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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 221, 13 November 1888, Page 2

This is what the American Angler lias to say about the celebrated Jay Gould There can be no doubt that angling as a gentleman's pastime will suffer from the fact that Jay Gould has gone fishing in the Catkills. As a matter of course, Jay Gould can no more be admitted to the Brotherhood of American Anglers than he can be elected to any reputable social club in this city or to membership in the New York Stock Exchange, many members of which honorabl? organisation regard his absence from State prison as an indication of the futility of our jurisprudence. Nevertheless, the fact that he can contaminate a mountain stream with his presence is a misfortune not unlike that which permits, of necessity, -Mie presence of disreputable - persons jjp public places elsewhere. Fortunately the same sort. of prurient curiosity which recently surrounded the execution of Danny Lyons with a halo of cheap romance, has unearthed the whereabouts of Gould, and self respecting angler? can easily avoid Roxbury till it shall again become a mpeotabl? resort tar angUr?,"