Show l Frankfort on the Main Deserted by ii the Ho i to American n A CITY OF BANKER 4 Independence Founded the Biggest Fortune of Europe e Special of the Demel Newt by Frank G Carpenter Copyright 1903 by Frank Q G Carpen Carpenter ten ter terI I on the tho Maln The f noth doted closed their Frankfort bank and removed Its business to Paris The head ot or the Parla branch was here 1 not long Ho HI said ho no reason renson for tor blinking banking on sen en and that the tho could be bo done dono by the child agents In De and by their Louses bouRes at aim m l London This means tile the breaking up ot qC the establish establishment ment upon which tho great Grent fortune was founded a 11 fortune which It II supposed to amount to more than ono ana anaI I LIllian billion dollars 1 HANK HANKI I I rodo down this to the Jew I quarter where tho Iho original began business along bout about a tho time of ot our war of ot Independence It Is num bored Juu Jow alley It iliff Is a 11 lean build buildIng Ins Ing of ot tour four stories and an nn attic to 10 nn extreme Its 8 windows tiro uro of ot small pones panes act sel In black gantlet sa and Its lis tour four front doors nIl ate the same us usi i when the leading Ica hankers bankers of at tho clime came here helo to 10 burrow borrow money It Is situated In the Iho Jewish quarter and ur rounded by buildings us old as Itself There ate many marl old clothen men near neal nearby by and Jewish children swarm the street I am told that the Iho hourc hou o still belongs to tho Iho and that I It u stay In the th family AND A D TUB fn It Is 18 not nol generally g known that the United States had much to 10 do with tho thoI fortune Wo have hae sold the i family tens of at millions of ot dollars ollars worth of oC our bonds bond and lilt Its different branches i I 1111 0 enormous Interests In Industrial America They The took million dollars worth of ot bonds when Cleveland vas as president and I venture to say SIY they stilt still own romo FOrno of ot our best rail railroad road rond stocks They have hao Interests In our copper mines and gold mines minos and also In our leading Industrials I Huch uch Investments have been made luring during went years ears The beginning wan wall I more than a u century ago 00 When Wh George Georgo III 11 fought against us In the war of ot otI I Independence he ho employed about and or their services ho paid One ef ot the little monarchs the I enormous sum 1110 of ot twelve million dollars This was William IV Landgrave nt f one of ot the thriftiest rulers of ot his time j This money was still In hand when 1 Napoleon I an hili victorious marches over Euro and 1 In order to 10 prevent t Its lis capture and consequent con loss William IV V gave gae It 11 over to tho core care of at Mayer Maer Maert Ameel Amsel Rothschild As the story goes t the money was brought In a carriage ono one night to his old house handed over The loan was IS kept kepi secret and y It was E years before It was re ra repaid paid with Interest at lit the then low rate 1110 of at 2 vcr per cent ent per annum J It Is said that kept his hist t money In a 0 big safe pate no arranged that It could rould be lowered raised like a dumb wolter but BO 10 that when dropped there was no sign of at Us III absence Ac According According cording to 10 one report when the Iho safe was dropped to Its lowest point It was hidden In a well of ot water and as the Iho l contents chiefly gold coin they were not Injured Injure thereby TUB FIVE However this may be old Mayer Am Amsel leI sel did not let the money lie Idle Ha was a Investor and ho put It so that It bred brill faster than limn Australian Ho already had an excellent knowledge of ot thu leading financial In of oC l At the tho age of ot It Ills 18 said he ho knew every bu busl l ness neu man In Frankfort l and just what he was Now Willi as older and hal had had much experience In banking bank In He lie invested the money so safely that ho was abl able to 10 return ret It Intact when It wag called far tur and this so pleased hU his Imperial creditor that he became hm hili banker thereafter Ho mode made millions and was uns able ahle to start his live sons In Inan an nn International bonking business The eldest Anslem was wall kept kepi at al to 10 succeed him The Th second Salomon went to Vienna ond establish cd a bank there which Is IR still one of the of at the world Nathan Majer came cam to 10 England and n ban at al Manchester which ho after afterwards wards worda removed tw to London The rhe fourth son lion founded a hou houe e at 01 Na Nil Naples ples Ics and the tM fifth established one at Paris All 11 of ot these banks worked to together gether Tho children of or the Iho tons lions Intermarried and the has hns hasas as n tar far as liS leen kept Intact The Tha descendants of oC each son lion th Ir h Irown own property but ns far as ns financial Investments In are any ono one can rely upon the other to help him TilE THE ENGLISH Today the tho English branch Is perhaps the most Important the Naples NuNes and the IhO Frankfort houses house been be n This IS rounded founded by b Nathan Mayer who was a cloth merchant In Frankfort a n part of at his life Much of ot hili cloth was brought from England the trade In certain patterns was W II controlled by b ono man who had