The New York herald., 1921-09-28
Formerly A. T. Stcwart 6 Co.

4vSO OHN Wy OES
auay back" has had
many notable merchants
The list includes such men as III. B. Clafn, genial,
enthusiastic POPULAR the Brooks Brothers, Wttemore
Peet Post & Co., James Talcott, Cornelius N. Bliss,
Bliss Fabyan & Co.; Edward S. Jaffray & Co., Jonathan
Ogden of Devn & Co.; the father of Robert c. Ogden
who long associated with us; William E. Dodge and
his sons Arnold Constable Co. and host of others
who were splendid examples for young men.
Succeeding these old pioneers came later the able
and wise Isidor Straus and Nathan his brother whose
and kindred have made such splendid store the
old Lord & Taylor concern before the time of the
worthy Mr.. Hatch and that giant of them ALL James
McCreery, the Stern family and the great mercantile
genius, Benjamin Altman, whose institution is his
monument.
There are other late cOmers worthy also of note.
The pity of il is that the merchants of New York
do not to realize the greatness of their city to any
large extent beyond their personal undertakings,
so many of them being like the man in Washington
whose family enjoyed the distinction of being leaders
in the little church they attended where they opposed
every effort for growth in every direction, saying prac-
tically "Me and my wife, my John and his wife,
four and no more'
There can be no question as to who the first
merchant of New York. Every step of A. T. Stewart,
from the time that he laid down his schoolmastershp
and located first at 24l Broadway to try to realize what
he could from the stock of linens, Hamburg edgings
and handkerchefs and the like left him by old
school-fellow Of his from Ireland to whom Alexander
had loaned all the money he had saved.
Thus from a small beginning-the effort to turn
the stock of merchandise into money to the loan
that he had made for friendship sake.
times.
The next thing Mr.. Stewart did was the Chambers
Street Store, to which added the wholesale estab
lishment largely of importations from Ireland and the
next step the years the far north of New York
City, almost out of town. when Mr.. Stewart conceived
the building next door to old Grace Church at Broad
way and Tenth ST.
Be it known, too that at first MIR. Stewart did not
succeed in getting all the block from Ninth to Tenth
and from Broadway to Fourth Avenue.
The big iron building uptown, as Tenth Street was
the had the best and longest period of each day of Mr.
A. T. Stewards time.
People called it his pet Mr.. Savage, of his
wholesale store often said to the writer:
"Mr Stewart loves that retail store so much that
he spends most of his time in it,
Surely all the old New York families remember the
time when the old A. T. Stewart iron store was the best
store in New York City 1t really was because it had
Mr. Stewards personal vision mind and heart and ali
the strength of his body six days in the week. when he
was wsest and strongest
What is to hinder it from still being the best store?
Please come as visitor and be at home in the old
Stewart Store Take good look each Of the floors
and see if you can't recognize something of A. T. Stew
arts genius in it.
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