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Garcia Stationery Co Ltd 124
Douylas. W. H 114 ,

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Dwyer Bros 170
Dunn, M. F 134 Galatoire's Restaurant
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Desangles J. B 138
Darre, J. M 148 Gibbons, J. T 46
Dumser, A., & Co. 144 Gayle, W. J., & Co 172
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Gulf Mfg. Co 106
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IJunbar, G. W. Dunbar's Sons 42 Green, W. B. Green Photo Supply Co 162

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Eichling. C W 160 Hotel Denechaud 104
Eble, Chas 170 Hartwell, C. C, Lynn Filters 114
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Ford, F. Codman 114
Hardie, Wm. T. & Co 32
Falk, G. & Co 30
Hitchler-Beattie 134
Favrot & Livaudais 34
Fabacher, Peter 130
Hageni, A 134
Holzer, R. G 146
Ferry, John 138
Heiderich, Martin 158
Finan, J 140
Hatry, G. T 92
Fabacher's Restaurant and Hotel 156
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Hinrichs, J. H 94

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Holmes, D. H. Holmes Co 72
Fox, the Hatter & Co 66
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Farmers' Consolidated Dairy Co. 38
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Herfartli Bros 40
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Geoghegan & Co 106 Havslip, V. B Alexandria
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Lake Charles National Bank. Lake Charles ... .

Lake Charles Carriage & Implement Co., Ltd.,

Interior Decorating- Co S4 Lake Charles 21()
Interstate Trust & t5anking- Co 154 Lake Chdrles Steam Laundry, Lake Charles. . . 2U)
Independent Oil Retininj,' Co HiO
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McKendrick, Thos 152
Magee & Dow 114
J Maxwell Co The , 82
Mandot, John, •'Bontemps" Dye Works. 118
Jahncke, F 30 Mancuso, B ".

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Johnson, F. Johnson & Son Co . Ltd 70 Mathes, L & Co .
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Miller, A. K. &Co 13()
Jensen, P. H 1 24 Melrose Dairy Farm, Miss Martha Hottinger. 142
Johnson, F Johnson & Son Co., Ltd It, 2 McDermott Surgical Instrument Co The.. .. , 8(>
Maloney. K'obert J 9f>
Moran, l^hos. J
K MuUer Furniture Mfg. Co., The
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McArdle, P. H Sf>
Kuhnert, Gus. Baton Rouge \')b
McCloskev Bros 42
Klumpp, W. F.. & Co. 114
Marion's Drug Store
Kuntz, Emile, r>o
St. Charles Mansion 1U8
Kellv. Thos J
Mims, J. C 48
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Koretke. F. H.. Koretke Brass & Mfg. Co., Ltd. 1-1(.
Moir. W. F T 50
Misse. A ug. H
Kel'ey, James M 14S
56
Morris J. C. Morris Co 42
Kearney, J. Watts & Sons 4f>
Mercier. I). Mercier's Sons
Kleindorf, S Si,
38
Klaw & Erlanger's 'I'heattes, The 'i'ulane and
N! anion& Co 98
Crescent 102
Mehle & Kausler 48
Murphy Lumber Co. The 98
Macon & Kernaghan 100
L Miller's Billiard Hall !... 172
McMahon, Patrick J 172
Kolb's Saloon K.s Manahan. L. N., Shreveport 188
La. Glass & Mirror Works, Ltd 110 Model Steam Laundry Co Shreveport . 184
Leber, Philipp & Co 84 Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke
Longshore & Co 170 Co Win. O'Day. Raton Kouge
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Lewis, H. F. & Co 78 Miller, W. W.. Baton Rouge 198
Lister, Edwin 144 Miller, H. W., Grocery Co.^ Lake Charles 210'
Louisiana Excavating: & Manufacturing Co 148 Mathieu, J. H., Lake'Charles
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Lochte, Henry Lochte Co., Ltd 144 Maurin. The Co Ltd., Donaldsonville
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Louisiana National Bank ISO .Maurin. ('has., Donaldsonville 20f>
Laux, H. J & Co 144 Menge Patent Pump, J W. Westerfield, Mgr.. 11
Louisiana Tobacco Co 70 Monroe Hotel Co C L. Bradley, Mgr Monroe
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Loubat Glassware and Cork Co Ltd , 1(,0 Monroe Paint & Wall Paper Co Monroe , 220-
Langhoff Bros 92 Mercliants & Farmers Bank, Monroe 220
Lambour, M (,§
Lacey, J. D & Co 52
Leidenheimer. (ieo H
Larroque, J. S. Napoleon Cigar Store
Sf, N
40
Long, N J 100 Newcomb, H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial Col-
Le.ihy. Geo M 102 lege 112
r^egendre, J. A., Medical Bldg. Pharniucy . 40 New Orleans Roofing and Metal Works
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Lafayette Fire Insurance Co ".

10,2 Nunn, Fred. B 34

Lemley, David 58 New Orleans Stencil Works
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L'Hote Lumber Mfg. Co 1(,8 New Orleans Railways Co ]3f,
Lake Charles Ice, Lig-ht & Water Works, Lake New Orleans Transfer, The, W.C.Faust 148
Charles 214 New Orleans Worsted Store. Geo. A. Hoffman.. 152
Lake Charles Steam Laundry, W. F. Gauthier, New Orleans Furniture Mfg. Co 2(>
Lake Charles 214 New Orleans Warehouse Co 5g
Lake Charles Planing Mill, G. Mutersbaugh, New Orleans Brewing Co t,H
Lake Charles 214 New Orleans Tent and Awning Co., Ltd 100
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New Orleans National Bank 1(>8 Rapides Steam Laundry. Alexandria 200
National Blow Pipe and Mf-r. Co , Ltd 102 Ronaldsons Agency. Ltd.. Baton K'ouge. 108
Norton. E. W 152 Rathoffs Steam Bakerv, Uonaldsonville . 202
Xicliolls Hotel, Fred. Rog-ge, Proprietor. Baton
Rou g^e 2i 14

Nicholas & Renz, Lake Charles 21li

National Automatic Fire .Alarm Co <i
Standard Brewing Co 110
Solari A M. & .i., Ivtd 110
Smith. .Marshall J.. & Co 112
o Schwab. John, Schwabs Music House (The
Connor Piano) 114
Otto. J. N. W 13S Siiarez. Antonio 156
O'Connor & Co Ltd . 142
Salmen Brick and Lumber Co 80
Quo, .1. S J 1(1-1
Schwartz. Joseph Schwartz Co Ltd , 74
Onorato. J L • . . 1(14
Shumard .\L A. & Co.. German Ins. Co 76
O Shee Bros.. Alexandria 2(0 Stewart, S. J t-0
O'Brien. Peter 58 Sell Inter. E 130
Oteri.S 50 St. Clair's Cafe, L. St. Clair 118
Ozone Spring' Water 4U
Sleekier. J Steckler Seed Co 120
(^pelousas National Bank. Opelousas 221 Simon Photographer 144
S. B.Stewart 124
Segassie A. I'. J 146
Southern Mirror WorUs . 146
Sparks Bros. & .VlcCec 152
Pescud. Peter F 82 Seebold. W. E 88
Philadelphia Ice Cream Co 78 Schneidau Paul M., Monongahela River Coal
Peters. S. J. Peters Livery Co 142
an Coke Co
1 70
Postal Telegraph-Cable Co 15U
Stern's Auction l^xchange 15S
Pelican E-xxavating Co 152
Seidel Furniture Mfg. Co 94
Parker. Jno. M. & Co 22 Spearing & Co 40
Prevost, James. Continental Fire Lisnrance Co. Sport Towel Supply Co.. Shreveport ISO
of New York K.O
Seymour & Pattison 142
Pfister. Louis 14()
Singernian, Samuel 74
Putnam & King, Ltd MO
Smith's Studio 168
Peoples Savings Bank Baton Rouge l')4
Smith. J. C !24
Pistorius, Joe '14
Scales. E. G. & Co 1,^8
Pumilia, L (.4
Schnetzer. Jos., Cale Restaurant Vonderbank .- 100
Parker-Blake Co.. Ltd 86
Spaar, J A Old Woods House
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Palmer, K. C, & Co 36 Singer Sewing Machines 66
t'erry Bridges & Snyder, Shreveport ISh
Scalafani, Geo (i2
Peojiles Bank. Natchitoches 2(10
Swiss Steam Laundry 6S
PlicxMii.x. The. W. G. Tebault Jr Mgr , '»S
Simui':, J D. & Sons 64
Perkins & Miller Co., Ltd., Lake Charles 210
Sclioen. .facoli & Son .... 62
St. Charles Hotel A R Blakely & Co , Ltd ... 54
Schcrer, l'"red 56
Stanton. T. J 44
Stanford, Gabriel D., Lake Charles 214
Redwitz, Cafe-Restaurant, The 114
Stroube, H. R Baton Rouge, 204
K'ed River Line . . . 82 Sam's Saloon, Dona Idsonvilie 218
Roder, Hcnrv lis
St. Landry State B. ink, Oiielousas 221
Robbert, H."j • 13S
Ramsey Piano Mfg. Company 15<)
Reynolds, L 64
Reliage, J. A., Co., Ltd 64
Reiss. Jas J Co 64 Teutonia Insurance Co 166
K'emington Consti uction Co t.O Tujaque, Justin 94
Rivet, F. P 48 T^iylur, J D. 88
Rapp, A. J .^8 Trov Laundry Co. Ltd .
66
Rabito, A. P 36 Thompson, W. B. & Co 44
Royal Carpet Cleaning Co Louis , F. Leonhard. 42 Tulane University of Louisiana 46
Ruby. The Old Ruby 124 Tarrant, L. & Co 34
Ramos, H. C 174 Trepagnier, F. L. & Bro.. Donaldsonville 206
Roumain. J. K.. Baton Rouge V>2 Triche, C. L Napokonville
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Weiss, F. J •+•'

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United Fruit Co'sSteamshii) Lines 3.,
Wehrmann, Mrs. V 1?2
Uter, L.'s Heirs l--^
Wliann. Kobert J ^«
Uniacke, (Painter) ^^ Whitney National Bank S
rill .V Flholt. Shreveport 1-^-f
Williams, M. J., Baton Rouj;e T'4
Ward & O'l oniiell. Slireveport ISO
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V Wortman Emil. Shreveport ISf)

West End Hotel and Restaurant, T. Trancliina 152

Vittur A ... 108 Wisdom & Few 32

Vea-a, Jose ^'8 White the A H. White Co .
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Vega, Col A. I) ,
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'Cheap Toneys" New Stinv.
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Donaldsonville 2FS
X-Ray Drug Store, Donaldsonville 204

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Weinfurter's Jewelry I'ahice 7S Yzao-uirre, M.J i^O

Wegener. H. W., Novelty Wood Works 114 Young, Jacob F34

Writrht's Pharmacy, \\ right & Grunlz 74
Wooddy. N. A .
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Wayand's Grocery F^4 ^
Williams. Richardson Co 72
Weiblen. Albert '-2 Zengel & Heiderich '^ft

W'alter, D. A 58 Zansler, Edw. L .

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Gumbei. Ferdinand 159

Greenwall. Henry 163
Abraham, Henry 87 Gutmann, Euif. H 163
Adler, Wm ! 84 Good. Adolph 165
Ashner. I. W 115 Goldstein, David
Gradwohl. Meyer H
165
169
Aletrino, Gerson 117
(i umbel, Henry E 173
Aschaflfenburg-. A lf>4
Abraham. Morris 1 73 Godchaux, Paul L 125
Abraham. Nathan, Lafayette 20'»

B Heimburg Rev. I., Monroe 207

Braunfekl, Rev. Julius 105 Hoffman. Wolf. Lake Charles 213
Blum, Sam 117 Heller. Rev. Max 81
Bhiom, Dr. J. D '

139 Heidenheim. August 91

Block, Henrv 173 Heidenheim. M 101
Bauer, Achille. Alexandria 205 Hevmann, Michel lui
Bernstein, Henry. Monroe 207 Hollander, M. F 143
Blum, Joseph, Crowley 209 Hyman, Samuel 159
Blum, Samuel, Donaldsonville 197 Alfred
H'lller. 123
Herold, Simon, of Shreveport 189
Herold, Herman, Shreveport 191
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Cerf, Samson 157 I

Cain, Jos L. 109

Cahn, Edgar L 135 Israel, Melville, Donaldsonville 199
Cohn, Chas. W 1 78
Israel, Mayrr 137
Isaacs. M arx ... 135
Isaacson. Simon, Palmetto 217
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Dreyfus, Leon, New Iberia 217
Dreyfus, Jule<, New Iberia 217
Davis, Isadore H., Lake Charles 211 Jacobson, Rabbi M
P., Shreveport 187
Dinkelspiel, Max 123 Jacob, S. Opelousas
, 209
Jacobs, Jules, Rosedale 219

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Elling-er, Emil, Rabbi. Alexandria 203
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Eng:utter. Leopold, of Newellton ... 217 Krower, L 93
Kahn, Gabriel 99
F Kreeger. Dr. Geo
Kaufman. Chas .A
109
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Florsheim, Henry, Shreveport 189 Kohlmann. Ur Wm 131

Falk, Benjamin, Lafayette 205 Kahn. Edgar M 135
Farrnbacher, Jacob, Baton Roug-e 195 Kahn. (^oleman H .
149
Farrnbacher, S., Baton Rouge 195 Kursheedt, Col E.I 153
Kohn. Jos 11)5
Kaufman. Ferd 178
G Keiffer. Sigmund 181
Kahn. Arthur T.. Shreveport 187
Godchaux, Albert 93 Kahn, Sol. Magnolia 187
Gumbei. Simon 97 Kaufman. Leopold. Lake Charles 211
Goetz, Edward 155 Kaufman. Sam'l, Lake Charles 213

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Kahn, Tlieodore, Jenning's

Klotz, Sol., Napoleonvilie
217
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Klein, M. Kabbi. Doiuildsoiiville 147 Pfeiffer, Simon 139
Klotz, Abraham, Donaldsonville V)'> Pforzlieimer, Henry, Donaldsonville 197

Lehman, Gus, Sr 125

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Leucht, Rev. Dr. Isaac L 83 Rosen, Chas 109
Lew, Leopold 107 Rose, Dan A 165
Lazard, C 129 Rosenberg, Ephraim 178
Lehman. Gus, Jr 133 Rosenliauni, Ben 179
Lemle, Gustav 133 Rosenthal, Jonas, Alexandria 203
Levy, Samuel 141 Roos, Isaac, Opelousas 209
Liclitenstein, D. M 153 Roos, I Opelousas
) , 209
Lazarus, Judg-e H. L 154 Rosenthal, Rabbi P. L., Baton Rouge 193
Levy, Lazare Ill
Lazard, Jacob C
LichtentBg, Ale.x H
Ifil
1(.3
s
Levy, Felix N 171 Stern, David, Amite City 219
Loeb, I'lrnest M. 175 Stern, M aurice 85
Levy. M. MGibson and Donner 195 Shwartz, N. I 91
Lehminn. Mver 177 Stern. Henry 95
Lazard. Dr. Jules 179 Strauss, Nat 90
Landauer, Elias 181 Simon, Chas 113
Levy, Lazare 181 Shwartz, S.J 145
Lichtenstein. I M 183 Schwartz, Lazar 147
Lenostield, W. H 183 Silverstein, Samuel 149
Levin, Julius, Alexandria 201 Stern, Samuel H 143
Levy, V'ictor, Lafayette 2ii5
Stern, Leonard L 151
Levy, Armind, [.ake Charles. 213 Simon, Joseph 155
Levy, Abe, Elkinsville 195 Schaefer, Cuthbert 161
Shwartz, Leon L
M Samson, Max
165
167
Moore. Hon. I. D 103 Seiferth, Herman 176
Marx. Sol . 127 Silverstein. Louis 177
Metz, Dr. A. L 111 Sch wartz, Sam 178
Moses, Jos. \V 111 Steeg, A... 179
Moss, H artwig- 113 Schwartz, Leon E 181
Meyer, Manfred 115 Simon, Jake, Lake Charles 213
Mayer. Abe 119
Moss, Will
Marx. A rchibald A
157
1()1
T
Moses Gustave lf.7
Trautman, Jac 103
Magner, Jos 175
Titche, Bernard 131
Marks, Jos. H 176
Tobias, Sylvan, Baton Rouge 193
Mayer, Gus 121
Tobias, Maas, Donaldsonville 199
Meyer, Gen. Adolph, M. C. 177
Moses, Phineas
Marx, Morris
Meyer, Henry, Alonroe
. . 179
178
2(i7
w
Mayer, E. H.", Baton Koug-e 195 Warsaw, Rabbi Isidor, Lake Charles 211
C
Wolff, Julius 141
N Weil, L.
Waldhorn, M
H 145
141
Newman, Isidore Sr. r7-79
Weinberger, Frank J 147
Newman, Hart . . . .
151
Weinberger, Jacab 153
Newman, J K 137
Weis, Julius 75
Neugass, Edwin 181
White, Dr. E A
. . . .

1(,7

o Wolf, M. J
Wolbrette. David
169
127
Odenheimer, S 183 W^inter, Wm., Shreveport 191
Offner, E 121 Wise, Sol., Abbeville 215
Ochs, Louis 149 Wise, Eli 215
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 Index to History, Historical Characters and Institutions.

cWF'^'^i&i.^^ ^ 'J-^'=>^MiJ'~'^s^

Association for tlie Relief of Jewish Widows Katz, Sigmund

and Orphans, its orig-in 45 Kohlmann, Jacob 35
Benjamin, Judah P l"l-2l
Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Association 59
Bensudon, Dr .los 25-27 Lehman n 35
B'nai B'rith, Order of 67
Marks. I'^erdinaiid 35
Crawcour, Dr. I. L 35 Marks. Alexander 35
Cain, Lambert, B 35 •

Metairie Burial Place 65

Congregation Gates of Prayer (Jackson Ave-
Nefusah Yehudah 37
nue Synagogue ) 41
Newman, the Isidore Newman Manual Train-
Chebra Bikur Cholim 59
ing School . . 55
Congregation Tenieme Derech 61
Congregation Somech Nophlim 61
Old Portugeese Cemetery .'
65
Congregations, Louisiana Interior Cities 185 222
Old Rampart Street Synagogue 37
Cemeteries, Jewish, Old and New 63 Old Jewish Families 33

Dreyfous, Abel 35
Provident Aid Society 61
Phillips, Alex 21-23
Earh' Jewish Residents 19
Phillips, at the Battle of Chalmette 25
Frank, Michel 35 Portugeese Congregation 37
Gemilath Chassodim 61 Pioneer Jewish Families 19
Gutheim, Rabbi Jas. K 25-29 Rachel Benevolent Association 61
God's Acres 63
Simjjson, Meyer M 29-33
Harmony Club 69 Scherck. Isaac 31-33
Hebrew Public School 59-()l Shaarai Chesed 37
Hebrew Benevolent Society and Founders.. .. 45 Shaarai Tetila 41

Jackson Avenue Synagogue 41 Touro, Judah 17-19

Julius Weis Home 49 Touro, Judah and Bunker Hill Monument. 21
Jewish Charities of New Orleans. 45 Temple Sinai 41
Jewish Orphans Home 51-53 Touro Synagogue 39-41
Joseph Street Cemetery (>s 'J'ouro Intirmary. . . . 4r-47
Kursheedt, Gershom ... 23-27 Young Men's Hebrew Association. 71
Kaufman, Henry 35 Young Ladies' Sewing- Society.. .. 61

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 V-'v^- '-r

A Word or Two of Introduction.

rv

^g^VERY class and element in the heterog-eneous commonwealth, where they have always minyled on
Jmm^ in)pulati()n of our Pelican State has had its even terms with the best and hig-hest, they would
encomiast and memorialist — some one to in- be judg-ed if judg-ed at all, upon individual merit.
form the world of the industry, intelli'u-ence and Here many have risen to eminence, not only among-
virtues of that particular stock, to recount its achieve- their own kind, but in the community g-enerally.
ments, business, professional t)r individual; to make And this not alone as merchants, bankers and men
known the honors acquired and institutions to be of every day affairs, but as Judges, Cong-ressmen,
credited to its exemplars. Every class do we say? Senators, Cabinet officers, —to the hig^hest, indeed, of
All but one. AH indeed, except the Jew. state places.

Something' there seems of long--felt want in this But not of high and mighty only, their lives and
deficiency. Sketches there have been, it is true, actions, is our story. Rather a plain and simple,
press notices, ephemeral contributions and publica- straight-forward and unvarnished, matter of fact ac-

tions, of transient interest and desultory character. count, of the Jewish people of our State and city,

But no systematic, or at all complete or authentic past and present. Of them and for them and for

compilation. There is at all events, a certain void their brethren of other States and places, and also,

which affords us aim and purpose. This purpose is all others interested. And as such, presented by its

not, we may say, defensive. For the Israelites of Editor and Publishers without further formality of
Louisiana, no special plea is needed. In this free pycainhiihim.

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«•^kEL^'ING in the mustv archives of the past, g-ath- It was in 1(>S2 that LaSalle, having descended the
ering- frag-mentarv evidence here and there, un- Great Father of Waters, planted at the point where
J^J the eddying river mingled with the briny waters of
raveling" tangied skeins of historical allusions
briefly asservated, leg-ends, superstitions and the in- Mexic's gulf the lily-spangled escutcheon of his King,
numerable theories handed down througdiout the past Louis XIV of France and gave the Pelican State and
four centuries, it is a log^ical deduction that the Jews unknown lands the name it has borne with credit to
were among; the hardy men who soug^ht out the New this day, Louisiana. The prior discovery of DeSoto,
World, the intellig-ence of a Jewish savant g^iving- to whereby Spain made an ineffectual protest availed
Columbus the sug-g-estion of the voyag-e to the Setting naught and France made good its claims.
Sun and Jews' money, extorted from their coffers by In 171S De la Tour marked off the streets of Old
Isabella, furnishing" the Caravels. New Orleans at the bidding of Bienville, "the father
In that era the Inquisition had its inception and in- of Louisiana" and for years the early pioneers strug-
controvertible facts may be de- gled against floods and famines,
duced convincing" that among" through Indian wars and in
the g-randies of Hispania and 1762 when France surrendered
Portug"al many adventurous every foot of territory on the
spirits were of the Jewish faith, American continent, and, as
preferring the hardships in a trophies ofwar, Louisiana
New World to the rigt)rs of in- again wore the yoke of Spain,
tolerance, if not death or abju- "in July, 17f>'»," O'Reilley, the
ration of their ancestral faith Spanish Captain (General, with
in the Land of their birth. his army and navy took formal
possession and organized the
To-day it is a matter of spec-
government upon Spanish
ulation who were the first Jews
principles. At that time New
to follow Columbus in his vvy-
Orleans had a motley settlement
age of discovery. It is proven
of three thousand inhabitants,
that several of those close to
one-fifth of whom were slaves.
him in his memorable voyage
were Spanish Jews. However That Jews were among these
this may be, it can be traced pioneers, from the
practically
with accuracy and positiveness first settlement inaugurated by

that the Jews of Spain and DeSoto and LaSalle cannot be

their descendants in Holland positively proven, but, what is
played an important part as proof positive developes in the
pioneers in opening up the New fact that with the recurrence
World culminating in the civ- of Spanish domination follow-
ilization of the present. ing the year, 1762, Jewish
traders were already on the
It must be borne in mind
scene of activity.
that the history of the "Early
Jews in Louisiana" practically
JUDAH TOURO, Conspicuous among these
begins with the earliest history Soldier, Citizen a nd Philanthropist were Depalachios and other
of New Orleans, the then un- Spanish Jews, who were in-
known South and Southwest. timately associated with the commerce of that day
A hundred years ago a vast territory, now constitu- and to whom grants were made.
ting notable States of the Union, known by the term Following the Colonial War, the restless spirit of
"the Louisiana Purchase" was acquired by the LTnited adventure, the untrammeled life of the Pioneers, grad-
States. ually opened up the then /er9-a inro^nila, and, as the
The story of the intrepid LaSalle "prepared ages flags of Spain, of England, trailed in the dust and
of happiness for inniuuerable generations of human their defending hosts were swept away by Americans,
creatures" in a land, to-day, the haven of freemen who Jews from other of the colonies, possibly participants
owe no responsibility save to the Supreme Architect in the incidents on many a bloody battle field "beat
of the Universe and, who, in the language of divine their swords into plough shares" and, returning to
scrit, may stand upright in the presence of their Maker peaceful pursuits aided in laying the corner stone of
and their fellowmen. Louisiana's future prosperity.

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 The Early Jews in Lt)uisiana recoynizing the lib- lands. From these sturdy and devout Jews are
erty of conscience granted by the United States in the descended the early settlers in the American Colonies
Colonial days, no doubt realized that it was a question and there is no doubt that many of the notable fam-
of time when they too would be sheltered 'neath its ilies, descendants of whom are to-day residents of
flag, and accessions were made to their number and various sections of Louisiana, can trace their ancestry
in turn, followini,"" the march of civilization these back to the first Jewish settlers of the Carolinas.
pioneers, transplanted the faith of Abraham, Isaac and As far back as 1783, names most familiar to Louis-
Jacob througiidut the adjacent territory. ianians of to-dav are a matter of record in Charleston,
Legend asserts that as far back as 17S0 Jewish res- S. C, and there is no doubt that the descendants of
idents of Old New Orleans had a Miii\iiii — a quorum these early comers were among the active participants
—
consisting of no less than ten adult males for the in the stirring events of Old New Orleans before the
purpose of holding divine worship. Facts, stubborn opening of the nineteenth century.
facts, prove conclusively, that when New Orleans, Conspicuous among these pioneers we note the fol-
was, as mapped out and designed bv De la Tour, lowing: Aaron, Aarons, Abraham, Alexander, Ben-
limited to Canal street on the upper side, Elvsian edict, Cohen, DaCosta, De La Motte, DeLeon, Depass,
Fields on the lower side and boundecl bv the river and (xomez, Harlev, Harris, Hart, Hyams, Isaacs, Jonas,
what is now known as N. Rampart street, nearlv a Joseph, Kursheedt, Lazarus, Levi, Levy, Lopez,
century and a quarter ago, a House of Ciod was situ- Marks, Moise, Moses, Myers, Nathan, Philips, Seixas,
ated on Toulouse street, not' far removed from where Solomon, Suarez and Woolf.
the Old Deutsche Shule, on N. An effort in unfolding the
Rampart street was once situ- dim vista of the past would no
ated, at this writing the site of doubt result in tracing a rela-
a laundry. tionship between the men and
For how many years this women of the present in Louis-
Min\an existed no one knows, iana with these honored names
but this nucleus of Early Jews which are to-day a memory.
in Louisiana was the forerun- We content ourselves, how-
ner and afterwards the organ- ever, in dealing with cherished
izing factor of Congregation memories of the past, yet with-
Shan!Ja7'iii Chesed —Gates of in the range of recollection of
Mercy —chartered and
in 182S venerable and esteemed people
for years occupying the Syna- who are spared to us and whose
gog on N. Rampart street, al- fondest recollections are asso-
luded to above, and which ex- ciated with the acquaintance,
ists to-dav in connection with with friendship, of names which
the CongTegation Dispersed of will never pass away from the
Judali, known as the Touro hearts of Louisianians, Judah
Synagog. Touro and his contemporaries
The Charter issued in 1828 and Judah P. Benjamin con-
was for a tenure of twenty-five spicuous figures in the history
years and was renewed in 1853, of New Orleans nearly a hun-
but, sad to sav, it was destroy- dred years ago.
ed when the State House in Conspicuous, in truth it may
Baton Rouge succumbed to lire be said, occupying alone a posi-
during the Civil War, and, tion, which will be always
hence, important data, which cherished by his coreligionists
can never be replaced, was lost in the United States, was
HON. JUDAH P. BENJAHIN Judah Touro, soldier, citizen,
to history.
the verdict of intelligent
It is Statesman and Jurist. philanthropist, whose life and
people that the Jew has been a works are a part of the history
most important factor in the development of every of New Orleans, in the early days of the 19th century.
land wherein he has reared a home. History is replete His father, Isaac Touro, was born in Jamaica and
with facts that the Jew, wherever he has resided, has was reared and educated in the refining influences of
demonstrated a loyalty, a patriotism, a willingness to a Jewish home, hallowed in the annals of the past,
share the modest honors of citizenship even at the and in his youth began the studies to fit himself for
sacrilice of life. the Jewish pulpit. Coming from Jamaica to the
The story of the Early Jews in Louisiana will never United States before the eighteenth century was com-
be written as it should be. A
few traditions, dis- pleted, he met and wedded a daughter of Michael
torted even if facts, legends that though bearing the Moses Hays, a prominent merchant of Boston, Mass.
impress of facts cannot be accurately traced, a few JUDAH TOURO was born of this union in 1775, in
fragments, here and there, are all that is tangible of Newport, R. I., where the Rev. Dr. Touro had ac-
the pioneers of Judah coming hither. cepted a call sometime before that period.
During the early part of the eighteenth century it When the American Revolution began Isaac Touro
is not at all improbable that the Jews of Spain and returned to Jamaica where he died seven years later,
Portugal, driven ruthlessly from the land of their his widow surviving him only four ^-ears.
birth, dispersed to more congenial climes. At the time of his father's death, Judah Touro was
Many of these refugees sought a haven and a new eight years old and when his fondly loved mother
tenure of life, first in Holland, afterwards attracted joined the silent majority he had just attained his
to the Barbadoes, Jamaica and other Caribbean Is- twelfth year. His education and care was entrusted

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 to his maternal jrrand-father in Boston, in whose took an active part in communal work of the day. It
countintj- room the youth had his lirst business cx- was he who purchased the once palatial home of a cit-
perience. izen, situated the corner of Annunciation and
at
In 1S(I2. Ju(hih Touro came to New Orleans where Gaiennie and presented it to a promising young
streets,
intey-rity,honesty and application won for him friends physician, of that era. Dr. Jacob Bensadon, a South
and, later, fortune. He acquired wealth by his thrift Carolinian of a distinguished Portuguese family long
and industry and commanded the respect of his fel- time resident in the colonies.
low citizens.
The Infirmary played an important part in the early
When the war of 1S15 was proclaimed he yolunteered Jewish charities. Dr. Bensadon carried out the re-
and when the British marched aifainst New Orleans quests of Judah Touro, that any indigent Jew, appli-
and the memorable onslaug-ht on the Field of Chal- cant for admission, should be received and cared for
mette became history, Judah Touro was on the bat- with the same attention as if he was a pay patient.
tlefield carrying- shot and shell from the mag-azine to Further reference will be made to Dr. Bensadon and
the battery, one of the most trying ordeals in a sol- the Old Infirmary under another caption.
dier's career. While doing his duty as a soldier he Judah Touro died in the city of New Orleans on
was severely wounded by being struck on the thigh January IS, 1854, and his remains were taken to New-
with a twelve pound shot. R. A. Shepherd, an inti- port. R. I., where they were intered, adjacent to a
mate friend and afterwards one of monument erected to the memory
his heirs and executor, who was of his sainted father in the Jew-
also serving the glorious cause ish cemetery.
under Andrew Jackson, learning He left a princely bequest to
of Touro's mishap, immediately the Synagogue and Infirmary in
came to his assistance, bore him New Orleans which to-day bears
off the battlefield, and, despite his name. He bequeathed large
the positive statement that Touro sums to many Jewish institutions
was beyond surgical or medical in different parts of the LTnited
aid. Shepherd secured a cart and States.
had Touro conveyed to his pala- Fourteen charitable institutions
tial home where he was cared for under the control of various Chris-
and nursed back to life by the tian denominations received be-
Shepherd family. In later life quests averaging five thousand
both these distinguished citizens dollars each.
became millionaires and though The city of New Orleans was
separate in religious beliefs were made legatee of eighty thousand
always boon companions and in- dollars for its poor and only in
separable friends. recent years was the bequest car-
Judah Touro was a philan- ried out by the Touro-Shakes-
thropist who knew neither creed peare Alms House taking upon
or church in his generosity. He itself the care of the city's poor,
purchased for Dr. Clapp, one of the who for years following the de-
eminent divines of that period, a struction of the Touro Alms
church, on Canal street near a House during the Civil war, had
Jewish Synagog of the Portuguese —
no haven a haven reared for
Congregation Dispersed of Judah, them by Judah Touro.
both structures occupying a site In the annals of the past of
near the corner of Canal and Bour- New Orleans, in the promise of a
bon streets. He left a bequest of future undreamt of by those of
three thousand dollars to Dr. its people of to-day, no one has
Clapp and one half of his estate ALEXANDER PHILIPS occupied, or will occupy the first
was distributed among various Soldier and flerchant. place in the hearts of its people
charitable institutions, including as long as the memory of Judah
handsome endowments to every Jewish Synagogue in Touro will be recalled.
the United States at that epoch. JUDAH PHILIP BENJAMIN was born in St.
He demonstrated his fealty to the land of his birth, Croix, West Indies, August 11,1811. His parents
his loyalty to the stars and stripes by contributing were English Jews, who in 1811 sailed from England
ten thousand dollars to the Bunker Hill Monument. to settle in New Orleans, The mouth of the Missis-
A pretty incident is associated with this gift. Judah sippi river being blockaded by the British fleet, they
Touro notified the Bunker Hill Monument Committee landed at St. Croix, where Mr. Benjamin was born.
that when all the money except ten thousand dollars His boyhood was passed in Wilmington, N. C.
had been secured he would give personally the amount In 1825, at the age of fourteen, he entered Yale, but
specified. This was an incentive to increase the num- left the college three years later without receiving
ber of donors. a degree. He returned to New Orleans, where he
At the height of the excitement and interest in the studied law in a notary's office, being admitted to the
proposed monument, a great Fair was given by the bar, December 11, 1832. He did not at that time un-
Ladies of Boston. The delegates from Louisiana pur- dertake to engage actively in his profession
chased the model of the monument, sent it to New For some time he was engaged in teaching school
Orleans where it occupied a place of honor in a public and compiling a digest of cases decided in the local
building which was destroyed afterwards by fire. courts. This, at first intended for personal use only,
Judah Touro was a strict adherent of Judaism and was subsequently enlarged and published as "A
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Dig-est of Reported Decisions of the Supreme Court of
the Late Territory of Orleans and the Supreme Court
of Louisiana" 18.^4 ).
( of some other minister.
From this time on Mr. Benjamin's rise was rapid,
and in 1S4I) he became a member of the firm of Slidell,
Benjamin & Conrad, one of the most powerful lej^al
firms in the Southern States, having- an extensive
practice in phinters' and cotton merchants' cases.
liKNJAMIN'S POLITICS.
Politically the subject of this sketch was a Whig-,
and in 1845. was elected as a member of the conven-
tion held to revise the Constitution of the State. Here
he advocated the addition of an article requiring the
Governor to be a citizen born in the United States.
In 1847 a United States commissioner was appointed
to investigate the Spanish land titles, under which the
early settlers in California claimed their property, and
Mr. Benjamin was retained as counsel, making a
to the far West. On his re-
turn he was admitted to prac-
tice in the United States Su-
preme Court, and for a time
much of his business was witli
that body at Washington.
In 1848 he became one of the
presidential electors at large
from Louisiana, and four years
later was elected to the United
States Senate, being again
chosen by his party for the
same honored position in 1857.
But on the secession of Louis-
iana from the Union, Mr. Ben-
jamin, together with his col-
league, John Slidell, withdrew
in February, 1861.
During his senatorial career
he had attained pre-eminence
in the Southern wing of the
Democratic party, and a sharp
personal controversy between
himself and Jefferson Davis
seemed likely to cause a duel,
when the latter apologized on
the floor of the Senate for hard
language he had used.
Mr. Benjamin advocated the
QERSHOiW
Kansas-Nebraska bill of Mr. Friend of Touro and
Douglas in 1854, but afterwards
insisted that the principle of popular sovereignty had
been definitely set aside by the declaration of the Su-
preme Court in the Dred-Scott case, which, he con-
tended, should be accepted as conclusive. His firm
advocacy of the legal claims of slavery brought from
Senator Wade, of Ohio, the remark that Mr. Benja-
min was "a Hebrew with Egyptian principles."
IN THE CONFKDEKATE CABINET.
On the formation of the provisional government of
the Confederate States he was appointed Attorney-
general, and in August, 1861, was transferred to the
War Department, succeeding L. P. Walker. Having
had some trouble with a committee from the Confed-
erate Congress, he resigned his position, but imme-
diately became Secretary of State, which place he
held until the final overthrow of the Confederate
Government.
Mr. Benjamin had the reputation of being "the
brains of the Confederacy'," and it is said that Presi-
dent Davis was in the habit of sending tt) him all
work that did not obviously belong to the department
It was his habit to begin
work at 8 a. m., and he often occupied his desk until
2 o'clock the next morning.
On the fall of the Confederacy he fled from Rich-
mond with other members of the Cabinet, and on be-
coming sei)arated from the party, escaped from the
coast of P'lorida to the Bahamas in an open boat,
thence going- to Nassau, and in September. 1865,
reached Liverpool. He at once began the study of
Knglish law, and was entered as a student at Lin-
coln's Inn, January 13, 1866.
In the following summer Mr. Benjamin was called
to the English bar at the age of fifty-five. At first
his success was slight, and he was compelled to resort
to journalism for a livelihood. In 1868 he published
trip "A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Prop-
erty," which is now the author-
ity on this subject in English
law.
HONORS IN ENGLAND.
After the publication of this
book the practice of Mr. Ben-
jamin grew rapidly, and in
June, 1872, he was made (Jueen's
counsel, after which his busi-
ness became as large and re-
munerative as that of any law-
yer in the land. Among his
many arguments the one most
generally known is that which
he delivered before the Court
for Crown Cases Reserved, in
the behalf of the captain of
the "Franconia." His last
great nisi prius case was that
of Anson and others against
the London & Northwestern
Railway. After this he ac-
cepted only briefs upon appeal,
and appeared solely before the
House of Lords and the Privy
Council.
Early in 188.^ he was com-
pelled by failing health to re-
KURSMEEDT, tire from practice, and a fam-
Kinsman of Montefiore ous farewell banquet was given
him in the hall of the Inner
Temple, London, June 30, 1883. He then withdrew
to Paris, where his wife and daughter resided, and
where his health rapidly failed until his death, May
8th, 1884.
ALEXANDER PHILIPS, one of the pioneers of
conunerce in old New Orleans, was born in indigence,
and reared in the school of adversity. In his youth
emig-rating from Holland to a foreign land, where un-
known and uncared for, without home or abiding
place, by his indefatigable perseverance and unswerv-
ing integrity, he succeeded in amassing wealth, ac-
quiring- reputation and attaining a hig-hly enviable
position in society. His life offers reflection to the
old —
example to the young. He was born in the year
1775 in the city of Amsterdam, and after having re-
ceived the trade of a whitesmith, and enduring num-
erous privations always attendent upon poverty, he, at
the age of sixteen years, emigrated to the United
States, in quest of a comfortable maintenance, which
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his t)\vn lioiiif could not aiford. He settled in the
State of Pennsylvania where he was oblit^ed by his
necessitous circumstances and g-ladly received employ-
ment in the capacity of a farmers boy. For two
years he did service in this luunble capacity, during-
which time, by his industry and fidelity, he won the
confidence of his employer and the friendship of many.
In 17')4, with that reckless spirit, which characterized
his youth and impelled by that love for military g^lory
which all young; men of warm and gfenerons impulses
admire, he enlisted under Gen'l Anthony Wayne, to
quell the "Whiskey Insurrection," but the happy
termination of this difiicultv sot)n after caused the dis-
bandment of the volunteer corps, and, he ag^ain found
himself destitute of funds and employment. He se-
cured employment from Gen. Hennen of Harrisburg",
Pa. With this g-entleman he remained until 17'*'),
when, removingf to the city of
Philadelphia he, under the advise-
ment of a friend procured a small
quantity of merchandise and thus
equijiped, he g"irded up his loins
and marched throug-h the country
an itinerant merchant, always
finding- a ready market for his
merchandise' his pleasing- appear-
ance winning- the patronag-e of
the women, his unassuming- de-
meanor the aid of the men. For-
tune smiled upon his undertak-
ing-s. Continued success, extend-
ing credit and g-reater means,
soon enabled him to extend his
business operations and at the end
of a few years, he became master
of his own establishment and
seated permanently in the Quaker
City.
After a residence of seven years,
during- which time, by close ap-
plication to business he had real-
ized a considerable amount, fol-
lowing- the bent of his mind,
which being- enticed away by the
alluring- representations made to
him of the newly-acquired terri-
tory of Lt>uisiana, of the wealth
of its inhabitants and the fine
field there offered for speculation,
RABtJl JAMES K. aLUHEIM,
he, in the year ISOS, removed to
the city of New Orleans and im- Scholar, Educator a nd Pjiilanthropist.
mediately entered into the mer-
cantile business. By means of his energ-y, experience
and nice discernment, he soon assumed a respectable
position in the mercantile world. He continued to
flourish in this capacity, without the occurrence of
any event worthy of record pursuing- the "even tenor
of his way" an honest money-making- boKrurois. Until
the year 1S14 when, called away from his calculations
by the invasion of the British he, with all the enthu-
siasm of a man who seeks to protect his fire-side from
the assaults of an invading- foe, immmediately enlisted
a volunteer, receiving- the commission of first lieuten-
ant, and served during- the whole campaig-n with
g-reat g-allantry and ze.il. At the battle of Chalmette
Plains the connnand of his company devolving; up.)n
himself; by his able management and the intrepidity
of his men, he received the approbation of his supe-
riors in command. This battle, which shed an undv-
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ing lustre on the American arms, putting an end to
his service, he resumed business pursuits.
In the year ISll, he allied himself to a lady from
Baton Rouge. A numerous progeny blessed their
union, having the cares of a family incumbent upon
him, he redoubled his exertions, success crowned his
efforts, and after years of toil, lie retired from active
business.
Among the veteran residents, and very few survive
—
to-day it is recalled that the Philips establishment
was located on the wood side of Chartres street near
the corner of Bienville street. Later the subject of
this sketch established himself in the grocery business
on what is now known as St. Charles avenue, at the
intersection of Jackson avenue, directly facing the
Harmony Club building, and which establishment
years afterward became an enterprise made famous
by its untiring proprietor, Mr.
Charles Ballejo.
At the era when Mr. Philips
founded the establishment, a
wide and unobstructed view of
the Mississippi river was to be
had from the doors of his store.
St. Charles avenue was lined
with cotton wood trees, a public
road leading to the plantations
bordering the banks of the river
for hundreds of miles.
The veteran and honored citi-
zen, iSIr. Ballejo, entered his em-
plo}- in the early 40's and enjoyed
the esteem of the pioneer and his
family in his j'outh and man-
hood.
The sons and daughters of the
veteran and honored citizen were,
in their day, prominent and social
favorites. A son, Alfred, was a
])artncr of the famous lawyer,
Roselius. Elenora Philips mar-
ried Simon Newburger, also a
pioneer in industrial and com-
mercial circles. Eliza Philips
married a namesake of Ohio, and
Mrs. Judge Jno. B. Cottom was
also a daug-hter.
At an advanced age, far be-
yond that allotted to man, Mr.
Philips died regretted by the
people of Old New Orleans, for
in him they recognized a useful,
honored citizen, -who had contributed greatly to the
progress of the city and its best interests.
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South Carolina when the subject of this sketch was a
child, he was reared amidst the elegance and refined
surroundings of a Southern Jewish home.
After receiving a liberal and scholarly education
the youth applied himself to the study of the Science
and Art of .NIedicine, graduating with honors as a
Doctor 9! Medicine, at the age of twenty-one from
the famed University at Charleston.
Dr. Bensadon was among; the first of the Medical
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profession to offer his services to the g'overnment
when the War with Mexico was threatened and, when
hostilities begfan, he went to the front and served
with distinction in the American Army.
In 1847, Dr. Bensadon cast his fortunes with New
Orleans. His splendid personality, his ability as a
ph^-sician and surgeon was at once recognized and
won for him the esteem of the community. By chance
he formed the acquaintance of Judah Touro and the
acquaintanceship merged into friendship that was
only shattered by death. He was not only the phy-
sician of Judah Touro but his most intimate and con-
fidential friend and, it is recalled by those few of our
venerable citizens who are familiar with the past,
that the venerable Touro and the capable young phy-
sician were inseperables.
Whether Judah Touro conceived the idea or wheth-
er it was at the suggestion of Dr. Bensadon that the
Infirmary, now bearing the honored name of Touro
was founded, no one knows,
but it is known that Judah
Touro purchased the Paulding
residence, situated at the cor-
ner of what is now known as
Annunciation and Gaiennie
streets, converted it into a hos-
pital and placed it in charge
of Dr. Bensadon.
Carrying out the philan-
thropic views of its founder.
Dr. Bensadon was hampered
to a great extent because it
became not only a hospital
but a caravansary for poor and
homeless people, for the char-
itable impulses of the calm,
didactic, practical physician,
could not resist the plea of the
poor and suffering.
Dr. Bensadon sustained his
reputation as a physician and
surgeon, notably during the
dread days of successive Yel-
low Fever epidemics and laid
the prestige of the Touro In-
firmary which year after year
becomes more famed. He par- DR. JOSEPH BEN5AD0N,
ticipated in its affairs, after it
had passed into the charge of A Distinguished Surgeon.
the Touro Infirmary and He-
brew Benevolent Association and while not actively
associated in later years with its medical corps, al-
ways had a tender thought for the grand institution
founded by his friend and mentor, Judah Touro.
When the Civil War began, 1861, Dr. Bensadon
again exhibited his patriotism by offering his ser-
vices to the Confederacy, and was accorded the rank
of surgeon and, with the "Boys who wore the Gray"
seen active service until the termination of hostilities.
Returning to New Orleans Dr. Bensadon resumed
his professional work, attaining continued distinc-
tion and enjoying a lucrative practice. On December
2, 1871, in the full possession of his faculties a vet-
eran of two wars, this true and trusted Practitioner
of Medicine, benevolent and charitable to a fault,
went to his eternal rest regretted and mourned b}- a
grand concourse of friends.
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KURSHEEDT is a name associated with the United
States since Colonial days. Israel Baer Kursheedt
was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, of a family who
had resided in that city for many years, where suc-
cessive generations were noted for their culture, at-
tainments and scholarship. Israel Baer Kursheedt
left the paternal home in his youth coming to seek
that liberty of conscience he desired, to Richmond.
\'a., when it was the center of Colonial life. Later
he married a daughter of the Rev. Gershom Mendes
Seixas. one of the most noted Rabbis of this countr}-.
Of this union, born in Richmond, Va., were two chil-
dren, who, in after years participated in Jewish af-
fairs in Louisiana. The family removed later to
New York City where they occupied a distinguished
position in social and commercial circles.
Mendes Kursheedt, born in Richmond, Va., in
1810, on attaining his majority went to Kingston,
Jamaica, where he entered commercial life. He mar-
ried an English lady, a mem-
ber of the Duke family and, in
1840 removed to New Orleans,
'•.^ passing away on January 8,
1886, mourned by numerous
friends, who, knowing him
well, regarded him as the em-
bodiment of Honor.
Gershom Kursheedt, was
born in Richmond, Va.. in
\ 1815, was taken to New York
, on the removal of the family,
and in the ardor of youth, bade
f farewell to the parental home
and came to New Orleans.
After a little while Gershom
Kursheedt established himself
in business but found ample
time to devote to charitable
and communal affairs.
, Associated with the great
philanthropist, Judah Touro,
and the coterie of liberal,
charitably disposed Israelites
of that day, when the Widows'
and Orphans' Home was pro-
Gershom Kursheedt, at
posed,
once became its earnest advo-
cate. At the memorable meet-
ing held in the Old Armory
Hall, on November 25, 1854, he
occupied the chair and afterwards aided in shaping
the preliminaries. About -the same time Sir Moses
Montefiore, authorized by Oueen Victoria to visit
distant parts of Europe in the interest of persecuted
Jews, extended an urgent invitation to Gershom Kur-
sheedt to accompany him on this hallowed mission.
When the first officers of the Association for the
Relief of Jewish Widows' and Orphans were elected
Gershom Kursheedt declined the Presidency and later
left New Orleans going to England. He not only
became identified with the great philanthropical
work of Sir Moses ]SIontefiore but also married a
favorite neice of the greatest and most favored Jew
of England of that day, to whom and his family and
their successors royal favor was shown, and with
whom the lamented Victoria and her children, in-
cluding Edward VII, King of England and Emperor
of India, were and are on the most int mate footing.
Gershom Kursheedt had ample opportunities to
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 his time to the ainelii)ration of distresses amotiii-
(IcviitL^
his corelitrionists and manv instances are chronicled
of his work and kindlv acts upon the history of the
Engiish Jewry. His death occurred in Lon(Uin, En-
i;-land, in 1S()2.
JAMES KOPPEL (lUTHEIM was born in
District of Warburg-, Westphalia, November 15, 1S17.
His ancestry were noted for their learning- and he him-
self early evinced gTeat thirst for knowledge and made
rapid advances in his scholastic and collegiate pro-
gTess. His first ministerial service was at Senden-
liorse, in 1838.
In 1843 he removed to New York whence he was in-
vited to Cincinnati in 1841), where he became pastor of
the B'nai Yeshuren Congregatit)n, and dedicated the
first temple of that congreg^ation. In compliance with
the call of the Shaarai Chased Cong"reg'ation then
worshiping- on Rampart street in
this city, he came to New Or-
leans in 1850, and dedicated its
first edifice in 1851.
He performed the funeral rites
of the g-reat philanthropist, Judali
Touro in 1854. In the same year
he became Rabbi of the svna-
g-ogue known as the Dispersed of
Judah, and in 1857 dedicated their
Svnag-og-ue, Nefutsah Jehudah.
When the question oi States'
rights and secession was the t(]])ic
of the hour, James K. (iutheim
showed his mettle and devotion
to the South, his home, endeared
by associations that were only
severed by Death. He was as
frank as he was outspoken and
his views were as weig-hty as
those of any of the actual leaders
in the cause. He was loval to the
Confederacy, aiding by voice and
pen its orig-in and with the cessa-
tion of hostilities he was among
the foremost of the Southern men
to urge accepting- cheerfully the
resultsand again strive to make
the South an Eden on Earth.
His fealty to the Bonnie Blue
flag-, his loyalty to principle and
his courage in expressing- his con- MEYER M. SIMPSON.
victions caused an episode that First President Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home.
will never be forgotten. New
( )rleans had surrendered and Ben Butler was in au-
thority. James K. Gutheim was among the irrecon-
ciliables who refused to take the Iron Clad Oath, de-
clined any and all overtures and, furthermore, refused
with disdain to shield himself behind his ministerial
calling-. Ben Butler had him escorted to the lines,
and again James K. Gutheim was among his people,
the stalwart Confederates.
Going to Montgomery, Ala., he accepted a call to
occupy the pulpit of the Cong-regation in that city
and later removed to Columbus, Ga., thoug-h both of
these communities were small, due to the fact that
every Israelite capable to hold a g-un wore the Gray
Jacket. Thus from 18f)3 to 1865 Dr. (iutheim cast his
lot with minor cong-regations.
When the war was over, 18()5, he returned to New
Orleans and resumed charged of the Synag-og-ue on
Kampart street, introducing- there the great reform
movement, of which he may justly be called one of
the distinguished American leaders. He laid the cor-
ner stone of the Svnagog-ue Temimi Derech, in 18()(i.
The Temple Emanuel of New York being aware of
Menne, his g-reat learning:, invited him to occupy the chair of
English Lecturer, which he accepted in the fall of
18()8. The citizens of New Orleans, of all shades of
belief, on learning- of his contemplated departure, pre-
sented the following Memorial:
New Okleans, June 1(), 181)8.
REV. J. K. GUTHEIM,
"Rkvkkend Sik — We, the undersigned citizens of
New Orleans, not of your faith, but for many years
your personal friends and admirers, have learned with
profound regret of a movement having for its object
your permanent remo\-al to New
York.
"Your long residence in this
city has identified you with her
\velfare and secured for you a
hig-h place in the affections of her
people. We
recognize in you the
warm-hearted, genial friend, the
enlightened, patriotic citizen, and
the divine of extraordinary learn-
ing-, clearness of ])erception
and power of eloijuence rarely
equaled.
"We reg-ard your removal from
us not merely an irreparable loss
to your church and people, but a
calamity to this city and state, as
we cannot afford at this time to
lose such men as you. We most
sincerely hope, therefore, that
some satisfactory arrangement
may bemade for your remaining-
permanently among us, that your
example and eloquence may lead
this people in paths of education,
virtue and peace.
"Believe us to remain, with
sentiments of great respect, yt)ur
most obedient servants."
The above letter was sig-ned by
over one hundred of the leading
men of New Orleans.
Dr. Gutheim remained in New
York, four years, attending the
Rabbinical Convention in Philadelphia in 18()') of
which he was the Vice-President.
During his Northern residence he, together with
Hon. Morris Ellinger established '/7/c Jewish 7 iincs
and was associated editor.
The seeds of the reform movement which he had
sown in New Orleans fructified and in 1871 he was in-
vited to return to this city and take charge of the new
reform congreg-ation known as the Temple Sinai.
which call he accepted and in November, of that year,
he laid the corner stone of the Temple which now or-
naments Carondelet street between Howard avenue
and Calliope street. In 1872 he entered upon his duties
as Rabbi. From that date until his death, June 11,
188(i, he, with unrelenting devotion and attention,
ministered to this large and influential congregation,
constantly widening- and enlarging its infiuence until
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its membership are associated with numerous charities Dr. Gutheim was a man of great breadth of view,
in this city. Rev. Dr. (iutheim made it a strong- cen- of deep research and of a high degree of culture. In
ter of relig-ious Jewish intluence, not only in New Or- those studies incident to his profession he was thor-
leans, but of the entire South, its principles of reform oughly equipped and was also well stored with his-
permeatinsj- almost every cong-reg'ation in this section. toric fore of all kinds. His vast erudition enabled
Dr. Gutheim took an active and prominent part in him to ably cope with all the great problems of his
founding- and promoting thtv success of many chari- day. He was ever the champion of Truth and man-
table institutions in New Orleans. fully defended the faith of the Israelites. His sweep
He was the principal mover in the org-anization of of thought led him to heig-hts not frequently reached,
the Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows" and and his power of oratory enabled him to rivet the at-
Orphans' and was successively its Secretary, Treas- tention of his larg-e audiences upon whatever theme
urer and Vice-President, which latter office he held for his versatile mind selected.
a number of years. In 1858 Dr. (iutheim married Miss Emilie, a daugh-
Of the Touro Infirmary he was the First Vice- ter of Mr. I. I. Jones, a prominent merchant of Mo-
President from its org-anization in 1S55 until his death bile, Ala., who with cheerful mien and courageous
in 188(). He was a member and President of the He- heart faithfully fultilled the duties of a Rabbi's wife,
brew Benevolent Association from the date of his seconding his every effort for the up-lifting of what-
residence in this city. ever community in which their
During his official career he lotwas cast. In none, however,
dedicated Temples for Hebrew have their lives made a deeper or
worship in Louisville, Ky.; St. more lasting- impression than in
Louis, Mo.; Cincinnati, Ohio; San
this city, where his widow still
resides.
Antonio, Tex.; Mobile and Mont-
Dr. Gutheim was an inlluential
gomery, Ala.; New Orleans and
other cities.
member of the Conference of
Charities, the New Orleans Aux-
For several years, from 1867, he iliary Sanitary Association, the
was a member of the Board of Louisiana Educational Society,
Directors of the public schools of
the Louisiana Historical Society,
New Orleans and its acting pres- the Society of the Red Cross and
ident.
a Counsellor of the Society of
As an author and sermonizer Civics.
he attained wide celebrity.
a He died on June 11, 1886, and
Many of his works have been pub- his remains, for the first time,
lished, the most noted being the in the Jewish history of Louis-
"Temple Pulpit" and a trans- iana, lay in state in the Temple
lation from the German of the until June 14, when they were in-
fourth volume of the "History terred. The following prominent
of the Jews" by Dr. H. Graetz; gentlemen, representing- all creeds,
also from the Hebrew about half acted as pall bearers:
of the Book of Psalms. In ad- Gov. S. D. McEnery, Mayor J.
dition to which his popular col- V. Guillotte, A. Lehman, Presi-
dent Touro Synagog-ue; M. Frank,
lections of Hymns for the Tem- President Temple Sinai; M.
ple Emanuel. Heidenheim, President Gates of
One of his most pleasing ren- Prayer; Z. Bruenn, President
ditions of the Hebrew is the fol- Ternime Derech; Julius Weis,
lowing- translations
ISAAC SCMERCK, President Touro Infirmary; E. I.
of the 23rd
Ex-President, Jewish Widows' ond Orphans' Home Kursheedt, President Jewish W.
Psalm:
& O. Home; Edward Fenner,
The Lord's mv Shepherd ever more. President Sanitary Association; S. B. Newman, Pres-
By
I bhall not want, nf»r e'er shall pine.
tranquil streams. He'll place my store ident Conference of Charities; Hon. Chas. Gayarre,
On pastures sweet malie me recline. President Historical Society; Jno. Kruttschnitt, Rep-
He cheers my soul for his own sake.
He ever leads in virtue's wake. resenting Red Cross Society; Hon. Louis Bush, Pres-
ident Louisiana Educational Society.
And though 1 walk throuph shades of Heath
Through silent vales (»' mortal gloom— The State Senate, then in session, upon motion of
I fear no harm from mould'ring breath,
Ood is with me beyond the t(»mb. Hon. Larry O'Donnell of New Orleans adopted the
His rod and staff will' surely be following resolution and adjourned out of respect for
My comfort in eternity.
his memory:
Sly
My
wants he kindly will supply.
table in his love i)repare.
"Be It Rk:solved, By the Senate of Louisiana that
Despite the glance of envy's eye we mournfully deplore the death of Rev. James K.
Ood will sustain me iii his'care. Gutheim, who in life was an exemplary citizen, an
He will with oil annoiot my head
And on my cup his blessings shed. accomplished divine, and a noble philanthropist.
Thus grace and goodness will attend "BeIt Resolved, That in his death the commun-
My journey to lire's hidden shore,
ityhe served with such exceptional devotion for up-
And happiness will crown my end
And be mv portion ever more, wards of forty years has sustained a severe if not an
For God's house I shall. abide
in
And ever bless my heavenly guide. irreparable loss.

