Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-16
KING OF PHILANTHROPIsTS
Baron Rirsch Donates $40, 900, geo
to Charity Magnificent Plans.

10 Cn0r1iy MaknluCent tlanB.
In n handsome hotel in the Rae
d'Elysee, Baron Hirsch, the celebrated
~fnancier, signed away yesterday for M
benefit Of Gods people, "the poor"
$40. 000,0 00-a gif, which lacks
a parallel in the history of phil
anthropy; and beside which re
donations of Peabody, Vanderbilt, Hey
kins, Girard and Pratt seem petty, says u
Paris correspondent to the New YsrE
World.
Little pomp CT circumstance surrounded
the generous act. 4 committee Of twenty
Russian Hebrews, with quaint gar
ments and hair cut suggesting TIE
Mosaic laws, arrived in the merh-
ing from Warsaw. A score sf
Austrians arrived on the Orient express
from Vienna. They drove together 10
the handsome hotel of the baron IN the
narrow street behind the residents
palace. Here the baron and two sha p
eyed men of the law received them. TIE
great inancicr's study table was Uttered
with papers, contracts and deeds Of gif,.
I'VE have the honor to be your sey-
wants, baron" said the heavy -beardee,
travcl.worn wise men from the east, as
they fled into the library. With n few
scratches Of the pen the papers and con
| tracts were finished. The deeds were
| transferred from the baTon's work table
10 the cap cious leather pouches which
his visitors had brouglt with them.
MAY Gods blessing be with you AMI.
yours eaid the strange visitors AS they
lied out OF The hotel,
In this simple way $40, coo, 600 hasf
found It's way from the Golfers OF The
great barking and railroad king into the
hands OF y committee who are TO build
and superintend commercial schools III
the waste lands Of Russia, of Poland, Of
Hungary and Austria. In a few minutes
the CORE p0Ldcnt was ushered into the
baron study.
mo, | have not the elightcst heaitatiou
in telling 10 the Worid the particulars Of
my gift tGc baron said. Il am ar old
man. | am chilaless. lily industry ans,
my enterprises have been eminently sue
Ccssful. win the fortune which | havt
amassed ] hope 10 ralsa from the slouch
Of ignorance and dependency the mora
helpless, the most miserable race in En-
rope. The } VS. Of Russia, OF Austria, it
fact. Of northeastern Europe. Today I
have corsummaied my share Of the woss
and 200, QUO, 900 OF francs have been
turned over 10 the central commiuea,
charged with the carrying out Of Ey
/ plans.
Il wish To have all The Jews baptized.
| am the most unorthOdox Of Hebrews.
| Were my cCreiigioIists 10 be baptized
| there would be an end Of Semitism and
anti -Semi,ism. | hate to speak Of my
deeds, but for fear that You should think
that | only give 10 those Of my race I
will mention that during the past two,
years | have gives $40, Geo, 600 to Chris-
tian schools and hospitals in Europe anil
England. But the Jews Of WHOM !
speak are w~aliowing in the depths of
ignorance and bigotry into which Me
persecution OF centuries has reduce IL
them. ! purpose with my o their
education. With enlightenment wit
come mere liberal views of life, and par
haps the next century will see the disap-
p%earance from the face of the earth o.
the Scmitic race as a narrow minded re-
ligious guild.
Southeastern Europe is TO be dir
trictcd and schools are TO be located I'D
proportion to the density Of the popuia-
ton. do not hope to see the ongant-
NATION Of the work myself. but yon, pe,-
haps, will live TO see the world ~inhabitts.
and controlled by neither Jew nor Glen.
tile, butby civilized men"
Baron Nirsch is the third and last tx
his name and family who, from the ~.
ginning Of this century, have played Z
leading part in the European world Of
finance. Tie heired from his father, sht
Vienna banker, 40, 600, 900 forms, whisb,
in building Turkish railways and w5sf;
Ottoman loans, he has Occupied. The
baron il a ~strikingly handsome man q
about 55. Whether Ac il a believer o,
an ~agpoetic, al Europe can Tell thai BIT
10 one who loves and pities his fellow
men.