W'''"' 
 
 |;!!(|:: 
 
 ':..r 
 
 I'll i 
 
 ■•'■n: 
 
 ;■; t 
 
 
 i.'j'.',-':; ; '■ ' 
 
 I'' 
 
 .(hi , 
 
 K-->x\ 
 
 till '.!;•">' ''I.. 
 
 iSll'i". 
 
 
 ■;i!:!'';i,!i,?:i:<,;r- ■'■ "' ■' 
 
 :i'iliii:i^;'!;i'!|!;:;:h;::;:i;ii-''i';! 
 
 
 
 I'll 
 
 ■it."!' 
 
 '■■•• i':'i •..; I. 
 
 .■; ''I' • 
 
 ||!ii;i;'H.^-'ii'#i;i!iii:;i^r--^ 
 
QassJEa^j 
 BookiIl5LcIdl. 
 
IvSiGTf 
 ol 1te 
 
 Jews of 
 
 \i 
 
 .JouKsian. 
 
m.The Jewish Ledger 
 
 ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY 
 
 Is the Recognized Organ of the Jewish People of the Southern States. 
 
 ■O Jf Tj. I IT WILL POST YOU AND YOUR FAMILY Q^^i^„^'U^ T?^*. T4- I 
 
 Kead It ! on jE^i^sHTppia and religious oubscribe ror It I 
 
 MATTERS. 
 
 PRICE, $2.00 PER ANNUM. 
 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION- 
 
 Address THE JEWISH LEDGER, 
 
 Merchant's Printing Company, Lt'd., Building, 
 Nos. 349-351 Carondelet Street, Phone Main 3751 -W. **'*^ 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Phone 2273 Y Main. 
 
 ♦'The Smalleif and Swellest Jn Towq" 
 
 Finnin s 
 
 641 Gravier Street. 
 
 Hot Tom and Jetty, and Hot Beef Tea When In Season. 
 A Datoty Cold Lonch Always Served. 
 
 Try Finnin's Famous Imperial Cocktail, 
 
 Quarts $J.40j Pints 75c. Half Pints 40e. 
 Dry or Sweet, No Home Should be Without a Bottle. 
 
 W. J. FINNIN, Proprietor. 
 E. J. FINNIN, Manager. 
 
 »i«!5S«fesfc=i!S!3C*=:^ifeSa6=:A:S»a* 
 
 We Serve Only the Best Goods ^ 
 
 To the Best People^^^^- 
 
 Mackie's 
 
 CENTRAL TEA and 
 COFFEE DEPOT, ^ 
 
 IMPORTED TEAS, FINE COFFEE, 
 
 BEST BUTTER. 
 Fine Prizes Given Away. J<J( All Goods Delivered. 
 
 F. W. MACKIE,.Prop. 
 
 Berlin and Magazine Streets, | 
 
 Telephone 6^ R-Up-Town. 
 
1- 
 
 ■-«' ~ ■(■[■ 
 
/ 
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 JEWS OF LOUISIANA. 
 
 Their Religious, 
 Civic, Charitable 
 and Patriotic Life. 
 
 Illustrated with magnificent 
 Half Tone Cuts of Promi- 
 nent Jews, Synagogues, Clubs, 
 Cemeteries and Institutions^^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 Compiled by 
 
 The Jewish Historical Publishing Company , 
 
 OF LOUISIANA. 
 P. O. Box 39. «- 228 ST. CHARLES STREET. 
 
 INOBIEO 
 
,ij J zJ 
 
 \ 
 
 Compliments of 
 
 Peter Heli^ege & GO;, 
 
 Brokers. 
 gOTlW^,, Stocks andBondsv 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1872. 
 
 PETER HELLWEGE. 
 PETER E. HELLWEGE. 
 RUDOLPH WOESTE. 
 
 Membtrs of 
 
 N. O. Cotton Exchange, 
 N. O. Stock Exchange, 
 N. O. Board of Trade, 
 N. Y. Cotton Exchange. 
 
 Associate Members 
 
 Liverpool Cotton Exchange. 
 
 BANK OF ORLEANS BUILDING 
 
 810 GRAVIE-R STREET. 
 
 /MEW ORLEA/NS, LA. 
 
 — 4 — 
 
A merican Laundry 70 
 
 A rn V, L. C '. 90 
 
 Ahrens&Ott Mfg-. Co 92 
 
 Adams the Hatter 118 
 
 Abita Spring- Water Co., Ltd 174 
 
 Agiirs & Kingsmore 182 
 
 Arnaud, A., Hotel and Restaurant 120 
 
 American Brewing; Co 86 
 
 Alexander, J. W., Alexandria 200 
 
 American Paint Works 48 
 
 Alabama Block Coal Co 172 
 
 Andrews, C. A. Andrews Coal Co 32 
 
 Aitken, Jas. H 60 
 
 Ascension Coal Co. , Paincourtville 202 
 
 Allen's F'oundry, Donaldsonville 202 
 
 Arbour, Jas. W., Baton Rouge 204 
 
 B 
 
 Ballejo Grocery Co 74 
 
 Bean, Albert. ." 110 
 
 Bradstreet Co.. H. C. Hailey, Supt 132 
 
 Bildstein, F , The Photo Eng-raving- Co 116 
 
 Brunnert, C. A 30 
 
 Blaffer, J. A 138 
 
 Baumann. August 140 
 
 Blanchard, R. E 144 
 
 Bircheimer. F . G 148 
 
 Backes, V. J. A 148 
 
 Bobet Bros 122 
 
 Barzana. J., the Jackson Cigar Factory 88 
 
 Babst, Chas. J 88 
 
 Bluefields Steamship Co., Ltd 96 
 
 Bedell, Chas. Bedell Structural Iron Works 96 
 
 Boylan Detective Agency 50 
 
 Biedenharn-Burnett Candy Co., Ltd 63 
 
 Bertrand, Fred, Varieties Hall and Bertrand's 
 
 Branch 64 
 
 Bertucci, F. & Son 56 
 
 Bryner & Gut 58 . 
 
 Burg-hardt, John David 64 
 
 Betat, Mrs. A 104 
 
 Blanchard & Files. Shreveport 180 
 
 Bain, H. H., Shreveport 186 
 
 Brewer, G. H , Shreveport 182 
 
 Batchelor's Kitchen, Shreveport 182 
 
 Brewer, C. J., Shrev. port 182 
 
 Brooks, F. M. & Son, Baton Rouge 198 
 
 Bank of Ascension, Donaldsonville 196 
 
 Bank of Baton Rouge 192 
 
 Bourgeois, Dr. C , Baton Rouge 102 
 
 Broghan-Doll Furniture Co., Shreveport 190 
 
 Baton Rouge Marble Works, A. A. Fridge 196 
 
 Bel, J. A. Bel Lumber Co., Lake Charles 212 
 
 Bank of Abbeville, Abbeville 221 
 
 Black Bros & Co., Crowley and Jennings 222 
 
 Bogan, James D , Baton Rouge 204 
 
 Belisle, Chas A , Baton Rouge 204 
 
 Bank of Abbeville, Abbeville 221 
 
 Barrett Mfg. Co 6 
 
 Bank of Donaldsonville 202 
 
 Blue Grass Stables, Ed C. Wathen, Prop., Don- 
 aldsonville 218 
 
 Bank of Napoleonville 223 
 
 c 
 
 Caddo-Rapides Lumber Co., Alexandria 200 
 
 Cafiero, Jos., Donaldsonville 200 
 
 Cage, Drew & Co., Ltd 60 
 
 Carre, W. W. Co., Ltd 104 
 
 Cartwright's Cafe 158 
 
 Carter's Drug Store, Shreveport 180 
 
 Cavaroc Co , Ltd 160 
 
 Central Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd 132 
 
 Chatwin Bros , Shreveport 184 
 
 Cloverlands Dairy Farm Ltd., Geo. A. Villere.. 116 
 
 Commercial National Bank, Shreveport 188 
 
 Commander, A 124 
 
 Coleman, H., Dudley 158 
 
 Commercial Hotel 144 
 
 Cook, M., & Son 40 
 
 Cooney, Wni T 40 
 
 Cosmopolitan Hotel 122 
 
 Cincinnati Furnishing House 80 
 
 Combination Toilet Stand Company, Ltd 106 
 
 Commander, E., Commander's Place 100 
 
 Crescent News and Hotel Co 120 
 
 Crescent City Steam Laundry 30 
 
 Crescent Forwarding & Transportation Co., Ltd. HO 
 
 Cusimano, A., & Co 58 
 
 Calcasieu National Bank, Lake Charles 210 
 
 Calcasieu Steam Bakery, 8. & J. Jessen & Co., 
 
 Lake Charles " 216 
 
 Carlson & Co., Lake Charles 216 
 
 Crowley Steam Laundry, Hoffman Bros., Crow- 
 
 le.y 222 
 
 Colomb, L. A. & Son, Agents, Hartford Fire 
 
 Insurance Co , Donaldsonville 206 
 
 Central Drug Store, L. Blanchard, Donaldson- 
 ville 208 
 
 Club Saloon, Donaldsonville 208 
 
 Casso, Lucien, Donaldsonville 202 
 
 Carter, I. C, Lake Charles ' • 214 
 
Barrett Manufacturing Co. 
 
 IMEW ORLEANS. 
 
 ROOFING 
 
 PAPERS 
 
 BUILDING 
 
 PAPERS 
 INSULATING 
 
 PAPERS 
 
 SLATER'S 
 
 FELTS 
 
 DEADENING 
 FELTS 
 
 ROOFING 
 
 PITCH 
 
 ROOFING 
 
 ASPHALT 
 
 ROOFING 
 GUM 
 
 ROOFING 
 
 2-PLY 
 ROOFING 
 
 3-PLY 
 
 WE ARE THE LAHGEST MANU- 
 FACTUKERS OF OCK LINE OF 
 AL\TEHLALS IX THE WUKLD. 
 
 GET OUR CATALOGUE and PRICE LIST. 
 
 The Guarantee of Excellence 
 
 Victor Talking: Machines. 
 
 K 
 
 " "HIS MASTER'S VOICE" 
 
 g AUTOMATIC NUMBERING MACHINES, 
 [}J ELECTRIC BELLS, PUSHBUTTONS, j" 
 TEREGRAPH LEARNERS SETS. 5l 
 
 ELECTRIC FANS, ANNUNCIATORS, 
 
 Edison Phonographs, 
 Records and Supplies. 
 
 Electrical Supplies and Construction. 
 
 Moving Picture Machines, Films and Slides. 
 
 't 
 
 /' 
 
 BURGLAR ALARMS 
 
 / HOUSE TELEPHONES, g 
 
 S WATCHMEN'S CLOCKS, ^ 
 
 ^ X RAY APPARATUS. S 
 
 Everything Pertaining to Talking Machines Everything Electrical 
 
 National Automatic Fire Alarm Co., of La. 
 
 ^ 
 
 EDISON BUILDING, 6 J 4-6 J 8 GRAVIER STREET, 
 
 .* J^ Jt .* NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 -,^<' 
 
 — () 
 
^ ^ ^ ^ List of Subscribers and Advertisers ^ ^ ^ ^^ 
 
 D 
 
 Douylas. W. H 114 
 
 Dwyer Bros 26 
 
 Dunn, M. F 134 
 
 Diez, E. J 138 
 
 Duffy Trunk Co. , Ltd 144 
 
 Desangles J. B 138 
 
 Darre, J. M 148 
 
 Dumser, A., & Co. 144 
 
 Doug-las, John 152 
 
 DeBen, J. A.. & Son • 104 
 
 Donaldsonville Broom Factory, Donaldsonville ■ 200 
 
 Downman, K. K 12f> 
 
 IJunbar, G. W. Dunbar's Sons 42 
 
 Desmaries, P 158 
 
 Deere, John Deere Plow Co 68 
 
 Dannemann's Pharmacies 56 
 
 Dunn, the W. P. Dunn Brick and Supply Co., 
 
 Lake Charles 216 
 
 Donaldsonville Cooperage Co., Ltd , Donaldson- 
 ville 208 
 
 Donaldsonville Moss Collar Co., Ltd., Donald- 
 sonville 208 
 
 Donaldsonville Ice Co., Ltd., Donaldsonville... 202 
 
 Glenny, L R , & Co 
 
 Goodman, B. F.. Baton Rouge 
 
 Garcia Stationery Co , Ltd 
 
 Groetsch. Julius 
 
 Galatoire's Restaurant 
 
 (iriftin, Thos 
 
 (irag-ard Geo R., (iragard Co 
 
 Girault. W. W 
 
 Gibbons, J. T 
 
 Gayle, W. J., & Co 
 
 Garson Bros., Shreveport 
 
 Geddes. Mrs. J , Gilbert-Geddes, Baton Rouge. 
 
 (irant Furniture i o 
 
 Gulf Mfg. Co 
 
 Green, W. B. Green Photo Supply Co 
 
 Ghisalberti Bros 
 
 (lermania Insurance Co 
 
 Glenny & Castanedo 
 
 Gulf Bag Co., Ltd 
 
 Germania National Bank 
 
 (juiraud. Max 
 
 Gonzales, F. A.'s Son 
 
 Godbold. F. C 
 
 Graner, Wm 
 
 Gelpi, Paul & Son 
 
 Garlick, J 
 
 George, J. Fred., Lake Charles 
 
 44 
 192 
 124 
 135 
 170 
 130 
 
 58 
 124 
 
 46 
 172 
 186 
 194 
 166 
 106 
 162 
 
 80 
 166 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 164 
 134 
 
 lis 
 
 152 
 
 152 
 
 68 
 
 68 
 
 216 
 
 Ellis, C. P. & Co :••.••■■ 
 
 Electra Water Company, Limited. 
 
 Eichling. C W 
 
 Eble, Chas 
 
 Exchange Bank of Natchitoches . 
 
 Ford, F. Codman 
 
 Falk, G. & Co 
 
 Favrot & Livaudais 
 
 Fabacher, Peter 
 
 Ferry, John 
 
 Finan, J 
 
 Fabacher's Restaurant and Hotel . . . 
 
 Ferret, J 
 
 Fox, the Hatter 
 
 Frankenbush, J. M. & Sons .... . . 
 
 Falvy-Wilson Company, Limited.- • 
 
 Feahney, Chas 
 
 Farmers' Consolidated Dairy Co. . . . 
 
 Forstall, Joe 
 
 Frigerio, Widow Louis 
 
 Feldner, H. W. 
 
 First National Bank, Baton Rouge. 
 
 Fridge, S. C. , Baton Rouge 
 
 First National Bank, Lake' Charles. 
 
 Geoghegan & Co 
 
 Germania Savings Bank and Trust Co. 
 Griswold, A. B. & Co 
 
 28 
 116 
 160 
 170 
 
 9 7-7 
 
 114 
 
 30 
 
 34 
 
 130 
 
 138 
 
 140 
 
 156 
 
 l60 
 
 58 
 
 58 
 
 52 
 
 56 
 
 38 
 
 40 
 
 174 
 
 170 
 
 194 
 
 198 
 
 212 
 
 106 
 
 158 
 
 42 
 
 H 
 
 Hotel Denechaud 
 
 Hartwell, C. C, Lynn Filters 
 
 Hart, Toby 
 
 Hasam Box Factory, The 
 
 Hodgson, Harry H", Remington Typewriter . . .. 
 
 Hay ward, Vick & Clark 
 
 Home Insurance Co 
 
 Hardie, Wm. T. & Co 
 
 Hitchler-Beattie 
 
 Hageni, A 
 
 Holzer, R. G 
 
 Heiderich, Martin 
 
 Hatry, G. T 
 
 Hinrichs, J. H 
 
 Holmes, D. H. Holmes Co 
 
 Hardie, John T. Hardie's Sons & Co 
 
 Heath, Schwartz & Co., Ltd 
 
 Harrison Line 
 
 Hunsinger, Jno. H 
 
 Home fee & Distilled Water Mfg. Co., Ltd. . .. 
 
 Herfartli Bros 
 
 Hopkins, John P 
 
 Hoehn & Dieth 
 
 Hibernia Ins. Co 
 
 Hyatt, A. W., Stationery Mfg. Co., Ltd 
 
 Hkrdwick, Chas. & Co., Ltd 
 
 Hale, E. A., Shreveport 
 
 Hearne, The Hearne Dry Goods Co., Shreveport 
 
 Hilliard Bros., Shreveport 
 
 Havslip, V. B , Alexandria 
 
 Heilwege, Peter & Co 
 
 Hart, Junius, Hart Piano House., Ltd 
 
 104 
 114 
 
 108 
 
 80 
 
 20 
 
 170 
 
 28 
 
 32 
 
 134 
 
 134 
 
 146 
 
 158 
 
 92 
 
 94 
 
 72 
 
 66 
 
 72 
 
 12 
 
 62 
 
 34 
 
 40 
 
 40 
 
 44 
 
 II <0 
 
 104 
 
 106 
 
 182 
 
 188 
 
 190 
 
 2U0 
 
 4 
 
 16 
 
United States Depositary, Fiscal Agent City of New Orleans- 
 
 Whitney National Bank, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 CAPITAL $ 400,0C0.00 
 
 SURPLUS 1,650,000.00 
 
 UNDIVIDED PROFITS 125,292.77 
 
 JAWES T. HAYDEN. PEARL WIGHT, JOHN E. BCUDEN. Jr. J. M. PAGAUD. 
 
 President. Vice-Presteent. 2nd Vice-President. Cashier. 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 GEO. Q. WHITNEY. JNO. S. RAINEY, President National Acid Co 
 
 JAMES B. SINNOTT. of Smith Bros. Co.. Ltd. MAURICE STERN, of Lehman. Stern Co.. Ltd. 
 
 PEARL WIGHT, of Woodward. Wight &Co . Ltd. GUS LEHMANN. Sr.. of A. Lehmann & Co. 
 
 I. S. WEST. ANDREW W. PRESTON, 
 JAMES T. HAYDEN. President United Fruit Company. 
 
 Foreign Exchange Department. 
 
 GILBERT H. GREEN, Manager 
 
 Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold. Drafts Sold on all European Cities. Travelers' Circular Letters 
 of'Credit, and Commercial Letters of Credit Issued. Available in all Parts of the World. 
 
 Transfer by Cable Made to All Points. 
 
 CORRESPONDENTS : 
 
 The London City and Midland Bank. Ltd. - - London and Liverpool. 
 
 Parr's Bank. Limited. - - - . . London and Liverpool- 
 
 Credit Lyonnais. - - - . . Paris 
 
 Duetsche Bank, - - ... . Berlin. 
 
 SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS. 
 
 With the Most Modern Safeguards and Conveniences for the Storage of Securities. Wills. 
 Leases. Deeds. Insurance Policies, Silverware and Other Valuables. 
 
.^ ^%e ^ ^ List of Subscribers and Advertisers ^ -jA ^ ^>e 
 
 I 
 
 Interior Decorating- Co S4 
 
 Interstate Trust & t5anking- Co 154 
 
 Independent Oil Retininj,' Co HiO 
 
 "Inn," Shreveport. R. Collins. Jr ISO 
 
 Illinois Central R. R. and Miss. Valley R R... 128 
 
 Illinois Life Ins. Co., T. J. Cocke, Mgr 218 
 
 J 
 
 Jahncke, F 30 
 
 Johnson, F. Johnson & Son Co . Ltd 70 
 
 Joachiiii, J ij(, 
 
 Jensen, P. H 1 24 
 
 Johnson, F Johnson & Son Co., Ltd It, 2 
 
 K 
 
 Kuhnert, Gus. Baton Rouge \')b 
 
 Klumpp, W. F.. & Co. 114 
 
 Kuntz, Emile, St. Charles Mansion 1U8 
 
 Kellv. Thos J 142 
 
 Koretke. F. H.. Koretke Brass & Mfg. Co., Ltd. 1-1(. 
 
 Kel'ey, James M 14S 
 
 Kearney, J. Watts & Sons 4f> 
 
 Kleindorf, S Si, 
 
 Klaw & Erlanger's 'I'heattes, The 'i'ulane and 
 
 Crescent 102 
 
 L 
 
 Kolb's Saloon K.s 
 
 La. Glass & Mirror Works, Ltd 110 
 
 Leber, Philipp & Co 84 
 
 Longshore & Co 170 
 
 Lewis, H. F. & Co 78 
 
 Lister, Edwin 144 
 
 Louisiana Excavating: & Manufacturing Co . . . . 148 
 
 Lochte, Henry Lochte Co., Ltd 144 
 
 Louisiana National Bank ISO 
 
 Laux, H. J & Co 144 
 
 Louisiana Tobacco Co 70 
 
 Loubat Glassware and Cork Co , Ltd 1(,0 
 
 Langhoff Bros 92 
 
 Lambour, M (,§ 
 
 Lacey, J. D & Co 52 
 
 Leidenheimer. (ieo H Sf, 
 
 Larroque, J. S. Napoleon Cigar Store 40 
 
 Long, N J 100 
 
 Le.ihy. Geo M 102 
 
 r^egendre, J. A., Medical Bldg. Pharniucy . . . 40 
 
 Lafayette Fire Insurance Co ". 10,2 
 
 Lemley, David 1 58 
 
 L'Hote Lumber Mfg. Co 1(,8 
 
 Lake Charles Ice, Lig-ht & Water Works, Lake 
 
 Charles 214 
 
 Lake Charles Steam Laundry, W. F. Gauthier, 
 
 Lake Charles 214 
 
 Lake Charles Planing Mill, G. Mutersbaugh, 
 
 Lake Charles 214 
 
 Lake Charles National Bank. Lake Charles ... . 
 Lake Charles Carriage & Implement Co., Ltd., 
 
 Lake Charles 
 
 Lake Chdrles Steam Laundry, Lake Charles. . . . 
 
 M 
 
 McKendrick, Thos 
 
 Magee & Dow 
 
 Maxwell Co , The 
 
 Mandot, John, •'Bontemps" Dye Works. 
 
 Mancuso, B ". 
 
 Mathes, L . & Co 
 
 Miller, A. K. &Co 
 
 Melrose Dairy Farm, Miss Martha Hottinger. 
 McDermott Surgical Instrument Co , The.. .. 
 Maloney. K'obert J 
 
 Moran, l^hos. J 
 
 MuUer Furniture Mfg. Co., The 
 
 McArdle, P. H 
 
 McCloskev Bros 
 
 Marion's Drug Store 
 
 Mims, J. C 
 
 Moir. W. F T 
 
 Misse. A ug. H 
 
 Morris J. C. Morris Co 
 
 Mercier. I). Mercier's Sons 
 
 N! anion & Co 
 
 Mehle & Kausler 
 
 Murphy Lumber Co. The 
 
 Macon & Kernaghan 
 
 Miller's Billiard Hall !... 
 
 McMahon, Patrick J 
 
 Manahan. L. N., Shreveport 
 
 Model Steam Laundry Co . Shreveport 
 
 Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke 
 
 Co . Win. O'Day. Raton Kouge 
 
 Miller, W. W.. Baton Rouge 
 
 Miller, H. W., Grocery Co.^ Lake Charles 
 
 Mathieu, J. H., Lake'Charles . 
 
 Maurin. The Co , Ltd., Donaldsonville 
 
 .Maurin. ('has., Donaldsonville 
 
 Menge Patent Pump, J W. Westerfield, Mgr.. 
 Monroe Hotel Co , C L. Bradley, Mgr , Monroe 
 
 Monroe Paint & Wall Paper Co , Monroe 
 
 Mercliants & Farmers Bank, Monroe 
 
 N 
 
 Newcomb, H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial Col- 
 lege 112 
 
 New Orleans Roofing and Metal Works SO 
 
 Nunn, Fred. B 34 
 
 New Orleans Stencil Works 130 
 
 New Orleans Railways Co ]3f, 
 
 New Orleans Transfer, The, W.C.Faust 148 
 
 New Orleans Worsted Store. Geo. A. Hoffman.. 152 
 
 New Orleans Furniture Mfg. Co 2(> 
 
 New Orleans Warehouse Co 5g 
 
 New Orleans Brewing Co t,H 
 
 New Orleans Tent and Awning Co., Ltd 100 
 
 21() 
 2U) 
 
 152 
 
 114 
 
 82 
 
 118 
 
 34 
 
 140 
 
 13() 
 
 142 
 
 8(> 
 
 9f> 
 
 118 
 
 •JO 
 
 Sf> 
 
 42 
 
 r>o 
 
 48 
 
 50 
 
 56 
 
 42 
 
 38 
 
 98 
 
 48 
 
 98 
 
 100 
 
 172 
 
 172 
 
 188 
 
 184 
 
 19f> 
 198 
 210' 
 216 
 206 
 20f> 
 11 
 220 
 220- 
 220 
 
f^ ^ ^ ^ List of Subscribers and Advertisers ^^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 New Orleans National Bank 1(>8 
 
 National Blow Pipe and Mf-r. Co , Ltd 102 
 
 Norton. E. W 152 
 
 Xicliolls Hotel, Fred. Rog-ge, Proprietor. Baton 
 
 Rou g^e 2i 14 
 
 Nicholas & Renz, Lake Charles 21li 
 
 National Automatic Fire .Alarm Co <i 
 
 o 
 
 Otto. J. N. W 
 
 O'Connor & Co . Ltd 
 
 Quo, .1. S J 
 
 Onorato. J L • . . 
 
 O Shee Bros.. Alexandria 
 
 O'Brien. Peter 
 
 Oteri. S 
 
 Ozone Spring' Water 
 
 (^pelousas National Bank. Opelousas 
 
 Pescud. Peter F 
 
 Philadelphia Ice Cream Co 
 
 Peters. S. J. Peters Livery Co 
 
 Postal Telegraph-Cable Co 
 
 Pelican E-xxavating Co 
 
 Parker. Jno. M. & Co 
 
 Prevost, James. Continental Fire Lisnrance Co. 
 
 of New York 
 
 Pfister. Louis 
 
 Putnam & King, Ltd 
 
 Peoples Savings Bank Baton Rouge 
 
 Pistorius, Joe 
 
 Pumilia, L 
 
 Parker-Blake Co.. Ltd 
 
 Palmer, K. C, & Co 
 
 t'erry Bridges & Snyder, Shreveport 
 
 Peojiles Bank. Natchitoches 
 
 PlicxMii.x. The. W. G. Tebault Jr , Mgr 
 
 Perkins & Miller Co., Ltd., Lake Charles 
 
 Redwitz, Cafe-Restaurant, The 
 
 K'ed River Line . . . . 
 
 Roder, Hcnrv 
 
 Robbert, H."j • ■ 
 
 Ramsey Piano Mfg. Company 
 
 Reynolds, L 
 
 Reliage, J. A., Co., Ltd 
 
 Reiss. Jas J Co 
 
 K'emington Consti uction Co 
 
 Rivet, F. P 
 
 Rapp, A. J 
 
 Rabito, A. P 
 
 Royal Carpet Cleaning Co , Louis F. Leonhard. 
 
 Ruby. The Old Ruby 
 
 Ramos, H. C 
 
 Roumain. J. K.. Baton Rouge 
 
 13S 
 
 142 
 
 1(1-1 
 
 1(14 
 
 2(0 
 
 58 
 
 50 
 
 4U 
 
 221 
 
 82 
 
 78 
 
 142 
 
 15U 
 
 152 
 
 22 
 
 K.O 
 
 14() 
 
 MO 
 
 l')4 
 
 '14 
 
 (.4 
 
 86 
 
 36 
 
 ISh 
 
 2(10 
 
 '»S 
 
 210 
 
 114 
 
 82 
 
 lis 
 
 13S 
 
 15<) 
 
 64 
 
 64 
 
 64 
 
 t.O 
 
 48 
 
 .^8 
 
 36 
 
 42 
 
 124 
 
 174 
 
 V>2 
 
 Rapides Steam Laundry. Alexandria 
 Ronaldsons Agency. Ltd.. Baton K'ouge. 
 Rathoffs Steam Bakerv, Uonaldsonville . . 
 
 Standard Brewing Co 
 
 Solari A M. & .i., Ivtd 
 
 Smith. .Marshall J.. & Co 
 
 Schwab. John, Schwabs Music House (The 
 
 Connor Piano) 
 
 Siiarez. Antonio 
 
 Salmen Brick and Lumber Co 
 
 Schwartz. Joseph Schwartz Co , Ltd 
 
 Shumard .\L A. & Co.. German Ins. Co 
 
 Stewart, S. J 
 
 Sell Inter. E 
 
 St. Clair's Cafe, L. St. Clair 
 
 Sleekier. J Steckler Seed Co 
 
 Simon Photographer 
 
 S. B. Stewart 
 
 Segassie A. I'. J 
 
 Southern Mirror WorUs . 
 
 Sparks Bros. & .VlcCec 
 
 Seebold. W. E 
 
 Schneidau Paul M., Monongahela River Coal 
 
 an 1 Coke Co 
 
 Stern's Auction l^xchange 
 
 Seidel Furniture Mfg. Co 
 
 Spearing & Co 
 
 Sport Towel Supply Co.. Shreveport 
 
 Seymour & Pattison 
 
 Singernian, Samuel 
 
 Smith's Studio 
 
 Smith. J. C 
 
 Scales. E. G. & Co 
 
 Schnetzer. Jos., Cale Restaurant Vonderbank .- 
 
 Spaar, J A . Old Woods House 
 
 Singer Sewing Machines 
 
 Scalafani, Geo 
 
 Swiss Steam Laundry 
 
 Simui':, J D. & Sons 
 
 Sclioen. .facoli & Son .... 
 
 St. Charles Hotel A R Blakely & Co , Ltd ... 
 
 Schcrer, l'"red 
 
 Stanton. T. J 
 
 Stanford, Gabriel D., Lake Charles 
 
 Stroube, H. R , Baton Rouge 
 
 Sam's Saloon, Dona Idsonvilie 
 
 St. Landry State B. ink, Oiielousas 
 
 200 
 108 
 202 
 
 110 
 110 
 112 
 
 114 
 
 156 
 
 80 
 
 74 
 
 76 
 
 t-0 
 
 130 
 
 118 
 
 120 
 
 144 
 
 124 
 
 146 
 
 146 
 
 152 
 
 88 
 
 70 
 
 15S 
 
 94 
 
 40 
 
 ISO 
 
 142 
 
 74 
 
 168 
 
 !24 
 
 1,^8 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 
 66 
 
 (i2 
 
 6S 
 
 64 
 
 62 
 
 54 
 
 56 
 
 44 
 
 214 
 
 204 
 
 218 
 
 221 
 
 Teutonia Insurance Co 166 
 
 Tujaque, Justin 94 
 
 T^iylur, J D. 
 Trov Laundry Co. 
 
 Ltd . 
 
 88 
 66 
 
 Thompson, W. B. & Co 44 
 
 Tulane University of Louisiana 46 
 
 Tarrant, L. & Co 34 
 
 Trepagnier, F. L. & Bro.. Donaldsonville 206 
 
 Triche, C. L . Napokonville 2ii2 
 
 — 10 
 
di dn d^ d^ List of Subscribers and Advertisers ^ ^ ^ *^ 
 
 I I Wevdig. Martin & Son •^^' 
 
 ^ Weiss, F. J •+•' 
 
 ,. ,. .,, Wellmim & Co., Shrevcport 1'"' 
 
 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 
 
 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 . Ltd US 
 
 Virgin, U. J ■''•' 
 
 Vega, Col A. I) , • 'Cheap Toneys" New Stinv. ^ X 
 
 Donaldsonville 2FS 
 
 X-Ray Drug Store, Donaldsonville 204 
 
 W Y 
 
 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 . ■ IIS — 
 
 Wayand's Grocery F^4 ^ 
 
 Williams. Richardson Co 72 
 
 Weiblen. Albert '-2 Zengel & Heiderich '^ft 
 
 W'alter, D. A 58 Zansler, Edw. L . . . . - ^ • ■_ ^^i 
 
 William's Pharmacy 100 Zimnierinann's Building Si)eciiilties Co U)- 
 
 ...THE MENGE PATENT PUMP... 
 
 FOR DRAINAGE and IRRIGATION, 
 
 Manufadure d_£olely by gstatC of JOS. MENGE, 
 
 J. W. WESTERFIELD, Manager. 
 No . 631 TchoupitOulaS Street , Wdle for^Catak.gu^a nd Full Particulars , NcwOrlcanS, La 
 
^ 
 
 Abraham, Henry 87 
 
 Adler, Wm ! 84 
 
 Ashner. I. W 115 
 
 Aletrino, Gerson 117 
 
 Aschaflfenburg-. A lf>4 
 
 Abraham. Morris 1 73 
 
 Abraham. Nathan, Lafayette 20'» 
 
 B 
 
 Braunfekl, Rev. Julius 105 
 
 Blum, Sam 117 
 
 Bhiom, Dr. J. D ' 139 
 
 Block, Henrv 173 
 
 Bauer, Achille. Alexandria 205 
 
 Bernstein, Henry. Monroe 207 
 
 Blum, Joseph, Crowley 209 
 
 Blum, Samuel, Donaldsonville 197 
 
 c 
 
 Cerf, Samson 157 
 
 Cain, Jos L. 109 
 
 Cahn, Edgar L 135 
 
 Cohn, Chas. W 1 78 
 
 D 
 
 Dreyfus, Leon, New Iberia 217 
 
 Dreyfus, Jule<, New Iberia 217 
 
 Davis, Isadore H., Lake Charles 211 
 
 Dinkelspiel, Max 123 
 
 E 
 
 Elling-er, Emil, Rabbi. Alexandria 203 
 
 Eng:utter. Leopold, of Newellton ... 217 
 
 F 
 
 Florsheim, Henry, Shreveport 189 
 
 Falk, Benjamin, Lafayette 205 
 
 Farrnbacher, Jacob, Baton Roug-e 195 
 
 Farrnbacher, S., Baton Rouge 195 
 
 G 
 
 Godchaux, Albert 93 
 
 Gumbei. Simon 97 
 
 Goetz, Edward 155 
 
 Gumbei. Ferdinand 159 
 
 Greenwall. Henry 163 
 
 Gutmann, Euif. H 163 
 
 Good. Adolph 165 
 
 Goldstein, David 165 
 
 Gradwohl. Meyer H 169 
 
 (i umbel, Henry E 173 
 
 Godchaux, Paul L 125 
 
 Heimburg Rev. I., Monroe 207 
 
 Hoffman. Wolf. Lake Charles 213 
 
 Heller. Rev. Max 81 
 
 Heidenheim. August 91 
 
 Heidenheim. M 101 
 
 Hevmann, Michel lui 
 
 Hollander, M. F 143 
 
 Hyman, Samuel 159 
 
 H'lller. Alfred 123 
 
 Herold, Simon, of Shreveport 189 
 
 Herold, Herman, Shreveport 191 
 
 I 
 
 Israel, Melville, Donaldsonville 199 
 
 Israel, Mayrr 137 
 
 Isaacs. M arx ... 135 
 
 Isaacson. Simon, Palmetto 217 
 
 Jacobson, Rabbi M P., Shreveport 187 
 
 Jacob, S. , Opelousas 209 
 
 Jacobs, Jules, Rosedale 219 
 
 K 
 
 Krower, L 93 
 
 Kahn, Gabriel 99 
 
 Kreeger. Dr. Geo 109 
 
 Kaufman. Chas .A 12'* 
 
 Kohlmann. Ur Wm 131 
 
 Kahn. Edgar M 135 
 
 Kahn. (^oleman H . 149 
 
 Kursheedt, Col E.I 153 
 
 Kohn. Jos 11)5 
 
 Kaufman. Ferd 178 
 
 Keiffer. Sigmund 181 
 
 Kahn. Arthur T.. Shreveport 187 
 
 Kahn, Sol. Magnolia 187 
 
 Kaufman. Leopold. Lake Charles 211 
 
 Kaufman. Sam'l, Lake Charles 213 
 
 12 
 
^ ^ ^ t«* Index to Portraits and Biographies «j* e^ ^^ .^ 
 
 Kahn, Tlieodore, Jenning's 217 
 
 Klotz, Sol., Napoleonvilie 2U) 
 
 Klein, M. Kabbi. Doiuildsoiiville 147 
 
 Klotz, Abraham, Donaldsonville V)'> 
 
 Lehman, Gus, Sr 125 
 
 Leucht, Rev. Dr. Isaac L 83 
 
 Lew, Leopold 107 
 
 Lazard, C 129 
 
 Lehman. Gus, Jr 133 
 
 Lemle, Gustav 133 
 
 Levy, Samuel 141 
 
 Liclitenstein, D. M 153 
 
 Lazarus, Judg-e H. L 154 
 
 Levy, Lazare Ill 
 
 Lazard, Jacob C Ifil 
 
 LichtentBg, Ale.x H 1(.3 
 
 Levy, Felix N 171 
 
 Loeb, I'lrnest M. ■ 175 
 
 Levy. M. M Gibson and Donner 195 
 
 Lehminn. Mver 177 
 
 Lazard. Dr. Jules 179 
 
 Landauer, Elias 181 
 
 Levy, Lazare 181 
 
 Lichtenstein. I M 183 
 
 Lenostield, W. H 183 
 
 Levin, Julius, Alexandria 201 
 
 Levy, V'ictor, Lafayette 2ii5 
 
 Levy, Armind, [.ake Charles. 213 
 
 Levy, Abe, Elkinsville 195 
 
 M 
 
 Moore. Hon. I. D 
 
 Marx. Sol . 
 
 Metz, Dr. A. L 
 
 Moses, Jos. \V 
 
 Moss, H artwig- 
 
 Meyer, Manfred 
 
 Mayer. Abe 
 
 Moss, Will 
 
 Marx. A rchibald A 
 
 Moses Gustave 
 
 Magner, Jos 
 
 Marks, Jos. H 
 
 Mayer, Gus 
 
 Meyer, Gen. Adolph, M. C. 
 
 Moses, Phineas . . 
 
 Marx, Morris 
 
 Meyer, Henry, Alonroe 
 
 Mayer, E. H.", Baton Koug-e 
 
 N 
 
 Newman, Isidore Sr. 
 Newman, Hart . . . . 
 
 Newman, J K 
 
 Neugass, Edwin . . . . 
 
 103 
 127 
 111 
 111 
 113 
 115 
 119 
 157 
 1()1 
 lf.7 
 175 
 176 
 121 
 177 
 179 
 178 
 2(i7 
 195 
 
 r7-79 
 151 
 137 
 181 
 
 o 
 
 Odenheimer, S 183 
 
 Offner, E 121 
 
 Ochs, Louis 149 
 
 P 
 
 Pfeiffer, Simon 139 
 
 Pforzlieimer, Henry, Donaldsonville 197 
 
 R 
 
 Rosen, Chas 109 
 
 Rose, Dan A 165 
 
 Rosenberg, Ephraim 178 
 
 Rosenliauni, Ben 179 
 
 Rosenthal, Jonas, Alexandria 203 
 
 Roos, Isaac, Opelousas 209 
 
 Roos, I ) , Opelousas 209 
 
 Rosenthal, Rabbi P. L., Baton Rouge 193 
 
 s 
 
 Stern, David, Amite City 219 
 
 Stern, M aurice 85 
 
 Shwartz, N. I 91 
 
 Stern. Henry 95 
 
 Strauss, Nat 90 
 
 Simon, Chas 113 
 
 Shwartz, S.J 145 
 
 Schwartz, Lazar 147 
 
 Silverstein, Samuel 149 
 
 Stern, Samuel H 143 
 
 Stern, Leonard L 151 
 
 Simon, Joseph 155 
 
 Schaefer, Cuthbert 161 
 
 Shwartz, Leon L 165 
 
 Samson, Max 167 
 
 Seiferth, Herman 176 
 
 Silverstein. Louis 177 
 
 Sch wartz, Sam 178 
 
 Steeg, A... 179 
 
 Schwartz, Leon E 181 
 
 Simon, Jake, Lake Charles 213 
 
 T 
 
 Trautman, Jac 103 
 
 Titche, Bernard 131 
 
 Tobias, Sylvan, Baton Rouge 193 
 
 Tobias, Maas, Donaldsonville 199 
 
 w 
 
 Warsaw, Rabbi Isidor, Lake Charles 211 
 
 Wolff, Julius C 141 
 
 Weil, L. H 145 
 
 Waldhorn, M 141 
 
 Weinberger, Frank J 147 
 
 Weinberger, Jacab 153 
 
 Weis, Julius 75 
 
 White, Dr. E A 1(,7 
 
 Wolf, M. J 169 
 
 Wolbrette. David 127 
 
 W^inter, Wm., Shreveport 191 
 
 Wise, Sol., Abbeville 215 
 
 Wise, Eli 215 
 
 — i: 
 
Index to History, Historical Characters and Institutions. 
 
 cWF'^'^i&i.^^ ^ 
 
 'J-^'=>^MiJ'~'^s^ 
 
 Association for tlie Relief of Jewish Widows 
 
 and Orphans, its orig-in 45 
 
 Benjamin, Judah P l"l-2l 
 
 Bensudon, Dr .los 25-27 
 
 B'nai B'rith, Order of 67 
 
 Crawcour, Dr. I. L 35 
 
 Cain, Lambert, B 35 • 
 
 Congregation Gates of Prayer (Jackson Ave- 
 nue Synagogue ) 41 
 
 Chebra Bikur Cholim 59 
 
 Congregation Tenieme Derech 61 
 
 Congregation Somech Nophlim 61 
 
 Congregations, Louisiana Interior Cities 185 222 
 
 Cemeteries, Jewish, Old and New 63 
 
 Dreyfous, Abel 35 
 
 Earh' Jewish Residents 19 
 
 Frank, Michel 35 
 
 Gemilath Chassodim 61 
 
 Gutheim, Rabbi Jas. K 25-29 
 
 God's Acres 63 
 
 Harmony Club 69 
 
 Hebrew Public School 59-()l 
 
 Hebrew Benevolent Society and Founders.. .. 45 
 
 Jackson Avenue Synagogue 41 
 
 Julius Weis Home 49 
 
 Jewish Charities of New Orleans. 45 
 
 Jewish Orphans Home 51-53 
 
 Joseph Street Cemetery (>s 
 
 Kursheedt, Gershom ... 23-27 
 
 Kaufman, Henry 35 
 
 Katz, Sigmund 
 
 Kohlmann, Jacob 
 
 Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Association 
 
 Lehman n 
 
 Marks. I'^erdinaiid 
 
 Marks. Alexander 
 
 Metairie Burial Place 
 
 Nefusah Yehudah 
 
 Newman, the Isidore Newman Manual Train- 
 ing School . . 
 
 Old Portugeese Cemetery .' 
 
 Old Rampart Street Synagogue 
 
 Old Jewish Families 
 
 Provident Aid Society 
 
 Phillips, Alex 
 
 Phillips, at the Battle of Chalmette 
 
 Portugeese Congregation 
 
 Pioneer Jewish Families 
 
 Rachel Benevolent Association 
 
 Simjjson, Meyer M 
 
 Scherck. Isaac 
 
 Shaarai Chesed 
 
 Shaarai Tetila 
 
 Touro, Judah 
 
 Touro, Judah and Bunker Hill Monument. 
 Temple Sinai 
 
 Touro Synagogue 
 
 'J'ouro Intirmary. . . . 
 
 Young Men's Hebrew Association. 
 Young Ladies' Sewing- Society.. .. 
 
 35 
 
 59 
 35 
 
 35 
 35 
 65 
 
 37 
 
 55 
 
 65 
 37 
 33 
 
 61 
 21-23 
 25 
 37 
 19 
 
 61 
 
 29-33 
 
 31-33 
 
 37 
 
 41 
 
 17-19 
 21 
 41 
 
 39-41 
 
 4r-47 
 
 71 
 61 
 
 — 14 
 
V-'v^- 
 
 
 A Word or Two of Introduction. 
 
 rv 
 
 '-r 
 
 ■^g^VERY class and element in the heterog-eneous 
 Jmm^ in)pulati()n of our Pelican State has had its 
 encomiast and memorialist — some one to in- 
 form the world of the industry, intelli'u-ence and 
 virtues of that particular stock, to recount its achieve- 
 ments, business, professional t)r individual; to make 
 known the honors acquired and institutions to be 
 credited to its exemplars. Every class do we say? 
 All but one. AH indeed, except the Jew. 
 
 Something' there seems of long--felt want in this 
 deficiency. Sketches there have been, it is true, 
 press notices, ephemeral contributions and publica- 
 tions, of transient interest and desultory character. 
 But no systematic, or at all complete or authentic 
 compilation. There is at all events, a certain void 
 which affords us aim and purpose. This purpose is 
 not, we may say, defensive. For the Israelites of 
 Louisiana, no special plea is needed. In this free 
 
 commonwealth, where they have always minyled on 
 even terms with the best and hig-hest, they would 
 be judg-ed if judg-ed at all, upon individual merit. 
 Here many have risen to eminence, not only among- 
 their own kind, but in the community g-enerally. 
 And this not alone as merchants, bankers and men 
 of every day affairs, but as Judges, Cong-ressmen, 
 Senators, Cabinet officers, —to the hig^hest, indeed, of 
 state places. 
 
 But not of high and mighty only, their lives and 
 actions, is our story. Rather a plain and simple, 
 straight-forward and unvarnished, matter of fact ac- 
 count, of the Jewish people of our State and city, 
 past and present. Of them and for them and for 
 their brethren of other States and places, and also, 
 all others interested. And as such, presented by its 
 Editor and Publishers without further formality of 
 ■pycainhiihim. 
 
 — 15 — 
 
Those Distiiiguislied 
 in the Pursuits of 
 LAW. MEDICINE 
 and COMMERCE. 
 
 of Louisiana 
 
 «•^kEL^'ING in the mustv archives of the past, g-ath- 
 J^J ering- frag-mentarv evidence here and there, un- 
 raveling" tangied skeins of historical allusions 
 briefly asservated, leg-ends, superstitions and the in- 
 numerable theories handed down througdiout the past 
 four centuries, it is a log^ical deduction that the Jews 
 were among; the hardy men who soug^ht out the New 
 World, the intellig-ence of a Jewish savant g^iving- to 
 Columbus the sug-g-estion of the voyag-e to the Setting 
 Sun and Jews' money, extorted from their coffers by 
 Isabella, furnishing" the Caravels. 
 
 In that era the Inquisition had its inception and in- 
 controvertible facts may be de- 
 duced convincing" that among" 
 the g-randies of Hispania and 
 Portug"al many adventurous 
 spirits were of the Jewish faith, 
 preferring the hardships in a 
 New World to the rigt)rs of in- 
 tolerance, if not death or abju- 
 ration of their ancestral faith 
 in the Land of their birth. 
 
 To-day it is a matter of spec- 
 ulation who were the first Jews 
 to follow Columbus in his vvy- 
 age of discovery. It is proven 
 that several of those close to 
 him in his memorable voyage 
 were Spanish Jews. However 
 this may be, it can be traced 
 with accuracy and positiveness 
 that the Jews of Spain and 
 their descendants in Holland 
 played an important part as 
 pioneers in opening up the New 
 World culminating in the civ- 
 ilization of the present. 
 
 It must be borne in mind 
 that the history of the "Early 
 Jews in Louisiana" practically 
 begins with the earliest history 
 of New Orleans, the then un- 
 known South and Southwest. 
 
 A hundred years ago a vast territory, now constitu- 
 ting notable States of the Union, known by the term 
 "the Louisiana Purchase" was acquired by the LTnited 
 States. 
 
 The story of the intrepid LaSalle "prepared ages 
 of happiness for inniuuerable generations of human 
 creatures" in a land, to-day, the haven of freemen who 
 owe no responsibility save to the Supreme Architect 
 of the Universe and, who, in the language of divine 
 scrit, may stand upright in the presence of their Maker 
 and their fellowmen. 
 
 Soldier, 
 
 JUDAH 
 Citizen a 
 
 It was in 1(>S2 that LaSalle, having descended the 
 Great Father of Waters, planted at the point where 
 the eddying river mingled with the briny waters of 
 Mexic's gulf the lily-spangled escutcheon of his King, 
 Louis XIV of France and gave the Pelican State and 
 unknown lands the name it has borne with credit to 
 this day, Louisiana. The prior discovery of DeSoto, 
 whereby Spain made an ineffectual protest availed 
 naught and France made good its claims. 
 
 In 171S De la Tour marked off the streets of Old 
 New Orleans at the bidding of Bienville, "the father 
 of Louisiana" and for years the early pioneers strug- 
 gled against floods and famines, 
 through Indian wars and in 
 1762 when France surrendered 
 every foot of territory on the 
 American continent, and, as 
 trophies of war, Louisiana 
 again wore the yoke of Spain, 
 "in July, 17f>'»," O'Reilley, the 
 Spanish Captain (General, with 
 his army and navy took formal 
 possession and organized the 
 government upon Spanish 
 principles. At that time New 
 Orleans had a motley settlement 
 of three thousand inhabitants, 
 one-fifth of whom were slaves. 
 That Jews were among these 
 pioneers, practically from the 
 first settlement inaugurated by 
 DeSoto and LaSalle cannot be 
 positively proven, but, what is 
 proof positive developes in the 
 fact that with the recurrence 
 of Spanish domination follow- 
 ing the year, 1762, Jewish 
 traders were already on the 
 scene of activity. 
 
