Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-06-19
NEW YORK LETTER.

According to the report Of the Bishop Of Long ]
Island. in Brooklyn, called the city Of churches in
to the ungody city Of New York |
there is one church to about every two thousand |
five hundred OF the inhabitants. Now, when we
consider that the average Of the congregations is
not over three hundred, the question arises as to
what is the chance Of the other twenty-one hun
dred for the bread OF life. If all the churches in
New York City were crammed to suffocstion, from
the door to the altar pulpitthey would not con
tain one-half Of the population Statistics are
hard things TO face but there are ten rum shops to
every church in New York and Brooklyn, and while
there is not a single minister represented in either
BOARD of Aldermen there are over twenty proprie-
tors of rum shops or men directly engaged in the
liquor traffic as potential factors in those distA
guished bodies.
This has been a most interesting week to the
Bishop Of Long Island The Episcopal residence
is fixed at Garden City, the beautiful cathedral Of
which was raised as a mausoleum to the late A. T.
Stewart. and was on Tuesday passed over to the
Episcopal Church by his widow, to remain the
property OF the church in perpetuty till the Jndg-
ment trump. All that art and devotion could do
to swell the imposing pomp and make the eere-
monial grand and impressive, was done. The
sweet music Of its silver chimes was mingled with
the roar OF artillery, the deep diapason OF its mag
niacent organ and the swelling chorus OF a thous-
and voices. 1t was a sight rarely witnessed in this
land,and never before made 50 impressive. The
reverend clergy came from all parts Of the United
States to witness the conservation. Garden City
was founded by Mt Stewart, aud it is one OF the
most beautiful and perfect suburbs in the vicinity
Of New York. It may be said to have been re-
claimed from the barren Hampstead plains, and is
an enduring monument Of what can be accom-
plished by energy and genius when combined with
CAPITAL The estate is surrounded by beautiful res
licences and in the center of the city is magnii-
cent hotel where the traveller is well cared for To
the west the college rises and it is said to be more
perfectly adapted to the use for which it is ln-
tended than any other building in the United
States. or possibly in the world. To the south
stands the cathedral which is a marvel Of gothic
beauty. and under the west end is the empty crypt
where the bones of A. T. Stewart do not lie Van
Ity of vanities saith the preacher, all is vanity
/ Look on this splendid mausoleum and the words
/ of the prophet come back with an hundrcdfOld
| force Here was a man who labOred increasingly
from childhood to old age for gold. Like Midas,
everything he touched was changed to the shining
metal lie was married. but children blessed
his union. so he plodded on solitary and alone. He
had few companions and no friends; men and
women spoke of him as rich but none loved him
and he loved no one His employees dreaded his
presence and trembled at the sound Of his voice.
Living, he had no time to think of charity. Once
or twice vague visions crossed him, but they per-
ished, still-born in his brain. He had but one in
innate companion "a man austere and unlovable as
himself, and passing the poor and suffering by, he
died and left him the princely gift of million il
solid gold; no such bequest has been made by
man to man in ancient or modern time; not Cr@sus
with all his wealth could rival it. When his gold
was fleeing from his grasp and earth was vanish
ing, one solitary idea possessed him, and that wai
TO perpetuate his name The colossal power which
had ruled the drygoods market with rod Of iron
for years, WIS to be continued by his legatee wher
his hands could hold the reins no more. The hrn
OLA. r. Stewart s. Co. was to live when A. T
Stewart was in ashes, and over the ashes should
rise mausoeum eclipsing the proudest shrines o.
his own land Vanity of vaniues the breath wa
hardly out Of his body than the mighty firm tina
he had founded with fifty years Of labor ciumbet
and fell to pieces. His poor old bones were hardl!
committed to the tomb, temporarily, awaiting TIN
finishing touch on the magnificent crypt that wa
= to hold then to the resurrection day, when tn
shous descended on the graveyard ut night an'
bore them away, no man knows WHITTIER, nor vii
know till the archangel's trump shall sound Tn
, splendid pageant Of Tuesday last msy swell tn
pride of the living, it can bring no thrill to tn
puls.lcss heart Of the dead. Mrs. Stewart an
Judge Hilton have done WE'LL Under the fosterin
care of the Episcopal church, one Of The grandest
the christian sisterhood, an institution of learnin
will rise which will be an honor and blessing t
the land.
S Another bank cashier alphabetically cor
0 servative and eminenuy respectable. Is Their
{ such & thing as an honest man How are we t
I judge OF men If long and faithful service and
. knowledge of a mans daily life, Of his outgoing
7 and incomings, are not to be Our guides in on
, Judgment Of character " hat are we to 90 by? Nj
Scott, the paying-teller of the Manhattan Con
pany's Bank, had been in its employ twenty-av
years. he had grown up in the institution from
D boy, and had worked his way up by straightfo
ward honest endeayor from the lowest round of tn
: ladder to the highest; his honesty was unques
TONED, and yet in an evil hour he yielded to temp
D tation, and till the grave closes over him he wi
live branded as thief and rascal, and as tn
meanest kind Of a rascal who robbed his coRfldin
friends, and left them to suffer the consequence
of his crime. This eminently respectable persO
got away with s16OOOO in three months. if he ha
cuutlhueu az tie saiHo A"tS iOi d JS'i NJ "'1'
have bagged the respectable sum Of Sd4o0OO, bu
+ Sl6O COO is not bad haul for the times; forunate
! for the public aad the bank, the institution is a
old one and stand it; after putting the loss o
e the proper side Of the balance sheet they hay
nearly a million in reserve. For wonder no poe
: man suffers by the larceny Of this monuments
thiefand the respectable old fogics who pOcketth
loss have only to curse their own folly that the
did not count their cash more frequently.
u The air reverberates with the sound Of weddin
d bells More marriages have taken place With
a the last thirty days than in the previous 81
v months. The floral decorations have been IL
most costly and lavish that we have seen for mar
4 years. Fifty thousand dollars would hardly pa
. for the flowers that have been used in New Yor
=. and Brooklyn in the past week. B.