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childs without reason. All are taken to
be worth an unprejudiced first impress
sion.
A young Frenchman with ideas like
these stood by the deathbed of his father,
an honorable old army officer, who had
played a good role in war and COM
mune.
Keep honor whispered the dying
man; and handing a small, fiat book,
added painfully: Bank your spare money
with them. II ever in a tight place.
draw. but never without need-in honor"
1t was a Rothschild checkbook. Few
in Paris have seen one. Later the young
man had the account transferred and
made q small deposit. The French sell
dom draw checks; he drew none. Time
passed First. he put away small spare
sums with the Rothschflds- Then he
grew hard up and took out. One day he
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BARON JAMES,
Son Of Am1chel the Faithful, founder
of the Paris house In the days Of the
great Napoleon, who tried In vain to
get the electors trust millions away
from him. He dominated every
French government until death, In
1853.
the first year of the use Of collodion and
are among the first photographs on pa
per IL Paris. Not even the family, I am
told. possesses copies of them.
1t shows them at the time after the
three de Rothschild brothers had been
created barons of the holy Roman en-
pire by the Emperor OF Austria Three
sons had been born to James and Eve
lina-Edmond in 1925, Alphonse in 1927
and Gustave in 1920.
They were already installed in the Rue
Lafitte mansion. Similar house and Of
fices Of the Banker Laffitte stood at the
corner. Thus the street gets its spelling
the pirate was LATTE. while the de
Rothschild Bordeaux vineyards are Cha
teau-Lafite! Even down to the first years
OF Napoleon III 1t was highly fashion
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bonds were letting them go for 80 francs
cash. James Rothschild trusted France.
In those days no Frenchmen rallied at
the young Hercules who seemed to have
come to uphold the financial credit of
their country. In $780, for example, when
Charles x fell and Louis Philippe came
in, between July IL and December 81,
French 3 per cents varied between Sc
francs and 10 francs. The French peo-
pie. with their riots, revolutions and
mania n ma.hot for change, ran them down. James
I should say Baron James I have re-
Gently discovered two small carte-de-
visite photographs of himself and his
wife Evelina. legendary for her social
kindness. They were taken by Disderi in
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back the overdraft and had a small credit.
Time passed. His finances did not i'm
prove. yet he was economical Now and
then he overdrew and paid back, until
day came when, having not paid back. he
had an immense need to draw again.
Trembling. he made a second overdraft
and got the money He was ashamed.
Once or twice he tried to explain to those
clubmen. but they failed to understand
or deemed 1t OF no Importance. So. being
pressed. he came to overdraw a third
time. and a fourth, fifth. sixth. seventh.
He has now stopped counting. He does
not attempt to solve the mystery.
Did the Rothschilds owe some favor to
his father? He had never heard of SUCH
Had his grandfather been a friend OF
Baron James? There was no tradition Of
fabulously rich old men. Barons Edmond
and Gustave? Or pride OF a house that
takes no more deposits not to refuse the
check Of an old depositor? He thinks this
latter theory the most likely.
In the palace of the head of the Vienna
house there hangs a painting which shows
their beginnings. 1t is the original dyptic
done by Maurice Oppenheim in 1851 and
of which copies may be found wherever
there is a true Rothschild. l have tried
in vain to get a photograph of it for
years. Perhaps when 1 hand over my
photographs Of Baron James and his
wife Evelina l maye be favored.
The first scene represents the Elector of
Hesse-Cassel. in presence only Of his
wife and little daughter, hastily and Sc
cretly confding to his humble factor.
Amschel Mayer-the first Rothschild-his
treasure OF s5OOO.OOO In gold to save it
from Hoche and the French army when
they took Coblentz in 1904.
The second scene shows the five sons of
Amschel Mayer paying back the deposit
with interest to the heirs of the elector
in 1923. The secret of the Rothschilds
lies between these two scenes and glows
industry, fidelity
When Amschel Mayer established his
third son, Nathan, as his agent In Man
chester and London. about 1907. he con-
fided to the young man of only twenty
three two kinds Of capital. OF their own
money there was perhaps 100000. but OF
the electors there was ten times that
and more.
So 1t was when James, the youngest
son. was sent to Paris. The great Ma
poleon smelt those millions. Politically he
desired to seize them as belonging to the
elector. Young James was only twenty
and there he sat with his capital, wait
ing for the reconstructive period bound to
follow on Napoleon's fall. He mad prince
ly connections. won by the electors en-
thusiasm. and q coterie of merchants in
many cities. who later became mere
Rothschid agents.
