St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Our New York Letter.

A MAGNIFICENTMAUSO STEW
ART MEMORIAL CATHEDRAL - THE
FOUR WHITE BUILDINGs-JOE JEFFER-
SONS DAUGHTER-CONTE OF COURT
A POLICE JUSTICE ON HIS DIGNITY
JURY JUGGED-ROBERT DALE OWEN
HIS ODD MARRIAGE-THE SMALL BOY
AND THE FIRE AND
BALLS.
New YORK, June %, 1877.
To the Editor Of the CaiedORidn
No American has ever had such
mausoleum to protect his ashes and pre-
serve his memory as that now being
erected by the widow of A. Il. Stewart.
1t is magnificent Cathedral located in
Garden City, Long Island, that charm
ing residence suburb whose building
and identifying were among the favor
lite enterprises of the great millionaire.
The cathedral has been in process of
erection for nearly year, but the cor
ner stone was not laid until Thursday
of this week, when the impressive cere-
monies connected Herewith were wit
messed by a vast cOncOurse from this
city and from all over the Island. The
interior of the cathedral, which it will
take more than another year to COM
plete, will be of Mr.. Stewards favorite
white marble. In the centre of the
he
cOphagus containing the remains, and,
in due course of time, a second contain
ing those of his beloved wife, from
whom even in death he will not be sep
arated. The cost of the structure and
its surroundings will not fall far short
of 100000.
Mr.. Stewards preference for white
buildings was singular, considering their
location in the dust and smoke of d
city but that it was absolute is seen
by the four great piles which form our
most conspicuous reminders of him.
Two of them, his Fifth Avenue palace
and his downtown warehouse, are of
white marble, while the vast retail es-
tablishment and the no less imposing
Home for Working Women are of iron
painted the uniform hue. The latter
structure, work on which was so I'M
accountably suspended for years, is now
approaching completion rapidly, but so
quietly that few seem to be aware of its
progress. This work, together with the
many others which Mr.. Stewart left I'M
finished, goes on under the supeIin-
tendence of Judge Hilton, who, as mer-
chant, lawyer, builder, capitalist and
prosecutor of the Jews, has his hands
at least comfortably full of business.
The last named occupation does not
take much time now, probably, for the
Seligman affair described last
week, after holding its place as nine
days wonder, has been crowded out of
notice by the memorable hurry of sue
ceeding events and left to be nursed or
settled by the immediate parties there
to.
Evidently the prejudice against the
Hebrews is not as great in England as
in Judge Hilton's office. Grip Van
Wrinkle" Jefferson's daughter has just
been married in London to B. L. Far
jeon, a young Israelitish novelist whose
works are well known on both sides of
the Atlantic. l suppose Joe j., on that
occasion, drank his famous toast, "Here's
to your health and your family's and
may they all live long and prosper"
| think there must be something in
the air of summer that affects unfavOr
ably the tempers of our judges. Com
mitments for contempt of court are usu-
ally supposed to be rare events, and yet
within week we have had fourteen
such in this city alone. In one case a
lawyer found fault with the ruling of a
Justice, whereupOn that heavy digni
tary, whose temper the heat had evil
IDENTIFY rendered very brittle by the high