The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-14
rnEvASIrY OF RICHES.

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Volumes have been written on the sub
iect. Morals have been drawn and lessons |
taught without number, but still the world |
goes on in its rush after the dollar, and !
men are as eager now to risk life and hap
piness for gold as ever in the past. And
though this is so the fact is no less sad
one that the accumulations of years are but
a poor recompense or return for the days
and nights of selfdenial and sorrow that
are necessary for marked success in the
premises The subject has received re-
newed attention and is clothed with addi-
tional interest from the winding up of the
great concern in New York city of A. 7.
STEWART & Co., just recently. After long,
weary years of toll the merchant prince
was enabled TO lie down and die in palace,
leaving behind him magnificent estate
and tremendous business that had been
his ambition and pride for a lifetime. His
success indeed surpassed that of oil early
rivals, but the facts now being disclosed as
to the posthumous effects or glory of his
achievements illustrate in most marked
manner the utter vanity of piling up riches
and building us great establishments for
others uses. His executor and trusted
friend has had charge of A. I, STEWARDS
estate, and what he has done with it is
striking illustration Of the truth that when
We are gone 1t will be next to impossible to
find those who can stand in our shoes, or
successfully carry out our determinations.
An exchange, speaking on this subject, de-
tails the following facts "JUDGE Hutton,
of New York, in recent talk with Il re.
porter, expressed his satisfaction at the
closing of the uptown store of STEWARDS
the best known dry goods house in the
country. The speech is characteristic of
the man, whose conceit is abnormal. He
really iancies that he has managed the
STEWART estate in mastery manner.
whereas everything that the great merchant
left unfinished he has ruined by his blum.
dcrs. The wholesale trade of the house he
killed by his insult to the Hebrews at Sara
toga; the retail trade he ruined by inatten.
ton to details and lack OF courtesy TO nlu.
entail customers; the womans hotel was
spoiled for all usefulness by insistance OF
petty regulations that wounded the self
respect of the inmates, aud by scale OF
prices that ruled out the very class its
founder desired to aid The only memorial
of STEWART left-the GARDEN City cathe-
dral-is now receiving the flashing touches.
The cathedral was intended as u monument
of the merchant prince, but the police still
declare that his body has not been recovered.
The extinction of great business and the
sudden end OF the plans of busy brain was
never more complete than in this fall Of the
bones OF STEWART" 70 make the picture Of
the utter failure of all the great aims and
achievements of Mr.. STEWART, within only
few short years after his death, the more
marked and disclose more pointedly the
vanity of his endeavors, it is only necessary
to draw the contrast between him anC
another great tinaucicr who began liit
about the same timc-GEoGGE PEABODY
STEWARDS fortune is being thrown t
the winds, his name almost forgotten
and the resting place of his very remains s
secret after all his toll and hopes. PEA
BopY's fortune is blessing and cnliehteninl
thousands annually, his name crows con
stnntly in brightness and his memory i
kept green and blessed by millions. Tn,
one lived for himself, and all his glory wa
buried with him; the other lived for hui
monty, and his fame is more lustrous a
time flies. There could hardly he a NOR,
pointed and useful lesson for the study o
those OF the present throughout all tn,
Union who are forget ting the world in thei
devotion to self. 1t is but repetition o
the old, old story, and the wonder is tina
men will 20 on in the old, sordid path
with such recent aud marked illustration
before them.