Show SMITH GOULDS PARTNER I The New York Sun has a long notice of the death of Henry N Smith who was a partner with Gould and FItk He went to Buffalo a penniless boy where he got a clerkship the bank inghouse 6f Sanford it Co at a beg garly salary out of which ho lived however and in the cpuree of tWo ycara Saved 3113 with which ho set liP business busi-ness for himself as a ulbstonc broker Itt another two years he had saved 2200 With this and 2IOO more which he borrowed he extended his operations ar < d in a not very long time he had saved 10000 In addition to paying his debt In 1SG > he went to New York City At the Clarendon hotel lie met and became acquainted with Gould and the two were attracted lo each other Smith had already established a Vnll atrcetconnC tlonvllh connection With a man named Martin and finally the brokerage broker-age firm of Smith Gould t Martin was formed This was In 1S67 Gould was at that lime reported to be worth over half a million Two ycais later In 18CC1 there came the sudden scarcity of gold whlcirresultod In the crash of Biaclt Friday a rash that was bicuglil about by the cornerin gold which the firm of Smith Gould I Martlji engineered with the assistance of Jim FinkJ Gould and sk disap 1 carcd when the crash cacftu J l Smith I remained and faced the music and It I wao very boisterous discordant nerve trying music It was believed on the street at the time that Smith was the I executive head that engineered tho attended to great scheme while Gould the details and laid the pipes for the preparatory worlc The firm dissolved InjSTO and l SmIth Uien 34 years of ago I wajj accounted OH one of the wealthiest I selfmado men In New York He wan hit hard by the panic of 1573 In JSS5 I I he failed utterly dragging down with him the house ot William Heath Cot Co-t Away back In 1SCS Smith organized a stable with Budd Doblc for trainer and driver Ho bought the old Fashion lace course a farm near Trenton containing I con-taining 145 acres There he brought together Goldsmith Maid 211 Lady I Thorn 2l8M Lucy 21811 Lady Maud lSVi Rosalind 22151 j He also had the horses Jay Gould Gen Knox and Tattler He bred thirteen trottors havIng I hav-Ing records of 215 or bettor as compared com-pared with eighteen bred by the Jalc j Leland Stanford who had 500 horses f against Mr Smiths 100 |