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 "Bk It Resolved, That in order that the virtues of
tlie<leceased may live and he perpetuated, and in just
recognition of liis exemphirv life, these resolutions be
spread of record upon the minutes of the Senate and
that the vSenate do adjourn in respect to his memory,
and that a copy of these rtjsolutions be transmitted to
the familv of the deceased si<rned bv the (rovernor
and Lieutenant Governor."
The resolution was unanimously adoi)ted.
The Judg-es of the Civil District Court sitting' cit
htuir listened to an eulogv delivered by Judg^e F. A.
Monroe upon the life and career of the gTeat Rabbi
and at its conclusion, the Court adjourned, a tribute
to the esteem he was borne in.
MEYER M. SIMPSON was one of a coterie of g-en-
tlemen, resident of the citv of New Orleans, over a
half centurv ag^o, whose culture, eng'aging" qualities
and public spirit tended to g'ive eclat to the city in
after years. He was an intimate friend of Judah
Touro and the brilliant minds identified with him in
the plans looking- to the advancement of the city and
laying- the foundation of the g-reat charities that are
a pride to our people to-day.
Mr. Simpson was born in Charleston, S. C, in 1823,
a lineal descendant of a representative family whose
Judaism was never questioned and of which they were
justly proud. He received an education in the best
schools of South Carolina and while a youth barely in
his teens, came to New Orleans where he secured em-
ployment in a commercial enterprise as a clerk.
Apt and trained in the school of experience, he mas-
tered the intricacies of commercial and financial suc-
cess and before he was in the full prime of manhood
he embarked into business on his own account. A starting ag-ain at the bottom of the ladder.
shrewd financier and business man, whose integ-rity
and honesty was fullv apj)reciated by the public, his
career as a banker and broker for over thirty con-
secutive years was a continuous success, creditable to
himself and profitable to his patrons.
Mr. Simpson never deviated from the jiath of duty
he had been reared in and the communal interests of
that era found in him not onlv an ardent member but
an untiring- worker. His earliest experience in phil-
anthropic work was in the dread days when Yellow
Fever devastated the citv year after year, leaving- in
the trail of the "Yellow Demon," homeless, friendless
widows and bereft, hapless orphans.
When the proposition was discussed bv representa-
tive Jews to found a haven for Jewish Widows and
Orphans, Mr. Simpson not onlv acquiesced but with
indomitable zeal applied himself to the noble task.
He was a participant in the various preliminarv meet-
ing's and was present at the memorable meeting" in the
Armory Hall on November 25, 1854, presided over by
(iershom Kursheedt, and among" others present were
the lamented Gutheim and Georg-e Jonas, and other
g-entlemen whose meuiories will be ever cherished.
When all the details of org-anization were completed
and the Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows
and Orphans a reality and the Jewish Widows' and
Orphans' Home a certainty M. M. Simpson was
elected president.
"No storied urn or animated bust" are required to
perpetuate the memory of the courtly, talented M. M.
Simpson. As long- as there are Jewish Orphans to
house and educate in the paths of the rig"hteous, and
Jewish widows to comfort and provide for, the name
of M. M. Simpson, first president of the Association
for the Relief of Jewish Widows and Orphans, will be
reverentlv recalled and his memorv blessed.
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ISAAC SCHERCK was a type of the honest, ardent
indefatig-able voutlis, who, turning away from the as-
sociations of their childhood, parents, home, kindred
and friends, came to the United States to carve out
their own career.
Isaac Scherck was born in Posen, Prussia, Decem-
ber 25, 1833, where he received a preliminary educa-
tion according- to the system then in vog-ue. At the
'age of thirteen vears he emig-rated to the United
States, his capital, good health, and the equivalent of
fiftv dollars. Coming- South his first effort in earning-
a living was as a clerk in a countrv store in Summit.
Miss.
His experience proved to his advantage, for, after
sev^eral years, he branched out in business on liis own
account. His honest methods won friends for him,
and step by step he laid the foundation of a success-
ful business career which yielded for him in after
years a fortune.
But the thoughts and methods of Mr. Scherck werp
not all centered in business. He took an active inter-
est in public affairs, and, as he afterwards demon-
strated was a thoroug-h Southerner.
In 18()1 when the South resounded with the alarums
of war, Mr. Scherck enlisted in a Mississippi reg-iment
as a private and went to the front. With his com-
panions he faced disaster and death upon many a hotlv
contested battlefield. His couragfe and tacit obedience
to orders won for him advancement and during- the
latter vears of the war he had risen to the rank of
Majt)r an<l Chief Commissary, Confederate States
Army.
When war was over Major Scherck returned to
the
and resumed his business career, practically
civil life,
In 1S(>(>
he wedded Miss Esther Marks.
Devoting himself to his business he made rapid
strides and after years of marked activity and success
removed to New Orleans where he became a member
of the cotton house, Alcus, Scherck & Autev.
Thougfh untiring" in attending to the details of his
ever increasing business, Mr. Scherck found time to
devote to the study and precepts of Fraternities and
was an honored Mason as well as identified with other
charitable org-anizations, among- these the Association
for the Relief of Jewish Widows and Orjihans of
which he was President at one time.
Ever actuated bv a high sense of honor and dutv.
Major Scherck always occupied a first place in the
hearts of friends, his most casual acquaintances in
turn yielding of their esteem for him. His death,
which occurred in 1888, was deplored for in his passing"
an honored and useful citizen was lost to the
connnunitv.
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the memorv of the many who aided in all good and
noble projects in the past.
Of those who participated in afl^airs, commercial,
communal and social of a half centurv ago there are
three survivors at this date, Joseph Simon, Jos. H.
Marks and Jos. Magner.
Among- those g"one before, whose memory are re-
called with reverence are Georg"e Jonas, the Levy
family, the Abrams, Emanuel, the Florance family,
the Jose])h family, the Marks family, and others of
equal imjxn-tance of that era.
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These representative people were practical, zealous
Israelites, their descendants none the less ardent, and
were honored by their fellow citizens. Some of these
were leaders in the professions and callinj^s of learn-
ing", others astute business men, who laid the founda-
tion of the prosperity of New Orleans.
Dr. L. Crawcour, was a compeer of the celebrities
I.
of New Orleans of over fifty years ag^o whose g-entle
deeds of kindness and ministration to the sick are a
pleasant recollection of the best known people of the
city to-day. Born, reared and educated in Enufland,
possessing- a keen and analytical mind, he studied med-
icine in the most renowned schools of Engfland, fitting-
himself thoroug-hly for his profession. Graduating-
with honors he came to New Orleans in the early '40s
and at once entered upon an active career in the prac-
tice of medicine and allied sciences. His ability and
scholarly attributes were recognized and the practi-
tioners of medicine in New Orleans recognized in him
a peer of peers. Associated with the leading profes-
sional men of the city, he was an imposing figure and
factor in Medicine for over forty years. When the
New Orleans College of Medicine was found and dur-
ing its tenure of existence, Dr Crawcour was one of
its professors. Dr. Crawcour was also identified with
the Touro Infirmary for years and was a devoted friend
of the institution. In his demise, the profession
of medicine lost one of its most notable figures
and the community one of its most worthy and dis-
tinguished citizens.
Abel Dreyfous, lilcrali, scholar, tiseful and good
citizen, was also a prominent figure of those da3-s.
Coming from La Belle F^rance in his early manhood,
thoroughly educated in Arts, Sciences and the Law,
he gave his attention to a professional calling and
before long became prominent as "Notaire". Suave,
courteous and competent he built up an immense pat-
ronage and up to his demise, was the leading Notary
Public of the city. While approachable and ever
courteous, his temperament was that of the student,
preferring to occupy himself with his work and his
studies than to waste valuable time in social frivolities.
Nevertheless, Mr. Dreyfous wielded vast influence
and contributed his share to the upbuilding of affairs.
Michel Frank was a compeer of the ardent men
who came from France in their young manhood and
aided in all the plans for the welfare of the Crescent
City in the years gone by. He was modest and un-
assuming and in a quiet and methodical manner pur-
sued the even tenor of his way, as a clerk, as an em-
bryo merchant, as a merchant prince and finally as a
banker. He entered with zest upon anj- plan for the
betterment of conditions. When Congregation Tem-
ple Sinai was projected he took an active interest in
its establishment and was chosen its first president,
occupying that honored position for several successive
years. He was also prominent in other Communal
bodies and in all things exhibited an interest and
loyalty to Judaism.
Henry Kaufman is recalled as a stalwart figure in
affairs of Old New Orleans, a practical man of af-
fairs who, nevertheless, was always found at his post
of duty when Charity called. He came to Louisiana
from the Fatherland in his early manhood and for
upwards of two scores of years was conspicuous in
affairs in this city. He passed away regretted by a
concourse of friends in 1866.
Lambert was a familiar figure, an ardent,
B. Cain
wholesouled gentleman whose memory is zealously
guarded by all who knew his worth and works. He
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was born in 1821, coming hither from his birth place
across the ocean in his youth and at once imbued by
the privileges of citizenship in this great country
allied himself with representative people. His opin-
ions carried weight with them and in all the years of
his life parsed in New Orleans he enjoyed the esteem
and regard of all. Though only in his sixtieth year
when he closed his eyes in slumbers sweet 1881 —
his influence in affairs communal bore good fruits.
Jacob Kohlman, a brainy, courteous, honorable
man was a contemporary of the many Israelites who
aided in founding the reputation the Early Jews in
Louisiana enjoyed. He came likewise to New Or-
leans in his early manhood from his birthplace in
Germany and soon took a prominent position in af-
fairs. He "wrapped the draperies of his couch about
him" like a babe soothed to rest by its mother's
lulaby at the advanced age of 70, his death occurring
in 1897.
Sigmund Katz arrived in New Orleans years ago,
at an era when Jewish Charity knew no such terms as
"Organized" or "Almoners"; years before stately
buildings dedicated to the sick and suffering, the
widowed, orphaned and the aged were dreamt of. He
came provided with no other resources but his good
health and indomitable perseverance to succeed. He
carved out his own career. From an humble begin-
ning he became a small merchant, and as years pass-
en by amassed a fortune becoming a leader in com-
mercial affairs. He was a plain, blunt man, his
wealth and influence not altering his characteristics
especially the habit of expressing his opinion and
standing by his word. He was a power in financial
and commercial affairs his brusque, rugged waj' only
a cloak for a good, great heart, every pulsation of
which throbbed for his fellowman.
Abraham Lehmann was born in Germany leaving
his birthplace and coming to New Orleans when a
young man. He began his career in a most humble
way, but step Ijy step ascended the ladder of success
finally attaining an eminent position in the commer-
cial world. He received many honors at the hands
of his co-workers in Congregation Shaarai Chesed
and afterwards in Touro Synagog, having been pres-
ident for many years. His death in 1889 was mourned
by the people of New Orleans for in his passing an
honored gentleman and useful citizen went to his
Eternal sleep.
Ferdinand Marks, urbane, affable and courteous,
was for many a conspicuous figure in social and com-
mercial circles. While born in the Fatherland he
spent the greater part of his life in New Orleans and
was recognized for his devotion and exertions for the
betterment of the city and its manifold interests. His
life was placid, useful and honorable and his sever-
ance from all that he loved, was most pathetic. He had
bidden farewell to friends to go to Europe on a visit
to the scenes of his childhood and when the steam-
ship was in sight of the white, waved lashed cliffs of
Old England he paid Nature's debt. His demise was
learnt of with great regret and months afterwards
when his remains were brought home for interment
the greatest respect was paid his memory, a grand
concourse of friends being present to do homage to
his splendid reputation as a man.
Alexander Marks is also recalled for his worth and
works. He was likewise a very young man whenhe came
to the city of New
Orleans and worked his way to
fortune and an honorable standing in the community,
among others "whose likes we will ne'er see again."
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 PAST and
Jewish Consresiations PRESENT.

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JTN the endeavor to trace the orig:in of the first con- SHAARAI CHESED.
II g:reg"ation in the city of New Orleans, judffing' The earliest record of a chartered congfreg-ation is
from the opinion of venerable residents dated 1828, when K. K. Shaarai Chesed, Gates of
yet among- us and whose reminiscences date back for Prayer, was incorporated. There is no doubt in the
over a half century, there is no doubt that the first minds of the survivors of manj- important incidents of
assembly for prayers ever convened in Old New Orleans over a half a century ago, that this congreg-ation had
was composed of followers of the Portug-uese ritual. its orig-in. as a Minyau, in the latter part of the 18th
When in reminiscent century-- 1775 to 1780,
vein the veteran Israel- its antecedents tracea-
ites, who can recall in- ble to the Sephardists,
cidents detailed and dis- French and German
cussed by the aged Jews then in New Or-
friends of their youth, leans.
relate of simple family It is regretable that
on the gfreat
g-athering-s the documents pertain-
holy days and festivals ing to its incorporation
in private residences, were destroyed during-
where some one famil- the Civil War by the
iar with the liturgfv and burning of the Capitol
chants sacred and re- Building in Baton
vevered because of their Rouge. However, many
association with the an interesting remines-
era when their ances- cence is associated with
try were in high favor the "Deutsche Shule"
with the aristocracy of as it was most affection-
S])ain and Portug-al. ately known. Years
long before Columbus ago the site and build-
dreamt of the Land be- ing on N. Rampart
yond the Sea. street, between Conti
It was simply in ac- and St. Louis streets
cord with custom that was acquired and util-
these Minvanim —as- ized until this congre-
semblies for the pur- gation amalgamated
poses of prayer -for, with the Portuguese
wherever ten — a quo- Congregation, which
rum — Jews can be found Synagogue of K. K. Shaarai Chesed. will be referred to un-
at stated intervals such der its proper caption.
The Old Deutsche Shule on North Rampart Street.
services were held. The congregation
However, the location prospered as years
of the earliest houses for prayer are conjecture. It is passed by and prominent and learned ministers occu-
asserted that nearly a century ago, as is in vog-ue even pied its pulpit, among these, recalled even to this day,
caused a divergence in
to this day, the ritual of prayer were Harris, Kaufman, Mosche, Rosenfield, Davidson,
the methods of the early comers. The Spanish, Por- Gutheim and Rabbi Leucht, the only surviving min-
tuguese and Hollanders formed one coterie, following- ister of the old Shule.
the Portug-uese method of chants and prayers; the NEFUSAH YEHUDAH.
(jerman had their peculiar Minhag-, and later the Pol- Meanwhile the flower of Judaism, those reared in
ish, Russian, etc., followed. and devoted to the Sephardic ritual, jealously pre-

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served their ritual and, whenever occasion offered, a Gershom Kursheedt was elected its first president,
Minyan assembled. An incident of the fealty of the and the following gentlemen were at different epochs
Sephardists to their faith is recorded, dating' back to his successors: J. J. Joseph, George Jonas, J. L.

the holiest of holidays, the New Year and Day of Levy, A. H. DeMeza, Captain B. Moses and L. A.
Atonement in 1845. Levy, Jr., who was the last president of the Portu-
Mr. E. h. Andrews, a prominent g-entleman and guese Congregation.
ardent Israelite residing- on Camp street, on a site The ministers of the Congregation Nefusah I'ehiidah
near the Memorial Hall, offered the use of his palatial were: M. N. Nathan, James K. Gutheim, Henry S.
home to those of his Sephardic friends who desired to Jacobs and J. H. M. Chumaciero, while Morais and
hold services. The invitation was cheerfully accepted De Silva were Secretaries of the hallowed old Synago-
and when the improvised congregation had assem- gue as well as serving as Sextons.
bled, the question rose who was among- the number Judah Touro presented the congregation with a
familiar with Hebrew and the ritual and who thus building, situated at the corner of Canal and Bourbon
could act as Minister or streets, which was util-

Chazan. Among- the ized as a Synagogue.

g-uests was E. J. Solo- The list of members
mon, a captain in the at that time, in addi-
United States Army, nam-
tion to the officers
and he volunteered to ed were: Abramson,
J.

perform the function, Alexander Abrams, B.

and he demonstrated Abrams, I. P. Abrams,
by his reading- in the J. M. Abrams, J. C.

"Holy tong-ue" and Abrams, M. Barnett,

chanting- the ritual ac- Dr. Joseph Bensadon,
cording- to the Portu- Alex. A. Cohn, Dr. I.

guese Minhdii his abil- L. Crawcour, A. H.

ity, to the g-reat delig-ht DeMeza, Mrs. A. C.
of his auditors. DePass, Geo. W. Ellis,

This gathering- prov- B. Emanuel, A. T. Eze-

ed an incentive to
followers of the Portu-
gese Ritual, and a few
weeks afterwards K. K_
Neftisah Trhudah, Con-
gregation Dispersed of
Judah, was founded and
incorporated.
Gentlemen prominent
in social, commercial
and civic affairs, were
signatories of the Char-
ter, which was exam-
ined and attested, on
June 8th, 1847, by L.
Sigur, District Attorney, on the same date attested in Geo. Nathan, Jos. Osterman, Ph. Runkel, S. Runkel,
the Executive OfBce, in the City of New Orleans and
kiel, H. Florance, L.
the
Florance, A. Friedlan-
der, David Goodman,
B. B. Hart, L. J. Har-
ris, A. D. Y. Henriques,
J. D. Henriques, J. M.
Isaacs, Edward Jacobs,
Joseph, H. Kohl- J. J.
meyer, E. L. Levy, I.
C. Labatt, J. L. Levy,
L. A. Levy, Jr., L. L.
Levy, S. L. Levy, D.
Lopez, Alex. Marks,
D. H. Marks, Hillel
TOURO SYNAGOGUE. Marks, Jos. Mendes, S.
Moses, S. L. Moss,
J. M. Seixas, Jos. Simon, M. M. Simpson, I. J. Salo-

on June 11, the Charter was approved by Charles
Gayarre, Secretary of State.
The following names were appended to the Charter:
J.L. Levy, A. C. Labatt, Jos. C. DePass, A. T.
Ezekiel, I. Rodrigues, Jacob Ezekiel, G. Kursheedt,
Henry Florance, Lewis Florance, Joseph Moss, Judah
Barrett, L.J. Solomon, David C. Labatt, L C. Labatt,
Samuel DePass, Adolphe Hecht, L. Hertz, Aaron
Harris, J. C. Peixotto, Chapman Solomon, C. M.
Hyams, Sam'l. L. Harby, E. Sampson, Isaac Soria
and L. A. Levy, Jr.
mon, S. P. Solomon, Isaac Wolf.
After a number of years had elapsed, the congrega-
tion having grown to important proportions, the site,
now known as the Touro Synagogue, was secured
185'>— and the Portuguese Congregation continued its
course of prosperity, under the wise administration of
honored officers, it always standing pre-eminent in
communal work.
An interesting episode in connection with the found-
ing of the Portuguese Congregation and the royal
gift of Judah Touro was his presenting Dr. Clapp, a

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distinjjfuished Unitarian divine, with a church for the The first Miiiviiii in that part of New Orleans that
use of that denomination. This edifice was situated secured a location for the purposes of holding services
at the corner of Canal and Dauphin street, near the met on Washing-ton Avenue, down-town side, near the
site of the Grand Opera House. Later the Unita- corner of Constance street. Then a house was secur-
rians disposed of the building- to what is now known ed, now Chippewa and
the site of a drug- store, corner
as Christ Church
Cathedral, Episcopalians. The First streets. Afterwards members met in a house
Unitarians secured a site and church on St. Charles situated at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Seventh
street near Julia, recently demolished and converted streets.
into a Court and flower g-arden, the Unitarians remov- Four scores of years ag-o, situated in the center of a
ing- to the upper districts. lot, intersecting Fulton and St. Mary streets was a
THE TOURO SYNA(iOGUE frame structure, which was utilized as a
sing;le storv
had its origin in the fusion of the Congregation school house and as a church. The front of the
S/i(i(nai Lliesed — the Deutche Shule— once upon a time modest structure, access to which was a single door,
a landmark on N. Ram- faced St. Marv street.
part street, and the K. while on Fulton
the
K. A'efiisah Teluidah, street side a high fence
the Portug-uese Congre- screened the house
g- at ion. Rev. I. L. from the sig-ht of pass-

Leuclit, being- chosen ers by.

as minister. The old school house,
The amalgamation, in even to-day doing- ser-
1881, resulted in giv-
vice on the corner of
ing^ NewOrleans a rep-
the streets named, and
resentative congrega-
tion wherein conserva- giving shelter to its
tive Judaism is pre- tenant, is a part of the
served. history of the Early
Its officers at this date Jews in Louisiana.
are the following repre-
On January 13, 1850,
sentative and w e - 1 1

known gentlemen: a g-eneral meeting- was

called for the purpose
Leonard Krower,
of creating out of the
President; Gus Leh-
mann, Jr First Vice-
,
Miiiyaii, time honored,
Pres ; M. Waldhorn. and a useful factor in
Second Vice-President; Jewish charity for years
Sam Lowenberg.Treas- before, with the object
urer and G. Aletrino,
of taking- steps to
Secretary.
found a Cong-reg-ation.
JACKSON AVENUE Abraham DeYoung-
SYNAGOGUE. ( whose family and des-
New Orleans, eighty cendants are prominent
years ago, had lines of in affairs in Califor-
demarcation and in the Lyons, Jacob nia) I.

respective districts Meyer, B. Goldenburg,

special Minyanim were Congregation Qates of Prayer Synagogue. S. Leopold, Isaac Hech-
organized, each in turn inger, M. Baer, D. Cahn.
becoming later the nucleus of org-anization of the Con- E. Long, Charles Goldenburg, L. Leopold, D. Hirsch,
g-regations. G. Walsh, I. Isaacson, I. Dreyfus, E. Lazar, S. Lazar
Among- the venerable Israelites of the city, reminis- and F. Bachrach responded to the call.
cences are treasured of the "Old Lafayette," as the Organization was then and there effected by the
upper district of that era, in and about Jackson Ave- election of Abraham De Young, as President, Jacob
nue, was denominated. Mayer, Vice-President and Hayem Kaufman, as Min-
Earl_v in the30'sa Chcvra — Society—was organized, ister, these gentlemen occupying these postions for
its objects and purposes was to aid the poor, nurse the many consecutive years.
sick and give religious burialthe dead. Previous
to The name Shdurai Tefila Congregation Gates of
were held on the Sab-
to that time relig-ious services Prayer was selected and has been borne by this worthy
communal affairs since that day.
factor in
bath and holidays, and the Jewish element of that
The congregation consisted of about thirty members
section of the city preserved, the ceremonialism in and its first step was to purchase the "little School
which thevhad been born and reared in the Fatherland, House" which was converted into a Synagogue and at

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the time used as a school house, where many of
saiiiL' was inaugurated years before by the greatest of Amer-
ican Rabbis, the lamented, Isaac M. Wise, of Cincin-
our notable Jewish people of to-day. received the tirst
nati, Ohio, founder of the Hebrew Union College, the
rudiments of their education. Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the
On January 24, IS.SO, the City Council of New Or- Central Conference of American Rabbis.
leans was petitioned and in due course of time the The reform movement was instituted so as to give to
Hebrew Rest on Joseph street was consecrated as the American Israelites a uniform ritual with a view of
ground of the Congretfation. uniting the different elements, each of whom in their
burial
efforts to transplant the customs of their fathers on
In 185"> the Cong-regation secured the site of the
American soil, brought about a greater divergence in
present Synaufosfue on Jackson avenue and in 1860, the ritualistic observances.
buildinij;- bein.tir erected, was consecrated to its purposes. The culmination of the agitation for a congregation
"The holv of holies" occupying- to-<lay a place in based upon Reform Judaism was the organization ofCon-
the sanctuary on Jack- gregation Temple Si-
nai, founded in 1872,
son Avenue, was con-
the magnificent struc-
structed in 1S.=,(), by Mr. ture, architectually per-
J. Diez, who departed fect, an ornament
this life a few weeks among the sacred edi-
ago, and presented to fices reared in New Or-
leans on Carondelet
the congregation while
street, being dedicated
meeting- in the old
later.
"School House." V Mr. Michel Frank
The ministers who was its first president
served Cong-reg-ation and Mr. Joseph Simon,
Gates of Prayer, a participant in the or-
from its inception to ganization of the As-
date were Hayem :
sociation for the Relief
Kaufman, M. Wurt- of Jewish Widows and
zel, I. Hechinger, Cerf. C )rphans and a past pres-
Rosenberg, Mosche, ident of the old Hebrew
Max Moses, L. Weiss, Benevolent Association,
A. Schverski, M. Eis- being chosen its first
senberg. Rev. Dr. Jacol)- vice-president, a posi-
son, M. Korn, Rabbi tion he has held since
M. Sessler and Samson Temple Sinai was
Cerf, the incuml>ent at founded.
this writing. Mr. Julius Weis, the
The following, a copy honored philanthropist,
from a tally sheet dat- succeeded Mr. Michel
ed, January 1st, 1851,
Frank and served with
advantage to the con-
is of historical interest, gregation for the better
giving names of mem- part of its existence.
bers present at a meet- He was succeeded by
ing held that date. Mr. Max Dinkelspiel",

L. Lehman, N. Guns- who in was suc-

turn
ceeded by Mr. Henry
berger, Charles Gol- Newman when Mr. Weis
denberg-, D. Hirsch, I. was again prevailed
Hechinger, B. Golden- TEMPLE SINAI. upon to accept the pres-
burg, H. Katton, M. idency, he finalh' declin-
Levy, Abe De Young, L. Leopold, J. Lyons. S. Leo- ing on account of advancing years and with a desire to
pold, Jacob Salm, H. Asher, M. Baer. Jacob Blum, have younger men assume the honors and responsi-
F. J. Backrach, D. Cahn, M. Oury, G. Welsh, H. bilities. Mr. Maurice Stern of Lehman, Stern & Co.,
Kampman, M. Goldstucker, B. Dreyfus, N. Schwab, was his successor and under his administration the
L Isaacson, J. Leopold, Wolf Sahn.M. Aronstein. M. prestige of Temple Sinai is sustained.
Heidenheim, Aron Feitel, A. Kaufman, J. Dreyfous, Rabbi James K. Gutheim was chosen minister on its
Maier Kaufman, David Cohn, Jacob Hirsch, N. Guni- founding-, dedicating the corner-stone of the Temple.
bel, S. Wolf, the sexton and J. Deitz. On the death of Rabbi Gutheim the pulpit was given
A glance at the above names recalls vividly the for- t)ver to its present incumbent Rabbi Max Heller. Rev.
bears of some of our representative families who to- Julius Braunfeld, Cantor of Temple Sinai was chosen
day are as active in communal work as the prede- for that position in 1805, and his artistic ability and
cessors named. magnificent voice, coupled with the distinguished
CONGREGATION TEMPLE SINAI services of Rabbi Heller has created of Temple Sinai
had its origin in the wave of Reform Judaism, which the foremost congregation in the South.

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accord with time honored custom the Jewish
IT colony in New Orleans, nearly a century ago,
—
already had an org-anization possibly several
— for the purposes of assemblj' on the Sabbath or at
least on the great holy days.
There is no doubt that consecrated ground, for
purposes of burial, was also included in those days
legend asserts that a Jewish burial ground was sit-
uated at that time adjacent to the old St. Louis street
—
cemetery nevertheless, the starting point of chari-
table and synagogal bodies positively had its origin
in that epoch.
In 1828 the first step taken by the zealous and
charitable inclined Jews in New Orleans toward lay-
ing the corner-stone of Charities they never even
dreamt of attaining the position they enjoy in the
was the organization of a charity named the
present,
Hebrew Benevolent Society, among its promoters re-
called even after the lapse of all these years being
Judah Touro, Alexander Phillips, Alexander Isaacs,
Abraham Labatt, Morris Jacobs, Aaron Daniels,
Abraham Plotz, Abraham Greene and Hyam Harris.
The Association from its incipiency was wedded
to performing Jewish Charity in the full acceptance
of the term and such acts of kindness that bring the
Sunshine of Joy into the lives of those overburden
with griefs or cast down by sorrow.
One of the earliest incidents in the history of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society was the purchase of
ground for the purposes of establishing a cemetery.
What was deemed ample and properly situated ground
was secured in a then suburb of the city, t'p-day the
heart of the city, Jackson avenue between S. Ram-
part and Saratoga streets.
The ground was purchased, fenced in and duly
consecrated, among the most active workers in this
hallowed cause being Hyam Harris. This all iirt-
portant event in the history of the Hebrew Benevo-
lent Society occurred early in 1828.
A
remarkable incident associated with this, the
firstJewish Cemetery known to have been opened in
New Orleans, that after its consecration the remains
of several corpses were removed from the Old St.
Louis street cemetery and interred in consecrated
ground, but this is not known to be positively' cor-
rect.
However,the first interment in the "Hebrew
Rest" occurred in the afternoon of June 28, 1828,
^m .im ^ ^
when the remains of Hyam Solomon were bedded in
Mother Earth to sleep the sleep of the righteous.
Forty years later, in 1868, the Hebrew Benevolent
Society amalgamated with the Touro Infirmary, and,
combined, continue to prosecute charitable work, sus-
taining the prestige that has been enhanced, year by
year, and every striving to do its duty to the poor
and needy among us.
TOURO INFIRMARY.
A
retrospective thought of kindly, gracious deeds
for love of fellowmen, in the earl}' days of the Jewish
history of Louisiana, leaves much to imagery. It
must not be overlooked that at that epoch the very
few Jews who located in the then colony, or happen-
ed to visit it, were sturdy pioneers, traders, of Span-
ish or French heritage. Instinct always plays an im-
portant part in the recognition of those of Jewish
to. h and the same instinct coupled with a knowledge
that the Jew is never charj- or unwilling to relieve
the distresses of a fellow sufferer, no doubt strength-
ened the bonds between them.
It is no freak of the Imagination to say with as-
surance that the early settlers practiced most com-
mendable and praiseworthy acts of charity and that
Charity was the link that united all of the professors
of Judaism.
Yet, no record exists beyond that of 1828, the date
of the organization of the Hebrew Benevolent Asso-
ciation, and, it is to be regretted, that time in its
flight has. in part, effaced the transactions of this
sublime body of charitable workers.
In the early part of 1820, when Judah Touro was
a conspicuous figure in social, commercial and com-
munal activities perfunctory reliefs were extended
those in want with a liberality always notable in
Jewish circles.
As the Jewish colon}- became augmented by the
arrival of new comers from European lands, as well
as the North, East and Southern States, the field
of Charitable work widened but found augmentation
at the instance of those better favored by Prosperity.
Among the notables coming from other sections of
the United States was a young physician, an ardent
student and thoroughly equipped by University train-
ing for his professional career. Doctor Bensadon of
Charleston, S. C.
Judah Touro admired the young practitioner of
the Art and Science of Medicine, honored him for
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The demands for an Infirmary presented itself to the horns of commercial activity and it became nec-
the charitably inclined Touro. was an
Yellow fever essary to take steps to secure another and more suit-
incident of each and every summer and the facilities able location and arrange for the construction of a
offered the poor and needy sick were limited. modern building on approved sccientific lines.
Without any pomp or parade Judah Touro secured There are many cherished memories associated
by purchase the Paulding- Mansion, situated at what with the old Infirmary, which only some years after
is now known as the corner of Gaiennie and Tchoup- its founding by Judah Touro was given his name.

itoulas streets. The most ardent of its admirers were the intimate
The Paulding Home, that era, was a notable
at friends and acquaintances of Judah Touro, gentle-
private residence, with an unobstructed view of the men composing the Hebrew Benevolent Association,
Great Father of Waters sweeping majestically on- which from the opening of the Infirmary acted in
ward to the sea. surrounding were rural and not
Its unison with the intentions of the great Philan-
much beyond it luxuriant fields of cane flourished thropist whose name will be cherished by the Jews
and made glad the hearts of a contented people. ill Louisiana forever.
Ornate and stately in its architectural lines, roomy The scope of humaneness, the demands for Charity

THE TOURO INFIRHARY.

and airy, it was secured by Judah Touro, equipped increased continually, and after the death of Judah
as an Infirmary and Dr. Bensadon placed in charge, Touro, an association was formed, bearing his name
who demonstrated his ability, not only as Execu- which took upon itself the management of the Touro
tive but as a general practitioner of Medicine and Infirmary. In 186S the old and time honored Hebrew
Surgery, for the many years that he was identified Benevolent Association and this association united,
with its management. forming the Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent
With his accustomed g-oodness of heart Judah Association.
Touro made the provision that every necessitous Jew During all these years the Infirmary and the He-
applying should be admitted and given every atten- brew Benevolent Association were greatly hampered
tion and service, just as much so as those able to for want of space. During the later years of Touro's
contribute to its support. life and in fact for years afterwards the Infirmary

The Infirmary occupied the Paulding mansion for
years after "Old New Orleans" because absorbed in
the progressive Crescent City. The rural surround-
ings gave way to the impetus of factories and resi-
dences, the shriek of the "Iron Horse" coursing
along the river front, the din and rattle of manifold
industries established in the vicinity, all became a
47
was not only a haven for the Jew suddenly stricken
by disease, but incurables, cripples and others took
advantage of its charity. It is even recorded that
entire families of poor or homeless Jews would in-
vade it and remain wards of the institution until
provided with more suitable quarters.
With the inception of Organized Charity and a
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better understanding of the needs of institutions, the the first spade full of Earth, and. amidst ap])lause,
Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent Association, Nathan Shwartz performed that duty.
I. K'ahbi
led by practical men of affairs, began plans for the Iveucht followed and then the lamented Frederick
general betterment of conditions. Loeber, M. D., for years Chief Surgeon, in turn fol-
lowed by the following distinguished and repre enta-
JULIUS WEIS HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM.
tive gentlemen: Messrs. Henry Abraham, Joseph
With the orphans safely housed amidst most ele- Magner, Archibald A. Marks, Henry Stern, Nat.
gant surroundings in the "Home", and, the sick and Stratiss, Leonard Krower, L. A. Livaudais, Archi-
suffering, sheltered neath the splendidly equipped
tect; Fred. Reusch, builder and others.
Infirmary, the next thought was to found a haven
The spade, of solid silver, mounted on an ebony
for Aged and Infirm Israelites.
handle l^ore the following inscription: "Presented
The Touro Infirmary always had room and food for
toRabbi I. L. Leucht, Chairman of the Building
the aged and homeless Israelite, but its progressive
management realized that the wards and buildings Committee, on the day of breaking ground for the
utilized for the sick were no fitting place for aged, Home for Aged and Infirm, March 2, IS')'), b^' the
homeless and friendless people. Board of Officers."
Under the
Thequestion
deft hands of
of a haven, ded-
icated solely
artisans the
for the p u r -
Home was soon
reared and then
poses of the
shaped for its
aged, had been
furnishing so
discussed for
as to be opened
some time and,
for the recep-
fi n a 1 1 y, the
tion of its wel-
Board of Man-
agement of the come guests.
Previous to
Touro Infirm-
takingthesteps
ary and Hebrew
Benevolent As-
to rear a Home
sociation decid-
for Aged and
Infirm, $1.S,000
ed that the time
was propitious had been secur-
ed by contritiu-
to rear such an
edifice.
tions, hence, no
The plans doubt existed
once conceived in the minds of
were put into the Association
that the plans
operation. A decided upon
section of the would be car-
squareonwhich ried out in de-
the Touro In- The Julius Weis Home for the Aged Gift of Mr. Julius Weis. tail.
firmary is situ- Plans a n d
ated was designated for the purpose, and, on Thurs- specifications for the construction of a Home for the
day afternoon, March 2, IS')'), at 3:30 o'clock, with- Aged and Infirm were called for and finally accepted.
out pomp or ceremonial the first steps were taken.
The Association was profoundly interested in the
work because sufficient money, at least, for its con-
There was no prearranged program, the officers and struction, was in the Treasury
— —
as to the future, the
Board of Managers of the Association, several officers care of the Old Folks "God would provide."
of District Grand Lodge No. 7, I. O. B. B., a number From distant Baden-Baden came a missive, wafted
of ladies, whose devotion to Jewish philanthropy has by cablegram, a free will offer to assume the cost of
been their life's work and representatives of the constructing and furnishing the Home, and, on Sep-
press being present.
tember 16, IS'i'J, the president of the Touro Infirmary
and Hebrew Benevolent Association was notified that
Proceeding to the space allotted for the projected Mr. Julius Weis had donated S25,000 for the specific
building, Mr. N. I. Shwartz, President of the Asso- purpose of defraying the expenses of building and
ciation, in a few remarks presented to Rabbi I. L. furnishing the Home which bears his name.
Leucht a minature spade in silver, requesting him to On Sunday afternoon, September 17, 18':>9, a special
break the ground. The respected reverend responded meeting of the Board was convened and the magni-
feelingly in appreciation of the honor and in turn re- ficent gift of Mr. Julius Weis accepted with enthu-
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 On Friday September 22, 1899, in the little
nig-ht,
Weis Home, the dedicatory
S3'nag-og-ue of the Julius
services were consummated in the presence of the
children and grand-children of the Philanthropist,
Julius Weis, and distinguished representatives of the
various Hebrew charities, associations and fratern-
ities, Rabbi Leucht conductin.a^ the exercises, a bril-
liant program of sacred music and eloquence being
the order of exercises, a fitting- climax to the g-reat
work and the equally great charity of Julius Weis.
On Sunday afternoon, November 19, 1899. a public
reception was accorded Mr. Julius Weis at the Home
bearing- his name when elaborate and eloquent exer-
cises were in order, participated in by Messrs. N. I.
Shwartz, Gustave Lemle, Rabbi Leucht, Dr. Joseph
Holt and Ur. F. Loeber.
Exquisite resolutions were voted and Mr. Weis in
turn made a few sententious remarks of appreciation
for the honors shown him
but disclaimed doing
more than a duty for, said
he: "When I had the
honor of being the pres-
lous, rare and priceless, can compare with the gran-
deur of beneficent deeds of men and women, whose
ministration to the poor and needy, the distressed
and soul weary, the afflicted and sufferers fever tossed
upon beds of pain, or the widowed, and liomeless,
friendless Orphans.
And such monuments for the harboring of the
widow, the care and education of the Orphans, the
sick and the aged are imperishable monuments, ex-
hibiting in a two fold character, the grandeur of
the conception of the founders, and the gratitude of
those, who were it not for the thoughtfulness of the
noble men and women, would be waifs on the Sea of
Life, buffetted by the waves of Adversity, finally to
be engulfed beneath the seething, restless waves of
Sorrowful Lives.
Viewing the magnificent structure, the Jewish Or-
phans' Home, nestling midst sylvan surroundings on
St. Charles avenue, in the
very heart of the residen-
tial district that has
made New Orleans famed
throughout the World, it

ident of the Touro In- is difficult to realize that

firmary, I found that a a half century had elaps-
separate building was ed since the seed was
necessary to make the old implanted in kindly
folks more comfortable. hearts which resulted in
bringing about the re-
And, having this idea
sults, apparently beyond
in mind ever since, it af-
the dreams, aspirations
forded me the greatest
and fondest realization
pleasure to have relieved of those great hearted
your institution of the inaugurators of the move-
cost of erectingthis build- ment which called into
ing." existence one of the great-
of Charities the
JEWISH ORPHANS est in
Old Jewish Orphans' Home, Jackson and Chippewa Sts. history of the Jews in
HOME. Louisiana.
When the World was young-, nomadic races, others New Orleans at all times was cosmopolitan in
whose vain glorious deeds delighted in wars, suc- character, unostentatious in its Charities, magnifi-
ceeded in others by generations of individuals of ar- cent in its methods, and as far back as 1828 no ap-
tistic temperaments or Sybaritic tastes, each in turn peal for the suffering fell upon heedless ears, no hand
left their impressions, from the mounds, crypts, pyra- was idle when Charity made its plea and among the
mids and hieroglyphic carved cuneiform to the exponents of the Creed of Humanity were the He-
famed mausoleums and monuments that are a marvel brews, yielding their mite for the relief of the
to those who stand before them in this enlightened afflicted and caring for their brethren in faith.
era, when, in truth, each crumbling stone is a link In that era consecutive disasters the form of
in
with the ages of the Past. Yellow Fever epidemics created a demand for better
Every nation, race, religion and communit}' can be organization. Year after year widows bereft of their
judged with certainty of its progressiveness, its cul- mates, orphans, left homeless and parentless, were
ture and humane appreciation of full fellowship by exacting charges of the entire community and dur-
itsmonuments, be modest
the}' the chapel reared to
ing all these trying periods the Hebrew Benevolent
God's service, libraries for the encouragement of ar-
Association, at that epoch already a distinguished
dent students, art galleries and museums replete
and useful factor in charitable work, gracefully ac-
with the beautiful or priceless souvenirs of a Nation's
cepted the situation and the enforced guardianship
glory.
However, no monument though wrought of rarest of the survivors — widows
and orphans, of the vic-

marble or burnished bronze, no relic, however fabu- tims of the several Epidemics.

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 With the close of the Epidemic of 1853 the Hebrew charitable nature that Age has enhanced, he was
Benevolent Association were charg-ed with tlie care Almoner as well as executive and, consequently, was
of seven widows and about twenty orphans, and. always intouch with the needy immigrant, the poor,
thanks to the inspiration of ardent professors of the suffering, the widowed and orphaned, not only as
Charity, to give these unfortunates a home indeed Almoner, but as a confidant, advisor and friend.
the Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows and Mr. Simon conferred with his friends, at the time
Orphans became a reality. when the Yellow Scourge had played sad havoc in
Pedestrians of to-dav sauntering- along- Camp street, New Orleans, leaving in its wake, bleeding hearts,
from Canal toward the upper districts, noting- the well inconsolable, starving widows and misery in every
laid streets and elegant banquets, lined on either side guise.
by stately buildings, the great throbbing heart of a James K. Gutheim, Gershom Kursheedt,
L. L.
busy, modern metropolis, can hardly realize that fifty Lew, M. M. Simpson, George Jonas, Joseph Magner,
years ago, in lieu of sidewalks, the gunwals of old Joseph Marks, M. Levison, Alex Phillips and others,
flat boats, the corduroy of huge logs and makeshifts whose names cannot be recalled, responded to the call
gave a footing to those who walked that thorough- and were present at the meeting in the Armory Hall.
fare, which, not Gershom Kur-
many hundred sheedt was call-
feet from the ed to the chair,
corner of Canal c o mm i 1 1 e e s
street marked were appointed
the limits of and subsequent
the then part of meetings were
New Orleans arranged for
above the cen- where plans
tral street, then were discussed.
as now known On March 18,
as Canal street. 1855, a meeting
Conspicuous was held when
among the not- all the plans

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and the Asso-
Camp street
ciation for the
were the thea-
Relief of Jewish
tre or circus and
Widows and
adjacent to it
Orphans w as
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ft)unded, a n d
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M. M. Simpson,
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by Keiffer Bros. gurated by se-
founders and promoters of a local industry. curing ground at the intersection of Jackson Avenue
Within the Armory Hall, on the evening of Novem- and Chippewa street and, on August 7, 1855, in the
ber 25, 1854, was assembled a notable gathering of presence of a g-rand concourse of citizens the corner-
Jews, residents of New Orleans, and, with few excep- stone of the structure, known for years afterwards as
tions, every man in New Orleans with a jot of Jewish the "Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home" was laid
blood coursing in his veins was not onlv an interested with imposing ceremonies, Rabbi James K. Gutheim
spectator but heartily in accord with the objects of being orator of the occasion.
the meeting. On January 8, 185b, Benjamin F. Jonas, distinguish-
To Mr. Joseph Simon, who, to-day, hale and hearty, ed in after years by Senatorial honors and to-day one
though bearing the traces of advanced age, is the of Louisiana's favorite sons, pronounced an Oration
honor due of advocating, if not being the actual orig- when the Home, completed, was turned over to the
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Hebrew Benevolent Association. He
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had devoted much of his time in the years he had been leans.
in New Orleans to charitable work, and being quali- In the score of years following, the Home became
fied for the task by experience —
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seek for a new site and erect a modern structure to Address of President K. I. Kursheedt.
meet future requirements. Oration by Leo. N. Levi of Galveston, Orator of
To conceive the idea was to act. The topic was the day.
taken up by the Board of Directors, discussed by the Address by Rev. I. L. Leucht.
Association, endorsed and encourag-ed by the public, Laying of the corner-stone b}- Hon. Jos. P. Horner,
reg-ardlessof reliu^ious beliefs, and steps taken to secure M. W. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge F. & A. M.
the site on St. Charles Avenue. of Louisiana.
On November 25, 1886, the corner-stone of the Jew- Closing- prayer by Rabbi Eisenberg, of Synagog-ue
ish Orphans' Home, as erected on St. Charles, corner Gates of Prayer.
of Peters Avenue, was consecrated in the presence of The officers of the Association at that memorable
a mag'nificent concourse of ladies and g'entlemen, con- time were:
spicuous among- the throng- being- disting-uished ofli- Edwin L Kursheedt, President; Rev. J. K. Gutheim,

cials of the National, State and Municipality, divines First Vice-President; A. Haber, Second Vice-Presi-
of every religious denomination, a grand outpouring- dent; S. Katz, Treasurer; Selim Barnett, Secretary.
of the beautv and chivalry of New Orleans. Directors: Henry Newman, Theo. Berkson, M.
The beautiful ceremony was conducted by the M. Heinemann, Kohn, Alex Levy, Morris Marks,
Jos.
W. Grand Lodg-e, Free and Accepted Masons of Louis- Julius Weis, Gus Lehmann.
iana, the lamented Jurist and notable citizen, Joseph On Part of District Grand Lodge No. 7, L O. B. B.
P. Hornor, M. W. Grand Master presiding. The J. C. Levy, Seymor M3'ers, G. Kahn, Max Dinkelspiel,

Grand Master Ferd. Marks,

pronounced one Nat. Strauss,
of the most elo- Simon Cohn, E.
quent address- M. Tillman.
es, noted for its The Building
diction and Committee was
beauty of ex- composed of the
pression. Col. following prom-
Edwin Kur-I. inent g-entle-

sheedt, read an men:

address, g^iving Simon Hern-
the early his- sheim. Chair-
tory of the As- man; Bertrand
sociation and Beer, Abraham
the institution, Adler, Julius
and, Leo N. Weis, Simon
Levi, the talent- Gumbel, Jos.
ed lawyer, then Simon, Henr3-
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Texas, and now Isaac Scherck,

residing- in New
York, who, among- other honors at- Morris Marks, Dr. F. Loeber, F. Hollander.
tained is the President of the Order of B'nai B'rith, Committee of Arrangements: Rev. L L. Leucht,
delivered an oration which for conception and bril- Chairman; Morris Marks, Isidore Hechinger, Henry
lianc}- is one of the cherished memories of the occasion. Stern, J. K. Gutheim, F. Hollander, Gus Lehraann, Sig
One year afterwards the fondest hopes of the pro- Keiffer, M. Frank, M. Schwabacher, Max Dinkelspiel,
moters were realized The former Home, consecrated A. Gugenheim, Jonas Hiller, S. Mendelshon, F. Gold-
and reared in the name of Charity and dedicated to smith, Alex Levy, Jac. Trautman, Julius Goldsmith.
the Jewish Widows and Orphans in 1855 had passed Jos. Magner, Secretary.
into the possession of the City of New Orleans, but
ISIDORE NEWMAN'S
not to be desecrated, but to be devoted as a Public
School, for the children of New Orleans. The Home
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
as it now is —was given over to Jewish Orphans and A Manual Training School for the educatit)n of
an imperishable monument dedicated for all time was Jewish Orphans in vocations which would ensure them
applied to the purposes for which noble men and a livelihood, when, leaving the Home, they would be
women had applied themselves. compelled to rely on their own efforts, had been a sub-
The program on the occasion of laying the corner- ject of reflection of the Board of Directors of the As-
stone was as follows: sociation having control of the Institution, of friends
Overture. of the Orphans, and of the B'nai B'rith of District
Prayer by Rev. M. Samfield, of Memphis, Tenn. No. 7.
 1 1 1 1 1 1

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 Such a school had been a subject of jreneral discus-
sion, all agreeing- upon its value as an educational
way of consumma-
factor, but, the obstruction in the
ting- was a lack of money which, without
the plan
hampering the Home, could be appropriated for the
purpose.
However, through skillful financiering- a
created by the Association for the Relief of Jewish
Widows and Orphans and, dollar after dollar, was
added to it, the hopes of its promoters, finally grati-
fied by the purchase of g-round at the intersection of
Peters Avenue and S. Rampart street, of easy access
from the Home.
It is now recalled that at the Convention of District
Grand Lodge No. 7, I. O. B. B., held in this city sev-
eral years ag-o, Mr. Isidore Newman, Sr., advocated a
Manual Training School and suggested that the mem-
bers of the Order would constitute themselves a Com-
mittee on subscription, and, on the spur of the moment
offered several hundred dollars as his personal contri-
bution. Nothing- was accomplished by either the
B'nai B'rith or the Association, until the grounds were
secured and then, again, the subject was
discussed.
On May 3, 1902, Mr. Newman penned a note to Rev.
I. L. Leucht, couched in the following words:
"Dear Sir: — Appreciating ^-our noble efforts for the
past ten years to erect a training- school for boys and
g-irls, and having- read the able and convincing- ad-
dress of Mr. G. Bamberger, I have concluded to offer
to you the money requisite to erect such a building-,
and hope that Providence may spare you to see this
building completed and enable the boys and g-irls of
our city derive the full benefit of your labor.
Yours very truly,
ISIDORE NEWMAN,
At Board of Directors of the Asso-
a meeting- of the
ciation for the Relief of JewishWidows and Orphans
called for the purpose, the proposition of Mr. New-
man was accepted.
In discussing- the munificent g-ift proferred
orphans and the poor children of New Orleans with
representatives of the "Press," a discussion which
the philanthropist endeavored to avoid and referred
to with the g-reatest diffidence, Mr. Newman said
that he was prompted to endow New Orleans with
such a School because of repeated discussions he held
with members of his family and in the privacy of his
home, all of whom favored the idea. He had given
the subject mature reflection. It had been discussed
upon the floor of District Grand Lodge No. 7, at
various sessions; it was considered, annually,
vears at the meetings of the Association for the Re-
lief of Jewish Widows and Orphans. After he had
arrived at a conclusion that would be a benefit to
it
the Orphans and poor children who would seek its ad-
vantages, he made the offer which was accepted. It
was this city that had made his money possible. Land-
ing from a sailing craft, a poor boy, without a cent
he had managed to accumulate more than was requir-
ed for himself and family. He had been fortunate in
having sons who were also making good livings. He
had the monev to spare, he owed it to the community
fund was in which he had lived and made his money, and his
family agreed with him most thoroughly. He had
the disposition to give it, and that was all about it.
On receiving the munificent offer of Mr. Newman,
plans and specifications to erect the Manual Training
School were called for and after several months ac-
cepted and at this date arrangements are being made
to dedicate it as it is nearing completion and will be
opened by January 1, 1904.
But the appreciation evinced by the Association was
not the only token extended to Mr. Newman. In 1901,
The New Orleans Daily Picayune offered to the Pro-
gressive Union a "Loving Cup" to be awarded by that
body to a citizen, who, by some public benefaction,
should be entitled to receive the same. A prominent
financier who had given to the city a Public School
g-enerally building was the recipient of the "Picayune Loving
Cup" in 1902.
While several notable incidents are of record in the
history of New Orleans in 1902, the factors in the
same being well worthy of every honor that could be
bestowed, acting under the conditions under which the
"Picayune Loving Cup" is awarded, the Board of Di-
rectors of the Progressive Union met and appointed a
special committee, consisting of John T. Delahay,
Chairman; Philip Werlein, Lewis Johnson, Louis P.
Rice and Eugene DeBlanc, giving the Committee in-
structions to thoroughly canvass all the public bene-
factions during the year 1902, whereby the public and
the citv had received the most general good. The
Sr." Committee went to work and spent several weeks in-
vestigating every case, and it soon found that the peo-
ple of New Orleans had been the recipients of many
blessings the past twelve months. But it was deter-
mined that the award should be made strictly upon
the individual merit of the service rendered, and al-
to the
though there were a number that entitled the donors
to thehonor mentioned, vet the Committee was unan-
imous in its final decision that the "Loving Cup" should
be awarded to Isidore Newman, and it made that re-
commendation to the Board of Directors, on Friday
afternoon, February 13, 1903. in the following reso-
lutions:
"At a meeting of the Picayune Loving Cup Com-
mittee held February 10, to finally consider all matters
in connection with the subject, the following resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted:
for some
"Be It Resolved, That after careful investigation
into the merits of the benefactions which
several
would seem to entitle a claim upon the generous phil-
anthropy of the New Orleans Picayune, your Com-
mittee, appointed to determine the recipient of the
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tion, respectfully recommend that the same be ten- was thronged by representative people and during a
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the "Loving Cup" was presented to Mr. Newman,
"Be It Fukthek Resolved, That this tender is
amidst the plaudits of the assembled ladies and gen-
based upon his generous action in creating- for the use
tlemen who were fully in accord with public opinion
of the orphans of the Jewish Home, and for the or-
that the handsome gift was fittingly bestowed.
phans of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith of the
seven States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Ala-
bama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida, and one Only a reference to other Charities is necessary,
hundred additional pupils from various walks of life charities whose founders, actuated by most selfless
beyond the confines of the institution named, a Manual motives, for the special purposes of the times in which

School, to have location in the City of New Orleans, they originated, had no idea that their example, thrice

and to cost $40,000. blessed, would be followed by successive generations.

