West-Jersey pioneer., 1871-07-07

respond, can not be bought for less thar
from thirty to forty dollars each. The ia
nous black silks of Antwerp are sold ever,
day across the counter of Stewart at TWEEN
five dollars yard. Among the prodiga
customers of Stewart there are many VIII,
in one mornings shopping spend immense
sums. One profuse New York dame lately
made purchase of articles exclusively fo
her own toilet the bill for which amounted
to fifteen thousand dollars
In the construction of Stewards retail
warehouse utility has been considered more
than ornament. 1t is built wholly of iron
and consists of succession of ranges o1
large arched windows, with no more space
of solid structure between than is just suffi
cient to sustain them. The rotunda, rising
a hundred and twenty feet and extending
over diameter of hundred, made of iron
and painted white like the body of the
building, will, when completed, give in
creased dignity to structure already impo.
sing from its size and position. Five mil.
great shop.
HOW STEWART STARTED IN LIFE.
Alexander T. Stewart, whose prodigious
success has crowned him the king of mer-
chants and shopkeepers, is an Irishman by
birth, and came to New York like most OF
his people, poor emigrant. He was born
near Belfast, but descended from Scottish
Presbyterian and Methodist ancestry. A
graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and
thus endowed with good education, he,
on arriving at New York, in 1928, became a
tutor in school of which the junior pub
Usher of this paper was one of the pupils.
With thrifty habits he had soon put by a
small sum of money. This he embarked as
the capitalist in an humble establishment
about to be commenced by a friend, who
for some reason or ether, failing to "open
shop" Mr.. Stewart was forced, in order to
secure the safety of his small earnings, to
do so himself. Thus by accident the poor
schoolmaster became the great tradesman
For many years he kept small shop in
Broadway, the whole contents of which
would have hardly filled corner of the Gel
lar Of his present marble warehouse oppo-
site. After fuctuating for long time on
the narrow margin between success and
failure, he was finally borne away on the
full tide of prosperity to an ocean of wealth.
No word seems too exaggerated in speaking
of the riches of man whose annual income
has reached the prodigious sum of four mil
lions six hundred thousand dollars, or ten
dollars each minute of the twenty-four
hours, night and day. Mr.. Stewart actually
declared this income, and paid upon it to
the Government of the United States tax
of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Mr.. Stewart, though now over three score
years old, retains all the activity and enter
prise of his early days. No scheme of bus
ness seems too vast, and no detail too mi
mute, for his own personal management and
attention. His mind, while it is exact even
to the recollection of the number of yards
in piece of flannel, is SO comprehensive as
to grasp with facility the whole machery of
The great business of which he is the propri-
stor and manager.
Mr.. Stewards late visit to Europe, where
be went as the Chief Commissioner of the
United States to the great Exhibition at
Paris, he telegraphed to all his buyers to
meet him at certain fixed time at the city
IF Manchester, England. The day and
hour arrived, and Mr.. Stewart found at the
place appointed forty of his representatives
whom he assembled, like some mighty
potentate, in Congress for deliberation
world, for there is hardly market of it,
however remote, where the great trades
nan has not a buyer.
The popular imagination, anticipating
5he death Of Mr.. Stewart, has made various
of the immense wealth he must
cave behind him. Though married he has
10 children. Sometimes it is said that the
,alatial mansion Of marble which he is
building in the Fifth Avenue, and which
will cost two millions of dollars, is to be
into an orphan house or retreat
or impoverished gentlewomen. Again, it
S rumored that Mr.. Stewart has already de-
signed plan for the erection of whole
streets of tenement houses for the poor, to
whom he will leave them in perpetuity at
merely nominal rent.
1t would be better for the interests of So
,iety, if the political economists are to be
believed, that the immense capital of Mr..
Stewart should never be diverted from it's
present channels of trade through which it
S now fertilizing the fields of enterprise and
reproducing wealth but how are the inter
'sts of the great business to be transferred
% others, and where are to be found those
;apable of conducting it ?-Hdrper's Bazar
HARD ON THE YOUNG MEN.-A lady has
us to insert the following -
Wanted, one hundred and fifty young
nen, more or less, Of all shapes and sizes,
rom the tall, graceful dandy, with hair suf-
icient on his upper lip to make barbers
cushion, down to the little bow-legged,
carrot-headed upstart. The
'bject is to form a gaping corps, to be in at
endance at the church doors at the close of
livine service each Sabbath evening, to
tare at the ladies as they leave church, and
o make delicate and gentlemanly remarks
m their person and dress. All who wish to
inter the above corps will appear on the
teps Of the various church doors Sunday
'vening, when they will be duly inspected,
heir names, personal appearance, and quail
ty Of brains registered in a book for that
purpose. To prevent general rush, we
will state that no one will be enlisted who
possesses intellectual capacity above that of
! donkey.
Stephen M. Wells, who recently died very
,oor, near St. Paul. Minnesota, once owned
orty acres on which the business part of
he city now stands, but sold it tbecause he
wanted money and had not sufficient knowl-
'dge of business to mortgage his real es-