 Conspicuous among these 
 were Depalachios and other 
 Spanish Jews, who were in- 
 timately associated with the commerce of that day 
 and to whom grants were made. 
 
 Following the Colonial War, the restless spirit of 
 adventure, the untrammeled life of the Pioneers, grad- 
 ually opened up the then /er9-a inro^nila, and, as the 
 flags of Spain, of England, trailed in the dust and 
 their defending hosts were swept away by Americans, 
 Jews from other of the colonies, possibly participants 
 in the incidents on many a bloody battle field "beat 
 their swords into plough shares" and, returning to 
 peaceful pursuits aided in laying the corner stone of 
 Louisiana's future prosperity. 
 
 TOURO, 
 nd Philanthropist 
 
 — 17 — 
 
Interstate Trust and Banking Co. 
 
 Capital and Surplus T^wo Million Dollars. 
 
 Savings Deposits of One Dollar ^^^ Up '^^ rds are alloived 3 per cent interest. 
 
 Accounts Subject to Check "Receive d and Loans Made at Lowest %ates . 
 
 Travelers' Letters of Credit issued. Available in <Aa Parts of the World. 
 
 OF^F^XCKI^SS 
 
 WALLACE B. KOtiERS, Pieside;.t 
 SOL WEXLER, Vice-President, 
 (i. H. HOVEY, Casl.ier 
 K. J. KKXXEDY, Assistaiu Casljier 
 L. R. BERGERON, Secretaty 
 HEXRY M. Y-QUNG, Trusl Officer 
 
 HOWE, SPENCER & COCKK. 
 General Counsel 
 
 DUFOUR & nUFOUR, 
 Associate Counsel 
 
 Agent for Care of Property, ^ ^"^-s and in t erest Collected and R emitted. 
 
 Executor and Tutor in Wills, Legal Depositary for Court Officers. 
 
 ^EJVTS SA.FE D ETOSIT 'BOXES, 
 
 I/f ITS FITtE AJ^V 'Bl/HGLA'R-P'ROOF VAULTS. 
 
 213 CAMP ST., 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 IS — 
 
The Early Jews in Lt)uisiana recoynizing the lib- 
 erty of conscience granted by the United States in the 
 Colonial days, no doubt realized that it was a question 
 of time when they too would be sheltered 'neath its 
 flag, and accessions were made to their number and 
 in turn, followini,"" the march of civilization these 
 pioneers, transplanted the faith of Abraham, Isaac and 
 Jacob througiidut the adjacent territory. 
 
 Legend asserts that as far back as 17S0 Jewish res- 
 idents of Old New Orleans had a Miii\iiii — a quorum 
 consisting of no less than ten adult males — for the 
 purpose of holding divine worship. Facts, stubborn 
 facts, prove conclusively, that when New Orleans, 
 was, as mapped out and designed bv De la Tour, 
 limited to Canal street on the upper side, Elvsian 
 Fields on the lower side and boundecl bv the river and 
 what is now known as N. Rampart street, nearlv a 
 century and a quarter ago, a House of Ciod was situ- 
 ated on Toulouse street, not' far removed from where 
 the Old Deutsche Shule, on N. 
 Rampart street was once situ- 
 ated, at this writing the site of 
 a laundry. 
 
 For how many years this 
 Min\an existed no one knows, 
 but this nucleus of Early Jews 
 in Louisiana was the forerun- 
 ner and afterwards the organ- 
 izing factor of Congregation 
 Shan!Ja7'iii Chesed — Gates of 
 Mercy — chartered in 182S and 
 for years occupying the Syna- 
 gog on N. Rampart street, al- 
 luded to above, and which ex- 
 ists to-dav in connection with 
 the CongTegation Dispersed of 
 Judali, known as the Touro 
 Synagog. 
 
 The Charter issued in 1828 
 was for a tenure of twenty-five 
 years and was renewed in 1853, 
 but, sad to sav, it was destroy- 
 ed when the State House in 
 Baton Rouge succumbed to lire 
 during the Civil War, and, 
 hence, important data, which 
 can never be replaced, was lost 
 to history. 
 
 It is the verdict of intelligent 
 people that the Jew has been a 
 
 most important factor in the development of every 
 land wherein he has reared a home. History is replete 
 with facts that the Jew, wherever he has resided, has 
 demonstrated a loyalty, a patriotism, a willingness to 
 share the modest honors of citizenship even at the 
 sacrilice of life. 
 
 The story of the Early Jews in Louisiana will never 
 be written as it should be. A few traditions, dis- 
 torted even if facts, legends that though bearing the 
 impress of facts cannot be accurately traced, a few 
 fragments, here and there, are all that is tangible of 
 the pioneers of Judah coming hither. 
 
 During the early part of the eighteenth century it 
 is not at all improbable that the Jews of Spain and 
 Portugal, driven ruthlessly from the land of their 
 birth, dispersed to more congenial climes. 
 
 Many of these refugees sought a haven and a new 
 tenure of life, first in Holland, afterwards attracted 
 to the Barbadoes, Jamaica and other Caribbean Is- 
 
 HON. JUDAH 
 Statesman 
 
 lands. From these sturdy and devout Jews are 
 descended the early settlers in the American Colonies 
 and there is no doubt that many of the notable fam- 
 ilies, descendants of whom are to-day residents of 
 various sections of Louisiana, can trace their ancestry 
 back to the first Jewish settlers of the Carolinas. 
 
 As far back as 1783, names most familiar to Louis- 
 ianians of to-dav are a matter of record in Charleston, 
 S. C, and there is no doubt that the descendants of 
 these early comers were among the active participants 
 in the stirring events of Old New Orleans before the 
 opening of the nineteenth century. 
 
 Conspicuous among these pioneers we note the fol- 
 lowing: Aaron, Aarons, Abraham, Alexander, Ben- 
 edict, Cohen, DaCosta, De La Motte, DeLeon, Depass, 
 (xomez, Harlev, Harris, Hart, Hyams, Isaacs, Jonas, 
 Joseph, Kursheedt, Lazarus, Levi, Levy, Lopez, 
 Marks, Moise, Moses, Myers, Nathan, Philips, Seixas, 
 Solomon, Suarez and Woolf. 
 
 An effort in unfolding the 
 dim vista of the past would no 
 doubt result in tracing a rela- 
 tionship between the men and 
 women of the present in Louis- 
 iana with these honored names 
 which are to-day a memory. 
 
 We content ourselves, how- 
 ever, in dealing with cherished 
 memories of the past, yet with- 
 in the range of recollection of 
 venerable and esteemed people 
 who are spared to us and whose 
 fondest recollections are asso- 
 ciated with the acquaintance, 
 with friendship, of names which 
 will never pass away from the 
 hearts of Louisianians, Judah 
 Touro and his contemporaries 
 and Judah P. Benjamin con- 
 spicuous figures in the history 
 of New Orleans nearly a hun- 
 dred years ago. 
 
 Conspicuous, in truth it may 
 be said, occupying alone a posi- 
 tion, which will be always 
 cherished by his coreligionists 
 in the United States, was 
 Judah Touro, soldier, citizen, 
 philanthropist, whose life and 
 works are a part of the history 
 of New Orleans, in the early days of the 19th century. 
 His father, Isaac Touro, was born in Jamaica and 
 was reared and educated in the refining influences of 
 a Jewish home, hallowed in the annals of the past, 
 and in his youth began the studies to fit himself for 
 the Jewish pulpit. Coming from Jamaica to the 
 United States before the eighteenth century was com- 
 pleted, he met and wedded a daughter of Michael 
 Moses Hays, a prominent merchant of Boston, Mass. 
 JUDAH TOURO was born of this union in 1775, in 
 Newport, R. I., where the Rev. Dr. Touro had ac- 
 cepted a call sometime before that period. 
 
 When the American Revolution began Isaac Touro 
 returned to Jamaica where he died seven years later, 
 his widow surviving him only four ^-ears. 
 
 At the time of his father's death, Judah Touro was 
 eight years old and when his fondly loved mother 
 joined the silent majority he had just attained his 
 twelfth year. His education and care was entrusted 
 
 P. BENJAHIN 
 and Jurist. 
 
 19 
 
Remington 
 
 TYPEWRITERS 
 
 do not depend on catchy talking points. 
 
 They owe their supremacy solely 
 to results; the amount and quality 
 of the work they do and the ease 
 and speed with which they do it. 
 
 HARRY H. HODGSON, 
 
 732 Common St New Orleans. La. 
 
 Typewriter Supplies., 
 
 I 
 
 J. D. HAYWARD. 
 
 JOHN F. CLARK. 
 
 T. J. STEWART. 
 New Okleaxs. 
 
 A. J. VIX. 
 
 HorsTox, Tex. 
 
 M. E. ANDREWS. 
 Houston, Tex. 
 
 corkespoxdexts : 
 New York 
 
 J. H. PARKER & CO. 
 
 Chicago 
 correspoxdexts : 
 
 BARTLETT FRAZIER&CO. 
 
 Haymard, Viek & Go. 
 
 COTTON, STOCKS. 
 BONDS, CHAIN, 
 
 PROVISIONS AND 
 COFFEE. 
 
 MAIN OFFICE-iKEW ORLEANS, 
 St. Charles Hotel. 
 
 MAIN BRANCH— HOUSTON. TEX. 
 
 Members NewOrleans Cotton Exchange. NewOrleans 
 Future Brokers" Association, New York Cotton 
 Exchang-e. Chicago Board of Trade, New York 
 Coffee Exchange. Associate Members Liverpool 
 Cotton Association. 
 
 —REFERENCES:— 
 
 Wliituej- XatioDHi Bank, 
 Hiberoiii Hank aod Trast 
 Company. New Orleans. 
 First National Itank, 
 Commercial National 
 Bank, Houston. Texas. 
 
 Private Wires to 
 
 New York, Chicago, 
 and principal points 
 of Texas, Louisiana 
 Mississippi, Arkan- 
 sas and Tennessee. 
 
 ELEPHONE 3578 
 
 2(1 — 
 
in Boston, in whose 
 his lirst business cx- 
 
 to his maternal jrrand-father 
 countintj- room the youth had 
 perience. 
 
 In 1S(I2. Ju(hih Touro came to New Orleans where 
 intey-rity, honesty and application won for him friends 
 and, later, fortune. He acquired wealth by his thrift 
 and industry and commanded the respect of his fel- 
 low citizens. 
 
 When the war of 1S15 was proclaimed he yolunteered 
 and when the British marched aifainst New Orleans 
 and the memorable onslaug-ht on the Field of Chal- 
 mette became history, Judah Touro was on the bat- 
 tlefield carrying- shot and shell from the mag-azine to 
 the battery, one of the most trying ordeals in a sol- 
 dier's career. While doing his duty as a soldier he 
 was severely wounded by being struck on the thigh 
 with a twelve pound shot. R. A. Shepherd, an inti- 
 mate friend and afterwards one of 
 his heirs and executor, who was 
 also serving the glorious cause 
 under Andrew Jackson, learning 
 of Touro's mishap, immediately 
 came to his assistance, bore him 
 off the battlefield, and, despite 
 the positive statement that Touro 
 was beyond surgical or medical 
 aid. Shepherd secured a cart and 
 had Touro conveyed to his pala- 
 tial home where he was cared for 
 and nursed back to life by the 
 Shepherd family. In later life 
 both these distinguished citizens 
 became millionaires and though 
 separate in religious beliefs were 
 always boon companions and in- 
 separable friends. 
 
 Judah Touro was a philan- 
 thropist who knew neither creed 
 or church in his generosity. He 
 purchased for Dr. Clapp, one of the 
 eminent divines of that period, a 
 church, on Canal street near a 
 Jewish Synagog of the Portuguese 
 Congregation Dispersed of Judah, 
 both structures occupying a site 
 near the corner of Canal and Bour- 
 bon streets. He left a bequest of 
 three thousand dollars to Dr. 
 Clapp and one half of his estate 
 was distributed among various 
 charitable institutions, including 
 
 handsome endowments to every Jewish Synagogue in 
 the United States at that epoch. 
 
 He demonstrated his fealty to the land of his birth, 
 his loyalty to the stars and stripes by contributing 
 ten thousand dollars to the Bunker Hill Monument. 
 A pretty incident is associated with this gift. Judah 
 Touro notified the Bunker Hill Monument Committee 
 that when all the money except ten thousand dollars 
 had been secured he would give personally the amount 
 specified. This was an incentive to increase the num- 
 ber of donors. 
 
 At the height of the excitement and interest in the 
 proposed monument, a great Fair was given by the 
 Ladies of Boston. The delegates from Louisiana pur- 
 chased the model of the monument, sent it to New 
 Orleans where it occupied a place of honor in a public 
 building which was destroyed afterwards by fire. 
 Judah Touro was a strict adherent of Judaism and 
 
 ALEXANDER PHILIPS 
 Soldier and flerchant. 
 
 took an active part in communal work of the day. It 
 was he who purchased the once palatial home of a cit- 
 izen, situated at the corner of Annunciation and 
 Gaiennie streets, and presented it to a promising young 
 physician, of that era. Dr. Jacob Bensadon, a South 
 Carolinian of a distinguished Portuguese family long 
 time resident in the colonies. 
 
 The Infirmary played an important part in the early 
 Jewish charities. Dr. Bensadon carried out the re- 
 quests of Judah Touro, that any indigent Jew, appli- 
 cant for admission, should be received and cared for 
 with the same attention as if he was a pay patient. 
 Further reference will be made to Dr. Bensadon and 
 the Old Infirmary under another caption. 
 
 Judah Touro died in the city of New Orleans on 
 January IS, 1854, and his remains were taken to New- 
 port. R. I., where they were intered, adjacent to a 
 monument erected to the memory 
 of his sainted father in the Jew- 
 ish cemetery. 
 
 He left a princely bequest to 
 the Synagogue and Infirmary in 
 New Orleans which to-day bears 
 his name. He bequeathed large 
 sums to many Jewish institutions 
 in different parts of the LTnited 
 States. 
 
 Fourteen charitable institutions 
 under the control of various Chris- 
 tian denominations received be- 
 quests averaging five thousand 
 dollars each. 
 
 The city of New Orleans was 
 made legatee of eighty thousand 
 dollars for its poor and only in 
 recent years was the bequest car- 
 ried out by the Touro-Shakes- 
 peare Alms House taking upon 
 itself the care of the city's poor, 
 who for years following the de- 
 struction of the Touro Alms 
 House during the Civil war, had 
 no haven — a haven reared for 
 them by Judah Touro. 
 
 In the annals of the past of 
 New Orleans, in the promise of a 
 future undreamt of by those of 
 its people of to-day, no one has 
 occupied, or will occupy the first 
 place in the hearts of its people 
 as long as the memory of Judah 
 be recalled. 
 
 PHILIP BENJAMIN was born in St. 
 
 Indies, August 11, 1811. His parents 
 
 1811 sailed from England 
 
 The mouth of the Missis- 
 
 Touro will 
 
 JUDAH 
 Croix, West 
 
 were English Jews, who in 
 to settle in New Orleans, 
 sippi river being blockaded by the British fleet, they 
 landed at St. Croix, where Mr. Benjamin was born. 
 His boyhood was passed in Wilmington, N. C. 
 
 In 1825, at the age of fourteen, he entered Yale, but 
 left the college three years later without receiving 
 a degree. He returned to New Orleans, where he 
 studied law in a notary's office, being admitted to the 
 bar, December 11, 1832. He did not at that time un- 
 dertake to engage actively in his profession 
 
 For some time he was engaged in 
 and compiling a digest of cases decided in the local 
 courts. This, at first intended for personal use only, 
 was subsequently enlarged and published as "A 
 
 teaching school 
 
 21 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 li'.ii'.ii'i!'. 
 
 
 
 
 LUCIITS. C. GLENNY. WALTEK CASTANEDO, M. E. ! 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 (5lennv Si Castaneto, 
 
 
 
 
 ^^ 
 
 Steam l^ower Jblants, 
 
 810=817 IHcnncn BuilMno, mew ©ileane, Ha. 
 
 ^^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 JNO. M. PAKKER. 
 
 JOS. A. AIKEY. 
 
 Jno. M. Parker & Co, 
 
 Cotton Factors, 
 
 81(5-818 UM()> 8TKEET, 817-81 9 PKKUIDO STKKKT, 
 
 >fl5W OKfr^EJA^TSCS, I^J^. 
 
Dig-est of Reported Decisions of the Supreme Court of 
 the Late Territory of Orleans and the Supreme Court 
 of Louisiana" ( 18.^4 ). 
 
 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 trip 
 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 
 Kansas-Nebraska bill of Mr. 
 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- 
 
 QERSHOiW 
 Friend of Touro and 
 
 dent Davis was in the habit of sending tt) him all 
 work that did not obviously belong to the department 
 of some other minister. 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 
 "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- 
 tire from practice, and a fam- 
 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 
 
 KURSMEEDT, 
 Kinsman of Montefiore 
 
 — 23 
 
J. C. DENIS. S. V. FORXARIS. HEXRY ABRAHAM. F. DIETZE. 
 
 Prbsidext. 1st Vice-President. 2xd Vice-Presidext. Cashier. 
 
 GERMANIA 
 
 620 CANAL STR E ET. 
 
 Capital and Surplus. $1,000,000. Undivided Profits, $66,000,000 
 
 ^I'RECTO'RS OF THE BA/XK. 
 
 H. ABRAHAM. 
 
 of H. Abraham & Sons. Limited. Cotton and 
 Cotton Factors. 
 
 CHAS. E. ALLGEYER. 
 
 of E. Allg-eyer& Co.. Cotton Exporters. 
 
 WM. P. BURKE. 
 
 of Nicholas Burke Co.. Ltd.. Wholesale Grocers 
 and Importers. 
 
 WILLIAM H. BYRNES. 
 
 President Hibernia Insurance Co.. of Ne'w Or- 
 leans. 
 
 J. C. DENIS. 
 
 of Denis. Danziger & Tessier. Real Estate 
 Dealers. 
 
 SYLVESTER C. DUNHAM. 
 
 President Traveller's Insurance Co.. of Hart- 
 ford. 
 
 CHAS. A. FARWELL. 
 
 of Milliken A: Farwell. Sugar Merchants. 
 
 S. V. FORN.ARIS. 
 
 of S. V. Fornaris & Co.. Commission Mer- 
 chants aud Exporters. 
 
 E. R. GOGREVE. 
 
 of Gogreve & Co., Ltd.. Wholesale Grocers. 
 
 J. L. HERWIG. 
 Capitalist. 
 
 ALFRED HII.LER. 
 
 of .Alfred Hiller ic Co . Ltd . Building Material 
 
 C. L. KEPPLER. 
 
 Wholesale Druggist. 
 
 EMILE KUNTZ. 
 Merchant. 
 
 JONAS H. LEVY, 
 
 of M. Levy & Sons, Cotton Factors. 
 
 H. S. RODGERS. 
 
 Vice-President Merchants National Bank. Cin- 
 cinnati. Director International Banking Cor- 
 poration. New York. 
 
 W. L. S.AXON. 
 
 of Smith Bros. & Co.. Ltd.. Wholesale Grocers 
 
 and Importers. 
 
 E. SEVILLA. 
 
 Cotton and Grain Exporter. 
 
 MAX SCHWA BACHER. 
 
 of J. & M. Schwabacher. Ltd.. Wholesale 
 Grocers and Importers. 
 
 ROBERT A. C. SMITH. 
 
 Director International Banking Corpwration. 
 New York. President American Mail Steam- 
 ship Co.. New York. 
 
 W. C. SORIA. 
 
 Superintendent Standard Guano and Chemical 
 Mftr. Co. 
 
 — 24 
 
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, 
 he, in the year ISOS, removed to 
 the city of New Orleans and im- 
 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- 
 
 RABtJl JAMES 
 Scholar, Educator a 
 
 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. 
 
 DR. JOSEPH BENSADON, whose name and fame 
 will always be associated with the Touro Infirmary, 
 though born in New York, January '*, ISIM, is claim- 
 ed by the South as a favored son. A descendant of 
 an aristocratic Sephardic family, who removed to 
 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 
 
 K. aLUHEIM, 
 
 nd Pjiilanthropist. 
 
 — 25 
 
Boston. Minneapolis. West Superior. 
 
 St. Louis. San Francisco, Omaha, 
 Indianapolis. New Orleans. 
 
 HOME COTTON MILLS CO., 
 
 ^T. LOUIS. MO. 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS BLEACHING CO.. 
 
 IXDIAX.APOLIS. IN'D. 
 
 JACKSON FIBRE CO., 
 
 BEMI-. TENX. 
 
 Cable Address— 
 ••GCLFBAG" 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 CORONA COAL 
 
 TELEPHONE 362- 
 
 ALABAMA 
 
 Block Coal Co. 
 
 Office, 731 Common Street. 
 
 Cor. St. Charles & Carondelet. NEW ORLEANS 
 
 Yards: Corner Clio and Magnolia Streets. 
 Corner Press and Burgundy. 
 
 Hiver and Hail Delivery 
 
 x>-cx;-<x>.;x>-,'x;--rxxx>.cx>-;x;--;xxx>.;x; 
 
 Teutonia 
 
 Insurance 
 
 Company. 
 
 <j^ 
 
 ■<x> 
 
 • • 
 
 OF NEW 0RLE»\5. LA 
 
 Assets, $734,027.07. 
 
 OFFICE = S. 
 ALBERT P. NOLL. President. 
 
 SAMUEL HYMAX, Vice-Presi.leiit. 
 
 FRANK LAXGBEHX, Secretary. 
 
 DIRECTORS— J. B. raniors, Adolph Dura.ser, E. R' 
 Gojireve. Samuel Hymaii. Henry D. Hart. F. Jalincke- 
 lieorae .Tureens. Juluis Keiffer, J. H. Keller. Julius 
 Koch, Frank R'lrier. F. Raquet. A. G. Rick.s, H. 
 Schuize, C H. .^clienck. A. Socola. Hv. Tboele. 
 Isaac Levy. Wm. T. iMiller, Albert P. Xoll. 
 
 No. 217 CAMP STREET 
 
 OWYER BROTHERS 
 
 i^i>ii'xm;i> 
 
 IMPOKTEES and 
 WHOLESALEKS 
 OF 
 
 NOTIONS.. 
 
 Hosiery 
 Gnderwear, 
 
 Furnishing Goods, i'helf Hardware. Tinware, 
 Enamekd Ware, Galvanized Ware. Smallwares. 
 
 .Musical Goods, Overalls, Pants, Xeckwear, Suspenders, Umbrellas 
 Handkercliiefs. Window Sliades, Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, 
 Stationery, Lace Curtains, Soaps, Perfumery, Jewelry, Cutlery, 
 Saddlery and Harness. 
 
 430 and 433 CANAL STREET, 
 
 435 and 437 COMMON STREET. 
 
 430 and 432 COMMON STREET. 
 
 :: NEW ORLEANS, LA. :: 
 
 Cliiapest House in tlje Soutb, Opposite Customboiise. 
 
 26 
 
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- 
 ticipated in its affairs, after it 
 had passed into the charge of 
 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. 
 
 DR. JOSEPH BEN5AD0N, 
 A Distinguished Surgeon. 
 
 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- 
 posed, Gershom Kursheedt, at 
 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 
 
 — 27 — 
 
'^^ '^^^^ -^^ '^^^ ^ •r:?' -^ -^ '^:P' -^ -^ -^^ •^:7 -^ -^ -^ •^^T' -^ -^ '^ -^ -^ -^^^ '^ '^ -^^ '^^ '^i^ •^ 
 
 ...Home Insurance Co... ^^^ 
 
 # # 
 
 OF NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 Cash Assets. December 31st. IKOl _ % 315,421.34 ^ 
 
 Net Surplus „ 72. 621. 80 
 
 Cash Assets. Deceml.tr 31st. 1002 333.00^1.92 
 
 Net Surplus SS.<)n2.5't 
 
 THOS. SEFTON. JOHN S. RAIN?:Y. F. P.. PAKKINSCN. 
 
 Prcsidt'iu. Viee-Presideut. Secretary. ^ak 
 
 J. B. Woods. Jno. J. Barr. J. B. Levert. W. T. Hardie. 
 
 T. J. Stewart, Jno. !X. Stewart. J. '^1. Lockhart. Jas. McConnell, 
 
 Jno. Barkley. Jno. S Rainey. Geo. B. Matthews Thos. Sefton. 
 
 No. 346 Camp Street. 
 
 ('. P. ELLIS. .1. P. HENICAN. C. P. ELLIS. .Ik. ^ 
 
 C. P. ELLIS & CO., 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1880. 
 
 S" 
 
 i>; 
 
 MEMBERS. -w! 
 
 ^. ^ , r. ^^ T7 1 ^^ Cotton Exc-hanee Buiklini:. 
 
 New Orleans Cotton Exchange. ^M ° 
 
 New York Cotton Excliange. |f/ <C^>=^ XEW<>RLEVXS L\. 
 
 Liverpool Cotton Brokers As.sociati<tn. Hy^ 
 
 — 28 — 
 
(IcviitL^ his time to the ainelii)ration of distresses amotiii- 
 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 Menne, 
 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 
 results and 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- 
 victions caused an episode that 
 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 
 
 MEYER M. SIMPSON. 
 
 First President Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home. 
 
 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 
 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 be made 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 
 
 -- 29 
 
F. JAHNCKE 
 
 Genepal 
 
 Contractor 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1870. 
 
 Schillinger Pavements, 
 Cement Floors. 
 
 Brick, Stone and Tile Pavements, Cements, Lime, 
 Brick, Sand, Qravel, Shells. 
 
 Buildings Material of all Kinds. 
 
 No. 816 Howard Avenue, 
 
 Long Distance Phone 455. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 German and Belgian Cement a Specialty. 
 
 JjACO'B LOE.'B. "Proprietor. 
 A. J". T'ICA'RT), Manager — 
 
 CTJESCEJWT 
 CITy STEAM 
 LA \/J^'D^y 
 
 •DOMESTIC FIJWISH. 
 
 We do tejorK,by hand ai 
 a. little ejictra cost. ^ ^^ 
 
 423 to 429 "Baronne Street, 
 
 TBLE-PHOJ^E 12. 
 
 * 
 
 Smoke 
 
 \i/ 
 
 C. A. Brunnert 
 
 * 
 
 A 
 A 
 
 
 
 %M% © S#S S S § #S® SS# 
 
 iSadO i iUpholsterina:; 
 
 ^ ^ ^^^ ^^>V- X-^ * '^ ^ !.% :^ -M m (&. S M M # S® #; © « 
 
 Queen of UNION MADE 
 5 Cent Cigars . . . 
 
 <S^1»^ 
 
 G. FALK & CO., 
 
 
 \i^ 
 
 
 In all its BRANCHES. 
 
 Nos. 3126 to 3128 Magazine Street, 
 
 Corner Peniston St. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 MAKERS. 
 
 New Orleans, La. | 
 
 ■®S€!S$€iS!55$^S^$$i$€€^S6'S&^:SiSSSSi$ig-S:*S$^€S€€:$: 
 
 !$:S$-$^ 
 
 All Orders Promptly Attended To. 
 All Work (guaranteed. 
 
its membership are associated with numerous charities 
 in this city. Rev. Dr. (iutheim made it a strong- cen- 
 ter of relig-ious Jewish intluence, not only in New Or- 
 leans, but of the entire South, its principles of reform 
 permeatinsj- almost every cong-reg'ation in this section. 
 Dr. Gutheim took an active and prominent part in 
 founding- and promoting thtv success of many chari- 
 table institutions in New Orleans. 
 
 He was the principal mover in the org-anization of 
 the Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows" and 
 Orphans' and was successively its Secretary, Treas- 
 urer and Vice-President, which latter office he held for 
 a number of years. 
 
 Of the Touro Infirmary he was the First Vice- 
 President from its org-anization in 1S55 until his death 
 in 188(). He was a member and President of the He- 
 brew Benevolent Association from the date of his 
 residence in this city. 
 
 During his official career he 
 dedicated Temples for Hebrew 
 worship in Louisville, Ky.; St. 
 Louis, Mo.; Cincinnati, Ohio; San 
 Antonio, Tex.; Mobile and Mont- 
 gomery, Ala.; New Orleans and 
 other cities. 
 
 For several years, from 1867, he 
 was a member of the Board of 
 Directors of the public schools of 
 New Orleans and its acting pres- 
 ident. 
 
 As an author and sermonizer 
 he attained a wide celebrity. 
 Many of his works have been pub- 
 lished, the most noted being the 
 "Temple Pulpit" and a trans- 
 lation from the German of the 
 fourth volume of the "History 
 of the Jews" by Dr. H. Graetz; 
 also from the Hebrew about half 
 of the Book of Psalms. In ad- 
 dition to which his popular col- 
 lections of Hymns for the Tem- 
 ple Emanuel. 
 
 One of his most pleasing ren- 
 ditions of the Hebrew is the fol- 
 lowing- translations of the 23rd 
 Psalm: 
 
 ISAAC SCMERCK, 
 
 Ex-President, Jewish Widows' ond Orphans' Home 
 
 The Lord's mv Shepherd ever more. 
 
 I bhall not want, nf»r e'er shall pine. 
 By tranquil streams. He'll place my store 
 
 On pastures sweet malie me recline. 
 He cheers my soul for his own sake. 
 
 He ever leads in virtue's wake. 
 
 And though 1 walk throuph shades of Heath 
 Through silent vales (»' mortal gloom— 
 
 I fear no harm from mould'ring breath, 
 Ood is with me beyond the t(»mb. 
 
 His rod and staff will' surely be 
 My comfort in eternity. 
 
 Sly wants he kindly will supply. 
 My table in his love i)repare. 
 
 Despite the glance of envy's eye 
 Ood will sustain me iii his'care. 
 
 He will with oil annoiot my head 
 And on my cup his blessings shed. 
 
 Thus grace and goodness will attend 
 My journey to lire's hidden shore, 
 
 And happiness will crown my end 
 And be mv portion ever more, 
 
 For in God's house I shall. abide 
 
 And ever bless my heavenly guide. 
 
 Dr. Gutheim was a man of great breadth of view, 
 of deep research and of a high degree of culture. In 
 those studies incident to his profession he was thor- 
 oughly equipped and was also well stored with his- 
 toric fore of all kinds. His vast erudition enabled 
 him to ably cope with all the great problems of his 
 day. He was ever the champion of Truth and man- 
 fully defended the faith of the Israelites. His sweep 
 of thought led him to heig-hts not frequently reached, 
 and his power of oratory enabled him to rivet the at- 
 tention of his larg-e audiences upon whatever theme 
 his versatile mind selected. 
 
 In 1858 Dr. (iutheim married Miss Emilie, a daugh- 
 ter of Mr. I. I. Jones, a prominent merchant of Mo- 
 bile, Ala., who with cheerful mien and courageous 
 heart faithfully fultilled the duties of a Rabbi's wife, 
 seconding his every effort for the up-lifting of what- 
 ever community in which their 
 
 lot was cast. In none, however, 
 
 have their lives made a deeper or 
 more lasting- impression than in 
 this city, where his widow still 
 resides. 
 
 Dr. Gutheim was an inlluential 
 member of the Conference of 
 Charities, the New Orleans Aux- 
 iliary Sanitary Association, the 
 Louisiana Educational Society, 
 the Louisiana Historical Society, 
 the Society of the Red Cross and 
 a Counsellor of the Society of 
 Civics. 
 
 He died on June 11, 1886, and 
 his remains, for the first time, 
 in the Jewish history of Louis- 
 iana, lay in state in the Temple 
 until June 14, when they were in- 
 terred. The following prominent 
 gentlemen, representing- all creeds, 
 acted as pall bearers: 
 
 Gov. S. D. McEnery, Mayor J. 
 V. Guillotte, A. Lehman, Presi- 
 dent Touro Synagog-ue; M. Frank, 
 President Temple Sinai; M. 
 Heidenheim, President Gates of 
 Prayer; Z. Bruenn, President 
 Ternime Derech; Julius Weis, 
 President Touro Infirmary; E. I. 
 Kursheedt, President Jewish W. 
 & O. Home; Edward Fenner, 
 President Sanitary Association; S. B. Newman, Pres- 
 ident Conference of Charities; Hon. Chas. Gayarre, 
 President Historical Society; Jno. Kruttschnitt, Rep- 
 resenting Red Cross Society; Hon. Louis Bush, Pres- 
 ident Louisiana Educational Society. 
 
 The State Senate, then in session, upon motion of 
 Hon. Larry O'Donnell of New Orleans adopted the 
 following resolution and adjourned out of respect for 
 his memory: 
 
 "Be It Rk:solved, By the Senate of Louisiana that 
 we mournfully deplore the death of Rev. James K. 
 Gutheim, who in life was an exemplary citizen, an 
 accomplished divine, and a noble philanthropist. 
 
 "Be It Resolved, That in his death the commun- 
 ity he served with such exceptional devotion for up- 
 wards of forty years has sustained a severe if not an 
 irreparable loss. 
 
 51 — 
 
».% 
 %^ 
 
 ;«« 
 ».% 
 )(* 
 
 3s;?e 
 
 ^^ 
 »^ 
 3S;^ 
 
 5<^ 
 3S;?6 
 
 3S;?6 
 5^ 
 
 3<«: 
 ».% 
 
 3S;?*; 
 
 3S;>^ 
 5Ae 
 
 3^?6 
 *«; 
 
 =3S;^)s;?63^;ss^;^S?6is!;^3s;;^3S;?<53s;«3Sc^3s;:?S>;?S3S;^3S;^3^«3%;J<;3S;;^" 
 
 C. A. Andrews 
 Coal Co., Ltd. 
 
 COAL, 
 
 -COKE ^^^ 
 
 Anthracite, 
 
 Main Office: lOfil S. Rampart St. 
 Corner ( ■<illi()pe. 
 
 'I'cliciiipitoulas and TV-niston St. 
 
 ^/: 
 
 ^%. 
 
 ^■^ 
 
 9k 
 
 3^ 
 3^?S 
 3^?6 
 
 ^% 
 3«:?S 
 ».%, 
 3^?S 
 
 3S;?6 
 
 ;<^ 
 3^^ 
 
 ^^ 
 
 3^ 
 3S;?6 
 
 Cumberland Phone 6io and 655, 
 Peoples Phone 607. 
 
 .\cw Orleans, La. 1 
 
 3S;;J6 
 ^* 
 3S;?6 
 
 }^% 
 3i^ 
 
 «3S;^#;?S3S?63S^3«;?6^3S?63S?«3S?63S;!*e3S;?63S?e3S!?63S«3S?63<S<3%3^?63Wf 
 
 36;;J« 
 
 3c* 
 
 Absolute 
 Security 
 
 is THE consideration in any financial 
 contract, especially where the contract 
 reaches twenty years — or more — into 
 tlie f\iture. There are other things to 
 l)e considered, hut the first — and great- 
 est—is SECURITY. 
 There are many good life companies, 
 hnt the EQUITAT^LE is the only 
 one whicdi has OVER SEVENTY- 
 FIVE MILLION DOLLARS OF SUR- 
 PLUS OVER ALL LIABILITIES. 
 
 WISDOM & LEVY, 
 
 General Agents, 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 CentpQl I(?e ^^ 
 
 ^old Stopoge 
 ^ompQny, btd. 
 
 r-^ 
 
 1125=1127=1129 Julio Street, 
 Dgcu Opleons, Iro. 
 
 & 
 
 '^^ 
 
 m. 
 
 
 m I ill I CI. 
 
 w Cotton Factors 
 
 # 
 
 # and 
 
 ^ Commission Merchants 
 
 938 GRAVIER STREET, 
 
 CORNEk DRVADES. 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 ^/■■^^■^ 
 
 mc 
 
 
 
 
 m 
 
 
 
"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 
 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. 
 
 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 the war was over Major Scherck returned to 
 civil life, and resumed his business career, practically 
 starting ag-ain at the bottom of the ladder. 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. 
 
 S3 $ ss tU $ 
 
 The influence and status of Israelites in Louisiana 
 to-day had its inception in the standard of excellence 
 reared by the Early Jews in Louisiana's history. It 
 is reg-retable that no data is obtainable to do honor to 
 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. 
 
 — 33 — 
 
SSSJSSS«SSSSSSSSfiSSS^5SSSSSSf*«St«S»5*H*&§S*SSS!«SS;5*^^ 
 
 « vTaVrot OL >LtVaudais, 
 
 CSircnitects. 
 
 f 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 f 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 m 
 
 
 I 
 
 * 
 
 &S«S< «S«SSS»SSSSS«SS$SSS5.-«SSJ5S5»S5^^S?«--«SSSSSSS«SSSj!i5SS^ 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 Mome Hce anb Bistilleb 
 Mater flDt'o. Co., Xtb. 
 
 Milan, Tchoupitoulas and Water Sts. I 
 
 L. TARRANT. 
 
 H. CKOCHIOLO. ^ 
 
 
 %. Warrant S. Co. 
 
 i 
 
 1921 CAMP PLACE, 
 
 Melons in Season. Opposite Magazine Market, y. 
 
 '«SSSt?>»SSSS®*SSSSSSSS5^SS»JSSS$-;S5^^-;S*«SSSSSS^:S^^ 
 
 1 
 
 v>s;'\^'^;?jv-v-^¥>Jvvs<v"¥ftSs~«i«SsSl is 
 
 5^5- 
 
 B. MANCUSO, 
 
 -DEALER IN- 
 
 GROCERIES, 
 FINE WINES, 
 LIQUORS,^<-> 
 
 3632-3636 PRYTANIA ST , 
 
 6tli District. Cor Amelia Street 
 
 CUMHERLAND PHONE 43 
 
 ^ǤS5' 
 
 
 'VJW 
 
 .iSSSSSSSS*S^>S;SJ«S^^>V^'««»SJSS5JSS85'!SSSS«SS»«S»' 
 
 JS^SS^ 
 
 *>»A«S»»;%S^*iS!S!SS*5S»sSSS!is>SS8SSSj^i^^ i 
 
 I Fred. B. Nunn, 
 
 I 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 1569. 
 Office, 726 Poydras 5t. 
 
 Coal and Coke 
 
 « 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 Furnace, Foundry, Gas, 
 Coke, Pittsburg, Alabama, 
 Anthracite Coal,> 
 
 m 
 
 I Yards on Levee, Head of Robin Street, | 
 I NEW ORLEANS, LA 
 
 I; 
 
 gS>SSS5®gSSSS«SSSS5 JgSJSSSSSS^SSSJSSSSSJ-^s^iSSSS^SSS^SSJ' 
 
 — 34 — 
 
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. I. L. Crawcour, was a compeer of the celebrities 
 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 B. Cain was a familiar figure, an ardent, 
 wholesouled gentleman whose memory is zealously 
 guarded by all who knew his worth and works. He 
 
 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." 
 
 35 — 
 
© w 
 
 © © 
 
 © « 
 
 © © 
 
 
 COMPLIMENTS 
 
 \>t\ 
 
 © 
 & 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 New Orleans 
 Furniture 
 Manufacturing 
 Company 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 & 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©E©©©©®©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 ■:©©©©©© 
 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©es© 
 © © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 a 
 & 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 1863 
 
 1903 
 
 i('.l'\lilliH(li('(l.,LTll. 
 
 433-439 Ciuii]) Stivet. 
 619 Povdras Street.. 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 ©©ee©©©G©©©©©©©se©Ge©©e©©©©s© 
 
 I;©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 ©©© 
 ©©© 
 ©©© 
 
 PHONES CUMB. 1488. PEOPLES 797 
 
 A. P RABITO. 
 
 DEAIER IN 
 
 Fresh Fish 
 and Turtle. 
 
 STALLS, 167 TO 175 POYDRAS MARKET. 
 
 Ice Works and Cold Storage, 
 Nos. 509-511 Dry ades Street 
 
 NEAV^ ORLEiVNS. 
 
 ©©© 
 ©©© 
 
 ©e© 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©s©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©®©© 
 
 ?©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 s 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 M. WEYDIG. 
 
 G. M WEVniG 
 
 m m 
 
 Mit nfactnrer.s and Dewlers 
 ill Eviry Dcecripticpn of.. .. 
 
 Saddlery, 
 
 Harness, Buggies Road Carts, 
 Sulkies, Turf Goods, Horse 
 Clippers and Horse Medicines 
 of all kinds. 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©s©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 
 Special Attention given to 
 Repairs of Harness 
 
 No. 7.^2 POYDRAS STREET. 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 ©©©© 
 
 36 — 
 
Jewish Consresiations 
 
 PAST and 
 PRESENT. 
 
 .j» J* .j» 
 
 ♦JTN the endeavor to trace the orig:in of the first con- 
 II g:reg"ation in the city of New Orleans, judffing' 
 from the opinion of venerable residents 
 yet among- us and whose reminiscences date back for 
 over a half century, there is no doubt that the first 
 assembly for prayers ever convened in Old New Orleans 
 was composed of followers of the Portug-uese ritual. 
 
 When in reminiscent 
 vein the veteran Israel- 
 ites, who can recall in- 
 cidents detailed and dis- 
 cussed by the aged 
 friends of their youth, 
 relate of simple family 
 g-athering-s on the gfreat 
 holy days and festivals 
 in private residences, 
 where some one famil- 
 iar with the liturgfv and 
 chants sacred and re- 
 vevered because of their 
 association with the 
 era when their ances- 
 try were in high favor 
 with the aristocracy of 
 S])ain and Portug-al. 
 long before Columbus 
 dreamt of the Land be- 
 yond the Sea. 
 
 It was simply in ac- 
 cord with custom that 
 these Minvanim — as- 
 semblies for the pur- 
 poses of prayer -for, 
 wherever ten — a quo- 
 rum — Jews can be found 
 at stated intervals such 
 services were held. 
 
 However, the location 
 of the earliest houses for prayer are conjecture. It is 
 asserted that nearly a century ago, as is in vog-ue even 
 to this day, the ritual of prayer caused a divergence in 
 the methods of the early comers. The Spanish, Por- 
 tuguese and Hollanders formed one coterie, following- 
 the Portug-uese method of chants and prayers; the 
 (jerman had their peculiar Minhag-, and later the Pol- 
 ish, Russian, etc., followed. 
 
 Synagogue of K. K. 
 The Old Deutsche Shule on 
 
 SHAARAI CHESED. 
 The earliest record of a chartered congfreg-ation is 
 dated 1828, when K. K. Shaarai Chesed, Gates of 
 Prayer, was incorporated. There is no doubt in the 
 minds of the survivors of manj- important incidents of 
 over a half a century ago, that this congreg-ation had 
 its orig-in. as a Minyau, in the latter part of the 18th 
 
 century-- 1775 to 1780, 
 its antecedents tracea- 
 ble to the Sephardists, 
 French and German 
 Jews then in New Or- 
 leans. 
 
 It is regretable that 
 the documents pertain- 
 ing to its incorporation 
 were destroyed during- 
 the Civil War by the 
 burning of the Capitol 
 Building in Baton 
 Rouge. However, many 
 an interesting remines- 
 cence is associated with 
 the "Deutsche Shule" 
 as it was most affection- 
 ately known. Years 
 ago the site and build- 
 ing on N. Rampart 
 street, between Conti 
 and St. Louis streets 
 was acquired and util- 
 ized until this congre- 
 gation amalgamated 
 with the Portuguese 
 Congregation, which 
 will be referred to un- 
 der its proper caption. 
 The congregation 
 prospered as years 
 passed by and prominent and learned ministers occu- 
 pied its pulpit, among these, recalled even to this day, 
 were Harris, Kaufman, Mosche, Rosenfield, Davidson, 
 Gutheim and Rabbi Leucht, the only surviving min- 
 ister of the old Shule. 
 
 NEFUSAH YEHUDAH. 
 Meanwhile the flower of Judaism, those reared in 
 and devoted to the Sephardic ritual, jealously pre- 
 
 Shaarai Chesed. 
 North Rampart Street. 
 
 37 
 
\ Jereier'sSons 
 
 i 
 i 
 i 
 
 Mens'. Youths". Boys 
 and Children's . . 
 
 Clothin 
 
 Hats, Boots and Shoes. 
 Furnishing Goods. Etc. 
 
 301, 303, 305, 307 and 311 
 Dauphine Street 
 
 Corner Bienville St. Telephone No. 527. 
 
 NE"W ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 Orders for Country Merchants Promptly Executed 
 on Most Reasonable Terms. 
 
 There's New Vigor and Strength 
 In Every Drop of the^^^^js^^^? 
 
 New Orleans 
 Brewing Co.'s 
 
 ft 
 I 
 
 it 
 
 ^ 
 t 
 
 -k 
 
 NEW BREW 
 
 '^NANON'' 
 
 AN D 
 
 PILSNER 
 
 BOTTLED BEER. 
 
 PHONE 404 
 
 'K.wf^^^x.j^sfi^"'^ (^»^fj!K?r^ (r'*'ss^^^''^sss>^ 
 
 jfarmers 
 Con6oli&atc& 
 2>airv Co. 
 
 A. J. RAPP, 
 
 ^LIMITED^ 
 
 No. 1300 St. Charles Avenue, 
 Cumb. Phone 2488=11. 
 
 ICB CREAM 
 
 $1.00 Per Gallon. 
 
 60 Cents Half Gallon. 
 
 40 Cents Quarter Gallon. 
 
 (SaS^es. $1.00 ^er Xunarea. gOc. f,a{f 'iiu^^rea 
 
 Delivered to all Parts of the City. 
 
 ^11 Fish a^^ Game 
 
 IN THEIR SEASONS. 
 Stalls, 130 to 135 Hagazine Harket, 
 
 Residence — No. 2116 St. Thomas Street. 
 Telephone No. 1779. 
 
 38 — 
 
served their ritual and, whenever occasion offered, a 
 Minyan assembled. An incident of the fealty of the 
 Sephardists to their faith is recorded, dating' back to 
 the holiest of holidays, the New Year and Day of 
 Atonement in 1845. 
 
 Mr. E. h. Andrews, a prominent g-entleman and 
 ardent Israelite residing- on Camp street, on a site 
 near the Memorial Hall, offered the use of his palatial 
 home to those of his Sephardic friends who desired to 
 hold services. The invitation was cheerfully accepted 
 and when the improvised congregation had assem- 
 bled, the question rose who was among- the number 
 familiar with Hebrew and the ritual and who thus 
 could act as Minister or 
 Chazan. Among- the 
 g-uests was E. J. Solo- 
 mon, a captain in the 
 United States Army, 
 and he volunteered to 
 perform the function, 
 and he demonstrated 
 by his reading- in the 
 "Holy tong-ue" and 
 chanting- the ritual ac- 
 cording- to the Portu- 
 guese Minhdii his abil- 
 ity, to the g-reat delig-ht 
 of his auditors. 
 
 This gathering- prov- 
 ed an incentive to the 
 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 
 the Executive OfBce, in the City of New Orleans and 
 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. 
 
 TOURO SYNAGOGUE. 
 
 Gershom Kursheedt was elected its first president, 
 and the following gentlemen were at different epochs 
 his successors: J. J. Joseph, George Jonas, J. L. 
 Levy, A. H. DeMeza, Captain B. Moses and L. A. 
 Levy, Jr., who was the last president of the Portu- 
 guese Congregation. 
 
 The ministers of the Congregation Nefusah I'ehiidah 
 were: M. N. Nathan, James K. Gutheim, Henry S. 
 Jacobs and J. H. M. Chumaciero, while Morais and 
 De Silva were Secretaries of the hallowed old Synago- 
 gue as well as serving as Sextons. 
 
 Judah Touro presented the congregation with a 
 building, situated at the corner of Canal and Bourbon 
 
 streets, which was util- 
 ized as a Synagogue. 
 
 The list of members 
 at that time, in addi- 
 tion to the officers nam- 
 ed were: J. Abramson, 
 Alexander Abrams, B. 
 Abrams, I. P. Abrams, 
 J. M. Abrams, J. C. 
 Abrams, M. Barnett, 
 Dr. Joseph Bensadon, 
 Alex. A. Cohn, Dr. I. 
 L. Crawcour, A. H. 
 DeMeza, Mrs. A. C. 
 DePass, Geo. W. Ellis, 
 B. Emanuel, A. T. Eze- 
 kiel, H. Florance, L. 
 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, 
 J. J. Joseph, H. Kohl- 
 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 
 Marks, Jos. Mendes, S. 
 Moses, S. L. Moss, 
 
 Geo. Nathan, Jos. Osterman, Ph. Runkel, S. Runkel, 
 J. M. Seixas, Jos. Simon, M. M. Simpson, I. J. Salo- 
 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 
 
 39 — 
 
NAPOLEON 
 CIGAR STORE 
 
 <:*. ESTABLISHED IN 185Q ■ 
 
 
 I Dealer in Havana | J. g LARROQUE, t !;'P<"f : ^'hewjns & | 
 jl ana Domestic aim ;.V ^ .". Smokintr lobccco ^ 
 
 % Key West Cigars, ij Proprietor. 
 
