The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22
BY A. R. HOWARD.

teaching in Bombay, offer to 1aoVsEn- msnt Rs. 10.0o0.O0O (ss,5o0,ooo) towards the creation of Central Science Tn. stitute on modern lines. to be named after me. to be open to all students and not confined to students of any indi- viduaI college. >and to be located near the present University of Bombay The offer has been accepted by the GoV- ernment.
 The Times of India says: The mak- nifcent gift of this well-known mer- chant-prince of Bombay, MT. JacoD Sassoon, for the establishment or the Central Institute of Science in Bom- bav. will be hailed with delight and gratitude as an important aid towards a satisfactory solution of the problem of scientific education in the UniVer- sity of Bambay. Living as we do Tn an age of science, 1t is painfully surpris- ing that our University has been ex- tremely back ward in its curriculum anq arrangements for scientific teachins. The two Government colleges In Poona and Bombay have been declared quite inefficient in this department by the committee of the syndicate, while tns other arts colleges have not been aoie to nut their science teaching on real ly satisfactory basis.
 Mir Sassoon comes of an interesting family. The history of the house or David Sassoon is closely bound up with the growth of commercial Bombay TOT nearly three quarters of century. Mr. Sassoon. the original founder, was one of the chief treasurers in the kingdom of the Great Sultan in Baghdad, hold ing the title of "Nasi." or prince or the land. He incurred the displeasure of one of the deapotfe pashas or ms time. Though he was successful in bringing about his dismissal he had, as conseduence, to seek voluntary exiie, and after three years sojourn at Bushire he landed in Bombay in 1851. The rising trade of the capital soon at- tracted his remarkable genius anu within a few years he came to be reckoned among the merchant princes of the day.
 An Enxerprising Trader.
 About this period, the Far-Eastern marts attracted the attention of enter prtsing traders. MT. David sent ms eldest son Elias to Canton in 1S45. and soon afterwards was successful In es- tablishing business centres In all tne treaty ports in China opened for trade to British subjects. The enormous volume of Eastern trade which the Sas-< soons then carried on contributed large ly to the gigantic fortune which they butt up This continued until 1854. when old David Sassoon died, and In 1888 his eldest son. Elias, started busi- ness under the style Of E. D. Sassoon and Co. His eldest son Jacob took ms fathers place in China. and developed the old business to such an extent that the firm soon had three branches in China, two in Japan, three in England. three in India. besides branches in the Persian Gulf, Baghdad, Germany. Amer lea, and even Africa. After the death of his father in 1880, Jacob transferred himself to Bombay, as the headquar- terg. and was materially assisted by his brothers, Edward and Meyer, who, moving for while between China and India, afterwards settled in England. looking after the trade with the West. It was at this time that he was happily welded to Rachel, daughter Of veal thy merchant of Calcutta.
 . The keen mind of Mr. Sassoon soon perceived tho potentialities of the local textile industry, and as early as 1855 he built shis first mill, the Alexandra MIL He has subsequently, added to it, all aof them out of his own capital the E. D. Sassoon Mill. the B. D. sassoon Dye Works, the Rachel Sassoon Mill, and the Jacob Sassoon Mill, the last being. the largest mill in India. Mir. Saasoon preserves a strong and unshRken faith in the future of this industry, notwith- standing the dark clouds which have sometimes hung upon it. In charity the family has established notable record. The David 9assoon Hospital the Elias Sassoon Lying-in-Ward, the Sassoon Infirmary and Leper Asylum, and last but not least, the Jacob Sas- soon European General Hospital. for which an additional sum of two lakhs of rupees ($s5,00O) was given by Jacob Sassoon recently, are the principal tn- stitutions they have founded for the, sick, and a lakh of rupees was given to Lord Huntington for the Central Nursing Fund. They have also con trfbuted. towards the educational pro- gress of the people in the Sassoon Reformatory, the Sassoon Mechanics Institute, the Byculla Sassoon High School, a lalxh and a half devoted to- wards the Elphinstone High School. and now the Sassoon Central Institute of Science.
 His Own Community.
 As a Jew MT. Sassoon has not for gotten the claims of his own commun- ity. He had built and maintained syna- gugues in Bombay. Poona and Hong Kong. He has provided schools for them, of which the principal one, the high school in .Byculla, was recently endowed with two lakhs of rupees. Be- sides these, separate funds are provided for giving relief to the needy and the disabled. Amid all his care for the sick and suffering, he and his have not escaped their share of trouble. A ser ious affection of the eyes has prevented him for many, years from taking his share in the social and public life of the day. His wife has been a perman- ent invalid for a long time. and his only child died in infancy. Naturally of retired habits, these misfortunes have made him somewhat of recluse, He is intensely religious, and his sim pie piety and benevolence are in striking contrast to his colossal for tune and high poFition in life.
 The Calcutta police have been ac- lively engaged in the investigation of an extraordinary attempt to communi- cate with prisoners in Alipore Jail. A kite was flown over the prison, where it dropped. As it happened it fell into the hands of the jail authorities who found thereon a message intended for the prisoners connected with the bomb conspiracy. For some days before his execution, Khudiram Rose was engaged in writing a bulky autobiography. On the night before his execution he put this in an envelope. directed 1t to Babu Kalidas Bose. valSil of Mozufferpore, and handed 1t to the jail authorities, with the request that after his execu- tion 1t might be handed to the vakil, who was his counsel. The vakil has applied for 1t, and correspondence is going on between him and the jail au- thorities The curious announcement ! is made that Babu Kalidas "out of sheer curiosity" has preserved in a bottle a quantity of ashes collected from Khudiram's funeral pyre, ''noSbe-