Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — Wall Street’s King. [ARTICLE]

Wall Street’s King.

New York Letter. Gould has gradually thrown so wide an extent of influence over stock market that it enables him to carry his plans into Immediate operation. His regular broker(Conner)"is only one of many agencies which are m bis service. Other brokers are employed by Conner himself for the purpose of carrying out these secret schemes. It was in this manner that Gould depressed the Elevated stock until it reached the desired point, when he loaded himself with all he could carry. He then at once became a bull, and the quotations rose more rapidly they had declined A vast amount of money was lost by those who sold ont under Gould’s attacks and the advance on these very shares now adds a million or more to his wealth. It has for ten years been Gould’s rule to be on the waatch for weak stocks. When he has made a selection he forces it down to a low mark by a series of well connected attacks aud then makes heavy purchases and forces the market up as easily as be forced it down. Only a man of the highest order of genius can carry on such a system, and the fact that Gould succeeds is the greatest proof of his vast natural powers. His method is precisely like that which Napoleon so successful. The latter massed his forces on the weak point of the enemy, and, having crushed it, soon obtained complete victory. He then formed alliances With his ' -*ner enemies, who were compels . J . serve him. The‘ime came, bovver, when this game turned against him, and Gould, too, will yet meet his Weterloo. Like the former conqueror of Europe, he orri s ’ ’♦ ■» ms Jme of doom. Guuiu is toe most Inferior of all leading business men in point of p ersonal appearance M and a stranger would take him fora Bowery clothes rather than a rail way king. He has the motion of a

counter jumper, the air of a. spraoa trafficker in cheap goods. Both front and side face are interior, but the lower part of the latter is concealed In a heavy beard, so intensely black as to suggest .artificial means, Gould leads a hard life. He labors with closeappllcation, and is driven by the pressureof his engagements until he is considered a mere bondsman. He has no leisure, no society, no reading, no recreation, but is simply under the whip and spur of necessity. To this has been, added the consiciousness of impending danger.' He has a body-guard of detectives to protect him when walking ‘thestreete, but he spends most of his time in hia office, being as secluded as possible/ ’•