The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-16

 after. he obtained full charge of his fathers interests, he called upon J. Pierpont Morgan in regard to the purchase of the New York, & North ! ern Railway by the Manhattan Ele- vated road Something was said ] which angered MT. Gould. and he vowed nevcr to enter the Morgan offices again.
 I Wins J. D.'s Friendship
 I Fearing, however, that he had made a powerful enemy, he de- termined to neutralize its effect by an alliance with the financial in- terests of the world He called upon John D. Rockefeller, outlined his plans. and asked the oil magnate's |, advice. There was something in I young Gould's manner that won the friendship of MT. Rockefeller, and a 1 plan for harmonious operation of the Rockefeller and Gould railroad inter- l ests was arranged.
 Next, Mir. Gould seized upon cir constance which brought him close l to Andrew Carnegie, who was en- gagged in a controversy with the Pennsylvania railroad at the time. The Ironmaster. offered Gould lib eral contract fn exchange for bring ing the Wabash road into Pittsburgh on it's way to the Atlantic Coast, and ] through those concessions the rail road builder secured another power 1 full friend.
 For. two decades after the death of his father, George Gould continued I to manage the vast properties, and many financiers and railroad men have declared that he frequently sur passed his famous mentor in his capacity to weave an indefinite jum- \ ble of railroads into definite and complete system.
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 He was director of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company, the Rio Grande Southern Railroad the Utah Fuel Company and of the Man haitian Railway Company. During his career he had been president of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail- way; president and chairman of the board of directors of the Missouri Pacific Railway; president of the Texas & Pacific Railway; president of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway; president of the International and Great Northern Railway; director of the Wabash Railroad, and vice-president of t he Western Union Telegraph Company I Dissatisfaction among other of the heirs of Jay Gould over Georges handling of the estate, however, had been growing for some time, and inj July 1919, he was removed as exc cutor and trustee by court order. MT. Gould's first marriage was in 1886 to Edith Kingdom, ho>dropped dead while playing golf on the Gould estate at Lakewood. N. J., in Novem- Der, 1921. From this union there were five children.
 In May, 1922, MT. Gould married Jeanne Sinclair, a former actress, 30 years his junior. Tho second mar niage was regarded as almost as much of an elopement as the mar lriages of three Of his children, Edith, George. Jr., and Kingdom. The first news of it came from Paris, where the couple were spending their hon-i eymoon, but it later transpired thati the ceremony was performed in Lake i wood. As consequence of this sec Ond marriage, MT. Gould lost prop erty valued at $3.00O,000 left by his first wife, which reverted to trust fund for her children.
 While MT. Gould apparently en- joyed good health during the years he spent as a yailroad builder, it de veiopcd during lawsuit in 1923 that l he had suffered breakdown, and was spending most of his time in Flu rope recuperating from bronchial | trouble.
 In. tho spring of 1923 he became seriously ill while in Egypt. and was hurried back to his villa in South ern France. sufferinS from pneumonia. For several weeks his life was de spaired of by the foremost physicians of Europe. Mir. Goulds hssne in Lakewood, NJ: