PRINCELY GIFT TO CHARITIE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 12 January 1907, Page 4

PRINCELY GIFT TO CHARITIE

I£loo,ooo TO CELEBRATE WEOOINCi. I Mr and Mrs BischolVshcim, to commemorate their golden wedding, at Home last month, divided SIOO,OOO imiong various charities. According to the Jewish Chronicle, ;.-C2().0U0 will go to .Jewish charities, and the remainder to undenominational charities for the benelit of Jews and Christians alike. The Bisciioll'sheims arc immensely wealthy and have always been most generous in their support of charitable institutions. Mr Biseollsheim was horn in Amsterdam, and is a. city magnate and banker. Jle represented, the Daneswood Consumptive Sanatorium to the Jewish community, and also the children's wing in Tudor J louse Convalescent Home in memory of his cousin. Clara Baroness de llirsch. ile is also the founder and sole owner of the Metropolitan Hospital ambulanees, s »nd one of the founders of the Twentieth Century Club. In July Inst Mr Biseliol]'shcim made an oiler to the London County Council to provide, live of cost, an electric motor ambulance, and similar vehicles later on, if the first proved a success. lie also expressed his willingness to hand over, free of cost, to the London County Council the ambulance service lie founded, and which provides aboijffc seventy ambulances distributed over the metropolis. Mrs Bischoll'sheim was born in Vienna, and has for many years been one of the most popular hostesses in Lon don, and entertained the King when he was Prince of Wales. On one occasion she had a complete theatre, with stage, boxes, and stalls, built in her garden, and an entire, company of cafe ehantant singers was imported from Paris.