 F. J. WEISS, 
 Butcher 
 
 Dealer in- 
 
 Beef, Veal, Pork 
 and Mutton ^,^^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 5. buiukers' Articles © i 
 
 v.- © 1 
 
 Q©S©£-©(i;S0.2ffi©a©© i 
 
 Cor. St. Charles & Commercial Place 
 
 NEW ORf.rANS, I-A. 
 
 -Fish, Poultry. Vegetables and Fruit 1> 
 
 ■''"' p°?vaifMa;kei. Comer Amelia & Prytania Sts 
 
 Baskets Delivered to Tplpnhnnp u 
 
 all farts of ibe City. 1 eiepnOIie ^j- 
 
 5'i:S^^=«J^^%i^^ii^^?JS=^^3'5^^^J2=*^^'^, 
 
 MEDICAL BUILDING 
 
 Pharmacy, 
 
 J. A. LEGENDRE, Proprietor. 
 
 124 Baronne Street. New Orleans, f 
 
 3'!^^i2*^^'^^^^32==^^g^«^^;^^==«iJ^^c 
 
 HOPKINS'... 
 
 OFFICE^ 
 
 Nos. 629 and 6^i Commercial Place, 
 
 Near St. Charles Street. 
 
 JOHN P. HOPKINS. 
 
 New Orleans. La 
 
 -M H-: I- oKSTA r.i. 
 
 .70E OI^KX\VAr-I> 
 
 .JOE PORSTAT.I., 
 
 Successor to GKO. D. KISHER. 
 Importer ami Dealer in o 
 
 Havana I Domestic Cigars, 
 
 Tobacco and Smokers Articles 
 
 GENERALLY 
 
 I "^^ 
 
 619 Canal St., Cor. Exchange Alley. 
 
 Wm, T. COOHEY 
 
 Wall Paper, 
 
 TINTING and ^ _ ,,^ (■,,„,,. c. 
 
 ROOM MOULDING. ^^^ /4^ ^diup 01. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 K. IlEItFARTH. 
 
 HERF.\in'H 
 
 1 Telephone No. 2972-12 u 
 
 Herfarth Bros. 
 
 -Dealers in- 
 
 BARBERS'SUPPLIES 
 
 And Manufacturers (»t all Kinds of Cutlery 
 ,_,«' C). f^hoi-loc 'iti-oot ''^'- Commercial Place & Gravier. 
 
 ^2001. v.-^iiaiies oueei, new Orleans, la. 
 
 Razor Concaving, Shears and Clipper Grinding a Specialty. 
 Call and See the Latest in Hydraulic and Revolving Chairs. 
 
 ...O^one Spring Water... 
 
 SHA'R-P. STA'RLl^IJ^G. SJWA'P-py 
 
 This is an exceptionally pure water as regards organic mitter and is 
 an ideal table water. It much resembles that of the Grand Grille and 
 Hopital Springs :it Victjv. France, thouth in .1 less concentrated form. 
 Physicians witl find in this water a valuaole therapeutic agent useful in 
 such cases as re(juiie a mild alkaline uvatnimt. 
 
 Hespectfuliv J C. 11IM<. 
 Chemist Board of Health. New Orleans. 
 
 By PKOfi'KSSOK ]MK','rz. 
 
 After analyzing I come to the conclusion that the Ozone Water is an 
 exceptionally pure water and sh"U d be ci.issed as an alkaline or calca- 
 reous water! Very respect ully jc'urs. 
 
 A. L. METZ. M. I). 
 Medical Dept. 'I'ulane University t.t Louisiana. 
 
 Ozone Celery Tonic, ^ Ozone Ginger Ale. 
 
 For Sale E-Oerytuhere. 
 
 Office, Vress (^ Marais Sis. 
 
 Thone J^o. I203. JVetn Orlean-i, La. 
 
 40 
 
distinjjfuished Unitarian divine, with a church for the 
 use of that denomination. This edifice was situated 
 at the corner of Canal and Dauphin street, near the 
 site of the Grand Opera House. Later the Unita- 
 rians disposed of the building- to what is now known 
 as Christ Church Cathedral, Episcopalians. The 
 Unitarians secured a site and church on St. Charles 
 street near Julia, recently demolished and converted 
 into a Court and flower g-arden, the Unitarians remov- 
 ing- to the upper districts. 
 
 THE TOURO SYNA(iOGUE 
 had its origin in the fusion of the Congregation 
 S/i(i(nai Lliesed — the Deutche Shule — once upon a time 
 a landmark on N. Ram- 
 part street, and the K. 
 K. A'efiisah Teluidah, 
 the Portug-uese Congre- 
 g- at ion. Rev. I. L. 
 Leuclit, being- chosen 
 as minister. 
 
 The amalgamation, in 
 1881, resulted in giv- 
 ing^ New Orleans a rep- 
 resentative congrega- 
 tion wherein conserva- 
 tive Judaism is pre- 
 served. 
 
 Its officers at this date 
 are the following repre- 
 sentative and w e 1 1 - 
 known gentlemen: 
 
 Leonard Krower, 
 President; Gus Leh- 
 mann, Jr , First Vice- 
 Pres ; M. Waldhorn. 
 Second Vice-President; 
 Sam Lowenberg.Treas- 
 urer and G. Aletrino, 
 Secretary. 
 
 JACKSON AVENUE 
 SYNAGOGUE. 
 
 New Orleans, eighty 
 
 years ago, had lines of 
 
 demarcation and in the 
 
 respective districts 
 
 special Minyanim were 
 
 organized, each in turn 
 
 becoming later the nucleus of org-anization of the Con- 
 
 g-regations. 
 
 Among- the venerable Israelites of the city, reminis- 
 cences are treasured of the "Old Lafayette," as the 
 upper district of that era, in and about Jackson Ave- 
 nue, was denominated. 
 
 Earl_v in the30'sa Chcvra — Society — was organized, 
 its objects and purposes was to aid the poor, nurse the 
 sick and give religious burial to the dead. Previous 
 to that time relig-ious services were held on the Sab- 
 bath and holidays, and the Jewish element of that 
 section of the city preserved, the ceremonialism in 
 which thevhad been born and reared in the Fatherland, 
 
 The first Miiiviiii in that part of New Orleans that 
 secured a location for the purposes of holding services 
 met on Washing-ton Avenue, down-town side, near the 
 corner of Constance street. Then a house was secur- 
 ed, now the site of a drug- store, corner Chippewa and 
 First streets. Afterwards members met in a house 
 situated at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Seventh 
 streets. 
 
 Four scores of years ag-o, situated in the center of a 
 lot, intersecting Fulton and St. Mary streets was a 
 sing;le storv frame structure, which was utilized as a 
 school house and as a church. The front of the 
 modest structure, access to which was a single door, 
 
 faced St. Marv street. 
 
 Congregation Qates of Prayer Synagogue. 
 
 while on the Fulton 
 street side a high fence 
 screened the house 
 from the sig-ht of pass- 
 ers by. 
 
 The old school house, 
 even to-day doing- ser- 
 vice on the corner of 
 the streets named, and 
 giving shelter to its 
 tenant, is a part of the 
 history of the Early 
 Jews in Louisiana. 
 
 On January 13, 1850, 
 a g-eneral meeting- was 
 called for the purpose 
 of creating out of the 
 Miiiyaii, time honored, 
 and a useful factor in 
 Jewish charity for years 
 before, with the object 
 of taking- steps to 
 found a Cong-reg-ation. 
 Abraham DeYoung- 
 ( whose family and des- 
 cendants are prominent 
 in affairs in Califor- 
 nia) I. Lyons, Jacob 
 Meyer, B. Goldenburg, 
 S. Leopold, Isaac Hech- 
 inger, M. Baer, D. Cahn. 
 E. Long, Charles Goldenburg, L. Leopold, D. Hirsch, 
 G. Walsh, I. Isaacson, I. Dreyfus, E. Lazar, S. Lazar 
 and F. Bachrach responded to the call. 
 
 Organization was then and there effected by the 
 election of Abraham De Young, as President, Jacob 
 Mayer, Vice-President and Hayem Kaufman, as Min- 
 ister, these gentlemen occupying these postions for 
 many consecutive years. 
 
 The name Shdurai Tefila Congregation Gates of 
 Prayer was selected and has been borne by this worthy 
 factor in communal affairs since that day. 
 
 The congregation consisted of about thirty members 
 and its first step was to purchase the "little School 
 House" which was converted into a Synagogue and at 
 
 41 
 

 728 Canal Street, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 
 ^Vg GEO. H. DU^BnR. p. B, OUNBHR. 
 
 PACKERS OE 
 
 Fine Canned Goods 
 
 AND 
 
 Southern Delicacies 
 
 rx>f N K AV O R I^ in A N" S . Ij A . KX) 
 
 LOUIS V. LKOXllAlil), I'lrsidcut. 
 
 Royal Carpet 
 Cleaning Co., 
 
 Carpets Taken Up, 
 Cleaned, Renovated, 
 Disinfected, Remodeled 
 
 and Laid.(!^^^js=;:^^j 
 
 ■"•Sim 
 
 622 ST. PETER STREET, 
 
 NEW ORLEAxNS. LA. 
 
 -PHONE 40 8 
 
 jS:sS»J!iSS:SSSSS«!«SSSiSS«^SS^&«Sfe!^®>SJ5SSJS5^^^ 
 
 J. G. Morris Co., 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 324-330 TCHOUPITOULAS ST. NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 WHOLESHLE DEALERS IN 
 
 Kla 
 
 e Grease. 
 Ifirm Tills, 
 
 Klackiiig, 
 ages, 
 ^liiinis, 
 hair .Seats, 
 
 Chewint: (-jurii. 
 Fisliirie TacKle, 
 Fruit. Jars. 
 Goijlels, 
 Bdirles, 
 HammncUs, 
 
 Lacideis. 
 awM Swings, 
 
 Matches. 
 
 Oar., 
 il alls, 
 
 Pens, 
 
 Hetrifjerators, 
 'cales, 
 leiies, 
 
 'acks, 
 wine, 
 
 Washers, 
 Whips, 
 
 Baskets, 
 ase Balls, 
 lank Bnoks, 
 
 Woixi Bntter Trays. 
 
 CL.cks. 
 roiuiuet, 
 lieese ."^afes, 
 
 I'".iiaiiiele(l Steelware, 
 
 Freezers, 
 
 Metal Faucets, 
 
 Tunililers, 
 
 Flasks, 
 
 Handles, 
 
 Lamps, 
 an terns, 
 
 Mirrors, 
 Oil Stoves, 
 
 Pipes. 
 
 B 
 
 Ullgs, 
 
 rooms, 
 ruslies, 
 
 Corks, 
 utlery. 
 offiee Mills. 
 
 Fibreware. 
 
 Furnaces. 
 
 tial van i zed ware, 
 
 Demijohns, 
 
 Spoons, 
 
 Ice Chests, Ink, 
 
 Locks, 
 ye. 
 Mops. Marbles, 
 
 paper. 
 
 Seal 
 iei 
 
 Tv 
 
 Pencils, 
 Rope, 
 
 Soaps, 
 aiice Pans, 
 Traps, 
 in ware. 
 
 Wringers, 
 Woudenware, 
 
 aper Bags, 
 
 Sponges, 
 Rubber Hands, 
 
 Stone Filters, 
 tone Jugs, 
 Venetian Red, 
 Wheel Barrows, 
 
 Water Coolers, 
 Etc.. Etc, 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 IK 
 
 4s«S5JS«SSSSSSSSS!'JSSS$^5SJ©!*«*«S«S«SSS5^SS*<^SS^«5^ 
 
 — 42 — 
 
the saiiiL' time used as a school house, where many of 
 our notable Jewish people of to-day. received the tirst 
 rudiments of their education. 
 
 On January 24, IS.SO, the City Council of New Or- 
 leans was petitioned and in due course of time the 
 Hebrew Rest on Joseph street was consecrated as the 
 burial ground of the Congretfation. 
 
 In 185"> the Cong-regation secured the site of the 
 present Synaufosfue on Jackson avenue and in 1860, the 
 buildinij;- bein.tir erected, was consecrated to its purposes. 
 "The holv of holies" occupying- to-<lay a place in 
 the sanctuary on Jack- 
 son Avenue, was con- 
 structed in 1S.=,(), by Mr. 
 J. Diez, who departed 
 this life a few weeks 
 ago, and presented to 
 the congregation while 
 meeting- in the old 
 "School House." 
 
 The ministers who 
 served Cong-reg-ation 
 Gates of Prayer, 
 from its inception to 
 date were : Hayem 
 Kaufman, M. Wurt- 
 zel, I. Hechinger, Cerf. 
 Rosenberg, Mosche, 
 Max Moses, L. Weiss, 
 A. Schverski, M. Eis- 
 senberg. Rev. Dr. Jacol)- 
 son, M. Korn, Rabbi 
 M. Sessler and Samson 
 Cerf, the incuml>ent at 
 this writing. 
 
 The following, a copy 
 from a tally sheet dat- 
 ed, January 1st, 1851, 
 is of historical interest, 
 giving names of mem- 
 bers present at a meet- 
 ing held that date. 
 
 L. Lehman, N. Guns- 
 berger, Charles Gol- 
 denberg-, D. Hirsch, I. 
 Hechinger, B. Golden- 
 burg, H. Katton, M. 
 
 Levy, Abe De Young, L. Leopold, J. Lyons. S. Leo- 
 pold, Jacob Salm, H. Asher, M. Baer. Jacob Blum, 
 F. J. Backrach, D. Cahn, M. Oury, G. Welsh, H. 
 Kampman, M. Goldstucker, B. Dreyfus, N. Schwab, 
 L Isaacson, J. Leopold, Wolf Sahn.M. Aronstein. M. 
 Heidenheim, Aron Feitel, A. Kaufman, J. Dreyfous, 
 Maier Kaufman, David Cohn, Jacob Hirsch, N. Guni- 
 bel, S. Wolf, the sexton and J. Deitz. 
 
 A glance at the above names recalls vividly the for- 
 bears of some of our representative families who to- 
 day are as active in communal work as the prede- 
 cessors named. 
 
 CONGREGATION TEMPLE SINAI 
 had its origin in the wave of Reform Judaism, which 
 
 TEMPLE SINAI. 
 
 was inaugurated years before by the greatest of Amer- 
 ican Rabbis, the lamented, Isaac M. Wise, of Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, founder of the Hebrew Union College, the 
 Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the 
 Central Conference of American Rabbis. 
 
 The reform movement was instituted so as to give to 
 American Israelites a uniform ritual with a view of 
 uniting the different elements, each of whom in their 
 efforts to transplant the customs of their fathers on 
 American soil, brought about a greater divergence in 
 ritualistic observances. 
 
 The culmination of the agitation for a congregation 
 based upon Reform Judaism was the organization ofCon- 
 
 gregation Temple Si- 
 nai, founded in 1872, 
 the magnificent struc- 
 ture, architectually per- 
 fect, an ornament 
 among the sacred edi- 
 fices reared in New Or- 
 leans on Carondelet 
 street, being dedicated 
 later. 
 
 V Mr. Michel Frank 
 was its first president 
 and Mr. Joseph Simon, 
 a participant in the or- 
 ganization of the As- 
 sociation for the Relief 
 of Jewish Widows and 
 C )rphans and a past pres- 
 ident of the old Hebrew 
 Benevolent Association, 
 being chosen its first 
 vice-president, a posi- 
 tion he has held since 
 Temple Sinai was 
 founded. 
 
 Mr. Julius Weis, the 
 honored philanthropist, 
 succeeded Mr. Michel 
 Frank and served with 
 advantage to the con- 
 gregation for the better 
 part of its existence. 
 He was succeeded by 
 Mr. Max Dinkelspiel", 
 who in turn was suc- 
 ceeded by Mr. Henry 
 Newman when Mr. Weis 
 was again prevailed 
 upon to accept the pres- 
 idency, he finalh' declin- 
 ing on account of advancing years and with a desire to 
 have younger men assume the honors and responsi- 
 bilities. Mr. Maurice Stern of Lehman, Stern & Co., 
 was his successor and under his administration the 
 prestige of Temple Sinai is sustained. 
 
 Rabbi James K. Gutheim was chosen minister on its 
 founding-, dedicating the corner-stone of the Temple. 
 On the death of Rabbi Gutheim the pulpit was given 
 t)ver to its present incumbent Rabbi Max Heller. Rev. 
 Julius Braunfeld, Cantor of Temple Sinai was chosen 
 for that position in 1805, and his artistic ability and 
 magnificent voice, coupled with the distinguished 
 services of Rabbi Heller has created of Temple Sinai 
 the foremost congregation in the South. 
 
 — 4.> 
 
ESTABLISHED 1861. 
 
 COTTON EXCHANGE BUILDING. 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA.^^f r"^^5x==J) 
 
 wotton 
 
 ers. 
 
 vjfuture JdroK 
 
 
 W^ Members New Orleans, New York 
 ''^^^- and Liverpool Cotton Exchanges. 
 
 .^> -^v^iv ■>>. - ^ -^ - ^ ^- ^- ^ /^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -^ ^ ,> ^ 
 
 ESTABLISHED LS59 
 
 W. B. THOMPSON. 
 
 P. L. MCCAY. 
 
 I \J 
 
 M/ 
 Vt/ 
 
 W 
 \»/ 
 Vt/ 
 
 M/ 
 v»/ 
 
 /»s 
 /is 
 
 /♦N 
 
 /<> 
 
 /IS 
 /«N 
 /IS 
 /♦S 
 /♦S 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 
 Cotton Factors and 
 
 Commission cMerchants, 
 
 /K 808 Perdido Street, Ntw Orleans. 
 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 T.J.Stanton, 
 
 Successor to JAMES QRENNON 
 
 i 
 
 OOEaUER l!V<1 
 
 HAY, CORN, 
 
 OATS, BRAN AND 
 COTTON SEED 
 M E A L.^r%^i^^r\^^ 
 
 Nos. 201 to 215 GRAVIER STREET, 
 
 Between Front and Fulton. 
 NEW ORLEANS. LA 
 
 f 
 
 i 
 % 
 
 I 
 
 Cumberland Phone 2803 ii. Peoples Phone 681 
 
 
 r;a 
 r.i 
 
 r n 
 C'J 
 
 £!□ 
 
 LiOl 
 
 r..n 
 r.3i 
 
 r,.i 
 ra 
 
 i^g 
 ca 
 
 c!a 
 
 n'j 
 r,7\ 
 c^ 
 r,3 
 
 r.a 
 cii 
 
 r.a 
 
 ^y 
 
 .riaGac;irir.Tr!L-ic;3nniri.^ni5ciiaB3r.3f3aBaci^Gi3Bi3BaEaEia 
 
 Hoehii & Dieth, 
 
 Successors to J. C. MULr.ER 
 
 Importers and Wholesale 
 Dealt rs in ->_^ 
 
 Complete Line of Millinery 
 Supplies and Novelties for 
 Ladies Wear- 
 
 na 
 e,s 
 
 EiLl 
 
 Ea 
 ma 
 ea 
 Bia 
 ea 
 
 c^i 
 
 ca 
 ua 
 
 Ba 
 
 tJ^ 
 oa 
 Ea 
 Ba 
 aa 
 Ba 
 Ea 
 na 
 aa 
 Ba 
 
 Ba 
 
 B3 
 
 Ba 
 Ba 
 
 Manufacturers of Pattern Hats. 
 529 to 537 Customhouse Street, ca 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 New York, 487 Broadway 
 
 rjar,aB3r;aciaBaGaBaBaBaBaB3BaBaBnBnBaBaBrBa 
 
 ea 
 Ba 
 ea 
 Ba 
 ea 
 Ba 
 
 B!J 
 
 Ba 
 ea 
 Ba 
 k;a 
 
 — 44 
 
.^m M ^ ^m .im ^ ^ 
 
 IT 
 
 N accord with time honored custom the Jewish 
 
 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 
 present, was the organization of a charity named the 
 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 
 first Jewish 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, 
 
 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 
 
 45 
 
TheTulane University of Louisiana 
 
 — NEW ORLEANS.- ^^= 
 
 Edwin Anderson Alderman. LL. D. President. 
 
 DEPARXIVIEINjXS 
 
 (iKADrATK, 
 
 COLLKUE OF ARTS AND SCI KXCICS. 
 
 COLr.FJJE (IF TKCHNOLCXiV. 
 
 II. SOI'IIIK XK\VC0M15 COLLEGF. 
 
 MKKICAF. UEI'A1!TI\IFXT. 
 
 LAW DEPARTJIFNT. 
 
 ttl Teach 
 
 UOO Students 
 
 10 r.uildiii.as. 
 
 Tiilane University makes lenders in all vocation.s. 
 There are more than 6000 alumui. Its facilities for 
 instruction in Engineering are unsurpassed in the 
 aoiith. There are one hundred and seventy-tive 
 .«ch(darships in the academic department open to Louisiana bo.\s. Hoard and accuniniodation in dormitory at lowest 
 rates, t )piiorlnnities afforded for self help. No worthy boy. if need}', shall be turned away fi'oni its duors. 
 
 For catalogue Address, RICHARD K BRUFF, Secretary. 
 
 F. W. TILTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 J. T. .GIBBONS, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 
 Hay, Grain, 
 
 
 
 Fertilizers, 
 
 
 
 Etc., Etc 
 
 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 Cor. Poudras & Peters Sts." 
 
 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 
 
 
 
 (0 
 
 (0 
 
 m 
 
 
 J. Watts Kearney & Sons, 
 
 
 ■**5i5 $?$;$:$!$$•$: $■$!$!$$- 
 
 ^ 
 
 &x. 
 
 \l/ 
 
 \l/ 
 
 vl/ 
 
 \l/ 
 \l/ 
 
 * 
 
 * 
 ft 
 
 * 
 
 ft 
 ft 
 
 I 
 
 ft 
 ft 
 
 Building Materials, 
 l^aints, Oils , Su^ar 
 Mouse Supplies. J4^ 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 ^^White-House Paint/^ 
 
 423-425 GR A \^ I E R S1TvE ET, 
 NEW ORLEANS, L.\ ^^^ 
 
 — 4(. 
 
his attainments and watched his professional career 
 and successes with critical delight. 
 
 The demands for an Infirmary presented itself to 
 the charitably inclined Touro. Yellow fever was an 
 incident of each and every summer and the facilities 
 offered the poor and needy sick were limited. 
 
 Without any pomp or parade Judah Touro secured 
 by purchase the Paulding- Mansion, situated at what 
 is now known as the corner of Gaiennie and Tchoup- 
 itoulas streets. 
 
 The Paulding Home, at that era, was a notable 
 private residence, with an unobstructed view of the 
 Great Father of Waters sweeping majestically on- 
 ward to the sea. Its surrounding were rural and not 
 much beyond it luxuriant fields of cane flourished 
 and made glad the hearts of a contented people. 
 
 Ornate and stately in its architectural lines, roomy 
 
 disturbing factor to the patients, and, little by little, 
 the old Infirmary became as it were impaled upon 
 the horns of commercial activity and it became nec- 
 essary to take steps to secure another and more suit- 
 able location and arrange for the construction of a 
 modern building on approved sccientific lines. 
 
 There are many cherished memories associated 
 with the old Infirmary, which only some years after 
 its founding by Judah Touro was given his name. 
 The most ardent of its admirers were the intimate 
 friends and acquaintances of Judah Touro, gentle- 
 men composing the Hebrew Benevolent Association, 
 which from the opening of the Infirmary acted in 
 unison with the intentions of the great Philan- 
 thropist whose name will be cherished by the Jews 
 ill Louisiana forever. 
 
 The scope of humaneness, the demands for Charity 
 
 THE TOURO INFIRHARY. 
 
 and airy, it was secured by Judah Touro, equipped 
 as an Infirmary and Dr. Bensadon placed in charge, 
 who demonstrated his ability, not only as Execu- 
 tive but as a general practitioner of Medicine and 
 Surgery, for the many years that he was identified 
 with its management. 
 
 With his accustomed g-oodness of heart Judah 
 Touro made the provision that every necessitous Jew 
 applying should be admitted and given every atten- 
 tion and service, just as much so as those able to 
 contribute to its support. 
 
 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 
 
 increased continually, and after the death of Judah 
 Touro, an association was formed, bearing his name 
 which took upon itself the management of the Touro 
 Infirmary. In 186S the old and time honored Hebrew 
 Benevolent Association and this association united, 
 forming the Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent 
 Association. 
 
 During all these years the Infirmary and the He- 
 brew Benevolent Association were greatly hampered 
 for want of space. During the later years of Touro's 
 life and in fact for years afterwards the Infirmary 
 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 
 
 47 — 
 
JOSEPH ZEN GEL. 
 
 FRANK L. HE ID ERICH 
 
 -i/vo^y\p Cl>'^^ vi-'v^ b-* u3 Ci^ vp tyvj? &^\j3 R^\^ Cl^ ijS &/^ 
 
 ■*'iri'^3(: li&'ic :i&>3(C i£"ac ^is--?*: iS"^ ■iS"3ic is-^ "i&y(r:i&'5!C i£"5c is-^ i&>3«r :i&^ ^i&'Si' tis-^r i&yc ii"2t ■i£"9r:i£' 3^ 
 
 t^ ''a ^N*^ iX\/^ r^Ts/^ ^/Tl i^/t3 !?^/tl i?VTl tfVfe i3A/^(7A^ 
 
 >^ 
 
 %:< 
 ».^ 
 »« 
 
 3^ 
 ^:^ 
 3^ 
 7^ 
 3^ 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 3^ 
 
 »% 
 3Ae 
 3£!?6 
 3^ 
 3S;?6 
 
 3^ 
 3^ 
 
 3«*' 
 3S;^ 
 %^ 
 
 2^ 
 3^ 
 
 3^« 
 36(« 
 
 
 Zenael & Heiderich 
 
 
 Furniture Company... 
 
 Successors to THE HUGH FLYNN CO.. Ltd. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
 
 Furniture 
 
 3Ae 
 
 7k% 
 
 ;^% 
 )>^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 3Ae 
 
 9Ae 
 Nos. 729 to 737 POYDRAS STREET, '^ 
 
 3^:« 
 ^%. 
 3s!^ 
 3S;?6 
 3Ae 
 
 New Orleans. || 
 
 Between St Charles and Carondelet. 
 
 Call and See Us Hpfore Furnishing 
 Your House. We can Save You 
 MdNKY 
 
 e3^5!!^5^:^9^^3^3^9«:^3f:«:9^^5f;:#3«:;5e3^3Ae3^3c!^9^>!e3^^ 
 
 m 
 
 W-- 
 
 
 F. p. RIVET, 
 
 ..Tarpaulins.. 
 
 FOR SALE 
 OR TO HIRE. 
 
 Covering Done On All Parts of the Levee 
 
 Office, Head of Bienville Street. 
 Telephone 634. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 All Orders Promptly Attended To. 
 
 ;^p<:^9?!^3^!5e3f:>ie3^«3c!^5^^9f::^3i;*3e!^9Ae3?!i*;3;!^3e<^3^:«3f:!5e3f;^S^^*<;sOs:^ 
 :^?63^3^3S?S3SS63*;?«3S?63^3^^3s«3S?63^?63S?63^?63S:^3S?63^*;3*;?S3S;^3*;?QS?S 
 
 3Ae 
 3^?6 
 %^ 
 %%. 
 3^ 
 ^% 
 
 y^ 
 
 y^ 
 
 ^% 
 3^ 
 
 yx 
 ».% 
 3Ae 
 
 3S;?6 
 3^ 
 
 y^ 
 as;* 
 3Ae 
 
 3^ 
 
 The AMERICAN 
 PAINT 
 WORKS 
 
 Manufacturers of Everything in 
 
 3^ 
 
 3Ae 
 3^^ 
 
 SAC 
 
 ^% 
 y^ 
 
 y^ 
 
 3s;?( 
 3^ 
 ^% 
 
 y^ 
 
 M Phone 915. 
 
 ^ Write for- C.lor C^nl 
 
 3^?6 
 
 Paints, 
 Leads, 
 
 PUTTY, VARNISHES. 
 
 Uiir Goods are Sold Under a Full Guarantee. 
 Will (live Absolute Sati.sfactiou 
 Once Tried Alway.s Used. 
 
 THE AMERICAN PAINT WORKS, 
 2225 S. Water Street, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 Prices and Cataliijijue. 
 
 3Ae 
 3^?S 
 
 y^ 
 
 35;:^ 
 3^ 
 3S;?6 
 
 3^^ 
 3^ 
 3^ 
 3S?6 
 3^ 
 ^■K 
 yig. 
 3S?S 
 9^* 
 
 im 
 yy^ 
 7fc^ 
 y^ 
 
 y>^ 
 
 3SC* 
 
 y^ 
 
 7k^ 
 
 %% 
 3^ 
 
 3^?6 
 
 3s;?6 
 
 3s;?s 
 3«:^ 
 3s;?e 
 
 3%^ 
 *;« 
 3S;^ 
 
 3f« 
 
 J^. C. MIMS, 
 
 AnalyticalCSLConstilting Chemist 
 and Assaycr. 
 
 C/iemijt to the "Board of Health. 
 
 Analysis of Fertilizers, Cotton Seed Products, 
 Soils, Farm Products, Well, Spring- and River Water, 
 Minerals, Ores, Metals, Foods Cereals, Etc. 
 
 Plans and Speciticatiotis furnished for the erection 
 and operation of Fertilizer Plants. Sulphuric Acid 
 Works, Smelting and Reduction P^urnaces, Cotton 
 Oil Mills, Turpentine and Wood Alcohol Distilleries. 
 Water Purification for Cities, Ice and Refrigerating- 
 Plants 
 
 Duplication and Improvements of Products and 
 Processes, Improved Processes and Machinery for 
 making- Animal and Mineral Fertilizers, (Urease, 
 Glue, Gelatin, etc.; heav3' and fine chemicals and for 
 the utilization of all kinds of Wastes by up-to-date 
 methods. 
 
 Formula? for phannaceutical preparations. Proprie- 
 tary Medicines, Etc. 
 
 Chemico technical Superintendence of Factories 
 by yearly contract. 
 
 No. S2:) (IliAVIER STREET. 
 
 . nox W.f 
 PHONI-: 256-M2 
 
 lew Orleans, La. 
 
 — 48 
 
better understanding of the needs of institutions, the 
 Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent Association, 
 led by practical men of affairs, began plans for the 
 general betterment of conditions. 
 
 JULIUS WEIS HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM. 
 
 With the orphans safely housed amidst most ele- 
 gant surroundings in the "Home", and, the sick and 
 suffering, sheltered neath the splendidly equipped 
 Infirmary, the next thought was to found a haven 
 for Aged and Infirm Israelites. 
 
 The Touro Infirmary always had room and food for 
 the aged and homeless Israelite, but its progressive 
 management realized that the wards and buildings 
 utilized for the sick were no fitting place for aged, 
 homeless and friendless people. 
 
 The question 
 of a haven, ded- 
 icated solely 
 for the p u r - 
 poses of the 
 aged, had been 
 discussed for 
 some time and, 
 fi n a 1 1 y, the 
 Board of Man- 
 agement of the 
 Touro Infirm- 
 ary and Hebrew 
 Benevolent As- 
 sociation decid- 
 ed that the time 
 was propitious 
 to rear such an 
 edifice. 
 
 The plans 
 once conceived 
 were put into 
 operation. A 
 section of the 
 squareonwhich 
 the Touro In- 
 firmary is situ- 
 ated was designated for the purpose, and, on Thurs- 
 day afternoon, March 2, IS')'), at 3:30 o'clock, with- 
 out pomp or ceremonial the first steps were taken. 
 There was no prearranged program, the officers and 
 Board of Managers of the Association, several officers 
 of District Grand Lodge No. 7, I. O. B. B., a number 
 of ladies, whose devotion to Jewish philanthropy has 
 been their life's work and representatives of the 
 press being present. 
 
 Proceeding to the space allotted for the projected 
 building, Mr. N. I. Shwartz, President of the Asso- 
 ciation, in a few remarks presented to Rabbi I. L. 
 Leucht a minature spade in silver, requesting him to 
 break the ground. The respected reverend responded 
 feelingly in appreciation of the honor and in turn re- 
 quested that the President of the Association turn 
 
 The Julius Weis Home for the Aged Gift of Mr. Julius Weis. 
 
 the first spade full of Earth, and. amidst ap])lause, 
 Nathan I. Shwartz performed that duty. K'ahbi 
 Iveucht followed and then the lamented Frederick 
 Loeber, M. D., for years Chief Surgeon, in turn fol- 
 lowed by the following distinguished and repre enta- 
 tive gentlemen: Messrs. Henry Abraham, Joseph 
 Magner, Archibald A. Marks, Henry Stern, Nat. 
 Stratiss, Leonard Krower, L. A. Livaudais, Archi- 
 tect; Fred. Reusch, builder and others. 
 
 The spade, of solid silver, mounted on an ebony 
 handle l^ore the following inscription: "Presented 
 to Rabbi I. L. Leucht, Chairman of the Building 
 Committee, on the day of breaking ground for the 
 Home for Aged and Infirm, March 2, IS')'), b^' the 
 
 Board of Officers." 
 
 Under the 
 
 deft hands of 
 artisans the 
 Home was soon 
 reared and then 
 shaped for its 
 furnishing so 
 as to be opened 
 for the recep- 
 tion of its wel- 
 come guests. 
 
 Previous to 
 takingthesteps 
 to rear a Home 
 for Aged and 
 Infirm, $1.S,000 
 had been secur- 
 ed by contritiu- 
 tions, hence, no 
 doubt existed 
 in the minds of 
 the Association 
 that the plans 
 decided upon 
 would be car- 
 ried out in de- 
 tail. 
 
 Plans a n d 
 specifications for the construction of a Home for the 
 Aged and Infirm were called for and finally accepted. 
 The Association was profoundly interested in the 
 work because sufficient money, at least, for its con- 
 struction, was in the Treasury — as to the future, the 
 care of the Old Folks — "God would provide." 
 
 From distant Baden-Baden came a missive, wafted 
 by cablegram, a free will offer to assume the cost of 
 constructing and furnishing the Home, and, on Sep- 
 tember 16, IS'i'J, the president of the Touro Infirmary 
 and Hebrew Benevolent Association was notified that 
 Mr. Julius Weis had donated S25,000 for the specific 
 purpose of defraying the expenses of building and 
 furnishing the Home which bears his name. 
 
 On Sunday afternoon, September 17, 18':>9, a special 
 meeting of the Board was convened and the magni- 
 ficent gift of Mr. Julius Weis accepted with enthu- 
 siasm and applause. 
 
 V) 
 
ESTABLISHED 1881. 
 
 W.RT. 
 
 I 
 
 Orleans 
 
 SPECIA 
 
 Factory 
 
 Salesroom, 204 St. CHARLES ST. 
 
 OPP. MEW ST. CHARLES HOTEL. 
 
 ^-i-^FiNE SHIRTS 
 
 MADE TO ORDER. 
 
 QUALITY, STYLE, FINISH and FIT UNEQUALLED. 
 
 ALL THE SHIRTS WE SELL ARE OUR OWN MAKE. 
 
 Lafayette Fire 
 
 ^ 
 
 Insurance Co., 
 
 No. 2123 Magazine Street, 
 
 Between Jackson and Josephine Street. New Orleans. La. 
 
 Insures Againt Loss or Damage 
 by Fire at Lowest Rates _>*■ 
 
 CAPITAL, ^1^0,000.00. SURPLUS. ^185,000.00 
 ASSETS, 1391.695'. 22. 
 
 o OFFICKKS o 
 
 LOUIS MATHIS, Pre.^t. Dl!, .T. H. MALONEY, Vice Prest. 
 .JOHN X WEGMAXN, Secy. .J. H. KuHL, Inspector. 
 
 Hcniv I'>ensel, .Ir. 
 E. n."Cha(l\vick, 
 Henry 1'. Dart. 
 H. Donnenl'elser, 
 .lolin G. Herbertli, 
 .Tohn Pi. Jaejicr, 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 ,1. H. Keller, 
 .1. H. Kranz, 
 A. X. Skarilon, 
 Louis Jlathis. 
 Chi-istian Jliller. 
 Helinan Wilke, 
 Philip Pfetfer. 
 
 Ur. S. R. Ollipliant, 
 Louis ScUuler, 
 Dr. .1. H. Maloney, 
 .]. V. Sauter. 
 .Iese]ili J'raneliiiia, 
 .lames Wilson. 
 
 WILLIAM J. O'CONNOR, Principal. 
 
 HARRY S. MICHEL, Secretary and Asst. to Principal. 
 
 JAMES KENNEY, Superintendent 
 
 ESTABLISHED BY M. J. FARREU, OCTOBER 1, 1880. 
 
 Boylan Deteetive Agency 
 
 And PROTEGTIOU POLICE 
 
 o OF NEWORLHANS 1> 
 
 Operating Holmes' Electric Burglar Alarm. 
 
 Hain Office, (Never closed) 636 Qravitr Street. 
 
 Reliable Watchmen Furnished Night or Day 
 On Short Notice. 
 
 Special Attention Given to Furnishing Uniformed 
 
 Officers and Detectives for Weddings and 
 
 Entertainments at Private Residences. 
 
 Under the Auspices of the Cotton Exchange, Insurance 
 Companies and Ship Agents. 
 
 Reliable Detectives Sent to ;ill Parts of the Wnrkl. 
 
 ^"Phone No. 977. 
 
 This Agencv will Have Nothiug to do 
 With Divorce Cases. 
 
 I S. OTERI, i 
 
 © © 
 
 ® Importer, Packer and Jobber ® 
 
 ® © 
 
 Fruit, Nuts and \ 
 
 ! 
 
 Produce 
 
 403=409 Front St, < 
 
 402=408 Fulton Street, 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 ©$$iSa©©©©©t5e*:?ll©©©:?«©©»* =;=•"*" 
 
 ;:;:$ 
 
 — 50 — 
 
On Friday nig-ht, September 22, 1899, in the little 
 S3'nag-og-ue of the Julius Weis Home, the dedicatory 
 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- 
 ident of the Touro In- 
 firmary, I found that a 
 separate building was 
 necessary to make the old 
 folks more comfortable. 
 And, having this idea 
 in mind ever since, it af- 
 forded me the greatest 
 pleasure to have relieved 
 your institution of the 
 cost of erectingthis build- 
 ing." 
 
 JEWISH ORPHANS 
 HOME. 
 
 Old Jewish Orphans' Home, Jackson and Chippewa Sts. 
 
 When the World was young-, nomadic races, others 
 whose vain glorious deeds delighted in wars, suc- 
 ceeded in others by generations of individuals of ar- 
 tistic temperaments or Sybaritic tastes, each in turn 
 left their impressions, from the mounds, crypts, pyra- 
 mids and hieroglyphic carved cuneiform to the 
 famed mausoleums and monuments that are a marvel 
 to those who stand before them in this enlightened 
 era, when, in truth, each crumbling stone is a link 
 with the ages of the Past. 
 
 Every nation, race, religion and communit}' can be 
 judged with certainty of its progressiveness, its cul- 
 ture and humane appreciation of full fellowship by 
 its monuments, be the}' the modest chapel reared to 
 God's service, libraries for the encouragement of ar- 
 dent students, art galleries and museums replete 
 with the beautiful or priceless souvenirs of a Nation's 
 glory. 
 
 However, no monument though wrought of rarest 
 marble or burnished bronze, no relic, however fabu- 
 
 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 
 is difficult to realize that 
 a half century had elaps- 
 ed since the seed was 
 implanted in kindly 
 hearts which resulted in 
 bringing about the re- 
 sults, apparently beyond 
 the dreams, aspirations 
 and fondest realization 
 of those great hearted 
 inaugurators of the move- 
 ment which called into 
 existence one of the great- 
 est of Charities in the 
 history of the Jews in 
 Louisiana. 
 New Orleans at all times was cosmopolitan in 
 character, unostentatious in its Charities, magnifi- 
 cent in its methods, and as far back as 1828 no ap- 
 peal for the suffering fell upon heedless ears, no hand 
 was idle when Charity made its plea and among the 
 exponents of the Creed of Humanity were the He- 
 brews, yielding their mite for the relief of the 
 afflicted and caring for their brethren in faith. 
 
 In that era consecutive disasters in the form of 
 Yellow Fever epidemics created a demand for better 
 organization. Year after year widows bereft of their 
 mates, orphans, left homeless and parentless, were 
 exacting charges of the entire community and dur- 
 ing all these trying periods the Hebrew Benevolent 
 Association, at that epoch already a distinguished 
 and useful factor in charitable work, gracefully ac- 
 cepted the situation and the enforced guardianship 
 of the survivors — widows and orphans, of the vic- 
 tims of the several Epidemics. 
 
 51 — 
 
^/(^;^(^^^(^(^l 'l^f^^i^ ^(^.^ (^(^'®> ^.^i©^^(^(^^ 
 
 MW^m 
 
 Faluy-Wilson Company, LiniitBd. 
 
 Gas 0- Electrical Fixtures 
 
 WOOD MANTELS. 
 
 409 Camp Street, 
 
 New Orleans. 
 
 Estimates git>en on Tile and cMosaic Floors. 
 
 i. 
 
 ^ 
 
 '^%%i'%'%'^%^%%WWM'mMW%W'%v%WWWMW!%Wwm 
 
 I 
 
 CT^D QAI CT ! Cr^D QAi P" 
 
 hVJK oAL_t- rVJK OML-C- 
 
 In SMALL OR LARGE TRACTS 
 
 600,000 ACRES 
 
 HARDWOOD AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN THE TENSAS DELTA 
 OF LOUISIANA, A SECTION AS RICH AS THE 
 
 VALLEY OF THE NILE. 
 
 DESIRABLE FOR SUGAR AND COTTON PLANTATIONS, STOCK FARMS, 
 TRUCK FARMS, ETC. WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLET AND MAP 
 
 Pine and Cypress Timber Lands 
 
 IN THE SOUTH, AND TIMBER LANDS IN THE WEST FOR SALE. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 ..oo_«, j_ Q_ Lacey & Co. 
 
 f 
 
 6 8 NFNNEN BUILDING, | 
 NEW ORLEANS. i 
 
 — 52 — 
 
With the close of the Epidemic of 1853 the Hebrew 
 Benevolent Association were charg-ed with tlie care 
 of seven widows and about twenty orphans, and. 
 thanks to the inspiration of ardent professors of 
 Charity, to give these unfortunates a home indeed 
 the Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows and 
 Orphans became a reality. 
 
 Pedestrians of to-dav sauntering- along- Camp street, 
 from Canal toward the upper districts, noting- the well 
 laid streets and elegant banquets, lined on either side 
 by stately buildings, the great throbbing heart of a 
 busy, modern metropolis, can hardly realize that fifty 
 years ago, in lieu of sidewalks, the gunwals of old 
 flat boats, the corduroy of huge logs and makeshifts 
 gave a footing to those who walked that thorough- 
 fare, which, not 
 many hundred 
 feet from the 
 corner of Canal 
 street marked 
 the limits of 
 the then part of 
 New Orleans 
 above the cen- 
 tral street, then 
 as now known 
 as Canal street. 
 
 Conspicuous 
 among the not- 
 able sites on 
 Camp street 
 were the thea- 
 tre or circus and 
 adjacent to it 
 was the Armory- 
 Hall, utilized 
 for public gath- 
 erings, the site 
 of this historic 
 building being 
 now occupied 
 by Keiffer Bros. 
 founders and promoters of a local industry. 
 
 Within the Armory Hall, on the evening of Novem- 
 ber 25, 1854, was assembled a notable gathering of 
 Jews, residents of New Orleans, and, with few excep- 
 tions, every man in New Orleans with a jot of Jewish 
 blood coursing in his veins was not onlv an interested 
 spectator but heartily in accord with the objects of 
 the meeting. 
 
 To Mr. Joseph Simon, who, to-day, hale and hearty, 
 though bearing the traces of advanced age, is the 
 honor due of advocating, if not being the actual orig- 
 inator of the proposed meeting. He was at that time 
 president of the Hebrew Benevolent Association. He 
 had devoted much of his time in the years he had been 
 in New Orleans to charitable work, and being quali- 
 fied for the task by experience — and, better still, a 
 
 THE JEWISH ORPHANS' HOME. 
 
 charitable nature that Age has enhanced, he was 
 Almoner as well as executive and, consequently, was 
 always in touch with the needy immigrant, the poor, 
 the suffering, the widowed and orphaned, not only as 
 Almoner, but as a confidant, advisor and friend. 
 
 Mr. Simon conferred with his friends, at the time 
 when the Yellow Scourge had played sad havoc in 
 New Orleans, leaving in its wake, bleeding hearts, 
 inconsolable, starving widows and misery in every 
 guise. 
 
 James K. Gutheim, Gershom Kursheedt, L. L. 
 Lew, M. M. Simpson, George Jonas, Joseph Magner, 
 Joseph Marks, M. Levison, Alex Phillips and others, 
 whose names cannot be recalled, responded to the call 
 and were present at the meeting in the Armory Hall. 
 
 Gershom Kur- 
 sheedt was call- 
 ed to the chair, 
 c o m m i 1 1 e e s 
 were appointed 
 and subsequent 
 meetings were 
 arranged for 
 where plans 
 were discussed. 
 On March 18, 
 1855, a meeting 
 was held when 
 all the plans 
 were ratified 
 and the Asso- 
 ciation for the 
 Relief of Jewish 
 Widows and 
 Orphans w a s 
 ft)unded, a n d 
 M. M. Simpson, 
 elected Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Wt)rk was 
 promptly inau- 
 gurated by se- 
 curing ground at the intersection of Jackson Avenue 
 and Chippewa street and, on August 7, 1855, in the 
 presence of a g-rand concourse of citizens the corner- 
 stone of the structure, known for years afterwards as 
 the "Jewish Widows' and Orphans' Home" was laid 
 with imposing ceremonies, Rabbi James K. Gutheim 
 being orator of the occasion. 
 
 On January 8, 185b, Benjamin F. Jonas, distinguish- 
 ed in after years by Senatorial honors and to-day one 
 of Louisiana's favorite sons, pronounced an Oration 
 when the Home, completed, was turned over to the 
 Association, thus marking the beginning of philan- 
 thropic monuments reared by the Jews of New Or- 
 leans. 
 
 In the score of years following, the Home became 
 taxed to its capacity and it was deemed expedient to 
 
 — Dj> 
 
(^©©(^^©^^©(©©i©^^©(^(^©(^f^^©l^!©!^©(^ (^(^(^(^^(^^(^^^(^^'^^(^(^ 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 THE MOST P^OPULAR 
 \VIXTP:R RE80RT IN 
 amp: RICA 
 
 ^ ^ ^ ^ .^ ^ 
 
 (lolf, French 
 Opera, Seven 
 Theatres, 
 Continuous 
 Horse Racing 
 Hunting, 
 Fishiuii'.. 
 
 One of the 
 Latest, Larg- 
 est and Best 
 Hotels in the 
 Country. 
 Accommoda- 
 tions for 700 
 Guests .... 
 
 The New St. Charles Hotel 
 
 1 5 Private 
 Bath Rooms. 
 
 Turkish, Rus- 
 sian. Roman, 
 and Plain 
 Baths. 
 
 A modern first 
 class hotel... 
 Kept on both 
 American and 
 Europe an 
 Plans at 
 M oderate 
 Prices. 
 
 Luxurious Sun 
 Baths and 
 Palm Garden. 
 
 Write for plans and rates III A. R. BLAKELY & CO., Limited, Proprietors. 
 
 wwwwwwwWW'&W&W''&WMMMW'^y&W)'&W9^ 
 
 C. M. SORIA, President. 
 
 JNO. S. RAINEY, Vice-Pres 
 
 CHAS. RAINEY, Secty. & Treas. 
 
 n 
 
 li 
 
 714 UNION STREET, 
 
 i 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 High Grade Fertilizers Raw Bone 
 
 standard Brands: c^ 
 
 Sterns Ammoniated Raw Bone Super Phosphate. 
 Standard Ammoniated Soluble Guano, 
 Champion Farmers Choice. Sterns Acid Phosphate 
 
 Specials iop^-^^^ 
 
 Sugar Cane, Rice, Fruit Trees, Vegetables, 
 
 o— WILL .AIAKK ANYSPKCIAL FOK.MULA DKSIKKI). o 
 
 BONE BLACK. PURE GROUND BONE. KAINIT. 
 
 ACIDS-SULPHURIC, MURIATIC, NITRIC. AGRICULTURAL AND SUGAR MAKERS CHEMICALS 
 Buyers of Cotton Seed.^*J Send for Agricultural Almanac and Price List 
 
seek for a new site and erect a modern structure to 
 meet future requirements. 
 
