Of course, Mr. Gould was in lots of scenes where passion ran high. Everybody in Wall street recalls the historic day after Black Friday when Mr. Gould's old partner, Henry N. Smith, shaking his finger in Mr. Gould's face, shouted:
"I'll live to see the day, sir, when you have to earn a living by going around this street with a hand organ and a monkey."
"Maybe you will, Henry, maybe you will," was the soothing response. "And when I want a monkey, Henry, I'll send for you."
In the book of Mr. Clews quoted before, is found the following: "There is a story told with several variations, in regard to a sensational interview between Mr. Gould and Commodore Vanderbilt. The scene is laid in the parlor of the commodore's house. It was about the time that the latter was making desperate efforts to get a corner in Erie, and at that particular juncture when having been defeated in his purpose by the astute policy of the able triumvirate of Erie, Gould, Fisk and Drew, he had applied to the courts as a last resort to get even with them.
"They had used the Erie paper-mill to the best advantage, in turning out new securities of Erie to supply the Vanderbilt brokers, who vainly imagined that they were getting corner in the inexhaustible stock. Mr. Vanderbilt was wild when he discovered the ruse, and had no remedy but law against the perpetrators of this costly prank. These adroit financiers usually placed the law at defiance, or used it to their own advantage, but this time they were so badly
