The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-01

OF this $50, 600 900 Is in clothing, $50 OBJ, 00C
IN Jewelry, SIS, 0O0, 900 IN meats, SIS, O00, 0OO
IN wines, spirits and beer, $50. O0O. 600 in
tobacco and cigars, S12, 900 900 in diamonds,
and like sum in leather and hides. The
Hebrew butchers of New Yerk and Brook
lyn employ 5000 men. The mammoth
retail dry goods and fancy goods establish
| ments of the metropolis are under
similar control, the Altmans, the
bioomingdales, Ehrichs, Stems and
Others being the leading spirits. Pottery,
laces. oil, trunks and bags, corsets and UNI
brellas are also in their hands. In Georgia
the trade of the leading cities is controlled
by them; in Baltimore they are prominent
IN banking, clothing and trade generally
IN San Francisco they are among the
| wealthiest and most influential citizens; in
| Galveston they are foremost in the business
world, and many other western and south
ern cities owe much of their financial aud
commercial development to the wonderful
| genius of this race
| In Wall street, that ocean of sunken for
tunes, the master-spirit of the Hebrew has
| asserted itself for the last fifty years. As
| early as 1900 the rames of Gomez, Hess,
Selxas and Hart were prominent among the
| money brokers of New York. The Hebrews
have always been among the leading spirits
| on Change. The Lispenards. the Brandous,
| Henriques, Schafers, Harmons and Nathans
were among the best known. All began life
| poor. Joseph Seligman, the elder, was
| bank clerk and saved up his salary to bring
his brothers TO this country Philip Hell
| delbach was poor Bavarian boy; Lazarus
| Hallgarten started almost without capital
| the Wornsers were in the clothing business
IN a small way before coming east to be
money kings; Nathan Bloom, whose trade
extended throughout the southwestern
states, and who died worth s., 000, 900, came
here poor emigrant peddler: Isaac Fried
lander, the late grain king of California,
whose fleets numbered go ships, was a PEN
niless lad before he became gold hunter in
the Rockies. Jacob II. Schiff emigrated to
this country in 1865 and found employ
ment as bankers clerk before he became
broker and banker. He is one of the
richest and most esteemed Hebrews in
America, and is widely known through his
benefactlons to deserving charities Thai
MESSENGER, another very wealthy banker,
was drug clerk in Boston, SelIgman Op-
penhelmer was a schoolmaster in Germany;
David Keller was a lad at the cigarmaker's
bench; Louis Strasbourger who controls
the imported watch trade of this country,
and has diamond cutting house at
Amsterdam, arrived here a pennileSs
boy from Bavaria; Lazarus Strauss, who
has the greatest pottery establishment in
the world, began with small crockery
shop on Chambers street; Frederick Haber-
man, who now employs 1900 men in the
tn-ware trade, began life on the towpath.
In every instance these men attained wealth
and prominence through the very qualities
that nerved their race 70 endure the seem
lngly endless persecution and injustice in
other lands; tlreless perseverance and the
pluck that seems to have fused down
through the whole Jewish race ever since
the days of the Maccabees, and which never
knows when it is beaten. Not one is
ashamed of his humble origin and his early
poverty.
1t has been said at different times that
the bottom has fallen out of Wall street as
far as money-making is concerned, and that
the speculative mania is dead. This is not
borne out, however, when one looks at the
gigantic fortunes some of the Hebrew money
kings have rolled up there within a few
years-fortunes that are second only to
those of the Goulds and Vanderbilts. and AS
tors. The house of Seligman is reputed to be
worth from 500, 100000 to $50, 900 900; the
Speyers have 5000, 900 more; Jacob Schiff
is good for SIC, 200, 900; the Wormsers quite
as much, the Scholle brothers probably
$4,000, 900; Edward Lauterbach, of rail
road and corporation fame, 81, 000, 600; tho
Hallgartens s., 900, 600; the Belmonts, who
are the American agents of the London
Rothchilds, S10,000,000; Meyer Lehman
S5,OOO,00O, and hundred others have bank
and stock accounts reaching up well into
the millions
Next to his potentiality as a monev-
maker, is the Hebrews power as factor in
politics. Nowhere is this SO felt as here in
New York, where he gets his share Of the
offices and the consequent patronage. with
the rest. Theodore Myers, city controller
Judges Lachman, Goldfogle, Dessar and
hnrhch, coroner Ferdinand Levy and many
other officials are Hebrews. and some ~
them are exceedingly popular and able man
As rule the judicial faculty is strongly
developed In The race. and their rulings on
the bench are rarely reversed In the local
state and national Legislatures, the Semitic
influence Is widely felt, and SO also in the
civil and diplomatic service. Maacus Of
teroourg, or New York, was the first of his
race TO hold the office of minister plenipo.
oscar D. Straus, minister to Turkey, and
one OF the warmest friends of the present
sultan, was similarly honored
somebody mas said the Jew is a non-pro-
Queer, and that he neither writes nor
lnvents. This can no longer be taken Sc
rlously, though, Tor all the facts are against
1t. The bulk of the theatrical management
IN new York, and much of it in other large
American cities, is under his control and hs
therefore fills the very onerous and some
Times rather thankless post of caterer for
our amusements. Bandman, Grau, Frohman.
Belasco, the Kiralfys, and MANY others
might be cited. In art there are Solomon
Nones Car valho, the noted painter, Moses j
Ezekiel the Virginia sculptor, George F. N,
Peixotto and Tooy Rosenthal, both eminent
with brush and canvas, and Constant Never
the famous artist in genre work. In Iitera,
| ture, Nina Morals Cohen, the Philadelphia
poetess, Caroline Joachimsen, the novelist
Angelo Heilprin, the paleontologist. Simon
Sterne, the political economist and authority
on constitutional law, stand in the front
rank, with a host of lesser lights behind.
The "Jewish quarter" or that part of the
city which includes Essex, Hester and Lud
low streets and their immediate neighbor-
hood, is one of the poorest imaginable.
Many efforts have been made of late wears
to ameliorate the wretched condition of
those who live there and whose surround
ings are in marked contrast to the palatial
abodes and easy circumstances of their
rich compatriots There is not in Lon
don, Paris or Vienna a more wretched
and dilapidated section than this.
where nearly 900 souls are crowded to-
gether. Many have given literally to re-
lieve the misery of the Hebrew poor. In
situations have been founded and charities
have sprung up in different parts of the
city; but the pace of immigration has been
too fast for such ameliorative measures.
For the first time i'll the history of America,
the Hebrews are now numbered among
those who ask relief from the unsectarisn