The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-17

- taeo. I've - time. and yoa ~
apeee lbr nosalisine o.. ~ dew1lhu q
10 g.sat hoose. The pepeD hsvs doas
n that fbe To last three uonthA
0teWoet did aoa to business - ben
dying svsr ince. In England the bad
ns0 and the god win Of % vast IN e.
tablishment would have been taken
ovsr' BY joint stock company Of psao-
tieal merchant, and the name would
have been saved to tho mercantile
world. But that II not the American
Wy. No one man cared 70 buy It out,
and New York merchants do not 20 in
10 co-opesatjon transactions. What will
b done with the great etli6ce on Broad
WY = not yet known. There was talk
Of making . museum Of It, but that was
IN absurdity and would never have
paid. Ifit Wa not % fhr down town.
Il would b moro successful - an apart
ment dwelling house, it, great interior
court and it, four street sides giving al
rooms light and air, and It may come to
that yet. There seems to b no other -
profitable use Of brick and mortar and
marble nowadays - 70 put them into
enormous ''French nat'' houses, which
are no more Nike tho genuine Pariaian
Aats than European hotels in New York
arc like the inns Of London and Berlin.
STEWARDS BUSINESS HONESTY.
A. +. Stewart remorselessly crushed
cut and undesDold smaller tr.desmeo,
and he had . despotic and arbitrary
way Of dealing with his employees which
made him feared bat never loved. And
yet there Wa never . merchant who
moro rigoroasly insisted on fairness aud
honesty toward his customer. Whether
you paid high or low prioeE whether
yoa bought Merimac prints or Persian
carpets, you got what you paid 5or, and
you got itat . fair price. An incident
viii illustrate this chaza cteristjc Of the
dad merchant prince. At the very hst
ocoasion on which Mr.. Stewart evergsve
adinner party, Indeed It Wa thecast
time he ever at q his own dinner table,
there were present avery few New York
people to meet IN English GENTLEMAN,
who h now . member 0f Gladstone's
Cabinet. Conversation ensued upon
Mr.. Stewards principles Of business
which had contributed to his great suc-
Cen. A retired banker Of this city 10
marked: ITO my mind the great prin-
cipje which has g,,aranteed Mr.. Stew
art's pro eminsnoe, he's been the abso-
luts confidence he inspired in his pe-
irons. The INT time I was ever in his
Dtore (now thirty years aeo) I saw =
piece q goods which pleased my eye.
The price W. surprisingly low. I asked
he clerk II II was the best quality Of it,
kind. He said It W., and W. extolling
the goods, when . voice behind me said:
Young man, Why do You say this b Of
he best quality It b not the best
quality and you know It. You viii 10
port It the once this evening, sir.' Then
'urning to mo the stranger said: The
,lesk made . mistake, dir. This h So
md quality goods, having . handsome
lnish but not the wearing quality you
nay desire to secure It . higher price,
L was M: Stewart that was addressing
no, and from that day I traded with A.
I. Stewart 1 Co. with absolute conf
hence in getting honest goods for my
Money"
Mr.. Stewart almost blushed 1t this
sibate to his business b ones&y, and IL
ustTated another secret Of his success Z |
wonderful memory fordetail, BY saying:
Mr.. g. rsmember the circumstance % |
vsll that I oen tell you tho exact kind
{ dress goods you were admiring," and
y did %, to the amusement and aston
Dhment Of the company around his t.
h.
After dinner on the above occasion
II. Stewart had 4 shawlthrown around
- sheu]dess while he spent few min
to in his picture gallery with biz
uests, then e1cs1sed himself - he was
q we'll, and thin W. the last time he
ver appeared In his own dining room.
DU0IHIQ9 DEPRU0I0N.
The times are not what they were .
ar ago. Financially there b nothing
ding, and the brokers mourn. Stocks
'hich were up in . balloon are coming
own with thud. The outside public
y not buying, % the holders at high
rices llnd It hard to unload. The rail-
I'D war cut down earnings frightfully,
% iron mills are net sorry for . tempo
Try strike Of the workmen, for new