Arizona silver belt., 1888-11-03
Saturday, November 3, 1888.
STEWART AND VANDERBILT.
Two Anecdotes Showing the Economical
 Turn of the Noted NIiIlIonaires.

 Two Anecdotes Showing the Economical
 Turn of the Noted NIiIlionaires.
 Many persons who marvel at the wonder ful accumulation of money possessed by some of their fellow citizens do not reflect upon the fact that these aecumulations are often due to close economy in expenditure. A re- porter lately came across two extraordinary instances of economy on tAe part of two millionaires, the late Alexander T. Stewart and the late William Fl. Vanderbilt.
 ''I shaved Mir. Stewart" said Fifth ave nue hotel barber, s'for fifteen years steadily, when he was a patron of the Metropolitan hotel barbershop In all that time he never once thought of presenting a gratuity He paid the same price that any other man would for shave or Q hair cut, and that was the end of it. It vas even moro the custom then than now for regular patrons to tip their regular barbers once in a while, and particu- larly on Christmas or New Years. There fore, Mir Stewards omission was all the moro singular.
 t'One afternoon, some years ago, MT. Stew art dropped into the hotel barber shop and while he was in the chair a severe snow storm came up. advised him, as he had been quite i'll for some time, it would be ad- visable for him, to take Q coupe home. l went out to the bar and asked a cabman what was the lowest price for taking Mr. Stewart home. They all knew that there was no use asking a fancy price from him, and SO I w1s told that I could get a coupe for him for SIPS. I went back and reportel. 'Too much--too much he said sharply. I can't afford any such price. Twill ride home in a stage first, and that will only be ten cents and so he did.n
 This arecdote about Mir Vanderbilt's care of money came from a porter of the Manhat- tan Beach hotel: ''The summer before last, g he said, T was called to the office one after neon, and told by the clerk that Mir William H. Vanderbilt was in the house, and that he had mislaid his travelling bag. was told to find it, if possible. started out full of dreams of sudden wealth. went by rail to Bay Ridge, paying my own fare, and found that the bag was not there. Then paid aI- other fare to New York, and searched all over the landing at the Battery. The bag was not to be found.
 Then paid another fare and went down to the island, and went over into the Oriental hotel, and there I found the bag. It had been taken to that hotel by mistake. brushed my self ID, dusted off the bag and carried it to Mr. Rarderbilt's room, knocked gently and was told to come in, and presented the bag with a great flourish, and expected, of course, that should at least get a S10 bill, as was out from SIPS to S159 and several hours of searching. He said quickly: Thanks, DOT tor; am glad got it. and, opening the bag to see if the contents were all right, revealed the fact that there was, only Q singlo shirt in it, Then he snapped the bag shut, dived into his trousers pocket and fshed out quarter, by ell that is holy. left that room in harry, and you could have knocked me down with a feather when got out into the hall" New York Sun.