Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-06


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gyy Three Wealthy New Workers..
IA correspondent of the Charleston Journal
sends the following ~ I5s.57,z.@ s zai,.
Alexander Stewart is native ofilthe
Z North Of Ireland not" of Scotland, as many
persons suppose He is nearly seventy years
. old, and has been forty years IA dry goods mer-
chant in New York His. wealth is estimated
at thirty millions, all acquired BY untiring ap-
pcatlonto business. = The foundation of his
!; fortune was laid In a small Store down town,
where he began his mercantile career as a deal
er ia Irish linens 4. Most OF his success is owing
d to rule he established at the start; and which
. he has faithfully adhered toeversnce-to to never
misrcpresent his goods, and never ask more
for them than he intended to take. By those
who know him only through reputation he is
esteemed as great and liberal man. lie has
given much OF his wealth to charities, but each
contribution advertised his house and brought
him large returns. 1t is said that some of his
clerks who enlisted at the beginning of the
war; on the understanding that their places
would kept open for them, found those pla-
ces filled when they returned. The number Of
his employees is not less than two thousand,
and many of theseaTe girls. tI@J
Is The rules with which each person employed
by him has to comply are as rigorous and un-
yielding as the ,Medean laws of old. One is to
get the largest amount of labor for the smallest
amount of money. He pays the smallest sala-
ries of any large dry goods dealer 10 New York,
and the girls employed by imcomplain that the
place isthe. hardest they ever had. He keeps
to the strict letter OF his word with every man,
and neither asks nor gives favors. Creditors
lGooking to him for grace speedily find its oppo-
site. He has about a score OF partners, and
,2alt must take the law from him. And, 10 con-
clusion, he 3is married but chldless, and the
magnificent mansion he is bulElng on Fifth
q avenue is to be bequeathed to the city OF New
= York, together,wth the costly collection of art
1t viii contain. This is the real A. Il. Stewart,
as he is known by those who have met HIM
daily for many months. He is one OF the arch
: his disappearance from this world will be a
+ public loss. T cannot say that he will be great
i lymourned In private t.s .saj
u Another renowned millionaire is -
!&i5E9 s1s9l CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, :.
], long famous in, railroad and steamship enter.
prises and now very Emperorsin Wall street.
Vanderbilt, Ike:Stewart, is well up to the pa.
'triarchal q three score and ten He is tall
and thin, and as plain looking man as you
would find in all the haunts of the bulls and
bears. OF all the sclt-madc men in New York
he is the most. prominent. About forty years
ago he commenced life on bis own account by
sailing small boat between New York city
and Staten Island. and carrying freight and
passengers to and fro but it was not until the
California, fever broke out that the road to
great wealth was opened to him. Vanderbilt
always had an eye to- good openings, and he
was quick to avail himself OF the chances to
literally coin money, that were offered by. the
rush to California Before that time he had
acquired experience and considerable capital IN
the steamboat trade on the Hudson, and both
were Immediately turned into the new, channel.
A steamship line was started, passengers and
freight rushed upon him, his capital doubled
and trebled and I;quadrupled, other lines were
started, and when the late war broke out V an
derbilt's steamships were ploughing every sea:
About three years ago he retired from com
meree to: devote himself wholly to the Hudson
. River, Railroad, with which be had been tor
several years connected. He brought the same
spirit to this that had made him successful In
the other. To break down and utterly crush
all opposition was always his purpose, and by
i executing it to the letter he has made name
that is world renowned, aud fortune supposed
to be at least ten millions. Commodore Van
derbilt is a man of hard common sense, little
education, and a great fancy for fast horses.
= His charities are yunrecorded, and might, pro-
baby, be disposed of in the same way that
hstorian;is said to have disposed OF the sub
ject of snakes in 1reland-''Ihere are no
snakes In Ireland. | have been told that
when committee called on him last year and
solicited subscription for the South, saying
the people were starving, he simply answered,
"D-n them, let them starye; they deserve
it. He has a partiaity for strong words,
and always speaks very plainly. ~
DANIEL DREW. ~. .
is another rich New Yorker, well-known
= in the United States, though not of such
world: wide reputation as either Stewart or
Vanderbilt Like the latter, be made the
principal part of his fortune in the steamship
business. He. is native Of Putnam county,
where he now owns one OF the largest farms IN
New York He began his money-making
i career as "a cattle dealer and he still sticks to
that business, though others manage 1T tor him.
3 Before railroads were built he used to bring
droves OF cattle from the W est and it often took
them three months to make the journey. re
WAS the founder of the famous "Bull, Head
Z in this city, place that has been tor thirty
years the great cattle market OfNeW ork.
Drew is also heavy operator in Wall street.
In Tact, next to Vanderbilt, he3is the strongest
man there and can do pretty much as he plleases
with any stock be takes hold of. -,
49,, He was for a long time heleadlng spirit OF
the Harlem railroad, and it was his capital and
energy that keptthe road from gong to smash
I long ago He is now understood to be grand
- director of all the operations IN Erie, and + the
panics he sometimes gets up in that show Wnat "
$ a Tremendous power he wields. Drew differs !.
"a ffoms Stewart and Vanderbilt in being public
spirited, while they are somewhat SCI ltlsh. ne