The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-11-26

STEWAHTS MARBLE PALACE.
So Stewart, besides founding the greatestdry
goods establishments this continent ever saw,
connected his name with other institutions
on no less grand scale. He controlled the
carpet mills of the country at the time of his
death He owned two of the finest hotels,
the Grand Union at Saratoga and the Metro
politan, of New York. Three New York
theatres were among his possessions, while
his marble palace ON Fifth avenue was
adorned with treasures from every land.
He had about completed colossal hotel for
working girls, with the purpose of providing
them with the maximum of comfort at the
minimum Of cost.
He founded Garden City on the spacious
plains of Long Island, an extensive monu-
ment to his memory, he thought, in perma-
nent real estate The fortunate inhabitants
of this favored Garden City should also pos
sess his remains, to honor as long es the 81
000, 600 monument in the shape of cathedral
should cover the ghoul proof vault in which
they were to repose. Nemesis seems to have
swooped down on the plans of Stewart
and they remain only as a striking example
of how the purposes of man "gang aft aglee"
His great wholesale dry goods house .isnow an
Office building and likely to fall into the
90 hands of the city. His retail house. which
covered Il block is now cut up. into many
small stores with multiplicity of owners,
The control of his immense mills is divided
among rival manufacturers The hotel and
theatres passed Immediately to other pro-
prietors 1t is rumored that his marble
palace was out of the possession of his wife
for some years before her death and that il
will shortly be opened as club house.
His house for working girls vas not allowed
to fulfill the purpose of its designer. Garden
City exists as deserted village Only the
grand cathedral tomb remains, and that as a
monument to the hollowness of human hopes.
for it covers an empty tomb. The only wav
in which this cathedral could likely be di-
verted from the use for which it was intended
was by preventing the remains from being in.
tered there, and this was the very thing
that did occur. A. T. Stewards body was
stolen from the temporary vault In which
tney rested on the 9th of November, 1878, and
none outside OF the few ghouls who carried
them away know what has become of them.
though it is supposed they consumed them
with quickiime to destroy all evidence of
their crime.
Why there remained no affection for A. T.
Stewart was due to the old mans hardness of
heart. An incident which well illustrates this
"aS loiu Ine "iieei Aiany years ago ny the
daughter of one of the victims of this |
trait of Stewards. Her father owned q |
small marble quarry i'll Westchester eoul- |
ty, N. Y. When Stewart was about !
to build his marble palace he solicited esti-
mates from numerous quarrymen for the |
stone Her father was unfortunately the |
lowest bidder, and made q contract with |
Stewart to supply the marble for the build
ing This was at q time when labor was
cheap. The war came, and quadrupled the
prices paid labor. The poor quarryman soon
found that it would involve all of his earn
mgs for years to fill even a portion of the con-
tract, SO lie appealed to Stewart, who was