Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-03
LEFT $5,OOO,00O TO WALES
Baron Hirsch Proved His Friend
ship for the Prince.
1T is OFFICIALLY ADMITTED
Whether the Request Includes an Alleged
Heavy Indebtedness or Not Is
Yet Unknown.

New York. May "A London special
to the World says:
Baron Hlrsch left to the Prince of
Wales by will 100000 (S5,OO0,00O).
The World correspondent is able to an
nounce this upon the authority of lead
ing official in ono of the royal establish
ments-a Knight Commander of the
Bath-who, by reason of his official as
well as personal and social relations with
the Prince of Wales, is in a position to
know the facts.
Common rumor has had 1t for a long
time that the prince was heavily in the
barons debt. Whether the bequest is
exclusive or inclusive of this alleged in
debtedness cannot be known, perhaps,
until the will is read.
The baron certainly and frequently
was of great financial assistance to his
royal highness. In return the prince
gave him constant social countenance,
even going to the baron's vast shooting
domains in Austria a few years ago on
a visit.
The young kaiser was also invited
there, but with contumellous contempt
refused to go. Report has ever since
mad 1T that the prince pressed his nephew
TO go, and that the kaisers refusal was
the nfSt cause of the Well-knoWn i'll feel
ing between the two.
A person who processes to have known
the baron intimately writes of him.
TO his enemies Maurice Hirsch was a
seiI-Seeklng person, who sought to eX-
change some of his ill-gotten gains for
the smiles of pretty ladies and the patron
age of royalty. The real man under
meath the mask that covered expression
and emotion of all kinds estimated Lon
don and Paris society and the princes
set at their true value.
almost an aSpatic himself he rppa rd-
ed with contempt the habits of the COM
Portable classes. He refrained from smok-
ing, and was accustomed to drink nothing
stronger than little red wine and water.
Upon the indulgences of the idle rich he
was bitterly satlrical although to see
him at the head of his own table in the
Rue de FElysee or a either of his castles
at Eichhorn or ST. Johann-no one
would have gathered that he was essen
TALLY different from those whom he en-
tertained."
This same authority says:
"He was a pronounced socialist in his
personal convictions. He once remarked
to the writer after listening to the
harangue of some stump orator in Hyde
Park:
"I agree with every word that man
has said. will talk to him.
And so he did, and an excellent thing
it was to see the 'not-have and the
have colloquying over the wrongs of
the people.
Baron Hirsch never entered a syna-
gogue after his marriage, and he had no
more feeling for Judaism as such than
for any other form of faith but he was
racially proud of being Jew. He felt
for the sorrows of the prosecuted mil
lions in the cars dominions with a pas
sionate sincerity of sorrow which was
shown by his acts. For wealthy Jews he
had a positive dislike. He credited them
with little more than the love of money.
Tt is scarcely too much to say that he was
an anti-Semite in the sense of despising
the characteristics of the cosmopolitan
financiers who play so great part on the
iridescent surface of society,""
1t is generally believed that the
baron's death may make complications
in more than one European court If his
executors are obdurate in calling in the
money he lent,