Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-04-24
LETTER FROM NEW YORK..
New YORK, April Is, 1876.
Special COrreSpO7ldeUce.

Special Correspondence.
Once again, and that at no very dis
tant time, the funeral bells must ring,
and the great trio Of American financial
giants will be only memory. Astor is
gone; Stewards remains have just been
lowered into his modest vault in st.
Marks churchyard; Vanderbilt only
survives hale old veteran, indeed,
but surely and steadily approaching his
end-and when he is gone, the three
great fortunes of this country will have
passed down to another generation.
Mr.. Stewards prominence and peculi-
arities have set the contents of almost
every inkstand in the country flowing in
his direction. Every scrap of his histo-
ry, every attainable item concerning his
business, property. habits and possess
sions has been eagerly sought out and
industriously circulated by the press.
till the mine is already well-nigh ex-
hausted, and there is little that | could
add of fresh interest
OF course the greatest interest aud Gu
riosity centre upon the future DISPOSE
ton of the vast interests which the es-
tate includes, especially as the dead man
leaves no blood relation behind but for
satisfaction on these points the public
must await the reading of the will, which
will probably be not long delayed. 1t is
generally understood, however, that bis
almost lifelong friend and confidential
legal adviser, Judge Henry Hilton, will
for the most part stand in Mr.. Stewart
place in carrying to completion the vari
GUS schemes which he had either plan
ned or begun. The dry-goods business
: which was the nucleus of this vas
} wealth. and was as the apple of his ey
to its founder during his forty years ant
2 more of commercial life, and which no,
| occupies not only the two great whit
s trade palaces here, but helf a doze
7 branch establishments In foreign parts
b will be continued under the old styl
: and management of Mr.. Stewards sol
S surviving partner. Mr.. VIM. Libbey, WI
II thus finds devolving upon him the care
> and responsibilities of one of the largei
10 private concerns on earth, the year,
'e volume of whose trade ranges from thi
D ty to fifty millions of dollars. The To-
y caused by the simple closing of the doc
N of the two New York stores from N
c. Stewards death till after his burr
is amounts to small fortune.
er The funeral ceremonies were two-fo
IN and extremely imposing. First the DO,
IN lay in state, SO to speak. amid the mo
w than regal magni6cence of his Fifth a
re enue palace, where services were re-
be and a favored few, to whom tickets We
Ot issued by the family, were permitted
DIS take last look at the remains. I
i'll cortege, consisting of between two a
an three hundred carriages and countl'
I'D throng of pedestrians, then took its "
no to St Marks church, which is the {
to attended by the family-One of the 0
} a est and smallest. but at the same ii
ed most aristocratic Of New York church
ct Here the impressive services of the FL
ny copal church w~re again read. interspe
alb ed with beautiful music, and after
al funeral sermon by be venerable Bisl
md Potter the coffin was borne to the
ted joining churchyard and lowered into
of family vault, the modest slab of VII
hey can just be seen amid the green or
uld only about twenty-five feet from Sec
the avenue and hardly more from Tenth