"AS RICH AS A JEW."

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 272, 23 November 1870, Page 2

"AS RICH AS A JEW."

The rich Jews of New York have much inherited wealth.and as they almost invariably live within/; their incomes, a Jewish family is certain to get rich. The murdered Nathan had been making money steadily ever since he.was a youth, and only death pufi a stop to his-, affluence. To his name may be added that of the Harts (Anglicised from the Hert); the Noes, the Rimsous (famed as pawnbrokers), the Bernheimers^ the' Levys (and the Levisons), the Moses, the Einanuels, the Isaacs, the Solomons, the Davids, and other scriptural names, all noted for wealth. The rich Jews do not dash in the fast way for which "Young America" is notied. The only spoi'ting man of high rank that I know among them is August JBelmont. He lives in grand style in Fifth avenue, and keeps a fine stud of finely, bred horses. He has been for thirty years the head of a banking house which bears the name of Rothschild, and is the American agency of the great European capitalist. Belinont is too fashionable to bend himself to ■ the letter of Hebrew ordinances and customs. He is not one of the " stricter sort," and wandered so far into the Gentile world as to marry the daughter of ,an American commodore. The affair made great' excilment at the time, and the fashionable world was quite indignant that the niece of Pepry on the Lakes should marry Belmorit. The bride, however, had a deed of a Fifth avenue mansion to start with, and if the course of domestic life has not subsequeii: t tly run smooth, the world has not discovered it. The Jews are masters of the gold market, as- any one may know who enters the noisy room where the commodity is daily sold as an article of merchandise.