crusty business me holl and who for cor some reason rea on or other refused to 10 deal with Ith oung The re ro suit was wall that went wet It to Man ManChester Chester to buy bU goods gooda He at once saw the opportunities for Cor money making there and Ami stayed ed and opened a bank The bank paid He lie moved mod It II to 10 Lon London London don and did dl better and at tha Iho end of ot i five fiC years was worth a million dollars SIX MILLION IN ONE DAY DAYne He ne then Ihen went Into speculation on a abroad broad scale Ho bought and sold stocks and at tho time of the battle of at Water Waler Waterloo loo made six million dollars In one day out of oC advance news of oC Napoleons de defeat feat lie He sot sat on Ills 1111 horse and watched w the battle and as ns Boon toon as he saw that Napoleon was defeated ho rode rodo post posthaste haste hoslo for tor tho Iho English channel He Hp had relays of at horses galloped night rind and day He paid to 10 a boatman boalman to 10 car carry ry him across to England und then he took the horses and an galloped on to Lon London London don When ho came camo on the stock ox change O he looked sad and In strict con told tol l how Blucher had been do teAI to men meo mention tion Napoleons defeat later loter on The result was wall that stocks went lent down like liken a n shot and through hid se st secret cret agents was able to buy enough to tomake make this sum now HOW TO JET GET RICH This Nathan Rothschild had llad several I m j of Great Advice as to Government G Lot L ns Amounting to Billions A At i Visit to a Great German Dye Facto Y t Which Builds Houses For Its and Git s Them rhem Free Fre Soup 1 J t 1 1 I tH H Hr H H l Hoi H t r T to J x n I f d h ti J t I i l 1 J t y 4 t I 1 oo r I 1 X I It IX t t X i I oo t oot I I IJ J I Photographed for or th News by Frank Frnnk G Carpenter I 1 HI I 44 I H H r THE BOURSE THE STOCK ANOE OF f FRANKFORT principles ot oC business success SUC RS He lIe be believed I loved like Andrew AndreI Carnegie In put putting ting your eggs Into Inlo a single basket laskel and watching the basket At one of ot his din dinners ners a 0 guest said to 10 him that he hoped the Rothschild would not be bo botond fond of ot money mOM and business to 10 the ex exclusion of ot more Important things Said Rothschild HOlh I want them to mind and amI soul Boul heart body bOlh everything to business and I think this Is the only way In which they can be bo happy I believe bellee In stick slick stickIng slickIng Ing to one business If Jt you OU have a t brewery stick to you will soon be i the tho greatest brewer In England It you are a bunker do the same and amI It you are oro broad enough in your our Ideas you youcan youcan can get o 0 the top ot of the th banking bus business iness thing you must and a IId that tha t Is Iii you yuu have ba 1 got gal to be bolt bold and cautious to In make a fortune and that when you have It It Will take lako 10 JO times as much wit nit to 10 keep tt It OB as to make It Again he said I make mok It a principle never neer to have hlo anything to 10 do with an unlucky place or an unlucky man I 1 11 ery cl er men who hao lIot shots to Ci I never Their J Ice good but It canna f et on how can I tor breeds With 11 YE n I Tho noth hM 1 n led mil Ilona In at ur Ih ot world y Ink Inken en bond bushel nud oUI b t l They hae l more tha billion dol lallI oC t past y placed tor II In III Ir rut 11 Ill tor the Ameri American can they hod 1 at auch business but the will It no more can now rals mane In a ot ways were not a halt ago Her bunk swallow up t II ment bonds and there Ig 18 ot out outside side capital The United U II In Inthe Inthe 1 the banking business the he can easily ily ly send or bring money across the water waler arc aro still pow powerful po erful but their power It lion on the wane f AN IFO HT ON TIIE IAIN Frankfurt has long Ion I boen noted as n financial center It has haB more marc batiks banks In proportion to 10 Its lis population than any other city t Ot f l and It II has hIlS been be n a school for tor the bankers of oC the world There lire are many man bankers In the United States who have hae come from here hore and Indeed II It Is said that It you find a Ger German man blinker banker anywhere on earth you can Scratch his back and the Ih Frankfort col bril will Is It Is noted for tor Its rich men and It tins a u score or orso so 80 of at millionaires who vho live on their In Incomes comes and whoso hoso Investments aro oro scat all over oer the world Frankfort looks wealthy and modern It has wide streets lined with new buildings notwithstanding It was CUI an all Important point at the time of ot Charle A I and a Roman Homan military station nineteen centuries 8 ao klO In the middle ages agel It was a II great fair town and It Vila then Ihen that It probably tell fell Into Inlo tho banking habit which has paid 10 o well our national capital I II Intonated 1 In Its new union railroad station which Ui II to cast CAlt millions t I II only a n financial but Jut It has already n 11 station which Cot cost It has hili a new new t lie tow a II anew new nI stuck exchange and a 11 larne num number number ber of ot new hotels Its Ita tho and the compare I favorably with those of ot Deri Dt In and anil Co Colon lon and U It U II noted for tor Its It I and public gardens THU INVASION On of ot Its 1111 alth and an busi hul business ness n connections r Pi i forms forma n ngoat goat headquarter far tor th Ih In Invasion Many Man kinds of our are old The Harvester company compau ha haa nn an office on e and the McCormick have Also AlIa their agents here he American sewing machines and o iU are found In lit dif different ferent terent PHI I t of ot the olty and there ll II one Olle In Inri run store which sells only American h tI During mv stay atar I hv have tl at th Uti lIt f Leopold CIllIa Co Codye CoIe dye Ie works hl ih are arc the largest of at tho world und had a chat with Its 18 manager While there I J was a taken through the Ihl room containing hundred nf ot clerk In each room were desk from Gram Rapids attached to CM Ath teak desk bv by a hinged shelf to Jt that It mold b 00 when not want wanted ed Will was American Amerlean type typewriter writer The Tho of ot the cor correspondence WAS wa In III Ibe nIl file oases from and nl the manager M a ho he them to 10 me said he could not M e how the had ever been I en RbI able to 10 do business without the un flit file 81 system tem Said lal l he You Yankees are You things so 10 that thai one lne man can do 10 the work of ot three We formerly formell kept kePI our let t n in copy and hourc In III looking up one series of oC corre Now the letter and the of ot our answers are flied filed away 1111 together tot In ono one of ot these ua i and we oan onn fine lIno the whole thing at nt once now TUB MAKE MAIm I YI H 1 It wat through s h this man that Ilal I was able to 10 go through II Ih one of ot the great dye dyt of ot I oM ft Co have hae a big bl dye within a n tel few miles of ot Frankfort Their factories cover many acres thy they employ In the neighborhood of 2000 Of The firm Is III well known In n the United States It has a II house In New NewYork NewYork York another In one In Russia and a fourth nt ot Bombay Until within a n few years ears ago the chief dyes of ot the world como came from Eng England En land Then tho Iho Germans learned the secret of t their manufacture and Im Improved proved upon It 11 They The sent out travel travelers ers er alt all over Ocr the th world and adapted their goods to the needs n s of ot different lo 10 localities They now practically monopolize tho Iho trade trado anti and you find lInd German everywhere In Asia South Amer America ica North America and Australia The will toke take none but bUI German col orf t least I I told laid HO KO during my Iny last visit 10 0 that country much the same samo with tho East Indians and other peoples of or the tho orient orientA orl tit A GREAT DYE FACTORY Taking a carriage I J drove droe with Mr I Hassler ono of ot the em loye AI A ou r I out to the factory It of ot about 1 20 ncr of ot buildings building with high I smokestacks above aboe them Everything Ii dirty and anil I might I olto say II smelly for tor OB all you es establishment I the air it II laden lad n with odors O JUrs The streets between th buildings are filled with tubs and hogsheads of ot ous oua compounds and everywhere you ou look you ou we ee wine olne new IIII on o 1 Gi with lIh or rather ld men watching It II Here the men man am ora lifting great rea I barrels of liquid and pour four InK It into vats halt half filled with other liquid which In Is being so stirred by ma me m q Hint It seethes 1 and anI bubbles like 04 a Itch caldron At A the new stuff In the Ih color changes It Molina bt a light Uhl yellow ellow a brilliant scarlet or an blue Tho Know Juit how ho much Is needed and If It there ll Ie too tou much or too t o lunt th Ihl caldron of ot dy dye may b be spoiled polled j O TUB TUE CHEMICAL T TAs As AI I went those work 1 learned that Ihal III It an nn o t t science Everything l II the th outcome of 01 i b experiments and the Ihl work IR td on i el and chemical chern leI rb There orb about 80 SO cm eln Irne l played In the laboratories They test K the materials used and experiment on f t new nI combinations When a man IU Ills fl d p C anything It Is IN nt ot once onre the h to 10 the tho firm and patented und ld 1 i I to 10 the contract all such discoveries bo boo long lone to 10 the Quen GUen then Ihen tells me that new aro aj al piled for tor every week Icek and I uh that people la a mono mon JODI of ot some branches of ot the 7 t These chemists go to 10 all parts paris Off ot th the world to 10 study the dyes des there i lonn lor J t They analyze the native d dyOll wi and v hm In Ie them I curi Not Nol only the firm but all Herman Inns firms very er particular as to te x 1111 v their contracts with el The I ot ou laws hV here largely cly In n favor tn or of t the fi IiI or 01 employer and n 1 clerk has little uh lib unity to 10 go Into Inlo an establishment to of at I 1 learn the I and start an business of ot his own I cr tact provider that t the shall ej ed not 1101 hire himself elt to 10 firms engaged In hrs the same business for tor n certain num lIuni ber Jer of ot years after aCter he hI has haa left JeCI and that he Ie shall ahan not establish h a 0 competitive e r cli branch I o 0 Such Huch contract aio alo made mude with most moat and business J secrets ate clUe cate Cot Col tUlly fully protected b bla lOUSES HOUSES Fan POIl her herIn herIn In this factory I found the tho same |