Evening star., 1915-05-16
Special Correspondence Of The star.
LONDON. May .. ]:

LONDON, May D, i3l.I.
00 GOULD YOU sacrifice an inher-
MM .tanee Of sso.ooo"oo for the
W\W love of a few bugs and ami
" mails? Would YOU be chasing
rare specimens of zebras and ostriches
and fieas about the world when few
hours day spent in chasing the elu-
sive dollar in London would have as
sured you fortune that would make
all except a handful of men through
out the world jealous?
OF course. you wouldn't: yet there is
q man in London who has done all this
and does not regret it. He is Lionel
Walter Rothschild. the rev Lord Roths-
child and because he would not con
Germ himself with exchange and finance
and company promotion and the other
pastimes of the financial world but
spent his waking hours among his
excelled collection OF animals at. firing,
his late father has cut him off with
paltry $4,000 year. leaving the rest
OF his gigantic fortune and the partner
ship in the immensely powerful house
Of Rothschild to his second son.
liz that historic square mile OF Lon
liveliness is distinctly observable
Throgmorton street is agog with ex-
citement. Threadneedle street is gasp
ing. Lombard street is lifting its aris-
tocratic eyebrows For the king is
dead-the king of high finance in Great
Britain-and a new king reigns in his
stead And. wonder of wonders. the
erstwhile heir apparent to the throne
. hz
cession to more than the empty title.
cur OFF in tact. with what is in effect
mere pittance IN favor of younger
brother of whom the man in the street
previously had hardly heard more than
inc name
The monarch OF 6nanCe who is dead
is OF course the late Lord Rothschild,
aead of the vorld-rcnowned family OF
fnanCiers, whose combined assets are
saId 10 he no sezs than four hundred
million pounds sterling, Or two billion
dollars I.orn Rothschild's death was
unexpected--we had been hearing from
day to day Of the part which he and
his two almost equally famous broth
ere. Alfred and Leopold. had been play
ing financial councillors to and
hackers Of the government in these
xtressful days-and the question that
financial magnates asked one another
when the news came vas this: What
new cha pter in the romantic history of
the house Of Rothschild will be opened
now that it's head is man as unlike
any Of hts predecessors chalk is
unlike cheese. man to whom the
science OF high finance is a dull thing,
indeed. compared with that of zoology
a man. in fact. who openly admits that
he finds pursuing bugs and unearth-
ing fossils infinitely more interesting
than corralling the almighty dollar,
or it's European equivalent?
For the new Lord Rothschild, second
baron of his line. and baron, too of the
Austrian empire. is, Of course. none
other than the former Lionel Walter
Rothschiid. whose one enthusiasm in
life Is natural history, who has sent
one costly expedition after another to
the uttermost ends of the earth to Sc
cure specimens of some rare living ami
NAL or the fossilized remains OF some
extinct or prehistoric one. and whose
wonderful private zoo AT Trinr in
Hertfordshirs where the principal
seat" Of the Rothschilds is located, has
made it's remarks ble owner world
famous.
w IL was Of course, w.ho acquired an
island in the Pacific ocean for the sole
purpose Of breeding giant tortoises. OF
which the Tring 200 boasts some re-
marka BILE specimens: he IL was who
issued Wonderful book on extinct
hirds. few years ago. which IL COS,
100000 and many years Of labor t6
produce. he il was who sent scientisl
10 The cannIbai Islands 10 ransacb
then. At the risk Of his life. for rare
.pecimens Of beasts. birds and bugs
q nd who offered $4,000 for perfec'
specimen Of the arctic flea. and actually
IA ID THAT sum Tor & rare butterfly from
ECUADOR. and whose collection Of sucI