Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-24
HIS NOBLE DEEDS.

In 1872, in time of epidemic he es-
tablished dispensary in Jerusalem and
sent out physician to take charge Of it.
paying the entire expenses and pledgine
himself to sustain the institution till
regular hospital could be built. In 1916,
when the Cars ukase removed thousands
of Hebrew families from Poland to Russia,
Sir Moses and Lady Judith went to st.
Petersburg and by personal intereession
induced Nicholas first to suspend and
then TO abandon the ukase. He then
made tour TO visit his own people
in Russia and Western Poland, scatter
ing prOfuse largesses in every town.
The favor and protection of the
Car made this triumphal Journey.
and on mis- return to England, at the
instance of Premier Sir Robert Peel, Queen
Victoria created Sir Moses a Baronet. 1t
would require columns to recount in de-
tail all the public benefactions of Sir
Moses and volumes TO record his private
charities. In 1854, when the famine
broke out in Palestine, he collected 920,-
600, went again to the East, and obtained
from the Sultan of Turkey a firman. per-
hitting him to hold real estate in Jerusa-
lem, to establish pOOr-hOuses, and to de-
wise means for the promotion OF indus
tries and agriculture. he made six sue
cessiYe visits to COnstantIn0ple, each
time securing from the Sultan some con-
In 1868, by the assistance of the British
Government, Louis Napoleon and Isabella
of Spain, all strongly backing" him, he
secured from the Sultan of Morocco fir
man guaranteeing to the prosecuted Jews
the same protection accorded to the Chris
tians. On his return TO London congratu-
latOry addresses came to him from every
civilized country in the world. and the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen and other city
hnFifipG go 81 cfTrrs Of
the phllanthropic octogenarian by a ban
quet in Guildhall.
His last Yisit-the Tth-to his prOteges
in Palestine was in 1866, in his SD year.
when the country was suffering from
drought and the people from cholera. He
expended vast sums for TIE relief Of the
sufferers and suggested and secured
greatly improved facilities for supplying
the city of Jerusalem with water. As a
memorial of his successful journey on his
return he sent sums OF money from his
own means to each of the synagogues,
colleges, schools and various charitable
Jewish institutions in Great Britain.
The successive birthdays of Sir Moses
have been celebrated in London and else
where and the occasion in 1873 was spe-
cially marked by his receipt of s'the free
dom of the city of London" with a
valuable present in token Of his universal
benevolence, which has been confined to
no class or creed, but has been as I'M
bounded as it has been constant,
GOOD HEALTH AT A CENTURY.
Sir Moses is to-day in reasonably good
health, though somewhat weakened by
almost the only severe sickness of his life, |
from which he happily recovered last
sprIug. His mental powers are unim-
paired and he daily deyOtes himself to the
vast business affairs compelled by his
inherited and accumulated |
wealth. His own confidence in his phys
zeal powers and endurance is amusingly |
in the round-going paragraph |
about his just renewing the expiring en- |
of his private secretary ''for |
three years MORE"