Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-21

| torian will ever bo thus assisted, for he might find other things than those he was in search of, and thereby create new enigmas while solving old ones, to the possible confusion of other interests than those of mere readers of books.
 There is good authority for the state ment that the combined assets of the Rothschilds of today reach &, 000, O0O, 000, and that they control indirectly at least half as much moro. They arc the largest creditors of tho nations of the earth, and their capital is at tho back of many of the greatest corporate interests in the world, the syndicate which con- trols the Russian petroleum fields, f0r instance. and those which, under the guidance of Cecil Rhodes, control the South African diamond mines and the famous nitrate beds wrcsted by Chili from Porn.
 The. story of the origin cf this vast wealth is a schOOlb0Oll ''Chcatnut y Evc1y1ody knows hoy; thc Landgravc of Hcsso-rasscl Geairipg to save the i'm menso EoaTG5 of silver which had accu- mulatcd in lis palace vaults as tho To- suit of selling his soldiers to fight for England and Franco when NapOlcon's army invaded his territory to despoil him, sent for Mayer Anaelm ROthschild, then a money londcr in a small way at Frankfort, and ot1crSd him the use of the treasure without interest if he would convey it to a place of safety. The amount thus intrustcd to Rothschild was about $5 GOO, 900, and of this i'm mcnsc sum h. aud his sors had the free use fer eight years, after which they paid an annual interest of 2 per cent upon it until 1893, when the principal was repaid to tlae laudgrave's son and successor
 Rothscliild had five sons, and before lis death, which occurred ill 1872, he saw them established on financial thrones i'll the principal money ccnters of Europc-Ansclm in the paternai Frankfort, Nathan in London, Solomon in Vienna, James in Paris and Charles in Naplcs--whero their sons, nephows or other natural successors reign today ill their stead, except in the case of the Neapolitan house, which was discontln- ned on tho death of it's founder ill 1855, his son prefcrring life of gilded ease to the useless labor of increasing his in heritancc. Many of his cousins have initiated him in this, and all of them have learned the suporlativo value in the financial world of princely estab- lishmcnts and regal rctinucs. But every generation produces for each of the houses a Napoleon of finance who makes Elorey for all the rest, and thus the grip of the family on the purse strings of tho world is never lOOsened.
 Lord Rothschild, the present head of the London house, is naturally enough tho primate of the family, for London is the Rome of the financial world, and he is the pope who reigns in it's Vati- can. He succeeded his father in 1879 and was then known as Sir Nathaniel Rothschild, having succeeded to the bar onetey of his fathers younger brother, Sir Anthony, who was the first of the English Rothschilds to be knighted and the first Jew ever created baronet. The title of baron so freely used by the other Rothschilds is an Austrian one, derived from patents given carly in the century to the five sons of Mayer An selm.
 Lord Rothschild also inherited one of these Austrian baronies, but since hls elevation to the British poerage in 1886 it is of course secondary to his English title. The English Rothschilds are all great landowners, as are all of the race, for that matter, and most of them are passionate art lovers and collectors. Lord Rothschild has a magnificent es- tate at Tring, in Hcrtfordshire. and upon his walls hang the best pictures Rs.- and Turner to he found ontside the na- tional galleries.