. Christian herald and signs of our times . d. The Baron, knowing how heavythe task must be at that time, placed twoand a-half million dollars in the hands oftrustees, to be applied as they deemed bestfor the benefit of his people. It is the in-terest on this capital sum which supportsthe institutions in this country with whichBaron Hirschs name isassociated. The late Baron wasa Bavarian b vbirth. Thoughsome doubt hasbeen raisedboth as todate andplace,most au-thoritiesagreethat h ewas bornin Mu-nich i t h erw a s aw mer-chant in warded for this and similar services bv theord
. Christian herald and signs of our times . d. The Baron, knowing how heavythe task must be at that time, placed twoand a-half million dollars in the hands oftrustees, to be applied as they deemed bestfor the benefit of his people. It is the in-terest on this capital sum which supportsthe institutions in this country with whichBaron Hirschs name isassociated. The late Baron wasa Bavarian b vbirth. Thoughsome doubt hasbeen raisedboth as todate andplace,most au-thoritiesagreethat h ewas bornin Mu-nich i t h erw a s aw mer-chant in warded for this and similar services bv theorder of nobility which, with his large for-tune, descended to his son. The youthwas sent at the age of thirteen to Brusselsto be educated. Various circumstancescombined to make the fouryears he spent brilliant abilities secured him a highly con-fidential position in the house, and he wonthe hand of the daughter of the seniorpartner. The fortune Miss Bischoffsheimbrought him, added to the wealth inheritedfrom his father, gave theyoung man the. THE LATE BARON DE HIRSCH—SCENES IN HIS NEW YORK TECHNICAL SCHOOL the cattle business, who, like his more fa-mous son, had a genius for succeeded so well that when in 1869, theKing of Bavaria was in financial straits,the cattle-dealer was able to furnish himwith the funds he needed. He was re- the end of his life had little of what is or-dinarily understood as education. Attheendof the Brussels episode he was sent to Lon-don as a clerk in the great banking houseof Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt. Hirschnever became a partner in that firm, but his BUILDING A MODEL COTTAGE IN A TRADE SCHOOL. start in the financial world that he needed,and his own genius did the rest. His bril-liant master-stroke was the acquisition ofthe ruins of Dumonceaus Bank whichcollapsed in 1866. In a few years afterHirsch obtained control of the assets he re-stored the bank to its former credit andpower as the chief financial institution ofthe Belgian cap
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