing into contact
with hard and primeyal conditions youth whom
luxury has etfeminized and yitlated. y boy
pitched into deep waters may sink, and may
swim If he swims, he will never forget the
art or afterwards lack confidence When it comes
. 10 testing the river OF ne, thtF' pF I'So Nho
will touch it only when, by the scrutf of the
neck, they are thrown into it bodily and heels over
head.
It is It significant thing, however that young
Gould gives. as one of the reasons for his leav
ing school the fact that he had been "blacklisted
. by the other boys. He professed not TO under
stand why this was so, but it needs small knoWl
edge Of healthy minded YOUNGSTERS to appreciate
{ their quick Judgment and clear appraisement Of
., the sham. And what q fine and democratic thing
it is hat this scion of wealth. this incipient 'mar
8 about town.. with the lates, Broadway slang and
Tenderoin philosophy, far from taking ranl
9, wholesome body of school Republic. Thing
, in general are still several degrees removed from
the bowwows when the country can afford an *
= ample as 9autarv as that,