Show t l S ffA VtJONDERFUl MAN t t I I Something About Pawnbroker Pawnbro-ker I < of Wall Street II UNCLE RUSSELL SAGE I f t Ho Is Now EightyFive Years Old I nnd Bids Fair to Live a Hundred Ho Keeps Himself Busy AU tho Time Leads nn Absteminous Life 1 Is Money Lender Puro and Simple Sim-ple No One Cnn Estimate His Fortune It Varies From Fifty to Ono Hundred Millions BVNl SPECIAI j New York Oct IT Russell Sage is i I nearly 85 and while wehear now nnd then tlmt he has a bad cold and la I tlncatened l with pneumonia and till that kind or tiling he soon gels out again and blcla fair to lie to be 100 That Is because of course It Is because of his nbstumlnous life and general cadaverousnesS ca-daverousnesS A truly wonderful man F hi i Russell sage a moneylender pure I I J 1 and Pimple the pawnbroker of the street In other words And that Is I t why everybody calls him uncle No one i can tell anything1 of tho size of his fortune I for-tune some say llfty millions some one 1 hundred millions It Is enough and as the moneylending business especially as conducted by your uncle of three balls lo understood to be Invariably profitable of course he has made money steadily all his life nnd he has lived u long time He might be called the Hetty Green of the male population f just as Hetty Green might be called the Russell Sage of the female population popula-tion EATS BUT LITTLE Uncle Russell does not subsist on little lit-tle red apples an Is commonly supposed He eala little It Is true but his luncheons lunch-eons are taken not at the little fruit stand on the corner nor even aa he walks to and from a board meeting but i almost dally In the directors room of the Western Union building at 195 I Broadway This Is a fine laige apartment apart-ment where the great guns meet rcpu larly and they have a fine goodsized meal brought In every day Of course I I Uncle Russell Isnt there every day because be-cause he has about as many board meetings to attend as anybody else In the city and one reason alleged to be strongly operative In this case why he does all this Is thc fact that there Is I a S10 gold piece In It every time he gets there NO ENLARGEMENT OF HEART In spite of the fact that he takes a fairly liberal luncheon every day there Is no danger that Mr Sages private life will be brought to a sudden determination determina-tion by enlargement of the heart He Is a member of an uptown churchwhich however Is not so far uptown an It ought to bo considering the rapid and very general movement In that direction direc-tion The old chaps In the congregation congrega-tion were pillars of this church for years and years but finally within the span of four or five years I should say they became angered at the younger element for wishing possibly to have a new minister or perhaps to change one of the voices In the choir or In short to do something that meant a violent vi-olent ecclesiastical 1 eruption Uncle 31tis3ell rebelled at this and resigned from the board of IrustuOB saying that I If the young fellows wanted to run that church they must get the money together to-gether with which to do It BOYS DID RUN IT Now the church had been In debt for i years but the young men who did take hold and who did follow Uncle RussellLs advice to furnish the money It they ware going to do business at thatlocal I ity soon had the enterprise entirely out I of debt and the congregation Increased K rapidly l that It was a surprise to everybody ev-erybody Of course Mrs Sage has considerable money In her own right such as her hunband has been Induced to give her I but It Is a positive fact thai she Is very much hampered in prosecuting certain church work which appeals to her wry I strongly She has been known to apologize 4 apolo-gize for not contributing more generously t gener-ously to church purposes by 5aylng to t that her husband really restricted her j ii allowance to such a small figure that itt it-t was Impossible for her 0 HIS PIIYSICrAN A MILLIONAIRE I t Uncle Ru ells physician In his recent I I re-cent ailment which lhre tcned to turn I I into pneumonia and 1 suppose sometime I some-time Home such dlucase will get him r 3 was Dr John P Munn of West Fifty eighth struct himself a most icmnrka bio man For years in fact until the death of Jay Gould Dr Munn was hls I physician and v oucl of course no on trips with him and generously lool out for him Thla led very naturally or course to an Intimate knowledge on I the part of Dr Munn of the value of certain Hccurltlcs and he became a millionaire I mil-lionaire long leforci Jay Gould died He I has greatly Increased his fortune Hlnce Then the famous Northern Pacific corner occurred DI Munn got out Z700 000 to tho good and he has so much money now tlmt hut Investments sometimes I some-times for a quIck turn In tho market 1 cannot help but turn out fortunately r He IK J n director In several of the i Gould roads and la I very much trusted as a financial as well as a medical I I counselor and Is one of the most lovable I lov-able men with hlw gentle and nympa r thellc nature and his Uowlng gray I tsldewhlcken that one could meet in r I a days journey even among a thick population He Is practically the head of one of the largest life Insurance t companies here rcprc > ontlng not only his own extensive Investment In that t huHlnftiB but that of MB wife which was Inherited He Is not the president but only the medical examiner attending I attend-ing to his dutlca for a little time each day between whiles aa It were that I Is between the time when he rushes dontown from his regular olllcc hours I at his > home to the time when the board meeting comcs ofi Inter I In the day or I earlier Ills practice lu I extensive and I of course valuable and one may fInd i = j him pursuing his tidcntlllc investigations investiga-tions Just as Interestedly nn If hell < he-ll lnt have a dollar In the world and I didnt care for one Nothing succeeds like OUCCCRS even when a doctor of medicine goes Into llninco That has been well proved by the caso of Dr Munn George Gould and the other I Gould boys think the world of him and there IN nothing too good for the doctor when poni of the good cure thlnga arc handed around JAY GOULD A WONDERFUL MAN The life and accomplishments of Jay Gould are