The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-16
BY La MAKaUIsE DE roNrEyoY.


~ ARON JAMES ROTHSCHlLD. who
~ has Just arrived in this country
with his kinsman the Hon. Neil
Primrose, NJ. p, second son OF
Lord Rosebery. whose wife was Miss
Hannah Rothschild. is son of Baron
Edmond Rothschild. and has Inherited
from his father, who belongs TO the
French Jockey Club. a pronounced
taste for the turf. Edmond Roths-
child, like his brother Gustaye. and
the late Alphonse de Rothschiid, IS a
son OF old Baron James Rothschild
who played so important u role in
Partisan life during the reign of King
Louis Philippe, and of Napoleon Ill,
being indeed the founder and chief Of
the French branch of the firm IT was
he who purchased from the first Ma
poleon's Minister of Police, Fouche,
Duo d0trante, that beautiful estate OF
Terrieres. in the outskirts OF Paris,
which We'd with Eompiesne and st.
Cloud in the splendor OF its entertain
ments during the Second Empire, Prin-
cess Pauline Metternich being a fire.
quent guest: and 1t was there that
their headquarters during the greater
portion of the siege OF Paris.
1t is to this old Baron James Roths-
child, that is to say, to the father of
his thtrty-two year old namesake now
in this country, that France owes most
which he furnished the money. at a
time when railroad enterprise was re-
sarded with misgiving by most finan-
ciers. In fact. he built the first rail-
Paris and st. Germain, and was like
wise the creator of the Great North
ern Railroad, which extends from the
metropolis to Boulogne. Calais, etc.
Gustave is the youngest of Baron
James's sons: and in addition to being
nj tod n HI N IN : a.
tic motorist, and can boast of pos
sessing the finest gallery of engravings
In existence. His home in the Eau
bourg st. Honore Is, indeed, the Mecca
or every one who knows anything about
prints, or who takes an interest there
in, and In addition to engravings, the
house is flied with rare paintings, an
tique bronzes, and the most wonderful
collection of ancient manuscripts
There is one feature about the Roths-
TO mention here, in connection with
the visit of Young Baron James. 1t
Is the rule which the Rothschilds make,
never to appeal to the courts, or to
the police, In case OF those who have
defrauded the firm in the slightest
degree. OF course they are, like every
other banker, occasionally the victims
of dishonesty. But neither the police
nor the public ever hear about the
matter from them. This has always
house, who take the ground that 1t
is better to bear the loss in silence
than to disturb popular confidence IN
1.-the safety of tho concern. by allowing
Iit to be known that It's treasures are
not adequately safeGuarded Thus,
nobody would have learned the fact
that the estate of the late Baron Ma
thaniel Rothschild, of Vienna, had Deen
defrauded of more than two million
crowns, by Julius Schuster. one OF the
M 50 tr,,c tod 0f tho firm had
! 1t not been for the fact that the man
had the Incredible impudence to threat
en- the firm with proceedings Tor ms
dismissal expecting, apparently that
notoriety at all cost, would lead them
to make still further pecuniary .sacrl-
! fees in order to secure his silence.
In this he was disappointed, When his
frauds We're revealed he was or course
instantly dismissed, and the legal ad-
visers Of the Rothschilds urged them
strongly to proceed criminally against
the man. But in spite of the extent or
the defalcations, they determined to
adhere to the time honored rule or
after Schuster had drawn public at
tention to his dishonesty by commence
ing lawsuit (Which was at once
thrown out of courD, they refrained
from setting the criminal law in mo-
Ition. against him
A number OF interesting London
landmarks familiar to the American
tourist are about to disappear, in ordlr
to make way for an extension Of the
Imperial Hotel. No, &C Russell Square,
built in 1860, was the home of the
pronigate Lord Baltimore, and is OF
interest to all readers of Thackeray,
as having been the residence Of the
sedleys, where Becky sharp, the Soul
less, graceless, she-devi" of Vanity
Fair" first exercised her fascination
Bogley wallah. The house hns been
but little altered in the passing of the
years The fraat room m the first
|upor still retains Its Adams ceiling,
1.-THE designs OF which are in the Soane
Museum and nine fine pictures. as
cribed to Angelica Kau ffmann. 1t is the