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Show A GLIMPSE OF GOULD. I His Personal Habits and Relations. Rela-tions. N3T IS BID IS HE IS PUNTED. How he Upsets all the Traditions Concerning Con-cerning him. Meeting a friend who has grown more than middle agud in the railway service between Ohio, Baltimore and New York, I said to him: "Is not Gould in about as good shape ' as he ever wasP' I "Oh, yes," said my friend, whom I have i known since about 1S7U, "he is the most I powerful factor iu the way of speculation 1 this country has seen. But he does not do 1 anything while abroad. However, they will j never liwe their ftar of him wherever he may be. And Gould gets nearly all his bad repu- tation among the speculators and promoters I who tried to cheat him, and having failud, ) turn round anil bite at him, as the snake ) gnawed the file. I will give you an instance j of that whitcu huppeuud under my own eye, when no person was in tho room but Gould , and myself. 1 had been severely prejudiced against him, and would not have dared to go and see him but for the intervention of a very quiot chap by the name of Guppy, whom Gould found in the Erie railroud when he went there. Guppy was a poor, broken down, Bpiue and chest crippled man, who never had the least reason to suppose that Gould would treat hiin like a human being; but Gould found that under his diseased exterior ex-terior was a bright aud fiery mind, circumstantial circum-stantial in its correctness and completeness and reliable as well as brave. It is strange that these powerful men in our finances are often found out the first by tho humble and broken down men, who are sensitive about friendship and often get the most of it. "He came to me once and told mo that op- poncuts of mine who had succeeded to the I Erie railroad would break me down. Said he: 'You have the right and logic on your side, but they have got the New York city I press and prevailing courts of Justice and the big lawyers, and thoy will mash you to pieces. The only man who can save you Is ; Jay Gould.' 'Then,' said I, '1 will not be . saved, for 1 don't want to know Jay Gould.' But my quiet friend talked the matter all over again from the outset, and the conne-quence conne-quence was that, against my desire and pur- pose, I found myself one evening calling on Jay Gould. That first evening he upset all my traditions. I had learned so much j against him from what I had read and heard that I was charmed to find him about the the easiest man to understand I had ever known. I will tell you directly or at another an-other time why he gets along; it is because he fs so simple and not becauso he is so dexterous." dex-terous." "Is Mr. Gfluld a man of any gratitude?" "Yes, it is very seldom that any person does him a kindness but he feels it and warms to an opportunity to repay it. I may also say that ho is a vindictive man. Ho does not seek an enemy out and does not resent re-sent mere mercantile opposition, but persons who lay for him and humiliate him he remembers re-members ; and he has got a good long memory for them. Whoever picks up Gould for a man without mental traits and memory, undertakes one of the greatest contests of this life. He Is not a person to do a dirty-thing, dirty-thing, but he understands this business of finance and everybody who is iu it. And he acquires his information about them in general from how they behave to himself, when he has given them a fair and equal opportunity, either as opponents, wayfarers or f riendfi." "Has Gould any suffering under public abuse, such as newspaper abuso?" " He keeps a calm exterior and offocta not to be troubled by what is said against him, but I think that all the some it gives him Buffering. As I Baid before, ho is like most other men, and is not exceptional to the themes of the successful men of the time. But he never swears nor uses epithets nor Beverely discusses any private character. That is why he is often taken by schemers and visitors to bo an overrated man. He takes no delight in being considered a Bmart person. As to his other habits, he never drinks, and he never smoked but one cigar ! In his life. He told me when that happened ; j it was after he and his associates had beaten : old Commodore Vanderbilt, who desired to capture the Erie railroad. They were somewhere in Jersey City, I think, and all the rest of them were playing billiards and smoking cigars, and Gould was offered a cigar, and feeling sociable he tried to smoke ' it, and it made him so sick that he has never made the effort any more." " Is he a domestic man T" "Entirely so. His strong hold Is his family. fam-ily. He is far from being the man he was once considered, without higher associates and opportunities from persons who were much less abused than himself, and also rich. But Mr. Gould has never lost bis head about social recognition. Those who meet him find a man plain and quiet, and In my judgment ! there is something very lovely about him, if j you go to seek private and family character there. If you go after him for a sensation, I or to pick his eyes out, you may find that he knows how to defend his nest like tho eagle." "Are his sons persons of capacity J" "Yes, they are smart boys, and just the opposite op-posite from what you would expect in this day of very rich men's sons. They are economics, eco-nomics, and have served tlieir apprenticeship apprentice-ship to the mechanical part of the railroad business, such as telegraphing and typo-writing, typo-writing, and thoy are now proficient In their father's business of finance, Ed Gould, I think, is a cleverer follow in his wits than George Gould, tho eldest son. The father is working him into directorships slowly, so that he can pick up the financial business. It is a popular mistake, however, to suppose that Jay Gould dictates telegraph dispatches to either of his Bons. Gould has a very remarkable re-markable character of literary ability. J suppose there is no man connected with our finance who can write as rapidly as he does, and you can never read anything between the lines when he signs a telegraph dispatch. Those who search through his communications communica-tions to thom to see if they can find out what he is about am invariably disappointed." "Is Georgo Gould happily marriedj" i "Yes. It may not be generally understood, i but Georgo Gould married the first gfrl be j over fell in love with, and that was why his father and mother hastened to appreciate his choice. Ho met his wife, warmed to her, fo lowed her and married her. They have a lovely child, and she is a very accomplished! woman. There 1b another instance of Gould's appreciation of brightness and talent, George's wife was a lady who made her living, liv-ing, through both necessity and cleverness, upon tho stago. The parents have nothing of the prig about them." "Gath" In Cincinnati Enquirer. |