The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-18

mits observation-disclosures Last Winter,
etc
NEW YORK, April 16, 1876.
The funeral of the merchant prince was
the business of yesterday. To-day St.
MARKS commentaries a more important
death and burial. The old church had as
point of distinction the traditions of the
Stuys and now it has the traditions
of Stewart. 81. Marks is not fashion
able church. Thu noishberhood 10 soolud-
ed, and the surroundings are of that second
order of gentlity from which finished re-
finement shrinks. Stewart became con-
nected with the church when he was in
moderate circumstances, and of late years
has net been a regular attendant. He was
not of a nature to like preaching. Ex-
ceedingly refined in taste, and constitution
ally critical, he would find it hard 10 listen
to q sermon. Then, too, man who through
the week refused the calls of every one,
would naturally object to being publicly in
terviewed by a clergyman for space Of a
morning service. All our great capitalists
changed their church connection as they
rose in position. Old John Jacob Aston
WAS Lutheran, but when the family be-
came fashionable they sought the higher
social advantages offered by the Episcopal
church. Commodore Vanderbilt had a
pew in the Reformed (Dutch) church, but
his second wife has identified the family
with Deems church In the same manner
Stewart would have sought an advance,
had he not been held to ST. Marks by his
dead children.
THING OF THE FAST.
The sudden transition from the present
to the past occasioned by death 10 very
startling. How strange to think we can
never again speak of Stewart except in the
came tense with which we speak Of Ho-
meri This dropping out of existence, as
by an instantaneous extinction, is some
thing appalling. Thsn, too, the quick ex-
change of such wealth for the dark pow
erty of the tomb! As Shakespeare says:
"If thou art rich, thou art poor.
For like an ass whose back with iHgots bows
Thou dearest thy heavy riches but = journey
And death unloauc lhse."
The pail. bearers on this important &C.
casion we're chosen with judcious refer
snce to the position of the deceased, and in
taste. They were not, however, personal
acquaintances so much as men of kindred
rank. Robert L. Stuart, for instance, prob
ably seldom met the dry goods prince, the
only point of interest between them being
the fact that both were stockholders in the
Chemical bank. James Lenox has no doubt
met Stewart, but it could only have sell
dom occurred. There was no intimacy be-
tween the deceased and Peter Cooper. e.
ID. Morgan, However, was on visiting terms
with him, and the last time Stewart dined
outside of his own mansion he was at a Sc
lect party at the ex-governors. The really
most important man was ex-Gov. John A.
Dix, whose public services and eminent
worth command national respect. f. Cot
tenet, the last on the list, is an cid and OPP
ulent French importer, and is one of Stew
arts oldest acquaintance. The pall-bear-
ers, as a class, represented an aggregate
wealth of $780, 200, 900. Two are governors
| of states two of the number had been SEN
ators in congress and governors of this
state; two were eminent philanthropists,
and such gathering of wealth and worth
has never before been called into such =
service.
RECENT GREAT FUNERALS.
The Episcopal church has had the bur-
ial of tho richest of our citizens. Old
John Jacob Aston was buried from St.
Thomas's church, while the funeral OF his
son William took place at Trinity chapel.
Aaron Arnold was also buried from the
same place The funeral of the late Ben
| Aymar, once the maguate Of South street,
was held at Grace church, and now St.
Marks has Witnessed the last services over
Stewards remains. The most important
funeral in st, Marks prior to this was that
of Peter g. Stuyvssant. who left an estate
worth several millions. once met WASH
ton Irving in these grounds, attending the
obsequies of his brother-in-law, Daniel
Paris, who was buried there. MIR. Paris
was an able lawyer, and married Cstharine
Irving They lived for some time in Troy,
where Mrs. Paris ia buried. 1t was on this
occasion that saw inscribed on a slab the
name of Daniel B. Tompkns, our war gov.
ernor during the lsst conflict with Great
Britain. Add to these the name of old
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