New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-20
BARON GUNZBBRGs SUICIDE.


Baron Solomon Gunzberg. who committed suicide
the other day by blowing out his brains at MS
o,,sa IN Paris in consequence, II is said. or dsas
trous specuIations in sugar is the son OF that Won
5erfuI old Baron Try Gunzberg, who after acqu4i
ing colossal fortune in Russia, partly IN gram d
Odessa and partly by financial deals at 81 FeUetS
b,ry netook himself to Paris to enjoy MS Wealth
.-,5 rlaved a very prominent role in the french
cari+aI toward the close of the Second NapoIeonlc
er7pire his entertainments at his palace IN Ine uo
de Tilsit exciting amazement by their lnoroiia :.
Iux,,rv- even in that era of insane extravasance'
-, ,,s,o, x.ae in those days the most gorgeous
a. Paris and the magnificent Gobelin tapestries
~Anresen+inC scenes from the life of Don OulAole.
ware celebrated throughout Europe and source Oh
,nordinare envy TO the Empress Eugene
While the Giunzbergs, who have remained Iipe
principal Jewish banking and grain house III rus
sia had no foothold in society at St petersburg 4.
and we're barred from court. yet the melnoeis u
the reisning house of Russia never olsudllIeu -
accent their hospitality at Paris and the vi So
T1rla and Grand Duchess Vladimir IN particular
-,,oro g. the habit Of frequently attending their
.,Iandt5 shooting parties at their big game pre-
serves in the neighborhood OF Versailles
tn cunzhergs do not, however. seem TO nave
.+arteined the same regard for the financial honor
- +beir name as the Rothschilds and other great
Jewish houses OF finance in Europe TOT 49,
+a1y-a Years ago remember one of the brothers OF
Baron salono1 who has just cornrll''eu . -
falling at Paris for enormous sum- "lIhou' 'Al
other members of his 1arnlIN ColLLlis " Us
ra crisis IN his affairs ascribed largely 10 ms
--o c-a-,cA in connection with the Parlslan hai4-
IrorId and there is on record his having Dill OF
500 600 merely for the lingerie OF the IoVely oe
,oo,5aina Alice Howard. Baron Jacques Gunzoers,
tt-o,,ob +ba threats OF his father to withdraw al
his interests from Russia managed to obtain
commission in one Of the crack regiments OF the
prard at St. Petersburg But. as in the case OF
Baron Bleichroeder IN similar instance at Bernh,
the other officers of the regiment by means OF
T,4,oo+t and analogous measures. made life so in
toIerabIe for him that he was glad TO resign
Another of the brothers Baron Horace Gunz-
berg undertook to prove to the late Car the base
1assnass Of the popular belief prevailing in Russia
that Jews were as a rule unified for agricultural
labor and disinclined thereto. by setting apart
10 600 acres Of his estates in the province OF Bess
,r,bia as a settlement for Jewish agriculturlsts
And inasrnI1ch as the persecution OF the Jews by
the Russian government has been mainly due TO
The conviction that Jews were injurious to aSrl-
culture the staple industry Of the empire ana
that nv esta hlishfng themselves everywhere as
traders and money lenders they Slapped the re-
sources and reduced TO poverty and ruin the
neasantry engaged in agriculture. the baron ar
ranged that on the 10, GOO acres which he had set
anar+ for his experiment the Jews should be re-
s+ricted exclusively 10 agriculture and deoarred
from trade and that, should stores, money lend
ing establishments or dramshops be found neces-
aerv they could only be kept by Gentiles. It Is
greatly 10 be regretted that before this most in
Teresting and important experiment could be
brought TO a conclusion Baron Horace died. and
not long afterward the late Car himself was gath
cred 70 his fathers. and the matter was allowed to
5-oD MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.