Show JAY GOULDS HOUSES ROUSES ills ceu den and the of lyndhurst at in tho the of fall lalli liis wealth remains as simple in his as ever and in this point ho lie resembles nibles nap napoleon oleon who could eat iven ven a state dinner in ten minutes he ile ow owns n a theater but who ever I 1 baw aw him mat at one of its performances performances he ne bins buys no costly pictures and no horses leaving the one to vanderbilt Vanderbil and tand the other to bonner his irvington establishment is his solo exception and of this ho he sees comp comparatively but little his yacht seems also to be of but little uge he be b has only had but one voyage and nd was then glad to get back tack to the streets la in fact goulds personal expenses food and clothing are denof not atea greater at r than those of many a ci clerk erk od ou 1500 ft a year his ambition b is a to wield power and use we it in iollie the mosi most selfish and relentless efin rier the ene enemies nilet he lias has thus made render it necessary for him io have a body guard when he ventures aur es into tho them street t I 1 and morosini la is very useful 1 in tn this respect had ho he indeed been present resent when seli sel over assaulted bould gould the latter would woul anever have been tossed down the steps that led to the barbers shop it is not cuprisin gould avoids ihal a ft spot its asso citations ciati ons are decidedly unpleasant gould generally travels on tho L road because the crowd is so great that he escapes notice noti ceaud and there th ereis is less danger of personal violence being a little man he slips in easily takes a seat beat and bides himself in a newspaper his favorite resort at t home is in a room ro oraon on the first floor which i is fitted n tip P 4 as a railroad studio studios huge maps mado made for his special pecia use cover the walls andon and on these lines of tracks are drawn in red and black and in this thin way he can study the best available routes for instance when he be got control of the delaware lackawanna western a line drawn on liis his map may from Se scranton rimton to buffalo showed how naturally tho the road might inight be extended and this project was at it ca once put into operation thus making a trunk road visitors visitor s to this room are astonished to find all the important lines in the country both of rail and telegraph thus delin bated d to these gould lias ag dr d voted hours of alose study tho th e book shelves c with rail railroad ro ad reports and laws and decisions on this subject which form goulds choicest read 14 consequently i m n his la lawers find id him m a I I 1 master on the sub subject act david dudley field indeed indeed considers gould caal to himself hini gelf on railway law and finds great satisfaction in having such a client in lu this room gould asco faisca I 1 all his spare time which on sundays is id considerable why should such a man waste an hour in i church when he fie hag haab d sanctuary at home devoted to a I 1 ind of worship goulds establishment at irvington has hu yer very peculiar associations the lie original building is by no means new but ita grandeur iJ buchthal Buch such that it t holda distinction el VA I 1 e en in cheso elo days of progress many years ago Avill william iarA paulding was a lawyer in ill this city and made a large for p tune attaining also oso the dignity of f ata mayor or much of his wealth was w as in in real estate on the hudson and his two so sons frederick and philip became on hia his death prominent as rich young men but they died ear early lyland and their wealth has been scattered catt ered the former was wash tho the grand grandfather father of the play actor frederick Raul paulding dingi chois now tho the sole representative of the family he has baw retired fre tired from the stage on anae account co of ill health and now itow lives in this city philip padding paulding had an ambition to build the finest dwelling in in america americk he selected a river front of extended e view and in duo due a marble palace attracted the admiration of tourists its chief chier feature was an oriel window of rare b beauty chichis which ia 6 justly y i a d mired paulding however soon bick sickened ened of his grand house which in fact he nay nayer completely r ab finished bid and tho admiring arve have been surprised had they visited the spot po to find the owner a dis disappointed ap pp 0 ma man Alivin living I 1 in seclusion in all alter er his bis death the estate went vent into the hands bands of an executor who embezzled it and the heirs a are now poor gould could bought tho the place which he enlarged and improved at an all im menso cost and in ins his hands it became lyndhurst the grandest es bablis b went banks of the hudson x |