The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-15

seniority head of the whole Rothschild family, married hs cousin, the oldest daughter of Lionel, son of Nathan.
 In a few instances, however, Roth schilds have married outside the fami- ly, and have even wed Christians. Han nah, the daughter Of Mayer, on March 20, 1878, married the Earl of Rosebery. and became the first aYowed Jewess to wear the coronet. On December s of the same year. Marguerite Alexandrine, daughter of Charles of the Frankfort house. married the Due de Gramont. Four years later Bertha, a younger sis- ter. of Marguerite, married Prince Alex ander of Wagram. Hannah remained true to the religion of her forefathers. but Marguerite and Bertha became Christians.
 There are now twenty branches of the Rothschild family, and the London, Paris and Vienna houses are all man. aged by descendants of Mayer Anselm. Lord Nathaniel de Rothschild and Bar ons Alfred and Leopold are associated in the London house. Barons Alphonse, GustaYe, Edward, Adolph and James are the chief members of the Paris firm, and Baron Nathaniel Mayer is the fam ily's leading representative in Vienna. The Frankfort and Naples houses have ceased active operations.
 Among the peculiar traits of the Rothschilds there is none more potent than their superstition. When Baron Alphonse de Rothschhild married, he chose for a residence the hotel in the Rue St. George which had formerly been the property of M. Pescatore. The house bore the number 1S, and as soon as the baron saw the ominous figures he ordered them torn off, nor did he take his bride across the threshold un- til the hated numerals were out of sight. But letters came addressed to No. 1S, and the baron became harried by new fear that legally the number of the house was still the same. Ac- eordingly he applied to the council of the city of Paris for permission to change the number, offering 1000 to the poor of the district if his petition should be granted. The council ac- cepted the proposition, and that is why the haron's house in this street is to-day marked by No. Il bis.
 The riotous acts of the old commune will inspire such fear in the Rothschilds who live in Paris that several of them l still guard their treasures. The costly paintings, statuary and vases which adorn the home of Baron Alphonse are so mounted. that after being exhibited to friends they may be swung back in- to the wall, at the touch of a spring, ] and there locked up in steel safes.
 Baron Alphonse has been so frequent ly threatened with death that he never i appears in public or at the track, where he has a string of horses, without a guard of secret detectives. In 1885 l he received an explosive letter, which had been loaded sufficiently to blow him up had he opened 1t After published interview denouncing labor organiza- tions Baron Alphonse was especially threatened with anonymouse letters. Among other things he said:
 Only the idle good-for- -nothings de- sire the eight hour day. Serious men, fathers ,ot families, work as long as they think necessary for their own and l their children's needs. There is much loose talk nowadays about the danger of so much capital in the hands of a few men. This Is all rubbish. Some men are richer; others are poorer. To-mor- row this is all changed by vicissitudes which nobody can control. It is the money which circulates that fructifies, the money circulates with the same risk to all It Is money which one lends in confidence for so-called good things which does not always turn out to be good. All that applies to the great as l well as the small ventures.
 "Frighten and threaten capital. and 1t 1 vanishes, Capital Is like water. Grasp 1t violently and 1t slips through your fingers; treat it gently, dig a canal in 1 which to lead 1t, and it runs wherever 1 you will. Capital Is. a country's for \ tune. It represents the energy, intelli- gence, thrift and labor of the people. Capital is labor. Apart from unhappy exceptions, which seem to be unavoid- ahfe cll shares in the peoples capital
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