 To conceive the idea was to act. The topic was 
 taken up by the Board of Directors, discussed by the 
 Association, endorsed and encourag-ed by the public, 
 reg-ardlessof reliu^ious beliefs, and steps taken to secure 
 the site on St. Charles Avenue. 
 
 On November 25, 1886, the corner-stone of the Jew- 
 ish Orphans' Home, as erected on St. Charles, corner 
 of Peters Avenue, was consecrated in the presence of 
 a mag'nificent concourse of ladies and g'entlemen, con- 
 spicuous among- the throng- being- disting-uished ofli- 
 cials of the National, State and Municipality, divines 
 of every religious denomination, a grand outpouring- 
 of the beautv and chivalry of New Orleans. 
 
 The beautiful ceremony was conducted by the M. 
 W. Grand Lodg-e, Free and Accepted Masons of Louis- 
 iana, the lamented Jurist and notable citizen, Joseph 
 P. Hornor, M. W. Grand Master presiding. The 
 Grand Master 
 pronounced one 
 of the most elo- 
 quent address- 
 es, noted for its 
 diction and 
 beauty of ex- 
 pression. Col. 
 Edwin I. Kur- 
 sheedt, read an 
 address, g^iving 
 the early his- 
 tory of the As- 
 sociation and 
 the institution, 
 and, Leo N. 
 Levi, the talent- 
 ed lawyer, then 
 o f Galveston, 
 Texas, and now 
 
 residing- in New York, who, among- other honors at- 
 tained is the President of the Order of B'nai B'rith, 
 delivered an oration which for conception and bril- 
 lianc}- is one of the cherished memories of the occasion. 
 
 One year afterwards the fondest hopes of the pro- 
 moters were realized The former Home, consecrated 
 and reared in the name of Charity and dedicated to 
 the Jewish Widows and Orphans in 1855 had passed 
 into the possession of the City of New Orleans, but 
 not to be desecrated, but to be devoted as a Public 
 School, for the children of New Orleans. The Home — 
 as it now is — was given over to Jewish Orphans and 
 an imperishable monument dedicated for all time was 
 applied to the purposes for which noble men and 
 women had applied themselves. 
 
 The program on the occasion of laying the corner- 
 stone was as follows: 
 
 Overture. 
 
 Prayer by Rev. M. Samfield, of Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 Manual Training School — Gift of Mr. Isidore Newman, Sr. 
 
 Address of President K. I. Kursheedt. 
 Oration by Leo. N. Levi of Galveston, Orator of 
 the day. 
 
 Address by Rev. I. L. Leucht. 
 
 Laying of the corner-stone b}- Hon. Jos. P. Horner, 
 M. W. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge F. & A. M. 
 of Louisiana. 
 
 Closing- prayer by Rabbi Eisenberg, of Synagog-ue 
 Gates of Prayer. 
 
 The officers of the Association at that memorable 
 time were: 
 
 Edwin L Kursheedt, President; Rev. J. K. Gutheim, 
 First Vice-President; A. Haber, Second Vice-Presi- 
 dent; S. Katz, Treasurer; Selim Barnett, Secretary. 
 
 Directors: Henry Newman, Theo. Berkson, M. 
 Heinemann, Jos. Kohn, Alex Levy, Morris Marks, 
 Julius Weis, Gus Lehmann. 
 
 On Part of District Grand Lodge No. 7, L O. B. B. : 
 J. C. Levy, Seymor M3'ers, G. Kahn, Max Dinkelspiel, 
 
 Ferd. Marks, 
 Nat. Strauss, 
 Simon Cohn, E. 
 M. Tillman. 
 
 The Building 
 Committee was 
 composed of the 
 following prom- 
 inent g-entle- 
 men: 
 
 Simon Hern- 
 sheim. Chair- 
 man; Bertrand 
 Beer, Abraham 
 Adler, Julius 
 Weis, Simon 
 Gumbel, Jos. 
 Simon, Henr3- 
 Abraham , 
 Isaac Scherck, 
 Morris Marks, Dr. F. Loeber, F. Hollander. 
 
 Committee of Arrangements: Rev. L L. Leucht, 
 Chairman; Morris Marks, Isidore Hechinger, Henry 
 Stern, J. K. Gutheim, F. Hollander, Gus Lehraann, Sig 
 Keiffer, M. Frank, M. Schwabacher, Max Dinkelspiel, 
 A. Gugenheim, Jonas Hiller, S. Mendelshon, F. Gold- 
 smith, Alex Levy, Jac. Trautman, Julius Goldsmith. 
 Jos. Magner, Secretary. 
 
 ISIDORE NEWMAN'S 
 MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL. 
 
 A Manual Training School for the educatit)n of 
 Jewish Orphans in vocations which would ensure them 
 a livelihood, when, leaving the Home, they would be 
 compelled to rely on their own efforts, had been a sub- 
 ject of reflection of the Board of Directors of the As- 
 sociation having control of the Institution, of friends 
 of the Orphans, and of the B'nai B'rith of District 
 No. 7. 
 
.S. Kleindorf, 
 
 Merchant Tailor. 
 
 638 COM MONS TREE T, 
 
 : Near St. Charles Street, 
 i NEW ORLEANS, 
 
 1 1 1 1 1 1 
 
 1 1 1 i 1 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 GEO. i [[ Mi m, 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 BAKERY. 
 
 
 
 1835-1887 Melpomene Street, 
 
 
 1 
 
 DRYADHS MAKKKT. 
 
 
 1 1 1 1 1 
 
 
 1 1 1 1 1 
 
 
 * 
 
 
 AUG. H. MISSE, 
 
 STEAM AND CHEMICAL 
 
 « 
 ^ 
 « 
 «/ 
 « 
 « 
 » 
 «> 
 
 Cleaning #? Dyeing Works 
 
 642 CAMP STREET, 
 
 PHONE No. 2848-12 
 
 ji> Theatrical Work a Specialty Bepairing Neatly Done /o 
 
 ffk All of My Work Strictly Kiisl ('las,';. Gnoils 4\ 
 tk Called for HTid Delivered ciii llie Shortest Nolite <!> 
 
 "THE HOME OF FLOWERS" 
 
 ! 
 
 I 
 
 U J. VIRGIN, 
 
 Successor to 
 R. MAITRE. 
 
 Florist, 
 
 S38CAN.L STREET, '"'"'^■''^'''a^rTel w% 
 
 CHAS. FEAHNEY, 
 
 F. BERTUCCI & 50N, 
 
 Fancy and Staple 
 Wholesale and 
 Retail - 
 
 GROCER 
 
 Headquarters for California 
 Wines and Brandies .... 
 
 WHOLESALE WINE & LIQUOR DEALER. 
 
 Nos. 1100 to 1112 Poydras Street, 
 Nos. 501 to 505 8. Rampart Street, 
 
 Cumb. Phones 756 and 759 Peoples Phone 756 
 
 -01. D kki.iaki.e:- 
 
 IRestaurant anb date, 
 
 1730=1732 St Charles Avenue. 
 
 Supplied with the Best Bayou Cook Oysters. 
 The Best Wines, Liquors and Ciyars, and 
 
 all kinds of Beers Always on Hand 
 
 Oysters served in Every Style. 
 
 Cumberland Phone 3568=12. 
 
 LADIES' PARLOR. 
 
 All the Latest Styles of Collars 
 at Two for Twenty-five Cents. 
 
 721=723 Common St. 
 
 Opp. St. Charles Hotel 
 
 \Vlien yoii want thi^ Purest and Frcslie.st 
 l)rui;s in your I'rescriptions, go to 
 
 Dannenmann's Pharmacies 
 
 Milan and 5t. Charles Avenue. 
 
 PHONES— 3897 and 2238-23 
 
 Magazine and Upperline .Streets. 
 
 PHONKS— 3980 and 2402-12 
 
 We keep only tbe Best. We employ a speedy Bicycle 
 Service. Your Orders called for and Delivered Promptly 
 
 — 56 
 
Such a school had been a subject of jreneral discus- 
 sion, all agreeing- upon its value as an educational 
 factor, but, the obstruction in the way of consumma- 
 ting- the plan was a lack of money which, without 
 hampering the Home, could be appropriated for the 
 purpose. 
 
 However, through skillful financiering- a fund was 
 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 g-enerally 
 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, Sr." 
 
 At a meeting- of the Board of Directors of the Asso- 
 ciation for the Relief of Jewish Widows and Orphans 
 called for the purpose, the proposition of Mr. New- 
 man was accepted. 
 
 In discussing- the munificent g-ift proferred to the 
 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, for some 
 vears at the meetings of the Association for the Re- 
 lief of Jewish Widows and Orphans. After he had 
 arrived at a conclusion that it would be a benefit to 
 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 
 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 
 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 
 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- 
 though there were a number that entitled the donors 
 to the honor 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: 
 
 "Be It Resolved, That after careful investigation 
 into the merits of the several benefactions which 
 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 
 
 — 57 
 
G. R. GRAGARO. 
 
 PRESIOErwT. 
 
 ABE MAYER. 
 
 Vice- Pre siOENT. 
 
 O. J. MmYER, 
 
 S E c Y . - T H c a s . 
 
 aOK. H. (tKAOARD CO., 
 
 I.ITHiaKD. 
 
 COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS 
 
 S24 UNION STRKKT, N KAV OKI^H'.AXS. 
 
 Liberal Advances Made on all Shipments. 
 
 Sole Agents for Dunlap Hats. A Full Line of Stetson Best Hats 
 
 T7 O V TFIE 
 
 r w^\. 11 ATT 
 
 ER 
 
 123 St. Ch;irles Street ~^^ New Orleans, La. 
 
 Umbrellas, Canes. Traveling Bags. 
 
 Umbrellas Recovered. ^s=~ Hats Repaired. 
 
 Ask for FOX'S OWN STYLE. 
 
 D, A. WALTER, 
 
 ARTIST .fi',noravh;r 
 
 AVATCHH-.S 
 
 DIAMONDiS 
 
 JFIAVH^LRY 
 
 185 KOURBON ST. 
 
 N'K.'W^ ORI^P'.ANS, I-A. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1875. 
 
 A. CUSIMANO & CO. 
 
 A^nd Commission IMerchants, 
 
 n Xo .')17 l)K('.\TrR STKKKT n 
 
 Cuiiili. Lhiuic LSlI!. XKW OKI.KANS, LA. I'cciplrs I'liiinc 2262. 
 
 I'.r-nich House..;- ^ '■ • ' '"^'"i'"!" A' t 'o , I'mIithio, llaly. 
 ^F. ('usiinaiu). New Yurk. 
 
 CARTWRIGHTS 
 
 — CAFE 
 
 Ko. ITS ILMIOXXK s'JTiKKT, 
 nppo.silo Gninewald Hotel. X K W () 11 I, K .\ X S , L A , 
 
 TcU'iilume Xo. 2')-'>U-'l\. 
 
 ^ NEW ORLEANS WAREHOUSE CO., ^ 
 
 W OPERATING p 
 
 w Poydras Warehouse and & 
 
 w Bienville" Warehouses "A" and "B" $i 
 
 3Ae Over M. T. &• T. It. K. iind S S. ('o-.sDeixits. 5^« 
 
 3Ae Your I'atrunage Soliciti'd. ^ 
 
 rsrtC TfvR 7r\rK Tf\t^ 7r<r!C Jr-rti Jf\rS. 7r-r^ 7f.<^ Tr-rX yr\f'R TojtC Tt.'tT jJf^'S^! Tr-r^ 7c"^ JC"^ 7fv/^ ,^. ,^^v ,. 
 
 PETER O'BRIEN. 
 
 PASSENGER 
 FREIGHT 
 
 AND HANDi>yZ3 
 
 ELEJ'.^TORS 
 
 Ke|>;iirinp and Inspectiun oT Klevators yiiil 
 Electric Motors a Specialty. 
 
 817 Union Str.M't, Cunih. PIkmic 7S0 
 
 Xow ( )iU";mis, Lm . 
 
 BR YNER 
 
 & 
 
 GU 
 
 /: 
 
 Cabinet-ma 
 
 kers 
 
 and 
 
 
 Carpenters. 
 
 
 
 mo. tol4 Common Sticet, 
 
 
 mew ©rlcang, Xa. 
 
 J. M- Frajikciibitsk & Sons, 
 
 COTTON FACTORS 
 And Commission Merchants. 
 
 Agents for JefFerson Gin and Oil Mill, Haiiiston, Miss. 
 No. SOU I'KKDUtO STltKKT, NK\V OIILKAXS, LA, 
 
 ED IV. L. ZANSLER. 
 
 1) — MANlViCnUKIi OF 1) 
 
 J 1 1\ yl/^ I\. LI , Shrimp an<l XFolassc.-; 'caii.s 
 
 Itouiid and Scpiart- Cotfcc an<l ()il Can.s. 
 
 Nos. ;i2;j-32.j DK('.-\Tri! ST. CumlHTland I'lionc 24'.)8-ll 
 
 Residence, No. 4JI9 Liberty Street. 
 
 — 58 
 
loving- cu]) otfered as a tribute by the paper in ques- 
 tion, respectfully recommend that the same be ten- 
 dered Mr. Isidore Newman, of this city. 
 
 "Be It Fukthek Resolved, That this tender is 
 based upon his generous action in creating- for the use 
 of the orphans of the Jewish Home, and for the or- 
 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 
 hundred additional pupils from various walks of life 
 beyond the confines of the institution named, a Manual 
 School, to have location in the City of New Orleans, 
 and to cost $40,000. 
 
 "Be It Fukthek Resolved, That this Committee 
 fullv believes Mr. Newman to be entitled to this 'Badge 
 of Service,' if the cup may be so expressed, as it be- 
 lieves the institution of a manual training school to 
 represent a philanthropy that is practical in the ex- 
 treme, providing as it does, a method whereby the 
 children of the poor may secure the elements of a 
 thorough industrial education and their hands and 
 minds taught in the manual arts and sciences now so 
 necessary to complete the organization of society, and 
 so necessary for individual sustenance and prosperity. 
 
 "Your Committee begs, further, to state in connec- 
 tion with the entire subject matter, that the proposi- 
 tion of Mr. Newman includes the expenditure of a sum 
 between $35,000 and $40,000, and the gentleman has 
 notified the Committee in charge of the estimate that 
 he would donate the full amount. 
 
 "The site for the proposed training school has been 
 purchased on Peters avenue and S. Rampart street, at a 
 cost of $8,500, and the plans have been prepared under 
 the supervision of experts. 
 
 "We are assured that the benefaction will be non- 
 sectarian, as applied to the one hundred pupils not 
 included in the Jewish institutions, conferring equal 
 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 
 will be far reaching, and that it will stimulate addi- 
 tional philanthropy to the end that ovir city and State 
 secure the full benefits therefrom. 
 
 "Respectfully submitting these resolutions and re- 
 port for such action as the Board of Directors may 
 decide, we beg to subscribe ourselves, 
 
 "JOHN T. DELAHAY, Chairman. 
 "PHILIP WERLEIN, 
 "LEWIS JOHNSON, 
 "LOUIS P. RICE, 
 "EUGENE DeBLANC, 
 
 "The Loving Cup Committee." 
 
 On Monday evening. May 11, 1*)03, the Athenaeum 
 was thronged by representative people and during a 
 program of exquisite vocal and instrumental music 
 the "Loving Cup" was presented to Mr. Newman, 
 amidst the plaudits of the assembled ladies and gen- 
 tlemen who were fully in accord with public opinion 
 that the handsome gift was fittingly bestowed. 
 
 Only a reference to other Charities is necessary, 
 charities whose founders, actuated by most selfless 
 motives, for the special purposes of the times in which 
 they originated, had no idea that their example, thrice 
 blessed, would be followed by successive generations. 
 
 Very few of the residents of New Orleans recall the 
 establishment of the Hebrew Public School, nor are 
 there many of the younger people who may be aware 
 that the building on Calliope street between St. 
 Charles avenue and Prytania street, now the Boys 
 Public High School, was constructed by the Early 
 Jews in New Orleans and dedicated as a Hebrew 
 School. It is over a half century ago that the Jews 
 of that era recognized the advantages of establishing 
 schools, wherein Jewish children could obtain an edu- 
 cation in the vernacular and the rudiments of a com- 
 iTion school education, at the same time secular train- 
 ing being a part of the curriculum. 
 
 But Time in its flight has produced many innova- 
 tions. In the broad spirit of Americanism the Public 
 School System was recognized as the Cradle of Patri- 
 otism and the Hebrew School succumbed to progress 
 and was no more. Many of the most prominent of 
 the veteran citizens of to-day, of the Jewish faith, 
 recall with pleasureable emotion the happy days of 
 childhood, associated with recollections of school days 
 in the historical building wherein the children of the 
 People, regardless of religious belief, seek the intri- 
 cacies of learning which in the final demonstrates that 
 "Knowledge is Power." 
 
 Those Ministers of Grace and Charity, our revered 
 ladies, were equally untiring in demonstration of Jew- 
 ish ethics, among which Benevolence is accorded a 
 first place by founding — in 1847 — the Ladies' Hebrew 
 Benevolent Association which for over fifty consecu- 
 tive years has ministered to the wants of the poor and 
 distressed and whose Charitable impulses cannot be de- 
 scribed in words nor its gracious beneficence estimated. 
 
 CHEBRA BIKUR CHOLIM -1849 -and a Hebrew 
 Society dedicated to the alleviation of Jews residing 
 in foreign lands — 1853 — after several years of useful 
 services disbanded, merging with other charities of a 
 like character. 
 
 — 59 
 
5g''-<s^;a^/^g^5s*^^^(L=*8^K5°^<lUaZ^S'-'^<: 
 
 JaniBS H. Aitken 
 
 PLUMBER, 
 
 Steam and 
 Gas Fitter, 
 
 Gas and Electric 
 Fixtures 
 
 510 CAMP ST., 
 
 Telephone 865. NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 MARION'S 
 
 Dru^ Store, 
 
 Berlin and St. Charles Ave. 
 
 '2 IMiones 
 
 27 ID- 11 
 
 .^887 
 
 Orders sent for and Delivered. Qaick Delivery. 
 
 ^;^er^=«^*^a^*Ste^ ^»i»^ "-JWH^i^St^^iP 
 
 ^ 
 
 S*»9 id*» *:9*9 »-»i?9i 
 
 \ 
 
 « 
 
 '9$i$i$-9 :$»»£:$»:$•$ !$$$■: 
 
 
 \ 
 
 W. F. EVANS, - - - Manager. 
 M. A. LEVY, Assistant Manager. 
 
 REMINGTON 
 Construction Co. 
 Contractors. 
 
 SOUTHERN OFFICE 
 
 Room 511 HENNEiN BUILDING, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS TELEPHONE 3950. 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 TELEPHONE 7409 Courtlandt, 
 Office, 115 Broadway, New York. 
 
 ««««S«««««««6««« 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 I 
 
 * 
 
 Of 
 
 « 
 
 Our "Monogram Coffee." | 
 
 * 
 
 * 
 
 * 
 * 
 
 * 
 
 I 
 
 4/ 
 
 PURE MOCHA AND JAVA BLEND. 
 
 33:' CENTS PER POUND 
 
 In One. Two and Three-Pound Lithographed 
 .^elf Sealing Cans, and in Bull<. 
 
 It's the best Coffee on the market, regardless of price. Kvery 
 ounce fully guaranteed. Ask your grocer for it. If 
 he lias it not, send us P. U. Order for $1.(10 and we will 
 send you a three pound can, by express prepaid. 
 
 I 
 
 * 
 
 EYE OPENER COFFEE. 
 
 PURE JAVA BLEND. 
 
 t 
 
 m 
 
 IS 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 25 CENTS PER POUND J 
 
 * 
 
 IN ONE, TWO and FOUR-POUND TINS and in BULK. 
 
 Is the best Coffee for the price on the market, and 
 every pound is guaranteed by us. Ask your grocer 
 for it It he bus it not, send us P. U. Order for $1 00 
 and we will send you a four-pound can, express 
 charges prepaid. 
 
 CAGE, DREW & CO., LTD. 
 
 Proprietors of LOUISIANA COFFEE MILLS, 
 i Ninw^ ORLKANS, I.A. 
 
 vl» 
 
 Vl' 
 
 \» 
 \l» 
 
 — 60 — 
 
Among- the most notable of later day exponents of 
 practical charity is a circle, organized nearly twenty 
 3'ears ago by representative Society Belles, whose 
 successors — young ladies — devote a part of their time 
 to sewing for the poor as well as supplying the wants 
 of the Touro Infirmary in the way of articles for the 
 Linen Room. 
 
 THE YOUNG LADIES SEWING SOCIETY, as 
 the circle is known, has a fund of its own secured by 
 donations from their own pin money and that of 
 friends. Material is purchased therewith and at inter- 
 vals, they meet in a well appointed room in the Touro 
 Infirmary, dedicated to its purposes and with deft 
 hands, "sew the hours away," for the time being de- 
 voting themselves to hallowed duties and turning 
 away from social frivolities. 
 
 THE RACHEL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION 
 was founded on September 2, 1894, its objects to nurse 
 the members, or indigent Jewesses of the city, furnish- 
 ing the sufferers with medical aid and medicines, and, 
 in the event of death paying the deceased the last sad 
 tribute according to Jewish ethics. From its incep- 
 tion the Association has been a useful factor, and it 
 has prospered in its self-assumed and noble purposes. 
 
 CONGREGATION TEMEME DERECH, the Right 
 Way, was founded forty years ago by votaries of the 
 Polish ritual and at one time was a most influential 
 body, Rabbi Gutheim dedicating the Synagogue 
 erected for its purposes, on Carondelet street near 
 Lafayette. This congregation disbanded and early 
 in 1903 the Synagogue became the property of the 
 municipality by purchase and its site will be used for 
 the proposed annex to the City Hall. 
 
 CONGREGATION SOMECH NOPHLIM was or- 
 ganized in 1895 as a charitable circle, afterwards in- 
 stituting a Mivyan for prayers. The salient object 
 of this truly philanthropic circle of Orthodox Israelites 
 
 is charity of a practical kind and any deserving Jew 
 is aided in securing a start in life. It also aids its 
 members, cares for the sick and pays the last sad rites 
 to the dead. It is a thriving and ever growing society 
 attracting an Orthodox constituency to its merited 
 work. 
 
 THE HEBREW PUBLIC SCHOOL, occupying com- 
 modious rooms in Carondelet near Poydras streets, 
 is practically the successor of a beautiful conceived 
 charity founded by the most prominent Jewish Ladies 
 in New Orleans several years ago, as a Sabbath 
 School, locating its domicile in the Kindergarten 
 Building on Poydras near Liberty streets and for the 
 benefit of the children of Immigrant Jews settling in 
 the city and residing in that section. The Hebrew 
 Public School is open to all Jewish children, its curri- 
 culum being only the routine followed in teaching 
 Hebrew, Biblical history and Catechism. It is con- 
 ducted by representatives of Orthodoxy and is recog- 
 nized as a factor in Judaism as in vogue in their 
 special circle. 
 
 THE PROVIDENT AID SOCIETY, founded on 
 the principles of a Geinilath Chassodim in 1902 by 
 prominent gentlemen at the instance of Mr. Julius 
 Weis, began operations with a donated capital of 
 $5,000. Its objects, copied after time honored Jewish 
 aid known as Gnnilalh Chassodim — the holiest of good 
 deeds — is to advance money to deserving Jews for the 
 purpose of aiding them in establishing themselves in 
 business or tiding over critical moments when failure 
 stares them in the face. During the year of its ex- 
 istence upwards of twenty-five petitioners were aided, 
 and in each instance these succeeded in establishing 
 themselves in modest enterprises. Not a cent has been 
 lost, every loan being returned. Mr. Julius Weis has 
 in view, at this writing, increasing the advantages of 
 this truly noble philanthropy. 
 
 d « ''«•' 
 
 61 — 
 
Albert Weiblen, 
 
 STEAM 
 
 ^i,A>rt)T^ 
 
 Long Distance Phone 113. 
 
 Marble 
 Works 
 
 Office and Showrooms, 
 824 Baronne St. 
 
 Mill: Intersection of 
 
 111. Central Railroad and 
 
 Claiborne Avenue. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 
 GEO. SCAIiAFAHl, 
 
 DIXIE PRIVATE IVIflRKET 
 
 Corner Baronne and Peniston Streets. 
 Cumb Phone 38-12-32 Neui Orleans, La. 
 
 VEAL and jVIUTTON, ETC. 
 
 A Full Assortment Vegetab'es, Frait. Poultry 
 and Oystrrs Aluiays on Hand. 
 
 FISH WHEN IN SEASON. 
 
 -Goods Delivered Free of Charge, 
 
 Jno. H.Hiinsiiio-er 
 
 Dealer in all Kinds of 
 
 FISH, GAME, 
 Poultry and Eggs 
 
 Stalls— DRYADES MARKET. 
 
 Residence, No. 1833 Melpomene Street. 
 Cumb. Phone No. 2463-fii. 
 
 - JACOB SCHOEN.- 
 PHILIP J. SCHOEN. 
 
 Jacob Schoeii& Son 
 
 FUNERAL\DIRECTORS and 
 EMBALMERS. 
 
 519-527-529 Elysiaf. Fields Avenue, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 Rubber Tire Carriages for Weddings, Parties, Etc. 
 
 Orders Left at 3015 Royal Street Will Receive Prompt Attention 
 
 Office Phone loor. At Residence 2102-22. 
 
 — 62 — 
 
God's Acres. 
 
 ♦flTN seeking for the orig-in and location of the first 
 11 Jewish burial ground in the section of the coun- 
 try discussed, from an historical standpoint in 
 this volume, again much is left to conjecture. There 
 is no possibility of tracing the first death — perchance, 
 it was some hardy son of Castile, dying among strang- 
 ers as far as religious belief was concerned, who was 
 borne to the grave and bedded in Mother Earth by 
 friendly hands, for, after all the grave equalizes all 
 men, and it is written of all the human kind. "Dust 
 thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." 
 
 A score of years ago an investigator gave publicity, 
 and for the first time of record, that, according to the 
 reminiscences of 
 an aged Creole 
 who asserted he 
 recalled the in- 
 cident, that as 
 far back as 1S12, 
 Jewish inter- 
 ments were made 
 in the Old Saint 
 Louis Cemetery, 
 and in a plot, di- 
 Tided of¥ from 
 the Catholic 
 Cemetery by a 
 fence, in close 
 proximity to 
 what is now 
 known as the 
 Jesuit Mauso- 
 leum. This ra- 
 conteur asserted 
 that about 1825, 
 the remains of 
 the Jews buried 
 in the St. Louis 
 Cemetery were 
 exhumed and re- 
 moved "uptown" 
 where, he did not 
 know, or could 
 
 not recall. Whether this fragment, linking the past 
 with the present, can be authentically relied upon, 
 is a question for each reader to decide for himself, 
 suffice to say, that subsequent developments, and 
 positively traceable, lead up to the establishment of 
 the first Jewish Cemetery, of record, in Louisiana. 
 
 In 1828, the then Crescent City, was bounded by 
 Canal street and the Champs ZsVyiec— Elysian Fields 
 street — the levees borderingthe \Iississippi River, and. 
 North Rampart street. Be^'onJ Canal street, a dirt 
 road, bordered with cotton wood trees marked the 
 lines afterwards followed in the laying out of St. 
 Charles street and St. Charles Avenue. Dwellings 
 
 In Metairie Cemetery. 
 
 and busy marts of commerce, excepting in L<i Melle 
 Villc — were few and far between. Camp street and 
 others, paralel with St. Charles street, were prac- 
 tically bogs, the remainder the swamps. 
 
 When steps were taken to secure grounds for a 
 Jewish Cemetery, a square was secured by purchase 
 on what is now known as Jackson Avenue and Sara- 
 toga street, and in due course of time, permission was 
 granted by the City Council. Among the gentlemen 
 who took an active part in arranging for the found- 
 ing of the Cemetery was Hyam Solomon, and on 
 June 2Sth, 1S?8, he was interred in consecrated 
 ground, the first Jewish interment of record in 
 
 New Orleans. 
 
 Forty years af- 
 terwards, in 1868 
 — the old Ceme- 
 tery was sealed 
 and no more 
 burials permit- 
 ted, for, in keep- 
 ing with Jewish 
 reverence for the 
 dead, a new 
 cemetery was 
 d e d i c a t e d, on 
 Gentilly Road, 
 situated most ad- 
 mi ral>ly upon 
 Metairie Ridge. 
 Here rest the re- 
 mains of men and 
 women endeared 
 to memory, men 
 anil women, who, 
 after life's fitful 
 fever sleep the 
 sleep of the 
 righteous and 
 whose memory 
 treasured by 
 their dear ones, 
 loved ones and 
 friends, verify the poetic idea of immortality. — "To 
 live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." 
 
 Several years ago another magnificent section of 
 ground was purchased for the uses of the Hebrew 
 Rest, on Gentilly Road, which, in the liberal manage- 
 ment of the Cemetery Association, composed of mem- 
 bers of Congregations Temple Sinai and Touro 
 Synagogue, has become a thing of beauty, one of 
 the most beautiful of Cemeteries in the South, a 
 fitting resting place for the dear departed whose 
 life's pilgrimage is o'er. 
 
 — 63 — 
 
My Motto IS — ''To Make, to Keep and to Please Customers." 
 
 :GO TO 
 
 
 John David Burghardt, 
 
 The Plumber and Gas Fitter. 
 
 Dealer in High Grade Modern Sanitary >'lu(nl)ing 
 (ioods, Gas Fixtures, Globes and Brackets, and Gas 
 Heating Supplies, etc., of all description. Jobaiid 
 Repair work a Specialty, First Class Work guaran- 
 teed. Prices Moderate. 
 
 Climb Plione 2923-21 
 
 214 ROYAL ST 
 
 m^m^^m TELEPHONE 2040 ^^^^l 
 
 
 J. D. SIMMS & SONS, 
 
 . DF.ALKKS IN. 
 
 aw 
 
 Kentucky Mules, 
 
 521 to 531 BARONNE STREET, 
 
 New Orleans, La. and Franklin, La. 
 
 %-^ 
 
 
 SrT v l?!^ ^HM'^^ ^S^i^'^&^^ ^^ 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1873 
 
 J A. 
 
 REHAGE 
 CO, Ltd, 
 
 J. A REHAGE 
 A V FAZENDE. 
 G. T. REHAGE. 
 
 TATLOKS ANij 
 
 IMPORTERS 
 
 ^^No. 42V) CAKONDEI.KT ST. 
 
 L REYNOLDS, 
 
 MARBLb 
 and GRANITE 
 
 WORKS 
 
 Headstones. Monuments. Copings, Etc 
 
 Nos. 1519 to 1533 CANAL STREET, 
 
 CoKNEK ViLLERE, NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 e KsxABr.isHED 1876 Comb. Phone 2146.11 © 
 
 9 & 
 
 Darieties Mall, 
 
 FRED BERTRAND, Prophjetor. 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 « 
 
 ® 841 CANAI. STRF-.KT 
 
 © 
 
 ©©©©* •*i~-i- 
 
 © 
 
 .^;^:^ 
 
 :^:^ 
 
 ® 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 COR. DAnPHINK. © 
 © 
 
 -^5=^ e©©©© 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 JOS. S. FLANDRY. Manager f. 
 
 © 
 
 ^^ Cum!). Phone 3078-11. ^^ 
 
 L. PUMILIA, 
 
 # 
 
 m 
 
 DKALEU IN 
 
 ^ertranb'6 ^rancb. 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 £|i FINE WINES 736-738 CANAI., ST., o 
 
 © HIGH GRADE WHISKIES cok. carondbilet © 
 
 © © 
 
 ©©©©©©©©&©©©©©©©©©©©© ©©©©©©©©©©©©see©©©©©© 
 
 <V& Frank T. Bohne. Henrv J. RoUinger Jr. Edward J Reibs 
 
 \\j James J. Reiss Co., 
 
 1 
 
 M.^NUFACTURURS OF 
 
 Confectioneries anb Crackers 
 
 417=423 DECATUR ST., 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, EA. 
 —Distributing Agents LOWNEY CHOCOLATE BON-BONS.- 
 
 m 
 
 Choice Western *heej^ f^ 
 
 Veal, Mutton and VorK- 1 
 
 3625 PRYTANIA ST. # 
 
 Gooris 0'liv-re.d Free of Charge NeW OklEANS, La. aL 
 ' -^^^ ^^^ ^^^ '^ ^ ^?^^ ^^^ 'sa.- ^■'Ss.- \j>^ 
 
 
 ^•Q 
 
 Candy flanufacturers, 
 
 507 to 515 Elysian Fields Ave. 
 NEW ORLERNS, Lfl, 
 
 — 64 
 
THE JOSEPH STREET CEMETERY, 
 
 a well appointed Hebrew Rest, to-day situated in the 
 center of the residential district of New Orleans, when 
 founded by Congreg-ation Gates of Prayer on January 
 24, 1850, was a plot of gfround, distant from the habit- 
 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, litera- 
 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 section. 
 
 Metairie Cemetery is renowned throughout the land 
 for its beautiful and historical monuments. Sarcophagi 
 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- 
 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 
 Fur the palli of glory leads but to the gnice." 
 
 65 
 

 C apita l Stock $100,000 00 
 
 TP09 LQundp9 
 ^ompQn9, Ixtd. 
 
 412 to 422 N, RAMPART ST. 
 NRW ORLEANS, LA....<^ 
 
 Hotel and Restaurant Work 
 A Specialty j» j» ^ -^ -« 
 
 All Steamstiip Work Promptlu fluended to 
 
 Cumberland leliphone fJQC 
 Peoples I elephone , , . , UfaW 
 
 1}D SEWING 
 ' MACHiNES 
 
 
 
 ARE MADE OE BETTER 
 MATERIAI,, WILL LAST 
 LONGER AND DO BET- 
 TER WORK THAN ANY 
 OTHER MAKE. 
 
 BEST For Fnmilv Use. 
 
 
 ® 
 
 ^ B E S r For Manuf;ieturin<i: Purposes ^ 
 
 S5^ ^^^ ^St, /5S^ /SB^ ;^^ -^5^ /;^?^ >T?5v ^=^ ^=:5x .^:^ ,^=^^ ,^a. 
 
 ^ ^ H v^ ©) W 
 
 ^wWwWwwwwW^'^^ 
 
 m 
 
 Cotton Factors 
 
 p<uj2a!^'*==S) 
 
 843 Union Street, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 f 
 
 f 
 
 ^J^j^5 ^S ^5 ^; ^5 ^; ^S^S-^^' •^^' ''^" ''^* ^^' 
 
 — 66 
 
The Order B'nai B'rith. 
 
 /f^N a September evening in 1851. in the city of 
 L\\} New York, a few conscientious Israelites, 
 earnest men whose hearts were dedicated to 
 Humanity, were assembled for the purpose of estab- 
 1 shing an organization which, for its fundamental 
 object, would create in the name of Charity, a frater- 
 nity dedicated to the highest ideals, caring for 
 the widowed and orphaned of deceased members. 
 
 The main incentive for banding themselves together 
 was the realization of the fact that large numbers of 
 Jews would be attracted to the United States, and, 
 that some central organization would be necessary in 
 order to influence the foreign element to rail}' around 
 some central force for mutual protection, enlighten- 
 ment and concentration of action for the betterment 
 of conditions. 
 
 Among those present at this historical session held 
 over a half century ago were Henry Jones, who is ac- 
 credited with being the originator of the idea. Dr. 
 Leo Merzbach, Baruch Rothschild, Dr. Lilienthal, 
 and Dr. Mitchel. At the following meeting, Julius 
 Bien, now the venerable Chancellor of the Order, M. 
 Thalmessinger, Dr. S. Waterman, Isaac Dutenhoffer 
 and other celebrities of that epoch were present. 
 
 These gentlemen called the Order B'nai B'rith in- 
 to existence and their efforts for Humanity, at that 
 time, had no idea that the great .lewish fraternity 
 would be destined to play an important part in the 
 deliberations of the nations of the world. 
 
 From its inception, in 1851, its merits attracted the 
 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 
 and unfortunate. Later it assumed the role of bene- 
 factor by legislating into existence an Endowment 
 Fund, the beneficiaries of deceased brethren receiv- 
 ing the sum specified. 
 
 An incident in the history' of the Order, to demon- 
 strate its liberality, may be cited in the case of its 
 founder, Henry Jones. He was married to a most 
 estimable lady, not a member of the Jewish faith, yet 
 on his death she was sustained by the Order and 
 cared for just as if she had been a Jewess. 
 
 Radiating from New York City the beneficent work 
 outlined by the Order found many admirers and ar- 
 dent votaries and gradually the Order spread all over 
 the United States, in several European lands and 
 Jerusalem and to-day it is a conspicuous factor in 
 Jewish affairs. 
 
 NAT STRAUSS, 
 
 Secretary District Grand Lodge 
 
 No. 7, I. O. B. B. 
 
 On January 1'^, 
 1873, in Memphis, 
 Tenn., District No. 
 7, was organized, 
 its jurisdiction in- 
 cluding the follow- 
 ing States: Ala- 
 bama, Arkansas, 
 Florida, Louisiana, 
 Mississippi, Ten- 
 nessee and Texas. 
 
 From 1873 to 188') 
 inclusive, the ex- 
 ecutive headquar- 
 ters of the District 
 was located in 
 Memphis. Tenn. 
 
 In 1890 New Or- 
 leans was 5.elected 
 as the seat of the 
 District and Hon. 
 Nat Strauss, elect- 
 ed (irand Secre- 
 tary, he being 
 chosen as his own 
 successor annually. 
 
 From the found- 
 ing of District 
 
 Grand Lodge No. 7, the grand body met annually in 
 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 
 bounty. 
 
 The several B'nai B'rith lodges in New Orleans 
 and other sections of Louisiana are in a prosperous 
 condition numbering auiong their membership the 
 most notable Jewish gentlemen in the State. 
 
 The following representative gentlemen, all well 
 and favorably known throughout the South, are the 
 ofiicers of District Grand Lodge No. 7. 
 
 Jos. Beitman, of Birmingham, Ala., President; 
 Ludwig Maj-er, of Demopolis, Ala., Vice-President; 
 Mike Mohr, of Montgomery, Ala., Treasurer; Nat 
 Strauss, of New Orleans, La., Secretary; J. M. Op- 
 penheimer, of San Antonio, Texas, Sergeant-at- 
 Arms. 
 
 67 — 
 
r 
 
 »»»»»»»»»»»»»9»<»»»»»»»»»»»»»»i»»<»i»»»$i 
 
 t 
 
 PHONE 2727-1 1. 
 
 J. Qarlick, 
 
 The Bill Poster 
 
 "AD" 
 
 I Pai n te r 
 
 ..And,. 
 
 Distributor 
 
 OFFICE- 
 
 
 
 
 I No. 633 CO/UMERCIAL PLACE. | 
 
 e«€€fc<i<i« C««C<: < : <-efe€«^*: « < ! *:» : * *: <;€<i€^«-<-«<!^ 
 
 r»»i»!»»»»»»» »:>:>! > :)! > C:g » » > »i »;>i » .>:»:)» » »» »» ! » »»! » »! »aL^ 
 
 Ixouis f^oedepepj 
 
 REIMS 
 
 The 
 
 Highest 
 
 Grade 
 
 Champagne.. 
 
 in the 
 World. 
 
 None genuine 
 without The 
 STAR 
 
 ! 
 
 
 4» 
 
 I 
 
 * 
 
 On sale everywhere and by 
 The Southern Agents .... 
 
 I PAUL GELPI & SONS, f 
 
 /» 
 
 New Orlerns, La. 1 
 
 227 Decatur St., 
 
 THIS SPACE BELONG 
 
 S TO ' I 
 
 Swiss Steam Laundry, 
 
 1010 GRAVIER STREET 
 
 T E L E P H O N E N o 2 1 8 
 
 JOSE A^EOA, i 
 
 Manufacturer ot tbe Ce ebrated ^ 
 
 AND ;^ 
 
 FOROET-ME-ISrOT 
 
 CiaA^RS. 
 
 IVlAiN Depot CAMF & CANAI^ STS. 
 
 MOftRlS BUILDING ISIE-U' ORLEANS. I. A 
 
 Choice Havanas. Box Trade a Specially. 
 
 ». .^.^^.^^. .^.-^.^^^.^^.-^^.^^.-^^c. 
 
 I 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. ST. LOUIS, MO. ' DALLAS, TEX. f)l 
 
 John Deere Plow Co., 
 
 NEW OKLEHNS BRRlveH. 
 
 JOMN DEERE PLOWS AND IMPLEMENTS, 
 DEERE & MANSUR IMPLEMENTS, DEERE 
 VEHICLES. MOLINEand ORLEANS WAGONS 
 
 
 ^5:;;3J>f3^;3^f^ ;2H^ 55j>i3?« 
 
 That's why I placed this adver- 
 tisement. We challenge you to 
 find a better Whiskey than 
 
 Lambour's Southern Club. 
 
 I 1 
 
 * ^>^We Knouj You Use The Best<^ f 
 
 1 ' 
 
 ^ 
 
 TRY IT aKO SEE FOR YOURSELF. 
 
 M. LAMBOUR, 
 
 |J Room 607 (Jodchaux BIdg. 
 
 New Orleans, La. ^ 
 
 ii 
 
 i^^j;S:^5SS«SW^»'-SS»^'iiKSS->«^»® SSS^-^SSW-SSSW^J^^ 
 
 — 68 — 
 
© (3 
 
 '^T'HE HAKMONY CLUB had its orig-in in the 
 \\j days of '"Auld LangfSyne" whi-n Cosmopolitan 
 gentlemen of New Orleans were associated 
 for the purposes of enjoying- themselves accord- 
 ing- to the customs in vogue in the Fatherland. As 
 far back as 1850 various circles of this character 
 existed, some dedicated to Gambrinius, including- 
 jest and song and stor}-, others to the Gentle Muses 
 while others were more pedantic in their methods. 
 
 In the earl}- '60s the Deutsche Company was 
 founded by a 
 coterie of con- 
 genial g-entle- 
 men, Mr. Sal- 
 omon Marx be- 
 ing one of the 
 promoters, an 
 esteemed and 
 well-known cit- 
 izen, who, thir- 
 ty years later, 
 not many 
 months ago, 
 was the reci- 
 pient of the dis- 
 tinguished con- 
 sideration o f 
 being made 
 Hoiiorarn»i of 
 i t s successor, 
 the Harmony 
 Club. 
 
 The intent 
 and purposes of 
 the "Deutsche 
 Company" was 
 to foster socia- 
 bility, delve in 
 science and art, 
 all directed to- 
 ward influen- 
 cing traits tending to promote full fellowship. 
 
 The sessions were thenceforth devoted to debates 
 and readings while an interminable number of sur- 
 prise parties and iniormals brought about the crea- 
 tion of social delig-hts participated in by the lady 
 members of the respective families. 
 
 Year after year the affairs of the "Deutsche Com- 
 pany" became more elaborate and the grand "Charity 
 Balls" of that era were given under its auspices. 
 
 The Club Rooms were at that time, 1865, located 
 at old number 112 Common street, and a splendid cir- 
 
 HARMONY CLUB. 
 
 culating library, singing section and dramatic sec- 
 tion furnished the increasing- membership with en- 
 tertainments of an interesting- and varied character. 
 When in reminiscent vein our most representative 
 people dwell with pleasure upon the efforts of the or- 
 ganization to entertain, the records showing- the pro- 
 duction of "Still Waters Run Deep," Taylor's brilliant 
 comedy, "Sweethearts and Wives" an(i a number of 
 German comedies. 
 
 The section of sweet sing-ers also made their debut 
 under brilliant conditions and repeatedly aided in con- 
 
 tributing-pleas- 
 uretothe "Com- 
 pany" and their 
 friends. 
 A younger set 
 had meanwhile 
 organized for 
 club and social 
 purjjoses, final- 
 ly adopting the 
 name Harmony 
 Club, with its 
 domicile on 
 Camp, near 
 Julia street. In 
 1872 the "Com- 
 pany" consoli- 
 date d , Jos. 
 Magner being 
 elected Presi- 
 dent and Simon 
 Cohn, Secre- 
 tary, and the 
 "C o m pa ny's" 
 club house, cor- 
 nerofExchange 
 Alley and Bien- 
 ville street, be- 
 came the Har- 
 m o n y Club. 
 Thence it re- 
 moved to Odd 
 Fellows' Hall, 
 then to the 
 beautiful build- 
 ing, corner of Camp and Delord streets, then to Canal 
 street, now occupied by the Boston Club. 
 
 With the accession of Judg-e I. D. Moore to the 
 presidency of the Harmony Club, in 1897 came the 
 dedication of the grand Club House in keeping- with 
 the prestige always enjoyed by this famed circle of 
 gentlemen. The prompt assurance of its members 
 and the wealth represented was an assurance and the 
 plans, carried out to the letter, ha- given to New Or- 
 leans one of the most sumptuous buildings ever erect- 
 ed in this city or section utilized for Club purposes. 
 
 — 69 
 
Louisiana 
 Tobacco ^_^ 
 Company, Ltd. 
 
 -SOLE AGENTS- 
 
 El Principe De Gales 
 
 
 Don^t Forget! 
 
 CLEAR 
 HAVANA 
 
 that 'weivill launder 
 your linen in a man- 
 ner that ivill "do you 
 proud" — not only 
 one time, but every 
 time; not one 'week, 
 but every iveek of 
 the fifty-tivo. To 
 make sure, though, 
 coPYRi<3HT.^Hi^HBBl try us for a month 
 
 — you'll try us the rest of the tivelve. We ask 
 your laudry ivork because ive can do it right. 
 ^. ^ .J. ^ ^ -i^ •> 
 
 McLgasiine {^L Julia Sts. 
 
 "Phone J^o 346 
 
 The Monongcihela. 'RiOer 
 % Consolidated Coal ^^ 
 CoKe Company ^^ 
 
 Coal, CoKe and ^ 
 
 Anthracite >^ 
 
 Office, No. 315 Carondelet Street, 
 Telephone 576. 
 
 Coal Yard, Foot of Race Street, - 'relephone 98lj 
 Coal Yard, 513-521 Barracks St. 'IVleplione 3564. 
 
 Office of Tug Boats. 
 
 Sectional Dry Dock, Algiers — Phone 38. 
 
 R. C. DAVEY. 
 
 OLIVE A. JOHNSON. 
 
 HENRY THARP. 
 
 F. Johnson^ Son Go. 
 
 -LIMITED- 
 
 fljborttcians. 
 
 Furnishers of Fine Funeral Furniture. 
 Finest Carriages and Best Service 
 
 o IN THE SOUIH o 
 
 No. 800 riagazine Street, Corner Julia, 
 
 and Washington Avenue and Prytania Street, 
 
 Orders Attended to Promptly. Phone No. 697-699. 
 
 HENRY THARP, Secretary and Manager. 
 
 — 70 — 
 

 
 
 
 
 Young 
 
 Mens' Hebrew Association, 
 
 OF NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 © !& 9 ® © 
 
 ^H^ANY a pleasant memory is associated with the 
 T llj various circles, which, years ag-o paved the 
 way for the org-anization of the Young Mens' 
 Hebrew Association, to-day, a factor in hig-her ideals 
 and social life in the city of New Orleans. 
 
 One among- the many concerted plans dates back to 
 the autumn of 1880 when the young^er element of rep- 
 resentative Jewish families met on a Sunday afternoon 
 in the Story Building, corner of Camp and Common 
 streets, and entered into an organization, which, how- 
 ever, was short 
 lived. However, 
 this coupled by 
 previous efforts 
 in the same 
 channel gave 
 activity to the 
 idea which in 
 later years crys- 
 tallized and re- 
 sulted in the es- 
 tablishment up- 
 on a firm basis 
 of an Associa- 
 tion, that is, in 
 every essential 
 an honor to 
 the Jews in 
 Louisiana, giv- 
 ing to the far 
 famed Crescent 
 City a Club- 
 house which in 
 point of ele- 
 gance, situation 
 and utility com- 
 pares most fav- 
 orably with any 
 in the country 
 and thereby 
 contributing a 
 building which 
 is an ornament 
 among the many gems of architecture in this city. 
 
 While every one acquiesced in the opinion that an 
 association of the nature upon which the Y. M. H. A. 
 has been based was most desirable and would prove 
 an incentive to the young people, aside from the sev- 
 eral predecessors nothing permanent was accomplished 
 iVintil 1891. 
 
 . In the early winter of that year two young ladies, 
 in conjunction with several gentlemen friends, became 
 enamoured of the project and canvassed the subject so 
 
 Home of the Young Hens' Hebrew Association 
 
 thoroughly with their friends that several meetings 
 were held with the object of organizing, Edgar M. 
 Cahn, Ksq., a prominent member of the New Orleans 
 Bar, distinguished in his profession, and Herman J. 
 Seiferth, City Editor of the Daily Piaiytine, at that 
 time an embryo newspaperman, being among its most 
 enthusiastic advocates. 
 
 Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, November 22, 1891, 
 found three hundred Jewish gentlemen assembled in 
 the ball-room of (irunewald Hall, in that epoch one of 
 
 the landmarks 
 of NewOrleans. 
 The gathering 
 responded to a 
 circular appeal 
 calling for an 
 open meeting 
 for the specific 
 purpose of or- 
 g a n i zi n g a 
 Young Mens' 
 Hebrew Asso- 
 ciation. Before 
 the proceedings 
 were inaugu- 
 rated it was 
 tacitlj' under- 
 stood that the 
 undertaking 
 met with the 
 hearty approval 
 of the memora- 
 ble gathering. 
 
 The distinc- 
 tion of calling 
 the assembly to 
 order was ac- 
 corded Rabbi I. 
 L. Leucht, in 
 whose library 
 the idea had 
 been conceived 
 and all the 
 plans matured. 
 The distin- 
 guished minister and eloquent orator addressed the 
 meeting dwelling upon the proposition and demon- 
 strating in his accustomed brilliant and forcible lan- 
 guage the utility of such an organization. Follow- 
 ing his address. Rabbi Leucht moved to enter into a 
 temporary organization and afterwards nominated 
 Edgar M. Cahn as Chairman. 
 
 Chairman Cahn expressed his appreciation of the 
 honors vested in him in a brief but eloquent address 
 and thenread the "Appeal" which had been instTU- 
 
 71 
 
Quaint Thoughts 
 
 Unique indeed are tiie effects produced 
 by this establishment in the scheme of 
 Interior [decorating. 
 
 The showing of Wall Coverings is so 
 comprehensive as to be of interest to 
 both the owner of mansion or cottage. 
 
 In hangings and floor coverings we 
 have many ideas of worth to suggest 
 when suggestions are in order. 
 
 The scheming of permanently interest- 
 ing effects for home and office is our 
 field and for this service our charges 
 are well within the bounds of reason. 
 
 HEATH, SCHWARTZ & CO., Ltd, 
 
 Interior Decorating, 
 
 416 41S Camp Street, 
 
 New Orlrans, La. 
 
 i 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 DRY GOODS, 
 
 NOTIONSand 
 
 HEN'S 
 
 FURNISHING 
 
 G00D5^^<^ 
 
 I 
 
 I2I-I23 MAGAZINE ST. and 508-510 GANAI. ST. 
 
 NEW ORLE \NS, LA. 
 
 i9 
 
 i 
 
 it 
 
 'Hi 
 
 HARRISON LINE 
 
 : DIRECT SERVICE : 
 
 Liverpool to New Orleans 
 
 A N D 
 
 New Orleans to Livtrpool. 
 
 Express through Service every 
 days by Harrison Line between 
 
 ten 
 
 Calcutta and New Orleans, also from 
 New Orleans via Liverpool to South 
 African ports; also Cognac to New 
 Orleans, Mexico to New Orleans. 
 
 Through Bills of Lading- are issued and through 
 rates of freight quoted from Calcutta and from all 
 towns in (Jreat Britian and from ports on the Conti- 
 nent to all points in the United ^^tates, and as these 
 steamers run all the year round, importers in the 
 west are enabled to have their goods shipped 
 regularly direct and in bond through the port of 
 New Orleans. 
 
 Apply to Thos. & Jas. Harrison, Mersey Cham- 
 bers, Liverpool; or to the Agents. In Calcutta, 
 Hoare. Miller & Co., Alfred LeBlanc, Agent. 
 829 Gravier St., New Orleans, La. R. W. Light- 
 bnrne, Jr., Board of Trade, Kansas City. 
 
 I 
 
 ill 
 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 « 
 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1842. 
 
 D. H. HOIilWES GO., 
 
 -I.IMIXKD- 
 
 CANAL. BOURBON, 
 DAUPHINE AND 
 CUSTOMHOUSE STS. 
 
 Importei's and 
 "Retailers of 
 
 JDr\| ai>a viraT\c\| Ooodf 
 
 PARIS— 11 RUE, D'HAUTEVILLE. 
 NEW YORK— 33 LEONARD ST. 
 
 72 — 
 
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. J. Seiferth, E. M. Cahn and Sam Blum were ap- 
 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, 
 
 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. 
 
 The possessor of a "Home" in keeping with its ob- 
 jects, made the Y. M. H. A. what it is, one of the rep- 
 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- 
 stein and Sam Simon. 
 
 73 — 
 
We Hold 
 
 the Record ^^ 
 
 fur tlie hnircst iiumbrr uf 
 HIGH GKADK Vehicles 
 sold ammally, in other 
 words we stand alone as 
 the biggest dealers in 
 Buggies, hurries, I'aroii- 
 ches. Traps, Run Alxuits, 
 Business and I'leasure 
 Vehicles of all S(U'ts in 
 this City. 
 
 THE OLD RELIABLE 
 
 fdinily borse is prized for his, 
 steady poinp qualities. Our 
 Road and Work Harnesses 
 are universally esteemed for 
 their every dny practical 
 value, an-l our Coupee and 
 English F-.'un Ab(mt and 
 Coach Harness combines ele- 
 gance and durability- Our 
 Prices are the lowest, assort- 
 ment the best- 
 
 We are agents for W. S. Fra- 
 zier & Go's famous lines of 
 Vehicles, and South rn Dis- 
 tributors of ihe celebrated 
 Tennessee and Piedmont 
 Farm and Lng Wagnns. 
 Headquarters for Carriage 
 anil Wagon Makers Hard- 
 ware, Cane Can Material &c 
 
 Joseph Schwartz Co., Ltd. 
 
 821-835 Perdido St. 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 Samuel SinpBrman, 
 
 Merchant 
 Tailor 
 
 Selection of 2000 Different Styles of Imported 
 and Domestic Woolens. 
 
 I Wish You to Call and See Me Before 
 Ordering Elsewhere. 
 
 Good Work and Perfect Fit Quaranteed at Loweit Prices. 
 
 All Orders Filled on Short Notice when Requested 
 
 CLEANING, PRESSING, REPAIRING 
 
 o AT LOWEST PRICES u 
 
 No. 234 Royal Street, 
 
 Between Customhouse and Bienville Sts. 
 
 Cumb. Phone 2502-32. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 WRIGHT'S 
 
 Pharmacy, 
 
 WRIGHT & QRUNTZ. Proprietors. 
 
 s 
 
 1 Fine Soaps, Perfumes, Tooth ns 
 
 ® Brushes, Combs, Hair and t 
 
 Clothes Brushes 
 
 ©©©©©SQ9©*©©©©®®©©©®®®©©©©©©©©©*©©©©©© 
 
 And all Other Toilet 
 Accessories ""^^ 
 
 Prescriptions Compounded Day and Night. 
 
 ^op. Ppytonio 8$ Suteppe Sts. 
 
 Cumberland Phone 3171-ii. 
 
 -THE- 
 
 Ballejo Grocery Co., 
 
 -Limited- 
 
 Dealers in Fine Wines and Liquors, Fancy anvl 
 Staple Groceries, and all Reliable Brands of 
 Canned and Bottled Goods, both Foreign and 
 Domestic — -^ 1 
 
 THE 
 
 BALLEJO 
 
 GROCERY 
 
 COMPANY, 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 oldest ami lii'st families of our Citj'aiid State 
 
 have for years known that the name of 
 
 is synonamous with The BliST, in goods 
 
 and service in the retail 
 
 line; our large and successful business and 
 
 many hundred active accounts attest the fact. 
 
 The personnel of our 
 
 and employees are men who have spent the 
 
 frreater part of their lives in this business, 
 
 and in our store and whom experience has 
 
 taught what is required Ijy the best line of 
 
 patrons: in fact our knowledge and ability 
 
 in a business way is 
 
 to this business alone. 
 
 To those whom we have not had the 
 
 pleasure of serving in the past, we submit 
 
 these facts, hoping to have the honor of a 
 
 call or command by PHONE 505, or at 
 
 our only STORK. 
 
 Prytania, Felicity and Urania Streets, 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 — 74 
 
MR. JULIUS WEIS. 
 
 •♦ LAEARS hence, when an appreciative people will 
 I If emulate their forbears in reverencing- the g-ra- 
 <— 1* cious acts of beneficence rendered by loyal citi- 
 zens of Louisiana, side by side with the name of Judah 
 Touro will be recorded the name of the philanthropist 
 who builded an everlasting- memorial when the Julius 
 Weis Home for Aged and 
 Infirm Israelites was open- 
 ed as a home indeed for those 
 bereft of kindred, of health, 
 of means to obtain a liveli- 
 hood and, when, in their ad- 
 vanced age and infirmities 
 were, thereby, not subjects 
 of Pity but welcome guests 
 in its ornate and beautiful 
 apartments. 
 
 While Judah Touro aided 
 in creating an interesting 
 epoch in the history of New 
 Orleans he had splendid ad- 
 vantages, being- native born, 
 familiar with the language 
 and beginning- his career 
 when opportunities were 
 ample and willing hands ex- 
 tended to aid the aspiring to 
 achieve success. 
 
 When Mr. Julius Weis, 
 then a mere youth, de- 
 cided to seek the opportun- 
 ities offered in the New 
 World, he had obtained all 
 the educational advantages 
 offered in his birthplace, 
 which, in that epoch, were 
 limited to a fair common 
 school education. But what 
 he possessed was character 
 and a firm determination to 
 succeed insofar as marking 
 out his own career. It was 
 but natural that he should 
 have turned away with 
 heavy heart and deep reg-ret 
 from the home of his birth, his kindred and friends, to 
 seek new associations in the New World and he faced 
 the stern realities of life with indomitable will. 
 
 He made his way to the Sunny South, all he pos- 
 sessed being 3'outh, energy, honesty and the modest 
 ambition to succeed in gaining a livelihood. Though 
 unfamiliar with the vernacular for the time being- he 
 
 JULIUS WEIS. 
 
 led the life of a vendor of merchandise, traveling from 
 point to point in Mississippi in the vicinity of Natchez. 
 In the course of a couple of years his profits gave him 
 a sufficient capital, every cent of which he earned by 
 his labor, and with this he opened a small country 
 store at Fayette, Miss. 
 
 The methods and personality- of Mr. Weis asserted 
 
 themselves and, from the be- 
 ginning of his career as a 
 country store keeper in Fa- 
 yette to this day, he enjoys 
 the confidence, esteem," and 
 respect of every one who 
 knows him. 
 
 P^rom an unpretentious 
 covmtry store keeper Mr. 
 Weis slowly laid the found- 
 ation for his future successes 
 and, in 1864, he cast his lot 
 with the people of New Or- 
 leans, among whom he was 
 previously known because of 
 his repeated visits and iden- 
 tification with business. 
 
 Coming- to New Orleans 
 in 18f)4 he founded the house 
 which for nearly forty years 
 has been conspicuous among 
 the leading "Cotton Houses" 
 of the States. His identi- 
 fication with the financial 
 centres of the World is also 
 well-known and the firm 
 name, J. WEIS & SON, is as 
 familiar on change and in 
 banking institutions of Paris, 
 London and other European 
 centres as it is in the State 
 of Louisiana. 
 
 Of his personal service in 
 the cause of charity, of the 
 needy and necessitous, re- 
 gardless of religious belief, 
 whom he has aided and en- 
 courag-ed in the hours of dire 
 need none will ever know — 
 nor the unnumbered inci- 
 dents of kindness bestowed upon some fellow voyagers 
 to whom life was a stormy sea. 
 
 His identification with affairs in New Orleans in- 
 cluded an interest in communal work. He took a 
 livel_y interest in the affairs of the Hebrew Educational 
 Society, which, at that time, having fulfilled its mis- 
 sion, was liquidated bj- his financial ability. 
 
 — 75 
 
M A. 5humard & Co., Southern Department, 
 German Insurance Co., of Freeport. Illinois. 
 
 SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT 
 
 The Gernian Insurance Go. 
 
 OF FREEPORT. ILL. 
 
 COMMON STREET, NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 -CASH ASSETS^ 
 
 1865 S 13,000.00 
 
 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 
 
 M. A. SHUMARD & CO., = = = General Agent 
 
 PklVATE OHHICb OP M. A. ^5HUMAkU. 
 
 ki-ciiH 1 iors Koo.n. 
 
 M. A bhumard & ^o. General Ulfices. Southern Department -Qerman In.surance Co., of Freeport llliiiu 
 
 — 76 — 
 
Mr. Weis was elected to the presidenc}' of the Touro 
 Iniirmary and Hebrew Benevolent Association and, at 
 that time, asserted that the day would come when a 
 separate institution would be required to shelter Agfed 
 and Infirm Israelites. The Jewish Orphans' Home 
 has also been recipient of his bounty and without 
 pomp or parade or desire for public notoriety, he has 
 rendered this Institution invaluable service as well as 
 contributing to other charities without reference to 
 Religious beliefs, no appeal ever being unheeded. 
 
 When Congregation Temple Sinai was projected he 
 was among its most ardent advocates and early in its 
 history succeeded to its presidency which he occupied, 
 with the brief exception of two terms, for over a score 
 of years, finally declining re-election pleading his ad- 
 vanced age as his excuse and which his most ardent 
 friends, the entire congregation, conceded with regret. 
 Under his various administrations Temple Sinai at- 
 tained the prestige it enjoys as the foremost Jewish 
 communal body in the South. 
 
 The Young Men's Hebrew Association, of which he 
 has been a valued and honored member since its or- 
 ganization, has also profitted by his generosity in 
 various ways, and, at his suggestion and by his liberal 
 donations, as free will offerings repeatedly contributed 
 in recent j^ears, the Lecture Course has been made 
 an important annual feature. 
 
 For those to whom life seemed one continuous strug- 
 arle, in the heart of the Garden District of New Orleans 
 stands a structure, a haven for Aged and Infirm Is- 
 raelites— The Julius Weis Home — reared for the 
 grandest of purposes, the housing of the aged who, for 
 the humane instincts of the greatest philantropist 
 since the days of Judah Touro, would be "naked and 
 desolate, friendless and homeless," a burden to them- 
 selves and to the State. 
 
 The record of the efforts of an honored gentleman, 
 for love of his fellowmen, it must be recalled, was, 
 by yielding of the wealth he accumulated through 
 his own efforts. He arrived in New Orleans on Nov- 
 ember 2, 1845, possessing j-outh, honesty and nn in- 
 domitable will coupled with the laudable desire to 
 succeed, little dreaming that his labors would be 
 crowned by being in a position to round a happy old 
 age with examples which will prove an incentive to 
 generations unborn. Of his application to business, 
 of his devotion to Judaism, of his inestimable services 
 to charities and communal work has been told and 
 retold and will be treasured in jears to come. 
 
 Yet, that part of his career, pertaining to his home 
 life cannot be described in words. On January 27, 
 1864, he led to the altar an accomplished and love- 
 able lady, nee Carrie Mayer, one of the fairest daugh- 
 ters of Natchez, Miss., whose memory is cherished by 
 
 loved ones and friends, for she was a devoted Mother- 
 in-Israel, enwrapt in the faith of her ancestors and 
 took just pride in the plans and works of her husband 
 for Judaism. On February 13, 1864, Mr. Weis and 
 his youthful bride made New Orleans their home — a 
 home, indeed — wherein "Love and Hope reigned side 
 by side.'' In 1876 the palatial home in Jackson 
 avenue, corner of Coliseum street, was taken j)osses- 
 sion of, where, to-day, surrounded by everything 
 that love can suggest, midst luxurious environment, 
 Mr. Weis enjoys the results of his successful career, 
 delighting in the happiness of his children and 
 grand-children, h s children, two daughters noted 
 for their interest in philanthropic work, and five sons, 
 one of whom is a physician of note, another a prom- 
 ising Attorney-at-Law and the others, prominent in 
 social and financial circles, who are associated with 
 him in the conduct of the well-known and represen- 
 tative firm. 
 
 And years hence, when men and women will emu- 
 late the examples of their predecessors, for Sweet 
 Charity sake, and treasure in memory the kindly deeds 
 of Louisianians of the Jewish faith, Judah Touro and 
 Julius Weis will be reverentially named as the first 
 philanthropists of record in the Sunny South. 
 
 MR. ISIDORE NEWMAN, Sr. 
 
 Early in November, 1853, a youth barely in his teens 
 landed in New Orleans, his fortune limited to youth, 
 good health, thrift, and a desire to succeed. No doubt 
 he had heard, while at home with parents, kindred 
 and friends, of the wonderful land beyond the seas, — 
 a land of possibilities, where those who labored were 
 at least sure of success, however modest, — and no 
 doubt he turned his thoughts to the future, not with 
 an}' idea of becoming a potent factor in affairs of state 
 and municipality, in finance and industries, but with 
 only a desire to gain a livelihood. 
 
 A few months ago, when representative people of 
 New Orleans, ladies and gentlemen, were assembled 
 in honor of the presentation of the "Picayune Loving 
 Cup," the youth of fifty years ago, now an honored 
 and distinguished citizen, referred to his coming to 
 New Orleans penniless, casting his lot with this peo- 
 ple, where opportunities were offered him which made 
 his efforts successful. 
 
 Mr. Isidore Newman was born in Kaiserslautern, 
 Germany, in 1838, and enjoyed whatever education 
 and advantages then offered to children in European 
 lands. At the age of fourteen he left his paternal 
 home. On his arrival here he proceeded to adapt 
 himself to the customs of the people, and became an 
 American in the full sense of the term. His perse- 
 verance, courtesy, personality and integrity gained 
 for him the good will of all. 
 
 — 77' 
 
i^.j22*»--^g'-"^jsfc^^ r"^^s>=ji(r^v&»>-^« 
 
 Philadelphia 
 Ice Cream Co... 
 
 TELEPHONE No 474. 
 
 Wholesale Manufacturers of Ice 
 Cream, Biscuit Glaces and Char- 
 lotte Russe Made of Pure Jersey 
 
 Cream 
 
 The Best Goods and Prompt 
 Attention Guaranteed all Orders 
 Ice Cream and Cakes for Enter- 
 tainments a Specialty. 
 
 1075=1077 Camp St., 
 
 Corner Calliope 
 
 3%-.^igtKr>(S,,==:.s^E^^ 5_^t*tRO)<S==,,,«^K^r^c 
 
 I Burnett S(6aylB, j 
 
 I 805 CANAL STREET, § 
 
 © ® 
 
 9 Near Bourbon, New Orleans. © 
 
 © & 
 
 © « 
 
 1=5© SOLE AOENTS ©©| 
 
 ] FOR TME I 
 
 JB.^G.$3.ool|at| 
 
 Sold Elsewhere for $5.00 
 
 
 Q B. & Q. Stamped in a Hat means | 
 
 © a Quarantee for both « 
 
 ® S 
 
 g Quality and Style ... « 
 
 ®©©e*©s*©©©©©©©©®® ©^©©©©9©©©©©©©©©$ 
 
 I 
 
 sail 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 I 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 1 
 
 I»H02«E SSS. 
 
 Robert J. Whann 
 
 AGENT 
 
 Cool 0. Coke. 
 
 Office: 205 Carondelet Street, 
 
 Hennen Building. 
 
 FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED. 
 Also BOAT LOAD and CARLOAD LOTS. 
 
 m 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 
 >?■ 
 
 i%s5^«sssssssss^?§^«s«s«sss«!K^ ©^sv»«sj«ss»>sssss»;ssssi 
 
 ..Standing Firm., 
 
 On the Principals of 
 
 Honesty, Integrity and Liberality 
 
 Won fur n-i onr steady CDnsei vative yrowth 
 and BRILLIANT BUSINESS SUCCESS. ^ 
 BELEIVINO always, that our patrons should 
 receive full value, no matter how small the 
 purchase. Opportune TIME is NOW to test 
 onr RELIABILITY ^ ^ ^ 
 
 We've Everything a Jewelry Store Should Have 
 
 Weirifurter's Jewelry Palace, 
 
 Two Squares down Royal, cor. Bienville. 
 
 I ^^ H. F. LEWIS & CO., I 
 
 ^ IPBBmP LIMITED 4 
 
 ■<i EZZJffll I 
 
 MANUFACTURERS K 
 
 Cypress Cisterns and Tanks, 
 
 SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS. 
 WIRE SCREENS of All Kinds. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I Office, 316 Baromie St 
 
 We are extensive Manufacturers and invite ^ 
 correspondence from any one needing K 
 goods in our line. « 
 
 f 
 
 New Orleans. ^ 
 
 ^^^^^..^S^^^^^^^^.^^^V^^©^,'...^^ 
 
conditon of the State 
 Mr. Newman was 
 
 The career of Mr. Newman is one that an}- man can 
 be justly proud of, for he was the architect of his for- 
 tune, a worthy model of the unassuming-, modest 
 man, whose ability has g-ained for him a deserved 
 reputation. 
 
 Years ag-o, when the financial 
 of Louisiana was endang'ered 
 among the first of its worthy citizens to present a 
 solution of the problem. Whenever an^- plan has been 
 advanced for the improvement of New Orleans, indus- 
 trially or for its beautification, he has been found 
 amongst its advocates, and his purse open on demand. 
 His record as a public-spirited citizen exhibits him as 
 one whose lofty patriotism is of the purest type. 
 
 His personal efforts to 
 bring- about a spirit of civic 
 pride by advantages never 
 before enjoyed by the cit- 
 izens of New Orleans cul- 
 minated in the inaug-uration 
 of the electric surface rail- 
 way system. He secured an 
 interest in, and afterwards 
 the control of, the then 
 Carrollton Railroad, and con- 
 verted it into an electric 
 system, following- this inno- 
 vation with the Claiborne 
 Street line, part of the pro- 
 jected work. Since the elec- 
 tric motive power has at- 
 tained pre-eminence, Mr. 
 Newman has successfully 
 financed the surface rail- 
 way systems in various 
 places, notably Birmingham, 
 Ala., and Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Of his other ventures, all 
 of which stamp him as a 
 useful citizen, whose inter- 
 ests, however vast, have as 
 the objective point, the up- 
 building- of sections where- 
 in he is interested, it is un- 
 necessary to dwell upon. 
 Identified with the B'nai 
 B'rith of District No. 7, he 
 has served the order to ad- 
 vantage in various capaci- 
 ties. As Treasurer of the En- 
 dowment Reserve Fund, his 
 great experience in finan- 
 cial matters, and his ever- 
 ready service were helpful to place it upon its present 
 sound foundation. The Denver National Hospital for 
 Consumptives, of Denver, Col., was called into exist- 
 ence by the exigencies of the situation, and when it 
 became known that the institution would be non- 
 sectarian, Mr. Newman allowed himself to be placed 
 on the Board of Managers. Through his instrumen- 
 tality, and largely through his means, a number of 
 afflicted people were sent to the National Hospital, 
 and they have good cause to bless the generosity of 
 their benefactor. 
 
 To dwell upon the services of Mr. Newman to the 
 state or municipality, its public works, or in com- 
 munal or charitable work, would be to record all the 
 happenings of a useful career abundant in laudable 
 
 ISIDORE NEWMAN, Sr 
 
 purposes and devoted to the most humble of his fel- 
 low-citizens, for, free from prejudice, he knows no 
 distinction between men and men, or creed and creed, 
 his faith in humanity and the brotherhood of men 
 being unbounded. 
 
 On November 14th, 1903, was the fiftieth anniver- 
 sary of the arrival of Mr. Isidore Newman in the city 
 of New Orleans. The memorable event was only 
 recalled by a few of his veteran friends, and occasion 
 was taken by these to extend their felicitations. Yet 
 the day was not permitted to pass unnoticed by gen- 
 tlemen who have been associated with Mr. Newman 
 in charitable work. Measures were taken by the 
 Board of Managers of the Touro Infirmary and He- 
 brew Benevolent Association to commemorate the 
 
 fiftieth anniversary, the gol- 
 den jubilee, of his coming 
 to the city; the Board met 
 at the Harmony Club on 
 Sunday morning, Novem- 
 ber 22nd, and a committee 
 was appointed, consisting 
 of Mr. N. I. Shwartz, the 
 President of the Associa- 
 tion; Mr. Julius Weis, an 
 ex-president, and Rev. I. 
 L. Leucht, the Vice-Presi- 
 dent, to wait upon Mr. 
 Newman at his residence, 
 and to present to him a 
 small token in the shape of 
 a loving cup, in apprecia- 
 tion of the great services 
 he had rendered the insti- 
 tution, and the hearty wishes 
 of all for his continued 
 happiness and prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Newman, as a mem- 
 orial of the anniversary of 
 the fiftieth year of his ar- 
 rival in this cit}', donated 
 many thousands of dollars 
 to Christian and Jewish 
 charities, which, according 
 to his method, were un- 
 heard of by the press be- 
 cause of his expressed wish 
 that no publicity be made. 
 
 In public and private 
 life, Mr. Newman is a plain, 
 blunt man, unassuming, 
 approachable, enjoying the 
 advantages of his affluence and doing gracious acts 
 of kindness in a true spirit of charity, never seeking 
 notoriety. In the many years of his identification 
 with Jewish charities, he never permitted his name 
 to be brought before the public until recently, when 
 he assumed the privilege of donating the large 
 amount necessary to erect the Manual Training 
 School, which now bears his honored name, and 
 which will forever stand as a monument of his muni- 
 ficence and his love for our orphans. And this unos- 
 tentation applies with equal force to his benevolent 
 actions towards every charity in New Orleans, irre- 
 spective of den rminational differences. 
 
 His home life is an ideal one, and with his noble 
 wife by his side it has been an inspiration. 
 
 — 79 
 
m 
 
 ]VI. J. YZAGUIRRE, 
 
 3^ 
 
 
 5?;^ CONSUI^ DH; I.A RH'.PUBI.ICA DF; CUBA. 5Ae 
 
 3^ 
 
 
 9^^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 GODCHAUX BUILniNG, 
 
 J6* 
 
 ^^ HIGH GRADE MACHINE WORK 
 
 ^^ MOTORS AND FANS 
 
 XDA Y APPARATUS 
 r» '^ ' REPAIRED 
 
 S. J. Stewart, 
 
 MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN 
 
 ■Cii Electro=Therapeutical Apparatus__^ 
 
 O ELECTRICAL WORK AND SUPPLIES O 
 
 No. 2i6 Bourbon Street, New Orleans, La 
 : X RAY TUBES : 
 
 E. G. SCHLIEDER. 
 
 President. 
 
 F. SALMEN. J. SALMEN. 
 
 Vice-President. Sec'y-Treas. 
 
 Salmen "Bvich ^ Xunibev Co., 
 
 O LIMITED O 
 
 SAW and PLANING HILLS, 
 
 BRICK WORKS and HAIN OFFICE: 
 
 SEIDELL, LA. 
 
 New Orleans Office — 722 Common Street, 
 
 St. Cli.irles Hotel Building. 
 
 Yellow Pine and Cypress Lumber. Pressed and Ordinary 
 Brick. Hewn and Round Piling of all Kinds. 
 
 TELEPHOJVE JVo. 97 6 
 
 THE HAS AM 
 -BOJr FACTOKy... 
 
 Meat Boxes, Fruit & Vegetable Boxes 
 
 a sPEeinLTY 
 
 Factory and Office: 1503 Julia Street, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 5Cx>^wK^r9^><>BX^W^>C?^K>«X"B^><^9C'<)HR^x^ 
 
 ^^ 
 
 3^ 
 . 3^ 
 
 I 
 
 ■^:>'^ Manufacturers of "^k- '^ 
 
 3«S^ 
 
 5o^ And Dealers in Rattan Furniture, Picture 
 
 an\l: 
 
 Doo .jfurryiture CX -JloVeit 
 
 tes 
 
 3^^ — ^ — ^ , -^^ 
 
 5^^ Frames, Pictures, Mirrors and flouldings. %^ 
 
 1^ 305 ROYAL STREET, New Orleans, La. ^ 
 
 ^^ o E. B. WALKER. Manager o ^ 
 
 %^ Peoples Phone No. 1S23. Cumberland Phone No. 3331-21 %^ 
 
 
 JOHN B. GHISALBERTI. 
 
 I,. A. GHISALBERTI 
 
 Ghi4:alberti ^ro>s. 
 
 COLUMBIA YARD. 
 
 Dealers in Pittsburg, Alabama and Anthracite 
 
 COAL, COKE, ^ooc? ^ Ice 
 
 Wood Sawed and Split by Steam. 
 
 Yard: Cor. Dryades and Louisiana Avenue, 
 
 Office: Cor. St. Charles & Louisiana Aves. Plione 1098 
 
 o New Orleans, La. o 
 
 WE MAKE AND SELL ALL STYLES 
 
 ^'Apollo'' Iron Roofing 
 
 for less than "just as good" cost you. 
 
 We Make Prices You Want 
 for Orders We Want ""' 
 
 
 oA(. a Roofing and cMetal Works, 
 
 Members New Orleans Cotton Exchange 
 ' Board of Trade 
 Stock Exchange 
 
 Long 'Shore CSL Co* 
 
 3'ROKE'RS. 
 
 HENNEN BUILDING. 
 PRONE 1034. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 )Cx>i4,XAiK><>"f<K«H^><^NC'<>^HC><>'K'<A^ 
 
 80 — 
 
RABBI MAX HELLER. 
 
 Eminently qualified for the calling- wherein, from 
 the inception of his career, he has occupied a distin- 
 g-uished position; for years minister of the foremost 
 congregation in the South, a congregation that in 
 point of membership, which from personality, intelli- 
 gence, wealth and devotion to Judaism, equals any 
 in the United States, the erudite scholar and eloquent 
 divine, Rabbi Maximillian Heller, is recog^nized as 
 well worthy the honors and distinction he has at- 
 tained by his ability and fitness. 
 
 Rabbi Heller was the architect of his own career, 
 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 
 Heller and Mathilde, nee Kas- 
 sowitz. Acquiring- the rudi- 
 ments of education he 'was then 
 sent to the Neustadter (gym- 
 nasium of his native city, where 
 he received a thorough scholas- 
 tic training. According to the 
 European system of education. 
 Rabbi Heller had rare o])por- 
 tunities to master Hebrew and 
 the languages, and his mastery ; 
 of many of the living and dead 
 languag-es was an incentive to 
 renewed application, hence, his 
 ability as a linguist, long- since 
 established, is well earned, the 
 result of his efforts and scholar- 
 ship. 
 
 Coming to the United States 
 in his early manhood, he evinc- 
 ed a desire to continue his 
 studies, and entered the Hebrew 
 
 Union College, at the same time devoting his at- 
 tention to the study of science and art at the Uni- 
 versity of Cincinnati. 
 
 The matriculants in the Hebrew Union College 
 were at that time limited in numbers, yet, as has been 
 demonstrated by the distinction they, as g-raduates, 
 have attained, they were imbued with the right 
 spirit for their holy calling-. Attaining the degrees 
 Batchelor of Letters and Master of Letters from the 
 University of Cincinnati, and the distinction of 
 Rabbi from the Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Heller 
 entered upon his career in 1884 as Minister of Zion 
 Congregation of Chicago, occupying its pulpit for 
 two years. 
 
 In 1886 he was called to Houston, Texas, and from 
 that time to the present has exhibited his devotion 
 
 RABBI MAX HELLER 
 
 to the South and Southern Judaism, a devotion re- 
 paid tenfold by his legion of friends and admirers. 
 His charge at Houston was limited to five months, 
 for, when the lamented Rabbi, James K. Gutheim, 
 paid Nature's debt and, the representative Southern 
 cong-regation he had founded and nurtured to the 
 honor of Southerners and the glory of Reform Juda- 
 ism, sought for, a fitting successor, one whose ability 
 and worth, honesty of purpose and personality would 
 further the cause. Rabbi Heller was chosen. 
 
 Congregation Temple Sinai, individually and col- 
 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 
 bonds of fellowship (ientile and 
 Jew. He has been intimately 
 associated with every cause of 
 note, every happening of im- 
 portance occurring for the past 
 sixteen years in New Orleans 
 and in the State of Louisiana 
 and his opinion and words have 
 had weight in the Councils of 
 the People. In public or pri- 
 vate life he is invariably just, 
 influenced alone by what he re- 
 gards the rig-ht, — in charitable 
 work he is always methodical 
 and untiring and his interest 
 in the Orphans' Home, the 
 Touro Infirmary and the Young 
 Men's Hebrew Association has 
 been repeatedly exhibited where- 
 by these Institutions have been 
 the beneficiaries. 
 
 Two years after assuming 
 charge of the pulpit of Tem- 
 ple Sinai he wedded one of the intellectual and 
 charming young ladies of New Orleans, Miss Ida 
 Marks and his estimable wife, devoted to the cause 
 of Judaism, has proven herself an ideal helpmate. 
 Of this happy union several children have been born 
 who, God willing-, will be a source of many joys 
 to their fond parents. 
 
 While Rabbi Heller may be reg-arded of a reserved 
 disposition, those who know him intimately recog- 
 nize in him all the attributes of congeniality, none 
 question the fact that a becoming dignity, associated 
 with ability and scholarship, honesty of purpose and 
 principle are virtues he possesses and whereby he 
 enjoys the esteem and respect of all who recognize that 
 with so stalwart a leader Southern Judaism cannot 
 fail in being- a force in affairs, communal and social. 
 
 — 81. 
 
J. H. BURNS, Manager. 
 
 Ml 
 
 The riaxwell Company, 
 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 FUNERAL DIRECTORS. 
 
 CARRIAGES FOR 
 
 Weddings Operas, Entertainments. 
 931=933 GRAVIER STREET, New Orleans, La. 
 
 
 1^ 
 
 
 g) Cumberland Telephone 3799. 
 
 lx>^Kx>^KXWf<x>^wx>^rX><>K^ 
 
 Peter F. Pescud 
 
 Insurance 
 
 FIRE INSURANCE 
 
 STEAM BOILER INSPECTION 
 AND INSURANCE 
 
 ACCIDENT AND LIABILITY 
 
 INSURANCE 
 
 CYCLONE INSURANCE 
 
 POSTAL INSURANCE 
 
 PLATE GLASS INSURANCE 
 
 SURETY BONDS 
 
 No. 818 GRAVIER STREET. 
 Bet. Baronne & Carondelet, New Orleans 
 
 CHAS. P. TRUSI OW. President, New Orleans, La. 
 
 CH.^S. W. UUOWN Tratlic Mgr. and sec'y. New Orleans, La. 
 
 M. L. S^OVELL. (ieneral Kreight Agent. Shreveport, La. 
 
 Red River Line 
 
 No. 528 GRAVIER STREET, 
 
 UP-STAIRS. 
 
 .*^ New Orleans La. _>*^ 
 ^^ 
 
 THROUOH BILLS OF LADING issued to and from 
 Shreveport, Alexandria and Intermediate Points, New 
 York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and all Eastern 
 Points, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, and all 
 Western Points. ^ 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 
 
 For Through Rates and Through Bills of Lading, apply 
 
 to Agents of Regular Lines at any of the 
 
 Above Named Points. 
 
 82 
 
RABBI ISAAC L. LEUCHT. 
 
 An Israelite and something- more is he, the well- 
 beloved minister of Congregation Touro, whom the 
 Christians of his home cit3' as well as its Jews, de- 
 light to honor. To whom was accorded for example, 
 so flattering a reception as that of January 25th, 1904, 
 his sixtieth birthda}' and the twentj'-fifth anniversary 
 of his pastorate of Touro, when ministers as well as 
 prominent laity of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Epis- 
 copal and other faiths joined personally in the felici- 
 tations of the occasion. 
 
 Nor is this the first time such deference has been 
 paid him. A man of public spirit and civic pride, 
 not the mere leader of flock and people, he has often 
 taken active part in public movements side by side 
 with Christian pastors. At 
 the dedication of the Fisk Free 
 Library he was conspicuous 
 upon the platform along with 
 the Catholic Archbishop Jans- 
 sens and the Episcopal Bishop 
 Sessums. In the relief work 
 of the terrible Cheniere Cam- 
 inada hurricane of '93, he 
 labored hand in hand with 
 Rector Waters of vSt. Pauls, 
 and the Catholic Archbishop. 
 When, some years back, the 
 New Orleans Sanitary Associa- 
 tion was flourishing, it was 
 Mr. John T. Gibbons, a brother 
 of the distinguished Catholic 
 Cardinal of Baltimore, who pre- 
 sented Rabbi Leucht's name for 
 the presidency of the organ- 
 ization. At the present time indeed, he is acting 
 president of the Red Cross Society, of which he has 
 said: "The cross is its emblem, but I see in it only 
 the noble and humane purpose for which the Society 
 is enrolled." 
 
 Herein we have the keynote to his character— in a 
 word — breadth and liberality. And here is the reason 
 of the esteem in which he is held so generally by his 
 fellow citizens. "I have tried to follow in Dr. Gu- 
 theim's footsteps," he has said, "by devoting my labors 
 to develop unsectarianism." And again: "I am a Jew 
 and yet am Protestant and also Catholic. I always 
 protest against anything that opposes light and pro- 
 gress and I am universal in my belief in the father- 
 hood of God." A large souled as well as broad minded 
 
 RABBI ISAAC L. LEUCHT. 
 
 man, our Rabbi. "Write me," AbDU ben Adhem says, 
 in Leigh Aunt's beautiful poem, "write me as one 
 who loves his fellow men." 
 
 Rabbi Leucht was born in Darmstadt, Germany, 
 and there took a preliminary course for his ministry. 
 He afterwards studied at other European centers of 
 education. He came to the United States in 1864 at 
 the age of twenty and located in Baltimore. There 
 he resided four years and then came to New Orleans 
 as assistant to the late Rabbi Gutheim, minister of 
 K. K., Shaarai Chesed. From that the two went 
 together to Temple Sinai when it was erected, but in 
 1879 Rabbi Leucht returned to his first love, since 
 become, by consolidation with the Portuguese Con- 
 gregation, the noted Synagogue of Touro. 
 
 Rabbi Leucht was for a long 
 time Secretary of the Hebrew 
 Educational Society organiz- 
 ed to provide a school for 
 Jewish children in the trying 
 "Carpet Bag" days. He has 
 been a member of the State 
 School Board; he was one of 
 the founders of the Y. M. H. 
 A., and is a charter member 
 of the Harmony Club of New 
 Orleans. He has been a 
 member of the Jewish Wid- 
 ows' and Orphans' Home since 
 1868 and its First Vice-Presi- 
 dent since 1886. Heis First Vice- 
 President also of the Touro 
 Infirmary and the Hebrew 
 Benevolent Association. He 
 has been President of the 
 Commission of Prisons and Asylums, President of the 
 United_,Hebrew Charities, President of the Southern 
 Conference of Rabbis, and for two years was Vice- 
 President of the Reformed Rabbis of the United 
 States. 
 
 Among the testimonials received by Dr. Leucht 
 upon the anniversary above referred to, was a silver 
 pitcher from the First Presbyterian Church of New 
 Orleans, the church of the famous Dr. Palmer, whose 
 funeral sermon was preached by Rabbi Leucht, for 
 our subject has earned reputation abroad as a man of 
 higii culture as well as higdi character, and as a pul- 
 pit orator of influence and power. An easy and 
 gracious manner with all, high or low, is also a char- 
 acteristic for which Dr. Leucht is to be remarked. 
 
 83 
 
3Cx>h»^><>^K><>^HCx>^(<xw<xwM:xwwxWwxwwxwH:x>^M^^^ 
 
 D 
 
 [ 
 
 Merchant 
 Tailors... 
 
 133 Carondelet Street, 
 
 New Orleans, La 
 
 lX>HKX>HKXW-<XWKX>^r<X>jWXWMXW 
 
 J. HASSINGER, President. 
 
 J E. MERILH, Vice-President. 
 
 OTTO T. MAIER. Secretary. 
 
 Germania 
 
 nsurance Company 
 
 OF NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Office, No 307 Camp Street. 
 
 Capital Paid-Up, 
 Surplus, 
 
 $100,000.00 
 15,000.00 
 
 Solicits Your Insurance 
 
 AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES. 
 
 KD .1, HIOINTZ. [■■ire ( lerk. Ar.KX. K. M A 1 KK, Insiieitor. 
 
 Cumberland Phone 1 Business) 2418-12. 
 Fine Shop Equipment. C a r e f u l_ Workmanship 
 
 DECORATORS and FURNISHERS 
 
 JN T E R I C) R 
 DECORATING 
 C O M P A N Y 
 1. I U I T E I) 
 
 301-303 T ul a n e - N e wc o m b Building 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 S.H.BRITTON, 
 
 ENGINEER, 
 
 M A C H I N I S T , 
 
 BLACKS M I T H I N G 
 
 and stp:am f m I \ (^ 
 
 General Repairing a Specialty- 
 Reboring Cylinders in Place 
 And Adjusting Valves 
 
 (jas Engines 
 Printing Presses 
 Ice Machines 
 
 621 Poydras Street, near St.Cliarles 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 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 
 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 
 
 HAURICE STERN. 
 
 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 
 highest type of citizenship. 
 
 85 
 
E. G. SCHLIEDER, Phesioent. 
 U. KOEN. Vice-Pbesident 
 
 American 
 Brewing Co., 
 
 ABSOLUTELY 
 
 Pare MALT BEER 
 
 N KEGS AND BOTTLES. 
 
 <^^^x^ 
 
 Telephones; ^Zo 
 
 Department 1440 
 
 A. U. PAHKER, President. 
 J.^JO. M. PARKKR. Vice-President. 
 P. H. BROWN Secreiary. 
 C c:. JOHN^.TON, Treasurer. 
 
 -THE- 
 
 Parker-Blake 
 Company, 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 Successors to L. N. BRUNSWIG & CO. 
 
 Wholesale 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 ■'no. M. Parlier. 
 P. H. Brown. 
 '' (J J"hiivt,in. 
 W. H. Irbv. 
 A. D. Parker. 
 
 DRUGGISTS 
 
 jkb Te It on pi to u las and 
 W G r a V i e r S t s . 
 
 ^ New Orleans. 
 
 ( 
 
 MACHINE 
 TOOLS 
 
 Complete Equipments 
 
 -FOR- 
 
 Machine Shops 
 
 — AND — 
 
 Foundries. 
 Machinists' Supph'es. 
 
 p. H. HcARDLE, 
 
 514=520 Camp Street. New Orleans. 
 
 nkS M. McDEI^MOTT, President. 
 
 EDW. J. SACK, Vice-President. 
 
 T. C. HILL. Scc-lrtas. 
 
 THE- 
 
 McDermott 
 
 Surgical Instrument 
 Company, Ltd. 
 
 -Manufacturers and Dealers in- 
 
 Surgical Instruments and Appliances, 
 
 Artificial Limbs, Trusses, 
 Crutches, Elastic Hosiery, Etc. 
 
 Nos. 516=518 St. CHARLES STREET, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 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 
 same time made his name 
 known as a man of public 
 spirit and benevolence and this 
 is what has gfiven the Jewish 
 people such a high standing- 
 in the community. They have 
 never been found wanting- in 
 anything that helped to make 
 the city more prosperous or 
 more fit to live in and enjoy 
 life in. 
 
 Mr. Abraham, like so man}- 
 other successful Jews, was born 
 in Germany, where he was 
 educated and trained in those 
 careful business habits which 
 he afterwards combined with 
 enterprise and push and de- 
 voted to the upbuilding- of his 
 business, thereby benefitting- 
 the community as every man 
 does who truly looks after his 
 own affairs. Mr. Abraham 
 lived before coming- to New 
 Orleans, in Montgomery, Ala., 
 
 where he beg-un the business career which afterwards 
 brought him to this city. He was for a number of 
 years a factor in the great firm of Lehman, Neug-ass 
 & Co., afterwards Lehman, Abraham & Co., and 
 afterwards established a business in the name of H. 
 Abraham & Son, which has become one of the great- 
 est cotton houses in the world and has always been 
 regarded by the business world as one of the most 
 representative and prog-ressive and at the same time 
 careful and judiciously managed business concerns of 
 the country. 
 
 His ability and business standing- naturally brought 
 Mr. Abraham into wider relations to the financial 
 world. As a director and afterwards as Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the Germania National Bank he has exercised 
 an influence on the financial affairs of the city that 
 
 HENRY ABRAHAH 
 
 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 
 essentials to advancement. He 
 came across the Atlantic with 
 no capital but his training 
 and ambition and determina- 
 tion to succeed, which are the 
 characteristics that have 
 given New Orleans so many 
 valued Jewish and other citi- 
 zens from the Old World. 
 It may have seemed to some 
 that they fell into fortune but 
 the fact is that it came from 
 hard work and following the 
 essentials to success. 
 
 In private life Mr. Abraham 
 presents to his friends in his 
 beautiful home among fam- 
 ily and friends, or out in the 
 social world the picture of a 
 man plain, unassuming, mag- 
 netic, well informed and pleas- 
 ant in manner, refined and a 
 student of men and affairs, 
 a delightful man to talk with, 
 a lover of books and art and 
 everything that pleases the intellect and attracts 
 the cultured. He is an interesting talker and when 
 he consents to talk of the eventful years of his life 
 and gives his views and impressions gathered in a 
 wide field of travel and observation, there is no more 
 interesting host and entertainer. 
 
 By those characteristics which have been the force 
 of his business life — integrit3% intelligent, activity 
 and devotion to details, Mr. Abraham was amassed a 
 fortune that places him high among the moneyed men 
 of the South, but this has not drawn him, nor his 
 family away from their devotion to the city and the 
 people among whom they have lived, nor changed the 
 geniality and friendliness with which he mingles with 
 the people, nor lessened his interest in the progress 
 and development of the city. 
 
 87 
 
-THE 
 
 Jackson Cigar 
 
 FACTORY OF 
 
 J. BARZANA, 
 
 N o . 9 2 3 C o n t i Street, 
 N e \v Orleans. 
 
 M a II u 1 ;i (■ t u r r- r s of the Very Best 
 
 H a \ ti n a c\ n d D ( ) m e s t i c 
 
 C i g a [■ s . 
 
 * 
 
 ft 
 
 » 
 
 '.t> 
 
 (tt 
 m 
 
 * 
 
 (I' 
 
 Box >o. 36. 
 Mechanics' Dealers and Lumbermens' Exchange. 
 
 All Work Guaranteed. 
 
 Chas. J. Babst, 
 
 Schillinqrer | '^"'"^ 
 Pavement | specialty 
 
 « 
 
 \l/ 
 \l» 
 
 \(/ 
 \l/ 
 \l/ 
 
 \l» 
 
 % Side Walks, Garden Walks, Carriage | 
 Routes. Summer Houses 
 
 STORE FLOORS. 
 
 1205 Franklin Street. Corner Clio 
 
 J Telephone No. 1558. NEW ORLEANS. LA ^ 
 
 ST A T 1 O N E R , 
 K N G R A V E R , 
 P R I N T E R 
 and FINE ART DEALER 
 
 Artist s' 
 Painters' and 
 D ran ghtm en's 
 
 Supplies 
 
 Paintings, P^ngravings and 
 Fine P i c t u r e F i- a m e s. 
 
 113 13 o u r b n Street, 
 
 Three Ddcirs frnm ('Hiial. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 I.D.TAYLOR' 
 
 HIDES 
 WOOL 
 FURS 
 
 and TALLOW 
 
 -1:41 Deeatnr Street. 
 
 502-500 St. Louis Street, 
 
 New Orleans, r>a. 
 
 ■Nos, 2701-2715 M AKune, Bimlngliam, Alaj 
 
 88 
 
WILLIAM ABLER. 
 
 No name among- the Jewish people of this city is 
 more respected than that of William Adler, who is a 
 leading- man of it in every form of activity, bus- 
 iness, social and municipal, and not only has made 
 himself a high reputation in regfard to the carrying 
 on and development of his private business, but has 
 taken a position in public affairs that has always been 
 honorable, progressive and up-to-date, while in the 
 social world he stands as high as any man in the city. 
 
 Mr. Adler is still a young man, too, having been 
 born in 1858, on the 30tli of December in the German 
 Fatherland, which he left full of hope and confidence 
 and determination, about twenty-five years ago. His 
 hope was to make an honorable name in a new coun- 
 try and his ambition to achieve success on the lines 
 in which he has succeeded so well. 
 
 He came without capital and 
 began at the bottom of the lad- 
 der, taking a place with the 
 important firm of Hirsch, Adler 
 & Co., wholesale grocers, im- 
 porters and exporters, now A. 
 Adler & Co., of which Mr. 
 Adler is a member. The repu- 
 tation established in this bus- 
 iness he has carried into others 
 and his appreciation of the im- 
 portance of the city and the 
 opening for investments led 
 him early to take an interest 
 in manufacturing and business 
 enterprises outside of his direct 
 firm. He is a big stockholder 
 in and Vice-President of The 
 Kohlmann Cotton Mill and 
 Manufacturing Company, the 
 Schwartz Foundry Company, 
 Ltd., and the Adler- Weinber- 
 ger Steamship Comjjany, and a 
 Director in the Bluefields 
 Steamship Company. 
 
 In every line of business in which he has engaged 
 he is regarded as a leader and his opinion sought on 
 all important matters. His connection as a director 
 of the State National Bank has been an important 
 feature of the success of that institution in recent 
 years and he has taken an especial interest in that 
 success and in the high standing of the institution. 
 Since he became President this has been even more 
 truly the case than before and he has been recognized 
 as the peer of any financier in the South. 
 
 When Mayor Flower was looking over the city 
 for men big and public-spirited enough to place 
 on the Drainage and Sewerage Board, Mr. Adler 
 was obviously a natural choice because of his 
 ability and because he had always shown a decided 
 liking to public affairs which did not involve pol- 
 itics. His selection was a wise one, for no mem- 
 
 WILLIAH ADLER. 
 
 ber has devoted more earnest and intelligent effort to 
 the great work of redeeming the city from its former 
 condition. 
 
 The services of such men in the public work are 
 above any consideration of reward; they are some- 
 thing that only the true spirit of public enterprise 
 and ambition can inspire and without such leaders 
 and thinkers progress must be slow and unsatis- 
 factory. 
 
 Another line of activity in which Mr. Adler has 
 shown himself is as one of the leaders in the work of 
 Progressive Union and such efforts to uplift and ad- 
 vance the city as a whole, without regard merely to 
 the interests of his own personal business. In all 
 public affairs of this kind his presence has always 
 been noted and his voice has been heard when there 
 was occasion to speak for progress and advancement 
 and better methods. 
 
 A man of pleasant address 
 and social disposition Mr. 
 Adler has not failed to im- 
 press his personality on those 
 who have come in contact 
 with him and this same dis- 
 position and spirit of enter- 
 prise have made him promi- 
 nent in all the charitable and 
 benevolent affairs of the city, 
 especially, of course, those 
 conducted by the Jews. In all 
 of the great enterprises which 
 have called forth such eulo- 
 gies of the Jewish people of 
 the city from visiting phil- 
 anthropists and sympathetic 
 people Mr. Adler has been a 
 factor, though he may have 
 been a quiet one working be- 
 hind the scenes and furnish- 
 ing more than words and sug- 
 gestions. 
 Mr. Adler is ex-President of the Congregation 
 Gates of Mercy of the Dispersed of Judah, of which 
 Rev. I. L. Leucht is Rabbi. 
 
 He has always been an active member of that splen- 
 did, live organization, the Young Men's Hebrew As- 
 sociation and in all its plans his advice and co-opera- 
 tion helped, especially in the building and equip- 
 ment of the beautiful home of the club, in the work 
 of its extension and enlargement and in the public 
 benefits that have accrued to the city from the ac- 
 tivity of the organization. Aside from his connec- 
 tion with the Drainage and Sewerage Board he has 
 not held office and is in no sense a politician, though 
 he has taken a commendable interest in political af- 
 fairs and in 1896 served as an elector on the ticket 
 which gave the country that splendid statesman and 
 and noble representative, William McKinley. 
 
 — 89 — 
 
5(r"'<sss^(r'"'«65a^ %:=.^aff!^-%'s^..^ii0r%<^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 Established 18 J7. 
 
 Cumberland Phone 2J00. 
 
 SPEARING & CO. 
 
 SAIL ^ s 
 MAKERS 
 
 AWNINGS, FLAGS, 
 TARPAULINS and TENTS. 
 
 .r9i 
 
 O. L. PUTNAM. 
 
 B. M. KING. 
 
 404 Canal St, New Orleans. La. 
 
 >(r°^*SS:a-J"kJiS!2^'='^ (5^jia{23— ^(g,_^.^ijg;r^,: 
 
 CI 
 
 \ 
 
 Putnam & King, Ltd, 
 
 CO TTON A ND 
 COMMISSION 
 
 MERCHANTS. 
 
 926 Gravier St., New Orleans, La. 
 
 }{] 
 
 J 
 
 r 
 
 Gj 
 
 The MULLER 
 Furniture 
 Manufacturing 
 Company, Ltd» 
 
 Wholesale Manufacturers of 
 
 WARDROBES, BEDS, WASH- 
 STANDS, TESTERS, 
 KITCHEN SAFES, TABLES. 
 
 4. .;..;. 4. .;. 
 
 '^1 
 
 S) 
 
 Office, 213 N. Derbigny St. New Orleans. 
 
 Factory '■ 
 
 s 
 
 P,..^, (1811 to 1823 Customhouse St. 
 ractory ( 2OI to 213 N. Derbigny St. 
 
 <s=*a;^==:«t=i 
 
 ^jt^jt AGENT FOR .st j* j* js« 
 
 JNO. CHASENJESTER'S 
 CELERY PHOSPHATE. 
 
 BEACH & CLARRIDGE CO.'S 
 
 Fruits, Pulps, Juices, Extracts. 
 
 L C. ARNY, 
 
 '{ I 
 
 Manufacturer of 
 
 (f 
 
 ^ p O P^ 
 
 and All Kinds of Carbonated Drinks. 
 
 5J I-5I3 S. Peters St. 5J0-5I2 Commerce St 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 9 
 
MR. NATHAN I. SHWARTZ. 
 
 One among- the first of the younger set of a score of 
 years ag-o who entered with zeal upon a career of 
 usefulness without the expectancy of acquiring- any 
 notoriety or reward for unselfish services rendered, 
 devoting his energies, his time and his means 
 for the betterment of the distressed and unfortunate 
 was Mr. Nathan I. Shwartz, who for years has occu- 
 pied an honored position in the affairs of New Or- 
 leans, in communal, charitable, social and commer- 
 cial circles. 
 
 Mr. Shwartz is to the manner born, a native of 
 New Orleans, where he was reared, educated and 
 given the opportunity of carving out his own career. 
 His lamented parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Abra- 
 ham Shwartz, had made this 
 city their home years ago in 
 the spring- of their useful 
 lives and lived to witness the 
 realization of their fondest 
 hopes and aspirations. 
 
 Born on April 22, 1853, Mr. 
 Nathan I. Schwartz was edu- 
 cated in the Public Schools of 
 the city and, thoug-h a mere 
 youth entered in the employ- 
 ment of his father who had 
 founded the prominent busi- 
 ness house known for years as 
 "A Shwartz," and which in 
 course of time assumed only 
 such changes as were neces- 
 sary when the sons became 
 identified with it and finally 
 becoming- the care and pride 
 of Mr. N. I. Shwartz e.xclu- 
 sively. 
 
 Step by step Mr. Shwartz 
 acquired the technique of business and before he had 
 attained his majority was a practical man of affairs, 
 knowing- the details of the ever increasing "Shwartz 
 Dry Goods House" from Alpha to Omega. He was 
 practically manag-er of the establishment before he 
 was eighteen years of age and under his astute, 
 courteous and comprehensive business methods "A 
 Shwartz's Son" has become noted throughout Louis- 
 iana as a synonym for integrity. 
 
 Mr. Shwartz found time when "a youngster" to 
 consider the daily' problems of those less fortunate, 
 men, women and children buffeted by the waves of 
 adversity, poor, homeless, destitute and sick, and the 
 indigent ag-ed more helpless than the babe wooed to 
 slumber's sweet in mothers' arms. While sentiment 
 
 attracted Mr. Shwartz to communal and charitable 
 work, he no doubt realized that charity to be effec- 
 tive should be conducted on business principles. He 
 took a modest part in the affairs of the Touro In- 
 firmai V and Hebrew Benevolent Association, of which 
 he has been a member since his early manhood and 
 from his identification with the Association he has 
 been a zealous worker. 
 
 (iradually his opinions attracted the attention of 
 the great hearted men who have labored assiduously 
 for the cause of Humanity for years, and. realizing 
 that the day was near at hand when others must 
 assume the burden of office and management, Mr. 
 Shwartz was given a position on the Board of Direc- 
 tors in 1877. 
 
 In 1898 he was elected Pres- 
 ident of the Touro Infirmary 
 and Hebrew Benevolent Asso- 
 ciation and this famed institu- 
 tion owes much of its suc- 
 cesses to the splendid execu- 
 tive ability of the gentleman 
 whose name has been identi- 
 fied with its splendid progress 
 since his assumption of the 
 president's chair. 
 
 NATHAN I 5MWARTZ. 
 
 AUGUST HEIDENHEIM. 
 
 Mr. Heidenheim is one of 
 the most active and influential 
 of the younger Jewish element 
 of the Crescent City. He is a 
 director and first vice-presi- 
 dent of the Young Men's He- 
 brew Association, and an 
 ardent worker in its cause, 
 and is affiliated with other or- 
 ganizations, social and frater- 
 nal, of his people. 
 He is the son of M. Heidenheim. retired, long a 
 merchant of the up town district of the city, and for 
 very many years the president of the Congregation of 
 Jackson street Synagogue His business is under- 
 writing He is ("resident of the Ferd. Marks Insur- 
 ance Agency, Ltd , one of the largest general agen- 
 cies, and one of the oldest also, of New Orleans. 
 
 Mr Heidenheim is a native of New Orleans, and a 
 graduate of the local schools, ' to the manner born 
 and bred." as Shakespeare has it, in point of fact. 
 His wife is a New Orleans lady. Miss Sarah Marks, 
 daughter of the late Ferd. Marks. As an insurance 
 man he began at the very bottom of the ladder. While 
 still in h s teens he was a practical man of business. 
 Like his brothers, also prominent men of affairs here, 
 he early disclosed superior managerial talents. His 
 agency under his direction steadily increases its 
 patroriage. It has an especially large clientage in 
 the cotton trading district in which it is located. 
 
 — 91 — 
 

 jWeCloskey Brothers, 
 
 
 
 3^ 
 
 GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS 
 
 AND JOBBERS OF 
 
 PROVISIONS I BREflDSTUFFS 
 
 s^ Dairy Products, &c. t^ 
 
 Nos. 66, 68, 70 & 72 MAGAZINE ST., 
 91 & 93 POYDRAS STREET. 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 3Ae 
 
 ^^ 
 %^ 
 
 ^« 
 
 3^ 
 TUX 
 
 ,■*«; 
 %>^ 
 
 3Ae 
 3^ 
 
 »%. 
 9Ae 
 
 3Ae 
 
 3S;* 
 3Ae 
 3S;« 
 
 3Ae 
 35:*; 
 
 3S:?6 
 *«. 
 
 e:3^:*5s::5e3^3^^ 
 
 5#«3^:*;^ 
 
 35(16 
 
 3S;?6 
 
 3^ 
 ^*: 
 
 t ?C"?v ''cTt 7c"^ y&^ yo^ Tp-tC 3co^. -'C'tC ^-sC 36^ 3eot -J&cK yccKl jpcKl J&o^ Tc'yCj'Ms 
 o 3v^ 3v& oKro d'O^ o'v <^ 5\(^ 3\^ oV^ oKi^ ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 30€ 
 
 3«:?6 
 
 ,«.*; 
 
 '%^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 **: 
 36;« 
 *«; 
 3s:« 
 
 3S:^ 
 
 *;« 
 3^ 
 3fi« 
 3s;?S 
 
 3S?S 
 
 3« 
 ;«« 
 
 35;:^ 
 '%^ 
 »% 
 %^ 
 3S(^ 
 >#« 
 3^^ 
 )^ 
 ^%, 
 %^ 
 3SSS 
 
 G- T. Hatry, 
 GROCER, 
 
 ».% 
 
 3^ 
 3«;?S 
 9,;* 
 35:«' 
 
 35:«: 
 
 *.:* 
 
 9Ae 
 9^>*; 
 
 3S!*K 
 
 3^ 
 9i!* 
 3W 
 9^ 
 :if:% 
 3A? 
 35;?6 
 9*^ 
 3*96 
 
 %^ 
 
 3^;b 
 
 3So?( 
 
 5«;^ Jo*: 
 
 3^ A General Assortment of FANCY and STAPLE f^g 
 
 ^^ GROCERIES, i 
 
 WINES, LIQUORS AND PRESERVES, 
 
 Nos, 801, 803. 805 Camp St., Cor Julia, 
 
 TELEPHONE 2979-L. OHDL RS SOLICITED. 
 
 All Orders Promptly Filled and Delivered 
 Free of Charge. 
 
 o- 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 
 
 9^^ 
 3^ 
 
 3?«: 
 
 '*:^e9f;¥^9«::*9Ae3^¥^9*;^9^¥:9«;^9^^9^9?!:^9^«;9^*9^^9i:^3Ae3««9S««*_.-,- 
 
 9s!^ 
 35^6 
 
 ?vX>MX>)MXW<XWKXWMX>1KX>^KX>j-<XWt<XW<^ 
 
 THE 
 Ahrens&OttMfg.Co. 
 
 Plumbers^ Gas and 
 Steam Fitters^ Supplies 
 
 HOSE, BELTING AND PACKING 
 
 Long Distance Telephone 682. 
 
 t^jt Baronne & St. Joseph Streets. <^=^ 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 1$^ ^^ r^W ■^<^h5^(^^(^^R$^^^^?«r$^^v^ 
 
 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, is worthily 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 
 establishment and gave h s attention to the upbuild- 
 ing of this important New Orleans' establishment. 
 In due time Mr. Godchaux became identified with 
 the various ramifications of industries and agricul- 
 ture established by his father and has aided in en- 
 hancing their importance. 
 
 But Mr. Godchaux is not so bound up in business 
 that he takes no interest in other issues. To the 
 contrary he finds time to devote to fraternal work, to 
 society- and any and every measure directed to the 
 betterment of state and city. 
 
 In addition to his conduct of the Godchaux busi- 
 
 LEONARD KROWER. 
 
 ALBERT GODCHAUX. 
 
 ness, he is fir<t vice-president of the New Orleans 
 Progressive Union; he is also president of the God- 
 chaux, Shelby & Mioton Co., Insurance Agents, and 
 a director in various other important industrial or- 
 ganizations. 
 
 He is in full fellowship with the Masonic fraternity, 
 a member of the Chivalric Order of Pythias and an 
 ardent member of the Elks. Likewise he is President 
 of the Harmony Club and interested in and holds 
 membership in the Young Men's Hebrew Association, 
 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 
 Krower is justly entitled to the distinction accorded 
 
 93 — 
 
k^^l^l^l!>l^l^^l^^i!l^'^^^l< 
 
 f fPf I IT 
 
 
 f^^ t£^ tS^ tfi^ tS"^ t^' t^' t^' f^™ 4,5* ^* t^* (^* C^* ^* (^* 
 
 mmmmmmm. 
 mmmmmmmk 
 
 mmimimimimm 
 
 Joe Pistorius, 
 
 Western 
 Meats and 
 Poultry, 
 
 PRYTANIA MARKET, 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 ^^^ f j^* f^^ f^^ f j^* f^^ *i^ *7^ f^^ ^^^ f^^ t^^ f^^ t^^ t^^ t^^ 
 
 r: 
 
 •^ 
 
 Oeiaei vJ'urniture 
 _yilaT\UTg wo. 
 
 Wholesale Manufacturers 
 
 CHEAP FURNITURE 
 AND CHAIRS,^ ^^e^ 
 
 <<5r <c^ ft5* 
 
 5 J 6-526 Barracks Street, 
 
 Near U.S. Mint. 
 
 Phone 2603-L 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 J 
 
 J. H. HINRICHS, 
 
 Importer and Manufacturer of 
 
 I French Mirror Pla tes^ Show Cases, 
 
 C Office 209 DECATUR STREET, i 
 
 Factory, 1 229- J 23 J North Peters Street. 
 Phone 2394 W. NEW ORLEANS, LA 
 
 I 
 
 I H. HINRICHS, 
 
 <i! 
 
 Phoned 
 2394 W. 
 
 MANOPACTURER OF 
 
 and'officeFiS^esOhOW CaSeS 
 
 209 DECATUR STREET, 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 i 
 
 Orders by Mail promptly 
 Attended lo.-^-^:^:^ 
 
 ^^ wniie ivieiai sasn ror \\ 
 
 e^*^ Show Windows j) 
 
 Pirsi Premium Louisiana. Alabama and Texas State Fairs, 1876 JJ 
 
 Justin Tujagiie 
 
 STALL No, 41 
 
 MAGAZINE MARKET 
 
 Use only Meats of N. O. Butchers 
 Co-operative Abattoir Co., Ltd. 
 
 94 — 
 
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- in New 
 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- 
 rect to this city from New York where his extensive 
 experience with the re- 
 nowned Jewelry house, 
 Albert Lorsch, equipped 
 him for the successes that 
 came to him in afteryears 
 of earnest application in 
 his chosen pursuit. ^ 
 
 Mr. Krower won his way 
 in a strange land, unac- 
 
 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. 
 
 r 
 
 4 
 
 quainted with its customs 
 and language, by his in- 
 dustrj-, application and 
 personality. His arrival in 
 New Orleans was hailed 
 with pleasure by those 
 who knew of him and his 
 successes as a youth in 
 the Great Metropolis. 
 It was realized that he 
 would prove a valuable 
 addition to New Orleans 
 and he has sustained his 
 record during the years 
 that he has been a citizen 
 of that city. 
 
 To New Orleans he 
 came as we have said in 
 1884, and since that 
 time he has demonstrat- 
 ed that this cit)- was 
 his home indeed. His 
 successful venture as a 
 
 business man is well-known; furthermore, as he pros- 
 pered he exhibited himself a man of fellow-feeling; 
 also of generosity and charity. 
 
 Mr. Krower takes an active interest in all communal 
 work and his splendid services have been appreciated 
 by the Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent As- 
 sociation, the Association for the Relief of Jewish 
 Widows and Orphans, the Young Men's Hebrew As- 
 sociation, the B'nai B'rith, and last but not least 
 Congregation Touro Synagogue, of which he is at 
 this writing the honored President. 
 
 In his sphere as a business man Mr. Krower has 
 been likewise honored, being a Director of the New 
 Orleans Boardof Trade and the Progressive Uni m. He 
 is also a valued member of several of the prominent 
 social organizations including the Harmony Club, 
 the Southern Athletic Club and others of equal note. 
 
 MR. HENRY STERN. 
 
 Among the unselfish, 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- 
 land, so as to be equipped 
 to face the realities of 
 ■|!. life, he sought a home in 
 
 '"%. the United States, finally 
 
 settling in New Orleans, 
 on the 20th of January, 
 1851. 
 
 His training in youth 
 was such as to interest 
 him in commercial pur- 
 suits and he at once iden- 
 tified himself with trade 
 soon building up a Mer- 
 cantile establishment of 
 note. 
 
 On December b, 1860, 
 
 he wedded Miss Annette 
 Newman. Their marital 
 bliss has been unmarred 
 by the faintest shadow 
 and in the happiness and 
 prosperity of children 
 and grand children they 
 live "Life's young 
 dream" of happiness oe'r 
 and oe'r again. Mr. 
 Stern tho' over sixty 
 is alert and active, pre- 
 siding over a well es- 
 tablished business found- 
 ed by him years ago and 
 known as Henry Stern & 
 Co., Wholesale Boots and 
 Shoes, New Orleans, La., and Boston, Mass. But 
 Mr. Stern has also had time to devote to the cause 
 of humanity, whether it be that of the fraternities 
 he is associated with— for he is a Mason, B'nai B'rith, 
 Knights of Pythias and other noted secret societies 
 wherein he has been repeatedly honored with posi- 
 tions of trust— or those magnificent Institutions the 
 Touro Infirmary, Jewish Orphans Home and Temple 
 Sinai. In the noted Jewish charities of New Orleans, 
 Mr. Stern has invariably taken a prominent part and 
 during many consecutive years (extending be- 
 yond a generation) has been Treasurer of sev- 
 eral. Whether in a social, commercial or 
 charitable affairs, Mr. Stern is always noted 
 for his avoidance of display, being "a plain, blunt 
 man" faithful, earnest, a good citizen and a con- 
 scientious Israelite. 
 
 95 — 
 
 HENRY STERN. 
 
J. .K1.-\CHI\I, 
 
 Electrical Supplies. 
 Construction and 
 
 cr.iirs. ,*: •< •< t< 
 
 R 
 
 33^341 Fax. \NE STREET, 
 
 TELEWJONE No. Ol7 
 NEV ORLEANS LA. 
 
 P 
 
 
 I 
 
 it 
 
 'it 
 tt 
 
 I 
 
 it 
 tt 
 
 it 
 
 iBifHoniMPcm' 
 
 t< v< i< 
 
 ,v5 ,< ,< 
 
 BLUEFIF.LDS 
 BANANAS.... 
 
 4M4v} PECATUR ST. 
 
 NKW ORLEANS, lA. J 
 
 Osble Aaan\<$ '-AMIGO/' 
 
 1 ^1 
 
 0###0t####f ##t.i#t#( 
 
 TV 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 
 ^iobert I ^nhnex 
 
 
 
 V 
 
 . >» y>» 
 
 •Win >«Is 
 
 L Orp 
 
 C-V 
 
 A«^'t> 
 
 ::* *=-^ 
 
 $ 
 
 d 
 
 J* 
 
 ^!! 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 •adOMiwds. Ere .« .« .<* 
 I Beans on HA»d. .« J^ .« 
 
 I CHAS. BEDELL I 
 # $ 
 
 1 Structural 1 Iron Works f 
 
 I IROX \^'ORK 
 
 ^ At. — Eri-* .* .*.* 
 
MK. SIMON (;UMI{KL. 
 
 Aiiioii}^- the earnest, consistent ;ni<l wdilliy f^fiitlc- 
 men, wlio in their advanced a<je not only witness tlie 
 realization of their aspirations, ambitions and hoi)es, 
 but are as well exemplars for the youn<jfer men is Mr. 
 Simon Ginnbel, whose business qualities and ener^-y 
 successfully accomplished his ideals and placed him 
 in the ranks of prominent factors and promoters. 
 
 His successes are a demonstration of tlie fact that 
 application and honesty of purpose are equal to casli 
 capital if properly applied and he is also one of the 
 many who begfan a career that led to Fortune's 
 heifj'hts a poor, friendless youth. 
 
 Mr. (kimbel was horn in that ex((uisite section of 
 Bavaria, (Germany, bordering- on the Khine in IS.^2, 
 attaining- the rucliments of an education in the (Ger- 
 man lang^uag-e in his native land. At the af^-e of six- 
 teen he left the parental roof to seek a livelihood in 
 the Land beyond the Sea, 
 and amonof the arrivals from 
 Europe on May Id, 1S4S, was 
 Mr. Gumbel. He lost no 
 time in embarkinjr in bus- 
 iness and a few weeks af- 
 terwards was touriiif^- the 
 river parishes in the modest 
 caj)acity of a vendor of mer- 
 chandise. He followed this 
 business for two years and 
 finally opened a small estab- 
 lishment amon^ friends. 
 
 With his coming- to New 
 Orleans in 18(>4 Mr. Gum- 
 bel assumed an honored po- 
 sition in Jewish communal 
 and charitable circles. By 
 disposition modest and re- 
 tiring- he has never been 
 conspicuous before the pub- 
 lic but the various Asso- 
 ciations in which he has 
 held membership . for up- 
 •wards of forty years have 
 protitted by his advice and 
 unassuming work on com- 
 mittees. He was elected Treasurer of the Associa- 
 tion for the Relief of Jewish Widows' and Orphans 
 and has been his own successor, his administration 
 of the finances proving most efficient. 
 
 An incident of his association with the manage- 
 ment of the Jewish Orphans' Home is well worthy a 
 place in the record of gracious deeds of charity cred- 
 ited to Jews of Louisiana. Mr. (iumbel no doubt de- 
 sired to demonstrate his interest in the inmates of 
 the Jewish Home. They had every advantage of 
 education and were cared for even when they left the 
 "Home." The inspiration came to him on the occa- 
 sion of a "joyful event" in his family and in honor of 
 the marriag-e of a daug^hter he created a "Dower 
 Fund," donating $5,000, and thereafter every girl 
 of the institution who married or will marry received 
 
 - 97 — 
 
 or will receive a hundred dollars for the jntrpose of 
 purchasing her bridal trousseau No more beautiful 
 idea than this had been conceived by friends and pa- 
 trons of the Jewish Orphans' Home and the "Simon 
 (lumbel l<\ind" will be a m nument to its founder for 
 all time to come. 
 
 SIMON GUHBEL 
 
 I^ittle by little the modest enterprise of Mr. Gum- 
 bel grew in proportion and within ten years he was 
 fortunate in having a well established and lucrative 
 business. His business aptitu<le and enterprise re- 
 cognized the necessity of promoting industries and, 
 in 1859, he was the first man to build and conduct a 
 cotton seed oil mill with great success an<l advantag-e 
 to the Parish until the breaking- out of the Civil War. 
 
 The CJonfederacy had an earnest sympathizer in 
 Mr. Gumbel who proved of invaluable service to the 
 "Lost Cause" for he placed at the disposal of the Con- 
 federates a steamboat he owned, and others he was 
 
 interested in, which were 
 utililized as transports. 
 
 Mr. Gumbel moved to 
 New Orleans in 18f)4. There 
 he embarked in the whole- 
 sale notion business and 
 conducted this special line 
 of merchandizing- success- 
 fully until 1873 when he 
 disposed of his interest to 
 enter the Cotton and Com- 
 mission business founding 
 the well-known house, S. 
 Gumbel & ("o., of which he 
 is to-day the senior and as 
 active in business circles 
 as he was when on May 
 If), 1848, he first stepped on 
 Louisiana soil. While de- 
 voting his attention to the 
 affairs of the prominent 
 house he founded over a 
 score of years ago Mr. 
 Gumbel is interested in 
 other important industrial 
 interests, conspicuous 
 among- these Louisiana's 
 most important one, the cultivation and milling of 
 rice, being- not only a promoter of rice mills but the 
 owner of valuable tracts of rice lands. 
 
 When the Provident Aid Society was projected Mr. 
 (Tumbel was enrolled among the donors to the fund 
 which created this most comprehensive and useful 
 charity and since its formation has been its Treas- 
 urer. He is an active member of the Y. M. H. A., 
 the B'nai B'rith and the Harmony Club all of which 
 he has served officially. 
 
 Within the precincts of his palatial home are his 
 jewels, wife and children and daughters and sons, 
 daughters-in-law and sons-in-law cast in the self 
 same would as the honored subject of this sketch, 
 strive out of love for human kind to bring joys into 
 the lives of those less fortunate than themselves. 
 
^asHsasasH 
 
 K 
 
 ^ 
 
 A LADIES 
 IDEA. 
 
 'Have nothing in your Home 
 
 which you do not know to 
 be useful and believe to be 
 beautiful." That's an ex- 
 cellent rule. To apply it 
 to your home, that is to 
 combine utility and beauty 
 in furniture and in fact. g"et 
 all around satisfaction, go to 
 
 THE PHGENIX. 
 
 W. Q. TEBAULT Jr , Manager. 
 
 214 to 220 Camp Street 
 
 ii»S»»-^-iS»»»SSe«t 
 
 *5«9 **»9*S *•$ ii^^iS §..;j 
 
 r 
 
 Allen Mehle. 
 
 Geo. S Kausler. 
 
 ^^ r 
 
 Mehle & Kausler, 
 
 GENERAL^ ^ 
 INSURANCE 
 
 REPRESENTING 
 
 Pboenix lu.surauceCo., of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Aetna Insurance Co of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Scottish Union and National of Edinburgh. 
 
 German Alliance Insurance Ass'u . ..of New York. 
 
 Liverpool & London & Globe of New York. 
 
 Union Assurance Society, of London. 
 
 Law Union & Crown Insurance Co., of London. 
 
 State Fire Insurance Co., Ltd of Liverpool. 
 
 St. Paul P'ire & Marine (iMarine) of St. Paul, Minn. 
 United States Lloyds, of New York. 
 
 
 307 CARONDELET ST., 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 y> TELEPHONE 229. 
 
 ':»»^M»»»»i»S»»»»»»»»»»««««l«««««««««««i««««e(;. 
 
 r 
 
 Manion & Co., 
 
 PLUMBERS, 
 STEAM and 
 GAS FITTERS 
 SUPPLIES =^6=^ 
 
 Foreign and Domestic 
 
 GAS and ELECTRIC 
 FIXTURES, ETC. 
 
 618-630BaronneSt 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 TELEPHONE No. J96. 
 
 \ 
 
 g^^^lt^gi^'giiP 
 
 Wrought Iron Pipe, 
 black g:alvaiiized & 
 extra strong black. 
 Cast Iron Water 
 Pipe and Fittings. 
 
 Soil Pipe & Fittings 
 Bra.ss Pipe and 
 Fittings. 
 
 Lead Pipe. Pig Lead 
 Sheet Lead. 
 Crane, Lunken- 
 heimer & Jehkins 
 Valves, 
 
 Cast Iron Fittings, 
 black and galv. 
 Malleable Iron 
 Fittings, black and 
 galvanized. 
 Van Ranges, pri- 
 vate and hotel use. 
 Crystal Cut Glass 
 Chandeliers, 
 Brackets and Cut 
 Glass Globes, 
 Enameled Iron and 
 Steel Bath Tubs, 
 Enameled Cast 
 Iron and Marble 
 Lavatories, 
 Water Closets, 
 Plumbers' Supplies 
 
 Pipe cut to sketch 
 from >g in. to IS in. 
 Radiators and 
 Boilers 
 
 ^^J>^'^(^(?^ 
 
 t 
 
 ^ 
 
 OFFICES: 
 
 New Orleans, 
 U.S.A. 
 
 ANTWERP, 
 BELGIUM. 
 
 Antwerp 
 
 Address: 
 
 Rue Miroeus 43 
 
 Cable Address; 
 
 LUMBERLOG 
 
 We use A B C. 
 4th and 5th 
 Edition and 
 American 
 Lumberman 
 Telecode 
 
 The Murphy 
 Lumber Co., 
 
 LIMITED- 
 
 Dealers and Exporters of 
 
 Lumber and Logs, 
 
 Oak. Ash, Poplar, 
 Gum, Hickory, 
 Cottonwood. 
 Cypress, 
 Yellow Pine. 
 
 Office: 21 6 Hennen Building 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 TELEPHONE 3084. 
 
 a 
 
 SH"! 
 
 — 98 — 
 
MR. GABRIEL KAHN. 
 
 A familiar and respected name, not among- Jews 
 onl}', but to all old residents of New Orleans, is that 
 of "Gabe" Kahn, a shortening- indicating- friendly 
 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 
 of habit however than necessity, for both his son and 
 grandson are associated with him in business. 
 
 Mr. Kahn was born in Rodalben, Rheinpfalz, Ger- 
 many. He attended school there, and having fin- 
 ished his course, embarked in 1851 on a sailing- ves- 
 sel for America. He was then about twenty years 
 old. He sailed from Havre, France, and arrived in 
 New Orleans in January, 1852. He has lived in 
 Louisiana ever since, except 
 when serving with the 
 Confederate arms in the Old 
 Dominion. Before the war he 
 was engaged in g-eneral mer- 
 chandising in the country. He 
 embarked in his present line, 
 the cotton pickery business, 
 some thirty-seven years ago. 
 
 Mr. Kahn has been connect- 
 ed at one time or other with 
 all the Jewish charitable as- 
 sociations of the city. He 
 has been a director of Touro 
 Infirmary. He is president of 
 the Jewish Widows' and Or- 
 phans' Home; has held that 
 office in fact for the past 
 twelve years; and it is worthy 
 of note that it was during 
 his administration that the 
 long cherished plan for a 
 
 manual training school for the orphans and others 
 was brought to a successful issue. He is president 
 of that institution by virtue of his office as president 
 of the Orphans Home, i. e., the Isidore Newman 
 Manual Training School, endowed by the Jewish 
 banker whose name it bears, which school, at this 
 writing, is built and just about to be occupied. 
 
 Mr. Kahn was a contributing member to the above 
 named organizations for years before he held an of- 
 fice. Aside from these he belongs to the Jewish Pub- 
 lication Society, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, 
 the Free Sons of Israel, and the Order of the B'nai 
 B'rith of which he was at one time Grand President. 
 He is a charter member of Temple Sinai and for 
 many years was on its Board of Directors. He is also 
 
 president of the John J. Brown Memorial Associa- 
 tion, which every year gives the orphans of New Or- 
 leans irrespective of creed, a steamboat outing and 
 pic-nic at one of the nearby plantations. 
 
 GABRIEL 
 
 HON. NAT STRAUSS. 
 
 At the time New Orleans was selected as the Dis- 
 trict seat and headquarters for No. 7, I. O. B B , in 
 1890. Hon. Nat Strauss long a prominent working 
 member of the Order was chosen to the position of 
 Grand Secretary (and in that capacity its Executive 
 officer) and has been continued in the office ever since. 
 "Mr. Strauss,'' says an account of the Order from 
 which we draw our facts, "it is generally conceded, 
 is the man for the place. He 
 is a man of distinct personal- 
 ity, of marked character, popu- 
 lar, talented, a man of discern- 
 ment and tact." His portrait 
 is presented on another page 
 of this book along with a 
 sketch of the Order itself. 
 
 Mr. Strauss was born in 
 Alsace when it was French 
 territory, like so many other 
 prominent Israelites of this 
 part of the country. He came 
 to New Orleans before the 
 war, in his early manhood, 
 and has had many a change 
 and experience since then. 
 From this city he moved to 
 Mobile, and there eventually 
 married. His wife was a help- 
 KAHN. mate indeed, and was almost 
 
 as well known in the Ladies' 
 Auxiliary as he in his sphere. She died in 1899. 
 
 At Mobile Mr. Strauss enlisted for the Civil war 
 under the stars and bars and saw active service, 
 there, some 3'ears after he was elected to the Ala- 
 bama Legislature. Here he distinguished himself as 
 a leader, law maker and debater. His connection 
 with the Order of B'nai B'rith began very many 
 years ago, and he had been long prominent in its 
 councils when he was chosen to succeed the lamented 
 Ulman, in the post he holds. He represents it on the 
 Board of the Jewish Widows and Orphans Home. 
 Naturally, with his affiliations, he is a pillar of 
 the faith, and a stout champion of every cause 
 for the well being and up lifting of the Jewish 
 people. 
 
 99 — - 
 
HENRY R.PEDARRR, E. P. FOURNIER. A. F. FOURNIER, 
 
 President. Vice-President. Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 [1 Oii 1 i ■ 
 
 I, 
 
 limited- 
 
 No. 420 CAIVIP STREET, 
 
 Manufacturers' Ag-ent for Cotton Duck all Widths, Oil 
 Clothinor, Filter Cloth, Camp Furniture. Flags, Etc. 
 
 jt^jitjt TELEPHONE 25)2 ^j^-j^^^ 
 
 PKESIDKNT. 
 W. H. BYRNES. 
 
 VICE-PKE'=IDENT. 
 
 JOHN T ..ItiBONS. 
 
 SECKKTART, 
 
 W. WOOD. 
 
 Hibemia Insurance Co., 
 
 1^0. 300 Camp Street, 
 
 Losses Promptly Paid NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 COMMANDER'S PLACE 
 
 E. COMMANDER, Prop. 
 
 Cor. Washington Ave. and Coliseum St. 
 
 o TELEPHONE 1849 o 
 
 Best Qaality of Oysters. Fioest Braiuls of Whiskie.s. 
 o FINE IMPORTED CKiARS. o 
 
 T. L. MACON. 
 
 W. A. KERNAQHAN, 
 
 Macon & Kernaghan 
 
 AUCTIONEERS 
 
 AND 
 
 REAL ESTATE AOENTS 
 No. 138 Carondelet Street. 
 
 PHONE 2o63 = W. NtW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 -TELEPHONE No. 810. 
 
 N. J. LONG, 
 
 MANUKAl'TUKER OF AND DEALER IN 
 
 r^^ooo re: R AG E:,^r> 
 
 STAVES, -HEADI/NG and HOOPS, 
 
 IN COMPLETE SETS a SPEeiHLTY. 
 
 Molasses Barrels, Sugar Barrels, Half Bnrrel.s, Hogsheads, Shaved 
 
 Koops, Oil Barrels. 
 
 Manufactory. Carondelet Walk and Rocheblave Streets, 
 
 Office & Warehouse, 208 S. Peters St New Orleans, La. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1849. 
 
 OLD WOOD'S HOUSE, 
 
 J. A. SPAAR, Proprietor. 
 
 BAR and OYSTER SALOON 
 and RESTAURANT, 
 
 Williams' Pharmacy 
 
 CANAL & BOURBON STS. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 FINEST SUNDRIES AND PERFUMES. 
 BEST FOUNTAIN SERVICE. 
 
 C(1R GWAMER AND 
 SOLTM PETERS SIREETS. 
 
 New Orleans, La, 
 
 -OPEN ALL NIGELT 
 
 Cjfe Reslaurantjfonde^^^^^ 
 
 JOS. SCHNETZER, Proprietor. 
 
 622=624 COiVimON STREET. 
 
 Thoroughly Renovated. New Orleans, La. 
 o CINCINNATI MOERLEIN BEER. o 
 
 -100— 
 
MR. M. HEIDENHEIM. 
 
 One of the fathers in Israel, one of the elders in the 
 faith, is our 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 
 been readily enlisted in ever}' Jewish philanthropy. 
 
 So now, surviving to a green old age, through the 
 many vicissitudes of life peculiar to the Crescent 
 City, through flood and pestilence, war and panic; 
 he has lived to behold in Israel a wonderful progress 
 and development. Where in 1847, when he landed, 
 there was but a handful of his co-religionists there 
 are now thousands, among them many of the weal- 
 thiest and most influential i itizens of New Orleans. 
 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 
 
 \: 
 
 \ 
 
 M. HEIDENHEIM. 
 
 niCHEL HEYMANN. 
 
 Mr. Heidenheim is fortunate in another respect, 
 his sons following in his footsteps. One of them, 
 August has been vice-president of the Y. M. H. A. 
 for a long term and another likewise a director. 
 
 MR. MICHEL HEYMANN. 
 
 A man held in the highest esteem by the Jewish 
 residents of New Orleans and IvOuisiana is Michel 
 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- 
 erally the model of what such an institution shouldbe. 
 
 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 
 own people, but humanity of every sort. 
 
 101 — 
 
Klaui & EFlangeF's flem Orleans Theatres Go. 
 
 The Tulane 
 
 Playing the Principal 
 Successes of America 
 and Europe t^ t^ ^ 
 
 lii^ Crescent 
 
 Playing the Popular 
 Successes at Popular 
 Prices t^ ^ t^ t^ 
 
 The Only Theatres Playing Traveling Combinations 
 
 ^^fe^s^^IN THE CITY<«^5s^^i5^ 
 
 Sl/^ NATIONAL 
 
 1^ Blow Pipe and 
 Mfg. Co., Ltd. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF o 
 
 
 
 Fans, 
 
 Dust Collectors, 
 
 Blow Piping. 
 
 General Sheet Iron 
 
 and 
 
 Metal Work. 
 
 • 
 
 1006 Tchoupitoulas Street^ 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Long Distance Telephone 2970-22. 
 Office Phone 4265. 
 
 A. C. POSNER, Secretary and General Manager. 
 
 V 
 « 
 
 —102 
 
 Hardwood Mantels, 
 Tiles for Hearths, 
 Facings and Floors. 
 Grates andall kinds 
 of Fire Place Trim- 
 mings. Marble and 
 Tile Wainscotting 
 and Interior F i n- 
 ishing .... 
 
 GAS grates- 
 No smoke; Perfect 
 combustion. The 
 ideal gratesfor par- 
 lors, sitting rooms 
 and bed rooms. 
 
 Monarch Grates. 
 The best heaters 
 for Dining Rooms, 
 Halls and Large 
 Rooms, superior to 
 Baltimore Heaters 
 for one floor. 
 
 Jackson Ventilat- 
 ing Grates. 
 
 lit 
 
 Mantels, 
 Grates 
 and Tiles 
 
 No. 5J2 Camp Street, 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 Catalogue of Mantels and Grates 
 On Application. 
 
HON. ISAIAH D. MOORE. 
 
 For every material fact there is an explanation; 
 every circumstance has its reason and cause Tho' 
 biography and not controversy is our province we 
 may ask: Is it strange that, among- the crowd of 
 professional men which New Orleans can muster so 
 many of, the most noted are Jews? 
 
 Reflection answers, not at all. Does not history 
 tell us how, even in the dark ag-es oi Christanity, 
 who were the conservators of the learningf and science 
 of preceding civilization, the leaders, the scholars, 
 the sages of the times ? And why not now in an age 
 of enlightenment, progress and freedom of speech 
 action and conscience, this new intellectual blossom- 
 ing and fruitage of the race which we plainly behold? 
 
 True it is, at all events that here — as elsewhere 
 also has been remarked — the distinguished lawyers, 
 doctors and scientists of this faith, bear a strangely 
 large proportion to the professional body as a whole. 
 Of particular examples many 
 might be cited, our subject. 
 Judge Moore, for one. 
 
 Judge Moore is a member 
 of the Court of Appeals of 
 the State, sitting at New 
 Orleans, and is not only one 
 of the most prominent mem- 
 bers of his race in Louisi- 
 ana, but one of the most 
 eminent members of the bar. 
 He has figured much in pub- 
 lic life in the Pelican State, 
 as one of the supervisors of 
 the Louisiana State Univer- 
 sity and Agricultural and 
 Mechanical College; as 
 Mayor of Thibodaux, one of 
 the most thriving towns of 
 the State; as Colonel and 
 Aid de Camp on the Gover- 
 nors Staff; as presidential 
 elector, 1884; and delegate 
 to the Constitutional Con- 
 ventions of 1879 and 1898. 
 He has represented the State 
 upon several occasions in 
 inter-state conventions and 
 assemblies; also notably in 
 ,the Louisiana Purchase 
 Convention of 1899. In 
 
 the Constitutional Conventions especially was he an 
 active and valued member. He was Chairman of the 
 Committee on Limitations in the first named (1879) 
 and was in charge of the suffrage ordinance in the 
 other, that of 1898. 
 
 Judge Moore was born in the British West Indies 
 in 1846. He came here however, quite young. He 
 was educated at the University of Louisiana and at 
 St. Marks and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He 
 was mayor of Thibodaux ten years and came here to 
 enjov the wider field the city affords for a man of 
 talents and activity. He was of Lazarus, Moore & 
 Luce, one of the principal law firms here before his 
 elevation to the bench. As judge his reputation, 
 both for ability and fairness is high. 
 
 Judge Moore has long been an active and influen- 
 tial member of the Democratic party. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Democratic State Committee for fifteen 
 
 years and still ranks high in the councils of the 
 party. He is a leading member of the Harmony 
 Club; in fact, as mentioned in the sketch of that in- 
 stitution, was long its president, and guiding spirit. 
 Chiefly through his labors was it housed in a club 
 house which is perhaps the finest in all the South. 
 He is a participant in the charitable and philan- 
 thropic movements of his people and firm in the 
 faith A foremost representative, in short, of the 
 culture, ability and integrity, the highest and best in 
 the stock from which he is sprung. 
 
 The Judge has always been a true blue advocate 
 and champion of Democracy. He has served his party 
 long and faithfully; his character and record have 
 been such as to inspire confidence. He is still in his 
 prime; and it is not too much to expect that in the 
 future, further honors await him, and at the hands 
 of the good people of the Crescent City and Pelican 
 
 State. His career hitherto 
 augurs well for further 
 preferment. 
 
 HON. ISAIAH D. MOORE 
 
 JAC. TRAUTMAN. 
 
 Jewish names figure numer- 
 ously — need we say conspicu- 
 ously also— in the commerce 
 of New Orleans, more es- 
 pecially the finance and cot- 
 ton trade of the place; Jew- 
 ish lawyers stand high at 
 the bar; Jewish doctors are 
 at the head of the great 
 hospitals of the city; Jewish 
 politicians, like Benjamin, 
 Jonas and Kruttschnitt have 
 led in the legislation and 
 public affairs of the State; 
 many are the old family 
 names in city and parishes 
 thatcan readily be identified 
 as of this s ock. Has not 
 the character and capacity 
 of the adherents of this 
 ancient creed been amply 
 certified? 
 
 The name of Trautman 
 is well known here, and has 
 been for a matter of fifty 
 years or more, particularly 
 in a business way as one of character and standing. 
 It distinguishes at the present time a leading house 
 in the grain and feed line, Jac. Trautman & Co., a 
 firm prominently identified through its business with 
 the New Orleans Board of Trade. 
 
 Of this firm Mr. Jac. Trautman, subject of our 
 sketch, is the senior member. He was born and 
 brought up here, went to school here, married here, 
 in early manhood, and as the father of a family all 
 born here, may be truly considered to have given this 
 city as Bacon has it, ample "hostages to fortune." 
 
 Mr Trautman. true to his bringing up observes the 
 tenets of the ancient faith of Israel. He is identified 
 by membership with the principal Jewish social and 
 charitable bodies of the city, and a regular contribu- 
 tor to their support. None worthier to be enrolled, 
 indeed, in this collection of biographies of the repre- 
 sentative Israelites of the Ciiy and State. 
 
 103 
 
==:s===x:=^f=5:?' 
 
 J. S. J. OTTO> 1^- 
 
 PHARMACIST, I 
 
 Corner MAGAZINE 
 & JOSEPHINE STS 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 W. W. GARRE CO , Ltd 
 
 Manufacturers and Exporters of 
 
 ..LUMBER.. 
 
 Wholesale- Retail. 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 } 
 
 J. L. ONORATO 
 REAL ESTATE AND INVESTMENTS, 
 
 303 BARONNE STREET, 
 Cor Gravier St New Orleans, La. 
 
 EVERY JOLLY GOOD FELLOW DRINKS 
 
 SPARKLING 
 
 ABIT A 
 
 iCARBONATED) 
 
 BECAUSE — It does away with the "aftereffects" 
 Mixed with wine adds zest. 
 Makes a perfect Hi-Ball. 
 
 ABITA SPRINGS WATER CO., Ltd. 
 
 BoUhil III the Spvinqs. Phone 2000 334 (' A KONDELET ST. 
 
 J. A. de HKN. 
 
 A. A. deHEN. 
 
 Phone 984. 
 
 Printing of Kvery Description. 
 
 J. A. de BEN & SON, 
 
 Iraporter.s and Dealers in 
 
 HAVANA CIGARS. 
 
 Smoking and Chewing- Tobacco, 
 Pipes of all Kinds, Guava Jelly 
 and Paste. Box Trade a Specialty. 
 
 Hennen Building, Cor. Carondelet & GDmmon Streets, 
 
 Np;\V ORI^KANS, I, A. 
 
 A. W. Hyatt Stationery 
 rianufacturing Co., Ltd- 
 
 STATIONERS pOTVTT^PtJQ BLANK BOOK 
 
 Lithographers 
 
 lanufacturers. 
 
 No. 407 CA/VIP STREET, 
 
 LOCK BOX 177 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 5 
 
 
 U 
 
 m 
 W 
 
 kk. 
 m 
 m 
 
 ii 
 
 m 
 
 
 ▲.!£ 
 
 
 American 
 and 
 
 European 
 Plan 
 
 IDotel . . . 
 2>enccbaub 
 
 3ustin jf. SciiccbauC, 
 IPrcprlctor. jtjtjtjtj* 
 
 Gor. CaroiiCclct IRcw Orleans, 
 c^ IPcrCitCto Sts. Louisiana. 
 
 
 3!' 
 
 
 
 ▼■ ► 
 
 iSHSHsasasasa^. 
 
 MRS. A. BET AT, 
 
 DEALlOi; I.X Ar.L KIN'IIS Ol'' 
 
 K (Biltanb Iplateb^nmininos S 
 
 1012-1014 CANAL STREET, 
 
 V 
 
 Costumes Made to Order. New Orleans, La. 
 
 Decoratiiins and Plants furnished 
 for all Eiitertaiumenls. 
 
 J 
 
 —104— 
 
MR. JOSEPH KOHN. 
 
 This g:entleman is distingfuished in the business 
 world, in civic service and in Jewish institutional 
 affairs. He has passed the greater part of his life 
 here; he is very well-known; of him it can truly be 
 said, that whether in business, social or public con- 
 cerns, he commands the respect, confidence and es- 
 teem of all who have come in contact with him. 
 
 Mr. Kohn is of Kohn, Weil & Co., (formerly Simon 
 & Kohn) wholesale hats, Canal street, a house estab- 
 lished in 1868. He is German born but came to this 
 country in his youth, settling- first at Indianapolis. 
 Thence he went to Baton Rouge. During the war he 
 served with the engineers in the camps of the con- 
 federacy. After the war 
 he settled here. 
 
 His first employment 
 was as book-keeper in the 
 house of which he is now 
 the head. He rose in a 
 little while to a partner- 
 ship. The house has 
 long held a leading posi- 
 tion in the trade and is 
 one of the most substan- 
 tial in New Orleans. 
 
 For eight years he was 
 a member of the State 
 Board of Health. He was 
 chairman of the combined 
 committee of the Ex- 
 changes of the city for 
 Sanitation at the time of 
 the last outbreak of yel- 
 low fever. His work in 
 behalf of the community 
 at this trying time, was 
 appreciated. His appoint- 
 ment to the School Board JOS. KOHN 
 subsequently maybe taken 
 as a recognition of his capacity. 
 
