The herald., 1895-11-11
TWO"K AFFIR" KINGS


Barney Barnato, whom those African
gold and diamond mine enterprises des.
isnated under the head Katfirs have
brought together. 1t IL they who practi-
cally rule the Kafir market in London
and Paris. No greater contrast could be
imagined than exists between these two
men, who are inseparable. Sir Edgar 10
o remarkably handsome man, standing 6
feet 2. Barney Barnato 10 barely s feet 2
in height, fat, squat, short-legged. and az
amusingly ugly and vulgar looking as
Sir Edgar IL elegant. Barnato is az res.
tless as piece Of quicksilver on a plate
OF glass; Sir Edgar has all the dobon-
naire. languor- affected Incidence of man.
ner of former officer OF the Colostream
Guards. Vincent comes from an old
country family, not particularly distin.
auished, but nevertheless favorably
known, and having as Its ohief his elder
brother, q baronet. Barnato, on the
other hand, sprung from no one knows
whore.
Vincent was educated at Elton, served
in the guards fJr q couple OF years, join.
I'D Mr.. Goschen as private secretary when
that states man was am passador at Con.
stantinople. When Egypt was reorganized
by England after the close Of the Arabic
insurrection IN 1882 Vincent was selected
by Lord Dufferin as the man best suited.
by reason of his excellent knowledge Of
tho Turkish language and by his success
in dealing with Oriental dignitaries, to
represent the English governm ent-that
is to say, the protecting power-in the
council Of Egyptian ministers. He re-
ceived the title OF financial adviser 60 the
IL oue
II was arranged that tho Egyptian cabinet
could pass no measure against his veto.
After holding this Office for four year,
he resigned it in order to assume the post
of governor Of the Ottoman bank OF Con-
stantinople, which practically controls
and which affords him far greater OPP
portupities of u oney making than his
berth at Cairo.
Some Eve years ago he obtained tho
hand of one of the beauties Of the London
season, Lady Helen Dunoombe sister of
the lovely Duchess of Leinster ana daugh-
ter of the Impoverished Earl of Fever.
sham, and settled upon her on the mar.
riage day q sum in her own right OF ST.
100000. Since then he has purchased
Esher court beautiful country seat in
Surrey, once belonging to Cardinal VOL
sey, and for which he gave 500, 900. al
though he is known to have spent nearly
four times that amount on the place. Sir
Edgar's title comes to him through the
knight commandership of st. Michael
and st. George, conferred upon him by
the queen when he left Cairo. lie is
about ~ years Of age. fair haired and fair
mustached, with big. Slumbrous blue
eyes. He spent few weeks at Newport
in 1892, and Is so CAREFUL of his hands that
he even wears lavender colored suede
gloves when playing cards or checkers,
q game of which he is very fond.
For baan ho nf
Barney Barnato. His education seems to
have been that OF the London street arab,
and he mado bis way out 10 Africa in his
18th year. His twentieth birthday found
him entering the gold mining town OF
Kim berley, with just Sc in his pocket.
How he has made his money since then,
or realized the immense fortune with
which he is now credited, and which
places him high among the multi-mill-
IonaIres OF the age, no one exactly knows,
and he himself observes considerab bic
amount of mystery about the matter.
About year ago. when the London
market was tagging, principally because
OF perfectly natural suspicion OF
yankee rails" there came reportf Of in
creased yields of gold in the South Afri-
these was the announcement of the forma-
ton OF COIN panies to develop new mines,
and in less than month trade in
''Kaffirs" became tho most exciting fea-
ture of speculation and the "Kaffir cir.
Gus" the talk of Spectators far and wide.
1t was at this stage that Barney ap.
peared. He plunged heavily in pure
upeculation and made enoromus win
nings. Then he branohed out and formed
a company under the name of the "Jo-
hamn.,Uu,g GOn'odHt;d 1nvsstmsn.
thing like So, ooO,o 1t was enormousl;
successful. Other great deals followed,
and presently the "Barney shares' and
the Barney groups became the chiei
topic OF interest to stock dealers. His
anipulatIon of these properties and
their shares in the marketswould fill the
soul of the late Jay Gould with envy.
Recently Barney established tbs Bar
nato bank, capitalized at twelve and
half millions. 1t was announced that all
the shares would bs taken by the Bar
worth would be reserved, and that q
'limited number" would be sold. The
trading in these shares developed one OF
the most exciting scenes ever witnessed
on the London market. For time there
was an almost indescribable frenzy. and
the shares we're bid mp to moro than four
times their face value. They subsidized
later, but tho confidence of the public Is
we'll attested by the fact that they are
still quoted at over three times their face
value.
Barney is building an enorm Gus palace
In Park lane, which will he decorated by
great artists. While this Is building he
lives in Earl Spencer's town house, and
hourishes in an atmosphere lately cOnse-
Grated by the presence Of Poyntzes and
Seymours.
There are stories OF his bathing Ia
champagne and hundreds OF tales of
analogous character, which. it must be
confessed, do not appear SO very mprob-
able when one hears the man talk about
himself.
Cold shouldered in London by all the
best people alike in the city and in socie-
ty, blaakballed at the clubs where his
name was put up for election. cut by the
magnates OF the turf in spits of his law
ishing large portions on race horses, any
one who was anybody preferring to cast
his lot with his great competitor, Cecil
Rhoades, who has the prince OF Wales.
| the duke of Fife and the Rothschilds at
| his back, he was about to betake himself
| elsewhere when he happened to meet
WITH that very wide-awake young finan-
| cier, Sir Egdar Vincent, VINO. speedily
seeing the difficulties with whion Barney
| had to contend in London, took him
| over to Paris, where, after judiciously
| manipulating the press, he launched him
| upon the financial and social scene OF
| the French capital.
With COM endnble caution Vincent re-
Trained from doing this until he had
satisfied himself, by means of a trip to
South Africa, that Barney Barnato's
mines and enterprises were not mere
castles in Spain. He went out as tho