Show JAY GOULDS GOULD'S YEAR OLD GRANDSON IS FAST BECOMING A FINANCIER I One of ot tt a youngest of the Goulds' Goulds Is busily engaged d' d in sustaining tile family reputation fSr shrewd commercial He is Edwin Gould Edwin d Jr yie son of Edwin I Gould and the granaS grandson J of Jay Gould How the old inan r-an r would haye ve chuckled to see Kim He Is ls just 8 S years old an and has hasset set et himself up in the he pin business He Ho in industriously industriously in- in collects pl pins LS and sells them He has a standing contract with his father by which h the latter pays the fabulous fabulous fab fab- ulous sum of 1 cent for very every twenty pins which young Edwin delivers or It may seem a small maU beginning 1 but ut it Is Isan Isan an hereditary trait all the same The founder of the Gould millions began that way when the son of a stricken poverty farmer U he- he set out at the age ol 14 with 50 cents 8 in his r pocket lt i to make if ift a t fortune ti traps Rat t turned n the e tide i i in hl I J i have added d t to hj son o Edwin's Edwins millions What more natural then that pins should appeal to Edwin Jr He Is a very grave and serious minded child With true Gould economy he cant can't bear bea- beato to sea seo things wasted and the alarmIng alarming alarm alarm- Ing waste of ar pins which b observed in the world about him speedily c troubled l h his s tn soul Whenever he saw a pin y ho picked it up in obedience le to t the old i h at proverb b that f promises O i such a thrifty thrifty- minded d Individual n u good d luck ml In this gl gln way he i had i gathered f red up hundreds hundreds hun hun- of the little brass castaways Then the idea struck him of turning his POssessions possessions pos POs- sessions to profitable account He would not not only labor but he would have a price on his labor He went to his father and announced that he had pins to sell Would the latter buy 1 Gould quizzically asked how much the little merchant wanted Edwin thought a moment and replied Well if you you'll take them thel right along take all I bring you I guess I can let you have them for far for well for well about twenty for a nt I That was much easier than Mr Ir Gould had expected to be let off He lIe promptly clinched the bargain by assenting to the proposition And now little Edwin devotes a good share of his working hours to hunting I pins He roams the great house over searching on th rugs and in the cracks of the floors When he la is taken talen for an airing he walks thoughtfully along the streets or or through the with his eyes bent on n the ground looking for pins But b best st of all h he likes to be ta taken en along I when his mother goes to the dressmakers For there is A perfect paradise of pins |