 Mr. Kohn stands high among his co-religionists. 
 He is ex-president of the Harmony Club. For six- 
 teen years he was a director of the Jewish Widows' 
 and Orphans' Home, serving as chairman of its 
 finance committee. He was the secretary of the old 
 Hebrew Educational Society. He is a member of 
 Temple Sinai, of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- 
 tion and other Jewish organiiiations, and active in all 
 of them. A man of weight, in short, among his people. 
 
 Mr. Kohn is unmarried. But he maintains the 
 home tie along with his nephews and nieces As to 
 his disposition and character the interest he has dis- 
 closed in the schools and the orphans speaks volumes. 
 He is a man of culture and refinement, in manners a 
 thorough gentleman at all times and everywhere, a 
 charitable man, observing naturally the injunction, 
 "let not thy left hand know what the right giveth." 
 
 REV. JULIUS BRAUNFELD. 
 Temple Sinai has oft resounded during the past ten 
 years to the magnificent vocal execution of the dis- 
 tinguished Cantor, the Rev. Julius Braunfeld, the 
 magnificent baritone whose artistic temperament and 
 splendid musical ability have contributed to the crea- 
 tion of a high standard in synagogal music. 
 
 This grand cantor was born in Sajo-Szeutpeter, 
 Hungary, on July 17, 1863, He is the lineal descen- 
 dant of a most prominent European family, who for 
 many generations have been numbered among the 
 foremost of musician-*, composers and Cantors. 
 
 Besides a thorough gymnasium and college educa- 
 tion, Cantor Braunfeld enjoyed the facilities of a 
 thorough musical and vocal training under instruc- 
 tion of the most noted professors of Austria. 
 
 Following the time honored European custom of 
 the young men who fit themselves for the hon- 
 ored calling of Cantor, 
 Mr. Braunfeld began his 
 career, after being thor- 
 oughly versed in music as 
 a singer in Temple choirs. 
 His ability and mastery 
 of the Art soon gained 
 him deserved promotion 
 first as director and later 
 as Assistant Cantor. 
 
 His splendid voice and 
 musical ability attracted 
 public attention and he 
 was persuaded to forego 
 his intention to devote 
 his efforts to the profes- 
 sion of Cantor and accept 
 a position as "First Bary- 
 tone in Grand Opera." 
 However his success on 
 the Lyric stage, his crea- 
 tion of roles, the compli- 
 ments of royalty and pop- 
 ular applause all failed to 
 woo him from his first 
 love; and, though both 
 fortune and fame smiled 
 upon him, he turned from 
 what promised to be Oper- 
 atic career to resume his 
 duty to himself and to Ju- 
 daism once more as Cantor. 
 So after serving prominent European congregations 
 as Cantor for some time he concluded to seek new op- 
 portunities in the United States. From his arrival 
 on American soil he found his metier and rising day 
 by day in reputation has achieved a place among the 
 first and foremost of the noted Cantors of this country. 
 He came to New Orleans ten years ago, personally 
 an utter stranger, though preceded of course by his 
 name and fame as a scholar and Cantor. His initial 
 hearing in Temple Sinai won all hearts. How he 
 lifts the soul indeed to the Throne of Grace with his 
 spirit-stirring vocalization! 
 
 His home life is the ideal life of an artist, it is 
 most delightful, and in his wife he has one worthy 
 the term of helpmeet. For family he has a dutiful son 
 and bright daughter. A charming home, particu- 
 larly to all imbued with a love of the Art of which 
 he is master. 
 
 105 — 
 

 Toilet Stands, 
 Towels, Etc., 
 Furnished 
 Stores, Offices 
 and Factories. 
 
 Phone Us or Send 
 a Postal Card to 
 our address ^ J* 
 It will receive 
 prompt attention 
 
 
 Phone 2053-R. 
 
 JAMES BLACK, Manager. 
 
 Combination 
 Toilet Stand 
 Company, Ltd. 
 
 No. 528 Poydras Street, 
 
 Second^ Floor 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 Gulf Manfg. Co. 
 
 Establislied in 1885. 
 
 Manufacturers of Dixie Baking Powder 
 A Pure Cream of Tartar. 
 
 Bon Ton Baking Powder, 
 tfie best for the price. 
 
 Dixie Extract, a Pure Triple Extract- 
 Crescent, Standard and Keystone Extracts. 
 
 Our Goods Have Stooi the Test 
 of 19 Years. 
 
 Y--^yv> 
 
 Geoghegan 
 
 AND COMPANY 
 
 Cotton Seed Products 
 FERTILIZERS,^^ 
 
 FORWARDING AGENTS > 
 
 HENNEN BUILDING^ 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 144 
 
 Carondelet 
 Street. 
 
 Second Floor. 
 
 1 
 
 AND COMPANY, LTD. 
 
 /Iftercbaitt 
 ZLailors . . . 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 106 
 
MR. LEOPOLD LEVY. 
 
 Application, energ-y and tact have proven to be the 
 road to success as far as Mr. Leopold Levy of New 
 Orleans is concerned. For these attributes must 
 have assuredly been the incentives in every 
 effort of his commercial and social career, g-ainingf 
 for him, after years of arduous labor in the con- 
 duct of business a name which is the equivalent of 
 genuine probit)'. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Saar Louis, a 
 beautiful little city in the heart of Alsace-Lorraine, 
 on February 26, 1849. After receiving- a scholarly 
 education, though barely in his teens, he sought em- 
 ployment in his birth place and began his business 
 career. A few years afterwards he came to New Or- 
 leans and though yet a youth, 
 soon attracted the attention 
 of representative business men 
 by his invariable courtesy and 
 application to his work. For 
 the first few years of his resi- 
 dence in the Crescent City he 
 found employment in the most 
 noted commercial houses of the 
 city. By and by having saved up 
 the capital, Mr. Levy established 
 himself in an unpretentious bus- 
 iness on his own account which, 
 gradually, by dint of strict per- 
 sonal attention has assumed the 
 proportions and the reputation of 
 being the most important, in the 
 line, in the Southern States. His 
 successful venture, the creation 
 of his own efforts, by years 
 of arduous application to en- 
 sure its success, has not chang- 
 ed in the least a disposition 
 and manner distinctively genial 
 and sunny; for, while a cas- 
 ual acquaintance or indifferent 
 spectator may regard Mr. Levy 
 as a strict disciplinarian or en- 
 grossed at all times with business, those who know 
 him are well aware that like the character of the 
 poet — kindliness and good humor are his in large 
 degree. 
 
 His magnificent business interests and his efforts 
 to attain prestige in the special line he has devoted 
 himself to, his love of Art accentuating this lauda- 
 ble project, has in no wise interfered with his per- 
 sonal service for the poor and distressed. Masonry 
 finds in him a devoted craftsman, for he wooed its 
 captivating mysteries in the ardour of young manhood 
 and in its theoretical application to the real and 
 tangible in Life he finds much delight. He is like- 
 wise an ardent member of various modern fraternities, 
 among these the Order B'nai B'rith, thereby realiz- 
 
 LEOPOLD LEVY 
 
 ing the advantages of fraternities when directed to 
 the amelioration of distress and care for the widow- 
 ed and orphaned. While not, to use the hackneyed 
 expression a "clubman," Mr. Levy is nevertheless an 
 influential member of the Young Men's Hebrew As- 
 sociation and the Harmony Club. Both of these well- 
 known clubs, have shown their appreciation of his 
 abilities by bestowing honors, upon him. He has 
 been president of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- 
 tion, which during his regime, profitted much by 
 his executive ability. 
 
 In the Congregation Gates of Prayer— the Jackson 
 Avenue Synagogue— has he centred an affection 
 too profound to be gauged by words. Within its 
 sacred precincts loved parents — long since numbered 
 with the sainted dead— worshipp- 
 ed according to the tenets in 
 which they had been reared. 
 Within its precincts he had as- 
 sumed his right to a place in 
 the council of professors of Ju- 
 daism. So, in after years he 
 has served the Congregation in 
 many capacities of honor, hav- 
 ing been repeatedly chosen as its 
 president. Under his guidance 
 the Jackson Avenue Synagogue 
 has become an honored and most 
 useful factor in communal work. 
 He has been identified with the 
 Jewish Orphans' Home and the 
 Touro Infirmary for years, al- 
 ways yielding ungrudgingly of 
 his time and means to aid these 
 glorious benefactions. 
 
 In 1881 he wedded Miss Ophelia 
 Bruenn, a talented and most 
 estimable lady, and native of 
 New Orleans. So, to-day, in the 
 vigor of manhood, enjoying the 
 fruits of his own handiwork, he 
 is surrounded by a loving family 
 and all the concommitants of an ideal home. Mr. 
 Levy is justly entitled to all the esteem extended 
 him for he has demonstrated what can be accom- 
 plished by capacity, rectitude and untiring appli- 
 cation. 
 
 And it is not alone among the people of his faith 
 that Mr. Levy's qualities of heart and mind are ap- 
 preciated; Christian and Jew alike esteem his inva- 
 riable courtesy and upright character. He is proud 
 of the city in which, despite many obstacles, he has 
 made his way, and is very public spirited; a liberal 
 contributor in fact to funds for all public purposes. 
 And while eschewing politics he is still deeply in- 
 terested in the growth and march of New Orleans the 
 city of his home and hope. 
 
 107 — 
 
A. VITTUR, 
 
 IMPORTER 
 
 MANUFACTURER AND 
 DEALER IN FINE 
 
 Cutlery, Barbers' Supplies 
 and Furniture 
 
 Concaving of Razors. Shears and Clipper Grindings, 
 MUG DECORATING. 
 
 General Grinding Our Specialty. 
 Call and See the Latest HYDRAULIC CHAIRS. 
 
 ,13 
 
 N o s . 632-634 Commercial Place, 
 
 PHONE 2680-F 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 THE NEW HOMEh 
 OF FLOWERS 4 
 
 PHONES : 
 / Sales Rooms 579. 
 Nursery 7 8 . 
 
 Our Aim is to Please and Charge 
 Reasonable Prices for Good Work 
 HONESTY is Our Motto: 
 
 n. Cook 6c Son, 
 
 FLORISTS, 
 
 Sales and Show Rooms, 143 BARONNE ST., 
 
 BET. COMMON and CANAL. 
 
 Nursery, St. Charles Avenue and Lowerline Street. 
 NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 Roses and Palms a Specialty. 
 Floral Work and Decorations Made at Reasonable Rates 
 
 St. ©^arfes 
 JllansioT\... 
 
 APARTMENT HOTEL 
 
 826 ST. CHARLES STREET, 
 Near Julia Street. 
 
 Elegant Rooms, Call Bells, Baths Free, 
 
 READING ROOn. 
 
 Rates: I'er Day (1) 75c; week |3.50; month $14.00 
 and up. Per Day (2), $1.50; week, $7.00; month 
 $30.00 and up. Breakfast served to rooms 7 to 12. 
 
 Cumberland Phone 3470-W. 
 
 EMILE KUNrZ, Hanager. New Orleans, La 
 
 HOUSE PAINTKR 
 
 BEST 
 
 SIGN PAINTER 
 
 WORK 
 
 FRESCO PAINTER 
 
 
 PAPER HANGER 
 
 LOWEST 
 
 DECORATOR. 
 
 PRICES 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 TOl 
 
 628 
 NE 
 
 C 
 
 BY HART 
 
 COMMERCIAL PLACE, 
 \V ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 umb. Phone 2680- W. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 .♦ii.^*j2:..&-^«*l'<i 
 
 ■^!^^k^^^ 
 
 108 — 
 
MR. CHARLES ROSEN. 
 
 This gentleman is one of the most conspicuous of 
 the 3-ounger members of the New Orleans bar. He 
 has already built up a lucrative practice. He was 
 formerly a member of the firm of Florance & Rosen 
 and his services as a public speaker are in general 
 demand. His merit and ability certainly commend 
 him for mention among the representative men of the 
 Jewish race in New Orleans. 
 
 Mr. Rosen is a native of the State. He was born in 
 Bayou Sara in 1872, which makes him 32 this year. 
 He acquired the educational rudiments in the place of 
 birth and was then sent to an academy at Port Gib- 
 son, Miss., nearby. That was in '86-87. He thus 
 secured one of four scholarships for Tulane. The 
 next year, '88, he led his 
 class and won the class 
 scholarship the next year. 
 On graduation four years 
 later with the B. A. de- 
 gree, he was one of the 
 four commended by the 
 authorities for "special 
 distinction" and was one 
 of the commencement ora- 
 tors as well. 
 
 During his college 
 course Mr. Rosen was an 
 acknowledged leader 
 among the debaters of 
 the college literarj' soci- 
 ety, the Glendy Burke, 
 and was editor and man- 
 ager of the College Mag- 
 azine, the Tulane "Colle- 
 gian." He won the Glendy 
 Burke Societ}' medal with 
 his essay on the "Dram- 
 atic Unities," and the 
 Judah Touro historical 
 medal with two theses, 
 
 viz: "The Life and Character of Philip of Macedon" 
 and the "Life and Times of Mithridates. His essay 
 "The Rise, Influence and Decline of Chivalry" won 
 the Glendy Burke English Essay Medal of '91 and 
 was the onh' one the Faculty considered worthy this 
 established reward in six years. 
 
 Mr. Rosen began the study of law upon gradu tion 
 in 1892 meantime instructing private classes and as- 
 sisting in the Tulane Summer School. He was vale- 
 dictorian of his law class. 
 
 As a lecturer he is highly popular. His talents are 
 eminently oratorical and literary. His address to 
 the B'nai B'rith of Montgomery, Ala., on the subject 
 "The Position of the American Jewish Youth to- 
 day" has been repeated before other bodies by request 
 
 several times. He is regarded by many one of the 
 coming men of the profession he has taken up, the 
 exceptional brilliancy of his attainments and career 
 hitherto auguring for him an uncommon measure of 
 reputation. 
 
 CtlARLBS ROSEN 
 
 DR. GEORGE KREEGER. 
 
 Of the younger medical men of New Orleans, Dr. 
 George Kreeger has been one of the most successful, 
 very likel}' because he was one of the best prepared 
 when he started to practice He had received an ex- 
 cellent yenernl education and was a graduate of Tu- 
 lane University when he took the special course of 
 that institution preparatory to the study of medicine. 
 
 After serving a year as 
 resident student in Touro 
 Infirmary, a position only 
 to be won through a com- 
 petitive examination he 
 graduated in medicine 
 with honors in 1892, but 
 tho' fully qua'ified then 
 for practice he concluded 
 to pursue his studies fur- 
 ther and thus thoroughly 
 ground himself. Accord- 
 ingly he went abroad and 
 spent nearly two years in 
 the hospitals and noted 
 medical institutions of 
 Paris, Vienna and London 
 so that on his return to 
 this his native city, ten 
 years or so ago, patron- 
 age and reputation rapid- 
 ly came to him. His skill 
 particularly in his spec- 
 ialty diseases of the skin 
 is known, and his success 
 as we have intimated is 
 marked. 
 
 Dr. Kreeger has been a 
 member of the Young 
 Men's Hebrew Associa- 
 tion for many years. He has also been a director of 
 it. rie is a contributor to the Jewish charities and an 
 observer of Jewish tenets. He married in 1896, Miss 
 Delia Straus of Columbus, Ga. 
 
 MR. JOS. L. CAIN. 
 Mr. Cain is the son of L B. Cain, one of the organ- 
 izers and first president of Touro Infirmary. He is a 
 merchant of prominence in the wholesale grocery line, 
 a partner in the house of Lazare Levy & Co. He is a 
 native of the city, brought up and educated here, and 
 a consistent and conscientious supporter of Jewish 
 doctrine. In many of the good works of his people 
 he is an active participant, Touro Infirmary and the 
 Orphans Home especially. Particularly is he inter- 
 ested in the Y. M. H. A., of which institution he has 
 been a director. 
 
 109 
 
7c-^ vci^ Joiy^ ^c o^ yc"^ 7c-^ ^o^ 
 
 >^^ Ti;^ «;%t /6o-t;«!^i»#:*5^* 
 
 Ipatnts, Xcai>0, 
 Ipaintcrs Supplies, 
 3Brusbc6, ©il6, 
 Etc., Etc. 
 
 TOIliii&owanD plate 
 ©lass, Shviligbt, 
 CbippcO, 0roun&. 
 CatbeOral 
 JFlcrentiuc. 
 ©rnamental an5 
 Brt C5las6. 
 
 3BcvelcMIMatc an5 
 /HMrrors. 
 /IRemcrlal aiiD 
 Jf iciurcC> 'UHlnCiovvs 
 a SpcdaltB. 
 
 >?cK. J6^ ;*6ot ?&^ !?6o'^ ioci^ i*^ 
 
 >(i^ %^ ** *;^ i?;^. i«:* ^^ 
 
 ^■k *9C ¥-*; >S-K -is-oi: 5^0(; ^'JC 
 
 JOS. WECKERLING, PRESIDENT. 
 GEO. STAHLER, SECRETARY. 
 
 CONTRACTS TAKEN 
 FOR GLAZINGj*^j*,a« 
 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Office and Factory, 
 Nos 309-319 Lafayette Street, 
 
 CUMBERLAND 2352 L. 
 
 Retail Store and Show Rooms, 
 No. 347 Carondelet Street, 
 
 CUMBERLAND 2386 V. 
 
 STANDARD BEER 
 
 is brewed from the choicest of Malt 
 and select Bohemian Hops. 
 
 7 he Bottling Department is an 
 up-to-date plant, being equipped ivith 
 the latest improved machinery, and 
 its sanitary arrangements cannot be 
 improved upon. The Standard Bottle 
 and Keg Beer is equal if not superior 
 to any other Beers on the market. 
 
 The public is invited to visit our 
 plant situated at Nos. 514-532 South 
 Johnson Street, Ne^w Orleans, La. 
 
 ESTABLISHED FOR NEARLY 
 HALF A CENTURY. 
 
 A.M.&J.Solari, 
 
 LIMITED. 
 
 Importing 
 Grocers 
 
 And Wine 
 Merchants 
 
 201, 207, 209 Royal Street, 
 
 703, 707, 711, 713, 715 Customhouse St- 
 
 ({ Branch, St. Charles and Louisiana Avenues. 
 
 New Orleans. 
 
 
 ■^^<^~"'^'~ «^ "T^ 
 
 Albert Beau, 
 
 Successor to E. L SCHLIEDER. 
 IMPORTER OF 
 
 Choice Havana Cigars, 
 
 Cor. Carondelet ^ Opposite 
 
 and Gravier ll > Gjtton Exchange 
 
 Streets. 
 
 New Orleans- 
 
 ALWAYS ON HAND 
 
 A Large Stock of Tampa, Key West 
 
 and DOMESTIC CIGARS- 
 
 
 "ST"" "^ m- «^' 
 
 T-^% 
 
 — 110 
 
DR. A. L. METZ. 
 
 It is something- surel3\ to have reached a well- 
 merited distinction in earlj- manhood; to be known 
 far and wide as a chemist of the first order, and con- 
 sulted as to important cases from all parts of the 
 country. To have attained prominence as a patho- 
 logist and success as a specialist in medical practice. 
 
 This is the record of our subject; yet not all in- 
 deed, with which he is to be credited. For he has 
 risen to this rank and reputation alone and unaided. 
 "To Dr. Metz," says a sketch of him, from which we 
 may quote, "is truly a self-made man. His early life 
 was one of hardship. It was in fact a struggle for 
 subsistence. No one knows what sacrifices he was 
 obliged to make. Happily for him he was endowed, 
 not only with a vigorous intellect but with that pluck 
 which will not down. In- 
 domitable is the word 
 best applicable to his 
 character. This is high 
 praise but well deserved. 
 
 Dr. Metz is just turn- 
 ing 40. He is a graduate 
 of the New York College 
 of Pharmacy and has the 
 degrees of both the phar- 
 maceutical and medical 
 departments of Tulane. 
 He has been chemist for 
 the city of New Orleans, 
 and for the State Board 
 of Health of Louisiana. 
 He had achieved reputa- 
 tion as a chemist before 
 he was 30. His services 
 were in demand both pri- 
 vately and publicly. He 
 was called into the inves- 
 tigation of important 
 criminal cases, of poison- 
 ing cases, often, for ex- 
 ample. In his specialty, stomach trouble, he is a 
 leading medico of the cit}-. His success in his chosen 
 field was crowned when he was chosen Professor of 
 practical chemistry in Tulane University, one of the 
 most important institutions of learning in the South. 
 And with such an indefatigable worker, still in the 
 noontide of his powers, it is unlikely that he has yet 
 reached the summit of his career. 
 
 Dr. Metz has achieved a considerable measure of 
 material as well as professional prosperit}'. He is 
 happily married, his wife being Miss Cicely Marx of 
 a well-known New Orleans family. His home is in 
 Rosa Park in the fashionable up-town residence quar- 
 ter of the city. 
 
 MR. LAZARE LEVY. 
 Mr. Levy is of Lazare Levy & Co., wholesale 
 grocers of 410 Tchoupitoulas street, a line in which he 
 has been engaged here since 1888. He is the Treasurer 
 of the Harmony Club of New Orleans, the "swell" 
 club of the Jewish residents. He is also well-known 
 in the New Orleans Board of Trade; is a director of 
 it in fact. He is a contributing member of Touro 
 Infirmary and the Jewish Orphans' Home. He also 
 belongs to the I. O. B. B , and the local young Men's 
 Hebrew Association. 
 
 Mr. Levy is a man of middle age, born in Stras- 
 bourg, (Alsace), in the old French days, but came to 
 this country still a youth. Here his first commercial 
 experience was as clerk in a general store in Opelou- 
 sas, St. Landry Parish, La. From the country he 
 
 graduated, like so many 
 of our successful men of 
 affairs, into the whole- 
 sale business of the city. 
 Needless to say he has 
 been highly successful. 
 
 Mr. Levy's personal 
 popularity is indicated in 
 the official positions he 
 holds, and so also is il- 
 71 lustrated in great meas- 
 
 ure the estimation in 
 which his business abil- 
 ities are held. Christian 
 and Jew alike we see re- 
 spect him, which is some- 
 thing certainly to be 
 proud of. Mr. Levy is 
 married, has a family and 
 lives and dispenses hos- 
 pitality to his friends in 
 one of the fine homes of 
 the old Garden district 
 of the city. 
 
 DM. A. L. HETZ 
 
 JOSEPH W. MOSES. 
 
 Mr. Moses is one of 
 the younger element of 
 business men of the Cres- 
 cent City. He is still on 
 the sunny side of forty, and generally known as a 
 member of the wholesale and importing crockery 
 firm, Abe Mayer & Co., 530 Common street a leader 
 in its line. 
 
 He is a New Orleans man by birth, raising and 
 schooling. He began first as clerk with Katz & Bar- 
 nett in the notions business and remained with that 
 house about two years. Since then (about fifteen 
 years) he has been in crockery. 
 
 Mr. Moses devotes himself largely to business. So- 
 cial duties occupy but little of his leisure. He is 
 however a member of the Masonic Order, and of the 
 Harmony Club, the club of the elite of the Jewish 
 residents, maintaining what is unquestionably the 
 most sumptuous and richly appointed club-house of 
 the city. He is also a contributor to the Jewish 
 charities and a staunch supporter, we need scarcely 
 add, of the institutions and faith of his fathers. 
 
 — Ill 
 
H. SOPHIE! NBNA/COMB 
 
 Memorial College, Lomsfi^Nr''®' I for women I 
 
 Founded by Josephine Newcomb, 
 Organized October, 1887- 
 
 ^?* ^* ^* 
 
 REGULAR and SPECIAL 
 Colleg-e Course of Studj'. 
 The Colleg-e Hall, Chapel, 
 Art Building-, Laboratories 
 and other buildings are 
 beautifully- situated in the 
 choice residence portion of 
 the city. Facilities for in- 
 struction in Oil and Water 
 Color, China Painting, 
 Modeling, Design, Architec- 
 tural and Other Drawing, 
 Wood Drawing, etc. An ex- 
 cellent Library. Gymnasium, 
 Pottery and other facilities 
 are furnished. Excellent 
 Boarding Department. 
 
 Ssnd rorenTHLOGUB. 
 
 _ ji^ •^•j-j- -a^-a^a^ a^a^s^ •S'-s-^ -s^-a^ a- -^ v 
 
 58^ •■^^•.^'•■^ •^•^■^ •^■:^-^ ■^•^'^'^'^'^ ^-Vi 
 
 1^< 
 
 |k GEO. BHQUIE 
 
 9^ 
 
 President, 
 
 W P. GKEEIV. 
 
 Vice President 
 
 I 
 
 % W. B. fireen Photo Supply Co., | 
 
 « .„ % 
 
 1^ 
 
 LIMITED. 
 
 /jy 141 Baronne Street, i\ew Orleans. ?K 
 
 4> 
 
 h 
 
 Everything Photographic 
 
 o FOR o 
 
 Professional or Amateur 
 
 HEADQUARTERS FOR 
 
 Hi) 
 
 § EASTMAN KODAKS and FILMS \f/ 
 
 iiv Artistic Picture Framing. ^I^ 
 
 /Is Developing and Printing for Amateurs. \f/ 
 \^^,^.^. ,.,.,.^.,.^.,.,.,.,.^ 
 
 I Marshall J. Smith & Co. I 
 
 I 
 
 JjJ I General Insurance 
 
 ^j> Underwriters & Lloyds Agents. 
 
 /J\ 309 BARONNE STREET, 
 
 -is 
 (Us 
 
 % 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 
 -112— 
 
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- 
 wise in his domestic affairs. He has been happily 
 married for man}' years. His wife was Miss Rosa 
 Rose of Memphis. They have an interesting family. 
 Mr. Moss is a subscriber to all the Jewish charities. 
 He takes an especially active interest in the Young 
 Men's Hebrew Association of which he is a member. 
 
 HARTWIQ MOSS. 
 
 CHARLES SIMON. 
 
 MR. CHARLES SIMON. 
 
 Words of encomium surely are those in which a 
 certain Jewish journal speaks of our present subject. 
 Mr. Charles Simon, formerly a merchant of the city 
 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 
 family of several daughters and sons. 
 
 — 113 
 
NOVELTY WOOD WORKS, | T 
 
 Nos. 333-335 Girod St. Nia£j;choupitouU^s^ 
 
 H. W. WEGENER, Cabinet Maker, Prop. 
 I value the Jewish Trade HIGHLY and I WANT 
 IT. Send for me before you place your order for Office 
 Fixtures or any Cabinet Work. I will call on you 
 personally and give you prices that will convince you 
 that I MEAN WHAT I SAY. 
 
 H. W, WEGENER. 
 
 I W. F, KLUMPP & CO., I 
 
 {!> Cotton & Cotton Seed Products f 
 W (lis 
 
 •*• COMMISSION MERCHANTS. /{\ 
 
 /.^^ New Orleans, La. W 
 
 THE RED WjTZ 
 
 CAFE = RESTAURANT, 
 
 632-634 COMMON ST. 
 
 The Anheuser-Busch Brewing- Association 
 ORIGINAL BUDWEISER 
 On Draught. 
 
 Phoneslifw 
 
 ROOM 35, 
 
 Sugar Shed A 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1 868. 
 
 WIL. H. DOUGLAS 
 
 Forwarding Agent 
 
 ^Drayage and Cartage Contractor .jt 
 
 Superior facilities for quick and cheap transportation 
 
 Member New Orleans Board of Trade, Ltd . 
 
 Louisiana Sugar and Rice Exchange. 
 
 \ MAGEE & DOW. 
 
 SPRING BEDS, 
 
 K 
 
 I MATTRESSES & COTS, I 
 
 Race and Tchoupitoulas Sts, 
 
 Telephone Main 3857. New Orleans, La. 
 
 ? 
 
 she] 
 
 ar> 
 
 ESTABLISHED J 885. 
 
 tS? 
 
 F. CODMAN FORD 
 
 ^ J- AGENT FOR J- J- 
 
 ■^ BUILDING S PECIA LT I E S 3^- 
 
 Office and Show Room 306 Baronne St. 
 Telephone Mafn 4329. Ji Jt NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 KKPRKSENTiNG— Nnrtbwestern Terra CoUa Co, Pioneer Fire ProoUng Co 
 
 Hydraulic Press Brick Co, Akron Roofing Tile Co. Illinois Steel Co., 
 (Cement Dcpt.) Missouri Fire Hrick Co. Kinnear Manufacturing Co. 
 Star K.ncausiic Tile I'o. 
 
 o SAMPLES, CATALOGUES AND ESTIMATES FURNISHED o 
 
 * 
 
 (Si 
 9i 
 
 9> 
 9i 
 
 LYNN FILTERS 
 
 
 Manufacturers Lighting Fixtures 
 
 $ Highest Grade Sanitary Plumbing. 
 
 9i 
 * 
 
 * 
 
 C C HARTWELL. 
 
 213 BARONNE STREET. 
 
 
 
 114 
 
 THE 
 
 Connor Piano, 
 
 i.'i a thoroughly well made 
 Piano from every stand 
 point full toned and artistic, 
 known for their great 
 durability as their con- 
 stant use in this City for 
 the last twenty years testi- 
 fies and are sold on easy 
 monthly payments at 
 
 John Schwab's Music House 
 lOisenNnu st. 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
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 
 kindly disposition and therefore popular a^ well as 
 respected. He is blessed with a family, has a fine 
 home on Prytania street, one of the fashionable resi- 
 dence thoroughfares of the Creole city, and is agree- 
 ably situated in all the relations of life. 
 
 I. W. ASMNER. 
 
 MR. I. W. ASHNER. 
 
 MA.NHRLD MEYER. 
 
 What's in a name, says the old saw. Well in some 
 not much to be sure. But in this of Ashner, — espec- 
 ially in Jewish circles in New Orleans, — there is much 
 to commend it. To the business community also it 
 is known, 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 in 1900 was chosen its pres- 
 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 
 his co-religionists carries weight. 
 
 — 115 — 
 
GEORGE A. VILLERE, PresBent. .j*^jiJ* TELEPHONE MAIN No 1745 
 
 Cloverlands Dairy Farm, LL"iLted 
 
 ST. BERNARD PARISH, LA. 
 
 POST OFFICE I 
 
 TELEGRAPH ' 
 
 EXPRESS AND i 
 
 SHIPPING POINT } 
 
 Station '*F/' New Orleans, La. 
 
 Purest Drinking Water. 
 
 Purified and Sterilized by ELECTRICITY. 
 
 Electra Water Company, 
 
 LIMITED 
 Comb. Phone Main J949. 709-7tI CAMP STREET. 
 
 lU) — 
 
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 
 
 SAM BLUM. 
 
 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 
 was educated at the Hebrew Educational Institute of 
 
 117 
 
F. A. GONZALES^ SON, 
 
 Importer of Choice 
 
 CI 
 
 a 
 
 S HAVANA CIGARS, ^ 
 
 221 Carondclet Street, 
 
 V 
 
 .J* Jt NEW ORLEANS, LA. jt 
 
 
 ST. CLAIR'S CAFE, 
 
 J* L. ST. CLAIR, Proprietor, J* 
 
 Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars, 
 
 Celebrated Mistake Cocktail. 
 
 Shipped to all Parts U. S. Hot Lunch Daily, Fi( m 10 A. M. Ic J P. M 
 
 426 COMMON STREET, 
 
 Cumberland Phone 272J-W. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Cumberland Telephone iWam No. 31. 
 
 N. A. WOODDY. 
 
 t5!5 Steam Box Manufacturer, «^ 
 
 Wood and Paper Boxes of Every 
 
 ^ DESCRIPTION. J^ 
 
 Nos.534,536&538St Louis St. Nj^lQ^^j^^ 
 
 The Only Electric Dye Works In The South. 
 
 ^ BONTEMPS .^ 
 
 ^ Electric Dyeing and Scouring Establishment.^ 
 JOHN MAN DOT, Prop. 
 Main Office and Works, 814 Poydras Street. 
 
 a 1 2 BOUKBON ST. 
 
 Near Cusioruhouse. 
 
 BRANCH ( >FFIC;KS: 
 
 I 1H-J3 MagHziue St 
 
 I lict. Felicity and St. Mary. 
 
 c. — N^'.^\■ OKI ,1<'.A N-.-i. I^A. .' 
 
 Blankets and White Woolens Cleaned, Ne^ir Sulphur Process. 
 I'ACKAGES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED FREE OP CHARGE 
 
 HENRY RODER, 
 
 j» J* Established {8S8 J* J» 
 
 \;> Wholesale Jeweler, 
 
 Importer Diamonds, 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 238 CHARTRES ST. New Orleans, La- ,, 
 
 
 K i 
 
 ^. 
 
 ADAMS 
 
 THE 
 
 HATTER 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 
 
 SPECIAL ATTENTION 
 
 GIVEN TO 
 
 SAW MILL. 
 PLANTATION AND 
 OFFICE STATIONERY. 
 
 f t 
 
 SPECILATIES; 
 
 BONDS, CERTIFICATES, 
 EXCHAN(!F.S, DRAFTS, 
 CHKCKS. LE'l'TER 
 NOTE AND HILL HEADS 
 
 THOS. J. MORAN, 
 
 Stationer, Printer, Lithographer 
 
 o AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER o 
 
 615 AND 617 COMMON ST., 
 
 TELEPHONE 257--R. UET. CAMP AND ST. CHARLES. 
 
 JSrK;\V ORI.TT.AIVS. I>A 
 
 YOUR TRaOE WILL BE HIGHLY VnLUBU. 
 
 The A. H. White Co., Ltd. 
 
 530 and 532 GRAVIER ST. 
 ^ Gravel and Shell Roofing-, 
 
 Sanitary and Tar Concrete Floors, Tarred and Asphalt Ready 
 Roofing, Asbestos Materials, Steam Pipe and Boiler Covering. 
 
 No Materials th;it. lto inr.o the con.^truction of a bnildintc are 
 more iuipiirtHiit. TiiHii t.iidst' we ijandie- Yftu cannot jiive too 
 much consideration to tlie matter of tlieir selection. It will 
 pay you to give our stoclc and workmansliip consideration, we 
 iiaudle nolliiiig but the very best. 
 
 — 118 
 
wenty-five years or more ag-o, and in the public 
 schools of the cit3\ His business career beg-an at an 
 early ag-e. For fifteen years or more he has been 
 with the famous house of Julius Weis & Co , cotton 
 factors and commission merchants in an import:int 
 position. He is also in business on his own account. 
 Mr. Aletrino is married. He is a member of the 
 Touro Infirmary and of the I. O. B. B. He is a Past 
 President of Jas. K. Gutheim Lodg'e No. 439, and has 
 also been its deleg'ate to the Grand Lodg-e. He is a 
 member also of the Southern Yacht Club and has 
 been connected with the Washington Artillery for a 
 number of years. He is also a member of the Knights 
 of Pythias Virginius Lodge No. 48. 
 
 MR. ABE MAYER. 
 
 From the viewpoint of 
 most capable services ren- 
 dered the commercial and 
 social interests of New 
 Orleans Mr. Abe Mayer 
 eminently deserves the 
 position he has attained 
 by force of his personality 
 and individuality. He 
 was born in Kallstadt, 
 Germany, in 1833. There 
 in his childhood he re- 
 ceived a rudimentary edu- 
 cation. He severed man}- 
 tender assoiiations on 
 coming direct to the State 
 at the age of fourteen. 
 Here, in Clinton, La., he 
 beg"an his career, a career 
 need we add, which has 
 led to affluence. 
 
 The youth merged into 
 the ambitious young- man 
 and then the business 
 
 man of character and enterprise, enjoj'ingf the un- 
 limited confidence of the people of that section. A 
 strenuous laborer in the upbuilding; of the many in- 
 terests of Clinton and vicinity he helped to bring the 
 pretty "Inland City" conspicuously before the com- 
 mercial world. 
 
 Later, thoroughly experienced by his efforts in 
 Clinton, Mr. Mayer attracted by its advantages as a 
 commercial center, came to New Orleans. It is nearly 
 three decadi^s of years since the firm of "Mayer & 
 Stratton" was launched. It proved a highly success- 
 ful venture. During- this time Mr. Mayer gfave at- 
 tention even to the most minute details of an ever 
 increasing and prosperous business, a trade exclu- 
 
 sively in crockery, especially imported articles in 
 that line. 
 
 When this old and honored firm was dissolved Mr. 
 Mayer continued the business, solely controlling its 
 interests. To him for nearly thirty years its pros- 
 perity has been a matter of pride and it as well an en- 
 terprise most creditable to the Crescent City. 
 
 As a man enamored with New Orleans, one who 
 has striven to place it among the galaxy of foremost 
 cities in the United States, Mr. Mayer has always 
 advocated and been aligned with every measures for 
 its improvement. 
 
 While practical and eminently worthy of the dis- 
 tinction he enjoys as a business man, Mr. Mayer is 
 
 devoted to such fraternal 
 and social amenities as 
 are the "salt of life." He 
 has been an ardent mem- 
 ber of the B'nai B'rith 
 and naturally is devoted 
 to its work, especially in 
 charitable fields. As a 
 member of the Associa- 
 tion for the Relief of 
 Jewish Widows and Or- 
 phans and the Touro 
 Infirmary and Hebrew 
 Benevolent Association 
 he has rendered marked 
 service and has served 
 these splendid bodies on 
 their directorates and as 
 committeeman also. 
 
 This work in fact, has 
 been at once a hobby and 
 duty,— almost a passion 
 indeed- and to it he has 
 devoted both his money 
 and time. 
 The Harmony Club has profited too by his zeal 
 and executive capacity. Besides being one of its 
 most active members he has served it for several 
 successive years as President and during his official 
 term the far famed club attained much of its pres- 
 tige. 
 
 Genial and kindly, according all men a courteous 
 hearing, whether "princes or paupers," Mr. Mayer 
 may be cited as one who is "everybody's friend," a 
 man well meriting indeed, the consideration and re- 
 gard bestowed upon him and, in private life, his in- 
 teresting family, who, likewise enjoy a prominent 
 position in Jewish social circles. 
 
 119 — 
 
il- -i' :> vl' v> 'u v: C;* '<• '••^ ■:- ^ ^-C' t^ •:• ^i 
 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 ©«©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 
 © 9 © © © © © © © © © © © © © © 
 ©©©©©©©©*©©©©©©» 
 ©«©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 ©©©©©©©©©::©© ©©© 
 
 ©©©©©©©a©©*©©©©© 
 
 © © © »©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © 
 
 ©a©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
 ©©©©©©a©©©©©©©©© 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©*©©©© 
 
 ©©©©©©©©©©ti ©©©v.© 
 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©e©©©© 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oei>erai Jllaryager 
 
 
 ' ( z 
 1 v.( 
 
 ©t 1 t,i,! 
 
 
 
 
 J. STECKLER SEED CO., 
 
 LIMITED 
 Successors to RICHARD FROTSCHER. 
 
 Dealers in Vegetable, Flower, 
 Field and Grass 
 
 Seed^: 
 
 Kloweiinj; Plants, 
 Bnllis ami I""ruit 
 'I'li'es. Breeders 
 (if l''ancy Poultry 
 Pif^eons, Kalibits, 
 Ktc. Rose lUishes, 
 Palms, ('hrysaii- 
 tliennuiis. Ferns, 
 I'.tc. Ktc. 
 Copyrighted by J. S. S. CO J* J* 
 
 Store, 518 to 526 GRAVIER STREET, 
 Warehouse, 306 to 312 Bank Place, 
 
 Nurserv, (JaiUen nnd Poultry Farm. 
 
 3402 to 3412 Esplanade St., Opp. St. Louis Cemetery. 
 
 Cumberland Teleptuine Main li-'. P. O Drawer 463. 
 
 Seeds Our Specialty. ^ NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 ^C \ 
 
 ARNAUD^S 
 
 Hotel and Restaurant, 
 
 (FRENCH COOKING) 
 
 MISSISSIPPI CITY. 
 
 A. ARNAUD, 
 
 Confectioner and Caterer 
 
 Corner St. Charles Ave. and Polymnia St. 
 Phone J517 Main. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 ) 
 
 120 
 
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 J. Rosenberg 
 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. 
 
 We present herewith a half-tone portrait of this 
 energetic and enterprising character; a young man 
 already accounted one of the leading merchants of 
 Canal street. 
 
 UU5> MAYER. 
 
 E. OFFNER, 
 
 MR. E. OFFNER. 
 
 The house of E. Offner is a leading one in the 
 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 
 men of the Jewish race in New Orleans. 
 
 121 — 
 

 JOS. VOEGTLE, Proprietor. 
 
 EUROPEAN PLAN. 
 
 ^M 
 
 sStSS) 
 
 ©»* 
 
 Cosmopolitan jlotel, 
 
 
 124-126-128 BOURBON STREET, 
 
 t2J, 123, 125 ROYAL STREET 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 ^$^i$i$l$l$i$-$-t».^»$^$i$^$Sd:$i$|$$|$$$Si»|$^3«««$:$$:^$;$^««$;«$$««$:S$«$$«S^^^^ 
 
 BOBET BROS, 
 
 ^'»$9-$7&€$^di9di97$^$$$i$$i$.'$i$S$;$.9>$ 
 
 %# 
 
 r$^*s^eee*«««s^ss*$$!*r-$^«e«$-«e«&6 
 
 i>tv 
 
 fli Iji) 
 
 * 
 
 I TELEPHONE 827. 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 OAK STAVES 
 
 For Foreign Export 
 
 1707 SOUTH PETERS STREET. 
 
 '9«&s^&s^$&7«ee«€$$i«6««@6€<@««$^$i$^««&&««««!$-$fd.'$i9i9i$S'*-»4»s.'9!i;i$d-»!»s-9i$i$se' 
 
 « 
 
 Or 
 
 Or 
 
 * 
 
 ,;-*^ 
 
 — 122 - 
 
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 
 Braughn, Buck, Dinkelspiel & Hart, a firm to which 
 many important interests corporate and private were 
 entrusted, and of which two members at least, have 
 g-raced the Bench. 
 
 He has ever had an open hand and warm heart for 
 the local charities and has been an active spirit in a 
 number of the local fraternal bodies. He is a member 
 of the Y. M. H. A. and of the Harmony Club; a mem- 
 ber and high official of the L O. B. B.; a member and 
 liberal contributor to Touro Infirmary and the Jewish 
 Orphans' Home of New Orleans, and is prominent in 
 the Congregation Temple Sinai. 
 
 ALFRED MILLER. 
 
 MK. alfrp:d hiller. 
 
 A saying there is which has the force and currency 
 almost of proverb, remarking^ how very largely the 
 class of noted city men has always been recruited from 
 the country. On second thought this seems a fact 
 easy to account for: The country breeds health and 
 strength and sterling character, and these develop en- 
 ergy and natural ability when city-ward transplanted. 
 
 New Orleans at all event as the Southern metropo- 
 lis, draws to it like a loadstone the best brain and 
 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 — 
 
Garcia Stationery Co», Ltd* 
 
 JOS. GARCIA. President and Manager. 
 
 Blank Book Manufacturers 
 
 AND PRINTERS. 
 
 PAPER DEALERS, j» .* 
 
 High Class Commercial Work Our Specialty 
 
 3 J8 CAMP STREET. New Orleans. La, 
 
 Stewant's Water Filters, 
 
 CAPACITY UNLIMITED. 
 
 Handsome Chandeliers & Plumbing W ork. 
 216 and 218 BOURBON ST., 
 
 .. Country or City Trade Solicited. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. ) 
 
 ONLY THE BEST. 
 
 '1 
 
 P. H. JENSEN'S 
 
 ,^^ Pharmacy^ ^^ 
 
 { 
 
 Cor. St. Charles and Girod Streets, )) 
 
 'i PRICES MODERATE. New Orleans. La. 
 
 J. C. SMITH, 
 
 <^ HSH5SSH55HSHSHSHSH5H5HSH5HSHSaSH5H5H5>> 
 
 L. Uter's Heirs, 
 
 .MANTKACTrRKKS OF 
 
 French Plate Mantel and Pier Mirrors, 
 
 Window Curtain Cornices. Portait .nnd Picture 
 Frames in all their Variety. Old Loolving-Glass 
 Plates Re-Silvered. Old Frames Kefiilt. 'leaning. 
 KenovatiiiK and Repairinsr of Old Paintings 
 Attended lo. Finest collections of Rare Water 
 Colors, Etcliinijs and Enaravings, Bisiiueaiid Bronze 
 Statues, Pedestals and Easels. 
 
 ^o. 233 ROYAL STREET, New Orleans, La, 
 
 'J 
 
 COMMANDER'S 
 
 Aromatic Bitters 
 Best Cocktail 
 
 0^ ^0^ On The Market. 
 
 A. Commander, Sole Prop. 
 308 MAGAZINE ST New Orleans, La. 
 
 W. W. GIRAULT, 
 BROIvKR, 
 
 } i 
 
 Stocks, Bonds, Mortgages, Real Estate. 
 
 i 
 
 Ground Floor, Hennen Building', 
 
 8 12 COMMON STREET. 
 
 New Orleans 
 
 Old Ruby Cocktails., ♦♦ 
 
 wm^- 
 
 Shirt Maker. 
 
 No. 131 Carondelet St., 
 
 n UP-STAIRS. o 
 
 Are carefully blended of the 
 most select liciuors money 
 can buy. They have a dis- 
 tinctive flavor that lias made 
 them famous iu ten states. 
 
 They are put up in 
 
 ftuart bottles at - $1.00 each 
 
 Pint bottles at - 50 cents 
 
 Half Pint bottle at - 25 cents 
 
 Blended Exclusively at 
 
 The"OIdRub/^ 
 
 610-612 Common S t , Ntw Orleans 
 
 THKE OR SBND HQMB a BOTTLE. 
 
 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 
 Jewish fraternal and charitable organizations. He 
 belongs to the Y. M. H. A., to Touro, and the Jewish 
 Widows' and Orphans' Home. He is also a member 
 of the Godchaux Beneficial Association, and of the 
 Progressive Union of New Orleans, one of the live- 
 liest of the city's public bodies. 
 
 QUSTAVH LfcHHANN, Sr. 
 
 MR. GUSTAVE LEHMANN, Sk. 
 
 The portrait herewith shows the head of the house 
 of A. Lehmann & Co., the largest wholesale dr}' goods 
 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 — 
 
r 
 
 R. H. DOWNMAN, 
 
 Nos. 1003, 1004 and 1005 Hibernia Bank Building. New Orleans, La. 
 
 IVIANUFACTURER 
 
 Louisiana Red Cypress 
 
 Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Etc. 
 
 OPERATING THE FOLLOWING MILLS 
 
 Bowie Lumber Co., Ltd. 
 
 BOWIt. LOUISIANA. 
 
 Annual Capacity. Lumber 30 Million ft. Sliingle.s 7,5 Million 
 
 PRllUUCT— Lumber, Sbingles. Laths, Mouldings, 
 Ceiling, Siding, Flooring, Timbers. Ties. Makes 
 a Specialty of Cypress Tanks and Tubs of All 
 Makes. 
 
 Jeanerette Lnmber & Shingle Co., Ltd. 
 
 JEAINERETTE LOUISIANA.. 
 
 Annual Capacity. Lumber IS Million ft. Shingles nO Million 
 
 PKOnUCT— Lumber, Shingles. Laths. Mouldings, 
 'eiling. Siding. Flooring. Timbers, Ties. Sash, 
 Doors, Blinds, Turned Work. Columns, Special 
 •Tob Work. 
 
 Iberia CypressCo., Ltd. 
 
 NEW IBEKIA, LOUISIANA. 
 
 A nnnal Capacity. liUmber IS Million ft. Shingles .5(1 Million 
 
 PRODUCT— Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Mouldings, 
 Ceiling, Siding, Flooring, Timbers, Ties, Cypress 
 Tanks and Tubs of All Grades. .lob Work a 
 Specialty 
 
 DesAllemands Lumber Company, Ltd. 
 
 ALLEHANDS, LA. 
 
 Annual Capacity, Lumber 15 Million ft. Shingles 100 Million 
 FKODUCT— Lumber, Shingles, Timbers and Ties 
 
 Whitecastle Lumber & Shingle Co., Ltd. 
 
 WHIIECASILE, LA. 
 
 PRODUCT— Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Mouldings, 
 
 Ceiling, Flooring. Siding, Ties, Timbers, Cypress 
 Tanks and Tubs, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Turned 
 Work, Columns. Special ,Tob Work. 
 
 THESE MILLS HAVE ABUNDANT DRY 
 KILN and PLANING MILL CAPACITY..* 
 
 Also Control the Output of the 
 
 Creole Cypress Co., Des Allemands, La. 
 
 OPDENWEYER CYPRESS CO., Ltd. 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 Send Orders to NewOrleailsOffJCeOr to Mills Direct 
 
 126 
 
MR. DAVID WOLBRETTE. 
 
