The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-05
Sketches in New York.
,g,,,, a. New York in 1870 in BeIO,avia.

TFrgns aNevyT York in l510' IN BekgTdUid
In the history Of the throng that passes there
i ample food to Justify reflection. The tall, gray
haired noble looking man who dashes past
drawn by two fast trOtters which could not
be bought for five thousand pounds, whose fine
grave eountenance and intellectual looking head
are flmiIiarized by hundred photographs and
eugrayings and whose name and story is a house.
hold word in America, began life as a ferryman
in the port of New York Rough in speech,
Hliterate as few Americans now are, the hero of
a score Of great struggles in the railway world,
the controller of great lines OF road the railway
king of New York, and the architect of a fortune
estimated at ten millions sterling-he is favOrite
tvpe Of the kind OF success which the average
American has constantly before his eyes. Shortly
passes a small wrinkled old man, Daniel Drew, a
millionaire Of almost large resources, originally
q cattle droyer, now a great stock operator and
controlling vast sums Of ready money, reyered by
many shining lights in the religious world, a
founder of religious seminary and colleges a liber-
al donor to churches, shrewd, homely, and caustic
in speech, much feared by men Of business a self
made man, and such as this country only pro-
duces- More rarely will be seen the tail ,spare
fsIre and keen intelligent but severe, face of the
dry goods " merchant, whose marble palace
towers above all others on Fifth avenue, whose
colossal stores are the pride and boast of Broad
way-One of the few objects of interest which
Prince Arthur inspected his recent visit to
New York-whose political influence mainly con-
tributed tp the election of President Grant The
steps in his career afford theme on which the
New Yorker loves to dwell. Born of humble
IRISH parentage, mainly self-edueated, first a
school teacher, then a small shop keeper without
friends, family, fortune connection to aid him,
he has gradually built up business of unrivalled
magnitude, and accumulated Il vast fortune, which
he is beginning to apply to purposes of public
utility lie is now employed in a great enterprise
for building. at a cost Of about 81 900 600, a
small town in the immediate vicinity of New
York, which afford to clerks and others of small
means comfortable suburban residences at moder-
ate rents. Within New York he is rearing an
immense pile, destined to afford cheap lodgings
and adequate protection to the hard worked and
poorly paid classes of seamstresses and other like
female workers Owing everything to New York, !
and unbIesscd with children it is understood to |
be Mr. Stewards intention and desire to repay |
his debt to the city by wise and patriotic devotion
of his wealth to the promotion of the welfare of
ITS poor and labOriOus citizens. And so the as
Tiring New Yorker sees with pride among the
a. aristOcTats F" this newly enriched dry goods
merchant, whose origin was the humblest, whUse
wealth is Of to-day, whose influence, politically
and socially, II paramount; he hears with satIs-
faction of Mr.. Stewart marble palace, of his gal
lery Of pictures of the respect paid his wife by
princes, of the offers made to him of the highest
Offices Of the State, of his humble beginnings,
great achievement and noble objects.
This is the type of - aristOcracy which New
York abundantly presents. Its Marquis of West
muster is the son of jOurneymen furrer, vino
emisrated to the shores of New York and acquiring
a ortune in the fur business, ahd the shrewdness
AMI wisdom 10 fOrsee that the growth OF New
York would make investment in real estate the
u ct certain of all speculations, and so became
th. purchaser Of farm lands and wastes fifty years
ago at less for the than they sell by the
yard He left the trace of his sense of indebted
ness to the city by the foundation of the Astor
Library, named after him and his son and grand
SINS following rigidy the precept and example of
rEa Of he Et iiv Ia a
What is accepted in New York the highest class
6f aristOcrat With an immediate wealth in
hnded property which can hardly be estimated, |
aud which cannot probably be equalled by the
Possessions of any other prOprietors in the world,
aud with sure prospective increase when OUT /
calculation, the grandsons Of Jacob AstOr |
rigidly attentive to the management of
their affairs, carefully cOnsiderate OF all plans
br the development OF the resources Of their pos
sssiOns and as personally solicitous for the i'm
provement Of the general aspects Of the city as
any email householder or land agent can be, public
interests IN no way suffer from the accumulation
OF property IN their hands. They do not think
themselves privileged to be idle. They find their
pleasure in accepting and vigorously fulfilling
the responsibilities of wealth they are hard
working, well-educated, public-spiritei, upright
unOstentatiOus gentlemen; and 50 they fulfill the
American ideal Of aristoeTacy. OF wealth unas-
sJeiated with education, illgotten mysteriously
auassed-of triumphant rascality well guided-ofI
shameless and successful rOguery blazing with os-
teaJatiOus inery, holding court In public places,
having its retinue Of literary heralds, It's train Of
judicial abetors, its crowd Of political aecompices
there are here more striking examples than can
DC well conceived By the foreigner, or expressed
without apparent exaggeraton. Station has
nothing Of hereditary or liked, political Office i'm
plies dIscredt rather than honor, judicial Office is
very frequently the by-uord of the market-place,
and the judges mantle the mere cloak of eorrup-
tion which it covers without pretending to con-
eeal Even in the learned professions the avenues
20 distinction have not always been Of the most
honorable and regular character, and the safe
guards for education and character are onIy Begin
ming to be satisfactorily and completely organized
The Conversational tests belonging the society of
the capitals of Europe do not, therefore. exist
here. Men claim their admission into society not
for what they have been may be, from the as
sociations connected with an historic name. from
the acknowledged guarantees belonging or trans
mitted by connection with great names old fami-
lies, public duties and professional pursuits
their claim Is of to-day-it regards neither the
future nor the past
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tae resolution by which they had reseDded the law
providing the Of hrothorz ba