. Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany . table drink of His Majesty theKaiser and King. The Kaisers fondness for Prince Fiirstenberg issometimes ascribed to the fact that the Prince isa captain of industry on a gigantic scale. Inassociation with a distant cousin of His Majesty,Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen,Prince Fiirstenberg heads a combination disposingover resources aggregating £100,000,000 of partnership has been christened The PrincesTrust, for its octopus-like ramifications are com-parable to the colossal communities of interestwhich the late Mr
. Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany . table drink of His Majesty theKaiser and King. The Kaisers fondness for Prince Fiirstenberg issometimes ascribed to the fact that the Prince isa captain of industry on a gigantic scale. Inassociation with a distant cousin of His Majesty,Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen,Prince Fiirstenberg heads a combination disposingover resources aggregating £100,000,000 of partnership has been christened The PrincesTrust, for its octopus-like ramifications are com-parable to the colossal communities of interestwhich the late Mr. Pierpont Morgan and the othermoney-kings of Wall Street have made Princes Trust is a force in the German finan-cial world, and its exalted connections make it apower to be reckoned with when it inauguratesone of its periodical campaigns of conquest. PrinceFfirstenbergs personal fortune has been estimatedat £20,000,000 ; Prince Hohenlohe-Oehringens at£10,000,000. Five years ago their various interests28 * >-, » » » ).., .) 1 >. • • • • *, r • • • PRINCE FURSTENBERG were pooled and have since expanded to incal-culable dimensions. To-day the Trust owns orcontrols hotels-de-luxe, department-stores, theatres,restaurants and omnibus lines in Berlin and Hamburg,vast coal-briquette, zinc and potash mines inRhineland and Silesia, sanatoria and gambhng-palaces in Madeira, tens of thousands of acres offarming and forest lands in Germany and Austria,and a great realty and building syndicate in , the Trusts activities find outlet in the\ownership of the German Palestine Bank, withimportant railway and commercial concessions in |the Holy Land, and it wrested control of the German Levant Line from influential shipping interests atHamburg. The first check encountered by thePrinces Trust in its all-conquering career was itsrecent failure to secure a charter for convertingEmden, on the North Sea, into a great emigrantharbour, from which it wa
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