Secret police reports OF the empire just
published give their names and there is
one note in the hand of Napoleon: "Investi-
gate to the bottom the affair Of the Roths-
childs and the Prince OF Hesse.''
Napoleon went and young James Roths.
child stayed-and loaned the government
of the restof alton 500 OOO, 600 at the mo-
ment when French holders OF 1Oo-franc
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if the kaiser happens to be at home he
probably will be unable to resist an in
spection Of the future Yankee admirals.
Perhaps he will treat them to a grand
review of troops. but Commander CoontZ
informs me that their reception by any
royal parsonage during any stage of the
trip is improbable.
But it is safe to say that the kaiser.
even if upon his vacation, will issue an
imperial edict opening every place of in
terest to the young visitors and ordering
his military officers to escort them to
every part of the city worth seeing. Army
through Inter den Linden, with its four
stately rows of lime trees, and let them
down at the Royal Palace. the Schloss.
the museums, the Royal Library, the Ar
tillery School and, particularly. the Inn
perial Naval Academy, where they can
compare notes with the German midship-
men. The spending money allowance
during this tour OF Berlin will probably
amount to so.
Anchors will be raised at Kiel July II,
and after a three-day sail through the
Kattegat and Skagerak, then up the
North sea, the squadron will pull up. on
the 18th. at Bergen. Norway. where the
National Museum. the great fish wharves
and another cathedral will be seen and
whence excursions will be made to the
picturesque fjords. mountain railway
passes and neighboring towns. eight days
in all being spent in the land of King
Haakon, whose capital lies on the oppo-
site side OF the peninsula.
The greater part Of eastern Europe will
next be coasted in ten-day voyage to
Gibraltar. where the whole force of mid
dies must turn to and coal the ships, but
where they will also have abundant time
for diversion during the six days ashore.
Cadet crews Of oarsmen will here con-
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with entrance on the Rue Berryer. The
vast property beside the British embassy,
whose park runs to the Champs Elysees,
belongs to aged Baron Edmond. Night
ingales sing in its century-old trees.
Aged Baron Gustave and his wife live
in the Avenue de Marigny with their
daughter, married to Baron de Lambert.
They built the place for the de Lamberts.
and now take their comfort in 1t with
their grandchildren. Their son. Baron
Robert, lives in the Avenue Friedland.
OF ALL the most aistocratic match was
made by Marguerite Alexandrine. daueh.
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EvELINA DE ROTHSCHILD,
Wife Of James. . baron Of the Austrian
empire at the time she gave her gar.
den parties at the present bank man
sion In the Rue Latte. This and
the photograph Of Baron James
were two Of the first printed ON
paper I'm Paris, in the year after COLI
lOdiOn began to be used. They arc
very rare, and ii II said that even
the family does NOT possess copies
Of them.
ter OF Baron Edmond. who married the
eleventh Duke OF Gramont. Prince oe
Bidache So, her son. Armand de Graz
mont, born in 1879. IL the young Duke
de Guiche-uneal descendant and repre-
sentative Of that magnificent and chivaI-
rous young confidant OF Louis XIV In
his amours with La Valliere. the
.'Guiche" of whom you read IN Aexan-
DIRE Dumas ''vicomte de Bragellone."
Once Clutches uncle was stopped by q
militant socialist as he quit his palace
You want to divide upr' laughed Baron
Gustave. "An right There are 90 many
million people in France. and have 50
many million francs. Division shows
your share to be II francs. Take II, and
so in peace" STERLING HEIII0.
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BARON ALPHONSE (Second Genera
tiOn).
Second SON Of Baron James, but made
his ability. Under his palace, on
the Place de In COncorde, are said to
be the subterfanean secret apart
ments, where q large family could
live comfortably for months during
revolution or Invasion.
estate. The supernatural foresight of the
Rothschilds beheld a new Paris in Baron
Haussmann's work Of opening great ave-
nues. In the EtOile quarter he bought
land Immensely, and Alphonse, the son
he had chosen to succeed him, followed
in his footsteps.
The Rothschilds never go by primo
geniture. Ability only counts. II son
shows none. they give him fortune and
let him play. Few are like this. They
work under their chief: and Alphonse
became chief OF the French house with
out q word. Baron James. dying in 1865
left him to steer 1t through the perils OF
Prussian war and commune.
