| Show JAY GOULD the little wizard of wall street was an example in life of what may bo accomplished in this free country of ours by undaunted ambition and well diro directed eted efforts tha field for ones ambition in financial laffaira is ia simply si limitless as shown buthia in this JAY GOULD was of poor birth he was waa born at Rom bury delaware county new york map 27 1836 his hia boyhood days were spent on the farm and at the age of 14 years he entered robart academy while in school lis his desire was to excel excel in mathe mancs in in which branches he was quito quite successful after leaving school JAY GOULD bit befool abl himself to surveying e ng merited recognition for tho the accuracy with which ho he did dia hia work from him hia surveying mr GOULD gat gathered herd while yet prosecuting his labors as surveyor Burve this zealous worker became sick with typhoid fever favor in 1850 and on recovery ree overy he took a trip mainly for his hia health to the western part of the state otate to locate a tannery site for a friend the tha place placa was located and a savi mill was built in connection with the tannery mr GOULD was a partner but it was not long before ho he owned tho the whole property mi all GOULD next became a banker at Strouds Stroud bury pa in this position he ha took ad a of the e crisis in 1857 on I 1 tho he rutland washington 1139 railroad and bought up a lot of stocka for 10 centa on the dollar this waa bis first connection with the business which afterwards bron brought gb t him so many tu millions illions I 1 of dollars he soon boon abandoned every other interest aud became president main stockholder and general superintendent of the road above mentioned he finally secured a consolidation of his big road witla with iho Renese laar saratoga road which netted him well with his hia Proc proceeds eads our shrewd financier went to 0 new yolk city c 1 ity opened up as a broker and commenced dealing in railway stocks on a large scale he first invested in erio erie railway idock quite heavily and soon worked his hia way to the presidency of that thai road then followed tho the wizards R speculation peculation in t the he stocks of other roads of the country his magical wand could seemingly seemingly depress tho stock of a road until it could be bou bought bt for almost a song and whon whan he e got the controlling interests up would a again ain jump the pr inca iezzi he had a marvelous faculty for instilling life io bankrupt roid i chieh fell into his hands bedad he had in fact just jast as marvelous i a faculty for nearly bankrupting in roads with wih other roads roada in his hig pass possession ossion he used his wealth of I 1 course coarse to make inako wealth and he be haired on tile th face of the country es ca I 1 another man would flura figure fl ura to win on 1 a eheal board he would eee a chance of capturing a road and in that capture he reckoned on sacrifices the same as on tho the chess board a player men to capture an importune important piece mr GOULD never made a bad move it might have seemed bad badat at timos but tho the result proved that he ha was a capital pla player y er at his hia death JAY JAT gould was reckoned to bo worth nearly a bundled hun d ec million dul cullars lars his hig exact wealth is ia not known to the world he baa of late ate years been concentrating his hia stocks in well paying roads seemingly bein being well aware that his life would not be pro prolonged longel his health for years has been delicate in fact he never was a strong man it i ia a said he never we weighed i bed over pounds and was a very light exter eater but th that at fail constitution was W tile the batte battery ry which furnished famished the electric force fora of bis big wonderful being it generated the parka that made hia hi 8 b brain rain grasp so cheaply the intricate financial problems which worried tt lir men man to death sir ate GOULD eted within Ai thia himself hii aBelt and his hia awu family circle thu knew little or nothing of 0 the man no he gave nothing not hinig ope openly uly to charities perhaps nothing secretly but bis brain ar nd wealth in I 1 A 10 jl 9 1 al at thousands employment ad aad ills I 1 his hia own forturn aag X y tear that down 8 BI in IQ a gr few 0 generations arti the world may linver L bir a t a JAT GOULD ever lived |
