The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-13
ANECDOTES OF FIELD.
v1a INTIMACY WITH a. T. STEW
Art RECALLED BY HIS SON.

oythe Great Atlantic Gable.
Gurus W. Field, Jr, in Net0 York. HetGid.
,,r,oss avery man who has accomplished
.a.ahich has made him known to more
4 49,, limited circle OF acquaintaRces can
a be made the hero Of many stories The
3 host If these are sometimes doubtful and
- cbsrscteristic OF the man, but story Of
a,,oh one does not need to be brilliant to
4 Soro.dsbIe to bis friends. and l have jotted
go few at random which may be inter-
1 .sti,y 70 the friends of the late Cyrus W.
FiaId or TO those familiar to his name.
The shirt above is the spirit of love.
The snirit below is the spirit OF woei
T1e spirit above is the spirit divine,
The sprit below is the 8pirit OF wine.
This verse was one OF the Oldest memories
n 49, father had of New York city, and
80 often heard him repeat it as he told of
10 New York and the first day he came
e bars He arrived late in the afternoon
80 usnt at once 10 little boarding hou Sc
.Tbicb stood on the corner Of Rector street
& and what was then called the Greenwich
road. andis now the street OF the same
name. where his brother, David Dudley,
d had made arrangements FOR bis nome.
A MORAL BEACON LIGHT.
Rector street was not far from the center
8 NJ the city at that time, and the leading
stores, hotels and clubs OF those days were
q situated along Broadway on either side Of
Il that street On the evening or his arrival
nv father started out for little walk, and
a IN the glare and excitement of the great
netropolis the first object which caught
s and held the attention of the youth from
3 the country was good sized transparency
at the second story on the corner building
4 a. the intersection Of Broadway and
ArAN
1 occupied by brilliantly Zig hted
4 saloon, and on the floor above
! we're the club rooms OF the first Young
! Mems Christian Association OF New York.
4 The members of this society had placed the
4 beacon light on their outer walls which had
4 drawn the thoughts OF many to their pur-
4 pose, as it had my fathers, for he soon be-
4 came one OF their number. He had been
4 Christian for many years, but has often de-
4 clared that he had never been more deeply
q impressed with the power and effect OF
3 religion than as shown In the influence Of
this ASSOCIATION upon the young men Of the
( country, especially those away from friends
and home, in keeping them from evil ways
and upon the straight and narrow path.
The first employer my father had in New
4 York was the late A. T. Stewart. Mr..
Stewards dry goods store then occupied the
building on Broadway, near Warren street,
in which the Merchantile National Bank
now is. He was first a general utility boy,
aud rose till he became one Of the regular
saesclerks. Stewards was a big establish
ment employing large number of clerks,
and certain set Of rules were considered by
4 the proprietor as necessary to the proper
discipline.
One of these regulations concerned the
prompt arrival of the employ es at a certain
hour in the morning. y fine of cents was
the penalty for hardness on a single day, no
matter if it was only a half minute. OF
course these fines aggregated a considerable
sum in the course of year, and Mr..
Stewart made another rule-that all the
fine moneys should be devoted TO some
charity determined on by vote of the clerks
at the end Of each year.
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.
During one year my father was treasurer
Of the fund, when toward the close of
December the employees adjourned of an
evening to an oyster house across the street
to consider what should be the object OF
their charity for that twelve months. After
they had gathered Mr.. Libby, who later
became a partner of Mr.. Stewart, arose and
declared that he bad a suggestion to make
and wished to nominate the charity. He
was, of course, listened 20, and went on to
say that of all the deserving poor whose
needs he was aware of there were none to
his mind more worthy than the clerk of A.
I. Stewart and that, therefore, 1t would
be an eminently proper disposal of the
fund should 1t be expended in providing
an oyster supper for those individuals. The
idea was presented in fun and taken up
with good feeling, which was later increased
by the enjoyment of dish of oysters,
cooked in whatever style was called for, by
every one present My father went around
taking up the orders and next day reported
the bestowal of the years benefaction and
balance OF 10 cents in the treasury.
Mr.. Stewart remarked that he would Sc
lect the charity for the coming year and
nothing further was said of the little lark
Or Mr.. Stewart l have heard by father
tell many stories, and one Of them in which
he was concerned l might tell as throwing
q light on the character of the growth of
this city and the men who caused il.
Just before the great pile Of marble at
the northeast corner of Broadway and
Chambers street was crested by Mr.. Stew
art my father was one of his trusted clerks.
he carried the check 10 the bank which
paid for the real estate upon which the
Stewart building down town stands. A
gay or two afterward the president of the
DanK called at the dry goods merchants
ONCE and in my fathers presence talked
over the new undertaking. The president
expressed 1t as his opinion that Mr.. Stewart
hsd made tremendous mistake in build
ing bis new store on the east side of Broad
way.
Why, nobody has dared leave the west
SIDE OF the street to start dry goods store
opposite" said he. There are no big stores
tnere and the people never walk on the east
Sidewalk. You won't get any new custom
ana will gradually lose what you have
now, he concluded.
@. Don't be so positive about that" replied
stewart. "Pll keep all my trade and I'll
Drlng more FL make 'em cross over,n he
auHed, and he did make the customers come.
4 :. IL Is an odd fact to follow out Stewards
lucas After he had become successfully
q Saollshed on the east side aud decided in
LIVER years to move with the population up
ao%n ne was superstitious about his luck
anu Quit bis last great emporium on the
q oa'le slde or the street. And to-day only
que Of the large dry goods houses of Broad
way faces the setting sun, and that Is Stew
arts old house.
FoNDNEss FOR RICE PUDDING.
n Ierhaps l may be allowed to tell one
~ more story which has as much to do with
n LEI arst employer, Mr.. Stewart, as it has
WIN my father
aver some years, when their busiuess re-
.aNous became more intimate they were
VI course, thrown frequently together in q
jiS Caai way as we'll, and their likes and dis
80 Ae 81 became known to each other Many
a fa, 1uen were mutual, and the extreme