French credit was at q low ebb. Eight
months before Napoleon HIS fall. in re-
turn for the right to emit 100000 francs
Of legal-tender notes. the Bank OF France
had promised to discount all treasury
orders: yet these same treasury orders
were being discounted in London at 18
per cent.
In the Chateau of Ferrieres. which
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X X
Spending money will be given them out
of this same allowance, and a uniform
amount, to be invested in such wares as
souvenirs or photographs and innocent
refreshment for the inner man, will be
distributed for each excursion, the total
sum depending upon the place visited and
time consumed. And that the lads may
share their fun equally. no spending money
from parents can be carried on the cruise
unless unusual circumstances may move
the superintendent Of the academy to
make special dispensation before the ships
leave Annapolis.
The squadron will put out Of Queens
town June q for six-day sail through
the English channel. Strait of Dover,
North sea and Kaiser Wilhelm canal to
Kiel. the station of the kaiser's Baltic
fleet and the seat Of all institutions be-
longing to the German navy. Here will
be much to see of an instructive nature
and considerable ceremony will be OBJ
served. for the Germans are sticklers for
etiquette and discipline. Formal calls will
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able street. Eugenie shone at Baroness
Evelfna's garden parties and those of the
Turkish embassy next door. Across the
street the witty Nine. Emile de Girardin
had her salon. On the boulevard corner
was the Maison Doree restaurant. from
which Cora Pearl walked out as Lady
Godiva by am. to win bet.
In the great old garden the three sons
grew up. entering the bank at a youthful
age. Baron James saw the railroads COM
ing. when statesmen like Theirs said.
''They will never go in France" Baron
James sent youthful Alphonse to study
railroads.
Now that Edmond at eighty-seven is
still head Of the company Of the east
and Gustave at eighty-three is still head
Of the greater company of the north
some cry against the Rothschilds' con-
tract in those early days Of doubt In
1S43 the French government said to them:
Aid us to build the Northern railroad;
the treasury is empty. We will furnish
the rights of way and build the road
bed-estimated at S7.0OoOOO You will
lay the rails, build the stations and fur
nish rolling stock-eStimated at GO, OOO-
GOO. In return you shall run the railroad
for forty years and take all prof1ts-if
your rolling stock at a valuation
1t was all but signed when the deputies
refused the repayment clause, and when
the Rothschilds waived it one cry went
up from the Paris press: m. de Roths-
child solicits the privilege of running
himself" Debats, July Is. 1S43)
Fast friends with the Orleans family.
the Rothschilds were dangerously con-
spicuous when the revolution Of 184s
broke out. Their Suresnes chateau was
pillaged by the same mob that sacked
Louis Philippe's Neuilly chateau. But
Baron James had papers enough in one
portfolio to bring the revolutiontsts to
terms.
1t is scarcely known. In 1847, under
settled government, he had undertaken a
loan Of two hundred and fifty millions
for public Improvements. Some seventy
millions had been paid over; and be-
tween November. when the loan was con-
ceded. and February, when the revolution
broke out, Baron James could certainly
have placed it all with the public at a
profit of twelve and q half millions Yet
he refrained. He had his doubts, and the
revolutionists found the treasury empty.
Why did he refuse himself that profit?
To please his friends, the Orleans, who
were delighted? Or could 1t have been
they might have jailed him. but they
preferred cash. So they gave him a
guard of honor, and passed word that
the Rothschilds were charming people
Baron James looked round His friends.
the Orleans. were gone for good, and his
interest in stability was great. So he
loaned the new republic thirteen millions
at per cent-haif a million more than
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he might have made by saddling France
with loan that might have been wasted.
When Louis Napoleon came in he need
ed money, but he preferred another set
of finanoiers, the Pereires, Millauds and
Mires. when a whole new system of
finance. the Credit Foncier. Credit Lyon
nais, Societe Generate, etc, with their
popular subscriptions.
Baron James looked on and bought real
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Baron Alphonse inherited from his
father, Bismarck and the German en-
peror accepted from Jules Favre the
name of the French Rothschilds as guar
antee OF the monster five thousand mil
lions indemnity. And when the loan of
Pierpont Morgan's father helped on its
payment, Baron Alphonse. at the head
OF a syndicate Of bankers. gathered to-
German stocks and bonds-to save crush
ing additional conversion charges!
France astonished the world by her
quick recovery. Soon she astonished even
more by the gigantic French enterprise
OF the Panama canal
The Suez canal had succeeded, and the
Rothschilds had only recently bought up
the khedive's and Credit Foncier's stock
in 1t. You would have expected to see
Baron Aiphonse at the head OF the Pan
anna enterprise
He was absent.
