Nevada County picayune., 1891-08-06
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 talked of s25 ,000, ,000.
 The Vienna branch of the house of Rothschild estimates it's wealth at what in American coin would sum up fully s7O, 1000, 1000.
 Albert, the grandson of old Meyer Amschel, is the head of the house, which still bears the title one of the five famoss founders gave it, ''S. von Rothschild. On the old stately building in the Rconstrasse this sign rcgIdcd, Is still to be seen.
 Albert lives magnticicntly in what is known as the third besirk of Nien- ma, next to the palace of Fuerst Schwartzenfeld. Six children bright en the famous Rothschild palace in Vienna, the youngest hardly 5 years old. In the summer time the family live at one of their four famous coun- try houses in the suberbs of Vienna.
 These are kept up, however, throughout the entire year, and the annual expense of each is placed at 200 1000 marks.
 The Paris and Vienna Rothschilds stand high, socially. But perhaps the greatest eminencc in the presence of most serious obstacles has been obtained by those members of the family who settled in London. The story of old Baron Nathan has been often told, but its romantic incident and the splendid financial genius shown in his career are ever fresh and striking. Baron Nathan was born in Frankfort l1G7, and in l77s his father sent him to London thence he went to Manchester, where he began his career, with an actual capital of S5OO. His genius is sufli- cientlv shown by the fact that in five years .imes he had Sl LOGO, ,0O0. Nathan was speculator.
 What the Earrings, the Goldsmids, the Couttses and the Hopes did not dare to try he had the nerve to un- dertake. Like the Paris Rothschilds, he secured large gains by supplying money to the armies in the field, He purchased Wellington's drafts which England's Treasury for mo- ment could not meet, and renewed them to the Government. This gave him his first pull on the Government business.
 The rise of the ROthschilds in English society began with the re- moval of the political disabilities of Lionel Rothschild so that he could take his place in the House of Con- mons as its leading Hebrew member. He was elected as early as 1S47, but did not occupy his seat because En- glish stupidity persisted in demand ing the Oath lon the true faith of a Christian. He was elected eleven times before the odious proviso was removed.
 The Italian house which was es- tablished in the early days of the Rothchilds at Naples was ably con- ducted bp Charles Rothschild, but was given up after the incorporation of the Two Siclics with the Kingdom of Italy.
 The parent house in Frankfort, on the corner near the new synagogue, between the Zeii and the Judengrasse to casual observer might seem the abode of bankruptcy, so ancient are it's equipments, so worn it's desks, so dusty it's counters.
 But a little observation reveals the signs of it's treasures in piles of bills, bags of coin and packets of bonds, and yOu breathe amid its dinginess the air of gold. Though the Roths- childs have more than thousand millions, they are willing to make on ly one-eightb of one per cent ol very small amounts for they know that from the very slenderest beginning arose their fabulous fortunes.
 It is perfectly natural that some of the vast Rothschild wealth, which is diverted into thousands of channels in Europe and Asia, should find it's way to America.
 Fifty millions is the figure at which shrewd ones in Wall street place the American investments of the Roths- child family. This is based largely on the securities known to he held by the Belmonts and by one or two other well known Rothschild houses for foreign investors.