Very few of the residents of New Orleans recall the
"Be It Fukthek Resolved, That this Committee
establishment of the Hebrew Public School, nor are
fullv believes Mr. Newman to be entitled to this 'Badge
there many younger people who may be aware
of the
of Service,' if the cup may be so expressed, as it be-
that the building on Calliope street between St.
lieves the institution of a manual training school to
Charles avenue and Prytania street, now the Boys
represent a philanthropy that is practical in the ex-
Public High School, was constructed by the Early
treme, providing as it does, a method whereby the
Jews in New Orleans and dedicated as a Hebrew
children of the poor may secure the elements of a
School. It is over a half century ago that the Jews
thorough industrial education and their hands and
of that era recognized the advantages of establishing
minds taught in the manual arts and sciences now so
schools, wherein Jewish children could obtain an edu-
necessary to complete the organization of society, and
cation in the vernacular and the rudiments of a com-
so necessary for individual sustenance and prosperity.
iTion school education, at the same time secular train-

"Your Committee begs, further, to state in connec- ing being a part of the curriculum.
tion with the entire subject matter, that the proposi- But Time in its flight has produced many innova-
tion of Mr. Newman includes the expenditure of a sum tions. In the broad spirit of Americanism the Public
between $35,000 and $40,000, and the gentleman has School System was recognized as the Cradle of Patri-
notified the Committee in charge of the estimate that otism and the Hebrew School succumbed to progress
he would donate the full amount. and was no more. Many of the most prominent of
"The site for the proposed training school has been the veteran citizens of to-day, of the Jewish faith,
purchased on Peters avenue and S. Rampart street, at a recall with pleasureable emotion the happy days of
cost of $8,500, and the plans have been prepared under childhood, associated with recollections of school days
the supervision of experts. in the historical building wherein the children of the
"We are assured that the benefaction will be non- People, regardless of religious belief, seek the intri-
sectarian, as applied to the one hundred pupils not cacies of learning which in the final demonstrates that
included in the Jewish institutions, conferring equal "Knowledge is Power."
advantages upon those of our younger population as
may feel inclined to accept same. We are in hopes
that this public recognition of Mr. Newman's donation Those Ministers of Grace and Charity, our revered

will be far reaching, and that it will stimulate addi- ladies, were equally untiring in demonstration of Jew-
tional philanthropy to the end that ovir city and State ish ethics, among which Benevolence is accorded a
secure the full benefits therefrom. first place by founding — in 1847 — the Ladies' Hebrew
Benevolent Association which for over fifty consecu-
"Respectfully submitting these resolutions and re-
port for such action as the Board of Directors may tive years has ministered to the wants of the poor and
decide, we beg to subscribe ourselves, distressed and whose Charitable impulses cannot be de-
scribed in words nor its gracious beneficence estimated.
"JOHN T. DELAHAY, Chairman.
"PHILIP WERLEIN,
CHEBRA BIKUR CHOLIM -1849 -and a Hebrew
"LEWIS JOHNSON, of Jews residing
Society dedicated to the alleviation
"LOUIS P. RICE, in foreign lands — 1853 — after several years of useful
"EUGENE DeBLANC, services disbanded, merging with other charities of a
"The Loving Cup Committee." like character.

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 Among- the most notable of later day exponents of is charity of a practical kind and any deserving Jew
practical charity is a circle, organized nearly twenty is aided in securing a start in life. It also aids its

3'ears ago by representative Society Belles, whose members, cares for the sick and pays the last sad rites
— —
successors young ladies devote a part of their time to the dead. It is a thriving and ever growing society
to sewing for the poor as well as supplying the wants attracting an Orthodox constituency to its merited
of the Touro Infirmary in the way of articles for the work.
Linen Room.
THE HEBREW PUBLIC SCHOOL, occupying com-
THE YOUNG LADIES SEWING SOCIETY, as
modious rooms in Carondelet near Poydras streets,
the circle known, has a fund of its own secured by
is
is practically the successor of a beautiful conceived
donations from their own pin money and that of
charity founded by the most prominent Jewish Ladies
friends. Material is purchased therewith and at inter-
in New Orleans several years ago, as a Sabbath
vals, they meet in a well appointed room in the Touro
School, locating its domicile in the Kindergarten
Infirmary, dedicated to its purposes and with deft
Building on Poydras near Liberty streets and for the
hands, "sew the hours away," for the time being de-
benefit of the children of Immigrant Jews settling in
voting themselves to hallowed duties and turning
the city and residing in that section. The Hebrew
away from social frivolities.
Public School is open to all Jewish children, its curri-
THE RACHEL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION culum being only the routine followed in teaching
was founded on September 2, 1894, its objects to nurse Hebrew, Biblical history and Catechism. It is con-
the members, or indigent Jewesses of the city, furnish- ducted by representatives of Orthodoxy and is recog-
ing the sufferers with medical aid and medicines, and, nized as a factor in Judaism as in vogue in their
in the event of death paying the deceased the last sad special circle.
tribute according to Jewish ethics. From its incep-
tion the Association has been a useful factor, and it THE PROVIDENT AID SOCIETY, founded on
has prospered in its self-assumed and noble purposes. the principles of a Geinilath Chassodim in 1902 by
prominent gentlemen at the instance of Mr. Julius
CONGREGATION TEMEME DERECH, the Right
Weis, began operations with a donated capital of
Way, was founded forty years ago by votaries of the
$5,000. Its objects, copied after time honored Jewish
Polish ritual and at one time was a most influential
body, Rabbi Gutheim dedicating the Synagogue
aid known as Gnnilalh Chassodim — the holiest of good
erected for its purposes, on Carondelet street near
deeds — is to advance money to deserving Jews for the
purpose of aiding them in establishing themselves in
Lafayette. This congregation disbanded and early
business or tiding over critical moments when failure
in 1903 the Synagogue became the property of the
stares them in the face. During the year of its ex-
municipality by purchase and its site will be used for
istence upwards of twenty-five petitioners were aided,
the proposed annex to the City Hall.
and in each instance these succeeded in establishing
CONGREGATION SOMECH NOPHLIM was or- themselves in modest enterprises. Not a cent has been
ganized in 1895 as a charitable circle, afterwards in- lost, every loan being returned. Mr. Julius Weis has
stituting a Mivyan for prayers. The salient object in view, at this writing, increasing the advantages of
of this truly philanthropic circle of Orthodox Israelites this truly noble philanthropy.

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 God's Acres.

flTN seeking for the orig-in and location of the first and busy marts of commerce, excepting in L<i Melle
11 Jewish burial ground in the section of the coun- —
Villc were few and far between. Camp street and
try discussed, from an historical standpoint in others, paralel with St. Charles street, were prac-
this volume, again much is left to conjecture. There tically bogs, the remainder the swamps.
—
is no possibility of tracing the first death perchance, When steps were taken to secure grounds for a
it was some hardy son of Castile, dying among strang- Jewish Cemetery, a square was secured by purchase
ers as far as religious belief was concerned, who was on what is now known as Jackson Avenue and Sara-
borne to the grave and bedded in Mother Earth by toga street, and in due course of time, permission was
friendly hands, for, after all the grave equalizes all granted by the City Council. Among the gentlemen
men, and it is written of all the human kind. "Dust who took an active part in arranging for the found-
thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." ing of the Cemetery was Hyam Solomon, and on
A score of years ago an investigator gave publicity, June 2Sth, 1S?8, he was interred in consecrated
and for the first time of record, that, according to the ground, the first Jewish interment of record in
reminiscences of New Orleans.
an aged Creole Forty years af-
who asserted he terwards, in 1868
recalled the in- — the old Ceme-
cident, that as tery was sealed
far back as 1S12, and no more
Jewish inter- burials permit-
ments were made ted, for, in keep-
in the Old Saint ing with Jewish
Louis Cemetery, reverence for the
and in a plot, di- dead, a new
Tided of¥ from cemetery was
the Catholic d e d i c a t e d, on
Cemetery a by Gentilly Road,
fence, close
in situated most ad-
proximity to mi ral>ly upon
what is now Metairie Ridge.
known as the Here rest the re-
Jesuit Mauso- mains of men and
leum. This ra- women endeared
conteur asserted to memory, men
that about 1825, anil women, who,
the remains of after life's fitful
the Jews buried fever sleep the
in the St. Louis sleep of the
Cemetery were righteous and
exhumed and re- whose memory
moved "uptown" treasured by
where, he did not In Metairie Cemetery. their dear ones,
know, or could loved ones and
not recall. Whether this fragment, linking the past friends, verify the poetic idea of immortality. — "To
with the present, can be authentically relied upon, live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
is a question for each reader to decide for himself,
Several years ago another magnificent section of
suffice to say, that subsequent developments, and
positively traceable, lead up to the establishment of ground was purchased for the uses of the Hebrew
the first Jewish Cemetery, of record, in Louisiana. Rest, on Gentilly Road, which, in the liberal manage-
In 1828, the then Crescent City, was bounded by ment of the Cemetery Association, composed of mem-
Canal street and the Champs ZsVyiec— Elysian Fields bers of Congregations Temple Sinai and Touro
street —
the levees borderingthe \Iississippi River, and.
Synagogue, has become a thing of beauty, one of
North Rampart street. Be^'onJ Canal street, a dirt
road, bordered with cotton wood trees marked the the most beautiful of Cemeteries in the South, a
lines afterwards followed in the laying out of St. fitting resting place for the dear departed whose
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 THE JOSEPH STREET CEMETERY,
a well appointed Hebrew Rest, to-day situated in the
center of the residential district of New Orleans,
founded by Congreg-ation Gates of Prayer on January
was a plot of gfround, distant from the habit-
24, 1850,
able section of the city. The kindly impulses of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Jackson Avenue Synagfogfue
and the interest of the members of the Congfreg-ation
have created of this Cemetery a beauty spot and the
remains of their deceased members and their families
are sacredlv cared for by the survivors.
THE PORTUGUESE CEMETERY,
on Canal street, in the vicinity of consecrated g-round
utilized by denominations of various relig'ious beliefs
and fraternities, culminating' in beautiful "Green-
wood" was founded in 1845 by Cong'reg'ation Netusak
— —
Kehiidah the Dispersed of Judah at that era the
most prominent Portug-uese Jewish Congreg-ation in
the United States, since several years amalg;amated
with and composing- Touro Synagogfue. Its hal-
lowed limits are occupied by the remains of what had
been the most notable people of Old New Orleans
and, even, at the present, prominent people of the an-
cient Sephardic faith, own familv lots wherein, "when
the silent summons come" they will rest in Eternal
sleep.
METAIRIE CEMETERY,
which from every viewpoint, situation, accessibility
and eleg-ance, compares favorably with any place of
sepulchre in the United States, and travelers assert
that it is the equal of the ancient site, famed in poesy
and romance, the renowned "Hetc It Chaisr,'^ where
the Mausoleums reared to the memory of men and
women, whose life's tenure was identified with the
glories of France, poets, historians, soldiers,
teurs, the Mecca of every wanderer in the Old World,
has amidst its luxurious sections one wherein, of re-
cent years, the remains of once prominent Jewish peo-
ple of New Orleans rest.
Situated upon the highest ridge in this
Metairie Cemetery is renowned throughout the land
for its beautiful and historical monuments. Sarcophagi
when and tombs, conspicuous among these being the silent
memorials dedicated to the Lost Cause wherein are
bedded away the remains of the followers of Lee and
Jackson, whose memory will be cherished until the
last scion of the Confederate Veterans will have jour-
neyed into the Valley of Darkness to the realm of
Eternal Light.
The section secured by representatives of prominent
Jewish families as a private burial ground, limited to
the most exclusive Social circles in Jewish society of
New Orleans is most centrally and exquisitely situated
in the heart of Metairie Cemetery. The surroundings,
which include the most beautiful works of art ever
lavished upon mortuaries, monuments and tombs,
each of which are art studies delved out of rare mar-
ble and time-resisting granite by masters of Sculptor
Art, are in keeping with Jewish ideas of interment,
while the monuments marking the resting place of
those gone before are in keeping with the artistic
appearance of Metairie Cemetery as a whole.
The private section established by the most prom-
inent Jewish families who are identified with Congre-
gation Temple Sinai was secured in 1884, the first in-
terment being the remains of the lamented and revered
Rabbi, James K. Gutheim.
The Polish Cemetery founded in 1860 by Congrega-
tion Tememe Derech, and several other minor Jewish
Cemeteries on Canal street, and another adjacent to
the Hebrew Rest, Gentilly Road, are also to be men-
tioned, each and all of these silent testimonials of
Jewish Custom insofar as paying tribute to the ulti-
mate end by according their dead burial in holy ground
where, sleeping the sleep of the righteous, undis-
litera- turbed by the flitting joys of this mundane life, they
are at peace, at rest.
•^Fi>y Ihe hotist of heraldry, llie pomp of power,
All ihdl bemily, nil that wealth e'er gnve,
Awiiit alike the inevituhle hour
section. Fur the palli of glory leads but to the gnice."
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 The Order B'nai B'rith.

/f^N September evening in 1851. in the city of

a On January 1'^,

L\\} NewYork, a few conscientious Israelites, 1873, in Memphis,

earnest men whose hearts were dedicated to Tenn., District No.
Humanity, were assembled for the purpose of estab- 7, was organized,
1 shing an organization which, for its fundamental its jurisdiction in-
object, would create in the name of Charity, a frater- cluding the follow-
nity dedicated to the highest ideals, caring for ing States: Ala-
the widowed and orphaned of deceased members. bama, Arkansas,
The main incentive for banding themselves together Florida, Louisiana,
was the realization of the fact that large numbers of Mississippi, Ten-
Jews would be attracted to the United States, and, nessee and Texas.
that some central organization would be necessary in From 1873 to 188')
order to influence the foreign element to rail}' around inclusive, the ex-
some central force for mutual protection, enlighten- ecutive headquar-
ment and concentration of action for the betterment ters of the District
of conditions. was located in
Among those present at this historical session held Memphis. Tenn.
over a half century ago were Henry Jones, who is ac- In 1890 New Or-
credited with being the originator of the idea. Dr. leans was 5.elected
Leo Merzbach, Baruch Rothschild, Dr. Lilienthal, as the seat of the
and Dr. Mitchel. At the following meeting, Julius District and Hon.
Bien, now the venerable Chancellor of the Order, M. Nat Strauss, elect-
Thalmessinger, Dr. S. Waterman, Isaac Dutenhoffer ed (irand Secre-
and other celebrities of that epoch were present. tary, he being NAT STRAUSS,
These gentlemen called the Order B'nai B'rith in- chosen as his own
Secretary District Grand Lodge
to existence and their efforts for Humanity, at that successor annually.
time, had no idea that the great .lewish fraternity From the found- No. 7, I. O. B. B.
would be destined to play an important part in the ing of District
deliberations of the nations of the world. Grand Lodge No. 7, the grand body met annually in

From inception, in 1851, its merits attracted the

its
attention of representative Israelites. It has always
been the handmaiden of Jewish charity, and besides
caring for its own members has succored and sustain-
ed Orphanages, Hospitals, Homes and entered with
zeal in every undertaking- for the alleviation of cares
and sorrows among Jewish people, especially the per-
secuted and the friendless Immigrant coming to the
Land of the Free in search of God given Liberty.
While in its incipiency the Order devoted its at-
tention to assisting the needy and caring for the poor
the principal cities of the District New Orleans hav-
ing been repeatedly honored bv the presence of the
distinguished gentlemen elected as Delegates.
District No. 7 until recently included the Cleveland
(Ohio) Orphan Asylum among its beneficiaries, but
as it is deriving ample means from District No. 2, the
severance seemed justifiable. The Jewish Orphans'
Home, the Manual Training School, the Touro In-
firmary and the Julius Weis Home are beneficiaries
of the Order, while the National Hospital for Con-
sumptives at Denver, Col is also the recipient of its
,

and unfortunate. Later it assumed the role of bene- bounty.

factor by legislating into existence an Endowment The several B'rith lodges in New Orleans
B'nai
Fund, the beneficiaries of deceased brethren receiv- and other sections Louisiana are in a prosperous
of
ing the sum specified. condition numbering auiong their membership the
An
incident in the history' of the Order, to demon- most notable Jewish gentlemen in the State.
strate its liberality, may be cited in the case of its The following representative gentlemen, all well
founder, Henry Jones. He was married to a most
estimable lady, not a member of the Jewish faith, yet and favorably known throughout the South, are the
on his death she was sustained by the Order and ofiicers of District Grand Lodge No. 7.
cared for just as if she had been a Jewess. Jos. Beitman, of Birmingham, Ala., President;
Radiating from New York City the beneficent work Ludwig Maj-er, of Demopolis, Ala., Vice-President;
outlined by the Order found many admirers and ar-
Mike Mohr, of Montgomery, Ala., Treasurer; Nat
dent votaries and gradually the Order spread all over
the United States, in several European lands and
Strauss, of New Orleans, La., Secretary; J. M. Op-
Jerusalem and to-day it is a conspicuous factor in penheimer, of San Antonio, Texas, Sergeant-at-
Jewish affairs. Arms.
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'^T'HE HAKMONY
CLUB had its orig-in in the culating library, singing section and dramatic sec-
\\j days of '"Auld LangfSyne" whi-n Cosmopolitan tion furnished the increasing- membership with en-
gentlemen of New Orleans were associated tertainments of an interesting- and varied character.
for the purposes of enjoying- themselves accord- When in reminiscent vein our most representative
ing- to the customs in vogue in the Fatherland. As people dwell with pleasure upon the efforts of the or-
far back as 1850 various circles of this character ganization to entertain, the records showing- the pro-
existed, some dedicated to Gambrinius, including- duction of "Still Waters Run Deep," Taylor's brilliant
jest and song and stor}-, others to the Gentle Muses
comedy, "Sweethearts and Wives" an(i a number of
German comedies.
while others were more pedantic in their methods. The section of sweet sing-ers also made their debut
In the earl}- '60s the Deutsche Company was under brilliant conditions and repeatedly aided in con-
founded by a tributing-pleas-
coterie of con- uretothe "Com-
genial g-entle- pany" and their
friends.
men, Mr. Sal-
omon Marx
A younger set
be- had meanwhile
ing one of the organized for
promoters, an club and social
esteemed and purjjoses, final-

well-known cit- ly adopting the

name Harmony
izen, who, thir-
Club, with its
ty years later, domicile on
not many Camp, near
months ago, Julia street. In
1872 the "Com-
was the reci-
pany" consoli-
pient of the dis- date d , Jos.
tinguished con- Magner being
sideration o f
elected Presi-
dent and Simon
being made Cohn, Secre-
Hoiiorarn»i of
tary, and the
i t s successor,
the Harmony "C o m pa ny's"
club house, cor-
Club.
nerofExchange
The intent
Alley and Bien-
and purposes of ville street, be-
the "Deutsche came the Har-
Company" was m o n y Club.
to foster socia-
Thence it re-
bility, delve in
moved to Odd
science and art,
Fellows' Hall,
all directed to- HARMONY CLUB. then to the
ward influen-
beautiful build-
cing traits tending to promote full fellowship. ing, corner of Camp and Delord streets, then to Canal
The sessions were thenceforth devoted to debates street, now occupied by the Boston Club.
and readings while an interminable number of sur- With the accession of Judg-e I. D. Moore to the
prise parties and iniormals brought about the crea- presidency of the Harmony Club, in 1897 came the
tion of social delig-hts participated in by the lady dedication of the grand Club House in keeping- with
members of the respective families. the prestige always enjoyed by this famed circle of
Year after year the affairs of the "Deutsche Com- gentlemen. The prompt assurance of its members
pany" became more elaborate and the grand "Charity and the wealth represented was an assurance and the
Balls" of that era were given under its auspices. plans, carried out to the letter, ha- given to New Or-
The Club Rooms were at that time, 1865, located leans one of the most sumptuous buildings ever erect-
at old number 112 Common street, and a splendid cir- ed in this city or section utilized for Club purposes.
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mental in attracting- the attention and enlisting- the
co-operation of the gentlemen present.
Mr. Sidney H. March submitted a series of resolu-
tions dealing with the objects of the proposed Asso-
ciation and outlining; its purposes, dwellingf especially
upon the intellectual, moral and social improvement
of those who allied themselves with the Association,
a platform which would give its members opportun-
ities, particularly "Establishing^ Jewish unity, broader
than Congreg-ational lines or the limitation of wealth
and society, and the general promotion of the interest
and progress of the Hebrew community."
The assembled gentlemen were given every latitude
for the discussion of the subject, the questions of
maintaining a club-house, with reading rooms, library
and other facilities, all with a view of establishing an
institution which would be a center of intellectual
culture and sociability.
The subject matter being fully discussed and ap-
plauded the following gentlemen were elected, being
the tirst officers of the Y. M. H. A., of New Orleans:
President, N. I. Schwartz; First Vice-President, Elkin
Moses; Second Vice-President, Felix J. Dreyfous;
Third Vice-President, E. M. Cahn; Secretary', Sam
Blum; Financial Secretary, Eugene Gutmann; Treas-
urer, Sim Weis; Librarian, Leonard Stern.
The officers constituted the Executive Committee
while the following gentlemen were named the Organ-
izing Committee: E. M. Cahn, S. Metzger, S. H.
Stern, Jake Stern, L. H. Weil, S. H. March and H.
J. Seiferth.
On Tuesday evening, November 24, in an office at
old number 31 Carondelet street the officers and Or-
ganizing Committee held a joint meeting when the
Executive Committee proper was founded by the selec-
tion of the following gentlemen: S. H. March, H. J.
Seiferth, J. L. Beer, Horace Gumbel, Phineas Moses,
L. H. Weil, August Heidenheim, M. J. Wolf, Ike Has-
pel, Sam Stern, Sol Loeb, S. J. Hart, Cerf. Hirsch,
Jos. Trautman and S. Metzger.
H. Seiferth, E. M. Cahn and Sam Blum were ap-
J.
pointed a Committee to draft a Constitution and By-
Laws and Sim Weis, S. J. Hart, Cerf. Hirsch and
Elkin Moses named to select rooms for the habitat of
the Association.
In December, 1891, the annex of the Grunewald
Hall was nearing completion and the Association
promptly secured a lease. Early in January of 1892
the magnificent rooms were taken charge of and hand-
somely equipped and the Association duly installed.
During the season of festivities of that year the Y. M.
H. A. gave a number of a most elegant functions and
at once established a reputation as entertainer. Its
members enjoyed every facility and everything tended
to creating of it an imposing and important social
factor.
Grunewald Hall succumbed to a conflagration in
the earl^^ hours before dawn on Monday, October 31,
of the same year and the Y. M. H. A. was not only
homeless but lost its furniture, records and effects,
but nothing daunted established itself on the lower
floor of Odd Fellows' Hall.
In 1895, when Mr. Sam Blum was elected President,
he suggested that the Y. M. H. A. should secure a
permanent Home, and his views meeting general ap-
proval, the Y. M. H. A. Improvement Co., Ltd., was
established with the following officers: Sim Weis,
73
President; Dan A. Rose, Vice-President; Sol. J. Levy,
Secretary; August Heidenheim, Treasurer. Directors:
Sam Bkim, N. I. Shwartz and E. M. Cahn.
Entering with spirit and zeal on the plans proposed
the following gentlemen were named the Building
Committee: Sim Weis, Ex-officio Chairman; Sam
Blum, Chairman; D. A. Rose, L. H. Weil, E. M. Loeb,
A. Aschatfenburg, A. Heidenheim, A. Lichtentag,
N. I. Shwartz, S. H. March, E. M. Cahn and S. W.
Weis.
The
result of the efforts of the Association to secure
a permanent home was crowned on March 2, 1896,
when ground was broken at the corner of St. Charles
avenue and Clio street and work thus inaugurated.
On Wednesday afternoon, April 15, 1896, at 4 o'clock,
a magnificent gathering of ladies and gentlemen wit-
nessed the laying of the Cornerstone, the ceremonies
being conducted by the M. W. Grand Lodge, F. & A.
M., of Louisiana, under the personal supervision of
M. W. Grand Master, Albert G. Brice, a distinguished
Jurist and erudite and scholarly Mason.
The exercises in honor of the momentous occasion
were as follows: Prayer, by Rabbi I. L. Leucht;
Music; Laying of the Corner-stone by the Grand Mas-
ter, assisted by D. R. Graham, Past (irand Master,
and Rev. H. C. Duncan and L. L. vShwartz; Oration
by Judge Brice; Address by Edgar M. Cahn; Bene-
diction, Rev. H. C. Duncan.
Committee of Arrangements: Messrs. Leon L.
Shwartz, E. W. Loeb, E. M. Cahn and A. Lichtentag.
On Wednesday night, November 18, 189(), the
"Home" of the Y. M. H. A. was formally opened to
the public and the most prominent people of the city,
mingling with the charming matrons and beautiful
belles, all representatives of society, formed a scene of
brilliancy which will always be a treasured memory.
During the exercises the Athenaeum was thronged
by an interested audience and in this magnificent au-
ditorium, one of the most exquisite in the United
States. Rabbi Max Heller voiced an eloquent prayer.
Mr. Sim Weis turned the building over to the Y. M.
H. A. in an impressive address, eliciting an equally
eloquent response from its President, Mr. Sam Blum.
possessor of a "Home" in keeping with its ob-
The
jects, the Y. M. H. A. what it is, one of the rep-
made
resentative and most useful factors in communal work.
In an unpretentious manner it has striven for culture
and sociability and is doing a vast amount of com-
mendable work along the lines of Lectures, while
harmless pleasures are not overlooked, its stated func-
tions being events in society.
Recently adjacent property has been acquired and
at an early date a Gymnasium and Natatorium will
be included among its splendid advantages in which
every Jewish gentlemen has the privilege of partici-
pating by being identified with an Association which
in every essential is a credit to' New Orleans.
The officers of the Association at this date are as fol-
lows: Harold Newman, President; Aug. Heidenheim,
First Vice-President; M. J. Wolf, Second Vice-Presi-
dent; Jacob Levy, Third Vice-President; Sim Weis,
Treasurer; Eugene H. Gutman, Financial Secretary;
Dr. Joseph Conn, Recording Secretar}-; S. H. Mar-
cuse. Librarian. Board of Directors: Chas. God-
chaux, M. M. Goldman, Sig. L. Loeb, Adolph Good,
Peter Gluck, Albert Aschaffenberg, Alex Lichtentag,
Sig. Levy, N. E. Wohl, E. Heidenheim, E. B. Gold-
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MR. JULIUS WEIS. led the life of a vendor of merchandise, traveling from
• LAEARS hence, when an appreciative
people will point to point in Mississippi in the vicinity of Natchez.
If emulate their forbears in reverencing- the g-ra- In the course of a couple of years his profits gave him
I a sufficient capital, every cent of which he earned by
<—1* cious acts of beneficence rendered by loyal citi-
his labor, and with this he opened a small country
zens of Louisiana, side by side with the name of Judah
Touro will be recorded the name of the philanthropist store at Fayette, Miss.
who builded an everlasting- memorial when the Julius The methods and personality- of Mr. Weis asserted
Weis Home for Aged and themselves and, from the be-
Infirm Israelites was open- ginning of his career as a
ed as a home indeed for those country store keeper in Fa-
bereft of kindred, of health, yette to this day, he enjoys
of means to obtain a liveli- the confidence, esteem," and
hood and, when, in their ad- respect of every one who
vanced age and infirmities knows him.
were, thereby, not subjects P^rom an unpretentious
of Pity but welcome guests covmtry store keeper Mr.
in its ornate and beautiful Weis slowly laid the found-
apartments. ation for his future successes
While Judah Touro aided and, in 1864, he cast his lot
in creating an interesting with the people of New Or-
epoch in the history of New leans, among whom he was
Orleans he had splendid ad- previously known because of
vantages, being- native born, his repeated visits and iden-
familiar with the language tification with business.
and beginning- his career Coming- to New Orleans
when opportunities were in 18f)4 he founded the house
ample and willing hands ex- which for nearly forty years
tended to aid the aspiring to has been conspicuous among
achieve success. the leading "Cotton Houses"
When Mr. Julius Weis, of the States. His identi-
then a mere youth, de- fication with the financial
cided to seek the opportun- centres of the World is also
well-known and the firm
ities offered in the New name, J. WEIS & SON, is as
World, he had obtained all familiar on change and in
the educationaladvantages banking institutions of Paris,
offered in his birthplace, London and other European
which, in that epoch, were centres as it is in the State
limited to a fair common of Louisiana.
school education. But what Of his personal service in
he possessed was character the cause of charity, of the
and a firm determination to needy and necessitous, re-
succeed insofar as marking gardless of religious belief,
out his own career. It was whom he has aided and en-
but natural that he should courag-ed in the hours of dire
JULIUS WEIS.
have turned away with need none will ever know
heavy heart and deep reg-ret nor the unnumbered inci-
from the home of his birth, his kindred and friends, to dents of kindness bestowed upon some fellow voyagers
seek new associations in the New World and he faced to whom life was a stormy sea.
the stern realities of life with indomitable will. His identification with affairs in New Orleans in-
He made his way to the Sunny South, all he pos- cluded an interest in communal work. He took a
sessed being 3'outh, energy, honesty and the modest livel_y interest in the affairs of the Hebrew Educational
ambition to succeed in gaining a livelihood. Though Society, which, at that time, having fulfilled its mis-
unfamiliar with the vernacular for the time being- he sion, was liquidated bj- his financial ability.

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1870 172,000.00
1875 321,000.00
1880 485,000.00
1885 1,658,000.00
1890 2,452,000.00
1903 4,365,000.00

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Mr. Weis was elected to the presidenc}' of the Touro loved ones and friends, for she was a devoted Mother-
Iniirmary and Hebrew Benevolent Association and, at in-Israel,enwrapt in the faith of her ancestors and
that time, asserted that the day would come when a took just pride in the plans and works of her husband
separate institution would be required to shelter Agfed for Judaism. On February
13, 1864, Mr. Weis and
and Infirm Israelites. The Jewish Orphans' Home his youthful bride made New Orleans their home —
has also been recipient of his bounty and without home, indeed — wherein "Love and Hope reigned side
pomp or parade or desire for public notoriety, he has by side.'' In 1876 the palatial home in Jackson
rendered this Institution invaluable service as well as avenue, corner of Coliseum street, was taken j)osses-
contributing to other charities without reference to sion of, where, to-day, surrounded by everything
Religious beliefs, no appeal ever being unheeded. that love can suggest, midst luxurious environment,
Mr. Weis enjoys the results of his successful career,
When Congregation Temple Sinai was projected he
delighting in the happiness of his children and
was among its most ardent advocates and early in its
grand-children, h s children, two daughters noted
history succeeded to its presidency which he occupied,
for their interest in philanthropic work, and five sons,
with the brief exception of two terms, for over a score
one of whom is a physician of note, another a prom-
of years, finally declining re-election pleading his ad-
ising Attorney-at-Law and the others, prominent in
vanced age as his excuse and which his most ardent who are associated with
social and financial circles,
friends, the entire congregation, conceded with regret. him in the conduct of the well-known and represen-
Under his various administrations Temple Sinai at-
tative firm.
tained the prestige it enjoys as the foremost Jewish when men and women emu-
And years hence, will
communal body in the South.
late the examples of their predecessors, for Sweet
The Young Men's Hebrew Association, of which he Charity sake, and treasure in memory the kindly deeds
has been a valued and honored member since its or- of Louisianians of the Jewish faith, Judah Touro and
ganization, has also profitted by his generosity in Julius Weis will be reverentiallynamed as the first
various ways, and, at his suggestion and by his liberal philanthropists of record in the Sunny South.
donations, as free will offerings repeatedly contributed
in recent j^ears, the Lecture Course has been made MR. ISIDORE NEWMAN, Sr.

an important annual feature.

Early in November, 1853, a youth barely in his teens
For those to whom life seemed one continuous strug- landed in New Orleans, his fortune limited to youth,
arle, in the heart of the Garden District of New Orleans good health, thrift, and a desire to succeed. No doubt
stands a structure, a haven for Aged and Infirm Is- he had heard, while at home with parents, kindred
raelites— The Julius Weis Home — reared for the
and friends, of the wonderful land beyond the seas,
grandest of purposes, the housing of the aged who, for a land of possibilities, where those who labored were
the humane instincts of the greatest philantropist at least sure of success, however modest, and no —
since the days of Judah Touro, would be "naked and doubt he turned his thoughts to the future, not with
desolate, friendless and homeless," a burden to them- becoming a potent factor in affairs of state
an}' idea of
selves and to the State. and municipality, in finance and industries, but with
The record of the efforts of an honored gentleman, only a desire to gain a livelihood.
for love of his fellowmen, must be recalled, was,
it A few months ago, when representative people of
by yielding of the wealth he accumulated through New Orleans, ladies and gentlemen, were assembled
his own efforts. He arrived in New Orleans on Nov- in honor of the presentation of the "Picayune Loving
ember 2, 1845, possessing j-outh, honesty and nn in- Cup," the youth of fifty years ago, now an honored
domitable will coupled with the laudable desire to and distinguished citizen, referred to his coming to
succeed, little dreaming that his labors would be New Orleans penniless, casting his lot with this peo-
crowned by being in a position to round a happy old ple, where opportunities were offered him which made
age with examples which will prove an incentive to his efforts successful.
generations unborn. Of his application to business, Mr. Isidore Newman was born in Kaiserslautern,
of his devotion to Judaism, of his inestimable services Germany, in 1838, and enjoyed whatever education
to charities and communal work has been told and and advantages then offered to children in European
retold and will be treasured in jears to come. lands. At the age of fourteen he left his paternal
Yet, that part of his career, pertaining to his home home. On his arrival here he proceeded to adapt
life cannot be described in words. On January 27, himself to the customs of the people, and became an
1864, he led to the altar an accomplished and love- American in the full sense of the term. His perse-
able lady, nee Carrie Mayer, one of the fairest daugh- verance, courtesy, personality and integrity gained
ters of Natchez, Miss., whose memory is cherished by for him the good will of all.

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 The career of Mr. Newman is one that an}- man can purposes and devoted to the most humble of his fel-
be justly proud of, for he was the architect of his for- low-citizens, for, free from prejudice, he knows no
tune, a worthy model of the unassuming-, modest distinction between men and men, or creed and creed,
man, whose ability has g-ained for him a deserved his faith in humanity and the brotherhood of men
reputation. being unbounded.
Years ag-o, when the financial conditon of the State On November 14th, 1903, was the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the arrival of Mr. Isidore Newman in the city
of Louisiana was endang'ered Mr. Newman was
of New Orleans. The memorable event was only
among the first of its worthy citizens to present a recalled by a few of his veteran friends, and occasion
solution of the problem. Whenever an^- plan has been was taken by these to extend their felicitations. Yet
advanced for the improvement of New Orleans, indus- the day was not permitted to pass unnoticed by gen-
trially or for its beautification, he has been found tlemen who have been associated with Mr. Newman
amongst its advocates, and his purse open on demand. in charitable work. Measures were taken by the
His record as a public-spirited citizen exhibits him as Board of Managers of the Touro Infirmary and He-
one whose lofty patriotism is of the purest type. brew Benevolent Association to commemorate the
His personal efforts to fiftieth anniversary, the gol-
bring- about a spirit of civic den jubilee, of his coming
pride by advantages never to the city; the Board met
before enjoyed by the cit- at the Harmony Club on
izens of New Orleans cul- Sunday morning, Novem-
minated in the inaug-uration ber 22nd, and a committee
of the electric surface rail- was appointed, consisting
way system. He secured an of Mr. N. I. Shwartz, the
interest in, and afterwards President of the Associa-
the control of, the then tion; Mr. Julius Weis, an
Carrollton Railroad, and con- and Rev. I.
ex-president,
verted it into an electric
system, following- this inno- L. Leucht, the Vice-Presi-
vation with the Claiborne dent, to wait upon Mr.
Street line, part of the pro- Newman at his residence,
jected work. Since the elec- and to present to him a
tric motive power has at-
small token in the shape of
tained pre-eminence, Mr.
Newman has successfully a loving cup, in apprecia-
financed the surface rail- tion of the great services
way systems in various he had rendered the insti-
places, notably Birmingham, tution, and the hearty wishes
Ala., and Nashville, Tenn. of all for his continued
Of his other ventures, all happiness and prosperity.
of which stamp him as a Mr. Newman, as a mem-
useful citizen, whose inter- orial of the anniversary of
ests, however vast, have as the fiftieth year of his ar-
the objective point, the up- rival in this cit}', donated
building- of sections where- many thousands of dollars
in he is interested, it is un- to Christian and Jewish
necessary to dwell upon. charities, which, according
Identified with the B'nai to his method, were un-
B'rith of District No. 7, he heard of by the press be-
has served the order to ad- cause of his expressed wish
vantage in various capaci- that no publicity be made.
ties. As Treasurer of the En- In public and private
dowment Reserve Fund, his life, Mr. Newman is a plain,
great experience in finan-
ISIDORE NEWMAN, Sr blunt man, unassuming,
cial matters, and his ever- approachable, enjoying the
ready service were helpful to place it upon its present advantages of his affluence and doing gracious acts
sound foundation. The Denver National Hospital for of kindness in a true spirit of charity, never seeking
Consumptives, of Denver, Col., was called into exist- notoriety. In the many years of his identification
ence by the exigencies of the situation, and when it with Jewish charities, he never permitted his name
became known that the institution would be non- to be brought before the public until recently, when
sectarian, Mr. Newman allowed himself to be placed he assumed the privilege of donating the large
on the Board of Managers. Through his instrumen- amount necessary to erect the Manual Training
tality, and largely through his means, a number of School, which now bears his honored name, and
afflicted people were sent to the National Hospital, which will forever stand as a monument of his muni-
and they have good cause to bless the generosity of ficence and his love for our orphans. And this unos-
their benefactor. tentation applies with equal force to his benevolent
To dwell upon the services of Mr. Newman to the actions towards every charity in New Orleans, irre-
state or municipality, its public works, or in com- spective of den rminational differences.
munal or charitable work, would be to record all the His home life is an ideal one, and with his noble
happenings of a useful career abundant in laudable wife by his side it has been an inspiration.
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 RABBI MAX HELLER. to the South and Southern Judaism, a devotion re-

Eminently qualified for the calling- wherein, from paid tenfold by his legion of friends and admirers.

the inception of his career, he has occupied a distin-

His charge at Houston was limited to five months,
g-uished position; for years minister of the foremost
for, when the lamented Rabbi, James K. Gutheim,
congregation in the South, a congregation that in paid Nature's debt and, the representative Southern
cong-regation he had founded and nurtured to the
point of membership, which from personality, intelli-
gence, wealth and devotion to Judaism, equals any honor of Southerners and the glory of Reform Juda-
ism, sought for, a fitting successor, one whose ability
in the United States, the erudite scholar and eloquent
and worth, honesty of purpose and personality would
divine, Rabbi Maximillian Heller, is recog^nized as
well worthy the honors and distinction he has at-
further the cause. Rabbi Heller was chosen.

tained by his ability and fitness.
Rabbi Heller was the architect of his
the basis upon which he builded being- inherent
qualities, intelligence, st^^dious application and in-
domitable will. He was born on January 1st, 18G(),
at Prague, Bohemia, his parents being Seligman
Congregation Temple Sinai, individually and col-
own career, lectively,and Israelites of Louisiana in general have
no cause to regret the coming of Rabbi Heller in
their midst. He has been true to his trust, loyal to
his faith and by his personality contributed not only
to the elevation of Judaism but welding together in

Heller and Mathilde, nee Kas- bonds of fellowship (ientile and

sowitz. Acquiring- the rudi- Jew. He has been intimately
associated with every cause of
ments of education he 'was then
note, every happening of im-
sent to the Neustadter (gym-
portance occurring for the past
nasium of his native city, where
sixteen years in New Orleans
he received a thorough scholas-
and in the State of Louisiana
tic training. According to the
and his opinion and words have
European system of education.
had weight in the Councils of
Rabbi Heller had rare o])por-
the People. In public or pri-
tunities to master Hebrew and vate life he is invariably just,
the languages, and his mastery ;
influenced alone by what he re-
of many of the living and dead gards the rig-ht, — in charitable
languag-es was an incentive to work healways methodical
is

renewed application, hence, his and untiring and his interest

ability as a linguist, long- since in the Orphans' Home, the
established, is well earned, the Touro Infirmary and the Young
result of his efforts and scholar- Men's Hebrew Association has
ship. been repeatedly exhibited where-
Coming to the United States by these Institutions have been
in his early manhood, he evinc- the beneficiaries.
ed a desire to continue his RABBI MAX HELLER Two years after assuming
studies, and entered the Hebrew charge of the pulpit of Tem-
Union College, time devoting his at-
at the same ple Sinai he wedded one of the intellectual and
tention to the study of science and art at the Uni- charming young ladies of New Orleans, Miss Ida
versity of Cincinnati. Marks and his estimable wife, devoted to the cause
The matriculants in the Hebrew Union College ofJudaism, has proven herself an ideal helpmate.
were at that time limited in numbers, yet, as has been Of this happy union several children have been born
demonstrated by the distinction they, as g-raduates, who, God willing-, will be a source of many joys

have attained, they were imbued with the right to their fond parents.

spirit for their holy calling-. Attaining the degrees While Rabbi Heller may be reg-arded of a reserved
Batchelor of Letters and Master of Letters from the disposition, those who know him intimately recog-
University of Cincinnati, and the distinction of nize in him all the attributes of congeniality, none
Rabbi from the Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Heller question the fact that a becoming dignity, associated
entered upon his career in 1884 as Minister of Zion with ability and scholarship, honesty of purpose and
Congregation of Chicago, occupying its pulpit for principle are virtues he possesses and whereby he
two years. enjoys the esteem and respect of all who recognize that
In 1886 he was called to Houston, Texas, and from with so stalwart a leader Southern Judaism cannot
that time to the present has exhibited his devotion fail in being- a force in affairs, communal and social.

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 RABBI ISAAC L. LEUCHT. man, our Rabbi. "Write me," AbDU ben Adhem says,
An Israelite and something- more is he, the well- in Leigh Aunt's beautiful poem, "write me as one
beloved minister of Congregation Touro, whom the who loves his fellow men."
Christians of his home cit3' as well as its Jews, de- Rabbi Leucht was born in Darmstadt, Germany,
light to honor. To whom was accorded for example, and there took a preliminary course for his ministry.
so flattering a reception as that of January 25th, 1904, He afterwards studied at other European centers of
his sixtieth birthda}'and the twentj'-fifth anniversary education. He came to the United States in 1864 at
of his pastorate of Touro, when ministers as well as the age of twenty and located in Baltimore. There
prominent laity of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Epis- he resided four years and then came to New Orleans
copal and other faiths joined personally in the felici- as assistant to the late Rabbi Gutheim, minister of
tations of the occasion. K. K., Shaarai Chesed. From that the two went
Nor is this the first time such deference has been together to Temple Sinai when it was erected, but in

paid him. A man of public spirit and civic pride, 1879 Rabbi Leucht returned to his first love, since

not the mere leader of flock and people, he has often become, by consolidation with the Portuguese Con-
taken active part in public movements side by side gregation, the noted Synagogue of Touro.
with Christian pastors. At Rabbi Leucht was for a long

the dedication of the Fisk Free time Secretary of the Hebrew

Library he was conspicuous Educational Society organiz-
upon the platform along with ed to provide a school for

the Catholic Archbishop Jans- Jewish children in the trying

sens and the Episcopal Bishop "Carpet Bag" days. He has

Sessums. In the relief work been a member of the State
of the terrible Cheniere Cam- School Board; he was one of

inada hurricane of '93, he the founders of the Y. M. H.

labored hand in hand with A., and is a charter member
Rector Waters of vSt. Pauls, Harmony Club of New
of the

and the Catholic Archbishop. Orleans. He has been a

When, some years back, the member of the Jewish Wid-
New Orleans Sanitary Associa- ows' and Orphans' Home since

tion was flourishing, it was 1868 and its First Vice-Presi-

Mr. John T. Gibbons, a brother dent since 1886. Heis First Vice-
of the distinguished Catholic President also of the Touro
Cardinal of Baltimore, who pre- Infirmary and the Hebrew
sented Rabbi Leucht's name for RABBI ISAAC L. LEUCHT. Benevolent Association. He
the presidency of the organ- has been President of the
ization. At the present time indeed, he is acting Commission of Prisons and Asylums, President of the
president of the Red Cross Society, of which he has United_,Hebrew Charities, President of the Southern
said: "The cross is its emblem, but I see in it only Conference of Rabbis, and for two years was Vice-
the noble and humane purpose for which the Society President of the Reformed Rabbis of the United
is enrolled." States.
Herein we have the keynote to his character— in a Among the testimonials received by Dr. Leucht
word — breadth and liberality. And here is the reason upon the anniversary above referred to,was a silver
of the esteem in which he is held so generally by his pitcher from the First Presbyterian Church of New
fellow citizens. "I have tried to follow in Dr. Gu- Orleans, the church of the famous Dr. Palmer, whose
theim's footsteps," he has said, "by devoting my labors funeral sermon was preached by Rabbi Leucht, for
to develop unsectarianism." And again: "I am a Jew our subject has earned reputation abroad as a man of
and yet am Protestant and always
also Catholic. I higii culture as well as higdi character, and as a pul-
protest against anything that opposes light and pro- pit orator of influence and power. An easy and
gress and I am universal in my belief in the father- gracious manner with all, high or low, is also a char-
hood of God." A large souled as well as broad minded acteristic for which Dr. Leucht is to be remarked.

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84
 MR. MAURICE STERN.
There is no man among: the mercantile element of
Louisiana of whose career a brief sketch will be more
beneficial and useful than that of Mr. Maurice Stern.
He was born in (lerman}-, January dth, 1855, and
passed his youth in acquiring- an education in the
public schools of his natal land. In 1S71, when but
sixteen years of ag-e, he left his home and crossings
the Atlantic settled in New Orleans. Brig-ht and
determined to win for himself a name and a place in
the city of his adoption, he entered the office of the
firm of Lehman, Neug"ass & Co., and so faithfully
and well did he perform his duties until step b}* step
he advanced until the year 1880, when he was ad-
mitted as a i^artner, the name of the firm becoming
I^ehman, Abraham & Co. In 1885 the business was
incorporated under the name of Lehman Stern & Co.,
Limited, and to-day Mr. Stern occupies the presi-
dency of that organization.
In addition to filling that position he holds many
others of honor and responsibility. He is Vice-Pres-
ident of the Lane Cotton Mills,
one of the best equipped plants
in the country, a director of the
Whitney National Bank, a direc-
tor of the Morgan State Bank and
the Cotton Exchange. Mr. Stern
is President of the International
Land Improvement Company and
Treasurer of the Southern States
Land and Timber Company, both
hand ling principally timber lands.
Mr. Stern is a consistent advo-
cate of the onward progress and
development of New Orleans and
has always contributed liberally
both of his time and means in that
direction. His name associated
with any enterprise means the
ultimate success of that con-
cern. He is a hard and earnest
worker and has the happy facul-
ty and ability of disposing of
vast qualities of work without
any seeming eff^ort on his part.
Aside from the busy cares en-
tailed by the numerous business HAURICE STERN.
projects in which he is interested
Mr. Stern has found time to devote to other matters
and is a member in excellent standing of the New Or-
leans Board of Trade, Sugar Exchange, Cotton Ex-
change and Progressive Union.
He is a man of great charity and the cord between
his purse and heart is short and direct. He delights
in doing good and is unostentatious in all matters of
this character. He is the President of Temple Sinai
and an active member of the Touro Infirmary, the
Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home, B'nai B'rith and
a trustee of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital.
Socially he is a member of the Harmony Club.
While not a politician in the sense of seeking polit-
ical preferment for emolument he has always taken
such interest in politics as every good citizen should
do. He is a Democrat, who believes in the princi-
ples of Democrac}'.
In 1901 he was appointed by Governor Heard as a
member of the State Board of Education for the
Second Congressional District of Louisiana. His highest type of citizenship.
record in that position needs no commendation from
our pen; it has been characteristic of the man. He
has devoted his entire time and attention to the sub-
ject and has given a great deal of thought to the
betterment of education. Since filling the position
a new set of books for the public schools has been
selected, and these have given great satisfaction.
Other improvements have been made which lack of
space precludes mention. The selection by the gov-
ernor of Mr. Stern was a happy intuition and has
given great satisfaction to the people, and he has
acquitted himself with due credit to himself and his
constituents. It is to this class of men that our in-
stitutions, public and otherwise, owe their high
standing and causes Louisiana to take her place
among the great and leading States of the Union.
Education is the great pivotal point around which
centers everything desirable in life, and public edu-
cation is one of the great basis upon which rests the
])reservation and conservation of liberty, the great vital
principle of the American republic. These facts are
fully recognized and appreciated
by Mr. Stern, hence the great in-
terest he manifests in such mat-
ters.
Personally Maurice Stern is a
pleasant, genial gentleman, easy
of approach, with no overbearing
ideas of dignity. Plain and un-
assuming he is of and for the peo-
ple whose aims, sentiments and
aspirations he shares and enjoys.
He stands for progress and ad-
vancement first, last and all the
time.
May 19, 1883, he was happily
married to Miss Hanna Bloom, a
talented and accomplished yonng
lady of New Orleans. This union
has been blessed with three chil-
dren, two boys and one girl. Mr.
and Mrs. Stern are pleasantly
domiciled at the corner of St.
Charles and Soniat streets.
In conclusion the writer would
say that
Lives f)f (jrent men, all leiiiiiiil ua
We can muke our iires siihllme,
And ihpiirlinfi, le((re behind us
FdOlpiiuts (m the sunds of time.
Lines containing more truth than the above by the
famous poet Longfellow were never penned. The
sketch of a man's life has wider and more useful ser-
vice than in ministering to the vanity of its subject
or the pride of friends. Its true mission is to seize
upon such points of character and career as may be
presented for imitation or encouragement. These
are such as live devoted to their work and their in-
fluence for good will continue to act, their charac-
teristics fixed and ineffaceable. Such has been the
life history of Maurice Stern.
If parents or guardians would furnish their chil-
dren with biographical sketches of successful men
there would be far less "flowers that blossomed to
die unseen." Almost in the boyhood of rich mental
activity he gives promise of man}^ years of public
usefulness, and had New Orleans just 1,000 more men
of like calibre that would mean just 1,000 of the
85
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SCHLIEDER,
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Vice-Pbesident
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Complete Equipments
Brewing Co., -FOR-

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— AND —
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Machinists' Supph'es.
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Telephones; ^Zo Department 1440
514=520 Camp Street. New Orleans.

A. U. PAHKER, President. nkS M. McDEI^MOTT, President.

J.^JO. M. PARKKR. Vice-President. EDW. J. SACK, Vice-President.
P. H. BROWN Secreiary. T. C. HILL. Scc-lrtas.
C c:. JOHN^.TON, Treasurer.

THE-
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Parker-Blake McDermott
Surgical Instrument
Company, Company, Ltd.
LIMITED -Manufacturers and Dealers in-

Successors to L. N. BRUNSWIG & CO. Surgical Instruments and Appliances,

Wholesale
DRUGGISTS Artificial Limbs, Trusses,
Crutches, Elastic Hosiery, Etc.
DIRECTORS.
jkb Te It on pi to u las and
'no. M. Parlier.
P. H. Brown. W GraV i e r S t s .
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86
 MR. HENRY ABRAHAM.
Among" the many able business men who have im-
pressed themselves on the affairs of New Orleans and
who have helped to make the cit}' great and prosper-
ous and renowned as a commercial center there is no
man who stands hig-her than Henry Abraham. Not
onlv has he made a name that is looked to with pride
and honor bv the business world, but he has added to
the beauty and attractiveness of the city by helping
to make its residence section the most delightful that
can be found in any city, so he has helped also to make
more marked the social and benevolent characteristics
which are strong^ here and tor which the city is so
widely noted. It is remarkable that among- the Jew-
ish people there is hardly a man of prominence who
has achieved fame and fortune who has not at the
has always been of the highest value and greatest
benefit to the community of commercial and financial
activity and has helped to establish that confidence
and stability in business which is so well defined in
this city. He has also been connected with important
commercial and manufacturing enterprises and al-
ways has been ready to stand with those who stood
for the advancement of the city.
Natural tact and ability to comprehend commercial
problems, capacity to see into the future and venture
as far as was safe and wise and no farther and a full
comprehension of the correlation of business interests
peculiarly fitted Mr. Abraham for the place that he
has assumed in the business world. But he did not
reach that position without years of hard work, self
sacrifice and keen attention to details, which are the

same time made his name essentials to advancement. He

known as a man of public came across the Atlantic with

spiritand benevolence and this no capital but his training
is what has gfiven the Jewish and ambition and determina-
people such a high standing- tion to succeed, which are the

in the community. They have characteristics that have

never been found wanting- in given New Orleans so many
anything that helped to make valued Jewish and other citi-
the city more prosperous or zens from the Old World.
more fit to live in and enjoy It may have seemed to some

life in. that they fell into fortune but

the fact is that it came from
Mr. Abraham, like so man}-
hard work and following the
other successful Jews, was born
essentials to success.
in Germany, where he was
educated and trained in those In private life Mr. Abraham
carefulbusiness habits which presents to his friends in his
he afterwards combined with beautiful home among fam-
enterprise and push and de- ily and friends, or out in the
voted to the upbuilding- of his social world the picture of a
business, thereby benefitting- man plain, unassuming, mag-
the community as every man netic, well informed and pleas-

does who truly looks after his ant in manner, refined and a
own affairs. Mr. Abraham student of men and affairs,
lived before coming- to New HENRY ABRAHAH a delightful man to talk with,

Orleans, in Montgomery, Ala., a lover of books and art and

where he beg-un the business career which afterwards everything that pleases the intellect and attracts
brought him to this city. He was for number of
a the cultured. He is an interesting talker and when
years a factor in the great firm of Lehman, Neug-ass he consents to talk of the eventful years of his life

& Co., Lehman, Abraham & Co., and

afterwards and gives his views and impressions gathered in a
afterwards established a business in the name of H. wide field of travel and observation, there is no more
Abraham & Son, which has become one of the great- interesting host and entertainer.
est cotton houses in the world and has always been By those characteristics which have been the force
regarded by the business world as one of the most of his business life — integrit3% intelligent, activity
representative and prog-ressive and at the same time and devotion to details, Mr. Abraham was amassed a
careful and judiciously managed business concerns of fortune that places him high among the moneyed men
the country. of the South, but this has not drawn him, nor his

His ability and business standing- naturally brought family away from their devotion to the city and the
Mr. Abraham into wider relations to the financial people among whom they have lived, nor changed the
world. As a director and afterwards as Vice-Presi- geniality and friendliness with which he mingles with
dent of the Germania National Bank he has exercised the people, nor lessened his interest in the progress
an influence on the financial affairs of the city that and development of the city.

87
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88
 WILLIAM ABLER. ber has devoted more earnest and intelligent effort to
No name among- the Jewish people of this city is the great work of redeeming the city from its former
more respected than that of William Adler, who is a condition.
leading- man of it in every form of activity, bus- The services of such men in the public work are
iness, social and municipal, and not only has made above any consideration of reward; they are some-
himself a high reputation in regfard to the carrying thing that only the true spirit of public enterprise
on and development of his private business, but has and ambition can inspire and without such leaders
taken a position in public affairs that has always been and thinkers progress must be slow and unsatis-
honorable, progressive and up-to-date, while in the factory.
social world he stands as high as any man in the city. Another line of activity in which Mr. Adler has
Mr. Adler is still a young man, too, having been shown himself is as one of the leaders in the work of
born in 1858, on the 30tli of December in the German Progressive Union and such efforts to uplift and ad-
Fatherland, which he left full of hope and confidence vance the city as a whole, without regard merely to
and determination, about twenty-five years ago. His the interests of his own personal business. In all
hope was to make an honorable name in a new coun- public affairs of this kind his presence has always
try and his ambition to achieve success on the lines been noted and his voice has been heard when there
in which he has succeeded so well. was occasion to speak for progress and advancement
He came without capital and and better methods.
began at the bottom of the lad- A man of pleasant address
der, taking a place with the and social disposition Mr.
important firm of Hirsch, Adler Adler has not failed to im-
& Co., wholesale grocers, im- press his personality on those
porters and exporters, now A. who have come in contact
Adler & Co., of which Mr. with him and this same dis-
Adler is a member. The repu- position and spirit of enter-
tation established in this bus- prise have made him promi-
iness he has carried into others nent in all the charitable and
and his appreciation of the im-
benevolent affairs of the city,
portance of the city and the
especially, of course, those
opening for investments led
conducted by the Jews. In all
him early to take an interest
in manufacturing and business of the great enterprises which
enterprises outside of his direct have called forth such eulo-
firm. He is a big stockholder gies of the Jewish people of
in and Vice-President of The the city from visiting phil-
Kohlmann Cotton Mill and anthropists and sympathetic
Manufacturing Company, the people Mr. Adler has been a
Schwartz Foundry Company, factor, though he may have
Ltd., and the Adler- Weinber- been a quiet one working be-
ger Steamship Comjjany, and a hind the scenes and furnish-
Director in the Bluefields WILLIAH ADLER. ing more than words and sug-
Steamship Company. gestions.
which he has engaged
In every line of business in Mr. Adler is ex-President of the Congregation
he is regarded as a leader and his opinion sought on Gates of Mercy of the Dispersed of Judah, of which
all important matters. His connection as a director Rev. I. L. Leucht is Rabbi.
of the State National Bank has been an important He has always been an active member of that splen-
feature of the success of that institution in recent did, live organization, the Young Men's Hebrew As-
years and he has taken an especial interest in that sociation and in all its plans his advice and co-opera-
success and in the high standing of the institution. tion helped, especially in the building and equip-
Since he became President this has been even more ment of the beautiful home of the club, in the work
truly the case than before and he has been recognized of its extension and enlargement and in the public
as the peer of any financier in the South. benefits that have accrued to the city from the ac-
When Mayor Flower was looking over the city tivity of the organization. Aside from his connec-
for men big and public-spirited enough to place tion with the Drainage and Sewerage Board he has
on the Drainage and Sewerage Board, Mr. Adler not held office and is in no sense a politician, though
was obviously a natural choice because of his he has taken a commendable interest in political af-
ability and because he had always shown a decided fairs and in 1896 served as an elector on the ticket
liking to public affairs which did not involve pol- which gave the country that splendid statesman and
itics. His selection was a wise one, for no mem- and noble representative, William McKinley.