They are old-fashioned high" bankers.
They have their principles Pass the
smashing Of the Union Generate; 1t was a
battle OF giants, and the Rothschllds be-
lieved that they were eventually safe
guarding French savings. Since the
death OF Baron Alphonse they continue.
taking their participation in all kinds
of gilt-edged loans and enterprises, but
their speciality always remains the prince
ly connection.
Two aged men Of eighty-three and
eighty-seven-Barons Gustave and Ed
mond-are at the helm.
The young Frenchman whom they per-
nit to overdraw knows two other cases,
quite curious. OF two families who
are old depositors. In one case the son
and heir had involved the family honor
by his signature. in one of those enter
prises gotten up to ruin hackers. In the
other a young German, gone back to his
military service In Berlin, had struck his
lieutenant and would be court-martialed
for his life.
In both cases the distracted family ran
to their old-fashioned bankers--the Paris
Rothschilds. They told their tale to the
club of sympathetic, gray-haired idlers,
the Berlin court-martial whitewashed its
young prisoner and set him free, while
the Partisan swfndlers gave the other
back his signature ana papers.
They are two old men who have long
arms.
1t is not known which of the third gen.
Grafton they will choose as captain.
Baron Henri, best known to the Paris
public. seems to have no great taste for
finances.
Some say the new chief is Baron Ed
GUARD, son OF Alphonse. who lives In the
Champs Elysees. Others prove 1t to be
Baron Albert. his brother. at present in
Vienna.
No one lives in Baron Alphonse's vast
square palace or the Place de ia Con-
ing apartments are said to exist. Baron
Henri will inherit his mothers magnifl-
cent chateau and grounds in mid-Paris-
triangle formin- an entire Paris block.
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7 is good to bank
with the Paris
Rothschilds - even
when you have no
money.
Nowadays they
refuse all new ac-
counts. Only old
dep o sit ors are
kept on.
1t is a strange
bank, in the Rue
Jamtte, without
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pom a ten-week
cruise to Ireland.
Germany and Nor
way 500 gleeful
A m e ric an lads.
tucked away in
three big battle
ships, will sail
Monday next. the
jth instant, at
Uncle Sans ex-
expense.
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WILL Enjoy Memorable

WILL Enjoy Memorable
" Cruise to Ireland, Ger
many and Norway, Including
Visit to Morocco-Will Visit
Cork and the Wondrous
Lakes of Killarney, and Will
Have an Opportunity of
Kissing the Famous Blarney
Stone-In Germany Will See
the Kaiser's Great Naval Sta
ton at Kiel and the Sights of
Hamburg-Will Spend Sew
eral Days at Berlin and Eight
More in Norway, Visiting the
Fjords and Picturesque Seen
ery-Cup Race to Be Pulled
OFF at Gibraltar, Whence a
Trip Will Be Made to Afri-
can Coast-Lots of Hard
Work Sandwiched in Be-
tween Periods of Pleasure
Will Coal Ship, Scrub Ham
mocks, Scour Clothes and
Fire the Engines.
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be exchanged between our officers and
those of the fatherland. who will enter
tain each other at dinners, whereat the
Germans will toast President Taft. Com
mander Coontz will toast the kaiser and
the Germans will return the courtesy by
responding to the toast Our Guests"
None of the cadets will be present at
these feasts. but they will be represented
at reviews and other ceremonies by
special details selected by classes and
ships. preference being given to the
seniors.
Fourth of July will fall upon the day
after their arrival at kiel and will be
celebrated by special ceremonies aboard
ship, as we'll as extra items upon the
menu of the mess.
During the nine days that their good
ships remain anchored within range of
the monster guns of Kiel's frowning fort
resses the cadets will be taken upon an
excursion to Hamburg, that famed cres-
cent city Of the Elbe, whose great inland
harbor has room for 400 ocean-going ships.
Here will be viewed the old fortifcations,
now transformed into promenades. the
fine quays, planted with trees: the art
gallery, Lombard bridge. the botanical
and geological gardens and handsome no.
tells, churches and theaters, as well as
the picturesque villas upon the right
bank of the Elbe.
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WAYS of a Great Bank
w ing Family-Story of a
Young Man Who Did Not
Know His Luck-Sons Take
the Places Left Vacant by
Their Fathers-Great Finan-
cial Schemes of the Roths-
childs-How Success Came
to Them.
