The evening world., 1910-12-05
ISAAC STERN DIED
PLANNING TO LIVE
FOR PHILANTHROPY
Great Merchant Cut Of Four
Days After Retiring From
Business Cares.
CHARITY HIS LAST CARE.
Settled All Affairs and Calmly
Awaited End Which Came
With Swiftness.

Planning TO devote the rest Of his days
10 philanthropy. believing that the
greatest use to which he could put his
life would be personal service on behalf
Of those institutions In which he was in
terested. Isaac Stern withdrew last
Wednesday from the department store
Of Stern Brothers. with which he had
been Identified almost from the day It
was organized forty years & Last
night. at the Hotel ST. Regis. he died
surrounded by his family.
Mr.. Storms Illness began on Thurs
day with = slight cold. TO which he paid
no attention. For years he had suffered
from a weak heart. but the family had
not anticipated any fatal results from
what seemed TO be a trivial illness. But
by Saturday his condition was such as
to alarm his family. and DR.. Joseph
F~raenkel, the family physician. ordered
hin TO bed. Yesterday his heart began
to fail and his condition became critical.
Dr. Fraenkel called In other physicians,
but the patient grew steadily worse.
Arranged All Affairs While Dying.
Late in the afternoon MIR. Stern asked
thst INV . 81 AAbo W
umm ned. Mr.. Stern was still conscious
when Mr.. untermycr arrived n was
able TO give his lawyer Instructions con-
corning his estate. n especially with
reference TO winding up his interests
In the great department store. Some
details had been left open and MIR.
Stern was concerned about their prop.
or disposition.
These matters attended to, Mr.. Stern
leaned back and talked with his wife.
Mrs. Virginia Stern. and his children,
Robert ID. Stern. Mrs. Arthur II. Hahlo
and Mrs. Gustav wertholm. who were
about the silk bed. AT 6 o'clock he
iapsed into Inconsistencies and re-
mained In that condition until he passed
away. a: 1926 this morning.
How Fortune Was Built.
Isaac Stern was born In 1916 In the
Grand Duchy OF Hesse. Germany. The
family migrated to Albany. where the
father died while Isaac stern was still
child. He had three brothers. Louis,
Benjamin and Bernard. and the bur
den Of raising and educating the four
boys Eel. on the mother. who was q
remarkably energetic
b boys embarked In the Jewelry
business In a small way as they gre
up. but forty years ago the mother de-
cided that Albany was too small fol
the family's development. She came &c
New York with her Oldest son Loui,
and opened up n small dry goods s,or,
on Sixth avenue. bet ween Twenty-sec
ond and T%wenty-thlid streets. about tn,
same time that the Altmans and tn,
B~loomingdales embarked In the SAN,
business.
After the business had fairly started
Mrs. Stern sent for Isaac and made hin
buyer OF the concern. Jewellers aloni
Maiden Lane recalled to-day how n,
AID his brother Louis would make sma
purchases for their Sixth avenue stos,
n carry th-.r purchases away WIZ
them.
A. the business developed md tn,
other brothers were drafted into II b!
their mother. Isaac was given charg'
OF the finances. and he remained II
that branch OF the concern unit he re
tired. quite coincldentally the stock o
the r~eorganized firm OF Stern Brother
was placed on the market to-day.
Worked Latterly for Charity Alone
One OF his intimate friends and asso
ciates in philanthropy said OF Mr.. SterI
to-day that during his latter years h