only a memory nov but they are still a rather active one Of course In was totally different from the present king of tho street a wrecker by nature and In practice Think what would happen to this country If I J P Morgan were a wrecker and not n bullderup an organizer and a roorgan Irer It Is not to be 1 Inferred that Jay Gould placed In Mr Morgans present position I would wreck things or would wish to but he had that kind of a mind that was his bent A wonderful man too who had his uses for the Russell Sages and Jim FIsks of IIB lime He would 31tln a board mcotlngnpparcntly almost asleep but always listening intently In-tently like a fox or a cat then after everybody else had finished talking or perhaps spouting ho would ask one or two pointed questions which showed not only that he had heard every word and had pondered wall the views oC every person present but that hi was able by the use of a single sentence to drive straight at the nutshell and get at the kernel GREAT FEAT OF FINANCE His great feat of high finance that of leaving his fortune of nearly seventy millions all earned In a life shorter than that tlll remains one of the most notable performances of modern lime rind his forethought In leaving It tied up In a kind of n pool la 1 now seen to have been the very wisest George the eldest son has proved an able manager has developed greatly indeed possibly has doubled the fortune left by bin father though that wouldnt be HO bard It would simply require care and ordinary prudence I The lucky part of It all Is that exactly the danger which Jay Gould foresaw has been prevented by his pooling arrangement and by the use of the family counsel which was required for what can you imagine would have become of a large part of the Jay Gould fortune and perhaps the whole of II If Anna Gould and her French Count had had full swing GEORGE GOULD BUSINESS MAN George Gould easily one of the half doen most interesting financiers of the country attends strictly to business He plays polo with the boys at Lakewood Lake-wood has an Immense beautiful steam yacht provides his family with all the I luxuries but all the same attends strictly to business When In town at all he can be found In the Western Union building with the big people coming and going all about him and especially old Judge Dillon of Iowa one of our ablest lawyers near at t hand to be hlK counsel as he has been the counsel coun-sel of the Gould estate In any emergency emer-gency arising Howard also Is I a good levelheaded business man nothing like his brother perhaps and of far softer and more affectionate nature a good fellow and a good loser In a game of poker excuse me I meant euchre himself devoted to his yacht and his great house In the country and his actress ac-tress wife FRANK GOULD A GOOD BOY The other boy Frank 1 Is a pretty good one too sitting with his brothers In many of the directorates of the Gould roads and other properties Interesting himself In banking especially He was In the Produce Exchange Trust company com-pany at the time when It went to pieces but threw a lot of money In there and made the reorganization safe and complete So you see in financial Institutions as well an lailroads and their allied Interests the Gould millions mil-lions helped to keep things steady GEORGE GOULDS FAMILY Mrs George Gould was Edith King don a beautiful and accomplished actress ac-tress of the Daly company George Gould has three or four Jlnc children a couple of them grown up enough to participate In all the manly sports with their father and to attract attention In the newspapers for that matter as much as the Presidents son would do but foi the fact that the > are not tho Presidents sons though I assure you that they are Just as strenuous Georgo Gould and his wife and the boys love their homes and in their private liven are perfectly exemplary ABOUT HOWARD The same may be paid about Howard Gould and his wife who was Katherine Clennnons the ncLICl They are childless child-less but apparently very much devoted to each other Howard has bought a great estate of several hundred acres out on Long Island to which he can proceed In a lelsqrely and luxurious way in the afternoon after business just as George can to a neighboring railroad station to Lakewood The Howard Goulds are building a great palace on this estate They have been In the papers somewhat It Is true and that too rather unfortunately Frlal It was a quarrel with a dressmaker a quarrel on the dressmakers part who couldnt collect a bill The contention was that the dress didnt fit Now lately a swell carriage manufacturer has had to sue the Howard Goulds for the price of a thousanddollar vehicle I and he won the suit Of course tho very rich are a very appropriate game for those who wish to get rich quickly and It may be that among the carriage builders as well as among the dressmakers dress-makers are some of these Also it la true that when a drunken and Insolent butler mien pretty decent people like Howard Gould on account of some difficulty dif-ficulty real or fancied the general community sympathizes with them for resisting such a thing All the same it Is possible to be too well known as a tenacious person and In the long run there Isnt so very much In It MUST FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE Of course a great principle is I now find then at stake nnd one must light for ll and fight for It at any time and at any cost Whether that is true of the carriage manufacturers the dressmakers dress-makers and the butlers Is a question There was trouble at the Howard Gould estate on Long Island with a walking delegate1 and on this account a sympathetic strike ao to speak might have been engineered among the long aulTerlng public At all events Howard Gould and his wife arc apparently very happy together She calls him dearie and he calls her ducky That has been brought out at a trial in court Frank Gould married a daughter of the late Eugene Kelly the millionaire Catholic hanker and philanthropist t They have Just had u baby born to them on the Frank Gould yacht for ho Is 1 also able to sit in that kind of a game They are very happcy together and well mated and as nicely behaved as any couple that you could meet on an ocean steamer RAVENJ3L |