Evening star., 1935-04-14
CONGRESS PAID HIGH
FOR FUNERALS In 8Os
Burial Ceremonies We're Elaborate,
and Committees Travelled in Great
STYLE to Home of Deceased.

IS, 100000 a year, at the end Of "a
months he has only lived. He has
eaten, drunk and slept. The time
has gone by with him as with you.
The sun has shone, the seasons have
gone through their changes and the
balance sheets show just so much
happiness and Just so much misery.
I doubt not, on the whole, your sheet
contains as much pleasure as his.
Let me tell you how Jay Gould looks.
as he undergoes the congressional
examination. He has Just testified
that he Is 49 years Of age, and he is
sitting with a tired look on his face
answering the questions put to him.
He talks freely in tones as soft as
woman's. There is nothing ostenta-
tious about him, and he seems to be
more of the persuasive than the ag-
gressive type. Mr.. Gould's hair is
Of silver. 1t is rather thick around
the sides and the back Of the head
and he keeps it we'll cut His face is
covered with a full beard of black
whiskers into which gray is creeping.
These whiskers. though not long, are
glossy and curly. Goulds eyes are
full Of expression. laughing and flash
ing upon occasion. His nose is in
clined to the Roman with large and
sensitive nostrils. He combs his hair
behind his ample ears.
He was not at all forward in the
examination today, but he answered
n iIvrt In 81 It,
had couple of detectives nearby, and
his lawyer was at his back to give
him advice as the occasion demanded
He exhibited no fear and read the
denunciation Of the strikers with a
display of feeling.
Jay Gould has perhaps az much
right to his millions as any rich man
Of the country today. Money-making
schemes are like executive sessions Of
the Senate: they are conducted with
closed doors. But Gould began life
on nothing. His father was a farmer
and when Jay was Is years old, he
worked for his board while he attend
ed school. He lived in the family of
a timer. where he chopped the wood
and made the fires. At the close of
the first Winter he bought the timer
out. but he soon tired of tinkering and
SOLD his tinshop. His next job was as
confidential clerk for a merchant.
during which he bought some land
himself for which his employer was
dlckering and upon which he made
sl,5O0. When he was not yet Is years
old. he entered Wall Street and COPIED
with the Astors and the Vanderbtlts
and others who had already made
millions. He has gone through a
number OF panics, has lost perhaps as
much as he has made and he now
owns two residences each worth
$1,000 900 and a yacht that cost
s600,00
Rare Book Auctions.
Washington has many book auc-
tons each Winter; a very valuable
coiiectlon is to be sold during the
present season. It is the library of
ex-Gov. Thomas BARLEY Of Ohio. who
was great collector and who had
choice volumes running into the
thousands. Such book auctions are
always held in the evening and NAV
find Supreme Court judges. Senators,
itterateurs. mixed with the crowds
that attend them. The books are sold
by catalogue and the bidding is al
ways spirited. Many collectors send
IN orders for books or leave bids with
the auctioneer.
Perhaps the most curious buyer of
books in the Capital is a wealthy
crank who seems to be half lunatic.
but who understands the value of
books perfectly. 1 have often seen
MIN IN the auction rooms, a big man
with huge bullet head. and a little
low derby hat several times too small
for him. placed on the front of it.
and pulled down so as to almost hide
his eyes.
The back of his neck is painted
black and his big cheeks show the
suspicion of rouge. He wears a sack
coat with sleeves much too large for
him and he has very small hands and
feet. He is proud of these hands and
the cuffs that surround them are al
ways of the whitest. They are so
large that he can pull his hands up
into them far out of sight. His
shoulders are padded so that they be-
come deformity. He wears very
small shoes made like those of a lady
with the heel near the center Of the
instep and he walks necessarily in a
mincing way.
At the book auctions he always has
a book IN his hand and while the
sale is not in progress he is reading.
could tell you his name. but it will
suffice to say he is the son of wealthy
parents who have left him a fortune
so tied up that he gets only the IN
come. He has one of the finest
libraries in Washington and he adds
to it every day.
There are number of large private
libraries in the Capital, for many of
the old Washingtonians take pride in
rare books. suppose none, however,
has choicer collection of antiquities
than the Hon. Joseph C. G. Kennedy,
who for the past IS years has been
one of the social and literary figures
OF Washington. His library is a small
room on the second floor of his resi-
dence, packed with antique and rare
books. with valuable manuscripts and
choice autographs. He has many ex-
quisite engravings, old wood cuts of
Durer worth hundreds Of dollars and
several volumes OF the classics which
If sold at London auction would
each bring thousands of dollars