Gould, and sent ashore, and the answer came back that they were
welcome to visit the orchid houses. Jay Gould, in person, received the
party, and, placing it under the personal conduct of his gardener,
turned to Edward and, indicating a bench, said:
"Come and sit down here with me."
"Well," said the financier, who was in his domestic mood, quite
different from his Wall Street aspect, "I see in the papers that you
seem to be making your way in the publishing business."
Edward expressed surprise that the Wall Street magnate had followed his
work.
"I have because I always felt you had it in you to make a successful
man. But not in that business," he added quickly. "You were born for
the Street. You would have made a great success there, and that is
what I had in mind for you. In the publishing business you will go
just so far; in the Street you could have gone as far as you liked.
There is room there; there is none in the publishing business. It's
not too late now, for that matter," continued the "little wizard,"
fastening his steel eyes on the young man beside him!
And Edward Bok has often speculated whither Jay Gould might have led
him.
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