The last of August and part of September this year were spent in another journey to the Pacific coast, in which he was much impressed with the marvellous beauty of the Canadian road. From a New York paper of November, 1886, this is taken: "Mr. Field has fought almost since the very beginning of the system as a public conveyance for a uniform charge of five cents at all hours for passengers on all the New York elevated lines, and the morning of the 1st of October, 1886, first saw the complete victory which attended his effort in this direction." When, in 1882, he bought a large tract of land in the valley of the Saw Mill River, adjoining on the east his home at Irvington, he intended building there a number of small but comfortable houses for working-men. Around each house he proposed that there should be a plot of ground, and the rent was to be from ten to twenty dollars a month for house and land. The building of the new aqueduct made it impossible for him to carry out at once this project, and before the aqueduct was completed he suffered, in 1887, heavy financial losses from the sudden decline of the stock of the New York elevated roads, in which he was so largely interested. The last message that passed between Mr. Field and Mr. Bright was on the 11th of December, 1888, when he cabled: "_The Right Hon. John Bright,_--Your friends in America read with interest the news that comes daily from your sick-room. Accept the affectionate remembrance of one who has known and loved you for more than a quarter of a century. "It may comfort you in your long illness to know that your name is on the lips and in the hearts of millions on this side of the Atlantic, who can never forget how you stood by the cause of their country. "CYRUS W. FIELD." December 2, 1890, was a day that his family had long looked forward to. It was on this day that these messages and telegrams were received, and that many friends came to offer their congratulations. Among the messages of good-will was this poem from President Henry Morton, of the Stevens Institute: "MR. AND MRS. CYRUS W. FIELD "ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR MARRIAGE "Golden light the sun is shedding, Ushering in this golden wedding, As he did on that bright day Fifty golden years away. Then as now the 'golden flowers,' Lingering after summer's hours, The chrysanthemums, foretold Anniversary of gold. Golden love and golden truth To gold age from golden youth, In the fire of life, thrice tried, Pure themselves, yet purified By the sorrows borne together, By the stress of stormy weather; This pure gold, outlasting earth, Proves its own celestial birth, And shall shine with golden light, Star-like, from heaven's dome of night." "CYRUS W. FIELD, Esq., Gramercy Park, New York: