The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-24
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stood at the corner. Thus the street
gets it's spelling-the pirate was
LATTE, while the de Rothschild Bor-
deaux vineyards are Chateau-Lafite!
Even down to the first years of Ma
poleon III it was a highly fashion
able street. Eugene shone at Bar
oness Evelina'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 six a. m. to win a bet.
In the great old garden the three
sons grew up, entering the bank at
a youthful age. Baron James saw the
railroads coming, when statesmen
like Theirs said, "They will never 90
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' contract in those early
days of doubt In 1S43 the French
government said to them:
aid us to build the Northern rail
road; the treasury is empty. We
will furnish the right of way and
build the roadbed-estimated at
S7OOJ.OOO. You will lay the rails,
build the stations and furnish rolling
stock-estimated at 6O,00O,OOO In
return you shall run the railroad for
forty years and take all profits-if
there be any. Then we will pay you
back your rolling stock at a valua-
ton"
1t was all but signed when the dep
uties refused the repayment clause,
and when the Rothschilds waived il
one cry went up from the Paris
press: IN. de Rothschild solicits the
privilege of running himself" (De-
bats, July Is, 1S43)
Fast friends with the Orleans fam
lily, the Rothschilds were dangerously
conspicuous when the revolution IT
1S4S broke out. Their Suresnes cha
teau was pillaged by the same mob
that sacked Louis Philippe's Neuilly
chateau. But Baron James had pa
pers enough in one portfolio to bring
the revolutionists to terms.
1t is scarcely known. In 1S4i,
under the settled government, he had
undertaken a loan of two hundred
and fifty millions for public improve
ments. Some seventy millions had
been paid over, and between Novem-
Der, when the loan was conceded, and
February, when the revolution broke
out, Baron James could certainly
have placed it all with the public at
a profit of twelve and 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 de
lighted? Or could it have been sim.
pie probity?
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 al
five per cent-half a million more
than he might have made by saddlinl
France with a loan that might have
been wasted.
When Louis Napoleon came in he
needed money, but he preferred an
other sea of financiers, the Pereires
Millauds and Mires, when a whole
new system of finance, the Credi
Foncier Credit Lyonnais, Societ'
Generate, etc, with their popular SUB
scriptions.
Baron James looked on and bough
real estate. The supernatural fore
sight of the Rothschilds beheld a new
Paris in Baron Haussmann's work o
opening great avenues. In the Etoil'
quarter he bought land immensely
and Alphonse, the son he had chosel
to succeed him, followed in his foot
steps.
The ROthschiIds never go by pri
mogeniture. Ability only counts.
a son shows none, they give him