Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1887 — A Chip off the Old Block. [ARTICLE]

A Chip off the Old Block.

New Xork Times. Jay Gould stood openly all day in the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange selling his papa’s specialties by wholesale. The young man—just past his twenty-first birthday-swas credited with having sold over 10,000 shares of Western Union alone. This qame lad pursued these same tactics just before the last shake up came to Wall street. It has been estimated that he cleared $50,000 then..