Smyrna times., 1869-02-03
.MiSceIIUm 10 e D us.
A. L. STEWART.

A New York correspondent of the German
town Chronicle writes respecting Mr.. Stewart
as follows:
The reputation which Mr.. Stewart enjoys
does not represent him as Over-genial. His
pcrsOncLe is cold, stern and forbding. His
sweetest tones are harsh his cOrdiality is free
zing. For all the warmth there is about him,
he might have been born in the Arctic Ocean,
and sent to the North Pole to finish off his edu-
cation. He is disliked and feared by his en-
plOyees, male and female. His clerks tremble
at his approach. When he speaks, the one he
speaks to breads that he is going to lose his
situation. The system of fines used in his store
Is the most minute and elaborate in New York.
New cOmers sometimes lose all their first
months salaries in the payment Of these fines.
There are fines for sitting, fines for eating on
the premises, fines for being five minutes late,
fines for misdirecting packages, fines for mis-
takes in giving or receiving change, fines for
being absent from ones post an instant longer
than the stipulated time, fines for carrying
matches about the person, &c. Even the nu-
merOus small boys employed there arc ruthless
ly subject to this system of fines. Wel-tO-dO
merchants, however, are 50 anxious that their
sons should have the advantage of the Stewart
discipline, that they are often not only willing
that their boys should work for time for
nothing, but they will even pay Mr. Stewart
| lOI IIlG advantage SuppOS6u bO W DC uOFlVeu.
The millionaire is a tyrant to those beneath
! him. Some time ago, the girls and young
women in his employ trembled least they should
| be compelled to yield to some dreaded mandate
of his in regard to their mode of wearing the
hair, and regulating the length OF their gar
ments. The potentate, however, has appar
emily thought better of whatever designs he
may have entertained, and no particular uni
form nor tonsOrial arrangement distinguishes
Al, ubara
else.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred people de-
string to have an interview with Mr.. Stewart
will, in vain, attempt to crafty that wish.
Some princes are more accessible than is this
prince of New York merchants. 1t is at his
office down town that Mr.. Stewart is most beset,
and where the greatest rigor obtains. Shut
in his snug sanctum up stairs, the orchards oi
Hesperus were not guarded by more vigilant
dragons. Upon your inquiring for Mr.. Stewart,
an exceedingly civil-spoken, but peremptory
official demands your business. If it is private
business, you are informed that Mr.. Stewart
has no private business. If it is not private
e business, the civilspoken but peremptOry mar
essays to settle it for you. If, however, you are
! ! so fortunate. as to give such reply as shal
: satisfy him, he allows you to pass but this BY
E no means ensures you the interview. AT The
r tOp of the first flight of steps another dragon
= encounters you, and unless you have lIercueaI
"cheek," this one is not to be slain or worsted
!, Possibly you may induce him to take you
e name, and state your business to the great A
e r. S. Upon being informed OF them, the grea
y A. r. S. fires upon you momentary icy look
.T .T from behind glass partition. If he is favor
3 ably impressed, he grants you short, senten
!. tio1s interview, making you fell all the time a
uncomfortable as possible, and as though yo'
were intruding upon q man to whom every mo
ID ment was an object IF the bare sight OF yo
:, disgusts him-as it very probably will, (forgiv
q o. me reader if it is lady who reads this) he wi
Il give with his shoulder (which is the origina
r cold one) that unanswcrable shrug that como
io like blast from Boreas.
In brief, Mr.. Stewards soul is in his bus