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9
 MR. NATHAN I. SHWARTZ. attracted Mr. Shwartz to communal and charitable

younger set of a score of work, he no doubt realized that charity to be effec-

One among- the first of the
tive should be conducted on business principles. He
years ag-o who entered with zeal upon a career of
took amodest part in the affairs of the Touro In-
usefulness without the expectancy of acquiring- any
firmai V and Hebrew Benevolent Association, of which
notoriety or reward for unselfish services rendered,
he has been a member since his early manhood and
devoting his energies, his time and his means
from his identification with the Association he has
for the betterment of the distressed and unfortunate
who for years has occu-
been a zealous worker.
was Mr. Nathan I. Shwartz,
pied an honored position in the affairs of New Or- (iradually his opinions attracted the attention of
leans, in communal, charitable, social and commer- the great hearted men who have labored assiduously
cial circles. Humanity for years, and. realizing
for the cause of

Mr. Shwartz is to the manner born, a native of that the day was near at hand when others must
New he was reared, educated and
Orleans, where assume the burden of office and management, Mr.
given the opportunity of carving out his own career. Shwartz was given a position on the Board of Direc-
His lamented parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Abra- tors in 1877.

ham Shwartz, had made this In 1898 he was elected Pres-

city their home years ago in ident of the Touro Infirmary

the spring- of their useful and Hebrew Benevolent Asso-

ciation and this famed institu-
lives and lived to witness the
tion owes much of its suc-
realization of their fondest
cesses tothe splendid execu-
hopes and aspirations.
tive ability of the gentleman
Born on April 22, 1853, Mr. whose name has been identi-
Nathan I. Schwartz was edu- fied with its splendid progress
cated in the Public Schools of since his assumption of the
the city and, thoug-h a mere president's chair.
youth entered in the employ-
ment of his fatherwho had
AUGUST HEIDENHEIM.
founded the prominent busi-
Mr. Heidenheim is one of
ness house known for years as
the most active and influential
"A Shwartz," and which in
younger Jewish element
of the
course of time assumed only
of the Crescent City. He is a
such changes as were neces- director and first vice-presi-
sary when the sons became dent of the Young Men's He-
identified and finally
with it brew Association, and an
becoming- the care and pride ardent worker in its cause,
of Mr. N. I. Shwartz e.xclu- and with other or-
is affiliated

sively. NATHAN I 5MWARTZ. ganizations, social and frater-

Step by step Mr. Shwartz nal, of his people.

acquired the technique of business and before he had He the son of M. Heidenheim. retired, long a
is

attained his majority was a practical man of affairs, merchant of the up town district of the city, and for

knowing- the details of the ever increasing "Shwartz very many years the president of the Congregation of
Jackson street Synagogue His business is under-
Dry Goods House" from Alpha to Omega. He was
writing He is ("resident of the Ferd. Marks Insur-
practically manag-er of the establishment before he ance Agency, Ltd one of the largest general agen-
,

was eighteen years age and under his astute,

of cies, and one of the oldest also, of New Orleans.

courteous and comprehensive business methods "A Mr Heidenheim is a native of New Orleans, and a
graduate of the local schools, to the manner born
'

Shwartz's Son" has become noted throughout Louis-

and bred." as Shakespeare has it, in point of fact.
iana as a synonym for integrity. His wife is a New Orleans lady. Miss Sarah Marks,
Mr. Shwartz found time when "a youngster" to daughter of the late Ferd. Marks. As an insurance
man he began at the very bottom of the ladder. While
consider the daily' problems of those less fortunate, still in h s teens he was a practical man of business.
men, women and by the waves of
children buffeted Like his brothers, also prominent men of affairs here,
he early disclosed superior managerial talents. His
adversity, poor, homeless, destitute and sick, and the
agency under his direction steadily increases its
indigent ag-ed more helpless than the babe wooed to patroriage. It has an especially large clientage in
slumber's sweet in mothers' arms. While sentiment the cotton trading district in which it is located.

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92
 MR. ALBERT GODCHAUX.
The familiar name, Godchaux, conspicuous in com-
mercial, financial and social circles, and representing
varied interests which have aug-mented the prosperity
of Louisiana, and the city of New Orleans in particu-
lar, isworthily borne by Mr. Albert Godchaux.
Mr. Godchaux, the fourth son of the lamented
Leon Godchaux, was born in New Orleans, Aug"ust 7,
1870. Rearsid amidst the elegant and refined influ-
ences of the Godchaux home on Esjilanade avenue,
enjoying- ever}' advantage that wealth can contribute,
at an early age Mr. Godchaux was given opportuni-
ties rarely enjoyed to acquire an education befitting
his future prospects. When sufficiently advanced he
matriculated at Tulane Universit}' where he received
a thorough literary education. Proceeding thence to
famous "Exeter," located at Exeter, N. H., he con-
tinued his studies, finally completing an extended
course at the Institute of Technology-, Boston, Mass.
Returning to New Orleans he was thoroughly pre-
pared by the advantages he enjoyed to enter a profes-
sional career, had he so desired, but instead he en-
tered active commercial life in the famous Godchaux
ALBERT GODCHAUX.
establishment and gave h s attention to the upbuild-
ing of this important New Orleans' establishment. of the New Orleans
ness, he is fir<t vice-president
In due time Mr. Godchaux became identified with Progressive Union; he is also president of the God-
the various ramifications of industries and agricul- chaux, Shelby & Mioton Co., Insurance Agents, and
ture established by his father and has aided in en- a director in various other important industrial or-
hancing their importance. ganizations.
But Mr. Godchaux is not so bound up in business He is in full fellowship with the Masonic fraternity,
that he takes no interest in other issues. To the a member of the Chivalric Order of Pythias and an
contrary he finds time to devote to fraternal work, to ardent member of the Elks. Likewise he is President
society-and any and every measure directed to the of the Harmony Club and interested in and holds
betterment of state and city. membership in the Young Men's Hebrew Association,
In addition to his conduct of the Godchaux busi- the Chess, Checker and Whist Club, and the Young
Men's Gymnastic Club.
Mr. Godchaux has a fellow-feeling for all human
kind; hence he is a valuable member of the various
Jewish charities whose labor of love include main-
tenance of the Jewish Orphans' Home and the Touro
Infirmary.
Regardless of the multifarious duties of a civic,
commercial and fraternal character Mr. Godchaux is
seen at his best within the precincts of his home.
There on April 4, 1899, he brought his bride nee
Aline Zodiag, one of the most charming and intel-
lectual ladies of Shreveport, La. There Love reigns
supreme; there business aside he enjoys the compan-
ionship of his intimates. There too in idle moments
he finds solace in his favorite literature. For he is a
student by temperament, in the wooing of the muses
delighting much.

MR. LEONARD KROWER.

Among the many gentlemen of New
Orleans whose
zeal and efforts for its progress and prosperity are
heartily applauded by all good citizens Mr. Leonard
LEONARD KROWER. Krower is justly entitled to the distinction accorded

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him, not only as a promoter but as an advocate of its
advantages from every view point.
Mr. Krower was born in Amsterdam. Holland, on
February 28, 1855. There he enjoyed splendid educa-
tional advantag-es. However, attracted to the United
States by resources and opportunities, he crossed
the Ocean in his early youth, locating-
York cit}'. There, not many months afterwards he
enjoyed the emoluments of a lucrative position and
there he gained the esteem and confidence of new
made friends. He was the architect of his own for-
tune; he had nothing to rely upon but his own abil-
ity; he was inspired with an exalted idea of ho.ior
—qualifications far better for the beginning of a
career than wealth.
New Orleans became his home in 1884. He came di-
from New York where his extensive
rect to this city
experience with the re-
Whether from the viewpoint of business, fraternal
or social life Mr. Krower enjoys the esteem of all
and his course of life, always creditable, has won for
him that which is far better than honors and wealth,
a ofood name.
in New MR. HENRY STERN.
Among theunselfish, earnest workers for the
cause of Judaism and for those grandest of Jew-
ish charitable manifestations, the care and educa-
tion of the orphaned, the comfort of the needy,
and ministering to the sick and suffering, Mr.
Henry Stern occupies a deserved and conspicuous
place in the esteem of all.
Mr. Stern was born in Albersweiler. Germany, on
February 18th, 1831, and after receiving a thorough
schooling in the father-

nowned Jewelry house, land, so as to be equipped

Albert Lorsch, equipped to face the realities of
him for the successes that |!. life, he sought a home in
'"%.
came to him in afteryears the United States, finally
settling in New Orleans,
of earnest application in
on the 20th of January,
his chosen pursuit. ^ 1851.
Mr. Krower won his way His training in youth
in a strange land, unac- was such as to interest
him in commercial pur-
quainted with its customs r4 suits and he
at once iden-
and language, by his in-
tifiedhimself with trade
dustrj-, application and soon building up a Mer-
personality. His arrival in cantile establishment of
New Orleans was hailed note.
with pleasure by those On December b, 1860,

who knew of him and his he wedded Miss Annette

successes as a youth in Newman. Their marital
the Great Metropolis. blisshas been unmarred
It was realized that he by the faintest shadow
would prove a valuable and in the happiness and
prosperity of children
addition to New Orleans
and he has sustained his and grand children they
record during the years live "Life's young
dream" of happiness oe'r
that he has been a citizen
of that city. and oe'r again. Mr.
Stern tho' over sixty
To New Orleans he
came as we have said in is alert and active, pre-
1884, and since that siding over a well es-
time he has demonstrat- tablished business found-
ed that this cit)- was ed by him years ago and
his home indeed. His HENRY STERN. known as Henry Stern &
successful venture as a Co., Wholesale Boots and
business man is well-known; furthermore, as he pros- Shoes, New Orleans, La., and Boston, Mass. But
pered he exhibited himself a man of fellow-feeling; Mr. Stern has also had time to devote to the cause
also of generosity and charity. of humanity, whether it be that of the fraternities
Mr. Krower takes an active interest in all communal he is associated with— for he is a Mason, B'nai B'rith,
work and his splendid services have been appreciated Knights of Pythias and other noted secret societies
by the Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent As- wherein he has been repeatedly honored with posi-
sociation, the Association for the Relief of Jewish tions of trust— or those magnificent Institutions the
Widows and Orphans, the Young Men's Hebrew As- Touro Infirmary, Jewish Orphans Home and Temple
sociation, the B'nai B'rith, and last but not least Sinai. In the noted Jewish charities of New Orleans,
Congregation Touro Synagogue, of which he is at Mr. Stern has invariably taken a prominent part and
this writing the honored President. during many consecutive years (extending be-
In his sphere as a business man Mr. Krower has yond a generation) has been Treasurer of sev-
been likewise honored, being a Director of the New eral. Whether in a social, commercial or
Orleans Boardof Trade and the Progressive Uni m. He charitable affairs, Mr. Stern is always noted
is also a valued member of several of the prominent for his avoidance of display, being "a plain, blunt
social organizations including the Harmony Club, man" faithful, earnest, a good citizen and a con-
the Southern Athletic Club and others of equal note. scientious Israelite.

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wdilliy
purchasing her bridal trousseau No more beautiful
Aiiioii}^- the earnest, consistent ;ni<l f^fiitlc-
idea than this had been conceived by friends and pa-
men, wlio in their advanced only witness tlie
a<je not
trons of the Jewish Orphans' Home and the "Simon
realization of their aspirations, ambitions and hoi)es, (lumbel l<\ind" will be a m nument to its founder for
but are as well exemplars for the youn<jfer men is Mr. all time to come.
Simon Ginnbel, whose business qualities and ener^-y
I^ittle by the modest enterprise of Mr. Gum-
little
successfully accomplished his ideals and placed him
in the ranks of prominent factors and promoters. bel grew in proportion and within ten years he was
His successes are a demonstration of tlie fact that fortunate in having a well established and lucrative
application and honesty of purpose are equal to casli business. His business aptitu<le and enterprise re-
capital if properly applied and he is also one of the cognized the necessity of promoting industries and,
many who begfan a career that led to Fortune's in 1859, he was the first man to build and conduct a
heifj'hts a poor, friendless youth. cotton seed oil mill with great success an<l advantag-e
Mr. (kimbel was horn in that ex((uisite section of to the Parish until the breaking- out of the Civil War.
Bavaria, (Germany, bordering- on the Khine in IS.^2, The CJonfederacy had an earnest sympathizer in
attaining- the rucliments of an education in the (Ger- Mr. Gumbel who proved of invaluable service to the
man lang^uag-e in his native land. At the af^-e of six- "Lost Cause" for he placed at the disposal of the Con-
teen he left the parental roof to seek a livelihood in federates a steamboat he owned, and others he was
the Land beyond the Sea, interested in, which were
and amonof the arrivals from utililized as transports.

Europe on May Id, 1S4S, was Mr. Gumbel moved to

Mr. Gumbel. He lost no New Orleans in 18f)4. There
time in embarkinjr in bus- he embarked in the whole-
iness and a few weeks af- sale notion and
business
terwards was touriiif^- the conducted this special line
river parishes in the modest of merchandizing- success-
caj)acity of a vendor of mer- fully until 1873 when he
chandise. He followed this disposed of his interest to
business for two years and enter the Cotton and Com-
finally opened a small estab- mission business founding
lishment amon^ friends. the well-known house, S.
With his coming- to New Gumbel & ("o., of which he
Orleans in Mr. Gum-
18(>4 is to-day the senior and as
bel assumed an honored po- active in business circles
sition in Jewish communal as he was when on May
and charitable circles. By If), 1848, he first stepped on
disposition modest and re- Louisiana soil. While de-
tiring- he has never been voting his attention to the
conspicuous before the pub- affairs of the prominent
lic but the various Asso- house he founded over a
ciations in which he has score of years ago Mr.
held membership for up- .
Gumbel is interested in

•wards of forty years have otherimportant industrial

protitted by his advice and SIMON GUHBEL interests, conspicuous
unassuming work on com- among- these Louisiana's
mittees. He was elected Treasurer of the Associa- most important one, the cultivation and milling of
rice, being- not only a promoter of rice mills but the
tion for the Relief of Jewish Widows' and Orphans
owner of valuable tracts of rice lands.
and has been his own successor, his administration
When the Provident Aid Society was projected Mr.
of the finances proving most efficient. (Tumbel was enrolled among the donors to the fund
An incident of his association with the manage- which created this most comprehensive and useful
ment of the Jewish Orphans' Home is well worthy a charity and since its formation has been its Treas-
place in the record of gracious deeds of charity cred-
urer. He is an active member of the Y. M. H. A.,
ited to Jews of Louisiana. Mr. (iumbel no doubt de-
the B'nai B'rith and the Harmony Club all of which
sired to demonstrate his interest in the inmates of
the Jewish Home. They had every advantage of he has served officially.
education and were cared for even when they left the Within the precincts of his palatial home are his
"Home." The inspiration came to him on the occa- jewels, wife and children and daughters and sons,
sion of a "joyful event" in his family and in honor of daughters-in-law and sons-in-law cast in the self
the marriag-e of a daug^hter he created a "Dower same would as the honored subject of this sketch,
Fund," donating $5,000, and thereafter every girl strive out of love for human kind to bring joys into

of the institution who married or will marry received the lives of those less fortunate than themselves.

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MR. GABRIEL KAHN. president of the John J. Brown Memorial Associa-

A familiar and respected name, not among- Jews tion, which every year gives the orphans of New Or-
onl}', but to all old residents of New Orleans, is that leans irrespective of creed, a steamboat outing and
of "Gabe" Kahn, a shortening- indicating- friendly pic-nic at one of the nearby plantations.

feeling and appreciation, not disrespect. Mr. Kahn

is well-known on 'Change to which, altho' now past
three score and ten he still resorts, rather from force
HON. NAT STRAUSS.
of habit however than necessity, for both his son and At the time New Orleans was selected as the Dis-
grandson are associated with him in business. trict seat and headquarters for No. 7, I. O. B B in ,

Mr. Kahn was born in Rodalben, Rheinpfalz, Ger- 1890. Hon. Nat Strauss long a prominent working
many. He attended school there, and having fin- member of the Order was chosen to the position of
ished his course, embarked in 1851 on a sailing- ves- Grand Secretary (and in that capacity its Executive
sel for America. He was then about twenty years officer) and has been continued in the office ever since.

old. He sailed from Havre, France, and arrived in "Mr. Strauss,'' says an account of the Order from
New Orleans in January, 1852. He has lived in which we draw our facts, "it is generally conceded,
Louisiana ever since, except is the man for the place. He
when serving with the is a man of distinct personal-
Confederate arms in the Old ity, of marked character, popu-
Dominion. Before the war he lar, talented, a man of discern-
ment and His portrait
tact."
was engaged in g-eneral mer-
is presented on another page
chandising in the country. He
of this book along with a
embarked in his present line,
sketch of the Order itself.
the cotton pickery business,
Mr. Strauss was born in
some thirty-seven years ago.
Alsace when it was French
Mr. Kahn has been connect- territory, like so many other
ed at one time or other with prominent Israelites of this
all the Jewish charitable as-
part of the country. He came
sociations of the city. He
to New Orleans before the
has been a director of Touro
war, in his early manhood,
Infirmary. He is president of
and has had many a change
the Jewish Widows' and Or-
phans' Home; has held that and experience since then.

office in fact for the past From this city he moved to

twelve years; and worthy
it is Mobile, and there eventually
of note that it was during married. His wife was a help-
his administration that the GABRIEL KAHN. mate indeed, and was almost
long cherished plan for a as well known in the Ladies'
manual training school for the orphans and others Auxiliary as he in his sphere. She died in 1899.
was brought to a successful issue. He is president At Mobile Mr. Strauss enlisted for the Civil war
of that institution by virtue of his office as president under the stars and bars and saw active service,
of the Orphans Home, i. e., the Isidore Newman there, some 3'ears after he was elected to the Ala-
Manual Training School, endowed by the Jewish bama Legislature. Here he distinguished himself as
banker whose name it bears, which school, at this a leader, law maker and debater. His connection
writing, is built and just about to be occupied. with the Order of B'nai B'rith began very many
Mr. Kahn was a contributing member to the above years ago, and he had been long prominent in its
named organizations for years before he held an of- councils when he was chosen to succeed the lamented
fice. Aside from these he belongs to the Jewish Pub- Ulman, in the post he holds. He represents it on the
lication Society, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, Board of the Jewish Widows and Orphans Home.
the Free Sons of Israel, and the Order of the B'nai Naturally, with his affiliations, he is a pillar of

B'rith of which he was at one time Grand President. the faith, and a stout champion of every cause
He is a charter member of Temple Sinai and for for the well being and up lifting of the Jewish
many years was on its Board of Directors. He is also people.

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 MR. M. HEIDENHEIM.
One of the fathers in Israel, one of the elders in the
faith, isour subject; truly an exemplar, during a long-
residence and honorable career of all that is good in
it; a man highly respected by all who know him both
Christian and Jew.
Mr. Heidenheim is now going on four score. He
came to New Orleans fifty-seven years ago. For
nearly fifty years he was engaged in business at Jack-
son avenue and the Levee, a quarter once the scene of
busy traffic, tho' now, with the changes that have
come over the water front, sensibly declined. He
was successful there, but for some years has been
retired.
It is a half century now fully since Mr. Heiden-
heim identified himself with the Jackson Avenue
Congregation, Gates of Prayer. He was one of the
founders of the old Shtc/e in Lafayette, as this por-
tion of the city was formerly known. He was secre-
tary of the Congregation, and afterward its treasurer,
and for nearly thirty years he has been its president.
He has taken a deep and continuous interest in the
Jewish Orphans Home; in fact was one of the first
respondents to the call which, in 1853, resulted in its
establishment.
Touro likewise has received his patronage and as-
sistance from its inception. His interest indeed has niCHEL HEYMANN.
been readily enlisted in ever}' Jewish philanthropy.
So now, surviving to a green old age, through the Mr. Heidenheim is fortunate in another respect,
many vicissitudes of life peculiar to the Crescent his sons following in his footsteps. One of them,
City, through flood and pestilence, war and panic; August has been vice-president of the Y. M. H. A.
he has lived to behold in Israel a wonderful progress for a long term and another likewise a director.
and development. Where in 1847, when he landed,
there was but a handful of his co-religionists there MR. MICHEL HEYMANN.
are now thousands, among them many of the weal-
thiest and most influential itizens of New Orleans.
Aman held in the highest esteem by the Jewish
residents of New Orleans and IvOuisiana is Michel
i

Where there were but an altar or two in primitive

houses of worship, now there are magnificent tem-
ples; not to speak of those flourishing charitable in-
stitution which, in large measure are the pride of the
race, particularly gratifying to those who, like him-
self, ministered at their foundation.
^v
Heymann, Superintendent of the Jewish Widows' and
Orphans' Home, an institution of which they are
justly proud. His management of this institution
has been much commended; it is indeed regarded gen-
what such an institution shouldbe.
erally the model of
He has presided over it for jears. and his adminis-
tration has been such as to earn him the name of the
"father of the orphans." It is a truly paternal gov-
ernment which he exercises, and as a father he is
obeyed and beloved by the inmates of the Home one
and all.

The right man in the right place he is reg rded.

And not merely as an efficient administrator for he is
more, a scholarly man, a writer and speaker, to whose
abilities recognition is fr ely accorded.
Mr. Heymann is Secretary of the Charity Organi-
zation Society; in fact it originated with him in 1897.
He has been president of the Board of Prisons and
Asylums of the State, and is a member of the Board
of Free Kindergartens of New Orleans One of the
free kindergartens of the city is named in compli-
ment to him. He has been a delegate to the Inter-
national Prisnn Conference, Brussels, repesenting
the United States; also to the International Charity
Conference of the Paris Exposition last held. For
\:
that Exposition he prepared a special exhibit of the
\ Home over which he presides, showing its develop-
ment and condition; a work that attracted much at-
tention as an illustration of American, as well as
Jewish social status. A broad minded man of philan-
thropic spirit, it is a labor of love with him to further
the advancement, not only of this institution and his
M. HEIDENHEIM. own people, but humanity of every sort.
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 HON. ISAIAH D. MOORE. years and ranks high in the councils of the
still

For every material fact there an explanation;

is party. He is leading member of the Harmony
a
every circumstance has its reason and cause Tho' Club; in fact, as mentioned in the sketch of that in-
biography and not controversy is our province we stitution, was long its president, and guiding spirit.
may ask: Is it strange that, among- the crowd of Chiefly through his labors was it housed in a club
professional men which New Orleans can muster so house which is perhaps the finest in all the South.
many of, the most noted are Jews? He is a participant in the charitable and philan-
Reflection answers, not at all. Does not history thropic movements of his people and firm in the
tell us how, even in the dark ag-es oi Christanity, faith A foremost representative, in short, of the
who were the conservators of the learningf and science culture, ability and integrity, the highest and best in
of preceding civilization, the leaders, the scholars, the stock from which he is sprung.
the sages of the times ? And why not now in an age The Judge has always been a true blue advocate
of enlightenment, progress and freedom of speech and champion of Democracy. He has served his party
action and conscience, this new intellectual blossom-
long and faithfully; his character and record have
ing and fruitage of the race which we plainly behold?
True it is, at all events that here as elsewhere — been such as to inspire confidence. He is still in his
also has been remarked —
the distinguished lawyers, prime; and it is not too much to expect that in the
doctors and scientists of this faith, bear a strangely future, further honors await him, and at the hands
large proportion to the professional body as a whole. of the good people of the Crescent City and Pelican
Of particular examples many State. His career hitherto
might be cited, our subject. augurs well for further
Judge Moore, for one. preferment.
Judge Moore is a member
of the Court of Appeals of JAC. TRAUTMAN.
the State, sitting at New
Jewish names figure numer-
Orleans, and is not only one
mem-
—
ously need we say conspicu-
of the most prominent ously also— in the commerce
bers of his race in Louisi- of New Orleans, more es-
ana, but one of the most pecially the finance and cot-
eminent members of the bar. ton trade of the place; Jew-
He has figured much in pub- ish lawyers stand high at
lic life in the Pelican State, the bar; Jewish doctors are
as one of the supervisors of at the head of the great
the Louisiana State Univer- hospitals of the city; Jewish
sity and Agricultural and politicians,like Benjamin,
Mechanical College; as Jonas and Kruttschnitt have
Mayor of Thibodaux, one of led in the legislation and
the most thriving towns of public affairs of the State;
the State; as Colonel and many are the old family
Aid de Camp on the Gover- names in city and parishes
nors Staff; as presidential thatcan readily be identified
elector, 1884; and delegate as of this s ock. Has not
to the Constitutional Con- the character and capacity
ventions of 1879 and 1898. of the adherents of this
He has represented the State ancient creed been amply
upon several occasions in certified?
inter-state conventions and The name of Trautman
assemblies; also notably in is well known here, and has
,the Louisiana Purchase HON. ISAIAH D. MOORE been for a matter of fifty
Convention of 1899. In years or more, particularly
the Constitutional Conventions especially was he an in a business way as one of character and standing.
active and valued member. He was Chairman of the It distinguishes at the present time a leading house
Committee on Limitations in the first named (1879) in the grain and feed line, Jac. Trautman & Co., a
and was in charge of the suffrage ordinance in the firm prominently identified through its business with
other, that of 1898. the New Orleans Board of Trade.
Judge Moore was born in the British West Indies Of this firm Mr. Jac. Trautman, subject of our
in 1846. He came here however, quite young. He sketch, is the senior member. He was born and
was educated at the University of Louisiana and at brought up here, went to school here, married here,
St. Marks and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He in early manhood, and as the father of a family all
was mayor of Thibodaux ten years and came here to born here, may be truly considered to have given this
enjov the wider field the city affords for a man of city as Bacon has it, ample "hostages to fortune."
talents and activity. He was of Lazarus, Moore & Mr Trautman. true to his bringing up observes the
Luce, one of the principal law firms here before his tenets of the ancient faith of Israel. He is identified
elevation to the bench. As judge his reputation, by membership with the principal Jewish social and
both for ability and fairness is high. charitable bodies of the city, and a regular contribu-
Judge Moore has long been an active and influen- tor to their support. None worthier to be enrolled,
tial member of the Democratic party. He was a mem- indeed, in this collection of biographies of the repre-
ber of the Democratic State Committee for fifteen sentative Israelites of the Ciiy and State.

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 MR. JOSEPH KOHN. REV. JULIUS BRAUNFELD.
This g:entleman is distingfuished in the business Temple Sinai has oft resounded during the past ten
years to the magnificent vocal execution of the dis-
world, in civic service and in Jewish institutional
tinguished Cantor, the Rev. Julius Braunfeld, the
affairs. He has passed the greater part of his life magnificent baritone whose artistic temperament and
here; he is very well-known; of him it can truly be splendid musical ability have contributed to the crea-
whether public con- tion of a high standard in synagogal music.
said, that in business, social or
This grand cantor was born in Sajo-Szeutpeter,
cerns, he commands the respect, confidence and es- Hungary, on July 17, 1863, He is the lineal descen-
teem of who have come in contact with him.
all dant of a most prominent European family, who for
Mr. Kohn is of Kohn, Weil & Co., (formerly Simon many generations have been numbered among the
foremost of musician-*, composers and Cantors.
& Kohn) wholesale hats, Canal street, a house estab- Besides a thorough gymnasium and college educa-
lished in 1868. He is German born but came to this tion, Cantor Braunfeld enjoyed the facilities of a
country in his youth, settling- first at Indianapolis. thorough musical and vocal training under instruc-
Baton Rouge. During the war he tion of the most noted professors of Austria.
Thence he went to
Following the time honored European custom of
served with the engineers in the camps of the con- the young men who fit themselves for the hon-
federacy. After the war ored calling of Cantor,
Mr. Braunfeld began his
he settled here.
career, after being thor-
His first employment oughly versed in music as
was as book-keeper in the a singer in Temple choirs.
house of which he is now His ability and mastery
of the Art soon gained
the head. He rose in a
him deserved promotion
little while to a partner- firstas director and later
ship. The house has as Assistant Cantor.

long held a leading posi- His splendid voice and

tion in the trade and is
musical ability attracted
one of the most substan- public attention and he

tial in New Orleans. was persuaded to forego

his intention to devote
For eight years he was
his efforts to the profes-
a member of the State
sion of Cantor and accept
Board of Health. He was a position as "First Bary-
chairman of the combined tone in Grand Opera."
committee of the Ex- However his success on
the Lyric stage, his crea-
changes of the city for
tion of roles, the compli-
Sanitation at the time of ments of royalty and pop-
the last outbreak of yel- ular applause all failed to
low fever. His work in woo him from his first
love; and, though both
behalf of the community fortune and fame smiled
at this trying time, was upon him, he turned from
appreciated. His appoint- what promised to be Oper-
atic career to resume his
ment to the School Board JOS. KOHN duty to himself and to Ju-
subsequently maybe taken daism once more as Cantor.
as a recognition of his capacity. So after serving prominent European congregations
Mr. Kohn stands high among his co-religionists. as Cantor for some time he concluded to seek new op-
He is ex-president of the Harmony Club. For six- portunities in the United States. From his arrival
teen years he was a director of the Jewish Widows' on American soil he found his metier and rising day
and Orphans' Home, serving as chairman of its by day in reputation has achieved a place among the
finance committee. He was the secretary of the old first and foremost of the noted Cantors of this country.
Hebrew Educational Society. He is a member of He came to New Orleans ten years ago, personally
Temple Sinai, of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- an utter stranger, though preceded of course by his
tion and other Jewish organiiiations, and active in all name and fame as a scholar and Cantor. His initial
of them. A man of weight, in short, among his people. hearing in Temple Sinai won all hearts. How he
Mr. Kohn is unmarried. But he maintains the liftsthe soul indeed to the Throne of Grace with his
home tie along with his nephews and nieces As to spirit-stirring vocalization!
his disposition and character the interest he has dis- His home life is the ideal life of an artist, it is
closed in the schools and the orphans speaks volumes. most delightful, and in his wife he has one worthy
He is a man of culture and refinement, in manners a the term of helpmeet. For family he has a dutiful son
thorough gentleman at all times and everywhere, a and bright daughter. A charming home, particu-
charitable man, observing naturally the injunction, larly to all imbued with a love of the Art of which
"let not thy left hand know what the right giveth." he is master.
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 MR. LEOPOLD LEVY. ing the advantages of fraternities when directed to
Application, energ-y and tact have proven to be the the amelioration of distress and care for the widow-
road to success as far as Mr. Leopold Levy of New ed and orphaned. While not, to use the hackneyed
Orleans is concerned. For these attributes must expression a "clubman," Mr. Levy is nevertheless an
have assuredly been the incentives in every influentialmember of the Young Men's Hebrew As-
commercial and social career, g-ainingf
effort of his sociation and the Harmony Club. Both of these well-
for him, after years of arduous labor in the con- known clubs, have shown their appreciation of his
duct of business a name which is the equivalent of abilities by bestowing honors, upon him. He has
genuine probit)'. been president of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa-
The subject of this sketch was born in Saar Louis, a tion, which during his regime, profitted much by
beautiful little city in the heart of Alsace-Lorraine, his executive ability.
on February After receiving- a scholarly
26, 1849. In the Congregation Gates of Prayer— the Jackson
education, though barely in his teens, he sought em- Avenue Synagogue— has he centred an affection
ployment in his birth place and began his business too profound to be gauged by words. Within its
career. A few years afterwards he came to New Or- —
sacred precincts loved parents long since numbered
leans and though yet a youth, with the sainted dead— worshipp-
soon attracted the attention ed according to the tenets in
of representative business men which they had been reared.
by his invariable courtesy and Within its precincts he had as-
application to his work. For sumed his right to a place in
the first few years of his resi- the council of professors of Ju-
dence in the Crescent City he daism. So, in after years he
found employment in the most has served the Congregation in
noted commercial houses of the many capacities of honor, hav-
city. By and by having saved up
ing been repeatedly chosen as its
the capital, Mr. Levy established
president. Under his guidance
himself in an unpretentious bus-
the Jackson Avenue Synagogue
iness on his own account which,
has become an honored and most
gradually, by dint of strict per-
useful factor in communal work.
sonal attention has assumed the
He has been identified with the
proportions and the reputation of
Jewish Orphans' Home and the
being the most important, in the
Touro Infirmary for years, al-
line, in the Southern States. His
ways yielding ungrudgingly of
successful venture, the creation
his time and means to aid these
of his own by years
efforts,
of arduous application to en- glorious benefactions.
sure its success, has not chang- In 1881 he wedded Miss Ophelia
ed in the least a disposition Bruenn, a talented and most
and manner distinctively genial estimable lady, and native of
and sunny; for, while a cas- New Orleans. So, to-day, in the
ual acquaintance or indifferent vigor of manhood, enjoying the
spectator may regard Mr. Levy LEOPOLD LEVY fruits of his own handiwork, he
as a strict disciplinarian or en- is surrounded by a loving family
grossed at times with business, those who know
all and all the concommitants of an ideal home. Mr.
him are well aware that
like the character of the Levy is justly entitled to all the esteem extended
—
poet kindliness and good humor are his in large him for he has demonstrated what can be accom-
degree. plished by capacity, rectitude and untiring appli-
His magnificent business interests and his efforts cation.
to attain prestige in the special line he has devoted And it is not alone among the people of his faith
himself to, his love of Art accentuating this lauda- that Mr. Levy's qualities of heart and mind are ap-
ble project, has in no wise interfered with his per- preciated; Christian and Jew alike esteem his inva-
sonal service for the poor and distressed. Masonry riable courtesy and upright character. He is proud
finds in him a devoted craftsman, for he wooed its of the city in which, despite many obstacles, he has
captivating mysteries in the ardour of young manhood made his way, and very public spirited; a liberal
is

and in its theoretical application to the real and contributor in fact to funds for all public purposes.
tangible in Life he finds much delight. He is like- And while eschewing politics he is still deeply in-
wise an ardent member of various modern fraternities, terested in the growth and march of New Orleans the
among these the Order B'nai B'rith, thereby realiz- city of his home and hope.

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 MR. CHARLES ROSEN. several times. regarded by many one of the
He is

This gentleman is one of the most conspicuous of coming men has taken up, the
of the profession he

the 3-ounger members of the New Orleans bar. He exceptional brilliancy of his attainments and career
has already built up a lucrative practice. He was hitherto auguring for him an uncommon measure of
formerly a member of the firm of Florance & Rosen reputation.
and his services as a public speaker are in general
demand. His merit and ability certainly commend
DR. GEORGE KREEGER.
him for mention among the representative men of the
Jewish race in New Orleans. Of the younger medical men of New Orleans, Dr.
Mr. Rosen is a native of the State. He was born in George Kreeger has been one of the most successful,
Bayou Sara in 1872, which makes him 32 this year. very likel}' because he was one of the best prepared
He acquired the educational rudiments in the place of when he started to practice He had received an ex-
birth and was then sent to an academy at Port Gib- cellent yenernl education and was a graduate of Tu-
son, Miss., nearby. That was in '86-87. He thus lane University when he took the special course of
secured one of four scholarships for Tulane. The that institution preparatory to the study of medicine.
next year, '88, he led his After serving a year as
class and won the class resident student in Touro
Infirmary, a position only
scholarship the next year.
to be won through com-a
On graduation four years
petitive examination he
later with the B. A. de-
graduated in medicine
gree, he was one of the
with honors in 1892, but
four commended by the tho' fully qua'ified then
authorities for "special for practice he concluded
distinction" and was one to pursue his studies fur-
of the commencement ora- ther and thus thoroughly
tors as well. ground himself. Accord-
During his college ingly he went abroad and
course Mr. Rosen was an spent nearly two years in
acknowledged leader the hospitals and noted
medical institutions of
among the debaters of
Paris, Vienna and London
the college literarj' soci- so that on his return to
ety, Glendy Burke,
the this his native city, ten
years or so ago, patron-
and was editor and man-
age and reputation rapid-
ager of the College Mag- ly came to him. His skill
azine, theTulane "Colle- particularly in his spec-
gian." He won the Glendy ialty diseases of the skin
is known, and his success
Burke Societ}' medal with as we have intimated is
his essay on the "Dram- marked.
atic Unities," and the Dr. Kreeger has been a
Judah Touro historical CtlARLBS ROSEN member of the Young
medal with two theses, Men's Hebrew Associa-
viz: "The Life and Character of Philip of Macedon" tion for many years. He has also been a director of
and the "Life and Times of Mithridates. His essay it. rie is a contributor to the Jewish charities and an
observer of Jewish tenets. He married in 1896, Miss
"The Rise, Influence and Decline of Chivalry" won
Delia Straus of Columbus, Ga.
the Glendy Burke English Essay Medal of '91 and
was the onh' one the Faculty considered worthy this
established reward in six years. MR. JOS. L. CAIN.
Mr. Cain is B. Cain, one of the organ-
the son of L
Mr. Rosen began the study of law upon gradu tion
izers and first president of Touro Infirmary. He is a
in 1892 meantime instructing private classes and as-
merchant of prominence in the wholesale grocery line,
sisting in the Tulane Summer School. He was vale- a partner in the house of Lazare Levy & Co. He is a
dictorian of his law class. native of the city, brought up and educated here, and
As a lecturer he is highly popular. His talents are a consistent and conscientious supporter of Jewish
doctrine. In many of the good works of his people
eminently oratorical and literary. His address to
he is an active participant, Touro Infirmary and the
the B'nai B'rith of Montgomery, Ala., on the subject Orphans Home especially. Particularly is he inter-
"The Position of the American Jewish Youth to- ested in the Y. M. H. A., of which institution he has
day" has been repeated before other bodies by request been a director.

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 DR. A. L. METZ. MR. LAZARE LEVY.
It is something- surel3\ to have reached a well- Mr. Levy is of Lazare Levy & Co., wholesale
merited distinction in earlj- manhood; to be known grocers of 410 Tchoupitoulas street, a line in which he
far and wide as a chemist of the first order, and con- has been engaged here since 1888. He is the Treasurer
sulted as to important cases from all parts of the of the Harmony Club of New Orleans, the "swell"
country. To have attained prominence as a patho- club of the Jewish residents. He is also well-known
logist and success as a specialist in medical practice. in the New
Orleans Board of Trade; is a director of
This is the record of our subject; yet not all in- it He is a contributing member of Touro
in fact.
deed, with which he is to be credited. For he has Infirmary and the Jewish Orphans' Home. He also
risen to this rank and reputation alone and unaided. belongs to the I. O. B. B and the local young Men's
,

"To Dr. Metz," says a sketch of him, from which we Hebrew Association.
may quote, "is truly a self-made man. His early life Mr. Levy is a man of middle age, born in Stras-
was one of hardship. It was in fact a struggle for bourg, (Alsace), in the old French days, but came to
subsistence. No one knows what sacrifices he was this country still a youth. Here his first commercial
obliged to make. Happily for him he was endowed, experience was as clerk in a general store in Opelou-
not only with a vigorous intellect but with that pluck sas, St. Landry Parish, La. From the country he
which will not down. In- graduated, like so many
the word of our successful men of
domitable is
affairs, into the whole-
best applicable to his
sale business of the city.
character. This is high Needless to say he has
praise but well deserved. been highly successful.
Dr. Metz is just turn- Mr. Levy's personal
popularity is indicated in
ing 40. He is a graduate the official positions he
of the New York College holds, and so also is il-
of Pharmacy and has the 71 lustrated in great meas-
ure the estimation in
degrees of both the phar- which his business abil-
maceutical and medical ities are held. Christian
departments of Tulane. and Jew alike we see re-
spect him, which is some-
He has been chemist for
thing certainly to be
the city of New Orleans, proud of. Mr. Levy is
and for the State Board married, has a family and
lives and dispenses hos-
of Health of Louisiana.
pitality to his friends in
He had achieved reputa- one of the fine homes of
tion as a chemist before the old Garden district
of the city.
he was 30. His services
were in demand both pri-
vately and publicly. He JOSEPH W. MOSES.
was called into the inves- Mr. Moses is one of
tigation of important the younger element of
criminal cases, of poison- DM. A. L. HETZ business men of the Cres-
ing cases, often, for ex- cent City. He is still on
ample. In his specialty, stomach trouble, he is a the sunny side of forty, and generally known as a
member of the wholesale and importing crockery
leading medico of the cit}-. His success in his chosen
firm, Abe Mayer & Co., 530 Common street a leader
field was crowned when he was chosen Professor of in its line.
practical chemistry in Tulane University, one of the He is a New Orleans man by birth, raising and
most important institutions of learning in the South. schooling. He began first as clerk with Katz & Bar-
nett in the notions business and remained with that
And with such an indefatigable worker, still in the
house about two years. Since then (about fifteen
noontide of his powers, it is unlikely that he has yet years) he has been in crockery.
reached the summit of his career. Mr. Moses devotes himself largely to business. So-
Dr. Metz has achieved a considerable measure of cial dutiesoccupy but little of his leisure. He is
however a member of the Masonic Order, and of the
material as well as professional prosperit}'. He is Harmony Club, the club of the elite of the Jewish
happily married, his wife being Miss Cicely Marx of residents, maintaining what is unquestionably the
a well-known New Orleans family. His home is in
most sumptuous and richly appointed club-house of
the city. He is also a contributor to the Jewish
Rosa Park in the fashionable up-town residence quar- charities and a staunch supporter, we need scarcely
ter of the city. add, of the institutions and faith of his fathers.

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 MR. HARTWIG MOSS.
Among the more substantial and successful busi-
ness men of the Jewish faith in New Orleans, we count
as distinctly representative the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Moss is a leading- insurance man He is of Jan-
vier& Moss, Ltd., prominent as General Agents for
leading companies.
Mr. Moss was born a little more than half a century
ago in the little German village of Randegger. At
eighteen, in 1869, having finished his education he
embarked for New York. Here he started to earn a
livelihood and remained about a year. Then he came
South.
The _year 1870 found him in North Louisiana, en-
gaged in planting. There he remained for some
time, and until he accepted the place of confidential
man for the cotton house of V. & A. Meyer & Co.,
with whom he remained until the firm went out of
existence. Then he went into the insurance office of
Ferd. Marks, remaining five years and thorough]}-
mastered the business. Then he started on his own
account in the partnership with Mr. Janvier.
Fortune has smiled on Mr. Moss in business; like- CHARLES SIMON.
wise in his domestic affairs. He has been happily
married for man}' years. His wife was Miss Rosa
MR. CHARLES SIMON.
Rose of Memphis. They have an interesting family. Words of encomium surely are those in which a

Mr. Moss is a subscriber to all the Jewish charities. certain Jewish journal speaks of our present subject.

He takes an especially active interest in the Young Mr. Charles Simon, formerly a merchant of the city

Men's Hebrew Association of which he is a member.

of New Orleans, now retired. "A life" it says of
him, "well spent; a life of honorable industry, of vir-
—
tue and benevolence such a life as should be a source
of sincere satisfaction to any one."
Mr. Simon has been a resident and business man of
New Orleans the greater part of his life. He was
engaged for many years in the wholesale millinery
business with his brother, Mr. Joseph Simon and
brother-in-law Mr. Jos. Kohn, as Simon & Kohn,
later Kohn, Weil & Co. He retired in 1898 at the
age of seventy, feeling that he had earned a respite;
from business cares.
Mr. Simon was at one time president of Touro In-
firmary. His relations with that institution have
always been intimate, so that he feels a personal
pride and satisfaction in the work it takes among
hospitals of the country He has also been identified
in official capacities with the management of the
Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home, and much of its
development may be credited to his labors in its be-
half. The children have always found in him a true
friend.
Mr. Simon believes in the fraternal idea, and is a
member of the I. O. B. B. From social affairs of a
public nature Mr. Simon has withdrawn; confining
himself to the home circle. Herein he is happily
situated; fortunate in the affection and devotion of a
HARTWIQ MOSS. family of several daughters and sons.
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 MR. MANFKED MEYER.
To the business world of New Orleans and tribu-
taries, this g-entleman is well and widely known, as a
member of the firm of Landauer & Meyer, wholesale
hats, caps, trunks, rubber g'oods, etc., 422 and 424
Canal street, a house established twenty years ag-o,
and also, as the Secretary and Treas. jr of the J.
Rosenberg- Co., Ltd., fancy g-oods, notions and novel-
ties, etc., at 827 Canal street.
His name and works are likewise familiar to his
co-relig-ionists of the city and surroundings, among
whom he is conspicuous as a member of Temple Sinai,
as member and ex-president of the Young Men's He-
brew Association; member of the Order of B'nai B'rith,
and a generous supporter of Touro Infirmary and the
Jewish Orphans fiome.
This year, 1904, Mr. Meyer reaches so to speak his
52nd mile stone. He was born in Saar Union, France,
on February 17, 1852, and obtained his earlier educa-
tion there and in Nancy, France. He came to this
country as a youth and settled first at Nat-
chez, Miss., where he served as clerk in a general
merchandising business for eight years. Then he
started on his own account in Lake Providence, La.,
there remaining until his venture in the metropolitan
field,with Landauer in 1884.
Mr. Meyer is naturally a man of a most affable and I. W. ASMNER.
kindly disposition and therefore popular a^ well as
respected. He is blessed with a family, has a fine MR. I. W. ASHNER.
home on Prytania street, one of the fashionable resi- What's in a name, says the old saw. Well in some
dence thoroughfares of the Creole city, and is agree- not much to be sure. But in this of Ashner, —espec-
ably situated in all the relations of life. ially in Jewish circles in New Orleans, — there is much
to commend it. To the business community also it

isknown, particularly the produce line.

Mr. Ashner is of Seesel, Ashner & Sugarman, a
leading house of Poydras streets the great street of
the produce trade in our Southern metropolis It

originated in Memphis as Seesel & Ashner and was

established here in 1895, since which time it has been
a leader of its line.
Mr Ashner was born in Peine a place near Han-
over, Germany, and there also was educated. He
came to America in lS6f> and first settled in Mem-
phis. Thence he proceeded to Oxford. Miss., and in
1869 started on his own account. He was in business
at Oxford for eighteen ye:irs and then moved to Mem-
phis again. About tliat time the firm of Seesel &
Ashner was founded.
In Memphis Mr. Ashner was president of the Mem-
phis Club, a social organization like the Harmony
here. He was also a member of the I O. B B. He
joined the Young Men's Hebrew Association not long
after he came here, and was chosen its pres-
in 1900
ident, a position in which he served with ability
and credit.
Mr. Ashner observes faithfully the tenets of his
faith. He gives freely to Jewish charities. His home
life is an ideal one. His name in business and among
MA.NHRLD MEYER. his co-religionists carries weight.

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 MR. SAM BLUM.
A man's
intimates naturally know him best his —
streng-th and his weaknesses, his good points and
bad. Our subject is well known; one of the best
known in fact of the New Orleans Jewish confrater-
nity. Offices and responsibilities have been pressed
upon him; but if we look for a te-t of the estimation
in which he is held, we shall find i', not in the fact
of his service, but in the length of it. His is a char-
acter evidently, which, to use an old, but expressive
phrase, "wears well."
Mr Blum was born in Donaldsonville, La., in 1860.
He was brought up in New Orleans, and there, in the
public schools of the Crescent City, acquired the
foundation at least, of those superior attainments
which have served him so well in his public career
His first emplovment was in the old "Blue Store" of
Schwartz & Kaufman in the dry goods trade, near
the French Market. From that jrosition he graduated
to "the road and passed several 3-ears traversing the
'

country generally, as a commercial traveler. In 1890

at tiie ag-e of 30, he established himself in business.
He has been successful and his establishment, the
wholesale gfrocery and commission house of S Blum,
is a leader in the Poydras street district of the city.
Among business men he is widely known as one time
president of the Produce Exchange of the cit}-, as a
member of the Wholesale Grocers' Association and
the Progressive Union, and as a member of the Board
of Trade; also as formerly the President of Post B.,
T. P. A. of Louisiana.
So much for his business experience and associa-
tions; now something- of him personally. Among
those of his race and faith his standing-, as we have
intimated, is deservedly high. He professes the
principles and precepts of Judaism and endeavors to
act up to them. He is a charitable man, giving
freely, not only money, but time; in other words a
worker in the cause. He was the first secretary of
the Young- Men's Hebrew Association, and was its
president lor six years. Larg-ely through his efforts
the Athenaeum, that splendid home it occupies, was
Q. ALEFRINO.
acquired; and his administration is credited with
much of the institution's financial success. His asso-
ciates at least, accord him this praise. He was pre-
sented by them, upon his retirement, with a loving-
cup; this in token of their esteem, and "in apprecia-
tion," so the inscription upon it says, "of his assiduous
and successful efforts in behalf of the Y. M. H. A."
Mr. Blum is president now of Touro Infirmary.
For sixteen years has he served that institution as
director and committeeman, performing yeoman's
service, gradually rising from one position to an-
other to the headship; helping to make it what it is
— a model institution, one that not Jews alone, but
the gentile population of New Orleans also, regard
with pride.
He has long been a member also of the organiza-
tion of the Jewish Widows and Orphans' Home, and
as a loyal son of Israel, taken an active interest in
congregational affairs. He is a member of Touro
Synagogue and for several years has been one of its
trustees. Jewish fraternal affairs have likewise
interested him. He has been president of B'nai
Israel Lodge I. O. B. B., and Chairman of the Joint
Committee of that Order.
He belongs also to the American Legion and
Knights of Honor. He is an affable man and tolerant,
has a good word in fact, for and of everyone He is
a ready and agreeable speaker, and well qualified to
preside.

MR. GERSON ALETRINO.

The portrait at the top of this pag-e is that Mr.
Gerson Aletrino, Secretary of Touro Synagogue, a
young man, who, like his father before him, takes a
lively interest in congreg-ational affairs. He is a son
of the late M. Aletrino, foi many years assistant and
coadjutor to Dr I. L. Leucht, and in that capacity
often officiating in the pulpit.
Mr. Aletrino was born in New Orleans in 1868, and
SAM BLUM. was educated at the Hebrew Educational Institute of

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 wenty-five years or more ag-o, and in the public sively in crockery, especially imported articles in
schools of the cit3\ His business career beg-an at an that line.
early For fifteen years or more he has been
ag-e. When this old and honored firm was dissolved Mr.
with the famous house of Julius Weis & Co cotton , Mayer continued the business, solely controlling its
factors and commission merchants in an import:int interests.To him for nearly thirty years its pros-
position. He is also in business on his own account. perity has been a matter of pride and it as well an en-
Mr. Aletrino is married. He is a member of the terprise most creditable to the Crescent City.
Touro Infirmary and of the I. O. B. B. He is a Past As a man enamored with New Orleans, one who
President of Jas. K. Gutheim Lodg'e No. 439, and has has striven to place it among the galaxy of foremost
also been its deleg'ate to the Grand Lodg-e. He is a cities in the United States, Mr. Mayer has always
member Yacht Club and has
also of the Southern advocated and been aligned with every measures for
been connected with the Washington Artillery for a its improvement.

number of years. He is also a member of the Knights While practical and eminently worthy of the dis-
of Pythias Virginius Lodge No. 48. tinction he enjoys as a business man, Mr. Mayer is

devoted to such fraternal

MR. ABE MAYER. and social amenities as
From the viewpoint of are the "salt of life." He
most capable services ren- has been an ardent mem-
dered the commercial and ber of the B'nai B'rith
social interests of New and naturally is devoted
Orleans Mr. Abe Mayer to its work, especially in
eminently deserves the charitable fields. As a
position he has attained
member of the Associa-
by force of his personality
tion for the Relief of
and individuality. He
Jewish Widows and Or-
was born in Kallstadt,
Germany, in 1833. There phans and the Touro
in his childhood he re-
Infirmary and Hebrew
Benevolent Association
ceived a rudimentary edu-
he has rendered marked
cation. He severed man}-
tender assoiiations on
service and has served
these splendid bodies on
coming direct to the State
at the age of fourteen. their directorates and as

Here, in Clinton, La., he committeeman also.

beg"an his career, a career This work in fact, has

need we add, which has been at once a hobby and
led to affluence. duty,— almost a passion
The youth merged into indeed- and to it he has
the ambitious young- man devoted both his money
and then the business and time.
man of character and enterprise, enjoj'ingf the un- The Harmony Club has profited too by his zeal
limited confidence of the people of that section. A and executive capacity. Besides being one of its
strenuous laborer in the upbuilding; of the many in- most active members he has served it for several
terests of Clinton and vicinity he helped to bring the successive years as President and during his official
pretty "Inland City" conspicuously before the com- term the far famed club attained much of its pres-
mercial world. tige.
Later, thoroughly experienced by his efforts in men
Genial and kindly, according all a courteous
Clinton, Mr. Mayer attracted by its advantages as a
hearing, whether "princes or paupers," Mr. Mayer
commercial center, came to New Orleans. It is nearly
may be cited as one who is "everybody's friend," a
three decadi^s of years since the firm of "Mayer &
Stratton" was launched. It proved a highly success- man well meriting indeed, the consideration and re-

ful venture. During- this time Mr. Mayer gfave at- gard bestowed upon him and, in private life, his in-

tention even to the most minute details of an ever teresting family, who, likewise enjoy a prominent
increasing and prosperous business, a trade exclu- position in Jewish social circles.

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 MK. GUS MAYER.
In Cius Mayer we have one of the most enterprising
and successful of the youn_i>-er element of business
men of New Orleans. He was born in 187() and is
therefore under thirty, but he has established and is
conducting- one of the most prosperous concerns of
Canal street, the principal business thoroughfare of
the city. This is the "Specialty Store" of the Gus
Mayer Co., Ltd., so culled by him; devoted to retail
furnishings for ladies and children, a hovise occupy-
ing the building at No. 823 Canal street and the
only one of the kind in this city.
Mr. Maj-er is a native of New Orleans and is a
graduate of Soule Commercial Institute. He began
in business first as book-keeper for the Rosenberg
J.

Co., a prominent Canal street house, but, as we have

seen soon branched out for himself on his own ac-
count in another line of business. He is married
and lives in the favorite "up-town" residential quar-
ter of New Orleans. He has membership in the Y.
M. H. A., Touro Infirmarj'. the Jewish Home, Tem-
ple Sinai, the Harmony Club and the Young Men's
Gymnastic Club of the city. E. OFFNER,
We present herewith a half-tone portrait of this
energetic and enterprising character; a young man MR. E. OFFNER.
already accounted one of the leading merchants of The house of E. Offner is a leading one in the
Canal street. crockery and glassware trade of New Orleans, and
one of the oldest. It was established by its present
head more than forty years ago.
Though he began on a small scale Mr. Offner has
long been prominent as a business man of the city.
He makes a handsome display in his Canal street es-
tablishment, conducts his business in modern fash-
ion and lives in one of the palatial homes of luxu-
rious St. Charles avenue. He is in short one of the
progressive and successful merchants of the city.
This he is to the public generally. Among the
people of his faith he is known for other character-
istics. He is, to them, a reading man and thinker, a
giver to the charities of the race, a participant in the
management of their institutions. He has been a
member of the Y. M. 11. A., for example, since its

foundation. He belongs to the Harmony Club and

to the I. O. B. B. He has been on the building com-
mittee of Touro Infirmary, and on the Board of the
Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home. He is also one
of the congregation of the Temple.

He is a member, aside from these Jewish institutions,

of the American Legion of Honor and the Masons.
Surelyj^we may call him one of the representative
UU5> MAYER. men of the Jewish race in New Orleans.

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MK. MAX DINKELSPIEL.

New Orleans the cosmopolitan, socially one of the
most liberal and unprejudiced communities in the
—
world affords at least a fair field, if it gf.ves no
special favor, to that type of the aspiring' and capa-
ble Jew who would carve out fortune professionally,
rather than to follow the more prosaic walk, the
beaten track, so to speak, of commerce, wherein tlie
race proverbially excels.
Who has not heard of them, the Hvamscs and
Jonases of this professional categfory. Chief Justices
and Senators, not to speak of Benjamin, Secretary of
State for the Confederacy, and afterward, in his exile
foremost of London advocates. Or of Dr Dyer, friend
of the leper, and expert in that frightful disease, or
Dr. Bensaden head of Touro Infirmary, Gottschalk
world renowned as a pianist and composer, Menken
the stage celebrit}'. Jews all of them of New Or-
leans. And how many more?
Of the ancient faith not a few at all events shine to
day at the Louisiana bar, among" them none of more
substantial character or solid reputation than the sub-
ject of this sketch. Mr Max Uinkelspiel of Dinkel-
spiel &
Hart, 134 Carondelet street, core of the finan-
cial and commercial quarter of the Crescent City from,
which district much of this firms patronage is derived.
Mr. Dinkelspiel was educated and was admitted to
practice here For many years in his earlier career
he was associated with the well-known law firm of ALFRED MILLER.
Braughn, Buck, Dinkelspiel & Hart, a firm to which
many important interests corporate and private were MK. alfrp:d hiller.
entrusted, and of which two members at least, have A saying there is which has the force and currency
g-raced the Bench. almost of proverb, remarking^ how very largely the
He has ever had an open hand and warm heart for class of noted city men has always been recruited from
the local charities and has been an active spirit in a the country. On second thought this seems a fact
number of the local fraternal bodies. He is a member easy to account for: The country breeds health and
of the Y. M. H. A. and of the Harmony Club; a mem- strength and sterling character, and these develop en-
ber and high official of the L O. B. B.; a member and ergy and natural ability when city-ward transplanted.
liberal contributor to Touro Infirmary and the Jewish New Orleans at all event as the Southern metropo-
Orphans' Home of New Orleans, and is prominent in lis, draws to it like a loadstone the best brain and
the Congregation Temple Sinai. talent of its tributary country; such men for example,
as our subject, Mr. Alfred Hiller, a man of promi-
nence as merchant and bank director, and socially
also from his connection with many fraternal and
charitable bodies, more particularly as president for two
terms, of that famous organization, renowned far and
wide for its luxury and hospitality, the Harmony Club.
Mr. Hiller hails originally from Summit in the cot-
ton region of Mississippi. He was born there some
forty years ago, and was raised and went to school in
the same district of country. He began his business
career as a boy of fifteen in the Bank of Summit, of
which institution he was president at the early age of
twenty-live. There also he was in the cotton busi-
ness in company with his father, as H. Hiller & Co.
In 1893, the Hillers, father and son, came here, seek-
ing a larger field for their capital and activities than
Summit afforded. That year they eng-aged in busi-
ness as the Ong--Hiller Co., successors to Ong-, a house
then already established many j^ears, as a dealer in
building materials, naval stores, oils, sugar house
and mill supplies, etc. This was predecessor of the
house of Alfred Hiller & Co., Ltd., in the same line,
of which Mr. Hiller is president. It is perhaps the
largest importer of cement and dealer in materials of
that character in this market.
Mr. Hiller is a Mason of superior standing-, a Knight
of Pythias, a member of the I. O. B. B , and has been
a director of both the Jewish Home and Touro.

HAX DINKELSPIEL. — 123 —

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124
 MR. PAUL L. GOUCHAUX.
It is forty odd years since the subject of this biog-
raphy, Mr. Paul L. Godchaux was born. He is the
eldest son of the late Leon Godchaux, and the inher-
itor of a name famous in New Orleans, and throug-h-
out Louisiana, for many a year.
A name, this of Godchaux, "to conjure with," as
the old saying- has it, in business circles, synonym of
larg-e business capacity-, uncommon success and great
wealth. It has its representatives in the sugar in-
dustry, long a leading support of the State, in the
clothing trade, in the insurance business and in law,
all of the one family' and all on a scale of distinction
and particular importance.
The Godchaux's of Louisiana, as the name indicates,
are of French extraction. From France came Leon
Godchaux, father of the family some sixty years ago.
In his time, before and after the civil war, he was one
of the great merchant princes of the city, a very large
land owner and not only that, he was the greatest in-
dividual sugar planter of the State. Five great baro-
nial plantations were owned and operated by him, and
at one time, during the da}- of the bounty-, his crop
of sugar was the largest in Louisiana. He was a man
far seeing and broad guaged and died a few years
back the richest man in the State.
His extensive interests were segregated upon his
death. The management of his house here, the Leon
Godchaux Clothing Co., Ltd., Canal and Chartres
streets fell then upon the shoulders of his son Paul,
who already, for several years, had been associated in
the conduct of it and was practically its head. He is
president of the company now.
Mr. Godchaux is identified with most of the local QUSTAVH LfcHHANN, Sr.
Jewish fraternal and charitable organizations. He
belongs to the Y. M. H. A., to Touro, and the Jewish MR. GUSTAVE LEHMANN, Sk.
Widows' and Orphans' Home. He is also a member
of the Godchaux Beneficial Association, and of the Theportrait herewith shows the head of the house
Progressive Union of New Orleans, one of the live- of A. Lehmann &Co., the largest wholesale dr}' goods
liest of the city's public bodies. house of the city and the South. This house was es-
tablished long years ago. Mr. Lehmann is nephew
and son-in-law of its founder. He is a Germ-in bv
birth, born in Engenheim, but has been a resident
here for thirty years.
The house of A. Lehmann & Co., has trade in all
the Gulf States It has a big corps of drummers
on the road. Its credit is uncommonly high. Like
his uncle before him, the founder of the house, with
whom he was long associated, Mr. Lehmann is a
type of the highest class of Jewish wholesale mer-
chant He is a director of the Whitney National
Bank, one of the most substantial in the South
Socially also, and in a charitable way he is promi-
nent. He has been a director of Touro for years, and
has been also president of the Hebrew Benevolent As-
sociation. Largely through his efforts the S54,00(i
netted from the Touro Fair some years ago, was ob-
tained. He has been a true friend also to the Jewish
—
Orphans' Home is a director of it in fact now.
He is a member also of the Young Men's Hebrew
Association, the I. O. B. B and Harmon}- Club.
,

Of New Orleans his home city, Mr Lehmann is

justly proud. Here all his interests of friendship
family and business are centered. Here his liber-
ality and sterling qualities are appreciated.

PAUL L. GODCHAUX. 125 —

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126
 MR. DAVID WOLBRETTE.
This g-entleman may be set down as one
cessful business
the Crescent City of to-day.
men and
He
Southern Paper Co., wholesale stationers and paper
is
of the suc-

representative Israelites
president of
of
the W^. 1 "

dealers, secretary and treasurer of the Louisiana

Shoe Factory, and vice-president of the New Orleans
Trunk Co.
His social and religious affiliations are indicated in

the fact that he is president of the Congregation

Shaari Tetilla, Gates of Prayer, Jackson Avenue,
member of Touro Infirmary, the Knights of Honor,
American Legion and Woodman of the World.

He is also a member of the Progressive Union of

New Orleans, an organization of the business men

which has done much to further the progress of that

city.

Mr. Wolbrette was born in Alsace, in 1853, when

it was French territory. He was educated there in
the Ecole Commerciale of his native city, and was SOLOnON HARX.
brought up to mercantile business. He came to MR. SOLOMON MARX.
America at nineteen in 1872, and for two years clerk-
An admirable subject and character this, needing
ed in a store at Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, no enhancement of fine or fulsome phraseology.
"Father Marx" they call him affectionately, those
La. He married in Plaquemine, Miss Hanna Moyse,
who know him, and many besides not so intimately
and remained there fifteen years before his removal acquainted. It is a designation speaking volumes,
earned by his labors in behalf of the poor Russian
to New Orleans, to which he was attracted as a larger
exiles of sixteen or eighteen years ago, and by other
and more profitable field than the country afforded beneficences, "shining" as Shakespeare has it, "like a
good deed in a naughty world." His is a long and
for business. Here as we have said he has been worthy career now ripening into the Psalmists term
eminently successful. of three score and ten. A patriarch in Israel is he,
full of years and honors, and happily, still in full pos-
session of his mental vigor and faculties.
He has been a resident of New Orleans nearly, if
not quite forty years and all that time identified with
the charities and public movements of his people.
The story of the Jewish charities of that time indeed,
could scarcely be written without prominent men-
tion of his name.
"During the terrible suffering and desolation inci-
dent to the several epidemics of yellow fever here in
that period," (we quote from a sketch of him) and
notably those of 18h7 and 1878, Mr. Marx was con-
spicuous, laboring continuously, fearlessly and con-
scientiously in the cause of Relief. His splendid ser-
vices in those appalling days were recognized and
appreciated, the I. O. B. B. Grand Lodge of the time
taking special cognizance thereof." In earlier days
Touro found him a staunch supporter as he still is,
and so also was it with the Jewish Orphans Home.
In fraternal affairs he has held high rank. He has
been officer of the local, the District Grand Lodge
and Constitutional Grand Lodge of the I. O. B. B.,
and has been prominent also as a Mason.
Mr. Marx was in business here for many years, but
isnow retired, and in the enjoyment of the fruits of a
well spent life. He has been 'very fortunate in his
family relations, having still surviving a wife in
DAVID WOLBRETTE. every way worthy, and five sons and a daughter.
— 127
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128-
 MR. C. LAZARD.
The name of Lazard has been
a familiar one in
New Orleans for forty 3-ears or more, as that of a
house occupying a leading place in the clothing
trade wholesale and retail. Its founder and head
Mr. Calme Lazard is naturally one of the promi-
nent Jewish merchants of the city. His sons are
associated with him in the retail house of C. La-
zard Co., Ltd., a highlj- -popular establishment;
also in the jobbing business of the New York and
New Orleans Clothing Co., in which thev are also
principals.
Mr. Lazard, Sr., began business, like most of
our elders in the faith, years ago in a small way-
He was thrifty, economical, business-like, enter-
prising, and luck as alwaysdoes, for such a char-
it

acter, favored him. The house became a land-

mark of Canal street. It took rank with the best

at home and abroad. From it he acquired a for-

tune, so that he is enabled to live in a style becom-
ing- a merchant prince of the city in a palatial
mansion of St. Charles avenue, the fashionable
residence thoroughfare of the city.
Among the Jewish element of the city Mr. La-
zard appreciated for his character and charity.
is

Touro Infirmary and the Orphans' Home find a

staunch friend in him. His life has been that of
a man consistent with the tenets taught him.
social concerns he has given but little attention,
preferring rather the domestic circle.
life has indeed alwa^'s been a happy one.
C. LAZARD.
CMAS. A. KAUFHAN.
To MR. CHAS. A. KAUFMAN.
It needs no great knowledge of ])hysiognomy or
His home store of the learning of Lavater, to translate the
characteristics of the type of man shown in the por-
trait herewith presented. It is clear enough with-
out. It is a frank face, open and candid; but a
strong face, the face of a man of positive person-
ality, a forceful dominating man, a governor and
director; the face and features of a man full of
life,vigor and energy.
•'Some men," says the proverb, "are born great;
some achieve greatness and some have greatness
thrust upon them." This man we need hardly be
told has carved out fortune for himself.
It is the presentment, this picture, of a leading
New Orleans merchant; of Chas. A. Kaufman head
of the Chas. A. Kaufman Co., Ltd , proprietors of
the "Big Store" as it iscalled, Dryades and Euterpe
streets This business was started under another
name over twenty years ago, and is one of the most
striking examples of the successful department
store in the land. It occupies a larger area than
any retail store in New Orleans.
Mr. Kaufman is a merchant of more than thirty
years standing- here. He is active outside his bus-
iness in a number of social, fraternal and chari-
table affairs He is a life member of the Y. M. H.
A., and a prominent member of the great Jewish
social organization of the city, the Harmony Club.
He is a member also of the IVIasonic Order and of
the I O B. B. His contributions to Touro, and
the Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home show
how he regards the responsibilities of wealth.
Mr. Kaufman lives in styles befitting his status
on St. Charles Avenue. In the home circle he has
fortunately all that the heart could wish for.
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 DR. WM. KOHLMANX.
The portrait herewith is that of h ])rl)le^sional man
of hig^h standing in the Crescent City, Dr. Wm Kohl-
mann, successor to the famous Dr. Loeber in the
medical administration of the famous Touro Infirm-
ary, which, although of .lewish establishment and
government is open to all. .ind in that sense one the
public institutions of the city, and as such regarded
with a just measure of pride by all the citizens, irre-
spective of creed or nationality.
Dr. Kohlmann came here in 1891 He has been con-
nected with Touro since 1S93. He was assistant house
surgeon for eight years and succeeded Dr. I^oeber as
Surgeon-in-Chief in I'Mll.
Dr. Kohlmann was born in Kirchheini, (Germany,
in 1863. He attended the pul)lic schools in his birth-
place and passed from there to the academies of
Gruenstadt and Kaiserlaulern. He took up the study^
of medicine at Wuerzburg when nineteen years old
and graduated from the historic University of Heidel-
berg Then for a while he engaged in practice of
his profession and later served as surgeon in the
(jerman army.
Dr. Kohlmann is a hard worker; in the vernacular
"a glutton for work." He spent two whole years
mastering the English tongue before he began active
practice here Besides being house surgeon at Touro
with general supervision he assumes charge of the
gynaecological department of the free clinic, and he
has in addition a large private practice. He is a stu-
dent also, and has a grand collection of liooks.
He is a member of the liarmonv Club, the ()r])hans
Home, the Y. M. H. A., and the B'nai BVith. He BERNARD TITCHE.
belongs also to German! Lodge of Masons, and very
naturally, from his standing in the ])r(ifi ssion is one
of the most prominent members of the Orleans Parish MR. BERNARD TITCHE.
Medical Society. A man in short of superior ability,
exemplar of the capacity ancl intellectual calibre of Among those who follow the law as a profession
the race.
in New Orleans the name of Bernard Titche is one
bearing an enviable reputation for ability and in-
tegrity. Mr. Titche was born in North Louisiana
and received there the best elementary education
that section affords. He entered Yale as a student,
and graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1881.
The same year he settled in New Orleans and began
to prepare for the bar. He was admitted to practice
in 1884, and in the twenty years since has risen to a
place among the leading practitioners here. He is a
man of family, rather more fond of home life than
society. He has membership in several of the city
clubs, however, the Harmony, and Chess Checkers
and Whist Club among- them. He is active also in
the deliberations of the Louisiana Historical Society,
being an interested student of the past of his native
State.

Touro Infirmary and the Orphans Home the ob-

jects they stand for are objects of consideration
with him. He is a subscribing member of both.

A man esteemed both in his private and profes-

sional character, is he; a gentleman, a superior law-
yer; a credit to the race from which he is sprung.

DR. Wn. KOMLHANN.

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— 132
 MR. GUS LEHMANN, Jk.
Three g'tJiieratiotis of Lehnians liave been identified
with the great dry yoods house of A. Lehinann &
Co., New Orleans, at this time the larg-est house of
its line perhaps, in the South. The head of this
house is Gus Lehniann, Sr., already mentioned herein.
—
Gus Lehniann, Jr., among- his intimates "Little
Gus" — is member of the
also a firm. He
the late A. Lehman founder of the
Brother-in-law of (ius, Sr. its present head.
,
As one of this firm Mr. Gus Lehmann, Jr., is we
need hardly say, a well-known merchant of New Or-
leans. He is a native of the city, forty-three ^-ears
old this year, 1904. He entered the
Lehmann & Co., when it was Lehniann, (lodchaux
Co., as a bo}' direct from school and has risen from a
clerkship to an interest by strict application to bus-
iness. He may still be found on the floor daily,
directing- the sales and shipments, looking- after the
multifarious details of the interests, city and country,
of a house of the very first order.
Mr. Lehmann, while interested as every citizen
should be, takes no active part in politics. He is,
however, a participant in such concerns as conduce
to the commercial prosperity of his cit}-. He is, for
example, a member and director of the Progressive
Union, and is chairman of the Finance Cammittee
of the Merchants, and Manufacturers, Association.
He is a director of the Laurel Mill, Laurel, Miss.,
and is a member and one of the Board of the Har-
mony Club, and was one of the orig"inal Elks of New
Orleans. He is a member and supporter of Touro,
and his religious affiliations and standing- are indi-
cated in the fact that he is one of the Cemetery Board
of Temple Sinai. Mr. Lehmann is married and is the
father of two sons, just verging into manhood.
GUS LEnMANN, Jr.
is a son of
house, and a
house of A.
&
QUSTAVE LEMLE.
MR. GUST AVE LEMLE.
This name will be recognized, by one familiar
with New Orleans, as that of one of the most nota-
ble professional men there, of the Jewish faith. Mr.
Lemle was formerly of Farrar. I^eake & Lemle, hav-
ing- a very extensive civil practice and is counsel for
the Illinois Central Railroad, the Yazoo & Missis-
sippi Valley road, the American Express Co., the
New OrleaiiS National Bank and other important
corporations, and business interests. His name
fig-ures very frequently in the published reports of
interesting- law cases.
Mr. Lemle is a native of Louisiana. He was born
at Alexandria, about forty-two years ag-o. He beg-an
life as a clerk at Natchez, Miss., where also his early
schooling- was obtained, but soon abandoned mercan-
tile pursuits for the law. He was parish attorney in
Concordia at twenty-three, and held that position for
seven years. In 1842, seeking- a wider field for his
talents and anil)ition, lie came to New Orleans. He
has met here vvitli steady and continuous success.
In Jewish affairs he takes an active personal in-
terest, which is appreciated by his brethren of the
faith. He is a. working member of the United Char-
ities. He lieloiig-s to the Young Men's Hebrew As-
sociation, the I. O. I!. B.. and the Harmonj- Club.
He is on the Board and a member of the House Com-
mittee of Touro Infirmary, and is a director of the
Jewish Orphan's Home. He is jiopular and respected
for his attainments, not only among his co-religionists
but in the outside world as well. Among secular in-
stitutions he is a member of the Chess, Checkers and
Whist Club and the Southern Yacht Club of New
Orleans.
He is president also of Barnett & Lemle, Ltd.,
wholesale grocers of New Orleans of which firm his
brother, Emanuel Lemle, is one.
133
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and that's why we insert this advertisement.

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Repairing No. 2050 Magazine St ,

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Baronne St. & Theater Arcade. Executed Watches, Clocks, .Tewelry, Silver,
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 MR. EDGAR M. CAHN.
Mr. Cahn is one of those successful professional men
of New Orleans of Jewish faith and birth to whom
we have heretofore referred as relatively numerous.
He is a lawyer who has steadily- r sen in his calling
and who enjoys a large and lucrative practice He
was born in New Orleans, June 29, 1865, and comes
from old and excellent stock. He is a son of the late
Leon Cahn. He obtained an excellent education pri-
marily at the public and high schools of New Orleans
and left the latter to take a course in Hugh's High
School at Cincinnati, O simultaneously attending
,

the Hebrew College of that city Subsequentlv under

Civil Service examination, Mr Calm entered the New
Orleans Postoffice as assistant superintendent of
mails. This position he filled for two years and then
resigned for the purpose of studying law Entering
the law department of Tulane University, he was
graduated from that institution with the degree of
L B May 17, 1SS8
, A partnership was at once
formed with the late Edwin Evariste Moise that con-
tinued until Februar}', 1897.
Mr Cahn is a man of many natural qualifications
for his vocation He has a fine comm;ind of lan-
guage and a keen and logical mind. He is a profes-
sor of Democratic principles and while so engrossed in
business, as to be able to spare but little attention to
public affairs, has still taken a live interest in
home politics.
Mr. Cahn is a Mason, a member of the Young Men's
Hebrew Association and the Southern Athletic Club.

HARX ISAACS.

MR. MARX ISAACS.

We come now to an exceptionally well-known name
in New Orleans, that heading these paragraphs It
is largely so of course from the very nature of his bus-
iness are bringing him into contact with all classes
of the people, more especially the bargain-seeking
Fair, but it is a name also very favorably known to a
more personal circle, as that of a man, who, while he
has made his way himself and all that, is a warm
friend, a generous giver to deserving charity, a citizen
of public spirit, and highly esteemed by all those who
have met him.
Mr Isaacs is president of the Schwartz & Isaacs
Co., Ltd., of New Orleans, conducting the popular
"Maison Blanche" Department House at Canal and
Dauphine streets, which with its striking gilded dome
is an architectural, as well as business landmark, of
the city. It has, perhaps, a larger patronage than
any establishment of the kind here. He was
formerly of Kaufman &. Isaacs, in the same line ;it Dry-
ades Market He was one of the first in fact, (as long
agoaslS7'*) to embark in the department business.
Mr. Isaacs has been a resident of New Orleans for a
lifetime, and has been a notable business man for
twenty-five or thirty years He has been very suc-
cessful and has acquired other large interests besides
that mentioned; but, fortunate as he has been, he is,
to those who know him well, a man unspoiled by his
successes. He is good to the poor, no deserving char-
ity appealing to him in vain. Touro Infirmary, the
Jewish Orphans Home, the Y. M. H A., and other
Jewish institutions naturally find special favors
EDGAR n. CAHN. with him.
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J
 MR. MAYER ISRAEL.
In Mr. Israel we have an old resident of New Or-
leans, a successful business man, a notal)le not only
of the Jewish element which forms so numerous and
influential a fraction of the population of the Cres-
cent City, but of the community as well, at large.
Mr. Israel hardly needs identification. He is prom-
inent as a Canal street mercliant, a leader in the cloth-
ing line, many years established lie was formerly
of C. Lazard & Co., in this same branch of trade, but
withdrew, and bought out the old house of McCown.
transferred it from St. Charles to Canal street and
infusing new life and energy into it, soon appreciably
e.xtended and enlarged it under his own name, and
earned recognition in the trade as one of its most en-
terprising men.
In matters of religion Mr. Israel "walks in the way
of his forefathers and forbears," conscientiously ob-
serving the ancient observances and injunctions, es-
pecially as to conduct and the charities. He has been
for years a member of Touro Infirmary and Hebrew
Benevolent Association and of the .lewish Widows
and Orphans Home and has subscribed liberally to
both. He is interested likewise in tne progress of the
Y. M. H. A., and is an active member of the I. O. B.
B. He belongs also to that famous Jewish social or-
ganization the Harmony Club. He is a public spirited
man, one of those who lend a hand to any movement
likel}^ to better his city.
Mr. Israel is a man of family. He married a Miss
Lazard, and has several childreu. Of his home life
we can only say that it has been uncommonly and
entirely felicitous.
J. K. NEWHAN.
MR. J. K. NEWMAN.
Mr. Newman is the son of Isidore Newman, Sr.,
the well-known New Orleans banker and philan-
thropist, and is a member of the firm of Isidore
Newman & Sons. He has been closely associated
with his father in many large financial operations
and in the management of their important interests
and though a young man. only a few years in bus-
iness has shown that he is possessed of his father's
talents in marked degree.
He is credited with much of the showing made by
the firm in Carrollton railroad, and with the devel-
opment of that property which finally resulted in
its merger into the New Orleans Railroad, Light &
Power Co., which controls the street car, the elec-
tric and gas lighting situation here. He was born
and educated here and entered the business when
he left school, was broug'ht up to the business in
fact, and is an active factor in all its affairs. Is
one of the rising- men in short, in the financial
world of New Orleans.
Mr. Newman is interested also in man}- of the
charities and philanthropic works to which his
father has contributed so liberally, and in which
the elder Newman has taken such active part. He
belongs to Touro Infirmary, and the Orphans
Home, and is a member of the Young Men's He-
brew Association. He is also a member of the
Harmony Club.
Like his father too, he is a man of quiet tastes
and unassuming manners; in fine a young man cf
ability and reserve power, "level headed" as the
HAYER ISRAEL. saying is, and self-contained.

137
 DR. JEFFERSON DAVIS BLOOM.
Dr. Bloom, as formerly the House Surgeon in charge
of the famous Charity Hospital of New Orleans, and
as head of the medical staff of the Hotel Dieu, is one
of the most noted medical men of the city of to-day.
Indeed, his reputation goes further; to be the head of
this institution is to take high rank in the profession,
and to be known in all parts of the country. And yet
the early opportunities of our subject were not at all
propitious of such success.
From childhood the study of medicine had been his
aspiration. But he was consigned, so to speak, by
his environment to a commercial calling. Undis-
couraged. he devoted his leisure to medical study,
fought his way unaided through colleg-, and so, still
a young man, has achieved those honors of his pro-
fession which come to most of his colleagues only
after a lifelong struggle.
Dr. Bloom began his medical career as resident
ph3'sician at Touro Infirmary, thence he went to the
State Hospital, as assistant surgeon, and had not
filled this responsible office long before he was
recognized, at the death of Dr. Miles, his logical
successor.
Dr. Bloom was born here. He is a graduate of Tu-
lane and has been the medical head of the Hotel
Dieu since 1903. He is a member of the State
and Orleans Parish Medical Societies, and of the
principal Jewish charitable and social organizations,
and has a verv large and lucrative private practice
among people of wealth in both City and State.

SIMON PFEIFER.

MR. SIMON PFEIFER.

The subject of this sketch is a young man compar-
atively, but is at the head of a very extensive busi-
ness that of S. Pfeifer & Co., Provision Dealers, 431
Poydras street. But then, more and more the stren-
uous life of our day calls for voung blood and una-
bated vigor and energy.
Mr. Pfeifer was born and received his education
here. He began business at an early age. He is a
man of family and has a home on St. Charles avenue
among the ultra fashionables of the cit)'. In social
life, as in trade, he occupies a prominent position.

He is a member of the Harmony Club of New Or-

leans the organization of the Jewish residents, occu-
pying the finest club house, not alone here, but in the
South. He is by membership with the
identified also
Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent Associa-
tion, the Jewish Orphans Home and the Young Men's
Hebrew Association. He is in short one of those
younger members of our ancient ordination whose
conduct shows us that the virility and hope of the
race is far from dying out.

DR. JEFFERSON DAVIS BLOOH.

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 MR. JULIUS C. WOLFF.
Mr. Wolff is of Julius C. Wolff & Co.. (Jul C. Wolff
and Otto L. Newgass) importers of Chinese and Jap-
anese matting-, 217 South Peters, an old and staunch
house of New Orleans. He is a Mississippian by
birth, born in Jackson, that State in 1870, and has
other interests there, notably in the Schwartz Furni-
ture Co., of that citv.
Mr. Wolff began his business career at an early age
as a general merchandiser of his native city, an ex-
cellent apprenticeship for the larger field of this
metropolis, then came here and estal)lislied himself.
He has been entirely successful and has made the
Crescent City his home.
He is a member of the Elks and K. of P., of the L
O. B. B., the Y M H. A., Touro Infirmary, the .lew-
isli Home and Harmony Club. He is unmarried but
has a fine home on Jackson avenue between Prytania
street and St. Charles avenue, the loveliest and most
aristocratic portion of the far famed Garden District
of New Orleans.

MR. SAMUEL LEVY.

In New Orleans, September 4, 1854, Samuel, better
known in that community as Recorder Levy, from the
office he has held, was born. '1
here also, as an at-
tendant of the public schools he got his education.
His first employment was in Napoleonville and he
grew to manhood there and in the Crescent City.
An active man always, in every walk of life in
which he has engaged, Mr Levy is one of the best
known of the Jewish residents of this part of the
country. For twelve years he was foreman of
Brooklyn Fire Company in the old Volunteer depart-
ment, and in that capacity, besides having more than
one hairbreadth escape, he earned a gold medal for
life-saving at a lire in the suburb of Algiers; another
 THE STRAIGHT
MELROSE
DAIRY FARM
MISS MAR THA HOTTINGER. Proprietress.

CLAIBORNE and UPPERLINE STS.

The
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Kindly Solicited. GIVE US A TRIAL.

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 MR SAMUEL H. STERN.
Everybody knows it that knows New
Orleans at
all, the famous Stern's Auction House, (formerly
Curtis's), the oldest and best patronized in the city.
And everybody pretty nearly knows also the presid-
ing- genius of this establishment, Mr. Sam Stern,
subject of this sketch with his cheery invocation to
bidders, "Come now who'll start, er?'' and his brisk
rejoinders and repartee. Enough to say further on
this score, that Stern's does the great business of
the kind, the auctioning of merchandise of all descrip-
tions, in New Orleans. It has been especially suc-
cessful in the sale of mules.
Mr. Stern acquired this business about two years
ago. He is a young man comparatively and a native.
He was born in this city in the early 70's, and was
educated here in the public schools and in the famous
Commercial College of Soule. Also, in perhaps the
more practical way, in business itself, under his father
an old time merchant of the boot and shoe trade.

His brother, Leonard L. Stern, is associated with

him.
Mr. Stern is devoted to business, but still finds

time for social and fraternal concerns, the Young

Men's Hebrew Association and I. O. B. B. especially. nOSE F. HOLLANDER.
He is a rising young man, one of those of whom, as
MR. MOSE F. HOLLANDER.
Webster said of himself, we shall probably "hear
more hereafter."
Mr. Hollander is of F. Hollander & Co., wholesale
liquors, a leading house of its line. He is the son of
Stern's has lately been removed to a new and larger
its founder, the late Frederick Hollander, and suc-
establishment on Baronne street specially fitted up
ceeded to his interest. He was born in New Orleans
for the business.
44 years ago and was educated in the Public Schools of
the city (the old Jefferson school) at the old Hebrew
School and at Soule's College, from which latter
school he entered business, taking a minor place in

his father's establishment. Thence he went up North

and for a time was in the grocery line in Newark,

N. J., at length returning here, and associating-

himself with Hollander & Co., again.

Mr. Hollander is a member of the Jewish Home

and Touro Infirmary and of the Y. M. H. A. He is

a Mason of the 32nd degree, a member of the Elks,

and a past officer of both the Knights of Pythias and

Knights of Honor. He has been a director of the

Young Men's Gymnastic Club, and has served his

fifth term in that capacity. He is a widower, the

father of a son now at Spring Hill College, Mobile,

and fast verging into manhood.

Frankness and geniality are characteristic of our
subject. Like his father before him he is no less
SAMUEL M. STERN. popular with gentiles than Jews.

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 MR. S. J. SHWARTZ.
Mr. Shwartz is of the Sliwartz & Isaacs Co., I^td ,

proprietors of the famous New Orleans Department

house, the ".Maison Blanche."
Mr. Shwartz was born in this city .^i> years ago.
He is a son of the late A. Shwartz. a well known
local merchant Even as a youth he e.\hil)itecl decid-
ed mercantile proclivities. lie he-ran at the early
atfe of six to frequent his fathers notion store, and
at sixteen was the New York buyer. For eig^ht
years he served in that capacity and then returning-
to New Orleans, he organized the tirm of S. J.

Shwartz & Co., with Gustav Schullhoefer and Hart

D. Newman as partners. The "Maison Blanche"
which, with its high white front and gilded dome, is

one of the landmarks of the city, was built for them.

Later Mr. Schullhoefer died and Mr Newman with-
drew and Mr. Marx Isaacs (formerly of Kaufman &
Isaacs) came in, and the Shwartz & Isaccs Co Ltd., ,

was organized. They do both a wholesale and retail

business, maintain a large dress making department
L. H WEIL.
and conduct a most e.xtensive business in thoroughly
modern and metropolitan fashion. MR. L. H. WKIL.
Mr. Shwartz, we need hardly say, is a conspicuous
Mr. Weil is connected with the Union Oil Companj-
figure in the business community, not to speak of the
one of the most extensive concerns of its line in this
dry goods line. He knows the business thoroughly
part of the country. Socially he is disting'uished as
"from A to Izzard " He is a shrewd buyer and a
the Secretary of the famous llarmonv Club. He has
clever financier, and not a follower, but a leader.
been Secretary of it for eig-ht vears.
To the claims of charity Jewish and huinaiiitv,
charity and institutions especially Mr. Shwartz gives He is of note also in connection with the Y.M.H. A.
that consideration, which nowadays is thought, as He was long a director of it, was its vice-president,
regards the prosperous no more than due. The and was one of the building committee when the
communal work generally has his countenance and Athenaeum was erected. His name, for that reason
support.
is carved upon the corner stone of the structure. He
is a member also of the Jewish Widows and Orphans

Home and of Touro Infirmary.

Mr. Weil came here an infant. He was brought
up and educated in this city. Ke began as a
boy with the Union Oil Company and has risen to a
confidential and influential place in the management.
Though not himself a man of family his sympathies
as we have seen have been readily enlisted in behalf
of the orphaned and dependent among his people,
and in Jewish communal affairs, more especially re-

garding the young men, he has certainly done his part.

Though naturally himself a man of rather modest
and retiring disposition Mr. Weil is still, for all

that well-known and highly esteemed among a large

circle of friends. His features as presented in the
portrait herewith are familiar to many, the younger
set particularly, by whom, as well as their elders, his
S. J. SHWARTZ. work in behalf of the Y.M.H. A., is fully appreciated.

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The Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.

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lUi proprietors anil iiiaiiagemeuc cietermiii- Another Reason Why the Postal Telegraph-

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buaiiifss baaeil on sound business principles System in New Orleans.

anil business-like methods. an<l have stead-

There is no man in Xew Orleans who stands
fastly adhered to that policy. in a more favorable position with the Jew-
Itii eiiipli>yeea are intelliitenr. diliaeiir, en- ish people, nor. only of thi.s city but the en-
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ergetic and enthusiastic. They are in
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pathy with their employera and are working Southern Division, of the Postal Telegraph
for the company's interests, recoeni/.ins that Cable Co ami this is dtie to the fact that he
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is always polite and obliging whenever or

their interests are identical with the com
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not be retaiueil.
Every man in the ""Postars" service
proud of the company's auccesn.
These are the reasons why the "Postal
Company has been successful in the past and
will he successful in the future.
The progress of the Postal Telesrraph
System is evidenced by the continued
wherever his business calls him. Mr. Por-
teons is a very young man. who has grown
up in every branch of the telegraph business
from messenger boy to Superintendent. He
is one of the most popular young telegraph-
is
ers in the country, and is well-known and
liked by the majority of the public men of
our State. He nas devoted ills whole life
time, it may he said, to practical experience
in telegraphy in many of the large cities
of the country. He has been fourteen years
with the Postal Telegraph Cable Co.. in this
city, his first real pronii>tii)n being as manager
of the Postjil's iptfice in he Xew Orleans Cot-
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extension of land lines, the ntiuierona and assistant manatzer. and a few months later
important railroad connectiona recently he was cougraT.ulatetl on all sides upi>n be-
ing placed in charge of the splendid busi-
made, the valuable itonnections with the W. A. PORTEOUS, ness that he had helpeil to build up for the
German cables, the cable (now
Pacific Supt. Sixth District, Southern Division. Postal ompauy in Xew Orlean.s. When the
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Si.xth Southern Division was or-

Distiict.
being constructed, i the Direct West Indies Postal Telegraph Cable Company, ganized, Mr. Porteons was made Superin-
cable, the Bermuda cable, etc. Ne'w Orleans La. tendent and placed in charge.
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 MR. LEONARD L. STERN.
Mr. Stern well-known as of Stroudback
is Stern >.\:

leading: real estate men of the city and also of Stern's

Auction House. He has been vice-president of the
Real Estate E.xchang^e. is a member of the Prog-res-
sive Union and the Harmony Club, is prominent as an
Elk, and is a staunch Democrat.
He is amongf those of his
further distinguished
faith as Secretary of the Jewish Widows and Or-
phans Home, and for his work in behalf of the Young:
Men's Hebrew Association. He has accomplishments
admirably fitting- him for the entertainments of the
latter body, and has contributed cheerfully both time
and ability to make its functions a success. Every-
where indeed, he is a social favorite and welcome
HART NEWMAN.
guest.

Mr. Stern was born here in 18h7. He is the son of MR. HART NEWMAN.
Henry Stern, an old time business man of the city, Mr. Newman the son of the noted Jewish banker
is

and brother of Sam Stern the well-known auctione:;r. and philanthropist. Isidore Newman of New Orleans.
He was brought up here and went to school in this He was born in this city about twenty eight years
city. He knows New Orleans, as the saying is "like ago. He graduated from Soule Commercial College
this citv at fourteen, and started for Cornell Univer-
a book." Hence much of his success in the real es-
sity, New York, to study law, but finding his youth
tate line in which he has been in company with Mr. an objection proceeded to Europe instead, to perfect
Stroudback since 1897. He married Miss Katz. himself meantime in foreign languages and music.
daughter of the late Sigmund Katz, and lives in the There he remained became a highly profi-
until he
cient linguist, and besides a course of music at Leip-
swell up-town "garden district" of the city.
sic. had graduated at the Conservatory of Mainz. He
Men of Jewish birth and faith, figure numerously,
is a master of the piano and generally a musician of
as we have said, in the commercial life of the Cres-
uncommon power.
cent City. Mr. Stern belongs to that younger ele-
At twenty-one Mr. Newman returned here, and
ment among them whose activity and enterprise, shortly entered business life as vice-president of the
furthers perceptibly the progress and development Schwartz-Newman Co.. proprietors of the Maison
of our fast expanding Southern metropolis. Blanche, Canal street, one of the principal depart-
ment houses of the South. He withdrew therefrom
with his father, the well-known
to take an interest
banker Isidore Newman of New Orleans. Other bus-
iness interests occupy his attention also, largely in
connection with the very extensive financial and cor-
porate concerns of his father. In public affairs he
acts with the Progressive Union, (of which he is a
member to improve and advance his native city. He
)

belongs to all the principal Jewish organizations,

though not specially forward management.
in their

Like his father he is a very plain and unassuming

gentleman: indeed he has many of the elder New-
man's traits. He married in 1900, Miss Doris Saal
of Petersburg. Va.

If the Jewish community of New Orleans has rea-

son to be proud of the philanthropy of the elder New-
man, embracing, among other benefactions, the rich
gift of the Newman Manual Training School, so it

is to be congratulated also that in the son he has a

LEONARD L. STERN. worthy successor, walking in the same path.

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 THE LOUISIANA EXCAVATING
THENEW ORLEANS and MANUFACTURING CO.^^

TRANSFER Bet. eamp

Office.
and
635 Gommcrcial Place,
St. Charleii Sts. Telephone \o. 1C30

WM. C. FAUST. Will give prompt attention and low figures

PROPRIETOR AND GENERAL MANAGER. on orders for the Cleaning of

Office, No. 840 COMMON STREET. EARTH CLOSETS and VAULTS.

Earth eiosets on Hand.
Between Baronne and Carondelet NEW ORLEANS, LA.
TELEPHONE No 817.

Thk New Tk'.vnsfkk will check your

Oi<i.k.\n.s
bag'g'ag'eon departure from any i)art of the
City. Hotels hiuI Residences direct to desti-
( i

nation, includinu- all points in Unl'ed 5iate.<,

V. J. A. BACKES,
Canada. Cuba and the borders of Mexico, via.
Successor to Edufin I Kursheedt
all Railroads and New York and Havana
Steamship Lines, upon ]>resentHtion of tic-
kets at their otilice; otherwise depot claim
checks are issued, and it is therefore prudent
Marble and Granite Works
to have your bajjgage checked from residence
to avoid the confusion at train time. Monuments, Headstones, Copings and Building Work

New Orleans Transfer Agents on all incoming

trainsupon obtaining j-our Checks will deliver
536 and 538 CAMP STREET,
your baggage to its destination promptly. Cumb. Phone2323-I! i ijip. Laf.i veiie S(iuarc. NEW (UU.K.\NS
 MK. LOUIS OCHS.
This is a well-known name, not only hereabout but
throug^hout the country sfenerally. by reason of the
occupation of its owner, that of traveling' man, and
because of his membership in various org'anizations,
religfious, fraternal and protective. He belong-s for in-
stance, to Aurora & A. M., to Samaritan
I^odg-e, F.
Lodge, K. of P.; New Iberia Lodge, B. P. O E., the
Benevolent Legion Louisiana Travellers, the T. P-
A. of America and the National Liquor Dealers As-
sociation. Also in support of his faith and principles,
to the I. O. B. B., the Y. M. H A., New Iberia Syna-
gogue and Touro Synagogue. New Orleans.
The following among other honors have lieen ac-
corded him lie is ex-president Post B.. T. P. A,
State Railroad Chairman Louisiana Division T. P. A.,
president Benevolent I^eague of the Louisiana Trav-
elers, Fourth National vice-president of the T P A,
and a member of the Executive Committee of the
National Liquor Dealers Association.
Mr. Ochs, in fact, is one of the best known sales-
men traversing the South. He was born in New Or-
leans in 18(S6, and is a product of that city's public
schools. He began life with Block & PoUak, Scrap
Iron and Metals, and continued with their successors
for several years. He was then four years with A.
Lehmann & Co., (wholesale dry goods) four years COLEMAN M. KAHN.
with Jos. Kantz and for the past six years has repre-
sented Jos. A. Magnus & Co., wholesale liquors, Cin- MK. COLEMAN H. KAHN.
cinnati, in Gulf Coast territory. Mr. Kahn is of Kahn's Cotton Pickery, Religious
Mr. Ochs is married and makes new Orleans his street. NewOrleans, in which business he is asso-
headquarters and home. ciated with his father. He is a native of New Or-
leans, now in his twenty-ninth year, married (to Miss
Lillie L. Wolff of ch cago) for the last live years.
Those who know him, and their names are legion,
consider liini one of the most promising of the
younger school of New Orleans l)usiness men.
Mr. Kahn is a graduate of the New Orleans High
School class of '91. His business relations have been
with cotton wholly, and as an employe or partner with
his father. Theirs is one of the most important con-
cerns of the kind here.
Mr. Kahn is a member of the principal Jewish
charitable organizations, Touro, the Jewish Home,
and I. O. B. B. among them. He is Secretary of the
J. J. Brown Memorial Association. His habits are
quiet and domestic. He lives modestly in his own
home on Annunciation street.

MK. SAMUEL SILVERSTEIN.

Mr. Silverstein is of the firm of L Silverstein &
Sons who have crockery stores on Canal street on Dry-
ades and on South Rampart streets, all doing a flour-
ishing business. He has been in this line since he
was thirteen vears old. and has assisted his father
largely in upbuilding it. He is now thirty-four.
He came here as a boy with his father, in the year
1873, from Worsaw. Poland, where he was born. His
schooling was obtained in the public schools here.
He is a married man and besides membership in
various Jewish organizations, fraternal and charita-
LOUIS OCMS. ble, is a Knight of Pvthias and Mason.

149
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GLASS FOR ALL PURPOSES.
ORDERS, No
CHURCH and MEMORIAL WINDOWS.
} All
f Matter How bmall,
Small, '.

C" ^f 1\ TT* "\V7" T H. FRISA, Proprietor. )

, Given Prompt c^outhem Mirror Works, 625 baronne street

Attention^?* J» ^* ^
I

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A. P. J. SEGASSIE. Successor
to.*ewrfJ*« F, ARTIGUES

Cafe
J^
ll/« CORNER COMMON and IMPORTED and DOMESTIC CIGARS
CARONDELET STS. e^ and SMOKERS' ARTICLES

laquering!"^ F. H. Korctke Brass & Mfg Co., Ltd.

Copper, Nickel and Silver
Nos. 922=924 Magazine
\

Plating and Oxidizing,^,^ 1

Street,

Urass Beds and Ornaments

Made lo Loolc Like NRW.
Telephone No. 1147. NEW ORLEANS, LA.
^ Castings Irom Ion. toS.WOlbs.

KSTAHr.lSHKD

HOLZER,
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SkyliglitsaiidSteol
R. G.
MANUFACTURER
I

Ceiliiigs,2i and
OF
1
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Corrusiated Iron. Curved and Corrugated, Arch Iron, V. Crimped Iron, Gutters, Pipes, Cornices
I

U-
and Ornamental Work, and all Kinds of Roofing.
I Window and Cap
I FINIALS J- J- j^ Works: 207-209 NORTH RAMPART ST. ^ New Orleans, La.

^
LOUIS PFISTER,
'^Wholesale Grocer, Wines an d Liquors
FANCY BUTTER and CHEESE A SPECIALTY.
Nos. 540, 542 and 544 MAGAZINE STREET, Corner Lafayette. NEW ORLEANS, LA
L, J
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 MR. LAZAR SCHWARTZ.
From the position of a i)oor orphan boy, inmate of
the Jewish Orphans Home of this city, Mr. Schwartz
has risen to a place of competency and success, and
he is neither ashamed of his orig-in nor forgetful of
the institution which cared for him and broiisj-ht
him up.

Mr. Schwartz is a dry goods merchant of Magazine

street. New Orleans, and a considerable property
owner. He was born at Woodville, Miss., in 1S52.
His first employment was here in New Orleans with
Sam Kaiser.

He first embarked in business for himself in the

dry goods line in 1888, and on the whole has had a
prosperous and fortunate experience. The business
has developed, at all events, from one small store to
four of them, comprising numbers 3015 to 3021 Maga-
zine street inclusive. He has been married about
twenty years. He is a Knight of Pythias and mem- FRANK J. WEINBERGER.
ber of the organization of the Jewish Home and
Touro Infirmary and he is an ex-president of the Con- MR. FRANK J. WEINBERGER.
gregation Gates of Prayer, a position significant of Here we have an example of the young man in
his standing among his intimates and co-religionists. business, a shining example of success; a young man
entrusted with affairs of the first magnitude. And
To sum up in short: "A just man walking with
fully equal we may sav to the task. Mr. Frank J.
integrity — one known in the g"ates, sitting among
Weinberger of whom we speak, is the secretary-
the elders." treasurer and general manager of the Adler- Weinber-
ger Steamship Co one of the great Central American
,

lines, is vice-president of the Southern Marine Works,

the most important in the ship building and repair
line here, and is identified with other extensive con-
cerns besides, in company with monied men.
Mr. Weinberger was born in Texas and was
brought up there in part, and in part in New Orleans.
He attended school in Galveston, at Soule's here, and
Spring Hill, Mobile. He began his business career
in 1895 with Chas. Weinberger, at Mobile. This
business first brought him here to locate, then to
(ialveston and at length to Central America, where
he acted for the Weinberger's who had (as they still

have) important investments there, and for the Blue-

fields Lumber Co. When the Adler-Weinberger
Steamship Line was organized he was summoned
here to take charge.
Such is our subject in the commercial world. But
tho' immersed in business he still finds time for social

relaxation, as a club man and member of fraternal

orders. He is a member of the Young Men's Gym-
nastic Club and the Southern Yacht Club, and holds
a commission in the Naval Reserves. He belongs to
LAZAR SCHWARTZ. the Elks also, and to the Y. M. H. A.
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 SPARKS BROS. KanFas Mo H. H McGEE Ntw Orleans La

GODBOLD, City ,

F. C. McGEE,
SPARKS BROS. &.

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in

PHARMACIST^ MULES AND HORSES <£SI
Of All Grades. All Stcck Guaranteed as Kepresented.

2728 Prytania St. Nea,^Wa^hi^ngU.n

Ave 529=537 BARONNE STREET,
CuiubeilHiul TeleplictiH 7.5-2. NEW ()KLK.\NS, LA.

Telephone 3441 Y. NEW ORLEANS. o YOUU C.VI'RONAGIO SOLICITED. o

Wanted Landlords and Agents to know that

William Graner .

IHE
B> Registered Pharmacist, Pelican Excavating Company,
Does First Class and Cheap Work.

Felicity Xew dileaiis

Cor BiU-oniieaml iSt.'i.,
2062-W
Office 733 Union St. Please Phone

WEST END HOTEL 5L RESTAURANT

OPEN SUMMKK AND WINTEU. r>PLUMBERO
I I
Sanitary Plumbing, Ga^nd Steam Fitting s
SERVICE AT ALL HOURS.
T. TKANCHINA, - - Proprietor. 3818 aiAGAZINE STREET,
N'EAB LllUi.SIANA AVENUE. N'KW OKLKANS. LA'
o Telephone Main 22'»2. o
-^:>kEPAIR WORK GIVEN PkOMPT A rTE^T lON.'*^

E. W. NORTON. Mrs. V. Wehrmaiin,

^v>^Chiropodist.^^ 613 CANAL STREET,
309 ST. CHARLES ST.. New Orleans.
New Orleans, La.
op'p'iCHrHiioN
DOLL- HOSRITAL
h; ;i07s-i..

o Houis: 12 to 3, Smuiav.s, 10 to 1. o

Ne^ Orleans Worsted Store,

JOHN DOUGLAS.
GEO. A. HOFFMAN, Proprietor, €^ENGRAVER<^
I.MPOlM'Kll AND DEAr.KR IX
12 Camp Street. New Orleans.
Zephyrs, Yarns. Silk, Chenille, Notions,
Children's Wear. Ljices, Kiiibidiiierifs, LauiiilerinK Caps, Wedding Invitations, Wedding- Announcements,
.Stamped and Unstainpeil l-nieiis. Kid Gloves Cleaned,
Bul.tons .Made, KineM Line ol Kanc-y and Wurk Baskets, Wedding Reception Invitations, Visiting Cards,
Designing! Luibroiderini;: t'taniijing' Pinking: Monograms, Crests, Arms, &c. Embossed in
Agents lor W ilcox & Qibbs' Automallc Sewing Machine. Color and Illuminated Embossed Office
131 BOURBON ST., New Orleans, La. Stationery, Business Cards.

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 COL. E. I. KUKSIIEEDT.
In Edwin I. Kursheedt we have one of tlie most
conspicuous of the Jewish residents of New Orleans
He is a Civil war veteran of distinction and a g^entle-
inan whose service in behalf of Jewish charity and
institutions is heartily ap])rcciatc(l.
He was born in Jamaica, in 1S3S, and
Kinjjston,
was educated Public Schools of the city of New
in the
Orleans in the period preceding- the war He grad-
uated from the Boys High School in 18.^3. The ne.xt
year he began life in the hardware business and later
formed a partnershi]) with his father
He has been a member of the Washington Artillery
some forty years. He served indeed, throughout the
Civil war with that command, enlisting as a private
of the Confederate service and rising through the
grades of Corporal, Sergeant, Captain, Major and
Adjutant. He was wounded at Fredericsburg and
Antietam.
In 1866 he married Miss Sarah I. Levy, of Kich-
mond, Va. He has held various offi ial positions and
is at present acting as Assistant l*ostmaster of the
city. He is the oldest living- Past Master of
Louisiana Lodge 102, F. & .-\. M. He is, by virtue JACOB WEINtiERQER.
of his war service, a member of Cam() No 1, of the
Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate Veterans; cation as so many other successful men of the place
also of the B'nai B'rith He was secretary many
lor
have done, in the public schools of the city.
years and is an ex-president of the Jewish Widows His first employment was with llyman, Lichten-
and Orphans Home. He is also an e.x-treasurer of stein Co., predecessors of Fl. Lichtenstein & Son.
&
Touro Infirmary and the Hebrew Benevolent Asso- He has acquired during his business career, interests
ciation. in banks, rice mills, cotton plantations, presses, etc.
He belongs to the Harmony Club and the Y. M. H.
MR. DAVID M. LICHTENSTEIN. A., to the B'nai B'rith, Touro Infirmary, and the
Mr. I^ichtenstein is of H. Lichteiistein & Son, cot- Jewish Widows and Orphans Home; also the Young
ton merchants, leading members of the Cotton Ex- Men's Gymnastic Club of New Orleans.
change of New Orleans. He is a native of the city,
now in his thirty-second year, and received his edu-
MR. JACOB WEINBERGER.
This gentleman is at the head of a number of the
most important business enterprises of the Crescent
City. He is largely interested in maritime concerns,
being president of the Bhietields Steamship Co., in
the Nicaragua trade, president of the Kelly-Page Co.
Steamship Agents and Brokers, president ot the
Adler-Weinberger Steamship Co.. a leading factor
in tropic fruit and Central American business, and
other important commercial affairs. He is a member
of the firm of T. M. Solomon & Co.. Exporters, secre-
tary of the Nicaragua Electric Co., president Blue-
Lumber Co.. president Bluefields Wharf &
fields
Agency Co., and is in various other enterprises.
Mr. Weinberger is one of the Weinberger brothers
who have done much to develop, not alone the re-
sources of Nicaragua but have vastly furthered the
traffic of this port as well. He was born in Papajd,
Hungary, in 1857, and was educated at Springfield,
Missouri. His first occupation was as a miller at
Austin, Tex. He is married, his wife was Miss
Rachel Schlenger of Austin, Tex., and has a son,
F. J., like himself, engaged in the steamship line.
He is a member and liberal contributor to the local
Jewish charities, particularly Touro Infirmary and
COL. E. I. KURSHEEDT. the Jewish Orphans Home.
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AN D

BANKING^ COMPANY
Capital and Surplus, ^ ^ $900,000.00.

Savings Deposits of One Dollar and Upward are Allowed 3 per cent. Interest.

Accounts S ubject to Check Received and Loans Made at Lowest Rates.

Travellers' Letters of Credit Issued Available in all Parts of the World.

OFFICERS.
DIRECTORS.
% L S. Berg,
 MR. EDWARD GOETZ.
From the "Owl," former official organ of the Young
Men's Hebrew Association, we extract the following
points in this gentleman's biography.
Mr. Goetz has lived and labored among us since he
was a boy of 1<>. He was born in Herzenhausen, Ger-
many, and after a short time spent in New York came
here at the instance of Mr. F. Hollander, with whom
he entered into partnership in 1S71, and whose
daughter Miss Bertha Hollander, he married in 1874.
He has two children, a son Joseph, and daughter
Hattie, fruits of this union.
The house of which Mr. Goetz is the head, is one
of the best known in the liquor trade of New Orleans.
It has important agencies, and does a very large busi-
ness, not only in this country, but among our neigh-
bors, the Spanish speaking people to the South. His
partner in it is his brother-in-law, Mr. Mose
Hollander.
Mr. Goetz
is of an open, frank, off-handed disposi-

tion,and personally known to everybody in the trade. JOSEPH SIMON.

He is a popular and charitable man. He has been a
member and generous giver to Touro Infirmar}' and MR. JOSEPH SIMON.
the Jewish Home; in fact has been a director of both.
In this gentleman we still have with
us, one of the
He belongs also to the Y. M. H. A., and the B'nai
few survivors of the period before the Civil war; one
B'rith. Also to the Young Men's Gymnastic Clul) of
of those who cut a figure in the Jewish annals of
this cit}-. New Orleans Lodge Knights of Honor and that and the later formative stage, as we mav call it,
Gerniania Lodge F. & A. M. distinguished by the establishment, on a firm basis,
of a number of important Jewish institutions, Touro
Infirmary, the Orphans' Home and others among
them.
"With the ancient," (meaning the elderly), says
Job, "is wisdom; in length of days understanding."
Mr. Simon was born in Bavaria, Germany, eighty-
one years ago. He came here to New Orleans, sixty-
four years ago. That was in 1S4(). Eight years
later, in 1848, he began business on his own account
in the clothing trade, at the French Market. From
1858 until 1863 he was in jjartnership, in this same
line,with the late Leon Godchaux, doing both a
wholesale and retail business. After the Civil war,
in 18()(j, he established himself in the hat trade
wholesale and jobbing, as Jos. Simon. In 1868, Mr.
Jos. Kohn, being admitted to an interest, the house
became Simon & Kohn. It is the same now known

as Kohn, Weil & Co. Mr. Simon withdrew from this

connection in the '90s and for a time, before retiring
from active business altogether, was president of the
old Louisiana Light & Power Co., to which the New
Orleans Railways Light & Power Co., succeeded.
As a merchant retired with a competence Mr.
EDWARD GOETZ. Simon enjoys "dignity with ease" in a fine old home-
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Nos. 137 Royal Street,
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ii
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ANTONIO SUAREZ
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MANU^'ACTURKU-; OP
Fine Havana Cigars*

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535-537 BIENVILLE STREET, IC
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PHONE 2391-Y.
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156
stead of the up-town residence district of the city,
and thoug-h retired, still takes an interest, while not
actively participating- as formerly, in Jewish institu-
tional affairs. He gives an undivided allegiance,
however, to the religion of his birthright, perform-
ing still, as he has since its foundation in 1S72, the
office of vice-president of the Congregation of Tem-
ple Sinai.
Mr. Simon was one of the founders of the old He-
brew Benevolent Association, and was its president;
he was a prime mover in that consolidation of that
body with Touro Infirmary after the serious yellow
fever epidemic of 1855; he was also one of the or-
»;anizers of the Jewish Widows and Orphans Home,
and the Hebrew Educational Association, and was
president of the Hebrew Rest. The service rendered
by him to these institutions, and the Jewish com-
munity, at a time too, when they needed assistance
most, can hardly be fully set forth, even in the most
appreciative terms.
Mr. Simon has been a Mason since 1845. He has
been a member also of other fraternal organizations. WILL MOSS.
"Accepting the commandments as a lamp and the
city. Its building- was ])ut uj) in ISd'i. and soon after
law as a light to g-uide him, length of days, pros-
Mr. Cerf, then newly .-irrived from over the water was
perity and peace have they brought him." In 1001
chosen to conduct its services This office he held
with his good wife, family and friends he celebrated
most acceptably for six years, at the end of which
the golden wedding-, fiftieth anniversary of his mar-
period he withdrew and embarked in mercantile con-
riage.
cerns,and was thus engaged until four or five years
MR. SAMSON CERF. back, when the Congregation again engaged his
services.
Mr Cerf ministers as Rabbi and Cantor to the Con-
(then France) some
Mr. Cerf was born in Alsace,
gregation Sluiara 7 cfiht, Jackson Avenue, the Gates
sixty years or more ago. He received his schooling
of Prayer, second oldest of the congregations of the
in the Elysee of Strasburg and was just about of age
when he came here in '61. He is married but has no
children and among his co-religionists is a man much
esteemed for strength of convictions and sincerity of
character.

MR. WILL MOSS.

This well-known insurance man of New Or-
is a

leans, a gentleman with an extensive acquaintance

through his connection with the Janvier & Moss
Agency, Ltd. He was born in Sturgcs. Mich., in 1852,

and was educated in the schools of Akron. Ohio. He

came South years ago, and was engaged for a time as
a cotton planter.
Mr. Moss is a man of family. He is a director of
the Congregation Gates of Prayer. His fraternal
affiliations include official positions as follows: Senior
Warden Jefferson Lodge No. 101, Masonic Order,
Captain of the Host, Concord Chapter No. 2. and
Deputy Master Louisiana Council No. 1 in the same;
also Treasurer Ben Hur Senaie No. o03, Knights of
SAHSON CERP. the Ancient Essenic Order.

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SURPLUS FUND, - 500,000.00 Detachable Chain. Rubber
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UNDIVIDED PROFITS. - 101,760.60 Standard Saw Mills and
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Feeders. Condensers
and Presses
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II. A. WUI.FK, As.si.stant Casliier.

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tions in
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any of the above
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P. DESMARIES,
interviews, in person or by letter, in
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204 CHARTRES ST j* NEW ORLEANS
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 JUDGE HENRY LAWRENCE LAZARUS.
Our subject is one of the leading- lawyers of the
city. He has had great success as an advocate and
is employed in the most important cases, his success
and ability commending him therefor. He has also

occupied a place upon the bench liere as Judge of the

Civil District Court.

Judge Lazarus was born in Syracuse New York in

1853. He received his education in New York city
and in Baltimore. Md. His first employment was in

a commercial vocation but he soon abandoned that

for a career at the bar. He married Miss Sallie

Solomon in 1S75. He has been active politically but

of late has been devoted wholly to his profession.

MR. FERDINAND GUMBEL.

Mr. Gumbel is the well-known New Orleans cot- JUDGE M. L. LAZARUS.
ton factor and commission merchant, a successful and
but abandoned it and enlisted, passing through the
wealthy business man of that line, and the owner
usual vicissitudes and experiences of war time. After
also of several cotton plantations, living in style in
the war he eng-aged again in business, this time in
the swellest part of fashionable St. Charles avenue.
New Orleans, and so continued till date.
Mr. Gumbel was born in Bavaria in 1841. His edu-
Mr. Gumbel married Miss Selma Feitel. He be-
cation was acquired in the public schools of that
longs to the B'nai B'rith and besides being a sub-
country. He was clerk for a short time in Germany
scribing member, takes a live interest in the work of
after his school days were over, but soon migrated,
Touro Infirmary and the Jewish Widows and Or-
as so many ambitious young- men of the time were
phans Home.
doing, to the "land of the free." He came South and
was in business here when the Civil War broke out,
MR. SAMUEL HYMAN.
Mr. Hyman is of Hj-man-Hiller & Co., cotton fac-
tors of New Orleans, one of the most prominent
houses of that line in the trade. He was born in
Poland and was educated in part by a pri-
in 1839,
vate instructor and in part at Summit, Miss., where
he began his business career as clerk in a general
store. He has other business interests also, brick
yards and saw mills among them; also in sand and
gravel and manufactures. He is vice-president of
the Teutonia Insurance Co., of New Orleans, also of
the Interstate Electric Co., a very important concern.
Mr. Hyman married in 1879, Miss Adele Hiller.
This marriage has been a happy one, fully exempli-
fying the sentiment "two hearts that beat as one."
He is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Masonic
Order; also of the B'nai B'rith; also of the Touro
Infirmary and Jewish Widows and Orphans Home.
He resides in style on the famous residence street of
SAMUEL hYMAN. New Orleans, St. Charles Avenue.
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Independent Oil Refining Co. C. W. EICHLING,
MANUFACTURERS and REFINERS, TELE PH ONE
H. ARMBRUSTER. Proprietor
Seed Merchant, 2808-L

341 'Old No. 67) GIROD ST. New Orleans. La. SPi:CI.^LTII5S— f renlr and Bernnula Onion
Sfeds and seis. Choice Seed Corn. Eastern
Seed Poiaiots. .'^eeds lor Truck Karmens,
Illuminating Oils. ^
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Lubricating Oils. Fruit 'I'rees. Roses. Flower Seeds and Planis
Cotton Seed Oils. Greases.

Special Grades Put Up to Order.

407 Magazine St.

Warehouses on I C R. R. and New Basin Canal and Shell Road- Between Natchez and Poydras Sts NEW ORLEANS, LA

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labels
MANUFACTURERS of A. H. WIGHT, President.
SIDNEY STORY. Vice-President FSTABLISHED 1835.
Corks SKELETON CASES PA CAVAROC. Sec'y-Treas
bottle Caps
Straw Covers t^ !^ S^
Sealing' V\'ax
Filtering Paper
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Bar Supplies
Flasks
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Corking Machines
Capping Machines
Bottling Machines
Glassware and CAVAROC
Bung Starts
Beer riallets
Hand Corkers
Cork Co,, Ltd* COMPANY. Ltd.
Wood Faucets IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
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Sulphur Wicks
Cork Pullers
Bottles, Glassware,Bar Importers Wines,
Demijohns Goods, Corks, Crockery Office & Salesroom,
No. 151 BARONNE ST.
Corkscrews, Etc. Liquors,
Warehouse,
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Olive Oil, Etc.
And General Sup- 510 to 51 6 BIENVILLE ST.
plifs for the Bar.
Restaurant and Near Decatur. TELEPHONE: CUMBERLAND 2759.
Liquor Trade
Phone No. 1312
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New Orleans. La. NEW ORLEANS, LA.

r^ J. FERRET, CONTINENTAL
Carpenter and Cabinet Maker, FIRE
INSURANCE James Prevost
Saloon, Store and Office Fixtures. Manager.
COMPANY
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 MK. JACOB C. LAZARD.
Mr. Jacob Lazard, or "Jake" as he is to his inti-
mates is the son of C. Lazard, head of the well-
known Canal street clothinjj- house, the C. Lazard
Co., Ltd., and is himself vice-president of that com-
pany, and secretary of its jobbing auxiliary, the New
York and New Orleans Clothing- Co. He was born
here, brought up in this city and here received his
schooling, both literary and commercial. He is one
of the representatives of the younger element of Jew-
ish business men and far from least among them. He
was formerly in the shoe business on St. Charles
street here, but for some years has been associated
with his father.
Mr. Lazard has evinced a strong interest in the
Young Men's Hebrew Association, and has been a
liberal contributor to Jewish charities.

CUTHBERT SCHAEFER.

MR. CUTHBERT SCHAEFER.

Mr. Schaefer is of a prominent family of Yazoo
City, Miss. He was born and reared and grew
nearly to manhood there. Coming- here for a finish
to his education he graduated from Tulane with a
literary degree. He took a course at Cornell
also
University, New York, and was the recipient of high
honors from that tilini niiiiei. Then starting out in
the world, to carve out a career, he identified himself
with a leading concern of contracting plumbers,
leading in their line and assumed charge of their
office. He is a partner in that firm, married, and a
staunch Y. M. H. A. man, considered among those
JACOB C. LAZARD. who have his acquaintance one of the most promising
of our younger Jewish business element.

MR. ARCHIBALD A. MARX.

This gentleman is of note among the younger or
native element of Jewish stock in New Orleans, as a
highlv successful business man, and from his official
connection with the Y.M.H.A, and LO.B.B., with the
latter organization particularly. He stands high in
its councils. He has been vice-president, treas-
urer, president and delegate to the Constitutional
Lodge, and has represented it as its director on the
board of Touro Infirmary serving as chairman of that
committee in charge of the erection of the part
known as the Julius Weis Home. The plans in fact
were drawn under his supervision, a high compliment
to his business ability. He has been director also of
the Y. M. H. A.
Mr Marx was born here. He is a son of Mr. Solo-
mon Marx a well-known old time business man. He
is a graduate of the New Orleans schools. He ven-
tured into business on his own account very early,
and was in spices and grocers sundries for some time.
He is now engaged in the oil trade and is secretary
of Aschaffenberg & Co., Ltd., contracting plumbers,
Carondelet street.
Mr. Marx is a man of family. He lives in the fash-
ionable uptown residence district known as Rosa Park. ARCHIBALD A. MARX.
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JOSEPH ZIMMERMANX, HUGO STOLLEY,

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President and Manag-er. Secty & Treas

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IDirecto rs
426-428 BARONNE ST., New Orleans. La
No 800 Magazine Street, Corner Julia,
DEALERS
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Washington Ave. & Prytania St , Building Specialties,

Telephone No. 697.
IMiUitt'ls, (Irates, Encaustic and Marhlc
Fine Carriages for Hire at all Times
Tiles. Warm Air Heating a Specialty.
For Balls, Parties, Weddings. Pleasure
Drives, Etc. -^
Ail Work Done in Artisth and Workmanlike Manner.

Orders Attended to Promptly ESTIMATES GIVEN ON APPLICATION.

W. B Green. F. J. W. Pflug. Edw. Sullivan.

W.B.Green Photo Supply

2123 Magazine Street,
COMPANY.
Bet. Jackson and Josephine New Orleans, La.

Insures ajjjainst Loss or Damage

Kodaks and Films, Cameras, Dry
by Fire at Lowest Rates.
Capital $ 1 50.000 . Reserve Fund $200,620 73
Plates, Lenses. Etc.
Assets $397,758 60.
Apparatus and Supplies for Professional and Amateur-
iOFFICKKHs
DeveIop(ngandFinishingforAmateors,Picture Framing .laiMt's W'il.sim, I'rfs. Dr. James H. .Mahmey. \'iue-Pres.

Joliii X. Wegniann, Seeietaiy.

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NEW ORLEANS, LA IVIscr, riiilip"
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I'ickliardt, Fred'k Qiiereiis,

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Skardcii. W. II, ll.dfTMaii. .1. K. Sautcr, \V. I.. Ilu<rlies,
.l,,s. TranchiiKi. .1,11 \\,-\U-r. It. rim.-ni, T. .1. Kid.l,
Everything in Modern Photography. llerinaii Wilkc, .lames Wilson.

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 MR. HENRV GREENWALL.
A man so long- in the Hmelig-ht of publicity
as
Henry Greenwall, scarcely needs an introduction. In
the very nature of his business, from his lonjf service
as a theatrical nianag-er, and purveyor of entertain-
ment and pleasure to the people, he is one of the best
known residents of New Orleans.
Few men have had a more e.xtensive experience of
the show business. He has been a leading- lig-ht in
it for more than twenty years. Beginning in Texas
he was manager of his own opera house at Galveston
and built up a circuii embracing Dallas and other
large cities of the Lone Star State. Later he opened
up in New York. At present he is interested in the
Baldwin-Melville syndicate, comprising stock shows
in this city, Cincinnati and other large places North,
and has put up for them in this city the finest
theatre in the South.
Following are houses of which he is lessee and
manager: Greenwall Theatre, New Orleans; Savan- EUGENE H. QUTMANN.
nah Theatre, Savannah, Ga Grand Opera Opera
;

House, (lalvestori, Texas; Sweeney & Coombs Opera
House, Houston, Texas; Greenwall Opera House, Fort
Worth, Texas., and the Dallas Opera House, Dallas,
Texas. He is president also of the American Theat
rical Exchange, New York city.
Prayer, Jackson Avenue, one of the younger men
taking an active interest in cong-regational affairs.
Mr. Lichtentag is a native; he was born here in
ISiiS and was educated in the public schools here. He
is an educator by profession, conducting the Paragon

During his managerial career Mr Greenwall has Short Hand Institute, and is tfie author of the work
"The Paragon System of Short Hand " He is Past
Master of Jefferson Lodge of Masons and was Chan-
cellor and Past Grand Representative in the K. of P.

MR. EUGENE H. GUTMANN.

HENRY QREENWALL.
presented some of the costliest attractions and most
famous stars on the road, Patti, Bernhardt, Booth,
Coquelin and Irving- among others.
This is the public side of his character. In private
life he subscribes to the faitli of his fathers and con-
tributes to the maintenance of the institutions of that
faith. He is a liberal giver to charity and public
purposes, and not alone to Jewish charity but to all
whose merits commend them.
Mr. Gutmann was the first financial secretarj- of the
Young- Men's Hebrew Association and has held that
office until to-day. He hns lieen secretary of Touro
Infirmary and its collector; collector of the Jewish
Widows & Orphans Home, and sexton and collector
of Temple Sinai. He succeeded his father in the last
named position. He is secretary also of Louisiana
Council, Legion of Honor, and was for fifteen years
in a trusted position with the great cotton house of
H Abraham & Son in this citv.
He was born here in 18()7 and received his education
in the public schools of the city. He has an enviable
record. His work is well done He is thoroughl}'
business. The confidence reposed in him as a fidu-
ciary is well merited; it speaks volumes as to his
character.

MR. ALEXANDER LICHTENTAG.

Mr. Lichtentag- is distinguished as a worker in one
of the most useful Jewish institutions of the city,
the Y. M. H. A. He was its secretary from its foun-
dation until a year or two ago; and when he declined
to serve longer was prevailed upon by his associates
to remain a member of the Board of Directors, of
which he is one, still. He has served the Association
long and faithfully also as chairman of its Publica-
tion Committee, supervising the "Owl" and its suc-
cessor, the Y. M. H. A. Magazine
He is secretary also of the Cong-regation Gates of ALEXANDER LICHTENTAG.
K.Jl
 S. V. FORNARIS. JONAS H. LEVY. F. DIETZE.
Pkksidknt. \'ice-Pkksident. Cashiek.

QERMANIA
...National Bank...
620 CANAL STREET,

Capital Stock Paid In, $700,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, $420,457.77.

DI'RECTO'RS OF THE ^AJSfK

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E. ALLGEYER. S. ODENHEIMER,
of E. Allgej-er & Co., Cotton Exporters. of the Lane Cotton Mills.
H. ABKAHAM.
of H. Abraham & Sons, Limited, Cotton and W. L. SAXON,
Cotton Factors of Smith Bros. & Co.. Ltd . Wholesale Grocers
and Importers.
WILLIAM H. BYRNES.
President Hibernia Insurance Co. of New Or- MAX. SCHWABACHER.
leans. of J. & M. Schwahacher, Ltd., Wholesale
Grocers and Importers.
CHARLES A. FARWELL,
of Milliken& Farwell, Sugar Merchants. J. M. VER(iNOLE.
S. V. FORNARIS, Wholesale Liquors.
of S. V. P^ornaris & Co., Commission Mer-
chants and Exporters. SOL WEXLER.
of Julius Weis & Co., Bankers and Cotton
J. L. HEKWRi, Factors.
Capitalist.
F. B. WILLIAMS.
C. L. KEPPLER, Lumber Manufacturer.
Wholesale Druggist
J. H LEVY, JOHN A. WOCiAN,
of M. Levy & Sons, Cotton Factors. of Wogan Bros , Molasses Refiners.

PATRICK McCLOSKEY, T. B LAMPTON.

of McCloskey Bros., Commission Merchants.
GEO. H. RICHEY.
THOS. McDERMOTT,
Sugar and Molasses. GEORGE CLAY.
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 LEON L. SHWARTZ.
MR. LEON L. SHWAKTZ.
Mr. Shwartz is the well-known Canal Street mer- ADOLPH GOOD.
chant, formerly of A. Shwartz & Sons, but since
188') in business in the dry g-oods, millinery and ladies
furnishing's line by himself. This is a popular es-
MR. ADOLPH (;OOI).

tablishment handling- as specialties fine tailor made
suits, bridal trousseaux and outfits; etc., in short a
first class establishment.
Mr. Shwartz has been in this trade over twenty-
five vears. He was born in this city and was brought
up to the business from his youth. He has naturally
a large circle of acquaintances and friends. He is a
Mason and has filled hig-h offices in the Order. He
belong-s also to the Pythian Order and the American
Leg-ion of Honor; alst) to the Prog-ressive Union, as a
member of which he has lent his aid to further the
best interests of the city of his nativity in the promise
of whose future he is a firm believer. In Jewish af-
fairs he also takes a lively interest.
MR. DAN A. ROSE.
In the business world Mr. Rose is known as the
head of one of the principal g-eneral insurance ag-en-
cies of the city, situated on Gravier street in the quar-
ter devoted to the cotton trade and as one of the most
active, enterprising- and successful underwriters
here. Among- our Jewish residents he has been
conspicuous throug-h his interest in and work in be-
half of the Young- Men's Hebrew Associatit)n, of
which he has been a director.
Mr. Rose is a subscribing- member also of the prin-
cipal Jewish charities. He belonj^s to the Harmony
Club and to a number of orders and fraternities.
Mr. (iood is Secretary and Treasurer of the Boston
Shoe Store Co., Canal street, one of the principal con-
cerns of the city. He was born in London, Eng-land,
in 18o4, but came to this countrymany years ag-o.
For a time at first he was clerk in
the wholesale gro-
cery business in Galveston, Tex. From there he
came here.
Mr. (lood is one of the directors of the Young- Men's
Hebrew Association. He belong-s also to the Elks
and to the Clerks Mutual Benevolent Asst)ciation of
this city. He married Miss Julia Kaufman about
six years ag-o.
MR. DAVID GOLDSTEIN.
Those who are familiar with Touro Infirmary, an
institutionwhich is the pride of the Jewish people
hereabouts, know that efficient and courteous official
who presides over the clerical department.
Mr. Goldstein is a native. He was born here in
18(>2. He acquired his education in the public schools
here, and was an apt scholar. His first employment
was with his father, Pincus Goldstein, as a jeweler.
He remained with his father for eleven vears and on
his death assumed charg-e oi the business.
Mr. (xoldstein is a subscribing- member of Touro
Infirmary and the Jewish Home. He belong-s to the
B'nai B'rith, the Hebrew Benevolent Association, the
Cong-reg-ation Ciates of Prayer and the Knig-hts of
Pythias.

DAN A. ROSE. — 165 DAVID GOLDSTEIN.

 WHEN YOU ENTERTAIN
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h<ime. iQey scruliii /,e every
pos.sible detail, examine
everything ot interest in
the r.otn. tspenally ibe
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FURNITURE
It you have purchased
ot us. vnu can feel assured
that evervtbiDg is quiie
whether it be
correct, for
Carlcr or Dining Rorm,
Library or Hedroom, we
offer our patrons the
irresistible combination of

Best Quality, Latest Styles and Lowest Prices.

come: aimd si

"^"^itz-^iA -^t3R^> The Grant FaFniture Co.

Successors to MONTQOMERY & GRANT.

21 ( )-'2 1 2 CAMP STREE^r.

MBRILH, President.
J. E.
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OTTO T. MaiEK. Secretary.

ED. HEIMTZ, asst. Secretary.

Teutonia
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Germania Insurance
Insurance Company Company...
OF INBW ORLEANS, LA.
eP NEW GRLBHNS. LH.

Office, No 307 Camp Street.

Assets, $807,773.39.
©FPieERS.
ABLERT P. NOLL, I'lvsiiieiit.
SAMUEL HYMAN, Vice-President
Capital Paid-Up, -
$100,000 FRANK LANGBEHN, Secretary.
DIRECTORS— B Cauiors, Addlph Dumser.
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- - K R. (Jdgreve, Samuel Hj'iiiaii, Henry P Hart.

Surplus, - 26.000 K. .latiiK-ke,Geo. .Jnigens, .fnliiis Keiffer, .1. H.
Kpller, .InliuH Koch, Isaac I>ev.v, Frank Ruder,
F. Raquet. A. (i. KicUs H. Sclinlz'-, (\ H. sctienok,
Solicits Your Insurance A Soc.la, Hy. 'I'lmele. .Albert P. Ndll.VV. F. Milier.
At Lowest Current Rate.

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 MR. GUSTAVE MOSKS.
Mr. Moses is the senior member of G. Moses &
Sons, ranking- amonu- the most successful and artistic
[)hotog-raphers t)f the country. Theirs is the oldest
g-allery here, and they have received many special
awards, g-old medals among- them, at the photo-
^[•raphers conventions for their work in g-eneral, min-
iature and other special branches of portraiture. So
loni;- and successfully indeed, has Mr. Moses been in
intimate relations with the people of New Orleans
and its visitors, as to be almost a public character.
Three g-enerations of this family have been en-
g-ag-ed in this profession. Mr. Moses' son. Will, is
the third. His g-rand-father. the late S. Moses, the
fatlier of G Moses, who founded the business, was one
af the American pioneers in the art of photog-raphy.
Mr. Moses himself was instructed in his earlier years
in the mvsteries of the dag-uerrotype. The son is
an artist as photographer and is a writer on photo-
graphv as well. Thev are representatives both, cer-
tainly, in the full meaning- o1 the term of a profes-
sion which their family has done much to advance.

HAX SAHSON.
MR. MAX SAMSON.
Mr. Samson is proprietor of the pharmacy at 117
Camp street, one of the few establishments strictly
devoted to drugs and pharmaceutical jjreparations in
this cit}'. Prescriptions are a specialty with it.
Mr. Samson is of note in his profession as a direc-
tor of the New Orleans College of Pharmacy and as
a member of the State Board of Pharmaceutical Ex-
aminers; positions indicating his standing in the
business. He was born here and was educated at the
Hebrew School of this city. Having graduated from
it he determined to take up pharmacy as a business
and matriculated at Tulane for that purpose. At
the same time, in order to secure practical as well as
theoretical knowledge of it he secured a place in a
drug store. He graduated with honors in 1882 and
took a place with I. L. Lyons & Co., in the prescrip-
tion department. Here he remained several years
and made a name for himself.
Mr. Samson is a member of the American, the
National, the State and the Orleans Pharmaceutical
Associations. He belongs to the Masons, the Knights
of Pvthias and the Progressive Union.
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New Orleans National Bank, 3^

3Sc^

Lhote Lumber Mfg. Go.

3S!?6
3(^
».^
3«^
IT. S. Bitiidii and Oilier Bonds Bon^lit and Sold.
3^
3S(?6 w
3S!?6
3^ ^% Plant, Carondclet Walk and North Bupre Streets, 3^
35;^
ORNER CAMP & COMMON STS , 3Si?6 MANI'l-'Al'ri'HKHS l_il''

3W
3s;^

Capital, $200,000.00
3i^ 3^ Sash.
3^?6
Doors, Blinds, Furniture, Cisterns ^
3!.*
Surplus (Earned), 800,000.00 3S?< And Ready- Made Houses, 3^«
3^^
Undivided Profits Net, 297,311.86
3S« Sf;* -Also Rough and Dressed Lumber. -^^T^ 3^
3^ 3S;^

$',297,311.86 %^ 'Quality and Capacity Unequaled. 3Ae

3«!?€

Does a General Banking Business, United

States, Stale, municipal and Other
Bonds Bought and Sold.

DIRBeTORS.
A, liiilciwin. A. Ualilwin. Jr.. 10 (.; . Sehlieder.
John H. Hanna (•has. H. HecU, C. B. Fischer.
R K. Craig. 1). K. Martinez. Adolph Katz. Phones: Main 4CI4. 4328 and 265.
I.ouis P. Rice. Frank T. Howard. •^ i
^'f^
BRANCH OFFICE: HEAD OF THE OLD BASIN.
A. Haldwin. President. R E. CiaiK. Vice President.
PHeNE: MHI^ 2385-W.
A. Haldw in. Jr. Sd Vice President. Wni Palfrey. Cashier. 3^ Canal Street and Ba.voii St. John Cars will brin^r .von to the New
Frank E. Riess, Assistant Cashier 3Sc^ Plant, nctw in full operation-
Do not Fail to Visit This Modern Plant; it is Deservinj; of a \'isit.
3%^
SMC i*; »& rfr'i: i-Si: :*4: 5m? iir :if»i
m^^s^*.-?(,iKX2f(.'K»ikim2m & js Ai os ?^ 3>7t OA^ 3\/ oS/b (T\/X (tVq 3S?I

168 —
 MEYER H. GKADWOHL.
Mr. Ciradwohl is chief of staff in the great depart-
ment house of the Maison Blanche in this cit}'. He
is a man comparative younjf, who has risen by
still
his own abilities and exertions from a place in the
ranks, and deservins,'- according- to the accepted stan-
dard in modern business, due credit for his successes.
He was born and raised, as the ])hr;ise is, in New
Orleans, and got his education in the common schools
of the city. An ambitious lad, he began at an early
as"e to earn a living. His first situation was as cash
bov in a store near one of the markets.
For many years he was with the Fellman's, and for
a time was a (lei)artment manager for Leon Fellman.
When the Maison Blanche was established he went
with S J. Shwartz & Co., the first proprietors as
New York buyer. In this responsible i)i)sition he
was markedly successful.
He is a leading member of the Young Men's Gym-
nastic Club.
HEYER H. ORAUWOHL.

MR. M. .1. WOLF.

Marcus Junius Wt)lf. is the full name of our sub-
ject. He has a wide aci|uaint;ince through his con-
nection with many organizations as Touro Infirmary,
the Widows' and Orphans' Home, the Young Men's
Hebrew and Harmony
Association, the U'nai B'rith
Club. Also among secular concerns, the P^lks, Knights
of Pythias, Travellers Protective Association, Patri-
otic Order Sons of American and others. He has
been on the Board of Touro. and of the Widows and
Orphans Home, and has been \'ice-President of the
Y. M. H. A.

Mr. Wolf is of the well-kn.iwn tirin of B. J. Wolf

& S(ms, manufacturers of clothing. This business
he has folk)wed since early manhood. He was born
in New York city in \SF^'). He married in 189.i Miss
(iertrude Levi whose loss a short time since only
ALBERT ASCHAHHENBERQ.
he mourns.
MR. ALBERT ASCHAFFENBERG.
Here we refer to the well-known business man
head of the A. Aschaffenberg Co., Ltd., a leading
liouse here in the plumbing and plumbers supplies
line, the one which furnished the plumbing for the

St. Charles Avenue palaces of Maurice Stern, Isidore

Newman, Gus Lehman, Jr., and others He is of
note also among the Jewish residents of the city for
the interest he has manifested in and the service he
has rendered the Y. M. H. A.
Mr. Aschaffenberg was born here and e.xcept for a
short term s])ent in Chicago in business has made
this city his home. He was identitied with the Y.
M. H. A., l)efore he left here, and resumed his con-
nection with it when he returned. His work for it
on its Entertainment Committee, and its Building
Committee and as director of it has been of the most
serviceable character. n. J. WOLF.
— 169
 -^rp:ferences -
:
J. I). HAYWAKI),
Whiliii-v Naliun;il

IlilK'i'iiin l!:iTilv ;iim1

I'.aiik.

I'nisi
Haywaro.VicK&GlarK, A. J. VICK,
('<)m|);iiiv. Nrw ()rlLaii>.
COTTON, STOCKS, J NO F. CLARK.
I'irsl

(
National
'miiiiHTcial N a
Uaiik.

n a
BONDS, GRAIN,
PROVISIONS AND
1 i ri I

I'laiik, Ijiiiistiiii, 'I'l'XaK.

COFFEE ^^^jt'ju.ji
m'Hi:

Main Office: New Orleans, Gravier and Carondelet Sts.

Nkw Yokk
COK R ESPON lEXTS I :

I'kIVATE WikES Tl) Opposite the Cotton Exchange.

Telephone Main No- 1139. J. S. BACHE & CO.

New York,
Chicag'o, Main Branch. HOUSTON. TEXAS
And Princii);tl

Points of MEMBERS: Chicac'.o

Texas, Louisiana, New Orleans Cotton Exchanfi^e. CORKRSPONnKNTS :

New Orleans Future Brokers' Association.

Mississippi, New York Cottoi Exchange.
Arkansas
New York Coffee Exchange. BARTLETT, FRAZIER AND
Chicago Board of Trade.
And Tennessee. Associated Members Liver])ool C'otton Ass'n. CARRINGTON.

'1 Chas. Eble,

CflLBTOIRE'S FL0RI5T
V Dauphine Street. Near Canal. Flowers for all Occasions
and at all Seasons-
}
ALL PRINCIPAL THEATRES Wl THIN A BLOCK. ]\
STORE.
\

j'* Everything the market affords. A la Carte and Table D'Hote

106 BARONNE ST.
GARDEN.
A Few Desirable Rooms. Elegant Dinins; Rooms ^
l503 Upperline near
f-'oK HAN'.UKIn
St. Charles Ave.

L. ^J Main .U'-if \V.

Phones.
UliKiuii 711!
New
W,
Orleans, La.

r H. W. FELDNER,
"1
i
P. n. LONGSHORE, L L LHMHR. \*\

I LOITGSHOIIE S, CO.,
Sipn d ©mamental Ipaintev , 206-208 Carondelet St,
MEMBERS OF
716 PERDIDO STREET, New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
New Orleans Stock Exchange,
New Orleans Board of Trade,
Near St. Charles, New Orleans. La. i New Orleans Future Brokers' Ass'n,
Assuciate Members Liverpool Cotton Excha

—
t.
170 —
1J
 MK. FELIX U. LEVY. field, and there General Taylor took up a position.
The day before the battle at Mansfield Mr. Levy
Among the representative business houses founded
years ag"0 whose story of success is part of the com-
issued S.OOO rations to the "Boys in (iray" and. when
mercial history of Louisiana, is tlie well-known firm lie is in reminiscent vein he tells of the time "when
of Levy, Ivoeb & C-o., of New Orleans. This success S,(){)i) Confederates faced 2S.n(ii) Yanks, whipped them
was based upon the honor and integrity of its foun- and forced them to retreat."
ders, gentlemen who, to succeed, bent every effort
After this battle at Mansfield Mr. fyevy was trans-
to preserve its prestige untarnished.
ferred to (General Terrell's Brigade, Texas Cavalry,
The worthy senior member of this firm, Mr. Feli.x
which disltanded at Corsicana, Texas, at the time
n. was born in Hellimer, a picturesque Alsa-
I.,evy,

tian town on January 17, IS.^d, when the colors of

Lee faced Grant fur the last time. On June 2S, 1S(>.=..

France waved proudly from tiie Ocean to the Kiver Mr. Levy wos parolkd at Alexandria, La., iind

Khine. Mr. Levy enjoyed exceptionally good oppor- thence he returned to Franklin and began life anew.
tunities for an education. He received in his native On March 1, ISbf), Mr. Levy bade adieu to his
land a common This was followed
school education.
and companions
friends in Franklin. They wit-
by a college course. His studies, however, were in-
nessed his departure with regret. He came then to
terrupted when he had attained the age of fourteen
by a desire to seek his destiny in the United States.
to the city of New Orleans, and here has since re-

So it came about that among" the arrivals ^n the eve sided. Shortly after he entered commercial life here
of the New Year of IS.^0 was this aspiring Alsatian as one of the firm of Simon, Loeb A Joseph, after-
youth. wards Simon, Loeb & Levy, and later Levy. Loeb,
Mr. Levy proceeded to Franklin, St. Mary's Parish, Scheuer & Co., and finally with continued prosperity.
La., where iiis first emplovment wasasclerk in a dry Levy, Loeb & Co., one of tlic prominent houses of
goods store. He was painstaking and desirous to
the present. Mr. Levy is now the senior partner.
please his employer and the customer. He evinced a
Personally Mr. I^evy is a <|uiet and unassuming
taste for business. His thrift may be judged by the
fact that by rigid economy, in a short space of time gentleman and only those who know him intimate] v
he accumulated sufficient money to go into business would recognize in him a man who, in the cause of
on his own account. His venture proved most suc- the Confederacy, braved death on many a hotlv con-
cessful and for years following the future gave tested battle-field with the nonchalance of a true
promise of realizing his fondest dreams.
Frenchman. Years ago while resident in Franklin,
At the what Mr. f^evy then considered
/.enith of
he became a Mason of Franklin I^odge No. .^7 and
his career thewar between the States began. To all
later, penetrated the mysteries of the vails in the
intents and j)urposes he was a Southerner, hence he
cast liis lot with his people, entered the Confederate Koyal Arch Chapter. His Masonic course won for

Army, and continued wearing the "(iray" until the him, not only the regard of his Brother Masons, but
finale at Appomatto.x. the distinction of Honorary Membershij) in his

His war record was in accord with his reputation Mother Lodge also.

before and since the internecine struggle, honorable Since taking up his residence in New Orleans Mr.
and without blemish. Leaving Franklin in the hey Levy has been identified with Congregation Temple
da}' of manhood, leaving his business and all cher-
Sinai, the Order B'nai B'ritli, the Free Sons of Israel
ished ties, he proceeded to a Camp of Instruction
and the Associations dedicated to the Jewish Or-
where, after six months he was promoted Sergeant-
phans' Home and Touro Infirmary and the Harmony
Major and acting Adjutant of the Camp. He was
Club
then transferred to the Subsistence Department,
Major Phillips commanding, on the staff of Gen. While Mr. Levy is a practical man of afi'airs he

Richard Taylor. still finds time for the little amenities of fraternal

Subsccjuently he was ordered to report at the I'ost and social life and is, in his modest way, influential as

Commissary Department located at Alexandria, La., well as earnest, in his efforts for the betterment of

where he remained until Banks' army moved toward civic conditions or in the interest of his less fortunate

Shreveport. The Confederates retreated to Mans- brethren.

171
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805 CANAL STRELT,
TELEPHONE 362. i\ S
Near Bourbmi, New Orleans. La.
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Corner Press and Burgundy Streets. ©
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PATRICK J. McMAHON. MILLERS

TELEPHONE 522.

BILLIARD HALL,

1 16 ROYAL STREET,
NEAR CANAI. STREET.

117 EXCHANGE PLACE,

NEAR CANAL STREET.

Undertaker and Embalmer. ^ BILLIARDS. 40 CENTS PER HOUR, -j^

U 12-11 16 Dryades Street,

Exhibition Games Nightly.
Oppsile SI. Jiihn ihvir. b.

Carriages for Wedding.*. Parties, Etc. JOHN MILLER, Proprietor.

— 172 —
 MR. HKNKY BUKK.
Mr. Block is tlif lu-ad of tlu- wholfsak- li(|u<>r lumsf
of Henry Block & Co., Tclunipitonlas street, New-
Orleans. He has taken a threat interest in the work
of the Yountf Men's Hebrew Association, has been a

director of it in fact. He is a member of the Harmony

Club; also of the Ur])hans' Home and Tonro Intirmarv
and is a worshipper at Teni])le Sinai.

Mr. Block was born in Cincinnati in IS,^'*. He be-

g-an his business career in the li([iior business, and

has followed it ever since successfully, and has ac-
quired interests aside from it in various lines. He
married in 18S5 Miss Florence Lazard.

HENRY BLOCK.

MR. MORRIS ABRAHAM.

The picture here presented is that of Mr Morris
Abraham, of H. Abraham I't Sons, Cotton Factors,
Baronne street, a leading house of New e)rleans for

years in that line, with New York connections also,

making it well-known and influential on 'Change
there. Our subject is the second son of Mr. Henry
Abraham, head of the house, is a native of the city,

and a product of its schools, and has been identified

with the local management as its representative in

the Exchange for a considerable time. He is a club

HENRY E. OUMBEL. man, and a liberal subscriber to the charities of the

faith_he j)rofesses.

MR. HENKY E (iUMBEU

The portrait shown herewith is that of one of the

younger and native element of Jewish Imsiness men

of the Crescent City, one of those doing- credit to
their derivation and to the paternal example and
training. It is the ])ortraitof Mr. Henry E. tiuinbe'.

Secretary of the old and substantial cotton house of

S. Gumbel & Co., (iravier street, factors highly re-

garded on 'Change and in the cotton world generally.

Mr. Gumbel was born here, and here also received

his education. He belongs to the Y. M H. A and
Harmony Club and other Jewisii organizations and

aftiliates with the Congregation of the Temple. MORkIS ABRAHAn.

 Chronometer Depot and Navigation Emporium.
EVERY JOLLY GOOD FELLOW DRINKS

SPARKLING Widow LOUIS FRIGERIO,

ABITA OPTICIAN.
SIGN or THE M DEALER IN .*

I CORBONA TED. i Chronometers, Fine Watches,

Clock, and Nautical Goods.

BECAUSE — It doesavvav vviili tin-

Mnllif niMtic.-il.
'•after effects" Mixed l'liilo.-io[.ihic:il ;iiiil

Xaiilii'iil liistriiiiifiit
witli wine acids z-st.

Makes a perfect
1015 Canal Street,
Hi-Ball.
New Orleans.
ABITA SPRINGS WATER CO LTD .
Eyes Tested Free.

508 POYDRAS STREET.

BOTTLED AT SPRINOS PHONt 2000
COMMOOOffE

H.C. Ramos, ^^(^i^^i^^ Gin Phizz. m

DISTRIBUTOR.
y Imperial
AGENT FOR a m
Dr.
Tonice?*
Brown's Sarsaparilla Cabinet,
mi'
M. C. RAMOS. Proprietor.
FOR THE BLOOD.
302=304 CARONDELET STREET, .,
^^^
Celery Tonic, Opposite Cotton Exchange,
FOR THE NERVES. New Orleans. La. ^^^
m
302 Carondelet St. New^Orieans, La. Fine Wines and Liquors.
3^SH5P5asai?HSaSHSa55HSaSHSHa5HSaSHSai> sJ ^. ^ i

— 174 —
 insurance husim-ss, wiiicli he lias followed e\-er since.
Mr. Ma.i^ncr has never married, devoting- himself to the
care of thi' widow and children of liis brother.
-Mr. .Magner was one of the incorporators of the Jew-
i^h lome .V^sociation, and was its .secretarv for eight
i'

\ears. lie is the onl\ surviving founder of the Touro

Infirmary .\ssociatioii.
He was one of the founders of tile 'I'diple Sinai con-
gregation, is an e.\-president of the Touro In-
firmary .Association, and, was its secretarv for
eight years. Hi' was the secretarv also of the
1lei ire w iSenevoleiU .Association, which was the
parent of both the )rphans'( Home .Association
and the Touro Innrmarv .Association. He has been a
prominent nicmlier iov many years of the Ii'nai H'rith.
and was the first president of the Young Men's Hebrew
.\ssociation. Mr. Magner is now seventv-six vcars old,
JOS. MAOfNtK. and as deepl\ interested iii the Jewish iiliil.iiithiTipies as
ever.
AIR. |( )Si':rii ma(;\i-;k.

All liciii(ii\-(l naiiir in thr Jewish ciuiiniuiiily (jf W'W M i:r.\IvST m. L( )I-.i:.
< )rk;ms is tliis mu-; i1k- iiaiiu' of a man pcrsistciil and
Mr. L.oi'ii is UK of the nn)st active and successful of
w iinlf-lirarti.'il in tin- faith. ikAntcil to llic charities and
the Imsiness nnii of .Vew < )rleans. He is considered as
fraternal instilntiuiis ni the race, lnnj; oiie of the |)illars
one of the -iirewdest also. Me is president of tlie Haubt-
lit 'I'uDrc) lnfirniar\ and inn;; Cdiispic'.iously i(lentifie(!
iran iK: Loeb Co., manufacturers and dealers in machinery,
with the urder.
ii'naiThe fdllowing' from one of
li'rith
one of the largest concerns of the kind here, president
llu lewisli perioiheals slows clearlv in wiiat estimation
of the Diana lirick Tile (\>., president of the Afetro-
(!<:

lie i.s held:

•(
politan Lami Id., president of the I'ine Island Mercan-
)ii iM-iday. • )ct. _>S. .\lr. .Manner eelrlirated his jotli
tile Lo., and is interested in a number of other mercantile
liirthdav and on that oceasion was the recipient of marked
and industrial enterprises. His judgement in tlie matter
attiiition and honor. )n the eveninj; previou.s a si)ecial
!
of .\ew irieans real estate has been |.iroven both ex-
(

joint session of the local Uxli^es of ll'nai LVritli was held cellent and far sio-hted.
and resohitions con!.;ratulatinj; him and reviewdii!:^ his ser-
.Mr. l.oeb was born in louston, Texas, in 18(17 wliich
1

vice for the order were adopted, iudotjistic addresses ac-

makes him only _^j now. Me received his education in
C(nipained dicni.
the -Mew )rleaiis Public Schools and began life as an
(
'"<
)ii l''rida\" further compliment was paid him. Rev.
a| prentice in the shops of the very establishment of
I.enchl otierc<l a s|K'cial praver for .Mr. .Mai^ner diirins;'
w hich he is n.ow die bea I.

sirvice at Tuoro .S\ nai;o.L;ne and after the service the

Mis wife, whom he mat lied about seven years ago, was
lli^ards oi Tnoro liihrniar\' aiul the Ori)hans"' Home Miss J'dka l'"reem,-iii. Me is a Chapter Mason and Blue
jointh |)reseiilcd him with hand- a set of resolutions,
Lodge .\lasoii, a member of the Xew Orleans Progressive
on parchment, seltint;' forth the cliarita-
sonii'lv en,iL;rav<.(l
Cnion and prominenl in the deliberations and iniblic
iile work accomplished i)\ him dnrinj; the last 50 years.
f.iovenipnts of the Pioard of Trade. He is also vice presi-
Hr. Leiicht presented these resolutions and alont;" with
dent of the Parkways Cnmniission of the citv. His Tewish
them the further testimonial of a silver lo\in<;g cup from affiliations are with tlie Y. M. H. .A.. Tuoro Infirmary
his maii\' friends."
ami the AA'iiiows and < )rnlian's Home.
Tuoro Infirmarx traces hack a period lout; ante-
to
dating; the L'ivil War; lint in present sliat)e it was
its

icalK reori^anized and reconstituted after the terrihle

\ellow fe\'er epidtniic of 1X7K. In that reors^fanization,
with Ke\'. Hr. lulheini and L. 1!.
( Cain, Mr.
.\lai;iK-r was oik of the |iromineiit rt,t;'ures and
was the secretar\- elected at the time, and he
has hc;-n identified with its management ever
since. le Itas also heen chairman of the Board of Mana-
•

i.;ers of the UwisM Widows" and )r|)hans' Home: and (

when the Marmoiu 'c'luh comhine with the old Companx' 1

C'itih in i.S-2. Ik was ele.'tcd the first secretary of the new

01 oanizatioii.
Joseph Masquer, s;i\.s another account, is a native of
llamhurL;-. (lerniany. He came to -\iiierica when he was
nnieteen \ eai s <if a.n'e, reached .\ew Orleans in 1848, and
went into the steamhoat husiness. wdiich he f<illowed for
three \ears. He was b(X)kkeener in a cotton house for
three years more, and then entered the army. He took
part in the hatties of t'hickamausa. Stonehri(Iy;e and Mur-
freesboro.
.\fter tile war closeil. he returned to this citv, and re-
sumed his cluf-'es as liookkeepcr. In Vkj he went into the ERNES I M. LOEB.
— 175 —
 MR. SAM I I'LL WORMS.
.Mr. Worms is of .S. E. Worms & Co., Ltd.. fiirmerly
Daisheimer & Worms, a leading house in the wholesale
iK.t'ons and furnishing goods line at Xew Orleans. ,;nd
one of the oldest in the trade there. Mr. Worms it-; i

i'.ead and has been identied with it from the start.

.Mr. Worm.s was Imrn in Clinton. La., in 1852. He was
ii!ucated there and at Speyer. Cerm:m\. lie lias been in
mi-rcainile business ever since he luiit school, He is a
.Mason, a member of the Ilarmonv Club and. of the new
.\Krchants' Club of .Xew )rleans. lie lielongs also to
(

the l>"nai l'."rith and is a member of various charitable

bodies. Touro Tniirmary and Jewish Orphans' Home
cliii-l .'unoiig them.

JOSI''.l'll 11. .MARKS.

MERMAN J. SEIHEKln.
Joseph H. -Marks vva.s 'lorn in the cit\ of Xew York,

e'ghty seven \ears ago. His boxhood was passed in

iii-:kMA\ SI'.IFERTH. .^outli Canjlina. lie came to .Xew )rleans when he '

was twenty years of age. to join his brother, 1. .X. Marks

A -ipk-iicid fxaniiili.' .il llu' >iK\"cssful Jew in jdurnal-
in the wliolesale grocery business. Thev operated under
isiii is i!u alilc anil popular cit\ (.-ditcir ni tlic Picayitiic.
the tirm nami' of Josepn H. and I. X. Marks successfully
wIm, as a w riur himself, \vr iiia\ piTiiiil to tell his own
111. til the capture of Xew )rleans, when Joseph Marks
(
stiir\. W lake liis autoiiiotiraphy from ;i piihlication to
c'
was banished for refusing to take the oath of allegiance.
x'.hieh >t was eoiitriluUed some time ago by Mr. .Seiferth :

He went to ( t"., wdiere he reinained until the

oliimbia, S.
"Permit me to sa\ that was horn in X'ashilisiiok. a
war. .and in later years returned to Xew
I

close of the
villaii^e near ( irodno, in Russia. ( )ctoher 31. \S(\^. I
Orleans to resume business here. Tn the meantime his
learned some I h'brew hefore I came to .\merica, in 1868.
beautiful home had been confiscate<l and sold. Misfor-
My father had jireceded us to the I'nited States, and we
tmie accompanied him to .South Carolina, as well, for
remained in .\ew ^'ork• onK a few weeks, icoing' to C(i-
there he was liiirned out by .Sherman's army.
hmihiis, Indiana, where we settled and F began my Eng-
.\fter the war .Mr. .Marks took up his residence in Xew
lish t-(lucatioti. The next vear we moved to .St. Louis,
and a year later to Xew < )rleans, so that I have been here
^'ork, where he managed a liranch business. He stayed
tin re for fifteen \ears. before settling again finally in
a (|iiarter of a eentur\
"1 '.vent through tin- public sciionls, graduating froir
Xew Orleans.
Mr. Marks liad ideiitilied himself with the Jewish con
the high school in l)eceml)er. 187S. I'.efore that time Dr.
gregations as soon .is lie c;mie to .Xew Orleans, and he
(iutheim. ;'f blessed memi)r\. ami my father had agreed
was readily drawn into the )r|)hans' Home Association.
(
that I would be an ornament to the Jewish ministry. The
He was one of its directors froiu the beginning, and
bekn'ed doctor hail arranged for mv strulies at the He-
has maintained his interest in it ever since.
brew I'liion College, Cincinnati, and in the meantime de-
Mr. Marks retired from active busiiii'ss life in 1880.
voted a great deal of his time to giving me (irivate in-
and has since lived in retiri'ineiit with his lamilw
st'uction.
"I'lUt there is a ilestim which shapes our ends. Jour-
nalism had idreadx claimed nu' for its own. had al- 1

ready conducled half a dozen amateur ])apers. and even

earned money ii\ (idd jobs on various weeklies. Lacking
the moral courage to oppose the plans of nn would-be
benefactors. \ siipply gave them the slip, and missed the
chance lield out to me. Then also L. V>. Cain, another
Jew wlio should always be revered, tliought commercial
hfi' iu\ l(>i/r, and 'aid plans to send me to ^fatamoras to
reci'ive m\ mercantile education. T was franker with
him. had alreadv approaciux! Mrs. Xicholson with an
I

apfieal to take me into the Pirnviiiir office, and asked Mr.

Cain to aid along that lire. Mrs. Xicholson told me af-
terwards that his recommendation was verv strong, and
on March 4, 1870. T entered nrofessional life.
"()f course, mv Sole i.'ca in consigning mvself t<i the
perpetual povertv of ])rinter's ink, was to show that the
Jew's aim was not altogether wealth. .\nd of course, for
tile sole purpose of showinng that there was no prejudice

against tiie Jews, the Picayiiiir nronroted me to the city

editorship in .Vusjust. 1803 The other important event
of m\- life was m\ marriasre on December iTi, 188S. at
Meridian. Miss., tf Miss Cecilia Cohen. She and three
children sur\ive tliis sketch. JOSRPM M. MARKS.
176 —
 seventh term. Mis work as a member of the committee
of naval atTairs of the House of RciM'csentatives has been
s]X'cially efl'ectiw In him very largely is due the costly
inqirovement of the Xew ( )rleans Xaval .Station, the ap-

projiriations for levees and for the work of tiie jetties, at

the month of the river, the gatewav to this harbor. In

other matters alsn iie has secured imiiortant ailvantagcs
for his city and for Louisiana. Me is in fact one of those
invaluable workers who somehow accomplisii things for
their constitnei;cv ; one nut lacking theoratorical gift al-

together, but cbii-lly a man nf actinn and a worker. The

sugar, rice, lumber and nther local interests h;ive at iiis

liands special attention.

(ien. A[e\er was a -Indent at tlu' I 'ni\ersit\' ni \'ir-
ginia when tlu' ('ivil war came on. Me enlisted fnr ihat
war nn the Cnnfederali.' si<!e as aid tn ( len. JoIti S. Wil-
liams of Kentuclcx, w bn wrote nf him: ".\[r. Meyer
served on iiiy staff during the entire Civil war. Me was
]. re-eminent for soldierly qualities —courage, fidelit;.-. en-
dmance * born soldier '
a natural
''' '' •'
of re-
sourcefulness and unsurpassed dexntinn to dut\."
After the war ard until he tonk uj) public life (ien.

^.Teyer was engaged for many years in the cotton trade.

L0UI5 5ILVHRSTEIN. Herein likely was developed the practical business apti-
tuiie whicbi he exini-.il> in his cai)acity of congressman.
MR l.!)l"fS SirA'F.RSTF.lX. He has been lirigadier general in the .State militia and is

'S\v. SilveTstein is sriiior nR'nilxT ui the firm of L. Sil- prnmincntl\- identified with the Masonic order.
vcrstcin iS: Sons, niaiiilaining' tlinc cnvkerv stores in

Xcw ( )rk-;nis. The iirni consists .11 Mr. Silvcrstein and

two SI ins. riie\- do h.ith a wholesale and retail business
and eiijtiy a ver\' large and profitable trade.
MR. MVl'.R LI-:MAXX.
Mr. Louis Silverstcin. to whom these paragrapiis per-
Mr. Lemu'in of the great cotton house of
is 11. Abra-
tain, is a native cf Warsaw. J'uland. Me was born in
Son, one of the foremost here m
ha.ni iK: 1 'Change. Thev
i><y) anil is therefore this vear ( 11)04) '11 'lis sixty-fifth
sre in the cnttnn comnn'ssion Ijusiness. Mr. L M. Abra-
\<.ar. Me came I0 this eountr\- in 1S73 as orthodox
ham, nne of the firm, was. mp to his untimeK- demise, a
Rabl.i and iiioliii, and this was his first employment in
shnrl wlnle IjacK", treasurer of the I'otton Lxchange of
New ( )rleans.
.Xew ( )rleans.
In 1SS3 he embarked in the crockery inisircss, and with
Mr. Lenir.im has besides cither extensive interests. He
tlic assistance of his sovis has since btiilt up the very ex- is a sugar planter witli several plantations and conducts a
tensive business to whic'ii reference has been made. He L'lrge co;mtr\- store where these interests are located.
still exercises the nffice of viobci He is identified with
1 le was l)orn in .Xew ^"nrk City about 46 years ago. and
tile Jewish charities.
was educated in the schonls of Xew ^"ork, .Xew ( )r!eans,
Mis familv n sidence is on I'.aronne street, in a quarter
and Mayence. (iermany. He Ijegan his business career
much favored bv Jewish residents of the well-to-ilo and
as clerk in a countr\- store at Honaldsonville. La., and
nn'ddle class.
from that modest station has risen tn a partnership in the

famous house of H. .\braham & ,Snn, and to be one of the

leading mercharits of the cotton trade in Xew Orleans.

(;r-\"i-:RAL .\i)! )Li'ii .\iI':vI'.r, m. c. Air. Leniann iias family as well as property interests;
A hii.;ii iifticia! nf Jewish birth and faith is the Con- about twenty years ago lie married Afiss Carrie Abra-
gressman from this the I'irst District of Louisiana, Gen. ham. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, the A.
Ad. Aleyer. Mis standinsj among national legislators ( ). l\ 'A'., and the P.'nai B'rith : also of the Harmony
and his service lo this comnumitv are alike indicated in Chill. Touro Infirmary and the Jewish Widows" and Or-
tlie fact that he is now serviuL;' his thirteenth vear and phans' Home.
177 —
 .\1K. (.MAS. W. COHEX.
Mr. Cnlicii is maiia.i^tr for Leonard Krowcr. k-adiiii;-
wliok'salc and manufacturing- jeuck-r of Xcw (^)rleans
Ik I)cj;;an willi Mr. KrowtT as office l)ov and lias risen to
liis jjresent responsilile station with the iiouse strictK on
liis merits.
lie wa'- horn in Xew \'()rk 37 year> a.t;o. hut came here
as a \()uth an(i went to scliool here. He married liere
also, an.d all his interests, husiness and dcHiiestic, are cen-
tered here. Home ties, indeed, are strong with liini he :

takes lint little interest in social or fraternal affairs: hut

the faitli of his forefatllers and its oijliirations ha\e due
ohsereance at his hands.-

.\lk. .\|. )i<klS .MARX.

J'Lverxhod^ knows Morris Aiarx, treasurer of the
Greenvvall theatre, the public as well as the profession
a ]iopular official, as the receipts of a recent lienefit ten-
dered hy the ISa'dwin .Melville stock discloses; a valuable
n'an as his long' service uiuler one management shows.
.Mr. .Marx began his box-office experience in 1887. at
the age of fourteen. He has been with Mr. ireenwall (

seventeen years, and is his right-liand man. He was born

in Houston. Tex., bul was brought up here in Xew Or-
leans. Here also he went to school, and here he em])arked
first in the show husiness.

EPHRAIM ROSENBERG.
WK. kh-.Kl). K.\l'l'.\l.\X.

MK. I-.IMIKAI.M R( )SI'.X i;Kk( 1.

