The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-13

wich avenue and turned them into SOUP. Ed
ward V. Tardy was born in this city in the year
1907, of French and English parents. His
uncle, Alexis Deehauvisre, was at one time the
accredited Minister of France to this country
Tardy's father was well-to-do, and along with his
son took n conspicuous part in seeking the set
uement Of the French spoliation claims. Tardy,
Jr., when twenty-seven years old had ship of
his own, in which he sailed to almost every port
in the world, to the West and East Indies, var-
Gus parts of Africa, Asia, and South America.
He traded extensively with the savages of the
Society, Sandwich, and Philippine Islands, and
was on his way back to New York with cargo
of immense value, when he suffered complete
shipwreck and lost everything but his life.
Twenty years more of his life were devoted to
the making OF money, and in that time his luck
was no better, for he lost two fortunes In daring
speculation. Tired and disgusted with thefckle
jade that dispenses the faVors of wealth and
prosperity, he decided never again to run
counter to what appeared his inevitable destiny
that OF failing in every speculation-and 80 it
happened he settled slowly down to the slow,
cautious, and suspicious habits of Veritable
mser.
He became wholly altered in mind and manner,
talked no more of grand enterprises in COM
merce, and turned tacturn and misanthropical.
he descended from his high position as a specu-
lator, bold and brave, ana groVelled in the gut
tiers for paltry pile of pennies. He never
married, but lived with sister whose eccen-
tricity of habit was about equal to his own.
Both lived in the basement of a house in Green
wich avenue where they had three rooms and
where they passed a life of unparalleled penury
They were worth at this time perhaps $50 600
but they never bought a meal if they could
contrive to CLEAN from the garbage of the mar
ket places enough to sustain life. Finally
the sister grew sick, and the brother deem
ing the expense of a doctors attendance
entirely too great, had her removed to Bellevue
Hospital, where she died. She left him $4,000,
out of which he was reluctantly compelled to
pay $50 for her burial expenses. After this
event he was left all alone in the world, passing,
amid crawling vermin and heaps of filth, a life
of semi-starvation. His stovepipe hat was built
and bought twenty-five years ago and his shoes
came into existence at the time of the Mexican
War. He followt no particular business, and
never wholly surrendered his passion for specu-
lation. He confined it, however. to limited in
vestments in railway stocks and national secu-
rites, of which he left the full of two old trunks
| Among his papers were discovered a number of
shares in the scheme to recover the Captain
Kidd treasure. The old man ultimately fell
sick, and was, in an almost dying condition
in his miserable hovel on Greenwich
avenue, when a kind-hearted, half-erazy
old fellow named DR.. William Scott Downey, a
character much like Dr. Riccabocco in Bulwer'a
my Novel, found him out and carried him to
his place at No. 274 Sixth avenue, laid him in
bed and attended faithfully to him night and
| day for two weeks, but in vain. Edward V.
| Tardy gave up the ghost Friday evening, leaving
bonds, securities cash, etc, worth, at hurried
calculation, $780, ,000 and bequeathing, in will
of about ten lines, the whole to the children OF
| q nephew who died some time ago and whose
| widow is now married to a Mr.. Houghton, oi
| this city. He had niece married to a Colonel
Stewart of Philadelphia, but he left her nothing
| John Cochran, sexton of DIR. Gallaudet's Church
Eighteenth street, will take his remains tc
| Greenwood at 10 o'clock to-morrow.-N Y
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