The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26
STORIES ABOUT STEWART.

W
art left 81 100000, was for many wears
past the legal adviser of the testator.
whom he served assiduously for the
handsome sum Of 100000. Hilton
was, when Stewart first took a fancy
to him, Tammany politician of the
least reputable kind. He had the sharp
ness and cunning peculiar to the breed
of American politicians, but could not
boast of any single quality which
would commend him to an ordinary
man. Perhaps this was why Mr. Stewart
took him. Mr.. Hilton at one time held
the office of park commissioner, and
perhaps he was a good officer. His
acts were not many it is true, but they
were notable. He celebrated his APP
pointment by ordering all the bronze
statues in Central park to be white
washed, an order which was Fortunate
~ countermanded by one of Hilton's
associates. But Mr.Stewart apparently
never heard of this, or if he did, must
have approved Judge Hilton's original
plan, for he bought many of the pic
lures in his art gallery, which. is val
ued at S ZOO, 900, by the judge sadvice.
The judge and Mr.. Stewart were the
most intimate friends, and Mr.. Stewart
wanted the judge to become member
of the Union League club, of which he
was vice president. This was no easy
job. To bring into the Union League
a broken-down Tammany politician.
the bosom friend and comrade of
Sweeny and Tom Fields in the palmy
days of Tweedism! But Mr.. Stewart
had to resort to strategy. He gave the
club to understand that he might very
probably make it a present of his mag
nificent marble mansion on Fifth
avenue and Thirty fourth street. and
the members were delighted. When
they had thoroughly digested this dish
and the report of the promised gift
had been disseminated far and wide,
Mr.. Stewart proposed Judge Hilton for
membership in the club. But, alas
he was black-balled, badly black-ball-
ed, beaten out of time. Well, Mr..
Stewart did not leave his house to the
Union League club, and now the men,
bers are wishing that they had waited
to hear the will before they so hur-
riedly passed resolutions of respect.
regret, remembrance, etc.
1t is very generally believed that the
81 ZOO, 900 left to Judge Hilton is not
for him, but was so left with private
understanding that it should, or that
part of it should, go to certain irreg-
ular offspring of Mr.. Stewart, and par
ticularly to party now residing in or
near Paris. Hilton has already made
a large fortune out of Mr.. Stewart.
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THE STEWART HOWL.
Mr.. Ben. Poore writes to the Boston
Journal: The death of Mr.. Stewart,
of New York, recalls his nomination
as Secretary Of the Treasury in 1869.
Gen. Grant, when elected President of
the United States, had to look about
him for Cabinet officers. With one
exception the departments were in
good working order, and the work of
retrenchment in the war and navy had
already been inaugurated. But the
Treasury Department., which had so
increased in Importance during the
war, and whose army of internal rev.
enue officers had not been reduced. ap-
peared to need some one at it's head of
marked executive ability, who could,
and who would reform existing abuses.
Gen. Grant saw no such example of
practicle executive ability as was dis
played in the mercantile establishment
of A. T. Stewart. The lowest cash boy
was responsible to some one, and as the
responsibility increased, those who be-
came responsible became fewer, until
three or four men became responsible
for armies of men, women and boys
to Mr.. Stewart. Everything moved
along with the regularity of clock
work, Mr.. Stewart himself keeping the
key and setting the hands to the right
! time when they were second out of
the way, without waiting to adjust the
regulator first.