L niler the heading ".\ Rising Voinig Man, tlie C;e/.
"

former organ of the Voung Men's Hebrew Association,

Ilere the jiortrait of another leading and representa-
is
and in a sense of tjie Jewish community also, savs this of
tive Israehte of Xe\v Orleans, namel\- .\lr, Ejjliraim Ro- Mr. Kaufman :

.senberg. of the firm of i'l. Rosenberg & Sons, manufac- '.Mr. I'erd. Kaufman is one of our li\'e voung men. He
turers of shoes on a scale which gives them rank and im- was b(jrn and was educated in this city. He went into
portance, not onl\- in that line but among houses of anv business at an early age, and belongs to the self-made
line here. They were largel\ instrumental in the u[)- class, who by energy and stick-to-it-iveness have made
huilding of that industry —
one of the first to be developed their way years he was witli Kaufman &
to tile ton. I'\)r
In ir on a scale of note since the city took a new start; Isaacs, as general manager of
their millinery department,
and in tliis development of the biisiness our subject took and still holds the jilace in the house. He was one of the
prominent part. He has followed the shoe trade, in fact, organizers of the \'. .\l. H. A. and is a member of the
from tlie beginning of h's career. Harmon}- and ^'onng Men's Gymnastic Club. He is
.\lr. Rosenberg is a native of the cit\. lie was born clever, oft'-handed. a "hail fellow well met." and numbers
here in the vear 18^17. He is a married man. and whik' iiis friends bv th.e score."
not one of the very .straightest of the sect, still kee[)s the
ancient faith at heart. He has been liberal in his contri-
imtions to its charities and institutions: is a member of
Tonro Infirmary, of the Widows' and )rphans' Home, (

the ^oung .Men's Hebrew .Association, and the Oiik-r of

ll'iiai H'rith.

Ml SA.M .SCHWAR TZ.

-Mr. Schwartz is of Schwartz liros. iS; Co., wholesale

dry goods, at Canal and Magazine streets. Xew Orleans.
He was born in Victoria, Texas, in 1861, was brought uji
and educated there in part and in part in .Xew >rleans (

and first went into business in the dry goods line here.
This trade he has always followed and no other.
Mr. Schwartz belongs to the Touro Infirniarv and the
Widows and Orphans' Home, to the Harnronv CUih and
the V. M. H. A. FERD. KAUFMAN.
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^f^. I'losenbaum is a Ir.ix'eliiig iuan for the well-kiv \vn

wholesale dr\ go(;ds house of Schwartz llros. iS; Co., of
.Xew ( )rlean^. lie is a native nf the city, marrieil, a .Ma-

son. K. of I'., and uH'mber of Touro lnlirmar\ and the

^(•ung .Men's 1 lebrt'w .\ssociation ; a man. in -ihort, so-

cialh a fa\(iriti and in business life a decided success.

MR. A. STLI'.C.

Publisher of Tin- ./rrc/.vA Lrdi^^cr and 77ic Sijiuirc and

idiiiho.is. anil president of Tlu' Merchants' Printing Lo.,
Ltd.. hatue of (lermanx.
is a He came to tlu' L'nited
age of 15 years, and settled in Xew
.States in 18(18, at tiie
Orleans, where he has resided constantiv since.
After filling si'veral clerical positions, the last in a
'wholesale clothing house, his valuable services secured
PMINEAS nOSES. him a j)artnership which was dissolved six years after.
Then he embarkerl in a similar line in a retail way. l"or

MR. l'lllX!-.A.s .MoSKS. teri years he occujiied the promirent location at 1 16 St.
(. iiarles street.

Mr. Must's is tin wcll-kiunvti s!.'rrctar\- and iiianajjor .\ for jomMialisni and literarv pursuits induced
taste
of the Ww ( )rli.'aiis L'arpet and Mattins^- L'o.. Ltd., l'>a- him found The Jczcish Lcdnicr in January 1895.
to 1^*-'

•.•(jniif street. He
native of the city, horn here dur-
is a has condui.ted it ever since and has succeeded in making
ing' the war some
or so years ago.
fnrt\ He Ijegan his it one of the m<ist intluential Jewisii journals in the
business care'/i after a term in tlie public schools of tlte
,
countrw
citv and the sclmol of the Hebrew lMluc;;ticinal Society, In i8c>(i In- assumed publication of the Siiiiarc and
at theage of 14 \ears, as cash h(i\ nf the t:rm of Danziger L'ciiitiass, a Masonic j<iurnal which had susjiended publi-
& Sons, I'ovdras Market, one of thi' prominent houses 25 cation, and tills jom^nal be has placed also on .a stabli'
or 30 ycar.s ago. Tliat was in 1S70. basis.
Mr. ?\iose> is affiliated fr.aternalK witn t'le l-'lks. and is in KjoJ he acquirtil the stock of tin- .Merchants' Print-
a mtniber of the >'. M. H. A. lie has i)een secretary of ing C'o., Ltd., and was elected it.> president b\ the new
Xew ( hdeans Lodge Xn. 30, l\. I'. ( ) Iv. district deputy board ( if ilireclors.
lor the state and four times reiiresei-.tatixe of the (Irand. .Mr. .-^tecg takes great interest in fraternal organiza-
Lodge of the ( )rder. tions. notabU ^^asonry. He lias been hoirored repeaiedh'
h\- his brethren, has served four years as Worshipful Alas-
ter of his lodge ami is now serving as an officer of tire
< irand Lodge in the fcniii consecutive year.

DR. JL'rj-:S L.\7ARD.

Dr. Lazard is one of the younger element of successful

Jewish professicnial men in Xew ( )rleans. He is also one
of those who have carved out tlieir own way to fortune
v.ithout adventitious aid. He graduated from Tulane
Medical College in 1898, and since has demonstrated his
ability and proficiency as a practitioner of the healing art.
During his studentship we may add parenthetically, he
won a place on the Charity Hospital staff in competitive
examination. —
This ])osition an education in itself he —
luld for two ytars.
( )thcr distinctions iiave since fallen tu him. le has
'

bi.en chief of the clinic, chair of surgery, of Tulane L'ni-

versity : visiting surgeon. Charily Hospital ; demonstrator
of anatomy and assistant in oral surgery at the Xew ( )r-
leans College of Dentistry. He is a member
of both the
Louisiana State and Orleans Parish Mi'dical Societies,
and evidently a rising luan among the medicos of the
Crescent City.
'J'he Jewish affiliations of the doctor are with Touro
Svnagogue, the Yotuig Men's Hebrew .Association and
ITnai Lrael Lodge, I. <). R. P.. A. STEEQ.
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 \ik. i-:lias la.\I)AL'i-:r. .Mr. Kiiffer. we need scarcely remark, is one of the

most |)rnminent among the Jewish element of W-w < )r-

^Ir. I,;uiilaiicr is senior iiieniher of the firm of Laiidaucr Sociallv also and in the fraternal and
leans business im-n.
& Mover, w'.iok'sale millinery. Canal street, a lionse estal>
cliaritable concerns of his people he has distinction. He
lisheil twenU \ears ago and a leader in its line. It has
is a memlicr of tlie Harmonv Club, the chief Jewish so-
ti'ade thniui^lioul tiie .Snnth and maintains a lartie stafl of
cial organizalion 'the most luxuriously .i|)pointed club
traxelint;' men. in fact of the city ). and is connected with Touro. the Jew-
Mr. Lanilaiier was nearly twentx \ears e'lga^ed in hns- He
ish Home and. se\eral other institutions. is married
iness sneeessfidly in C'atahmda ])arish, this state, i)efore home
and the head nf a grown-up family and has his in
lie fame here to New ( hdeans. He was successfn' there
njjper .^t. Clnirks avenue among the peo|)le of wealth and
arid has earned distinction here as a merchant of snpi-rior (pialitx- iif the city. He is. in short, a type of the high-
ciiaracter and orcU'r. He is well known, in short, and
toned, charitable, successful and res|)ecteil merchant.
higids esteemed an;ong' all classes of the hnsiness connnn-

nity.

To the old faith, the faith of Ins fathers and fovljears.

memher
MR. LAZ.\R1". Ll-A'V.
he holds "with hooks of steel," and as a of all of

thi'm suiiscrilirs genenvuslv to its institntinns and ch.irities-

Mr. Lev\ is of .Vewlierger &[ Le\'\'. cotton factors of

.\ew Orleans, one of the most enterprising and substan-

SCHWARTZ. tial houses in that line. He was iiorn. reared and edu-
MR. l.KOX E.
cated here and is a son of the late jacol) Levy. <if Levy
Mr. Sch\\;'.rtz is the head of the impurlant wholesale & Haas, cotlon factors also, fie has had ;m experience
dry goods house of Schwartz Ih'os. & Co.. and is a direc- of more than diirt\ years in the cotton trade. 'Ihe house

tor in the house of 1'.. Colin & Co. He was l.iorn in has other large interests. It has st(.)ck in several lianks

Liberte, Miss.. ;n iH^(>, but was brought up ai'.d educated and other solid investments.

here in .\ew ( )rleans. He has had a lifelong experience .Mr. Lev\"s Irateriiai affiliations embrace men.il)ershi[)
of the flr\ goods line and is one of the most ])rominent in tile Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor. His
figures in that branch of trade in this part of the country. relations with th.e principal Jewish institutions of the city

Mr. Schwartz member of Touro and of the Widows

is a include the Harmony Club, foremost Jewish social organ-

and ( )r|)hans' Home; also of the Harmmiy L'lub and the izataion of the South, the Touro Infirmary and Hebrew
I. ( ). 11. r>.: also of the Ivnights of I'ytiiias and knights i'.enevolenl Association and the Jewish Widows and (Or-

of Honor. He married some twenty years ago. Miss Ade- phans' Home. ( )f tlie two last named he is a subscribing

line Trautman and this union has turned out an excep- member.
ti(.nall_\ happ\ one.

MR. LDWIX XECGASS.

This is the day of tiie young man in business in Xew
^[R. .SICMCXD KKU'l'ER.
( >rleans. as elsewhere. In the stressful life of to-day the

.\niong ihe most substantial and enterprisnig liusiness opi'oriunities come earlier, it would seem, to many. Xot
houses of Wnv Orleans. KeifTer llros., 427 Camp street, a few are tlie xor.ng men iiere associated in the. direction

shoo jobbers and manufacturers, rank higii. They are or at the head of large monied or commercial concerns.

the pn^prietors of the Tulane Shoe Factory on Canal ( )f this Miungcr element is our subject. Mr. Edwin

st'.eet, !he largest in the St)Uth, and we're pioneers in the Xeugass. son and partner of .Mr. Herman Xeugass, the

manufacturing siioe business in the Crescent Cit\'. Thev long established banker and financial broker of Carondelet

have trade, it is hardly necessary to add, prettv mucli all SLreet. The younger man was brought up to this line and
thoroughly conversant with it: so much indeed that
over the cour.try. is

Air. Sigmnnd Keitter, whose name ilea Is this account, ids indgment is accepted generallx' concerning the stocks,

is senior member of this important firm. He i.- of ( ler- lionds. collateral arid securities of this market as of the

man birth. l)oru in the Rhine country some (u years ago. best.

Init has spent the greater part of his life, and about all .\ir. .Xeugass is a native, is settled in life as a IJeuedict

his business career, in this country. His rst venture was and is a suliscriber to the Jewish charities and institutions

in the commission business, but he has been in the slioe of ihe cit\. He is a member of tiie Harmon\- Club, also
the V. .M. H. A.
trade as manulactm-er since i86().

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 Suits to Order, $15, $l(i, $18 and $-2n
Batchelor's Kitchen.
Pants to Order, - $4, $.5 ami $6.
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When vou are in Shreveport STRICTLY MADE TO MEASURE. >
and want Good things to
Eat, Clean things to Eat,
Cooking in full View, call at

Bat chelor ' s Kitchen E.A. HALE,

522 McNeil Street,

Opposite Court House. The Popular Pri ce TaiJor- V

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Traveling Men and Ladies will find our
Kitchen a Nice Clean Place.
527 Market Street.

SHORT ORDERS AT CUT PRICES.

STEAKS and CHOPS A SPECIALTY. SHREVEPORT, LA.

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Furniture Repairing, Mattresses Renovated

and Made to Order, Tents'and Awnings. w

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4 Shop |853 Texas Avenue,
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Lumber, Shingles and Laths.
TELEPHONE 296. Moulding-s, Moulded Casinofs and Base 3^
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Windows, Doors, Blinds, Cords and Wei<rhts.
3Sr^.

m Shreveport, La. 3^?6

YARD and OFFICE, TEXAS AVE. 3«:>«
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 Mu. s. ( )i)i<:\iiI':imI':r. llnishing the uill public sciiool course of \ew <)rleaiis.
through the firal high school grade. Mis Inisiness ex-
Mr. ( )(lci"]lK'imcr is (listinguislu'd in tlu' l)iisiiu-ss wcirld
i>erience was earlv accpiired. He began with Hyman,
or' .W-w < )rk'ans is tin.- licad of uiu- ut its larj^cst and most
Lichtenstein (!t Lo.. cotton factors, to which his house. M.
(•ros(5erous nianufacttn-inij institutions, nanicl\- tlic Lane
Lichtenstein & .Son. one of the largest in that line here, is
(_'otton -Mills, tlu' oldest licrc. Me is associated with [.eli-
successor, and leceived, in their employ, a tlioroughly
Uian, .Stern i^ l^'o. in the conduct of this enterprise, the
practical business education. f4e was one of the organ-
recent enlart;enii'nt and extension of which shows how
izer.s of the Commercial .\ational Hank of this citv ; also
it- luisincss. uriiler his nianagvniont, is iiroijressint;'
of liie Coinmeicial Trust and Savings I'.ank, and is vice-
He is in fact a ?nan specially e(|uipped for his task.
Ijresident of luith, and lie has interests al.so in other lumks
I'xirn in I'.aden. ( lcrinan\-, he was ed\icated at the tjvni-
of Louisiana.
n.asinni of Darlach. ani! a.t the I'oK technican of Karls-
Me has iinested !argel\- also in rice lands, rice culture
ruhe, in the fashion characteristic of school meth-
and rice nu'lling; lijis l)een one of those most activelv
ods in the thoroniih-tioin>; l'"atlierland. and besides
identified in a moneved \\;i\ witii the develoiiment of
had already displayed his fitness for the l)nsiness at the
business in that staple. Me is a director and ]>rincii)al
cotton mills of Tuskaloosa, Ala.
owner in fi\-e large Louisiana rice mills, is [^resident of the
Mr. ; )'fU-nheinKr is a man of famiK. Me is a son-in-
Wrmilion Irrigation Co., and president of the Lichten-
law of the late Julius I-'revhun. president of l^aue Mills in
steiii-Hechingcr Canal Co., one of the most extensive en-
his lifetime, and one of the successful men of Louisiana.
terprises of the kind in tlic couiUr','.
He rather eschews public affairs, l>einij- a man of (|uiet
t;;stes de\"oted chicfl\- to his home and business. He
\\ illini^h serx'e.-. ho\\e\'er. uixm such pulilic occasions as
tile Confederate Rcunior.s. .As regards religion and ben- MR. W LEX'GSFIiaJ).
evolence lie is neitiier a lukewarm nor rigid sujiporter.

however, of the faith he subscribes to, or of Jewish insti- Here we have one id' the notables of th.e business world

ti'tions. He is a contributor to the jjrincipal philantho- of Xew < )rleans. and at the same time a man well known
])ies and charities, with special interest in the \'oun,g in Jewish social circles, a keen business man indeed, a
Men's He'irew Association, c)f wliicli he was one of the club man and patron of Jewish institutions and charit\-.

founders and organizers. He is a memlier also of the Mr. Lengsfield is of the important cotton house of

I larnioiu C lub. S, (iumbel & Co., well known in all the cotton markets of
the countrx- as one of the first order. He has served as a
director of the Cotton Exchange here, which fact is an
indication of his standing. He ranks, in fact, among the
.MR. 1 .M. LICHTh:XSTKfX. foremost fre(|uenters of the floor on 'change.
.\mong i.resent-da\' financial and business men of dis- \Ir. Lengsfield has fretpiently given the benefit of his
tinction in New < )rleans and Louisiana, the name of time and means to Touro Infirmar\- and the Widows' and
Isaac .\L Lichtenstein is one l>oth wideh' and highly es- O'phans" Home. ;ind this in most lilieral measure. He
teemed. He is a merchant of prominence in the cotton belongs to the Harmony Club and to the \'oung Men's
trade, a banker and ca()italist, and is largel\' interested in Mel.'rew Association. ( )ther charities and institutions,

the industries and enteri)rises of this state and its neigh- Hcth Jewish and Christian, have been reci|)ients of his
bors. liounty. He ranks, to sum all up, among the more promi-
.Mr. Lichtenstein was born in Summit. Miss., and was lunt and reprt seiitatiw of the Jewish element in the
lirought up and received his elementar\' education there. Crescent City,

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UHL & ELLIOTT,

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TESTS AND REPORTS INTERIOR WIRING

ON ELECTRIC PLANTS. AND FIXTURES.

> Local and Long Distance Phones 69. Shreveport^ La.

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PRES A GEN. MaR. VICE-PRESIDENT.

MODEL STEAM CHATWIN BROS.

LAUNDRY CO.. Sanb anb Contvactino Co.
LIMITED
ARTIFICIAL STONE. PLAIN and
ORNAMENTAL, SIDEWALKS.
Domestic High and Gloss Finish. CURBS. AND ALL OTHER
BRANCHES OF THE CEMENT
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO CLEANING BUSINESS —
AND DYEING, WASHING WOOL
BLANKETS AND LACE CURTAINS.
ALSO TILE FLOORING.
-Office

OUR WAGONS CALL EVERYWHERE. Market and Travis Streets,

Telephone No. 362. Phone 1341. P. O. Box 23

Shreveport, Louisiana. .Shreveport, La..

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 THE STATE AT LARGE.
SHREVEPORT. BATON ROUGE. MONROE ALEXANDRIA,
DONALDSONVILLE. LAKE CHARLES, ETC.

SHREVEPORT. LA. it has tin transportation facilities uf eiglit raiiroads,

them the Texas
;,ni(iny Pacific. Queen (!i: & (Vescont and.
iron Mountain trunk lines.
I'l'l >l\'r. situated mi tiu' t'aildd Muffs Kc<\
81 ll\l''.\ (if
."^hreveport is It was chartered in
an old citw 1839.
l\i\cT, in tin- uiirthwfstcrn ]>art nt l.iaiisiana. is the ii)]i\ even before the war was a supjjly point for
civil
second city (if the state in iJ(i|Hilati(tn and li^ade. It TeNas. Its growth has heen steady and substantial and
has aliont 25.OUO inhahitants and is an inip(jrtant vvlidle- ni(!st Udl.nhle perhaps uf late vears. .Slowh' i)Ut sureh its

COI.LIMKIA CI UH, SMRbVEPOkl, LA.

sale husiness place. It is (ine (if the larger interior cotton in.'-titutions. social. i^(i\ernirienlal. educational, religious
markets and has for its trihnt;irics a field emliracing. not and charilalik, iiaN'c de\eloped. It is the seat of one of
onlv North I,ouisi,an;i lint the adjacent parts of Arican.sas the .State liospitals. In respect of water works, fire de-
and Texas as well. partment, pulici protection and other municipal provi-
Its immediate snrnnnidiufjs id' the "hill coiuitry" of sions it is well equipped and city like.
North Louisiana, so called, and the Red River alluvial .'^hreveport has a large Jewish business element. Tiiis
lands, are very productive. Resides the lines of river boats element maintains, besides its Hebrew Zioii congreiiation.

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Perry Bridges. John Y. Snyder.

Garson Bros.
PERRY BRIDGES & SNYDER,
Contractors
ARCHITECTS, AND

404-5-6 First National Bank Building, [g BUILDERS. 10

Shreveport, La.
ShrcVeport. La.

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H.H. BAIN,
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Galvanized Iron Cisterns made in any Capacity.
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Roofing and Guttering a Specialty.

Sheet Metal a
EMILE WORTMAN,
WORKS,
Ci

Anything in the Sheet Metal Line

TINNER,
L*t Heating and Ventilating. ^*t 1030 Texas Ave. I?

TELEPHONE 63.
891-807 Texas Ave.

ShretJeport, La. SHREVEPORT, LA.

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J
twii olulis. llic Ilarmuny, fdunclcil in iScXi. and tin- ("n- stein, was educated at the llehrew I nion College, Cin-
li;nii)ia, founded in iS(;i. I'lu' clul> Imusts in\'n|)i(.'d liy cinnati, ( )hio. and has the 1!. .\. degree of the I'niversit}'
one of these is siiown lierewitli. of Cincinnati.

As lon,ij ajjo as 11X48 there were ti-n nr twehe lewisli He was Kahhi of (
'ongregation Uith Israel. Macon, (ia..

families making their homes in Shre\e|)i)rt. and in 1851; three years; of I'.i-thel. .San \utonio. Te.x.. tw.o years:

the city donated a pit'ce of ground fur a jiwish grave of I'.'nai Israel, .Salt Cake City, three years; of Rodef
yar<l. 'J'lie Jtvvisli residents hail hy this time formed a .^holom. ^'oungstown, ( ).. two \ears ; of Kein'llath .Anshe
congregation, n.eeting ahoni from placi' lo place wherever .Moarahli. l_'hicagii. 111., tln^ec years and iia-- also heen
convenient. Tliis was the nucleus of the present /.ion con- editor of the /i 7i'm-// ( hronitlc. .\loiiile. .\la.

gregation nf that city wnich was organized in iSfic). Its

president, fur man\ \ears, was Sinum 1a'\\. |r, I'or fivi.
.\IK. .\RTIirR T. K.XIIX.
years Herman IKri'oli' occupied tlu- chair. Since the
Winter, hereinafter nientiuned, has }dr. Ka.hn leading citizen and iinsiness man or
is
year i8';o -Mi'. \\ ni.
,^hre\eport. He
president of the Shreveport National
licdd this office. Rah'ii Israel Saenger was spiritual ad-
liank. treasurer of the Conger, I\ahn & (iihhs Co., whole
\iser ijf the congregation for a long term of \ears. sale drugs, and has other interests hesides. He is a na

MKBUKVS ZION SYNAGOGUE, SHREVEPORT, LA.

The \elIow fe\er epi<lemi.- of 187^5 was \'cr\ disastrous tive of ShrevetJort, thirty-three years old. a bachelor, was
During that time brought up to the banking business as clerk in the Mer-
to the lewish element of Shre\eporl.
chants & Farmers' I'ank of the Xorth Louisiana metropo-
i.mi after it the old cemetery raj)idly filled up. In 1886.
lis, and is a member of the {''lies, the Hoo-Hoos. the T.

therefore, a new <mv was purchased, laid out and openeil. 1'. .\. and Shreveport Lodge \o. 13. V &. .\. AI. 1 .

There is a Sunda\- school building on the same grounds

with the Temple. < )ne of the ntosi unite 1. hest organ-
MR. SOL. K.MIX.
ized and nn)st Hotnashing of Jewish communities in short

is this of .^hre\ i.pi 'rt.

Mr. Kahu is storekeeper at the famous .Magnolia sugar
plantation of W'annoth. Lawrence postoffice. (iranil Isle
R. R. and Mississippi River, a short distance below New

j.\C()l'.S-)X .SHRl'IVKl'ORT.
( Irleaiis. He has lieen there about four years.
R.M'd'.l ( )|-
is an Alsatian by Jiirth. about 48 years old, a mar-
lie
-Moses Perez Jacohson, says the .American Jewish A'ear ried man. formerly, for sixteen years, a resident of New
l!ook, is l^abbi of Hebrew Zion Congregation. Shreve- ()rleans. He was married to Miss Hannah Feli.x in Ken-
port. La. He was liorn August 25, i8f)4. at I-T. Wayne, ner. La., in 1881, and is the ha])ny father of three fine
Iml. He is the son of Elkan Jacohson and Fannv Roseu- girls. He is a K. of P. and K. of IT.
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VOUKEE. Piesidem
T. KAH!». Cashier. A
H H. YOUREE. Vice- Pie.sident
H VAN HOOK, Asst C'lisliier
n
THE
Commission Broker, Commercial National Bank,
of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Cotton. Grain, Provisions, Stocks.
Capital Stock, ... $ loo.ooo.oo
OFFICE TELEPHONE No 64. Surplus and Undivided Profits - $359.5" 93

124 Milam St. P. O. BOX HI. REPORT OF CONDITION.

At Close of Business, November 10, J904.
SHREVEPORT. LA
• J* jt RESOURCES: J* -j*
Shreveport National [iank.
Citizens National Bank. Ijoans. Discounts and Overdrafts « "62.977,1.';
Kkkkkknces Fairchild & Hobson.
Logan & Bryan. Private
...
United .States Bonds, premiunins, stocks, etc.
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures
ensH, - -
102,W2, l.'i

9, .144-37
646.615 95
Tiilnl, .^9.819.939 63
Wire Service to all Exchantres.
jt LIABILITIES, i^i
Deposits 2 297 812 21
(/'oiiKEsi'OMiEN'is — Fairchild & Holi.^oii, New t)rleiiiiK. Capital Stock
Surplus
lOft.00.1,00
31 ooo.no
Logan & Hi van, (Chicago. .7. 8. liaclic & ('o.. New Undivided Projits :«)1.I27 11 422.12741
York. Mclntyre & Mar.shall, New York. Henry Circulation 100.000 (Kl

Hentz A- Co., New York. S. Munn Son & Co., New Total, 1(3.819.939 62
York. Atwood, Violett & Co., New York. I.ogan &
l?rvaii. New York. This Bank has More Surplus and Profits than all other
Banks in the city Combined.
Accounts ol Banks, Corporations and Individuals Respect-
Prompt and Satisfactory Service. fully Solicited.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Correspondence
Q)rrespondence Solicited. Solicited.

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E. G. SCALES & GO. |
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Commission Brokers.
BIG STORE ON TEXAS ST.,

Opposite the Court House. 122 Milam St. Shreveport, La.

OFFICES.
Is theLeading' and Largest Dry Goods
Store in Shreveport, or North Louisi- WACO. TEXAS SHREVEPORT. LA.
ana. The Store is New and up-to-date
in all its appointments. Largest TEHPLE, " BROVVNWOOD, TEXAS.
Stock of Dry (ioods. Largest Stock of TAYLOR ' BELTON. TEXAS.
Millinery, Largest Stock of Carpets,
Mattings. Linoleums, Rugs and
House Furnishings. Fine Dress MEMBERS.
Making Department. Sole Agents
for McCalls' Patterns. Agents for New York Cotton Exchange,
W. B. Corsets. Mail orders promptly New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
filled.
Chicago Board of Trade. I

/ Visit this Store and you will find what you r Direct Leased Wires to New York,
want, and Save Money. Chicago and New Orleans.
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 out of existence ahout |X7,S; also as treasurer, president,

vice-president and secretary of Zion Congregation. .Aside

from his racial and religious affiliations he is known as a
sv.cctssfiil husiness man and planter and as cliairmaii

lately ( ivoo to l<;02) of the Kepulilican L'ougressional

Cfjmmittee of the h'ourth Congressional Di.strict of the

State. I'lV Repulilican i)rinci])les we ma\' .say. he comes

naturallv enougli. During the (.'i\il War he was sutler
of the l'"ort\-second Uliio (I'ederall. and was captured
and held, hy the Confederates a prisoner of war for thir-

letn months. This was at Tyler. Texas, and upon his re-
lease he took u]) a residence at Shreveporl and went into
iiusiness, beginning some forty \ears ago in the company
of his brother Herman Herold. His residence in Shreve-
porl. it will be seen, has been a long one. and his busi-
ness career b\ no nu-an^ brief.
.Mr. Herold was l-.orn in I-'.Uerstadt, Rhenish Havaria,
lermanv. in His education was obtained in the
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public schools of his native place, and at Weil's Com-
men-ial Institute, Huerkheim, Ciermanv. He had, in his

vouth, a varied career; iie began as a clerk, then peddled,

then was a school teacher, and finallv as we have seen, a

soMier. He has been twice married: first to Aiiss Sophie

HENRY FLORSMEIM. Kaufman, of Duerklieim. ( daughter of Max Alayer Kauf-

man and E.sther Weil Kaufman ) ; and again to Mrs. Rosa

MR. HEXRV ]-L.')RSHEl.\l.
Isaac Simmons, and Airs.
I'.arnett. daughter of the late
This the prt-sidcnl and nianagint;' partner of the ini-
is
Henrietta Lew .Simmons, of Slireveport, formerl\- of
piiitaiit I'lorsiieini llrus.' Dr\' Goods Co., one of the prin- \ew < )rleans. He has eight children living, .and two

cipal concerns of .Shreveport. He is also a director of the Grandchildren.

I'irsi Xational I'.ank there and is an ex-eouncihiian of

tile cil\' : one of the solid men. in short of the North Lou-

isiana metropolis.

.\lr. I'lorsheim was horn in Kirdorf, (iermany, going

on si.\t\' years ago — ( Jctoljer 2b, 1845. to he exact. He

e;ime to this country in his youth, at fifteen in point of

fact. That was j'.ist hefore the war. He was cl'^rk at

Osceola. Mo., HI 1865, and st)on thereafter came on .South.

His hiogra]ib.}'. so far as husiness is concerned, n^'av he

hrieriv summed up. .After a long and husy experience

lie is now. as we ha\e said, a merchant of the first rank

and order.
.Mr. I'lorsheim was married (tctolier 17, 1875, to Miss

Minnie I'rager. He has a family, is a NIason, a memher

of the I. ( ). I'>. 1j.. of the Zion Congregation and of se\-

eral cluhs.

MR. SLM( )\ 1I1-:R( )L1).

This gentleman has distinction among his conferes of

Slireveport, as president of the old Chevra. which went SIMON HEROLD.

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Monumental
Works ^ d^
^^ Cut Stone Contractors,
Our Monumental Work is Unexcelled.
All Work and Material Guaranteed.

We furnished the Stone Work for the

new Synagogue at Lake Charles, La.,
which will be found on page 211 of this
History.

We will furnish you with anything

you want in Marble, Granite or Stone.

Write for Prices, on what you want.

12^347. Shreveport, La.

Th^BROGHAN-DOLL
FURNITURE CO. WELLMAN & CO.
UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS,
We carry
the large.vt Hi CALLS NIGHT AND DAY —
Stock in
North Kou-
^1
'""' TELEPHONE 187.
618rE^^n^''- Shreveport, La.
isiana.

Comprising
Everything
in "V

Bed Room Sets >>

Dining Room, Parlor
WELLMAN ^S
Sitting and Library.
Exclusive Paint, Oil,
We invite you to call and examine our
Mammoth Stock. Varnish, Wall Paper
OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS THE LOWEST.
OPP. COURT and Glass House.
508-5)0 Texas Street, HOUSE.
bOl TEXAS ST. J» Shreveport. La
SHREVEPORT, LA

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\iai's till' juninr of hi-, brother, l)Ut lias been a resident of

this cmmirv ^ince I.S5.J, nr fifty years exactly. He came
here at tne age of se\eiit^en and having had all his inter-

ests h.ere so man\- vears — family, business and — practi- all

calh know s we may say, no other llag or country.

.Mr. Herold's b\:s)ness career may be brietiy suiuiued

up. His first employment in this country was as clerk

with his uncle a.nd cnusin, .M. Sciiwartz & Son, at I'.rowns-

\ille, .Mis--. During ihe war he served in the I'ederal

a:m\, and after the war, in 18(13, went into business in

.shriveport. Having accumulated a fortune lie retired.

C])war(U of thirty-fi\-e years ago, in iSfK), lie married

Miss I'annie llru'iks, of Xiagara balls, X. N'., liy wdioin

he li.-is one son, lav 1'.. Herold. His married life, we

need liar<ll\ aiid, has been eminenllx liappx
.Mr. Ilemll has always been active in c<iiigregationa!

matters, ai'il in the advancement of Judai.Mii in general.

He helped organize the first Hebrew congregation of

Sb.rexi'iiori in \X(><t. l"or more than ten years he was

president of tliis body, the C(>ngregation Zion of Shreve-

port, He has iieen a niemlier of the I. ( ). 1'.. I!, for forty-

one years.
Me is a l-'ree .Masmi also, and Knight i>\ Ibinur, and a

irember of tile Shrevcjx-.rt Hoard of Trade. He has been

WILLIAH WINTER. a member id the city council of Shreveport. member of
the Shreveport I'.oard of Health and has had other hou-
MR. W ILLIAAI WIXTRR. or.s at the hands nf his fellow citizens.

His collections for, and contributions in aid of the

Shreve|jort is tiic Imhk- alsn nl Wm. Winter, s^'en-.'ral
Jewish ( )r|ihans' Heme in Xew )rleans have been espec-
'

ai^i-iit for till" Xcw \'(irk Lite Insurance Company, direc-

iall\- generou.s.
tor <if llie I-'irst Xational liank of .Slirc'-cport, a meiiibfr

in iii.^h stanilniL; of tlic 1-'.

(i^: A. M.. and 1. < >. 1'.. 1!., and
I'olice Junir of the |)arish (an office correspnndiiig to
tile siiiicrvisor of counties in the X<irtii). since iSg''), and
a uieiiihcr of the State i^egislature.
Mr. Winter is a native of X'ew ^Hrk City. He was
horn there ( )ctoher ii, 1849, hut has lieen a resident of
Shreveport prettv nuich all his hfe. He was brouu'lit

tliere in fact an nifant in arms, two months oM, and has

ht'en h^inj:; in t'.ie j'llace fifty-fi\'e years. Need we achi

that he is intimateh' identified with. stronj^i\- attached to

it?

lle he_t;an life h.ere in Shrevep'irt as a l)ank clerk. L.at(.'r

he embarked in merchandisinji; and from that went into

tlie insurance business. He is a man of family, with
"hostages," as the proverb is, "to fortune," His wife was
Miss .So|)hij rri( dlander of Xew i )rleans.

.MR. 'ilklR.M.VX lll{R;)LiX

'I'his gentleman is another distin.guished Jewish r- si

dent of Shreveport. He is the brother and former ijusi-

ness associate of the Hemld just referred ti.i. He also

was born in Elberstadt. Rluinfalz, (lerman\, and is twn HERHAN MEROLD.
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 THEBATON
BANKROUGE,
OF BATON ROUGE LA. Organized in June 1889.
Depository for the State of Louisiana and City of Baton Rouge,
CONDENSED REPORT FURNISHED TO THE STATE EXAMINER OF STATE BANKS BY THE ABOVE BANK
BEFORE OPENING FOR BUSINESS MARCH 23. 1905.

RKSOURCES, OFFICERS.
CompKiHlive Statenif lit show-
Detnan<l loans, - - - - *I09,22-.' 58
iti({ steady Ki"""'!! <>f I'"! Brtiik
VV.M. KXOX,President
Loans secured by mortKaj<e, - - - 144.1.S6 90 .J. - -
of Baton Kiiiifie:
STEELK.
Otber loans and discounts, - - 299.723 81 O. B. Vice-President
Surplus ami Overdr-afts unsecured, - _ - - 1,688 49 JCS. GEBEI.IX, - - Cashier
Diite. ('iiiMt;U rmlivicU'il
Protiirs
Other bonds, stocks, securities. et3., - 98,445 00
Bankint! house, furniture atid (ixtiires, - 1 OO
DIRECTORS.
Oct. IWnil— tSd.OOd (1(1— tlf>9,0T5 TCi Other leal estate owned, T.SOO 00
-
•
••

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IHOl— 50,(1011 0(1— 179.591 K9
1902— 50.000 (K)— 191,641
19ua— 50,000 00— 310,888

Dividends Paid.
•,'()

r2 Gold Coin, ------

Due from banks and bankers.
Olieckii and other cash items,

i^ilver, nickel and copper coin,

-

-
- - 434,890 42
311 96
4,858 00
13,945 24
-

National l)ank notes and all issues 1*. S. (iovl., 37,743 00

(iEo. Hll.i.,

A.
Planter.

STRENZKE,
Dry Goods Mercbanl,
Sim. 1 to Hsenii Hiinual I'lKal. «l.l.-i«,»l« 40 O. B. STEELE,
4 per cent, - *2K,000 00 Planter,
Xos. 15 to n semi
(i per cent,

Xos. IS to "20 semi

7H per cent.
annnal
-

annual
-
H.OOO 00

11,250 00
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Capital stock paid in,
Surplus,
LIABII.ITIKS.
- - -

ITndivided profits, lessexpeusesand ta.xes paid,

» .50 000 00
200,000 00
49.396 65
BEX K. MAYEK,
of Ben. H. .Mayer Gro. Co., Ltd.

SAM'L LAYCOCK,
Due to other banks and bankers, - 201,319 48
Lawyer.
Ti>tal Dividends Paid »4R.350 00 Diviiienils unpaid, . . . 48 (HI .

Or 96', per cent of the CHpital Individual deposits not bearing interest, Ii51.257 SO EDW. SCHLOSS,
stock. Certified checks, - - 271 87- Cotton and Moss Ginnery.
Cashier's checks outstandinfi. - - 524 60
MB Accounts and Collections WM
solicited.
J. KNOX,
Total, !il,15«,8ie 40 President.

ESTABLISHED 1888

EXTENSIVE

DESIGNS
 BATON ROUGE. LA Mot Springs, .\rk., where he formerly had a congrega-
tion, and though a \oung man. has filled the position to
the general satisfaction. Tin.' .American [ewish \'ear
liook gives a biogra])hical sketch of iiim as follows:
"DA r< )\ R( >r'. il':, tlu- va])ilai lit Li)in>i;ma. is a suli- Horn Ma\ iSf)^, in Xew N'ork Citv. .Son of Rubin
-^ stantial and attradivc cit\ ni aliniu 15,000 'iiliahi- Rt.senthal. who conducted his Hebrew education. Secu-
tanls, situated mi tlic .Mississippi and tin- T. (Jt P. lar t'llui-ation rtcei\c 1 in the pui)lic schools of Xew A'ork
and Mississip|)i X'alk'v •.'aili'nads. alunit (jo iiiilcs nnrtii of (.'it\ and tile college of the City of .Xew York. Was Rabbi
Xew ( >rk'aiis. It is an old city, si'ttk'd l)v tlic l*"rcncii an 1
five years of the 'congregation 'House of Israel," Hot
siirrdi'.ndfd willi a l.iyhly fruitful ci)untr\. and is tile seat .Springs."
(if ;; nunilier id' the state institutions. The jewisii ele- Tile latest inform;it'on obtainable gives the officers of
ment of the pdonlation lias a strong hold, not onlv upon this congreg:iiai: m as follows: Ren. R. .Mayer, president;
the husiness ni the place hut of |ilanling interests in all .Svlvan Toijias. \ice-president : L. II. .Ma\er. secretary:
the surmunding' conntr\. .\s a class it is well res^rded .\lendeUobn. treasurer: |-'arrubaciier, Ed. .Schloss
j- j. J.
and many individuals are liitjlily esteemed. Anions; sucli and lien l-listiiian. trustees.
we may name the (•'arruhachers, father and son. and
iitlu-rs mentioned herein.

MR. SVIAAX TOI'.I.XS.

RAinU IRA.VK 1.. K'OSEXTHAl. AXl) TMK ("OV

( ;•! note also :uiiong lewisii residents and business men
C.Rlj; A'i K )\ r/XAl ISRAEL. of the cajiital city is .Mr. Sylvan Tobias, a na.tive and
married man and successful mercliaiit.
He was bc.irn in I )'inalds mville. a river and railroad
The Ji.'\v.-- ot l'>aton Rouge form, as we have said, a town of considerable importance, tiie market place for an
coiisideralilc and influential element of the population.
.X<it only is there relatively a large numher of them, hut
they are a jiower in tlie community, in civic, in social and
in husiness affairs, all three.

L'ntil forty years or so ago, there were few Israelites

in the place, hut ahout that *-iiiie. just hefore the war. the
first congregation was formed. The war came c.m am!
scattered the people, and though there were meetings, at
intervals, of those left it was not till after the war that

a permanent organization of R'nai Israel Congregation

was effected.

Tile building had lieeii a (.'hristian churcii. It is a ncaf

hi'own stone fnjnt and a credit to the little city. It was

reiiiodeled and refitted some eight <ir ten years hack, and
lias a handsome interior.

The I'.aton Rouge Congregation has always made it a

jioint to have musical services of high standard. The

pipe organ installed is a costly al+air. and to obtain the

best available talent high salaries are paid the singers.

The staiiie;! glass windows of the Tenij.ile are biglil\ ar-
tistic and, effective: with their aiil it can be brilliantl\'

lighted np. The altar is of ebony ;md the ark of the same
material.
I'.'nai Israel has had but two Ralibis, the Rev. Dr. >YLVAN TOBIAS.
Kline, who .servetl about fifteen years, up to 1900, and the
present pastor. Rev. Frank L. Rosenthal, wdio occupies exceedinglv ri.li agricultural country, situated not many
Temple
the puliiit also of .Sinai, at .St. l'"rancis\'ille. La. miles from his present (U niicile. That event occurred in

The Rev. Rosenthal came to Baton Rouge in 1901 from 1S57. Me was educated at the famous .Soule Commercial

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 (( D. M. Rev:\iond President. RoBT. A Hakt. Vice-President. (). KoxDEKT. Cashier.

cJne v?irst J^latioi\ai Jaanf^,

i
CORNER LAFAYETTE & LAUREL STS. BATON ROUGE LA.

Ji J^Jt .* DIRECTORS ^ ^ j» .* Capital $100,000 Surplus $100,000

ROSENFIELD, N. S. DOUGHERTY,
I A.
I D. M REYMONU. R A. HART. Fiscal Agents for the State of Louisiana.
[( S. 1 REYMO.ND, W.WHITAKER,
C.
r/ W. P. CONNELL. |i
^ DOES A REGULAR BANKING BUSINESS.

|i. M. KKVMOND, IVfsi<lpiit. A. liOSKXl'MKI.n, Vi,e-l'resi<lent. (I. K(IN'|)K1!'I', Sopr<tai_\& TreasMn-i-

cJne c) copies (Savings JdanK,

OFFICE: FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, BATON ROUGE, LOUISLA.NA.
SURPLUS -OIR KCTORS-
C; A PITA L loO.OOn. $6,000
II. MHIOViXUIN'l) K A.HAUT. SI REYMdND
A .M( HI'FtNKY ACKSCN. R.I HUMMKl., JJ \
3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits. ^( (I. KO.VDKRT.
.1

A. ROSKNFIKLI) ]\

e ^ )t Parlor. Office and Ai.i. Job Work

^
Mktai.ic Cask.s Coffins and
Cookinif Stoves. (il^AKANTKED...
AND CaSKKTS. BuKiAL Casks.
m^
M. I. WILLIAMS,
Mrs J» Gilbert-Geddes, WORKER IN

TIN, COPPER, ZINC

Undertaker and AND SHEET IRON.
Funeral Director
Bi a ^ Kitchen, Tinware, Grates,

Mantels, Etc.
206 NORTH BOULEVARD,
j*.MJ*NEA.R THE STATE HOUSEv»e ;>«.;*
!
[U 313=315 5T\air) Street

Cumberland Phone J7I. Baton Rouge, La. BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.

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Instiaitc. W'w < )rk-aiis. ami his hrst linsiiiL'ss ox])i'riciu-c

was acquircil in liis fatlu'r's sturo at Donalclsoiivil'c.

\lr. 'I'lihias lnl(inu;s In a miiuhor of orders, tlu' 1. ( ). !'>.

II.. K. of r.. 1\. of II.. WdodiiK'n, and I'liik-d Workmen

anions' thorn, lie i> an attc'ndanl also at the S\ na.u;oi.au'
C'ont^rei^ation I'.'nai Israel, its \ice-presi(Knt in faet. and
a contrihntor to all the [ewish charities.

.MK. J ATOP, FARRNIJACIIKK.

This gentleman i.s oni of the principal merchants of

liaton Rouge. H(. is a director also of local insurance

concerns and a sti )ckhi iliUr in the hanks. '

le is a V>:i-

varian In hirth !.nt ha> liecn resident in tliis country so

 QUS. KUHNERT.
PAPER HANQER and DECORATOR.
New Patterns Constantly Arriving.
Estimates Furnished. Prices Moderate,

REHEMBER AH THE ORIQINATOR OF

I
2o8 THIRD STREET.
NEW AND UP-TO-DATE WORK IN THE CITY. I'MdnB 58
NO WORK CAN COHE TOO FINE FOR ME.
o B^ton Rc3uge;. Y^ei o

r HE MONONGAHELA RIVER<^ C

COJSfSOLIDATETy COAL AJWV COKE CO. [}

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BATO/'f 'RO\/GE, LA. C

\A/M. O. DAY, Manager. c

u
B

Pittsburgh Coal Supplied to STEAMBOATS, SUGAR AND RICE PLANTATIONS \

and all Steam and Domestic Trade, ti

jij
Towing on Mississippi, Red and Atchafalaya Rivers Done on Short Notice. [J

^SHSHSHSHSasasaSHSaSHSHSHSESHSHSHSHHHSHSaSHSaSHSHSHSHSHHHSHSaSHSSSHSHSHHHSHSHSHSHSSSa^

f^- ^^
t Jacob Lkbekmuth, President. .Iohn S. Thibau'i\ Vice-Pres. & Cashier. Paui, Br.\ud, Asst. Cashier. ^

BANK OF ASCENSION, DONALDSONVILLE, LA.

;
Capital $30,000.00 Established 1896. ]
DIRECTORS-
}^ Jacob Lebermuth, Wm. Blumenthal, Meyer Netter, F. B. Lemann, Jno. S. Thibaut, Victor Maurin.
I O. Roussel, J. J.Sche.xiiaydre, Jno. N. Coloinb, G. A. Gondran, \V. L. Barton.

t..^ ii*=^fe=;«i=i«ia .J

Baton Rouge Marble Works

m ^ / A. FRIDGE '^"-"r— ^
STATUAHY, GHAITITE & MAHBLE MOI^tUMEITTS. a

Headstones, Tombs, Tablets and all kinds of Marble Work Done.

112 ST. LOUIS ST. BATON ROUGE, LA

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 DONALDSONVILLE. LA. .MR. SAMCEL BLC.M.
liere wv have of Congregation Bikur
or.e of the elders
I'iiolim, Donalds' in\-ille, still surviving at the ripe old age
D'lX \l.l)S!)V\|LLi'.. Ascension I'arisli. tlic liiih of of four score and four years, still bearing in mind and
tlir suj^a! hi'lt, is at tlio junction of the ,!j;rcat river nil ileling Ins conduct as ever, upon the injimctioiis of that
with iiaymi Lafourciie, an important stream ieacl-
ini; the lv;art of tlie sii.t>;ar and rice districts of
tlinnn;ii
the State. It has ions;' been one of the mcjst important of
the lower Mississippi river lanihngs. The Texas & I'a-
cific raih'oad passes throujjjh it. and the Mississi]5])i N'alley
naite of the Ilhnois Central s\stem rims liv on the other
side.
Donaldsonville is a busy place, comniandin,!.;- a rich
stretch of tributary coimtry. It has three banks and many
substantial business concerns, schools, and all the concom-
itants of a city. The population, by
the census of looo,
was 4.103. It has orpovvn measurably since then.
The Congregation at Donaldsonville, Uikur Cholim. is
an old one. J. llloom is presiden.t of this l)od\ .M. Rlein. ;

the Rabbi.

r.ikur Cholim was organized in 185^1 and reorganized

Aug. Tlie sxnagogue was erected in 1871 and
24, i8go.
is located on Railroad .\venue. it has 55 members. MR. SAMUEL BLUM.
.Michal Tobias is president: Walter Lemann, vice-pres- faitii ofpjilriarcbs and pro]jhets he was born to.
tin- Mr.
ident Willie Pforzheimer. treasurer Raphael .Singer,
; ;

Bhuu saw the light in Xiederlirunn, .\lsace. in 1820.

first
secretary.
He has had a long, prosperous and honorable career as a
Divine service is held by this congregation Friday
merchant of Donalclsonville and is one of the most highly
evenings and Saturday morning. Schlesinger and Gold-
respected members of the Jewdsh community resident
stein's mu.sic is used in accordance with the Union Prayer
there.
P>ook. The building was repainted last year, inside and
outside, with the assistance of the Ladies' Hebrew Asso- .MR. HEXRV PFORZHEIMER.
ciation, the officers of which are Mrs. Jacob Bluni', pres-
:

ident Mrs. Michael Toi)ias, vice-president; Mrs. Alex.

; A resident of Donaldsonville for sixty-five vears, this
Eloomenthal, treasurer: Mrs. Raphael Singer, secretary. gentleman was well known and highly respected. He
The officers of the P>'nai EVrith Liwlge here for the en- was born in Baden, Ciermanv. in t8i8, and came to this
suing year arc: Michael Tobias, monitor: Willie Pforz-
heimer, president Walter Lemann, vice-president Ja-
: :

col) Blum, tixasurer Raphael Singer, secretary.

:

There is a Jewish Cemetery on St. Patrick street,

which is enclosed with an iron fence and is well cared for.
Rev. Klein instructs the Hebrew class on Saturday and
all the children are instructed on Sunday in the ti^.tets

of our faith. The assistant teachers are Misses Sadie

and .Agathine Kern.
The race here is well represented in municipal affairs,
in bar.kinsj and in commerce.

RAP.r.I M. KLKIX OV n( )X.\LDS( )\'\'ILLL.

( was born in Hatten P^lsass, Feb. 2, 1853.

)ur subject
He was educated in Germany under the tutelege of Rab-
biner Dr. Grunebaum. Landau Pfalz and Cantor Jacob
Stern, Ingenheim, ( )ber Rabbiner Dr. Aaron .Strassburg
and Cantor I. Klein, Brumath, Elsass. His first employ-
ment as rablii and cantor was in .\lexan(lria. La., from
1873 to i88fi, and at Baton Rouge, La., from 1886 to
1900.
In Kjoo he left for Europe, there remaining with his
beloved mother three years, on her demise returning to
Louisiana, being called soon after to the pulpit at Don-
aldsonville. He has been chaplain of the House of Rep-
resentatives and of the Senate of the State of Louisiana,
and chaplain also of the State Penitentiary. He is a
niember of the following: F. and .\. ^^. K. of P. I. ( ). : :

P.. B.. and has held hii;h office in all three. MR. HENRY PFORZHEIMER.
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 Now F. M. Brooks & Son, -limited-
1
^For Baton ROUGE, LA.

Wholesale and Retail.

j
Drugs EVRKVTHIMO HIGMT
PUICKS, OUALIIY. 5EHVICE Hail Order Service Up=to-Date

For the Latest in Photos or Frames You Should Consult

W. W. Miller, photographer,
ART PARLORS it&^yM,^ PMONE 176=3
411-413 MAIN STREET. BATON ROUGE, LA.

Livery, Feed ix*° Sale

S. C. Fridge, . . STABLE .

CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE 79-2.

^^^"
Saddle Horses, Roadsters and Mules SALE
"^"^
Special Attention to Boarders. ^BATorlSE.

A. J. RONALDSON. President. INO. JORDAN, Vice-President. E. M. ELAM, Secretary and Treasurer ^

Ronaldson's Agency, Ltd.

INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE,
TELEPHONE 290.

P. O. Box 565. Baton Rouge, La.

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 t'lunlrx ;i( {'.k- am- nl' ii). Ik' landed in NV-w ^'o^k in MR. Ai'.k All A.\l KLOTZ.
1X3(1. Ill' Iki'- served an appreKtiei-slii]) (.f llu' usual
This gentiimaii has nu-ntii'ii among the iiotahlcs of
ier.oth in tliat da\' al ihe linte'ners' trade in the 'ild eoun-
ll'.e -State ill the work of the " '.iogra[)hical
I and Histori-
tr\ . hilt lie;.^an lite in the land of the tree as a nierehant.
cal Memoirs of Louisiana;" as a merchant. |)lanl'.'r and
Mere he settled and remained through all the vicissitudes
of war. panic and epidemic, and ')y industry, inlei^rity

and thrift i;r;nln.all\ won his \va\. lie reared in Donald-

son\'ille a famih of ei,L;ht. se\en of whom, six dau.u'hters

and a son. survix'e him, lie was a niemhc r of I'ikur

C'holim, non;dds(inville, from its foundation in 1870.

MK. .\l \AS TOP.! AS.

The late Alaas Tohias. of I )iinaldson\-ille. La., had heen

a merchant of that ])lace for 45 \ears, when he retired
fr.im active husiness some years aL;o. lie was horn in

Kntno. Poland, in iSj8, and was aliout ,^0 when he set-

tled in the Pelican State, lie died in igoj. leaving; a

fami!\ of four sons and one dausjhter.

MR. ABRAHAM KLOTZ.

sugar manufacturer of Ascension parish, resident at Uon-
aldsonville. a L'onfedcratc veteran, and man of promi-
nence generally. Like many other of the successful Is-
raelites of Louisiana, an Alsatian liy birth, born in
he is

IHirvillcr, in that country, 68 years ago, while it was still

I'"rench territory. There he was schooled in both French
and (ierman, ac(|uirements wdiicli, during; a long and
prosperous Ijusiness career, have stood him in good
stea.l.
He was 2~, vears old. clerking in Donaldsonville. when
the Civil \\'ar came on. His service therein with the
.\rm\ of Northern X'irginia, C. S. A., is his qualification
for the membership in Camp V'ictor Maurin, C. V. A., of
Donaldsonville. which he holds. He is a member, also, of
tl'ie Masonic Lodige of that place. He is a subscribing
member of the Tonro Infirmary. \'ew Orleans, and holds
to the faith as a worshipper in Congregation Biknr
C'holiiii of ]3onaldsonville.

MR. MI'.IAILLF. ISKAHL.

Mr. Israel is a sugar iilanter of the Donaldsonville .lis-

MAAS TOBIAS. .Ascension parisli, La., market for a rich country sit-
tricl,
uated about 64 miles north of New Orleans by the Texas
1:1 e was a man highly esteemed in the community in and Pacific road and somewhat further by the winding
much of note course of the river. The sugar planters, it neerl hardly
which he liad passed so of his life, +'or his
be said, are the aristocracy of the State; their estates are
hi'iievolence, h.is sterlins; cliaractei, and among' his own.
unusualh baronial in extent and operation. Mr. Israel,
lieople. as a faithful worker for the cause of Judaism. He suiilice it to say, is one of this favored class. Hfe is a na-
was l<i!''g a n'eniher of the I'.'na P.'rith of New ( )rleans. tive of Donaldsonxdlle. 35 years old. a graduate of Roa-
iioke College, Salem, \'a., is married, and a member of
and also was a Kniglit of Honor and meniher of the ( )r-
various organizations, benevolent and fraternal, his favor-
der of Workmen of Donaldsonville — in fact, was one ite among them the .Mnha Tan )mega, his college frater-
(

of the hcst known and foremost citizens of that place. nitv. His place of worsni]) is the local Bikitv L hdliin.

I'M)
 CADDO-RAPIDES LIMBER CO.. Ltd.
^ Lumber, Shingles, Cisterns,
'^=*i=-<^=
'1
I lijtve recently perieuleil Hnan);eDieiit.s
wliereby I am enabled tii care for I lie iiee('x
ot uiy tiistonier.s in a niore satisfactory
,yllej>candria. La. manner tlian ever before.

Miinufacturers of and Dealers in <

J>
Sash, Doors, Blinds and Window Shades |
i HaviiiK a I'IhiiIli; -Mill in connection with {
Lumber) Shingles, Sash, Doors-, .'J
niy IxisinesK I can fnrnisli complete l^otise
» bills, witli material as desiieil. making, i
sul)stitntioii iinnece^sarv. t'ountry Onlers
Blinds, Hardwood Mantels, liiven Speiial .Atteiuion. i
4
Grates and Tiline. 1 °"'"'
V. B. Hayslip, ' -T^ ' Xn^^'p^'^i"
Cor. loth and Fisk Sis.
I-
i Office and Factory Monroe Street, from 61I1 to 7tli. yi Telephone No 198. niexandria. La.
L. -.J
;)«ie*«%
c 3K?( fKrTi 2KrK. ^

0, W. Clle^cander, 3^
Rapides Steam Laundry
(^ i>8uraT\cc.
TWILLEY & TOWNSEND. Props.
9^
ALEXANDRIA, LA.
3^«
C^tcxaiA^ria, ^a. ^^
3W
P. O. BOX 331. PHONE 232. ^
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WE VALUE TEWISH JOS, CAFIERO

Paints Repairs, Puts Up and Takes Down
PATRONAGE Smokestacks. Sugarhouse
Chimneys, Machinery, Etc.
Q SHEE BROS- u
I

ROPE SPLICING A SPECIALTY

1' O. MUX 232. 'rKLKl'miNIO »l.
ALEXANDRIA, LA.
DONAI,lJSON'VII.I..H;. l.A.
1 3K/^ 3*^^ c^?^ 3^?^ d^T^ 3sr^3s?€ 3^!^ ^^rQ J^^ -=:*==#

r Donaldsonville Broom Factory,

L. Caspari, President.
^OFFICERS:
H. M. Ilyams, IstVice-President
'1
I N. F. GROS, Propkirtor.
(l

fi'
,I.W. Fieeman, linil Vice President. S H. Hill. Cashier.

