The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-24
Ways of Great Banking Family
Story of Young Man Who Did Not
Know His Luck--Sons Take the Places
Left Vacant by Their Fathers---Great
Financial Schemes of the RothschiIds--
How Success Came to Them.

Did the Rothschilds owe some
great favor to his father? He had
never heard OF such. Had his grand
father been a friend Of Baron James?
There was no tradition OF it. Was
it the whimsical joke of two fabu-
lousy rich old men, Baron 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 1861 and of which con-
les may be found wherever there is 4
true Rothschild. I have tried in vain
to get a photograph of it for years.
Perhaps when I hand over my pho
tographs of Baron James and his
wife Evelina I may be favored.
The first scene represents the Elec-
tor of Hesse-Cassel, in presence only
of his wife and little daughter, hast
lily and secretly confding to his hum
BILE factor, Amschel Mayer-the first
Rothschild-his treasure of S5,000,Oo0
in gold to save it from Hoche and the
French army when they took Cob
lentz in 1894.
The second scene shows the five
sons of Amschel Mayer paying back
the deposit with interest to the heirs
of the elector in 1928. The secret
of the Rothschilds lies between these
two scenes and glows in the family
device: Concord, integrity, indus
try, fidelity"
When Amschel Mayer established
his third son, Nathaniel, as his agent,
in Manchester and London, about
1897, he confded to the young man
of only twenty-three two kinds Of
capital. OF their own money there
was perhaps 100000, but of tie
electors there was ten times that
and more
So it was when James, the young
est son, was sent to Paris. The
great Napoleon 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, waiting for
the reconstructive period bound to
follow on Napoleon's fall. He had
princely connections, won by the
electors enthusiasm, and a coterie
of merchants in many cities, VINO
later became mere Rothschild agents.
Secret police reports of the empire
just published give their names, and
there is one note in the hand II
Napoleon: Investigate to the bot
tom the affair of the Rothschilds and
the Prince of Hesse."
Napoleon went and young James
Rothschild stayed-and loaned the
government of the restoration $1OJ,
100000 at the moment when French
holders of the 100-franc bonds were
letting them go for fifty francs cash
James Rothschild trusted France.
In those days no Frenchman rallied
at the young Hercules who seemed C
have come to uphold the financial
credit of their country. In 1880, fol
example, when Charles X fell and
Louis Philippe came in between july
Is and December 81, French pei
cents varied between fifty francs
and seventy francs. The French PEG
pie with their riots, revolutions am
mania for change, ran them down
James Rothschild ran them up again
/ should say Baron James. / have
recently discovered two small carte
de-visite photographs of himself anc
his wife Eyelina, legendary for he
social kindness. They were taken b!
Disderi in the first year of the us,
Is of collOdion and are among the frs
= photographs on paper in Paris. No
even the family, ! am told, possesses
copies Of them.
1t shows them at the time afte
: the three de Rothschild brothers ha
been created barons of the hol
D Roman empire by the Emperor o
Austria. Three sons had been Dor
I to James and Evelna-Edmond, Dor
e in 1926; Alphonse in 1927 and Gustav
j in 1929.
9 They were already installed in tn
$ Rue Laffitte mansion Similar hous
and nfioas nf the Rankar T.afftf