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ship or shore, all of the time. and, fur
thermore, the commander of the squad.
ron. Commander r. e. Coontz. is a sea-
dog of long experience, who has sailed
the deep in nearly a score of ships. He
is a Missourian, forty-seven years old
WIZ has commanded relief expeditions in
the Arctic, fought through the war with
Spain and the Philippine insurrection. has
served as executive officer of the Buffalo
and Nebraska, and who is now the COM
mandant of cadets at Annapolis. His
flagship will be the Iowa of over 1900
tons, which was Fighting Bob Evans
ship in the war with Spain. Her captain
will be Commander B. F. Hutchison. while
MARVEL will captain the twin ships In
diana and Massachusetts. each OF over
10000 tons.
There will be about 165 middies aboard
each of the battleships, whose crews will
be reduced to skeleton size to give the
cadets chance to do real work. Of the
kind they will have to supervise after
they have blossomed forth as real officers.
They will have to scrub hammocks,
scour clothes and coal ship. and each
week day on board will be devoted to
practical instruction In seamanshtp. ord
nance and navigation or steam and elec-
the high sea itself are rocking their ships
they will be given practical instruction
in the handling Of small boats under oars
and sail, the use Of lfeboats and life
buoys. the handling of turrets and big
guns taking of latitude and longitude.
the use of dynamos and the wireless tele-
graph-in fact. all the arts of the mari
ner and sea fighter.
Although enlisted coal passers will de-
liver the coal in the engine rooms, de-
tails of cadets must take their turns as
firemen and water tenders, and certain
Of them must also do service as dynamo
tenders and telegraphers. But at the
same time other middies will enjoy the
thrill of acting as officers, first classmen
being permitted to serve a week at q time
with such ranks as officer of the deck.
junior officer of the watch or signal
uuartermaster; second classmen as assist
ant mate of deck. and third classmen as
lookouts, and SO on
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The only occasion during the cruise
when the lads will be permitted to stay
away from their ships overnight will be
during a two or three days visit to Ber-
lin. Here they will put up at hotels. un-
der the chaperonage of their officers, and
special trains will be chartered to take
them from Kiel and back. This trip to
the German capital will be the most in
teresting incident of the entire tour, and
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awoke to great need. Counting up his
balance, he saw that it lacked 400 francs
OF sum he must pay in honor. Dare
he overdraw?
He went to the Rue Laffitte, up the
vast, silent stairway. to the melancholy
club. Engaged In chat about the opera
by two charming gray-whiskered idlers,
he at last found opportunity to spring
the question: Would l dare to over
draw 400 francs?'
You have an account with Rothschild.
Use 1t. said the blue-eyed one with the
red nose
Are there no blank checks in your
book? inquired the pale brunette, with
solicitude
Desperately the young Frenchman
wrote the check. passed It in-and got
the money. In two months he had paid
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name or sign. 1t seems an old mansion.
like the others, rented out in flats to 81
lent tenants. A polygiot PORTER at the
great entrance seems altogether in the
service OF the Austrian consulate-an
American went there three times for his
auto-tryptic and imagined it to be the
only business Office. Aged Baron Gus
tave is consul general-to please Franz
Josef.
Up the great stairs. where twenty can
walk abreast. it looks like a mournful
aristocratic old London club. vast stone
pillars. magnificent balustrade, relics of
the first Paris Rothschild. Baron James.
and his wife Evelina.
For fifty years the sons kept the gar
den OF their mother. with its huge trees.
IL id-business-Paris. Only the cutting
Il street destroyed II.
Speak English, ard you are led to sa-
ms where a retired British cavalry
,soncl with soft. rich hrogue and time
ling sociability makes you forget your
Csiness. while silent clubmen wander in
nd read the papers You are being
,Iudisd
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Speak French. and you are let to wan
der In a spacious club hall. Melancholy
elderly gentlemen, perfectly dressed.
reen boring themselves, smoking. yawn-
ing. studying the stranger. Soon, ono or
two will take you or for social inter-
course. in some littie bi3ou parior. In the
end, they will discover your business.
The reason is that few enter Roths-
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Reveille will sound the rising hour at 6.
and there will be routine duties until
breakfast. at 7:3O. At $50 will commence
inspection and muster, followed by the
"setting-up" drill with muskets and other
exercises until dinner, at 1890. after
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. June /, 1911
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PARIS, May a. 1911.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.