Manufacturer of Brooms. Brushes. Etc, of all ^

^DIRECTORS:
I
I
'I GRADES AND PRICES. I 1... L'aspari. H M. Hyums. ,1. W. Freeman. Jno. M. Tucker
{.
/ Sarnuel Nelken. Julius A ron. C E Oreneaux
|f .SIM'IM.VINC THK TU.MlK ONLY ''
.1. H Willinnis J T.. Hrv:in
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FACTOR Y-Railroad Ave, Half Block from Passenger Depot
f
i.onu Distance Phone 231. P O. Hox 106.
)
I THE PEOPLES BANK,
NATCHITOCHES, LA
Capital Stock - $30,000 00
Excelsior Steam Laundry ,1

Accouiils and CNilleoiions ol Banks. Bankers Coritoralions

ST. PETER'S ALL EY. W . E. Boudreaux, Prop,
Firms and Individnal.s Solicited.

L^ 'J L.
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 ALEXANDRIA, LA. stil! enjoying perfect health, and along with it llu- fruit
f)f a career of energy and prosperit\.
Alexauilria. I\a|iiilcs [larisli. La., in alniust the seog-
i.-^
Mr. Levin is a natix'e of Prussia. Me wa'^ born .it
ra[)hii-alccntir of ilu' .suiti.-. It is un Reil Kivi.T. mii- of
Regenswalde, in that kingdoiii, Julv jtli, 1X3^. llis pa-
the principal iiranclics of the Mis.sis,si])]M. ami on tlirec
iine.s of rail, the Texas and Pacific and Iron Mountain
rents, Jacob and Fanny Daus Levin, were worthy tiiougli

roads of tile lonld system, and tiie Kansas City. W'atkins

(
not wealthy people of tl.e same place.
alid (a;lf. it is one of tlie most rapidly _oro\ving and
He comes of n)ercantile stock: bolli his fathtr .and
substantial cities of the State. Many Jews have made
tlieir Iv nies there, and contriljuted. as thev do every-
grandfather were successful business men. He grew to

wlure. the life and prosperity of the conimunitv. They

1.1 manhood Kegenswalde and on reacliing suitable .'ige
in

are nunier. 'i!> enoU;.;li, in fact, to maintain a permanent was placed at school at Deush Crone. West Prussia and
iiousr ol w. irsliip. tiiere completed his term of literar\ training. Lea\ing
.\ I lelirew llcni-xdlent .Vssociation was ort:;anized in
school at 10, he adojjted for life the sterling principles of
Alexandria as loiii^ ago as i.'^54. .MI its members were
young men and all single men but two. .\11 the organiz- iiis class and race. .\t .Stoli) and at Hamburg he mas-

er^ of this association have passed awa\ l)ut lulius Levin tered tile drv goods calling, and in i.'^32. .at H). came to
and 1). Lehiiian, both of whom still reside in '.Mexandria. the L'nited .States.

'j'iie special objecl of ihe association was charitv and the Here first he sptiit a year in ( i;i!\-eston and in .Missis-
maintenance of a jrwish linrud place. sippi, and then came to .Mexandria. iMilbarking
in 1.S53
Some seven \ears later a congregation was formed 111 business here, he was Iioth successful and popular,
with the s niie officials and management, and ;\ I\al:l)i was
lly the time the war i-ame on he liad ac-:|niri-d a handsome
secured for il. It was originally an orthodox congrega-

tion, but for some \ ears iias been reform. It numbers 8,^ C( n.petence.
members. During the holidays, however, from 330 to In Vii the tocsin sounded, and Ia\ing asiile personal
40C' attend. The presidei't of this congregation is Gus
<ieh.r,the vice-president Isaiah \\ eii, the treasurer l';u.d
interests he enlisted in the Confederate caus^'. We need

Lis-o. and the secretarv Jos. Lew.

not here recount his exoeriences in the serxice. That
cause was lost, but its memor\ still sarvi\-es in his heart,
as it dors willi .'dl its gadai'.t d.efenclers.

MK. I cues LKVIX. l'"rom the close of the war until Mr. Levin car-
18S0,
ried on prosperonsK a mercantile business. Then he
retired and invested in the Inm'cer business, applying
The subject of this sketch is one of the most !)romi-
Louisiana. He one of therein the attention and perspicuity which had thcreto-
nent re^idLUts of central is tlu-
I'ore made all his undertakings thrive. Withdrawing
best known men in the rapidly growing center of that
{lislri<-t of tiie country, .Alexandria, Rapides parish, from that be iinbarked largely in real estate.

which has doiililed in population and wealth in the last Mr. Levin has risen to tiie council of the Masonic fra-

ten \ears. just lalel\- lie celebrated his 70th birthdax', and ternitv. He has been a member of the cit\- council of

though he has reached the Psalmist's allotted s\rm. is .Alexandria and iiresident of its school board and lias

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S. GOETTE, President-Manager. -TELEPHONE Nc. 78.- JAS. FOR TIER, Secretary-Treasurer

DONALDSONVILLE ICE COMPANY, Limited.

DONALDSONVILLE. LOUISIANA.

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Cold btorage.
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Capacity,
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T\
JJaily.
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al I.DwesI Mar
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MISSISSIPPI STREET, Opposite Market.

niamniolh A VHKUSKK-HUSfH BKKW.'Nti ASSOCIATIONS celebrated KEli and BO'I'TI-K. HEERS. (KAt'sT. Anhkiskh. Hoc k
r,ocal Aj.'eni-.v (or the
AMI I'Ai.K IN Kkcs; Kxyi'isiTK. BiiiwKisKK. ANHKUsKK AND HAVAUIA.N IS Bd-iTLEs) wliich Can l)e furnislied in (laantities to !-uit. Mders lefi at ilic factory i

or addres>.ed ttiroutfh tlie l>onaldsi>nville l*ostottice, will receive prouii>t and careful attention. Satisfaction always fully jruaranteed.

POSTOFFICE BOX 76. CAPACITY 5000 LOAVES DAILY. TELEPHONE No. 125

RATHOFF'S STEAM BAKERY,

F. E. RATHOFF, Proprietor.

Manufacturer of Fine Bread and Cakes, t^ Mississippi and St. Patrick Streets.

DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA.

i ASCENSION COAL COMPANY

CARROLL BARTON, Manager.

^//i\\^ PAINCOURTVILLE, LOUISIANA.

BRANCH OFFICE, ^ DONALDSONVILLE, LA.

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W MAUKIN. W PAKK,
Im .M .M( >; Al.l.lAKl)
['resident
I'HAS. A
\'ice-Presirieni
I)
Cashier.
ALLEN^S FOUNDRY
Bank of Donaldsonville. Railroad Avenue, Near Texas and Pacific Pass. Depot.

OF DONALDSONVILLE, LA
:
REPAIRS ON :

Sugarhouse. Rice, Cotton Gin, Steamboat and Other Machinery.

Capital, $50,000. Surplus, $30,000 Undivided Profits, $20 000.
Heaviest lliscount on Stean) Pumps. Link Belt Chain anil Klevators. Shafl-
DIHKCTOKS Henry McCall. Adol|ih Netier. I- .1 Hriin.
inu' and Pulleys.
(has A- Maiirin. ('. Kline. Nicholas Kris. CH Aicman. .1 K TiicUer.
Dr. \V. M .Mctialliard 1. K. lientley. DONALDSONVILLE, LA.

C. L. TRICHE, ORDERS PtiOMPTl.Y

LUCIEN CASSO,
l-'ILLED * I.i)Ni; UlsTANCK Ph.i.nkB:!.

CRIMINAL AND CIVIL SHERIFF. "THE OYSTER KING"

» Dealer in Fine Oysters and California Fruits,

Fine and l-'resh Hayou (N.iok and Ba\' (.>.\sters.

NAPOLEONVILLE, ASSUMPTION PARISH.

,;>» Se,vin^^^hor.Order^^.^^_^
^ DonaldsOttViUe , La.

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Slate of Louisiana, is the subject of this sketch well

known. He is a Confederate veteran, for years was a
n ember of the I'arish Lxecmive Co'niuittee of the Demo-
cratic ])art\-. h.as i)een councilman of .Mexandria I fre-

quently serving during that time as Mayor pro tern), and

dm"ing the Cle\i-land administration w:is iiostmaster four
yi-ars. At present be is president of the school board of
Rapides parish, in which .Alexandria is situati'il. These
lionors indicate hi.^ slamiing in his comiuunity.
.\lr. i\osenthal is an .\lsatian by liirth. born there dur-
ing the old l-"rench ri.gime. In i860, on tile fourth day
of Jul\, glorioiis day of independence, he landed in New
(Orleans, an.d shortly after settled in Rapides ])arish. I'.ut

the war coming on soon, in i8(')2 iie enlisted in "K" L"om-

pan\. Third Louisiana Cavalry. Liddell's l'.riga<le. under
Capt. Sam Haas.
Throughout all Ins career as a soldier he saw acti\'e
service,and laid the foundation for many friendshi]js that
have lasted ever since, .\fter the war he came hack to
.Alexandria and clerkeil awhile, and in Vif) established
himself as a general merchandiser, finally, after a number
of clianges of business and location, going in with his
brothers in the grocery line. This was in i88j. The busi-
ness thus founded has grown to \ery large propor-
tions. Since the death of his 'irothers it has been con-
ducted b\- him.

JULIUS LEVIN.
ht'eii conspicuiuis as a leader in all public nii>venunts to
improve the cit\ of his home.
lie married in Alexandria, Miss Christine l)npu\'. a
dau.uhter of Louisiana, child of Xormand and Mary
Dupuw natives also. < >ne son and four dauiihlers have
licen horn to'them: Julia, wife nf Charles ( loldenherij
L'annie. wife of .\ug;ust Siess : Jacob, I'lora and Cricket.
Gron|;ed about him lovingly upon the anniversary occa-
sion referred to above were childri'u, grandchildren; yes.
and .t;real-i;"randcbil<lren.

RAI'dll l-:id.l.\"(il-:K ol- ALb'..\AXl)KlA.

I'rom the .Nmeriean Jewish \'ear Hook we extract the
followiuL;' biograpln of the Rabbi of the Alexandria con-
l; relation :

{{mil Elliiiiier, Rabbi of Coni;re,i;ation ( iemil.'is Haso-

dim, .\lexandria La.: horn Ma\ 2. i8fii, at I'apa, Hun-
garv ; son iif Carl F.Ilinoer and Mary Deutsch : ilehrew
ed.ucation at Xikolsburjj;, .\Iora\ia: secidar education at
Cni\-ersit\- of X'ienna. Rabbinical di|jloma from Rabbi
It'.dah (Issart. Hungary, Ffas been Ral/bi at Devecsar,
Himgarx', Ml. X'ernon, Ind., and Sioux Citv, Iowa. JONAS ROSENTHAL.
Mr. man of family. In 1873 he mar-
R( .'Cnlial is a
ried Aliss Weil.
Jeannette They have five daughters
and two sons. It was a great blow to tliem when their
MR. JOXAS ROSI'.XTHAL. e'dest son. Lugene. well known in .Alexandria as book-
keeper of tlie Rapides Bank., died of typhoid fever after
Xot onh in .Mexandria. where he has been in busi- a lingering illness in 1903 at the early age of 28. Like his
ness for more than tliirty years, and where he has held father before him. he was a prominent meml)er of the L
more than one official position, Init throughout tlie whole ( r>.
t. I'), anil oihir Jewish charitable institutions.

20,^ —
 JAS. W^ ARBOUR,
vL
WORKER
ZINC AND
IN TIN. COPPER.
SHEET IRON.
FRESH
SI.ATK KDOKINC AXU "
IM.I'MHINi; A SHKCIAI.TY

Telephone
No. 113 Third
No 552.
Street.
DRUGS.
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BATON ROUGE, LA.

JAMES D. BOGAN, H. R. Stroube,

Contractor and Builder^
Elks Theatre Bldg.
1227 SOUTH BOULEVARD,
Long Distance Phone 434. BATON ROUGE, LA.
BATON ROUGE, LA.
CHAS . A. BELISLE.
'

PROMPT
Draper and Tailor
209 LAUREL STREET.
DELIVERY
BATON ROUGE, LA.

'-r

X RAY^
RATES, $2.50 A DAY.
DRUG STORE
RICHARD & ST. MARTIN.

Drugs and Medicmes Perfumery,

Soap Toilet Articles.

Fine Cigars. Etc. -^

Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.

FRED. ROGGE, EDMOND RICHARD. Druggist

PHOPBielOR

POSTOFFICE
BOX 76. JL)onald8Gi>viirc, -La*
^ Corner Mississippi and St Patrick Sts. ^

P Phone 1,^8 C
t DONALDSONVILLE. LA. 3

'A
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 MR. At Mil. I, I'. i;\ii-:k.
AiidIIkt aniiin^- llic mm-o prdmiiiciit ni llic l.^rarlitc
rcsiilt'nts (if Alexandria is Acliilk' liaiicr. lie is a A'lmlc-
sak' L^niccr, 43 scars uljl, horn in Alsace in tiu' 'ild

VICTOR LEVY.
the place — lx)ni there in 1872. making liim 33 now —and
finished his schooling atState L'niversity, Baton
the
Rouge. He began Inisiness as a clerk in his father's
MR. ACHILLE BAUER. store, and soon lieveloped the f|.ualities that command suc-
cess in mercantile affaiis. He is liapj)il\ married and be-
l-rcnch era. linl a from his youth. He is
resident here longs to the L o. r.. n.
ex-i)resident of ( Chasodim Congregation, Alex-
ieniilath
andria, is a Mason and I. O. B. B., and is the father of
t\\(i boys hy
fine liis wife, nee Hortense Schmaliiiski. of
Alexandria.

Till-: LATi'. i!i':.\j. I'Ai.K. LAi'AM'.rri-:.

.\lr. I'alk was time one of the foremost citizens

in his
of Lafayette. He was
an alderman of the civy. and he-
sides being a successful merchant, engaged in furniture
and undertaking and general merchandising, was in-
terested in real estate and farms, a brick yard and in the
local opera house, lie was a director, too, of the Lafay-
ette od mill and of the local ice plant. He was a Mason
also, a Knigiit '>f I'xlhias. Knight of Honor and member

of the A ). L'. VV.. and as sucii wi'l! and wideh known

(

and highly rcs]5ected.

He was horn, in Libau, Russia, and came to Lafayette
in 1871, He died suddenly, ( )cl. 27, ii)Oi. His fune'-al
\\;is one of tin- largest ever .seen in Lafayette. Ralilii
Leu.clil. of -\'e\v Orleans, conducted the religious ser-
vices, r-iev. C W'ier and .Mr.
(
'. ). Mouton, on theC (

part respective!} of the K. of 1'. and .A. O. I'. \\'.. paid

tribute to his worth. The fire department, of whicli he
was assistant chief, atlenderl in a body. Ife was gcn-
erallv and sincerelv luourned

MR. \1lT:>R LFAV. LAFAYETTE.

.Mr. Levy is prominent in Lafayette as a merchant and
lal estate owner and successful man. Lfe is a native of BENJ. FALK.
2(15 —
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F. L. Trepagnier. ^ S. Trepagnier.
^ r ^

Chas. Maurin,
F, L. Trepagnier &Bro., ;fi
la
Wholesale and Retail

Watchmakers andjeivelers,
Groceries, Wines and Liquors,

Donaldsonville and Plaquemine. La CIGARS AND TOBACCO.

A full line of Glass, Tin, Wooden and Queensware

DIAMONDS,
Agents Moline Agricultural Implements.

Watches, Jewelry, Clocks, Spectacles,

Complete Stock of Haidwiue. Paints,
Oils Varnishes and Brushes,
SOLID and PLATED SILVERWARE.
Furniture and Wall Paper.

MAIN HOUSP:, Donahisonville, ].;i.

DONALDSONVILLE, LA
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\'. Miiiiiiii, rri's'taiid TriMs. Clias. Alauiiii, N'ici'-I'res't

.Ids. Xlaiitili. SiM-ri'taiv.

The Hartford Fire Insurance Co.

The Maurin Co., Ltd., ORGANIZED 1794. CHARTERED 1810.

s
Proprietors R. E, Lee Stables and
EASTERN DEPARTMENT
I'ndertaking Establishment . . . CKO I, <HASK, President,

fil L'has- E. Chase. Vice-President P- (' Rn.vee. Secretary-

nl li M. Bissell, Vice-Preidi-nt. Tims, rurnliull. Asst Secretar\

Stylish Drivini,'- and Saddle Horses to Hire. a

K
Fine Carriag-es, Surreys and Bug^gies. ^ L. A. Colomb & Son, Agents.

Handsome Hearses, Plain and Ornamented DONALDSONVILLE, LA.

Coffi-ns, Caskets, Etc., of All Kinds. f{]

Representatives of Leading Ameri =

can and Foreign Insurance Go's.

Special Rates to Commercial Travelers. ^
Real Estate Roui^ht and SohL
Long Distance Phone 56.

Stock and Bonds Bouglit and Sold.

li^
DONALDSONVILLE, LA.

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 MONROE, LA, born at I'aiiberg, tiermany. 4O years ago. His education
was acquired in that country of advanced schoolmen, at

M ( ).\1\''

8,000
)1'".. ( )u:u-liita
poiHi.lation.
tlu' ( )iiaciiita
parish,
situated
of about
of
K'i\er at the crossing- of the Iron
i.s

ou
a city
lx)tli sides
hrst in the eknieiUary branches in his natix'e city, later at
()ssendorf, near Warburg. \\'est|jhalia. then at Marx
Haindorf Semniar\. Munster, and finally at the famous
^hluntain and the X'icksliurg and Slireveport raih'oads.
L'niversity of lionn am Rhein. to be known of which is
Loeks are now under construction to make the Hiachita f

nax'i.iLj'alile tlie year round. sinelv, among the learned of this coiVntry, and every
It was first settled in liie nid Spanish days more than otiier, credential enough. The late Dr. Henry Zirndorf
a hundred \ears aijo. hut its recent growth has been of tile Hebrew I'nion College faculty was one of his
most marked. ]t is one ot the briskest and most flour- preceptors, as director of Marx Haindorf. in his earlier
ishing and progTessi\c towns of the State. Its cotton re-
student da\s.
ceipts are upwards of ^o.ooo bales a year, valued at cur-
rent prices at $2,500,000 or UKjre. It has a cotton com- Rev. Heimberg's first charge was at Ibbenlniren, \\'est-

press, a cotton mill nf local capital, three banks and a
variety of loc;il Inisiness. imth wholesale and retail. It
lias sewers, water works, street lights, and paved streets
anti an electric car line owned liy the city, the only ex-
ample of nnmicipal ownership of that kind in the South,
if n<it tlie entire country. Its general aspect of neatness
and newness has given it the name of the "Parlor Citv."
irXAl I.<RAh:L AXI) R.M'.r.l IIKI.MBERC
.\ir).\I<()F..
In this city of .Monroe, that thriving au'l
trade center of Xorth I^ouisiana, the
their industry ;uid progressiveness. if
conspicuous eli'ment of the population.
the comiuunity generally, for that matter, their
and in
Rabbi. Israel Heimberg, pastor of the Congregation B'nai
[ihalia. and next at I'.onn; next again at Brussels, Bel-
giiMu. a.nd aftir that atLondon, England. He has had,
it will be seen, something of a cosmopolitan ex])erience.
His first American experience was at Pensacola. IHorida,
where long ago his Southern associations began. Thence
he came to .Alexantlria, in Louisiana, and aliout fifteen
years ago. in 1889. to Monroe.
He is married, aufl having three children, all natives
OF of the State, with which ties, and all his interests cen-
tered here in the Pelican State, is, regardless of birth,
.American we can vouch to the core. But true Israelite,
attractive
however, not unmindful or unsympathetic as to his less
Jews onstitute by fortunate co-religionists abroad. And as regards that
not by numbers, a cr.aritvwhich in the proverb is said to begin at home he
Among them, is a member of the Jewish order of the I. ( ). V>. I>. and
a supjiorter of the other Jewish humanitarian institutions
referred to herein.

MR. HEXRV BERXSTEIN.

To distinction as a lawyer Mr. llernstein adds no small
prominence in fraternal affairs. He is a resident of Mon-
roe, La., and one of the notaiile men of that progressive
burg.
Mr. llernstein was born in W'innfield. Winn parish.
La., in 18(13. He was
educated in X'ew Orleans, and is
a graduate of the Boys" High School there. On complet-
ing his school course, he returned to the country and
for a while engaged in mercantile pursuits. Then he
read law and graduateil from the law department of
Tulane l'niversity. Xew Orleans, in 1886. He began
active practice at once in the fourth district of the State
and very .soon assumed a high position at the bar. In
i8(;7 he moved to Monroe.
Mr. Bernstein holds a number of important positions
in the fraternal orders. In the Pythian order he has
been Grand Prelate and Srand \'ice Chancellor. He is a
(

meniber of Eastern Star Lodige of Masons, and also of

the Royal .Arch. He is also a member of Columbia
Loflge. I. O. (). V. Judaism, the religion of his fathers,
its charities and good works, have bis feryent ruid
iicarty siip(iort.

MR. HENRY MEYER.

Mr. Meyer is a merchant of Monroe, and a member
of the Congregation rs'nai Israel of that city. He is one
J. HEIMBERG. of the successful business men of the place. He was
Israel, has been school bciard of the
secretary of the lorn in Herrlisheim, Germany, in 1865, but migrated to
citv for the past four years, man of mark. and is a this country in early life. He began his business career in
I'astor Heimberg. we need hardly say. has recognition .America at Lee. Miss., but being ambitious, .soon rose
in ]^lonroe as a man of education anti culture. He was al'ove the clerkship at which he started.

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 OPELOUSAS LA. MR. 1). ROOS, OPELOUSAS.
Mr. D. Roos, merchant, born in Weinenberg, Alsace
( France, l)ut (iermany now J. Jan. 25, 183^1, very
tlun
(Jpelousas, La.. Cdunty seat of St. Landry parish, is
near indeed, the patriarchal age of three score and ten,
in one of the oldest — that is to say, longest settled —and and accorded, by his neighbors, the respect due a long
fairest parts of the State —
one of the garden spots, in and honorable residence and career among them, a mem-
fact, of that charmnig semi-tropic and fertile alluvial ber of the American Legion of Honor, and the L O. B. R.
.\tchafalayan paradise of South Central Louisiana, which and true to the faith, to sum all up, of his fathers an<l
has long been renowned for its mellow climate and af- forbears —
wiiat more need be sai<l?
lucnce of cotton, sugar, rice, fruits, lumber and game.
Here in this flourishing settlement, as nearly everywhere
nowadavs. is a |)rospcrous Jewish element, among wlunn MR ( ).sl ISLCM. CROWLEY.
mav be numbered the following:
Mr. lilum is one of tile principal business men of
Crowley. He is largely interestefl in trade, banking,
farming properties, rice mills, irrigation canal projects,
MR. ISAAC Rons.
etc., of that vicinity. He was born in Herxheim, near
his gentleman. l)nrn in ( )pelousas. Dec. 24. 1866, is London, in the Rheinfalz. Germany, Xov. 9, 1846 (mak-
distinguished merchant, lianker and cotton man of
as ing him s*; now ), and was educated there. His first em-
tile district of which this city is seat, lie was bi'ought
up in the place and educated partly there, and in part in
Itunkheim, iermany. and Xancy. P'ranco.
( He served
his time to business in Opelousas and with the impor-
tant house of S. Dalsheimer & Co.. in .\'ew Orleans.
He is married, is a member of and liberal contributor to
the Jewish )rphans' Home at Xew ( )rleans, and to
(

other charities also, and lielongs to the ^fasonic order.

MR. s. J \C()i!. ()i'F.L( )i:s \.-;.

S. lacob, of ierman liirth. born in iS^ij, limg a resi-

(

dent and mercliant here, member of the Masonic order,

MR. JOSEPH BLUM

|>!o\inenl was witii 1). lUum iS; S^hn, Herxhenn millers
ancl importers of flour. In i8f)g, at the age of 23, he came
to Xew' York, and from thence to the Pelican State. He
married a slaughter of the late H. Lichtenstcin of New
Orleans. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias,
also of the Knights of Honor.

MR. X.YniW AliRAHAM, LAFAYETTE.

Mr. Al)rah;im was born in West Baton Rouge,
aljout 35 years ago. Beginning as clerk, he was thor-
oughly trained to business before he embarked as a
nHTchant on his own account. He has been entirely suc-
S. JACOB.
cessful as a business man and has a high reputation in his
tile Knights of Honor and 1. < ). L'. W . also high in communitv. He is single, and is a member of the Jewish

the estimation of his neighliors and fel ow citizens. Order of the L O. B.' B.

200
 Board of Directors. r
V,
GEO. HORRIDGE,
Vice-President.
H. C. DREW,
President. Cashier, j \

H C DREW. J. A. BEL, Vice-President. E. N HAZZARD, Asst. Cashier.

President.
GEO. IIOKRIDGE,

LEWIS
Capitalist.

S. CLARKE,
Sujrar Planter, St. Mary's
CALCASIEU i

Parish.

D. R. SWIFT.
President Swift-Kirkwood
Company, Ltd
National Bank i I

W. E. RAMSAY,
President Bradley-Ramsay
Lumber Co. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY.
\ J. A. BEL.
!•/

V
President J. A. Bel
ber Company, Ltd.
Lum- Capital, $ 1 50,000,00. Surplus, $ 1 00,000.00
} J. G. POWELL,
}i
Lumber Manufacturer.
M J. ROSTEET,
Retired.

FRANK ROBERTS, Lake Charles, La.

Cashier.

nri)OI,l"H KR.MTSE. President

H. W. MILLER. I W VANSCOY.
W. K PERKINS. Vice-1'iesirtenl

W
ESTABLISHED
INCORPORATED
H. MA.V.ACAN. Sei-y

1873.

1892.
:iii<l Treas.

3i. t£). mm er
PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000.00.

Qrocer^ VSon\pan^
PERKINS & MILLER
LUMBER CO., Ltd. RETAIL
Manufacturers
Calcasieu
of Rough and
Long Leaf
Dressed
GROCERS
YELLOW PINE LUMBER We Cater to First-Class Trade

Also Dealers in General Merchandise

Phone No. 589. jt 815 Ryan Street,

WESTLAKE. ^ LOUISIANA.
fCALrASIKU PakishI
LAKE CHARLES. LA.

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 LAKE CHARLES, LA, lightplant, water works, street cars, department,
one of the
tire
opera house, and so fortn. In short, it is

prettiest, busiest and most progressive cities of the South.

The congregaticin at Lake Charles, Congregation Sinai,
LTr\' in Lmiisiaiia. not fvcn New ( trleans. is ad-
)

\\a^ organize<l in HKH- Jt has 45 members. Its oflicers

vancing: faster than Lake Charles. Its population
N-; are L. Kaufman, president: A. Levy, vice president; .M.
h\ tile Tniteil States census of upo was C).68o, a
Rosenthal, secretary Sol I'lock. treasurer trustees, S. :

i,fro\vtli of more llian 3.400 in tile ten preceding years.

;

Li-vy, 1. Reims. S. Kaufman.

Since that report was made it has lieen growing faster
This congregation has raised at Lake Charles a new
even than liefore. and now has full\ 12,000 inhabitants.
svnagogue at a cost of $50,000. The new edifice is of
Lake Charles is sustained Iiv twn ,ureat industi-us of
Its sawmills are
[)ressed brick and limestone, with metal slates. The in-
its territorv. viz.. luniher and vice.
terior woodvvork is handsomely panelled. There is a gal-
among the largest and most modiTu in the .Sduth. Large
lerv over the choir. iJy the entrance are two deep niches.
([uantities of their product are exported.
( Hitside over the doorway is a massive marble keystone
The rice kusiness is scarceh' second in \-alue to the
re])resenting the tables ar.d commandments with suitable
city This indnstrv has gr^wn in Louisiana particu- —
—
.

lebrew biscription. All in all. it is a structtn-e highl\

larly in the neighlmrhnod of Lake ('harle.s by leaps and
I

cieditai>le to the comnninit\- of Lake Cliarles |ews.

\< \l'.r,l WAi-:SA\\". Ob" LAKL Cl l.\RLi':S.

'Idle .Xuierican Jewish 'Near Hook gives tile lullowing

skttcii of Rahlii Warsaw of the congregation at Lak'e
t iiavles:
Isidor of \ew 'Sork. formerly Rabbi of I'lelh
Warsaw,
Tefllloh. I'runswick. ia. Horn Dec. ( 25, 1874, at
lAilkuhiien, Lrussia. Son of Moses Warsaw. Educated
at Kovno High. Sciiool, L'niversity of I'erlin and L'ni-
\ersitv of Cincinnati, of which last named he has tlie I!,
.'^. ilegree. Rabbinical studies at Melirew Lnion ( ol-
icije, Cincinnati,

.MR. LI'OIM )Ln KALl'M.W,

(_)ne of the most prominent Inisiness men, as well as

leading Israelites, of Lake Charles is Mr, Leopold Kauf-
man, general manager of the Lake Charles Rice Milling
L'o, and \ice president of the b'irst National I'ank of that
citv an<l president of the Congregation .Sinai. Mr. Kauf-
man was born iri France that is the tri-color waved over
:

bis birtnplace in .\lsace at the time of liis birth in 1851.

1 le Strasbourg, city of the famous min-
was educated in
ster and the wonderful mechanical clock, and he first
essaved teaching as a means of livelihood on that ^ide of
tile w:iter, .\fter a brief experience as college jjrofessor
he came to Louisiana and embarked in mercantile life.
!ie has been higiih- successful, is one of the largest
real estate owners of Lake Charles am! is interested in
a \ariet\- of enterprises and industries there. .\nd not
o: 1\ is he a man of substance; his character is high. )f (

It' ('iiiier. .Arcliite^'l .

him it can be trul\- slid that where he lives "his word

LAKE CHARLES SYNAGOCJUE. is i'<iiid eu'iugn ci'llateral."

i.cunds. \ ast tracts iif lands are given over to cultiva-

tion of the staple, and costly irrigation and drainage
works have been introduced. MR. IS.XnnR!.: [L n.W'LS.
nearby have increased the
r>iscnverieft of n:ineral ore
manufactures and general business of this little burg Lake Charles is also tiie home and place of business of-
many fold. The prospect of cheap fuel is very favorable Isadore H. Davis, a Jewish merchant, who, though
to tne inlro(lncti(Mi of new industries. There are three born abroad, came here in early youth an<l is thoroughly
national banks ami (piitc a nu.mher of extensive business Americanized. He was born in Krakan. .\ustria. in iSf),^
concerns. The ])lace is alread\- consideralile of a jobbing He was twelve years of age when he landed in Xew
center. \'ork in ii^75. and it was in the metropolis that he ob-
Lake Charles is beautifully situated on navigable water. tained his schooling. He began life as a clerk, but soon
It iswithin reach of the mollifying influences of the Gulf blossomed out into business on his own account, and has
and has a soft, siia\'e. Southern winter climate. It i."! made a success of it. He is a benedict, and a member
sujijilied with all the metropolitan conveniences, electric Of the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the Workl.
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 OFFICERS.

GEO. LOCK,
L
N
KAUFMAN.
E NORTH
President.

VicePres't.

Cashier.
First National Bank
W H. SIMMONS,
Assistant Cashier.
OF
LAKE CHARLES
«,>,;,q^^

'mmi
DIRECTORS. Established in November 1889-
GEO. LOCK,
L KAUFMAN, THE OLDEST
R. H. N ASON,
I N. PRATER, Bank in Southwestern Louisiana*
A . P . P UJO.

f(
.1 A HKI-, I'res

W S.
:u)ii

UOOS.
M^'r

\k'e-('iesident
n ;;
H. C. GILL, President.

W W KI.ANDKKS. .Secly and Treas. CHAS. S. RAMSAY, Vice-President.

\V (i Mi>KI,.'>J(i Asst Sect'y iind Tre;is. 'A

W. A. OUILLEMET, Cashier.

J. A. BEL LUMBER CO.

LIMITED. i
PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000

•"-^ Manufacturers and Dealeis in ^^

LAKE CHARLES
Calcasieu Long Leaf
NATIONAL BANK,
LAKE CHARLES. LA.
Jl YellowPine Lumber
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY.

Railroad Timber and Extra Lengths and Capital, ^ $100,000.00

Sizes a Specialty. <<

EFFIQENT SERVICE AND

1
Lake Charles^ La. LARGE PATRONAGE. *

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MU. JAKI'. Sl.NK I'X. He was born in (irand Coteau, La., 34 years ago an<l
w.is educated at the Jesuits' College at that place. His
'I'liis ircink".naii is llu- vicf-i)rcsitli.-nl of tlu- Kaufman hrsl emplovment was as clerk in his father's store at
Mercantile I'c cit Lake Charlt's. one of tlie principal Lafayette. I'Vom that he branched out into business
I, a.
l)i:siiicss concerns ni that rapidly risinj^ little city. He iiir iiimself. He is married and the father of three, two
is a native of I'alls Uiver. this State, and was educated loys and a girl, the eldest now in her teens. His paternal
affiliations embrace membershi]) in the h'.lks. the < )rder
of .Maccabees and the L ( ). P.. 1!.

.\1K. SA.MCLL K.\C1-.\1AX.

Lake Charles boasts of (piite a ninnl)er of successful

and solid Jewish residents, a.nong the lunnber the sub-
ject of thi.-. sketch. .Mr. Kaufman is in the carriage
.•ind inijjleineni business at Lake L'ii.'irles ; also at Vin-
ton. La., where his son, Mr. Nl. J. Kaufman, is in
charge. Ill- is of Icrman !)irtb and education, some-
(

—
where in the 50's as to age a man long experienced in
commercial life in the Pelican State of Louisiana. He be-
gan ni b'lsinpss here nearly 35 years ago as a clerk for
Jack .Michal at St. Francisville from tiiere went to ;

Washington, La., in whicli place he remained seventeen

years, and tlience came to Lake Charles. He belongs to
the Masonic order —
is a Ro\al .Arch mason, in fact
;,n(i is an old memlier of the 1. 1'. < ). I'>.

.MR. WOLF HOl-F.M.VX.

-Mr. H(Jlfman is one of the leading Jewish n\erchants
of Lake Cliarles: born in (lermany in 1834 and ed'icate('
there; first employed in Xew \'ork a man of family and :

memlier of the order of P.'nai H'rith, keeping up his af-

JAKE SinON.
in New Orleans. [^i.•^ first business experience was
gained there as clerk fi)r Le<Mi (Indchan.x. He is a
Imsv man. devoted largely to trade, but not unmindful,
nevertheless, of his social, charitable and religious obli-
gations.

MR. HEX'RV MKVER.

Lake Charles also is the domicile of Mr. Henry Meyer,
a merchant and business man of standing, of the firm
if Mendel & Meyer, general merchandise, and also
interested in the I.a'-e Charles I'^urniture Co.. a flourish-
ing Mr, Meyer was liorn at Muttersholz, Al-
institutit)n.
sace, which part of the world so many of our
froni
successful Jewish merchants come to us. and was edu-
cated at Strasbourg, talcing a full course at the high
sciiool at that city, lie was hrrn in 1871, and there-
fore belongs to the younger element of business men. He
came to thi? countr\- in igoo. and after clerking awhile
in .^an Juan. Xew Mexico, and for Kaufman of Lake
e'barles. began business there on l;is own account. He
is a memlier of the L (). 11. ;nrl of other Jewish
I'..

si'Cial and charitable bodies.

M'^ AR.MAXl) Ll'AA'.

Mr. Levy one of the men of that growing
is city of WOLF MOFFHAN.
the southwestern section of the state. Lake Charles. He is

a clothing- merchant and tailor there, and is also in- filiations with the social, fraternal and religious in.stitu-

terested in the clothing business of Levy 15ros.. at Beau- tions of the race a substantial man, good citizen, and
mont. Texas. faithful lew. in short.
 t "^

Gabriel D» Stanford, (T'-'^^sa^ THE ^.jiaiif-^

Manufacturer of
Lake Charles Planing Mill,

«^ Building Brick and Tile. ^

G. MUTERSBAUGH, Proprietor.

C{
Sizes of Tile 4 lo 12 Inches.
Manufacturer of Mouldings,

Lime, Cement, Fire Clay, Fire Brick. Brackets^ Turned Work, Sash
a

THE HIGHEST GRADE WORK GUARANTEED. and Doors, Corner and 'Base

Special Delivered Prices Made on Large Orders.

Blocks. Interior Finish a

Specialty,
LAKE CHAH.LES, LA.

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r'^
^ THE.<
Lake Charles Steam Laundry,
WYLIE F. G.ArTfllEK, Prop.
I. C. Carter,
TOILET SUPPLY
Telephone 35 P. O. BOX J45.
ARCHITECT.
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
I

(t J- A. r-ANUitY.Pres. T.J. KiKi). Vice-Pres. D- J- Landky. Treas. \

818 Ryan Street.
p. O. M<)S.s, Secretary- \ }
THE LAKE CHARLES |
}

Loiiii Distance Phone .509.

^ Ice, Light and Waterworks Co. ?

\ Capacity of Artesian Wells 3,500,000 Gallons Daily.

V Jorrespondence Soliciteri.
,f Dealer in Domestic I ump & Smithing Coal,
c Distilled Artesian Water ICE.
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
L, L..
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 ABBEVILLE, LA. retaining. howe\er, certain farming, real estate and such
ir.terests to emplov his time.
Wise iias been a resident of .Abbeville 50 years.
.Mr.
111". \ 1 1 -LI'".. \'cr;iiilli(in parish, is in SuntlHTi!
He
Ar. [.cuiisiaiia and is tlic terminus o{ one of tlie
has taken alwavs a deep interest in the welfare of
his peo|)le, both at home and abroad. Some six or
l.ranciK's oi tlic Scnitiicrn Pacific road. It i.s a seven \ears ago he assumed charge of the Lafayette
place of aboiU ,8no jjopulation with substantial hanking
i
Jewish Ilurial
.\s.sociation. The organization then was
and business interests. chaos and the cenietcr\ practically abandoned
in a state of
Jennings, Calcasieu parish, is one of the must rapidly
in and given over as a grazing place for cattle. Through
growing of the State.
cities It is on the Southern Pa- bis efforts all this was changed and the place has been
cific, in the rice and oil country, which has had such
converted iiUo a moilel cit\ of the dea<l.
an amazing development in the last few vears. In the ten
years between i8c)0 its ])opulatioii. l.y the ( iovernment
census, increased fourfold.
.MR. F.LI WISL. APd;i';\ILLF..
(..'rowles, on the ."Southern racitic, in Acadia pari.sh,
has had phenomenal growth during the last ten or
,i
I'Ji Wise was born in .Xbiieville. Decemiier Sth, 1863,
fifteen \ due to the development of its rice am'
ears, in the identical place in wliich \v: now conducts one of
oil production and other industries, and iias come to be the largest and most popular mercantile establishments
one of the nrincipal centers of ])opulation and Inisiness <if the to\\n. He attended the schools of his liirth-
in the soutliern part of the .State. In iSijo it had only plfice until he ha 1 attaiiu'd a rudimentarv educati(jp. and
about 400 populatio;; in igoo, by the I'nited .States cen-
:

sus, it had 4,214, ;,nd at preseit has 6,000 or more, b'ew

places, indi'cd, in the State have a more pri'niisi)ig fu-
ture.

.\t Xeu I'Kria is a congregation ministered to In- Rabbi

I'lergman. of .\ew 'rkans at Ci-ow ley and Lafa\ette,
'
:

Rabbi Warsaw, of [,;i'-e Charles, is the ministrant. and

at >pelousas, Kabhi I'dlinger, of .Mexandria.
Lafayette is the parish seat i^f the iiarish of the same
name, situated in the soutli certral division of the .State.
1 he city had hy the census of lyoo a population of 3.314.
That was a growth of 60 per cent in ten years. It is
at the junction of the main line of the Southern Pacific
railroad, with one of its principal Louisiana branches,
and is ore of the best towns of the .State.

Mk. SOL. WdSR. .M'd'.KN'ILLL.

Mr. Wise was horn in Russian Poland in 1824, and

was 30 years old when he caiiie to this country. He
landed in Xcw York in t8.S-1 and moved to .\hl)eville the

ELI WISE.
was then sent to New ( >rleans, where he remained at
its best schools two In 1874 he went to Cin-
vears.
cinnati, ( )., from which city, after a three year course, liis
ec'ucation completed, he returned home.
Entering mercantile with his honored father, at
life
the age of eiglUeen he .shortlv found himself in control
of the business. Ten years ago he succeeded his father
in the well established firm of Fli Wise & Co. Me is
l-in-sideiit also of tile liank <if .Xbbeville. one of the
staunchest financial institutions of the State, and is a
[)iincipal in the .Aniieville Rice Mill, .Ablieville Canal Co.
and Merchants' \\ holesalc Grocery Co..
Tile interests of Mr. Wise are not limited to .\bbeville.
He is vice-president of the I^'erd. Marks Insurance
Agenc\' of Xew )rleans, one of the largest institutions
(

of its kind in the Smith. He is an approachable, cour-

SOL. WISE.
teous gentleman and recognized hy the people of his
same year, He legal 1 business as a liedlar ,
and having section as a verv jirogrcssive citizen. He belongs to
amassed a consid crab competence is now retired, still the Kniuhts of Honor and the 1\. of P.

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 , Short Order Work A Specialty. ^
Calcasieu Steam Bakery, r> >ak:k I !^iijk><^

S. & J. JESSEN & CO. „ STEAM LAUNDRY, .

riJ .Limes H Huston, I'roprietor. m

LAKE CHARLES, LA.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
121 MILL STREET. Phone 171.
404 GRAND ST. Phone ;i73.
LAKK CHARLES, LA.
%s H^<'

H. 1' NICUlll.AS. W .1. I!I':NV.

NICHOLAS & RENZ'S

SHAVING PARLORS,
THE POPULAR TONSORIAL RESOkT, [ji
W. P. Dunn Bricks Supply Co., ^
SIX CHAIR?.
1 SeHROPTON WORK DONE HBRB, Lake CharleSf
HOT n\D eOLD BHTHS
821 RYAN STREET. LAKE CHARLHS. LA. outstana.
1
snTispneriON guhrhivtbed.
V aBH5?HB"P^a/

J. H. MATHIEU, Carlson & Co.

I I
The Largest Jeivelry Establish-
i Prescription Pharmacist,
Ci ment in South-west Louisiana. H
1 RYAN STREET, t
Solicits a Portion of your Patronage.
4 LAKE CHARLES, LA. ^ LAKE CHARLES. LA.
^. J
1
1). R. s\vii'"r. Piv,.
W. 10 I'.XTTKK.SON.
II. VV. I,.A.N/.. Vii'p-l're--
Seir.-'rrea^.
e. \
Carriage & Implement Co. , Ltd.
J. FRED. GEORGE,
WHOLKSAI.K AM' H K'r.\ I 1 , 1 H. \ I.MH.s IN

All Kinds of Farm Impleineiits, Buyg^ies,

Carriafj-es, and Wagons, Harness and Saddlery,
Belting and Hose. Irrigation Pumps, Hay
UrSUHAlTCE.
Presses, Gaar-Scott Tlireshers and Engine-,
Boilers, Engines Saw Mills.

Ryan & Lake

LAKB CHARLES, LA.
Cor. MillSts. Charles, La.
J
21f. —
 MR. TIII'.O. KAIIN. (
)!•
J
I'lX X X( 1 iS. t( en vears marK, when his wife. imfdrtunatel\ , departed
tnis life, in iijoj. leaving him almost incdiisolahk . .Ml in
Herewith is llic "piTMiitMiriit.' as Shakes] a-ari.- lias it,

all. it is ndl tdd nnich tu designate our subject as a man

of ciiu' lit tlic "Imt" iiu'ii 111' that livi- link- hiiru;" '>i

(if liigh character, whole-souled and charitable; aiiiniig

Calcasieu ))arisli. K-iiniii^^, l.a., nanieU . M". riviulori-
in> neighlrors, of whatever religidU. both respected ;md
him. iiitrn(h'ctiir\ . sn tn spi-ak, tn timse tn wlmm this
|i(ipular.
hiiiik is addrcsM'i. tlir pulilic.-. L'ciHTal and at larj^v. .Ml'.

Kalin. tM W-iiu't with, is a man in his iirinu'. iusl liirninu'

MR. si.Mox is\.\cs()i\. i'.\i..\iiyni )

PALMi-H"T<). St. Landry parish, a station of the

Texas ami Pacific Railway in Central Louisiana, not far

di.stant frd'.n Atchafalaya River, is tlie h-me a.nd 1"isi-

ness |)lace of Simon Isaacson, a tiiriving general mer-

eliaut. now at 45. in his prime as years go, a married

man. much esteenie 1 anidng his neighbors, both Christian
a.nd lew.
Mr. Isaacsdu was burn at Cirauders, ( iermanv. Oct.

30. ^<S5<^ He was educated at .Xeueiiberg. I lermany.

and caiv.e tn this countrv in iHjH. a \ear or two before
he came df age. He heg.an first lure as clerk, fdr which
he had been fitted bv nis experience in ( lermany, but
scdii branch'l out, nn his dwn account, in Palmetto, lie

has been successful, and is thorougiily established. In

|nl\-. Kjoo, he married Miss r.irdie ( iernsbaciier. and iii-

stalle(| his bride in a cosv lionie in I 'almello.

THEO. KAHN.
_;(i: a native el ANace. Imrn in the did j-'rench. da\ s at

trained to a hus-
MR. jCLKS HRLVFCS. XKW lUb'.KIX.
Ihi.ucna.n. educated there and th()nu!.t;h!\

the world. He This is the hdine alsd df Jules Dreyfus, merchant an(|
iness callins' as ixKik'kecper in that part <if

husiiiess h'nnings. a banker and ri';e anrl oil mill man. bnrn at .Muhlhausen.
is in the gents' tuniishiniis at is

Lummercial ".eague, Knight of .Msace. April 1. l8fi6. a few years befnre the b'rancd-
nienilier nf ihe lennin^s a

IMliias and is ai'filialeil with the Lake Charles cnngrega- I'russian war jK-rmaneiitly changed the nationality of that

pro\ ince. lie was brought up an'l educate'! on that side

ti(in.
of the waier, began life here as a clerk: is married, is

a .\Lasdn an(| member nf ntlur fraternities, and is kudwn

MR i.h:()i'()Li) ;':L(,L'TTi':k. xicws-'-Lltox
as an un)dghl. cdiiscienti.ius and cdusistent Jew.
l-'or 28 vears Mr. I'Llgutter has heen .a resident of

.Xewellton. lensas |)arish. ujjpei" l.imisiana, (ir its vicinity,

MK. Lb'.ox D'MA'i'CS. ')i' x:-:w ii;krl\.
and has ciime l(' lie recngnizcd thereahmUs nut nnly as nne
must pnisperoirs, hut and influential citi- .Xew Iberia lies on the Siiuthern Pacific Railroad and
(if its nsi'fu!

/iNis. In .Xewellton itselt he is an anthrrit',. He is a on l'ia\(iu Teche. the nidst typical and beautiful of Limis-

leader in all _-hnrities and pulilic mn\eiiiei;ts, is W'orsl^p- iana Idulard streams, .alidut 123 miles due west of Xew
hlcuis. It IS in tin- rich alln\ial cnast i-egion of .South-
ful Master (if the Mascuic 'jidge. and .Master df W'cirk, <

always ern Lduisian.a. which pnubices in pr.ifnsidu sugar, garden

K. (if 1', Mindful (if his duty, he Imlds >er\ice

on Jewish Xew \'ear and the Hay nf .\t(ineuient. and tinck. the orange, line timber, live sldck. hsh and game.
If is the c )untr\ jiro lucing the fanidus Tobascd pepper
idwa\s with a full ([uoruni.

.Mr. I'llgntti,r is from Kempen. i'rdvince df I'nsen.lier- sauce condimeut, kunwn like Lea iS: Perrin's. the W(>rld

man\-. Me was Ixirn there in 1853. and tlu're receix'ed his (wer.

eieiiieinar\ educatidu. He has heen in iuisiness for liini- Leon Mrevfus. born in Doruach. .Msace. Jidy 2> iSdd

self from .iiulh. [U- is a man well dli in this world's — tiiat is yj vcars ago — is one df its |)rincipal merchants.

goi.'ds. witii stores, dwellings and dther nrdjurties to his Me was educated abroad at the Ciewerbeschule. Muhl-
h.iusen. .Msace. and the/:f('/(' ih' /'/.Ma.tv (('((/ I'ilaturc.
credit.

lie is the father of a faniil>- of si.\ children, four boys He began ids business career as clerk for Abraham Klot7
iiiid twd girls. He had heen happily m.arried fnr seveu- at Kldtzville. I'.avou Lafourche, and remained there fotu"

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i
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S. AYRAUD. Proprietor. a
JAMES W. STEVENS, PreMdent. a
a
^W T. J. COCKE, Manager
30' Hennen Building N^w Orleans. La.

\ .^.>DONALDSONVILLE LA. .>=^ ^

^ J
You are hereby extended a verv
cordial invitation to visit

Cbeap Sony's
BiQ IWevv Store
Blue Grass
COL. A. D. VEGA.

(f—«ig^.^
Proprietor.
STABL ES.
ED. C. WATHEN, Proprietor.
Mississippi Street, Donaldson ville,
Head Railroad Ave. Louisiana.
»
— DEALER IN :-
HeH<)()uaners for Dry Gou<is, Ciotliinfi, Xiitioiis, >/

Laiiirs and Gents' FurnisliinK Goods, Shoes,

Hat,.i. .Millinery, Kloor Oil Cloth, Carpets, Kujis
Kentucky Mules
Trunks, Valises, Groceries, Tohacco. Cigars and
anil Fine Liquors. .Special Millinery Depart-
ment. Novelties on the 5, 10, 15 and 25c- counters
All transactious strictly cash.
and Horses. «.^«^*^
Telephone 16. New York Office, 74 Grand Street.
I
Mississippi and St. Patrick Streets,
f
P. S —All Passenuers. Visitors and persons lo Donuldsonville, La
are invited lo lake the cul-oti Ihrouijh the Vei-'a Buildini;.
Kojnw and cominsj from Ihe Ferry Boat. (Jraeie Kent Land-
DONALDSONVILLE, LA.
H ing, the Kiverand Railroad Avenue.

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\cars. At invsent ho i> eiii;a,i;i'il in tlic lianlwarc ami .MR. SOLO.MOX KLorz. X.\P( )LKOX\"lLLK.
mill supplies line at Xew llieria. a.nd is tlie v'ice-iiresident
Xapoleonviile is a thriving olace on tlie T & P. R. R..
of the Xew lljeria Milling \- 1 )eveli)i)inent Co. of Xew m tlie parish .jf Assumption, of alxjut 1,000 or 1,200 i^o/)-
llieria, a concern with a capital of $125,000 operating ulation. It has its seat amid iiighly fertile a.nd jji-oduc-
tue surroundings.
tiiree irrii^atniL; canals, six cotton .^ins, a cotton oil mill,
.\lr. Klolz is a distinguished merchant and business
a rice mill and syrup mill, lie married, ahout ten vears man of .Xa-poleonville, .\ssuniption parish, and that ])art
agxi. Miss Edith I.ev\, dauLjhter of I'. \. Levy, of Xew of the countrv. He is also notable in public and *'rater-
(Orleans, a \\ cll-!<no\\n merchant, lie is president of the ral .-itiairs. He is director of the I'.ank of \ssumplion
Cong reseat ion "Cates of l'ra\er," organized in iSy".
whicii e.vpeets to ha\e a circuit raliiji oflnciating in Xew
llieria. Lafourche, Crowley and ( )pelousas. and has
started the liuildiu',; of a synagogue, wliich was to he
dedicated h\ :<,'04.

MR. ICLES LACOrS. Oh" R( )ISLD.\LK.

Kosedale, L.a.. is on the T. vK: I', road, Iherville parish,

r.nd is Here lives Jules
the postoffice for Crosse Tete.
jacohs, general merchant, .Mason of Livonia Lodge, Xo,
J20. a K. of 1'. of Heron L'odge, o. j8, and a member of
Torn'o Synagogue, Xew )rleans. (

.Mr. Jacobs was Ijoni in Hombourg, ISas,. Lorraine

( tiien I'rance). 36 years ago. He was educated in th.nt
country after Cerniany .-icqnired it as spoil of the I'lauco-
I'lussian contest of 1871, He came to this country wdiile
stilla voulli and his first experience of his present iinc I )

was gained as clerk in the country store of .Henry Cohn,

Jr.. & Co.. Port Allen. .Mr. Jacobs is married and hap-
],ily SI ttleil in a growing place.

MR. DAVID STERN, AMITE CITY.

.\mite Cit\. Fangiijahoa parish, on tlie eastern side
in
ol the State, one of the growing cities of that region.
is

It is a summer and winter resort, a lumbering and farm-

SOLOMON KLOTZ.
ing center. That part of the State is known as "the and ol the Pioneer Printing Co., and does a verv exten-
Morida parishes," and is rapidlv developing. Many set- sive insurance business He is a member of the town
tlers are con";ing in, and the shipment of truck and small loiincil and of the Democratic Executive Committee. H<'
fruits to Xorthern markets is an est.aijlished industr\-, i^ a Mason in high standing and a member of the Knights

David Stern, born at .Xatchez, .Miss.. juUi 15. 1852. is of Pxtbias and Knig'.Us of Honor. He also iielongs to
a leading merchant and banker of .\niite so called for (
tiic L ). P.. B.
s

s'lort), where he has resided for many years. He was .Mr. Kloiz was born in Chrixillcr, .\ls;ice, ii. i85_|. He
educated in Xew ^'ork and. Texas, and his first emplov- came (wer tpiite young ainl began his busmess life here
nter.t was as a clerk for Charles Kaufmi'u iiV the Blue as a clerk. \Ve neetl hardly say after the mention of
.Store, near the French Market, Xew Orleans, In other his connections and nftiHation a'love. that he has been
words he liegan his business career at the bottom of the wiicllv successful.
ladcKr, and served ins business ap]irenticeship in the
g<}od old-fashioned retail wav.
.Mr. Storr, is president of the People's Hank MORGAN CITY, LA.
in .Amite,and has other imp(M-tant investments. He is a MoKG.\N City, on the Southern Pacific in St. Mary's
-Mason, a 1\. of P., a memlier of the Knights of Honor Parish, is situated on Berwick Bay into which Atclia-
and of the L ( ). li. H, of Summit, Miss. He is a man falaya makes its way. It is a prosperous little city
of family, of cliaritable disposition and is counted of the and port of about 4U0n inhabitants among whom the
solid clement of his part of the State. Jewish element is by no means last or least.

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BANKING
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Irrigating Pumps and Stationary Engines a Specialty- :*;
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L U. FoLSE, Vice-President.
AuGTTSTE Thibaut, Cashier.
F. J. RoDKiGUE, Asst. Cashier.
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Bank of Napoleonville,
NAPOLEONVILLE, LA.
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CAPITAL, $30,000.00

SURPLUS, $30,000.00

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^ Osciir Dugas, K. P. Miinsoii, Walter Guioii.
I.oiiis Corile, L. I.enniiet, Honoro liiigas,
I,. U. l-'olse. K. I,. Moiniot. .1. O. Oelaune,
A. 'J'raliaii, Lawrence H. Pugh.
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