1883. ] hel Ded [Robinson, 
ame de Saivre, knew and approved them, and would 
not have desired them to be changed. 
Few men certainly have lived of more expanded be- 
nevolence, but he was especially devoted to the repu- 
tation and welfare of his native city, and his views were 
well defined as to what should be done by him from a 
sense of duty as a citizen, and to relieve want and suf- 
fering. 
Many of our older citizens probably recollect that 
thirty or forty years ago he gave his time and expended 
large sums of money, in endeavoring to substitute ex- 
tensively in Philadelphia, soda and other mineral 
waters at low prices, for alcoholic drinks. At a later 
period he improved, at considerable cost to himself 
and with much personal trouble, the dread of the city, 
and within the last eight years he gave to Philadelphia 
“a magnificent clock and bell, for which, at a special 
meeting of the Select and Common Councils of the 
City,” on the roth of July, 1876, the thanks of the city 
were tendered him. ‘This clock and bell as yet, it is 
believed, unsurpassed by anything yet executed for a 
like object in our country, have been doing good ser- 
vice night and day since, “from the tower of Indepen- 
dence Hall,” toa large proportion if not to all the in- 
habitants of our extended city. 
The above services of Mr. Seybert to his fellow- 
citizens could not have been “done in a corner,” and 
were necessarily known to many of them, but those 
who were acquainted with Mr. Seybert knew that his 
