Jay Cooke - financier of the Civil War (1907) (14576126899)

Identifier: jaycookefinancie02ober (find matches)
Title: Jay Cooke : financier of the Civil War
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 1868-1936
Subjects: Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905 Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, G.W. Jacobs & Co
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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as the rivalry forthese happy holidays which were the more enjoyed byreason of Mr. Cookes payment of the traveling expensesof his guests to and from their homes, as soon as theyshould forward their accounts to him and state whathad been laid out for the journey. The guest must come alone. His family, if he hadone, must remain at home. It was the financiers desirethat parish, wife, children and all, for a little time,should be forgotten, that the parson should be a boyagain amid the bounties of Gibraltar. Boats and fishing,bathing and croquet, a well supplied table, the jests ofother clerics were to fill each one with cheer enough toserve through the next winter. The guests were notunappreciative of such kindnesses. One wrote in theGibraltar Records: We sing the tree-clad island rockWhere Perry planned the battle shock And graved a during name;Where now a Christian bankers domeBids weary Christian toilers comeTo find a tranquil sacred home, And wasting strength reclaim. a od >O oo w
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FINANCIER OF THE CIVIL WAR 489 A love-lit radiant isle is thisA kingly seat of mortal bliss On Eries heaving breast;Where sinless pastime, song and prayerAnd balmy fragrance in the airBeyond the reach of burdening care, Prefigure Heavenly rest. Lo! here the lake nymphs carve their cavesNeath rocks, and ride in glee the waves That thread the needles eye;*And birds of charming note and wingMake glen and grove and grotto ring,While harebells down the cliff brinks flingThe azure of the sky. Indeed his visitors were so much enamored of Gibral-tar that in June, 1871, Mr. Cooke was impelled to writein a bold hand in his Guests Book, where all might seeit as they turned its pages in his library in his absence,urging them not to go home to spread the idea that itwas a retreat or asylum to which all might comefor the asking. He bade them remember that it was aprivate residence. A false impression brought him manyapplications which he could not grant, and.it was alwaysa pain to refuse them. Well