Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-09-03

May ask which Mrs. Vanderbilt
am addressing ?" said gentleman
soon aftor being introduced.
"Old Mrs. Vanderbiltn she said naive
y.
One of the Commodore's sons is flgh
ty fellow, though perhaps this means
that he has no mind for laying up treas.
urs where moth corrupts and thieves
break through and steal. At any rate
the old man and himself see little of each
other. The commodore has several mar
ried daughters and grandchildren, aud
one living brother. He was born in
Washington's administration, can re-
member Jeferson's, and was voter in
Madison's. Greater than himself or his
treasures are the patriotic wonders sur.
rounding such q. life; the country has
come up from six millions and fifteen
states to be what it is; and this mans
private property is probably greater than
the value OF all the highway improve.
mens and vehicles of transportation in
America at the time he was born. Ii i,
the republic That can make one man
most unequally prosperous. There pro.
bably exists nothing OF note which
Vanderbilt created, unless it be the new
depot and the two Albany bridges. The
ship Vanderbilt is r0ttiDg at Mare island
and he owns no steamboat stock what.
ever. He is the monach of realm left
TO him; ten thousand forgotten men
built his whole railway system, and he
won it by gambling half century in
certificates. lie has still some OF the
homage and comfort oil kings; his
private car Che never travels now by
night will carry him to the Buffalo races.
Horses, locomotives, things which beat
other things and do not think,-these are
Vanderbili's gods, and he does not wor.
ship even these. OF what good are
these superhuous possessions to himself.
whose habits are abstemious, and whose
delights are coarse and quiet Perhaps
they illustrate the limited arena OF man,
and that employment is at last longevity
and solace to the longest age, and in it,
self comes nearest TO religion TO satisfy
human needs.
A. 4. STEWART.
IL want 10 live long enough to see
Stewart die, to find out what will become
OF his enormous business !" said San IL
,cvsrcnt man to me. Can anybody
else, OF any distributed directory manage
his affairs Pr Mr.. Stewart is the FIRST
merchant in the world as Vanderbilt ID
the first spsculator. He is stopping at
the hotel he owns,-.tho best piece Of
summer hotsl property in the world
the Grand Union of Saratoga. Tor which
he gave 500. 000 1t can pay 100000
year. and contains S24 rooms. Hotel
property in America next to active com.
merco, seem best yindicated in this
wealthy merchants eyes. The house
here is controlled by young man rs
himself, considering the difference in
their ages,-Bresln one Of the numerous
hotel clerks constituting u great class,
who will keep the chief inns for us as
long US we live. Breslin was hotel
clerk in this village for many years, and
is now the lessee of the Gilsy House,
New York, OF which the proprietor. Pc
ter Gilsoy. a German tobScconist, is
third remarkable exhibit OF the growth
of small beginnings. Gilsey is now
worth millions, and he has put his sons
off at the Carrollton, in Baltimore, TO
TO leain this art and grow up with it.
There is no need in this country to illus
trats such careers; they are the census
Of the country.
There is Stewart, across the street
from Vanderbilt. talking to his set, upon
the piazza Of his inn. He is different
man in every sense,-a small.bodied,
SLOPPY, inquisitive man, with head and
eye full of details beginning with a curl
of sleeps wool, and branching up,
through ribbons and spoolthread, to the
products of the world in all its whirl of
looms and thunder OF water power. and
prices current, and area Of consumption.
There is no wonder in it, except the re-
suit. A thousand men in Belfast have
the same habits, knowledge, clossness
and health. The country rolbd on this
early mel chant apprehended it and de.
veloped il. He could not make the
| market: he could supply it; and 40
years selling fabrics to an empire where
he began 40 years ago. have raised up
this extensive personal trade, maintained
by him with uniform assiduity, intimate
vigilance with every item OF ribbon.
yard, creditor, tariff, production and de-
mand.
Mr. Stewart is small, tough, gray.
haired man, of plain dress, North Irish
descent, manner genial to strangers,
positive to agents, and that admirable
mien between caution and confidence
which, practiced for long lifetime, is
easy and certain instinct Mt last. Like
Vanderbilt, his capital and instrumental
tiles in his line of operation were para
mount to all others st the period of the
giant interposition of our civil war.
Millions went to the fight; the future
was put in debt to bridge over four years
prodigate sacrifice and as proligate com
| nensntinn. The trade of generation