The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-27

professor turned man Of the world at
ter his life's work was done. He was
very neatly dressed in well cut brown
suit, and in his shirt front were little
plain, white, bone buttons. The room
contained only the desks and chairs for
business. There was on the floor next
the west partition long tin box that
had been painted a duh blush color
and that had handles and was consid-
erably battered 10 the extent of MARI
ing the paint, and on it was in white
letters, Alexander T. Stewart
AS | entered Mr.. Stewards office he
/ was giving directions evidently to the
head of a department, and continuing
his attention to business, and Judge
Hilton end I waited. AS my eye roved
and then rested on the tall and slender
man the judge nodded. Mr.. Stewart
! stepped towards US when he had finish
ed his order. We were introduced and
his first words did not quite accord
with Judge Hilton's expectations, for
Mr. Stewart said, with a brief smile,
that was not all q smile: You west
EN- editors deal terribly with us here,
1t seems, sometimes, and l cannot but
wonder why / should be personally ma
hgned and assailed. 1 do not know
what l have done to provoke it. Can
you tell me how to account for it? /
am gratified that you have come. II is
what ] did not expect but why am l
an object of such strange interest to
newspapers in the distance?"
l answered: "Mr. Stewart, the fact
believe is that the public are inter
ested because you are reserved, and the
writers of the letters full of gossip
about you have no idea that they are
striking a private citizen. They look
upon you not as a person but as an
institution, and they have no more
notion of slandering you and hurting
a mans feelings, than they would have
Of being offensive to the city hall here
in objecting to its architecture
Mr.. Stewart said that was a new
view of the matter and he could not
consent 10 it. 'T ann a person." he
sad, and they publish these unac-
countable things, utterly remote from
truth as there are many who know
as Judge Hilton knows How such
Things go about and are fitted to such
special occasions and find ways into
the newspapers I cannot understand.
NOW the story that was printed in ST.
Louis and Cincinnati was a total sur
prise. l cannot imagine it's origin
Judge Hilton laughed and said il
had no origin and tine subject was
passed. Mr.. Stewart asked in a kindly
way several personal questions, and
then whether I would be in the city
over the following Sunday.
do not want to put you in Jail"
said he, II want you to dine with
me. and when L said my engagements
TOOK me out of town on Saturday. he
said: Then remember that I want Won
10 onne with me when you come again.
give dinner at my house every Sun
day evening at o'clock and when YOU
are in New York on Sundays send me
your card the day before and dine with
me-" =" III
he then asked whether I was ac-
qualnfed with people i'm Lexington. XIV.
and mentioned that he had an interest
IN Lexington and once had visited the
place. because before the war it was
lle clty OF all the country of its size
that was the best market for the finest
ladies' dresses
AS ! was going he came up to me |
quickly and put the fingers OF his right |
hand on my right shoulder and 7 no. |
tlced they were long fingers, and he
said impressivley. Il wat YOU to be-
heve-and I would that all who know |
me OF care 10 hear me should know
that which 1 now say, that 1 have |
reached that time in life and than ar |
cunulafion of fortune. that I care far I
more for the good opinion of people
than for all the money I can make. 7
am much older man than yoY,1seIf |
ana you will allow me for that reason |
ana by reason of the circumstances
that bring US together, to give YOU |
as you are In a position from which
your words gO a long Ways-to give |
you a few words OF advice: Have a
care now you use your power and say
Is you cam use his precise words
| accepted Mr.. Stewards invitation
10 DINNER and repeatedly dined with
ann IN his magnificent marble hOn,a
DE was gracious host, plain. neat.
simple in manner, with a voice than
eane from his throat and always ,eas
imposed The table was long and
entered with splendors. In the centre
v - gclQen dish OF flowers resting On
golSien sphinxes.
Mrs Stewart was brilliantly dressed.
as IL was her husbands pride and de,
lght 20 see her, and wearing Jewels
mat would be distinguished in any
court OF Europe, flashing from her
-hroat and ears and hands and corsage
lnd the contrast between her radiant
lgure and his severe costume was a
pleasure TO him. She was no mora
disposed to be gorgeous i'm her raimenn
nan he was. but as a good wife it was
pleasure TO please his fancy. re-
member an emerald pin she wore. SUI
'e1p' great and brilliant, bigger and
'rlghteT than I ever saw exeept in. tho
eWeiS or the Saxon queens in the
'reen vault AT Dresden. Those who
ave written unhandsomely of her ap
'earallce, conversation and manners
ever saw her, 1 am sure, for she was a
lndiy, refined and dtgnified lady. and
er DOW and smile Of forgiveness to q
eONdelhan who SAT- on her right on one
4nrs
ne table as she retired, and tramria,1 l
nd tore her dress, were clnarmine-and l
uch a dress as had been torn! 1t was 6
marvel from Lyons and Paris and ]
mere must have been a. pang in the I
cart of the lady when the delicare ]
ssue cracked and gave way in a g
rea6 rent.
Once Mr.. Stewart did me the honor G
place me at dinner immediately on c
Is right and we had much conversa- S
on he told me the story OF his firsa
lccess in New York. He had a patrf- q
lony OF $4,000 and when he was about t
sail. Belfast man just returned
'om this country tod him that if he i
'anned TO double his money it was
aShy done by investing in Irish lares !
s they sold surprisingly high in Amer
"A IN comparison with the Belfast fig /
re. Mr. Stewart had no thought of c
eng a merchant. He had been care e
lily educated and was prepared to be ! Q
teacher of an academy or professor !
| q college. His Belfast friend han S
ened to know what laces had hem /
cling for in New York and Stewart b
arefully compared them with the il
manufacturers rates and put all his I
ocley INTO them with a good deal of
isgiVing, for he knew nothing of dry a
pods. c