Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-02
ONE HUNDRED SAVE ONE.
sir Moses Montenorc Celebrating His
| Doth birthday.
from the New York Telegram


From the New York Tclcgram.l
Wednesday, the patriarch In Israel, Sir
Moses Montcnorc, celebrated the 00th ami
vcrsary of his birth and enters upon the hum
drcdth year of his life. Though all the enter
gics of the Hebrew societies in this city that
bear his surname arc bent upon the proper
celebration of the centennial anniversary of
his birth, which occurs next year, they will
find time to remember the great Jewish phil
au,hropist this year. Meetings Of conf
memoratory nature will be held both by the
ladies' Montcforc association and the Monte
fore Lodge of the knights of Honor. The
former society has recently been the recipient
of II letter OF thanks and several copies OF his
narrative of forty days sojourn in the Holy
Land from the aged baronct in acknowledge
ment of set Of congratulatory resolutions
sen, TO him by the society.
| On the 2ith of October, 1884, Sir Moses
Montcilorc's centenary will be celebrated in
various parts of the world with betting re-
| joicing. In Great Britain preparations are
being made by both Jews and Christians for
festivities on large scale. In this country
the Board of Delegates of Civil and Relig-
| ious Rights are cooperating with special
committee of the Union aud Hebrew con-
grcgations to raise fund for the cndOw-
mcnt of "Sir Moses Montetiore Centennial
ProfesSorship.' A special celebration
of the event is under way at Leghorn. Italy,
the city Of Sir Moscs'natvity' In Rome a
| Montcilorc Rabbinical College is about to be
established, aud in England preparations are
being made 10 celebrate worthily the interest
ing date
Sir Moses Monteforc, who now resides at
East Cliff Lodge, Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet,
Kent, England, was born at Leghorn, Italy,
on October 1884. His parents were Joseph
Elias and Rachel Nontefore. His father
was an English merchant and traced his
ancestry back to Spain. Driven by persecu-
ton to Italy, the carly Monteforcs amasscd
greath wealth there. They made their first
appearance in Euglaud not long after the
Man1ssoh-b -lsracps eloquent intcrcession
with Cromwell procured the rcadmission of
the Jews. Moses Monteflore received a com
mercial training in England and was admit
ted TO membership in the Stock Exchange.
In 1912 he married Judith Cohen, daughter
of l.. b. Cohen, and sistcr-n-law of Ma.
than Meyer Rothschld, the founder Of the
London branch of the great banking estab.
lishment. In 1914 he was elected treas
urcr of the Portuguese Synagogue, and
in 1924 assisted in founding The ALI
ancc Insurance Office, of which he
was elected the first president which
office he still holds. In 1927 he made his frs,
trip to Palestine to make n personal investi-
cation of the abicct state Of his brethren in
that land. The Palestine fund was established
for their relief, aud he has ever since been
the administrator of the same. He was ap
| pointed sheriff of London and Middlesex in
| 1887, and during the same year was knighted
by the queen at Guildhall on the occasion OF
her first official visit to that city after her &c.
cession to the throne, and in 1876, as a re-
cogntion of his services in behalf of his race
both at home and abroad, he was created O
baronet.
The patiarch's influence with the Pacha
OF Egypt and the Sultan of Turkey in 1910,
after the massacre at Damascus; his untiring
efforts with Car Nicholas in behalf of the
Russian jews in 1876; his able and success
full labors with Louis Philippe, king of
France, in reference to the persecution of 1S47,
and his pleading with the Grand Sherecf
Of Morocco in 1868 in regard to the mas
sacrcs there, arc all remembered with graft
| tudc by the dowI-,rodden of his race who
have been benefited through his cxer!ions.
His only mission that met with failure was
when he went to Rome in 1868 to ask Pope
| Plus N. to interfere in the celebrated Nor
tura case, in which u Jewish child was car
| ned oil and immurcd ia convent. On the
18th of September, 1862, Lady Montefiorc
died. Sir Moses has founded and endowed
| many charitable institutions. In 1865 he
made his seventh and last visit to the Holy
Land, the land of his love, and which it has
been his fond ambition to see pcopled by his
| own race, and the scat of the Jewish empire,
with Jerusalem as its capital. Upon his
| coat OF arms is n flagstaff and thercfrom flow
ing banner, on which, inscribed In Hebrew
characters OF gold, is the word Jerusalem
His motto is, Think and Thank"