New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-12

aiive enterprises but carrying forward the thing he had
in hand with all due diligence, all energy anu all Sill
cerity.
Now these three great classes of qualities are. when
combined, the secrets Of the organizing faculty Mr.
Stewart was really an organizer. Ho organized i'm
business but his fate had east him In other re-
Wonid have Carried him. il not to an equal
To very great eminence Of success; .t msa
into the legal profession think should have his
among the most eminent members OF the Bhr
his earncstness aud determination OF PURPOSE would
worked out great ends II not 50 great IN hei mag
nude and extent those which he actually achieved IN
another relation. Other speakers however VIII perhaps
dwell upon these more obvious traits My relations TO
Mr. Stewart were not those OF business at all IL Is COM
monty said that learning and literature are oi no
use TO trader They were OF very great use 10 Mr.
slewart-they were solace and relief indeod may
sort OF intellectual bath into which he sometimes
plunged and which kept his faculties tried and strained
by the demands Of his vast yocatlOns mp to the ght OF
tner original vgor IN passing into the woIn OF Dooks
he tempred the not eXcemcDts OF trade u which those
who engaged in that pursuit are liable by exonrslos
into cooler atmosphere and among OVeDer specls Oh
things Enc0unterne once on the street. ms question
to IN was, Glow is Bryant getting along with iomerp
answered "yery well; regularly every day 90 lines.
EXPRESSED dI my norahre Of Inc fact thai he bad conn
ued his classic studies when lie said he had ever since he
some know ledge OF French and German literature. Now
1t seems extraordinary thing and strong
mark character and Will that man immersed, IA he
was, in such manifold, such delicate operations could
yet steal from them some hours TO Keep alive ns eo
him it evidence OF his character, and know, AZ
said before that 1t brought MIN much solace and much
Some years ago, when was in Europe. spent good
deal OF time In visiting the various experiments which
were making there towards the solution OF that most
formidable questionable proper relations OF Capital to
Labor. went everywhere where thought could get
Instruction upon the subject from practical example,
and when 1 returned, In conversation with
Mr. Stewart. / told him all that had
learned. when To my surprise he SAID:
been already In correspondence with every man
that you have mentioned connected with these move
ments. know the history the bearings, the prospects
OF every prominent promising attempt which has been
made TO settle this dispute" say dispute, for though
capital and labor at heart are one, they mlsunder,
stand each other and they misunderstand each
other because they both clamoring all tho
while for their rights, when the only thing they
ought consider is their respective duties That gen.
erous heart-that heart which sent the provision
ship to famished Ireland which brought relief to the
cotton spnners of Lancasnro which followed tho fre-
heDd when he swept with des0latng wing over Chcago;
which endowed Sanitary Commission during the war
with large au endowment-that generous henrt
had already peered, may II he had not looked fuy
into these great social questions and this great ins
tOn for tho poor neede-w0men this Garden CITY on
Long Island intended primarily for the working men;
Of his deep interest In these profound social
problems which afct and threaten our modern ciViza
ton.
Now, o mercantile life of 20 great magnitude which
does not overthrow tho taste fox the arts, which does no