Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-25

one mns1reaGn Ans1yersary - the
uSrsM ~ sne Great Jewish Phftans'
shrspsss
Tomorros win witness cns Of the
uoss vidssprsad ard spousoueous de-
monstrssions Of love and osnos ever ae-
esrdsd . living man. Some fss rare
spirits ia the worlds historv-s g.
Luis. . Bayard. Washington, . Lin
elm or . Gwfeld-have died leaving
behind them 4 world overcome With sor-
row and mourning; but no man has
svsr been honored, whiis living, With
s1ch world wide demonstration Of love
g. viii tomorrow take place in honor Of
Sir Moses Montedore. tue great Jewish
philanthropist- This out.urss will be
world wide. IL viii be participated In by
all races aud nations, and il will be an
open and spontaneous demonstration Of
Of aaeetion. Following will Be found
brief sketch OF the life Of the great
and good man, whose virtues every peo-
ole and every race b proud 20 acknovl-
edge:
Sir MOSES MoxTErIozE
| Was born in London on the 24th OF 90
sober. lisa. and will accordingly be one
hundred years old Tomorrow. His an
cesgors had been heavy bankers 10 L1n-
| dom for several generations. de re-
| ceived common commercial training.
| and IN 1872 was married 20 Miss Judith
i Cohen. sister in-law of Nathan Meyer
| RothschiId, the founder of the London
branch Of that house. la 1894 he as
sisted in founding the Alliance Insur-
ance Once, and VAS elected Its hrst
president, which position he now holds
"a period of sixty years. While visit
ing Palestine in 1879 with his wife, be
became interested In his co-religionists
there.
In 1897, when Syria was being ravaRed
BY the plague, sir Moses and bis noble
| glfe set out for the seene of misery, and
pressing onward until reaching she
Mount If Olives, began at once their
work of relief.
Az safed he presented every one who
aupfied with a silver dollar, and child
rem under u, (except orphans, who re-
ceived the full amount with half a
dollar. A whole day was consumed In
this muuiicent charity, which was re-
peated in several towns. On his return
70 London he was elected Sheriff OF
London, and in this capacity was
kniQhted by the Queen ON the occasion
of her first visit 10 the city. In 1872 SiI
Moses established hospital in Jerusa-
lem, at his own private expense, pledR
ing himself to maintain il for three
years. In 1886, by one of the DEGREES
Issued by the Gar, thousands Of Jewish
families were ordered TO move into the
interior of Rassia, and to right this ST.
Moses and Lady Judith braved the
rigors of a northern winter. This mis-
sion proved remarkably successful, the
distressing decree being first suspended
then abandoned. On his return to Eng
land he
Il WAS MADE BARoNET.
In 1864, when famine broke out In ths
Holy Land, DIR. N. nj. Adler and Si
Moses realized 10000 by public appeal
and TO see this sun properly used, 81
Moses went again to the Holy Land Oh
bis errand OF mercy. In 1858 the cele
brated Mortara case startled tue worlG
: the particulars of which thousands
will recall to mind--and Sir Moses, theI
in his 10Th year, hurried to Rome on be
half Of q greatly distressed family.
LATER LIFE.
In 1868, having secured at Madrid tn
cooperation of Queen Isabella, he OBJ
tanned a firman from the Sultan 0l
Morocco in favor of the persecuteC
Jews. guaranteeing them equal rights
with Christians. In 1866, IN his 82s
year. he made his last visit to nj
proteges in Palestine, who had beeI
afflicted by the cholera, and whose crop
nad been destroyed by iocusss. In tn
following year he went to Bucharest 4
use his influence against the ill.treat
, ment of the Jews in Roumania. Ii
1867 he endowed Jewish College q
, kamsgate in honor of his wife, who haa
} died ohildless, Septer Der "a. 1862. TIL
freedom of the CITY of London was ten
dered 10 him in 1873, with a VALUABLE
present in token Of his eeneyolence.
: THE SEATTLE CELEBRATION.
A conaratuiatory dispatch was sent {.
. Sir Moses MJntefiore yesterday by on
! Jewish citizens, and on Sunday evening
. October 18th, Seattle Lodge No. 3f2, Iu
. dependent Order Bnai Birth. will give
banquet aud bail at the Arlington Hote
in honor of that great phiianthropist'
one hundredth anniversary, to whicl
many guests have been invited from
Olympia, Tacoma. Vic oria aud Por
Townsend. A splendid program ha
, been arranged. Our fellow to~nsmau
! Moses Korn, will Civ. a biographies
) sketch of Sir Moses Montefiore Durin
: the banquet there will be- toast.
speeches, etc. About rs couples are OK
, pectsd 10 he present on that occasion.