The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-05-05
THE RoTHsCn1LD.
Some Of the Matrimonial Alliances Of
the Great Family Of Bankers.

THE kOTHSCHlLD.
some Of the Matrimonial Alliances Of
the Great Family OF Bankers.
New York Sun.
Two of the most remarkable cotem-
porary events in London are occur
rences which, although they are strictly
private, attain almost public import
ance from the social position Of the
parties concerned. The first is the
marriage Of Leopold, the youngest son
of the late Baron Lionel de Rothschild,
with Miss Perugia, of Trieste. The
other is what we may call the confir-
nation of Master Walter, the son of
Sir Nathaniel de Rothschild, NJ. P. The
latter event took place on Sunday, the
former was solemnized Monday.
Marriages in the Rothschild family
have usually been surrounded by pc
culiar circumstances, which render
them unusually interesting. Intermar-
riage with very near relatives has al
ways been a Hebrew custom, but per-
haps it has seldom been 50 strictly OBJ
served as by this family. Anselm, the
founder Of the Frankfort house, mar
ried niece, the eldest daughter of
Nathan, the founder of the London
branch; James, the head of the Paris
branch, married daughter of his own
brother Solomon; Nathan himself had
married outside of the family.
Although he had been only few
years established in England, so large
were his transactions that one of the
Jewish grandees of London, Levi Cob
en-, selected him as an eligible candi-
date for the hand of one of his daught-
ers. After the union the apparently
desperate speculations of the young
man greatly alarmed the old banker.
He believed that Nathan would soon
be ruined, and that his daughter would
find herself in distress. The fathers
apprehensions were Gained, however,
by the young Rothschild saying: "You
have given me but one Of your daught-
ers: it would have been an excellent
stroke of business to have given me
them all. Then they would all have
died great deal richer than they are
now. Nathan was perhaps the
greatest miser of the family. He so far
hated to see penny of his fortune 20
out of the family, that he conceived the
idea of perpetuating the power of the
house by means of consanguineeus al
liances With this view, in 1886 he
called a family congress together at
Frankfort to consider the proposition.
They all favored it, and as pledge of
this policy, his son, Lionel, was mar
ried to Charlotte, the daughter OF
Charles, then the head of the Naples
house. Nathan was overjOyed at the
adoption of his matrimonial system,
but fell sick on the day of the wedding,
and died in six weeks, June Is, 1886.
10 select one of the marriages be-
tween the members of this family, we
may point to that of Ferdinand de
Rothschild, the second son of Baron
Anselm, of Vienna, and Evelina, the
second daughter of Baron Lionel sister
to the present bridegroom. This mar
riage occurred in 1865, at the mansion
of the brides father in Piccadilly,
which, in splendor Of internal decora-
ton, has few equals in Europe. 1t
would be superfluous to enter into any
description of the house for the occa-
sion. Perhaps no bride, not even
Stephanie of Belgium, will wear a
bridal veil of such marvellous lace as
Evelina wore on her wedding day. She
was attended by fourteen bridesmaids,
at the head of which was Lady Diana
Beauclerc, the daughter of the duchess
of St. Adams. 1t may be truly said
that only the prince and princess OF
Wales were absent from the brilliant
gathering. The duke of Cambridge
opened the ball that followed
the ceremony; Benjamin Disraeli,
who has already been chancellor
of the exchequer, proposed the health
of the happy pair, and the lord chief
justice of England led off and timed the
cheers $50 the common humanity
Of Shylock," Il writer remarked at the
time, "and of the haughtiest aristo-
cracy of the world is established. So
Isaac of York is avenged"
Baron Alphonse Rothschild of the
Paris branch married the eldest daugh-
ter of Sir Lionel Rothschild, a. sister OF
the present bridegroom. The duke Of
Persigny, then ambassador of France to
the court Of St. James, proposed the
health of the pair, saying: 81 wish
that the romance Of this wedding will
always be marked by that happiness
which is the conclusion of all fairy
tales" Baron Alphonse and his bride
took up their residence in hotel in
the Rue St. George, which had formerly
been the property of another archmil-
lionaire, NJ Pescatore, and in which
Emile de Girardin had twenty years
previous founded his great journal,
La Presse The house bore the number
Is. Baron Alphonse, being as super
stitious as the most of his family, feared
that the ominous figures would have a
great influence upon his future happi-
ness. He applied to the council of
Paris for permission to change the
number, offering IS 900 to the poor of
the district if his proposition should be
voted favorably. The council accepted
the proposition, ard that is why the
baron's mansion is marked by No. II
bis. The toast of the duke of Persigny
wac fulfilled. Perhaps there has not
been happier couple than the Baron
Alphonse and his wife.
The present bridegroom, Leopold de
Rothschild, is brother of Sir Nathaniel
and Alfred, and, as we have intimated,
a son of the late Lionel de Rothschild,
the first Jew who sat in the British
Parliament. He is, of course, a mem
Der of the firm in St. Swithin's lane.
He has made an exception to the sys-
tenn established by Baron Nathan. The
house of Rothschild will, however, lose
nothing by the change, for the brides
family, the Perugias, of Trieste, stand
quite as high in the east as the Roth
schilds IN the west of Europe. Miss
Perugias is sister Of Mrs. Arthur Sas-
soon, whose beauty can only be COM
pared with the wealth Of her husbands
family. Mr.. Arthur Sassoon's father,
if we mistake him not with some one
else Of his name, has just erected
magnificent residence near Albert Gate,
which has the stables on the top story,
an idea well betitting the eastern imag-
ination of the Bombay millionaire.
The wedding ceremony, in which all
these financial magnates are concern
ed, will not be inferior in splendor to
that of Ferdinand and Evelina, that
has already been mentioned