 This g-entleman may be set down as one of the suc- 
 cessful business men and representative Israelites of 
 the Crescent City of to-day. He is president of the 
 Southern Paper Co., wholesale stationers and paper 
 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 
 brought up to mercantile business. He came to 
 America at nineteen in 1872, and for two years clerk- 
 ed in a store at Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, 
 La. He married in Plaquemine, Miss Hanna Moyse, 
 and remained there fifteen years before his removal 
 to New Orleans, to which he was attracted as a larger 
 and more profitable field than the country afforded 
 for business. Here as we have said he has been 
 eminently successful. 
 
 W^. " 1 
 
 SOLOnON HARX. 
 
 MR. SOLOMON MARX. 
 
 DAVID WOLBRETTE. 
 
 An admirable subject and character this, needing 
 no enhancement of fine or fulsome phraseology. 
 "Father Marx" they call him affectionately, those 
 who know him, and many besides not so intimately 
 acquainted. It is a designation speaking volumes, 
 earned by his labors in behalf of the poor Russian 
 exiles of sixteen or eighteen years ago, and by other 
 beneficences, "shining" as Shakespeare has it, "like a 
 good deed in a naughty world." His is a long and 
 worthy career now ripening into the Psalmists term 
 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 
 is now 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 
 every way worthy, and five sons and a daughter. 
 
 — 127 
 
THE 
 
 Shortest 
 Line 
 
 The Double Track Road 
 
 FROM NEW ORLEANS TO THE NORTH. 
 
 Two Superb Trains Daily to St. Louis, 
 
 Chicago, Louisville and Cincinnati. 
 
 Carrying Buffet Library Smoking Cars, Diners. Pullman Sleepers, 
 
 CHAIR CARS and COACHES. 
 
 Sum mer T ourist Tickets 
 
 TO ALL RESORTS NORTH, WEST and EAST. 
 EVERY COMFORT ON I. C. TRAINS. 
 
 Tickets to Every Part of the Country, 
 
 And Information Regarding Trip Anywhere. 
 
 City Ticket Office, No. 141 ST. CHARLES STREET. 
 
 EDWARD RODDY. 
 
 City Passenger Agent. 
 
 A. J. McDOUGALL, 
 
 Division Passenger Agent 
 
 S B. MITCHELL. 
 
 City Ticket Agent. 
 
 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 it alwaysdoes, for such a char- 
 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 is appreciated for his character and charity. 
 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. To 
 social concerns he has given but little attention, 
 preferring rather the domestic circle. His home 
 life has indeed alwa^'s been a happy one. 
 
 C. LAZARD. 
 
 CMAS. A. KAUFHAN. 
 
 MR. CHAS. A. KAUFMAN. 
 
 It needs no great knowledge of ])hysiognomy or 
 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. 
 
 — 129 
 
•^e^e^e^^e^.Jj&e^e^e^e^ 
 
 JULIUS GROETSCH, 
 
 IMPORTER AND DEALER IN 
 
 Wines and Liquors 
 
 JACKSON AVE and MAGAZINE ST. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA 
 TELEPHONE 50 
 
 ^^^^^^^t^fj^^^ 
 
 2(!.^i2!3»-"^r""'«^lS^!^.J23»'''^<i'^^^5s=:=^^ 
 
 
 E. SCHLUTER 
 
 AGENT 
 
 THE OTTO GAS AND GASOLINE 
 EN(iIXl<: WORKS. 
 
 Philaiieliil.la, Pa. 
 
 THE J. W. REEDY ELEVATOR 
 MFG. COMPANY, 
 
 Chicasd. III. 
 
 THE CHAMPION ELEVATOR 
 (iATE COMPANY, 
 
 Fori iVurih, Texas. 
 
 Room 703, Liverp.iol and Lonion and Globe BIdg. 
 
 Shop Phone 3144-12. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 ^^^^^^0^^^0^^3'^#'^^^ 
 
 
 PETER FABACHER 
 
 DRAYMAN 
 
 Office, No. 62 3 Commerce Street, 
 Telephone 36 1. New Orleans, La. 
 
 ^^c 
 
 New Orleans Stencil Works, 
 
 Hwruir. niu'<;ciKKi.; rt.'pneK.r. 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 Rubber Stamps, Stencils, 
 
 s K A I, s .\ XI) r. .\ iHi !■; s . 
 
 Kiblion, DatiTTfi mikI CanceliiiK Stwiup-^. Senls, Key and lia^jiiaKe 
 Checks Maile lo Order. Bnislie!* and Alpliabets all h^zes. 
 
 PTKXCIL P.A1XT5. 
 
 Quick Work. Low Prices. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
 
 Corner Magazine and Natchez Streets, 
 PHONE 2960- L J* J* NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 ^p)M^'#p(M(P^'pp5p(p@MlS#(P'#^^ 
 
 
 THOS. GRIFFIN. 
 
 CLOTHIER, HATTER and 
 GENTS' FURNISHER. 
 
 No. 629 CANAL STREET, 
 
 Bet Exchange Alley and Royal St. 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 lip 
 
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 
 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 
 Medical Society. A man in short of superior ability, 
 exemplar of the capacity ancl intellectual calibre of 
 the race. 
 
 BERNARD TITCHE. 
 
 MR. BERNARD TITCHE. 
 
 Among those who follow the law as a profession 
 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. 
 
 ~ 131 
 
^ J* BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1849. .* .* 
 
 
 The Bradstreet Co 
 
 Executive Office, 346-34S Broadway, New York. 
 
 Offices in tlie principal cities of the United 
 States, Canada, Cuba. Australia, and in London, 
 England, witli an estaV>lished list of correspon- 
 dents throughout the civilized world. 
 
 fkr'^.^M^.if.tJi'. 
 
 Represented throughout the European Continent by 
 INSTITUTE W. SCHIMMELPFENG. 
 
 H. C. HAILEY, Superintendent, 
 New Orleans Office, Morris Building, Camp & Canal Sts. 
 
 "1 
 
 — 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 also a member of the firm. He is a son of 
 the late A. Lehman founder of the house, and a 
 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 house of A. 
 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. 
 
 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 
 
M. F. DUNN 
 
 ^OEISTT. 
 
 Blank Book 
 
 rianufacturer, pC 
 
 C2I Qravier Street, 
 
 Between Camp and Magazine. 
 
 New Orleans. 
 
 We Can Make. 
 
 Hitchler-Beattie, 
 
 ^'- Portraitists t^ 
 
 Baronne St. & Theater Arcade. 
 
 . . MAX GUIRAUD . . 
 
 ' """■l^r^L HAVANJ and DOMESTIC CIOARS. 
 
 And Jobber of Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes, 
 
 826 CANAL STREET. 
 
 A Full Line of Clear Havana Cigars Always on Hand; 
 also Turkish Cig-arettes and Tobaco. 
 
 Established 30 Years. 
 
 A. HAGENI, 
 
 OLD PHILADELPHIA BAKERY AND 
 CONFECTION EI^Y, 
 
 1836 WASHINGTON AVE.. 
 Cor. Dryades Strtet,, New Orleans. 
 
 /^ 
 
 Wayand's Grocery, 
 
 ^ 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Gestae and Mrs. M P. Hogg, Props 
 
 C^ ^-t ^ DEALERS IN ^ ^ 
 
 [}j t^^Fancy and Staple Groceries^?* 
 
 S WINES AND LIQUORS, 
 
 S Nos. 2850 and 2854 St. Charles Ave. 
 
 tn o COR. SIXTH, 
 
 We have always appreciated JE\A ISH PATRONAGE 
 and that's why we insert this advertisement. 
 
 JACOB YOUNG, 
 
 No. 2050 Magazine St , 
 Cor. Josepbine NKVV OULKANS, 
 
 Repairing 
 Neatly Done. 
 
 Medals, Badges 
 
 and Monograms 
 
 Executed 
 
 in Latest Designs. 
 
 1)1 AMOisri )s. 
 
 Watches, Clocks, .Tewelry, Silver, 
 
 and Plated Ware. 
 — Opera Glasses and Spectacles. — 
 
 134 
 
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. 
 
 EDGAR n. CAHN. 
 
 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 
 with him. 
 
 135 - 
 

 %. 
 
 ELECTRICITY 
 
 The Best, Cheapest and most con- 
 venient for Power and Lighting. 
 You simply Press the Button. 
 Expert advice given without charge 
 
 No. 317 Baronne Street. 
 
 For COMFORT. 
 
 CONVENIENCE, 
 ECONOMY, 
 
 Gas Ranges, 
 Gas Heaters* 
 
 New Orleans Lighting Co., 
 
 Cor. Baronne & Common Sts. 
 
 -J 
 
 t 
 
 K 
 
 United Fruit Co.'s Steamship Lines 
 
 TO CENTRAL AND SOUTH^J^ 
 AMERICAN POINTS J^ ^ ^ |^ 
 
 Steamers sail from Illinois Central 
 Wharves, foot of 'I'halia Street. 
 
 For Belize, B. H., Puerto Barrios, Guat., and 
 Puerto Cortez, S. H. , every Thursday, 
 at 10 A. M. 
 
 For Port Limon, C. R every Friday at 10 A.M. 
 
 For Bocas Del Toro, every Friday at 10 A. M. 
 
 For Colon, Panama, every Friday at 10 A. M. 
 
 For Spanish Honduras, Coast Points and 
 Ceiba, Semi-weekly. 
 
 From Mobile, Ala., for Bocas del Toro, Weekly 
 
 Also additional sailing's for the above points. 
 No Freight received without orders. 
 
 (^w tp* t^* tJ* (J* t.?^ ^* 
 
 For further information as to Rates of Freiglit 
 or Passage, apply to 
 
 ^ 
 
 13 
 
 \ 
 
 M. J. DEMPSEY, Traffic Manager, 312 St. Charles Street. 
 
 — 136 — 
 
 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. 
 
 HAYER ISRAEL. 
 
 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 
 saying is, and self-contained. 
 
 137 
 

 
 
 
 RING UP 
 
 1401 Up-town 
 
 E. J. DIEZ 
 DRUGGISl' 
 
 Corner Magazine 
 and Peniston Sts. 
 
 And Order whatever you 
 need in the line of DRUGS, 
 PATENT MEDICINE, 
 TOILET ARTICLES, 
 CIGARS, ETC. 
 
 We send to your 
 place for PHKS- 
 mUPTIONSaiHl 
 (lelivertliem witli 
 (lispiitcli. 11 r 
 punctuality, fair 
 dealing and su- 
 perior goods ha\ (^ 
 made our busi- 
 ness and reputa- 
 tion grow. It 
 is to your advan- 
 tage to deal 
 where p r o f e s - 
 sional skill and 
 up to date busi- 
 ness methods are 
 the standard and 
 we solicit ymir 
 patronage uinler 
 that claim. 
 
 We are the manu- 
 facturers of till- 
 great SOUTH 
 A M K It 1 C; A N 
 ANT EXTKli- 
 MLVATOK and 
 other valuable 
 specialties. 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 H. J. ROBBEIRT, 
 
 Manufacturing Optician, 
 
 Hennen Bldg. 209 Carondelet St New Orleans. 
 
 ^ India S 
 
 rH5a.5HSaS55aSBSZSH5^ 
 nd, a suie cure for ™ 
 
 Smash Compoui 
 Rheumatism, (^out and Neuralgia 
 
 O MANUFACTUKED ANDSOLDONLY BY O 
 
 J.N. W. OTTO, ,. 
 
 ^ i_e:adi(njg cut ratf ^ 
 druggist, 
 
 % 
 
 N. W. Cor. Kainpart and Gravier Streets. 
 
 o MENA/ ORl_eA(MS. l_A. 1) 
 
 J 
 
 P o DEALER IN ii 
 
 } 
 
 I Fine Havana b^^Domestic Cigars 
 
 v> Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, )) 
 
 (( Cigarettes, Pipes, Etc. )) 
 
 No. in Decatur Street, po.S.^\^%' 
 
 Post Office, 
 
 ew Orleans 
 
 r WE KEEP FIRST CLASS GOODS ONLY i 
 
 JOHN FERRY, 
 
 J. A. Blaffer, 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 AGENT AND 
 APPRAISER 
 
 No. 840 Union Street, 
 
 Cumb. Phone j- 327 
 
 Ml' 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 I 
 
 Fancy and Staple GROCERIES, Wines ,^ 
 and Liquors. 
 
 TRY FERRY'S PRINTS OF BUTTER. 
 
 Cor. General Taylor and Prytania Sts. 
 
 V^ Phone No. 1010-L " — ■ Goods Uelivereil Promptly 
 
 MORTGAGE LOANS NEGOTIATED 
 
 M 
 
 
 138 - 
 
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 identified also by membership with the 
 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. 
 
 — 139 
 
TELEPHOMB 
 2 5 I . F . 
 
 L. Mathes&Co. 
 
 1739 St. Charles Avenue. 
 
 K'SoIe Southern Agents^** 
 
 Anger Baking Co. 
 
 NEW YOEK. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Golden Seal German Egu 
 NUDELN 
 
 Farina, Mezzaiii. Spau;lietti an 
 Vermicelli, Spice Drops 
 
 G. Golrtsmilfi & Sons ftlQli 
 Oracle Malzotli and Meal. 
 
 Lebkuchen and other German 
 
 Specialties. 
 
 o NEW Or-JLEAXS. o 
 
 % 
 % 
 
 n\ 
 (Us 
 
 n\ 
 (its 
 
 f^-^-^-^-^'--^ 
 
 •S' •5' ■S' •5' ■S' ^SX 
 
 P*- 
 
 S. F. HEASLIP. Pkesidknt. 
 A. GOMILLA, Manager. 
 
 Crescent .fonvavbint3 
 anb Zlvanspoutation 
 Conipan\>, Xiiniteb. 
 
 126 moitb peters Street. 
 
 \f/ 
 \f/ 
 Vf/ 
 V»/ 
 Vf/ 
 \»/ 
 \f/ 
 
 vt/ 
 
 \f/ 
 
 Vt/ 
 \»/ 
 V»/ 
 \l/ 
 \t/ 
 Vt/ 
 
 v»/ 
 
 \f/ 
 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 
 Vf/ 
 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 
 
 
 '^^ 
 
 .;^ -^ ' a^ ' S^ s^ ' S^ • s>' • s*' • s*' " ■■ "m" •»* "iT^ •»■ " S^ "m^ 'i^ V 
 
 /fv 
 (its 
 (US 
 (its 
 (its 
 (its 
 (its 
 
 • 
 
 A. K. MILLER & CO., 
 
 \f/ 
 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 Vf/ 
 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 
 /IvSteamship&ShipAgents v!/ 
 
 /fv 
 /fv 
 
 (its 
 /fv 
 /fv 
 
 /♦s 
 
 /fv 
 (its 
 (its 
 
 (its 
 
 (h 
 
 (h 
 
 o — 
 
 .VGKNTS 
 
 British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co., Limited, 
 320 CAR0NDE2LET ST. 
 
 Vf/ 
 Vf/ 
 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 Vf/ 
 vf/ 
 vf/ 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. Vf/ 
 Vf/ 
 Vf/ 
 
 vf/ 
 
 W;^ ^- ^- >g. .«^ - ^- j^ -* f • -^ - -*?• -<g- > g; ■^- -^- > £• -^ - >?- ^i^ 
 
 ^ Phone 4'^5 Main. 
 
 J. FINAN, 
 
 
 SANITARY. H0U5E 
 
 ^^ PLUMBING. 
 
 ^ ,^ and /VIARII 
 
 RANGE REPAIRS. 
 Ao. 2049 MAGAZ,IJ^E ST, 
 
 Het. .loseiiliine and *^l, Andrf w Sts , next to corner of Josephine. 
 
 m i^E3"w c:>]Eii^:n3-A.:N"s. m 
 
 ji; Established 1862. « 
 
 I August Baumann, 
 
 Watchmaker and Jeweler. 
 
 
 ft 
 ♦ 
 
 J825 MAGAZINE ST. 
 
 Bet- Kelicltv ami St. Mary sis. NEW ORLEANS, LA. * 
 
 DIAMONDS AND FINE JEWELRY, 
 
 itches, Clocks, Silver and Plated Ware, * 
 
 Spectacles, Opera (Classes and etc. * 
 
 — 140 - 
 
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 
 
 
 1 
 
 ( 
 
 J 
 
 
 V 
 
 I 
 
 
 ■ .. ' 
 
 M 
 
 B 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -T 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 • / 
 
 J- 
 
 ' 
 
 
 
 
 
 JULIUS C. WOLFF. 
 
 n. WAI DMORN. 
 
 for life saving from the Mississippi river; a diamond 
 badge from the Home Insurance Co., for salvage of 
 property, and still another diamond badge from 
 friends of Mt. Carmel Asylum. 
 
 Mr. Levy is one of the representatives of the Secur- 
 ity Brewing Co., of Algiers and New Orleans, and is 
 also Assistant Recorder or Judge of the Fourth Re- 
 corder's Court, Magazine street, a position of honor 
 to which he has been re-elected. 
 
 He is a member of Temple Sinai and of many asso- 
 ciations, among others the Woodmen of the World, 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the German 
 Benevolent Association and Washington Benevolent 
 Association. 
 
 MR. M. WALDHORN. 
 
 Mr. Wajdhorn is well-known, not alone here, but to 
 many travelers and tourists, as the proprietor of the 
 principal establishment in the city handling choice 
 and valuable antiques. His place is on Royal street 
 corner of Conti, and is a museum of genuine articles 
 of this character of great interest. His collection in- 
 deed is said to be the largest and best selected in the 
 country outside New York. 
 
 Mr. Waldhorn was born in Alsace, in 1852, and 
 there spent his school days. His first employment was 
 with A. Godchaux Clothing, Paris, France. He start- 
 ed here in the business of jewelr}- and antiques years 
 ago, and as intimated, has met more than ordinary suc- 
 cess. Mr. Waldhorn is second vice-president of Touro 
 Synagogue. He is a member of the Harmony Club 
 and the Young Men's Hebrew Association; also of 
 the I. O. B. B., and Free Sons of Israel. He is a mem- 
 ber also and liberal contributor to Touro Infirmary 
 and the other charities of his church and people. He 
 is, in short, a man of character and standing, not only 
 among those of his race and religion but among the 
 business men of the city in general. 
 
 — 141 — 
 
THE STRAIGHT 
 MELROSE 
 DAIRY FARM 
 
 MISS MAR THA HOTTINGER. Proprietress. 
 CLAIBORNE and UPPERLINE STS. 
 
 ^ 
 
 The Place to Get Your MILK which is 
 absolutely PURE. Your Patronage is 
 Kindly Solicited. GIVE US A TRIAL. 
 
 W.M C. &KVM(irii 
 
 THAN !•:. I'ATTISON. 
 
 SEYMOUR & 
 
 PATTISON, 
 
 
 Importers and Jobbers in 
 
 
 TOYS. FIREWORKS 
 
 FANCY GOODS. 
 
 
 Write for Illustrattd Price List 
 
 
 233-235 CHARTRES ST. 
 
 jt New Orleans, 
 
 La. 
 
 J. B. O'CONNOR, 
 
 G. W. O'CONNOR. 
 
 President 
 
 H. J. SCHAYER, 
 ViC£-PRC9. A. Man 
 
 O^CONNOR & CO., Ltd. 
 
 STEAM CARRIAGE and 
 WAGON MANUFACTURERS 
 
 Eslimales on ail Blacksmith Work General Blacksmilhing and Repairing 
 in ail Branches Exicuied with Dispatch. 
 
 PAINTING. LETTERING and TRIMMING of Every Description. 
 
 Factory and Repository, 520 532 JULIA ST , 
 
 Cumberland Phone 3558 j* NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 '^ 
 
 THOS. J. KELLY, 
 
 GROCER 
 
 500-502 JACKSON AVENUE. 
 
 Phone 2151 L 
 
 New Orleans. La. 
 
 m 
 
 ORDERS SOLICITED 
 
 
 
 
 
 W 
 
 S. J. PETERS 
 LIVERY COMPANY 
 
 Boarding: 
 
 Livery 
 
 Carriages 
 
 Horses 
 
 ,|; and 
 
 j Mules 
 for Sale 
 
 1100 to I no CARONDELET ST., 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 W Cumberland Phone J498 
 
 
 
 w 
 
 W 
 i)) 
 
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. 
 He is a rising young man, one of those of whom, as 
 Webster said of himself, we shall probably "hear 
 more hereafter." 
 
 Stern's has lately been removed to a new and larger 
 establishment on Baronne street specially fitted up 
 for the business. 
 
 SAMUEL M. STERN. 
 
 nOSE F. HOLLANDER. 
 
 MR. MOSE F. HOLLANDER. 
 
 Mr. Hollander is of F. Hollander & Co., wholesale 
 liquors, a leading house of its line. He is the son of 
 its founder, the late Frederick Hollander, and suc- 
 ceeded to his interest. He was born in New Orleans 
 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 
 popular with gentiles than Jews. 
 
 143 — 
 
f" L. J. DUFFY. Pres. C.J. ALLEN. Secretary. N^ 
 
 ^> Duffy Trunk Co., Ltd 
 
 ^< 
 
 (t 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Trunks, Satchels, Sample Cases, Etc., 
 
 OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 
 
 133 and 135 BARONNE STREET, 
 
 'Adjoining Hotel Grunewald. > 
 
 New Crieans, - Louisiina. 
 
 TELEPHONE 3934 
 u Fine work a specialty. Repairing promptly attended to 
 
 u: 
 
 :j 
 
 EDWIN LISTER . . . 
 
 
 .> ^ IMPORTER jt jt 
 Millinery and Notions, 
 
 J42 CHARTRES STREET. Telephone 2494-Y. 
 
 -NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 S[)ecialty of 
 
 ^^SI MOJSf ^ 
 
 The PHOTOORAPHER 
 929 CAXAL SHEET. New Orleans. 
 
 Old and faded pictures copied and enlarged, either in crayon, 
 oil or water colors. 
 
 R. E, BLANCHRAD, 
 
 PHARMACIST, 
 
 7600 CHARLES AVENUE, 
 
 Corner Hillary St., Phone 56 7-L. 
 
 Orders Called For. > ^ 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 'I > ABSOI.TL'TKl.-i- 
 
 >. 
 
 pirk: hrdoJ'' 
 
 (( 
 
 jt THE .* 
 
 1 
 
 COMMERCIAL HOTEL 
 
 J. D. KENNEY. Mgr A MONTELEONE Prop. { 
 
 ^, European Flan. Strictly First Class. '{ 
 
 I' Royal & Customhouse Sts New Crieans. 
 
 i SPECIALTY: TRAVELING MEN. 
 
 p Rates, $1. Go per (Inv and ni) Ineliuliiic Batli i 
 
 llKNEiV I.oiHTE, President. IIknky l". Lochtk, Vice-President. 
 K. W. LofHTE, Sec. and 'I'rea.';. 
 
 The HENRY LOCIJTE CO., Lid. 
 
 Wholesale Grocers and Importers 
 
 f^ WINE5 and LIQUORS. 
 
 ; V 319, 321, 323 and 325 Tchoupitoulas St. 
 .Tk.i,.i, .T,.., And No. 421 Natchez Street, 
 
 m '■'■ 
 
 mWM NEW ORLEANS. LA, 
 
 Artistic Photography | W 
 
 f^ 
 
 c>[)eciauv oi ^ .-vriisru- riiotograpnv | in 
 
 Children's Pictures.*^ in all its branches.' I Cj A. DUMSER 
 
 G A. WIEGAND. 
 
 ^ 
 
 A* Dumser & Co. 
 
 (Jj Provisions, Produce. Butter and Cheese. ]^ 
 
 [^"^ — — — — a 
 
 ^ Nos. 523 to 527 Poydras Street, 
 
 ^ p. OBox 1740 
 
 Ul Long Distance Phone 1253 
 
 New Orleans. 
 
 i7 
 
 3r 
 
 H. J. LAUX & CO. 
 
 Wholesale Fruits, 
 
 RECEIVERS and JOBBERS. 
 
 Car Load Lots. Up Tu-Date Methods. 
 
 No. 211 Poydras St. 
 
 P.O. BOX 976. NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 1-14 — 
 
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 
 and conduct a most e.xtensive business in thoroughly 
 modern and metropolitan fashion. 
 
 Mr. Shwartz, we need hardly say, is a conspicuous 
 figure in the business community, not to speak of the 
 dry goods line. He knows the business thoroughly 
 "from A to Izzard " He is a shrewd buyer and a 
 clever financier, and not a follower, but a leader. 
 
 To the claims of charity and huinaiiitv, Jewish 
 charity and institutions especially Mr. Shwartz gives 
 that consideration, which nowadays is thought, as 
 regards the prosperous no more than due. The 
 communal work generally has his countenance and 
 support. 
 
 S. J. SHWARTZ. 
 
 L. H WEIL. 
 
 MR. L. H. WKIL. 
 
 Mr. Weil is connected with the Union Oil Companj- 
 one of the most extensive concerns of its line in this 
 part of the country. Socially he is disting'uished as 
 the Secretary of the famous llarmonv Club. He has 
 been Secretary of it for eig-ht vears. 
 
 He is of note also in connection with the Y.M.H. A. 
 He was long a director of it, was its vice-president, 
 and was one of the building committee when the 
 Athenaeum was erected. His name, for that reason 
 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 
 work in behalf of the Y.M.H. A., is fully appreciated. 
 145 — 
 
iS#SS#S#-S##SS®S'PS'SSSS 
 
 U. M. WALMSLEY. 
 
 Prpsiilpiit. 
 
 S. I'. WAf.MSLKY. 
 
 Vicp-1'resiiii'iit. 
 
 .1. F. rorjUKT. 
 
 ra>hier 
 
 L. .!. D'AQCIS. 
 
 Ass't ("ashiiM-. 
 
 Louisiana National Bank 
 
 TSEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Capital $500,000 Surplus and Profits $626,500 
 
 ACCOUNTS OF BANKS. BANKERS FIRMS CORPORA- 
 TIONS. TRUSTS AND INDIVIDUALS SOLICITED^ •> •> 
 
 IJIRECTORS 
 
 CHAKLKS r.AXIKK. JOHN B. LKVRUT. S. P. WALMSf-EY. \VM. H. MATTHEW; 
 
 n. M. WAr.iisi.KV. WM. k. haiipik. \vm. r. hardie. 
 
 W 
 
 m 
 m 
 m 
 
 w 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 THE REASONS WHY — 
 
 The Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. 
 
 Is the Only Successful Competetive Telegfraph System Ever Maintained. 
 
 lUi proprietors anil iiiaiiagemeuc cietermiii- 
 eA from the first to eMtablisli a perniaiieur 
 buaiiifss baaeil on sound business principles 
 anil business-like methods. an<l have stead- 
 fastly adhered to that policy. 
 
 Itii eiiipli>yeea are intelliitenr. diliaeiir, en- 
 ergetic and enthusiastic. They are in sym- 
 pathy with their employera and are working 
 for the company's interests, recoeni/.ins that 
 their interests are identical with the com 
 pany's iuterest.s. anrl that unless the Postar-* 
 service is the l?E.>T. public patronage can 
 not be retaiueil. 
 
 Every man in the ""Postars" service is 
 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 
 extension of land lines, the ntiuierona and 
 important railroad connectiona recently 
 made, the valuable itonnections with the 
 German cables, the Pacific cable (now 
 being constructed, i the Direct West Indies 
 cable, the Bermuda cable, etc. 
 
 Another Reason Why the Postal Telegraph- 
 Cable Co., is the Most Successful Telegraph 
 System in New Orleans. 
 
 W. A. PORTEOUS, 
 
 Supt. Sixth District, Southern Division. 
 
 Postal Telegraph Cable Company, 
 
 Ne'w Orleans La. 
 
 — 150 — 
 
 There is no man in Xew Orleans who stands 
 in a more favorable position with the Jew- 
 ish people, nor. only of thi.s city but the en- 
 tire .state, than the genial W. .\. Porteons, 
 the >uperint.eiident of the Sixth District. 
 Southern Division, of the Postal Telegraph 
 Cable Co . ami this is dtie to the fact that he 
 is always polite and obliging whenever or 
 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- 
 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 I he Xew Orleans Cot- 
 ton E.xchange. He was next proraotefi to 
 assistant manatzer. and a few months later 
 he was cougraT.ulatetl on all sides upi>n be- 
 ing placed in charge of the splendid busi- 
 ness that he had helpeil to build up for the 
 Postal I ompauy in Xew Orlean.s. When the 
 Si.xth Distiict. Southern Division was or- 
 ganized, Mr. Porteons was made Superin- 
 tendent and placed in charge. 
 
MR. LEONARD L. STERN. 
 
 Mr. Stern is well-known as of Stroudback >.\: 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 further distinguished amongf those of his 
 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 
 guest. 
 
 Mr. Stern was born here in 18h7. He is the son of 
 Henry Stern, an old time business man of the city, 
 and brother of Sam Stern the well-known auctione:;r. 
 He was brought up here and went to school in this 
 city. He knows New Orleans, as the saying is "like 
 a book." Hence much of his success in the real es- 
 tate line in which he has been in company with Mr. 
 Stroudback since 1897. He married Miss Katz. 
 daughter of the late Sigmund Katz, and lives in the 
 swell up-town "garden district" of the city. 
 
 Men of Jewish birth and faith, figure numerously, 
 as we have said, in the commercial life of the Cres- 
 cent City. Mr. Stern belongs to that younger ele- 
 ment among them whose activity and enterprise, 
 furthers perceptibly the progress and development 
 of our fast expanding Southern metropolis. 
 
 LEONARD L. STERN. 
 
 HART NEWMAN. 
 
 MR. HART NEWMAN. 
 
 Mr. Newman is the son of the noted Jewish banker 
 and philanthropist. Isidore Newman of New Orleans. 
 He was born in this city about twenty eight years 
 ago. He graduated from Soule Commercial College 
 this citv at fourteen, and started for Cornell Univer- 
 sity, New York, to study law, but finding his youth 
 an objection proceeded to Europe instead, to perfect 
 himself meantime in foreign languages and music. 
 There he remained until he became a highly profi- 
 cient linguist, and besides a course of music at Leip- 
 sic. had graduated at the Conservatory of Mainz. He 
 is a master of the piano and generally a musician of 
 uncommon power. 
 
 At twenty-one Mr. Newman returned here, and 
 shortly entered business life as vice-president of the 
 Schwartz-Newman Co.. proprietors of the Maison 
 Blanche, Canal street, one of the principal depart- 
 ment houses of the South. He withdrew therefrom 
 to take an interest with his father, the well-known 
 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 in their management. 
 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 
 worthy successor, walking in the same path. 
 
 — 151 
 
THENEW ORLEANS 
 TRANSFER 
 
 WM. C. FAUST. 
 
 PROPRIETOR AND GENERAL MANAGER. 
 
 Office, No. 840 COMMON STREET. 
 
 Between Baronne and Carondelet NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 TELEPHONE No 817. 
 
 Thk New Oi<i.k.\n.s Tk'.vnsfkk will check your 
 bag'g'ag'e on departure from any i)art of the 
 City. ( Hotels hiuI Residences i direct to desti- 
 nation, includinu- all points in Unl'ed 5iate.<, 
 Canada. Cuba and the borders of Mexico, via. 
 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 
 to have your bajjgage checked from residence 
 to avoid the confusion at train time. 
 
 New Orleans Transfer Agents on all incoming 
 trains upon obtaining j-our Checks will deliver 
 your baggage to its destination promptly. 
 
 THE LOUISIANA EXCAVATING 
 and MANUFACTURING CO.^^ 
 
 Office. 635 Gommcrcial Place, 
 Bet. eamp and St. Charleii Sts. Telephone \o. 1C30 
 
 Will give prompt attention and low figures 
 on orders for the Cleaning of ■ 
 
 EARTH CLOSETS and VAULTS. 
 
 Earth eiosets on Hand. 
 
 V. J. A. BACKES, 
 
 Successor to Edufin I Kursheedt 
 
 Marble and Granite Works 
 
 Monuments, Headstones, Copings and Building Work 
 
 536 and 538 CAMP STREET, 
 
 Cumb. Phone2323-I! i ijip. Laf.i veiie S(iuarc. NEW (UU.K.\NS 
 
 
 
 I. M. DARRE, 
 
 Stalls, 14 and 16 Dryades Market. 
 
 BEST MEATS 
 
 James M.Kelley, 
 
 DRAYMAN 
 
 407 Decatur Street, NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 m 
 
 : ALSO AGENT : 
 
 Orleans Boiler Compound 
 
 and SCALE REMOVER. 
 
 1 1 
 
 AT LOWEST PRICES 
 
 
 ESTABLISntD 1862 Cumb. Phone 3q84.-L 
 
 F. G. BIRCHMEIER, 
 
 MARBLE and GRANITE 
 
 Cemetery Work of Every Description 
 
 Office and Works, J423-I427 WASHINGTON AVE. 
 Near Prytania Street. ^ J» New Orleans La. 
 
 148 
 
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 I^odg-e, F. & A. M., to Samaritan 
 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 
 with Jos. Kantz and for the past six years has repre- 
 sented Jos. A. Magnus & Co., wholesale liquors, Cin- 
 cinnati, in Gulf Coast territory. 
 
 Mr. Ochs is married and makes new Orleans his 
 headquarters and home. 
 
 COLEMAN M. KAHN. 
 
 MK. COLEMAN H. KAHN. 
 
 Mr. Kahn is of Kahn's Cotton Pickery, Religious 
 street. New Orleans, in which business he is asso- 
 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. 
 
 LOUIS OCMS. 
 
 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- 
 ble, is a Knight of Pvthias and Mason. 
 
 149 
 
'iMlR"R'oTl GLASS FOR ALL PURPOSES. 
 
 RESILVERED 
 
 } All ORDERS, No 
 f Matter How Small, '. 
 
 CHURCH and MEMORIAL WINDOWS. 
 
 Matter How bmall, C" ^f 1\ TT* "\V7" T H. FRISA, Proprietor. ) 
 
 , Given Prompt I c^outhem Mirror Works, 625 baronne street 
 
 ^ Attention^?* J» ^* ^ j, ] 
 
 J^ 
 ll/« 
 
 A. P. J. SEGASSIE. 
 
 Cafe 
 
 Successor 
 to.*ewrfJ*« 
 
 F, ARTIGUES 
 
 CORNER COMMON and 
 CARONDELET STS. 
 
 e^ 
 
 IMPORTED and DOMESTIC CIGARS 
 and SMOKERS' ARTICLES 
 
 
 laquering!"^ F. H. Korctke Brass & Mfg Co., Ltd. 
 
 Copper, Nickel and Silver \ 
 Plating and Oxidizing,^,^ 1 
 
 Urass Beds and Ornaments 
 Made lo Loolc Like NRW. 
 ^ Castings Irom Ion. toS.WOlbs. 
 
 Nos. 922=924 Magazine Street, 
 
 Telephone No. 1147. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 1 KSTAHr.lSHKD U't\. 
 
 I SkyliglitsaiidSteol 
 I Ceiliiigs,2i and 1 1 
 I Corrusiated Iron. 
 
 U- 
 
 I Window and Cap 
 I FINIALS J- J- j^ 
 
 R. G. HOLZER, 
 
 MANUFACTURER OF 
 
 Curved and Corrugated, Arch Iron, V. Crimped Iron, Gutters, Pipes, Cornices 
 and Ornamental Work, and all Kinds of Roofing. 
 
 Works: 207-209 NORTH RAMPART ST. ^ New Orleans, La. 
 
 ^ LOUIS PFISTER, 
 
 '^Wholesale Grocer, Wines an d Liquors 
 
 FANCY BUTTER and CHEESE A SPECIALTY. 
 
 L, 
 
 Nos. 540, 542 and 544 MAGAZINE STREET, Corner Lafayette. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA 
 
 J 
 
 — 14() — 
 
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- 
 ber of the organization of the Jewish Home and 
 Touro Infirmary and he is an ex-president of the Con- 
 gregation Gates of Prayer, a position significant of 
 his standing among his intimates and co-religionists. 
 
 To sum up in short: "A just man walking with 
 integrity — one known in the g"ates, sitting among 
 the elders." 
 
 LAZAR SCHWARTZ. 
 
 FRANK J. WEINBERGER. 
 
 MR. FRANK J. WEINBERGER. 
 
 Here we have an example of the young man in 
 business, a shining example of success; a young man 
 entrusted with affairs of the first magnitude. And 
 fully equal we may sav to the task. Mr. Frank J. 
 Weinberger of whom we speak, is the secretary- 
 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 
 the Elks also, and to the Y. M. H. A. 
 
 — 147 — 
 
F. C. GODBOLD, 
 
 PHARMACIST^ 
 
 2728 Prytania St. Nea,^Wa^hi^ngU.n Ave 
 
 Telephone 3441 Y. NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 H. H McGEE , Ntw Orleans La 
 
 <£SI 
 
 SPARKS BROS. KanFas City Mo 
 
 SPARKS BROS. &. McGEE, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
 
 MULES AND HORSES 
 
 Of All Grades. All Stcck Guaranteed as Kepresented. 
 529=537 BARONNE STREET, 
 
 CuiubeilHiul TeleplictiH 7.5-2. NEW ()KLK.\NS, LA. 
 o YOUU C.VI'RONAGIO SOLICITED. o 
 
 William Graner . . 
 
 B> Registered Pharmacist, 
 
 Cor BiU-oniieaml Felicity iSt.'i., 
 
 Xew dileaiis 
 
 WEST END HOTEL 5L RESTAURANT 
 
 Wanted Landlords and Agents to know that 
 
 IHE 
 
 Pelican Excavating Company, 
 
 Does First Class and Cheap Work. 
 
 Office 733 Union St. Please Phone 2062-W 
 
 I 
 
 OPEN SUMMKK AND WINTEU. 
 
 I 
 
 SERVICE AT ALL HOURS. 
 T. TKANCHINA, - - Proprietor. 
 
 o Telephone Main 22'»2. o 
 
 r>PLUMBERO 
 Sanitary Plumbing, Ga^nd Steam Fitting s 
 
 3818 aiAGAZINE STREET, 
 
 N'EAB LllUi.SIANA AVENUE. 
 
 N'KW OKLKANS. LA' 
 
 -^:>kEPAIR WORK GIVEN PkOMPT A rTE^T lON.'*^ 
 
 E. W. NORTON. 
 
 ^v>^Chiropodist.^^ 
 
 309 ST. CHARLES ST.. New Orleans. 
 
 op'p'iCHrHiioN h; ;i07s-i.. 
 o Houis: 12 to 3, Smuiav.s, 10 to 1. o 
 
 Ne^ Orleans Worsted Store, 
 
 GEO. A. HOFFMAN, Proprietor, 
 
 I.MPOlM'Kll AND DEAr.KR IX 
 
 Zephyrs, Yarns. Silk, Chenille, Notions, 
 
 Children's Wear. Ljices, Kiiibidiiierifs, LauiiilerinK Caps, 
 
 .Stamped and Unstainpeil l-nieiis. Kid Gloves Cleaned, 
 
 Bul.tons .Made, KineM Line ol Kanc-y and Wurk Baskets, 
 
 Designing! Luibroiderini;: t'taniijing' Pinking: 
 
 Agents lor W ilcox & Qibbs' Automallc Sewing Machine. 
 
 131 BOURBON ST., New Orleans, La. 
 
 Mrs. V. Wehrmaiin, 
 
 613 CANAL STREET, 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 DOLL- HOSRITAL 
 
 JOHN DOUGLAS. 
 
 €^ENGRAVER<^ 
 
 12 Camp Street. New Orleans. 
 
 Wedding Invitations, Wedding- Announcements, 
 Wedding Reception Invitations, Visiting Cards, 
 Monograms, Crests, Arms, &c. Embossed in 
 Color and Illuminated Embossed Office 
 
 Stationery, Business Cards. 
 
 — 152 
 
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 Kinjjston, Jamaica, in 1S3S, and 
 was educated in the Public Schools of the city of New 
 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 
 of his war service, a member of Cam() No 1, of the 
 Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate Veterans; 
 also of the B'nai B'rith He was secretary lor many 
 years and is an ex-president of the Jewish Widows 
 and Orphans Home. He is also an e.x-treasurer of 
 Touro Infirmary and the Hebrew Benevolent Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 MR. DAVID M. LICHTENSTEIN. 
 
 Mr. I^ichtenstein is of H. Lichteiistein & Son, cot- 
 ton merchants, leading members of the Cotton Ex- 
 change of New Orleans. He is a native of the city, 
 now in his thirty-second year, and received his edu- 
 
 JACOB WEINtiERQER. 
 
 cation as so many other successful men of the place 
 have done, in the public schools of the city. 
 
 His first employment was with llyman, Lichten- 
 stein & Co., predecessors of Fl. Lichtenstein & Son. 
 He has acquired during his business career, interests 
 in banks, rice mills, cotton plantations, presses, etc. 
 He belongs to the Harmony Club and the Y. M. H. 
 A., to the B'nai B'rith, Touro Infirmary, and the 
 Jewish Widows and Orphans Home; also the Young 
 Men's Gymnastic Club of New Orleans. 
 
 COL. E. I. KURSHEEDT. 
 
 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- 
 fields Lumber Co.. president Bluefields Wharf & 
 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 
 the Jewish Orphans Home. 
 
 153 
 
INTERSTATE TRUST 
 
 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, 
 
 Leigh Carroll. 
 
 Sam Henderson, Jr. 
 
 C. H Huttig, 
 
 W. T. Joyce. 
 
 Geo S Gardiner. 
 
 W. B Rogers, 
 
 R W Jones Jr. 
 
 Chas. Karst, 
 
 C T. Patterson. 
 
 Henry M. Sage, 
 
 R J Wood. 
 
 WALLACE B. ROGERS, President 
 LYNN H. DINKINS. Vice-President (j^ 
 
 GEO. S GARDINER, Vice-President ^ 
 
 SAM HENDERSON, Jr., Vice-President O 
 J. P. CORDILL, Asst. Oshier jfy 
 
 HY. M. YOUNG, Sec. & Trust Officer MA 
 
 Agent for Careof Property ; Rents and Interest Collected and Remitted 
 E.xecutor and Tutor in Wills ; Legal Depositary for Court Officers. 
 RENTS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES in its Fire and Burglar Proof Vaults 
 
 213 Camp Street, ^ New Orleans, La, 
 
 154 
 
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. 
 He is a popular and charitable man. He has been a 
 member and generous giver to Touro Infirmar}' and 
 the Jewish Home; in fact has been a director of both. 
 He belongs also to the Y. M. H. A., and the B'nai 
 B'rith. Also to the Young Men's Gymnastic Clul) of 
 this cit}-. New Orleans Lodge Knights of Honor and 
 Gerniania Lodge F. & A. M. 
 
 EDWARD GOETZ. 
 
 JOSEPH SIMON. 
 
 MR. JOSEPH SIMON. 
 
 In this gentleman we still have with us, one of the 
 few survivors of the period before the Civil war; one 
 of those who cut a figure in the Jewish annals of 
 that and the later formative stage, as we mav call it, 
 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. 
 Simon enjoys "dignity with ease" in a fine old home- 
 
 — 155 — 
 
DELICACIES of 
 THE SEASON 
 ALWAYS ON 
 HAND ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 LADIES 
 CAFE ^ ^ 
 
 PETER & ANTHONY 
 FABACHER, ^ Props. 
 
 Fabacher's 
 
 Restaurant and Hotel 
 
 Nos. 137 Royal Street, 
 
 jtjtjtjtji AND j*j*.M-J*Jt 
 
 708 to 716 Customhouse St., 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Capital Stock, $50,000. 
 
 NOAM VV RAMSKY, President, 
 
 RAMSEY PIANO 
 MFG. COMPANY 
 
 MANU^'ACTURKU-; OP 
 
 oSe Ramsey and Tulane 
 PIANOS, 
 
 535-537 BIENVILLE STREET, 
 
 PHONE 2391-Y. 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 ii 
 
 
 
 (( 
 
 IC 
 
 If 
 
 I'l 
 
 ANTONIO SUAREZ 
 
 ^.>«MANUFACTURER OF.^^ 
 
 Fine Havana Cigars* 
 
 1033 DAUPHINE ST,, 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 nil 
 11) 
 
 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. 
 "Accepting the commandments as a lamp and the 
 law as a light to g-uide him, length of days, pros- 
 perity and peace have they brought him." In 1001 
 with his good wife, family and friends he celebrated 
 the golden wedding-, fiftieth anniversary of his mar- 
 riage. 
 
 MR. SAMSON CERF. 
 
 Mr Cerf ministers as Rabbi and Cantor to the Con- 
 gregation Sluiara 7 cfiht, Jackson Avenue, the Gates 
 of Prayer, second oldest of the congregations of the 
 
 WILL MOSS. 
 
 city. Its building- was ])ut uj) in ISd'i. and soon after 
 Mr. Cerf, then newly .-irrived from over the water was 
 chosen to conduct its services This office he held 
 most acceptably for six years, at the end of which 
 period he withdrew and embarked in mercantile con- 
 cerns, and was thus engaged until four or five years 
 back, when the Congregation again engaged his 
 services. 
 
 Mr. Cerf was born in Alsace, (then France) some 
 sixty years or more ago. He received his schooling 
 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. 
 
 SAHSON CERP. 
 
 MR. WILL MOSS. 
 
 This is a well-known insurance man of New Or- 
 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 
 the Ancient Essenic Order. 
 
 157 
 
GERMANIA 
 
 Savings Bank and Trust Company, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 Nos. 3n-3J5 CAMP STREET. 
 
 CAPITAL STOCK, 
 SURPLUS FUND, - 
 UNDIVIDED PROFITS. 
 
 $100,000.00 
 
 500,000.00 
 
 - 101,760.60 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 Mi:i:n.ii. i'rt.si.i..ni. 
 
 (;. .\l). I'.L.AFFKl:. V 
 
 II. 
 
 ic- President and Cashier. 
 A. WUI.FK, As.si.stant Casliier. 
 
 SAVINGS, TRUSTS, SAFETY VAULTS, 
 MORT(iAGES, COLLATERAL LOANS. i 
 
 Our business is thoroug-hl}- prepared for all transac- 
 tions in any of the above lines and we solicit 
 interviews, in person or by letter, in 
 reference to any matter con- 
 nected therewith. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 .1. K. .MEUILII — l.iallicr and Firidintt,, N'o. 83ii Povdras Sireet 
 
 A.VIZAUU Naval Sii.res. Ni> 5)9 Magazine SI reet 
 
 .INO U. MKYKKS Molasses. No. 7.d Snuih Peters Street 
 
 <'HAS V HULK AtiorEiev at Law, Masonic Tenii)le 
 
 () T MAIER.. Secretary. No. 307 Camp Street 
 
 «,. AD. BLAKFER Cashier. No. 311 Camp street 
 
 r 
 
 L, 
 
 I^MO^JIS iiliiil. 
 
 DAVID LEMLEY, 
 
 Copper, Tin and 
 Sheet Iron Works, 
 
 I 
 
 \ ~ -"• 1 
 
 }■ 353-355 Baionne St. 901 to <?C5 Pcrdido St. \ 
 
 I MCTV7 /-\DT tr A MC T /"M rrc-r a kt a \ 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA. 
 
 gding! going!! gone!!! 
 
 PHONE .il.=i 
 
 I 
 
 Stern^s Auction Exchange ] 
 
 SUCCESSOR TO Kl). CCKTls { 
 
 \ Removed to 344-346-348 Baronne St. near Perdjdo 
 ArcTioNKF.i; SAM H. STERN ai'I'RAIser 
 Auctions Wednesdays and Saturdays 
 
 U 
 
 Sales of > ery Description 
 Respectfully Soliciiea . 
 
 (iOODS TAKEN ON { 
 STORAOEO'.sJ ; 
 
 ■Maid of the South'' 
 Corn Mills 
 
 Watertown Steam Engines 
 and Boilers , 
 
 Geo. L. Squire Sugar. Rice I 
 and Coffee Machinery jj 
 
 u 
 
 Cameron Steam Pumps 
 
 Deeming Hand and Pulley 
 Pumps 
 
 Shafting, Pulleys. Gearing 
 
 Detachable Chain. Rubber 
 
 and Leather Belting 
 
 Standard Saw Mills and 
 Hoisting Engines 
 
 Van Winkle Cotton Gins, 
 
 Feeders. Condensers 
 
 and Presses 
 
 714 PERDIDO STREET, 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 MGIII[R! 
 
 P. DESMARIES, 
 
 LEATHER AND 
 SHOE FINDINGS 
 
 SHOE STORE SUPPIES 
 
 204 CHARTRES ST j* NEW ORLEANS 
 
 -9$i$i$i$i$i$i$!$!$!$f$i$^<^^7$'$$$f$i$i$<$<$<$<$<$!$<$f$!$$i$-$i$<$<$<$^ 
 
 I ^1 lartin vjteiaericn I 
 
 Successor to MRS. F. HEIDERICH. 
 
 % 
 
 I PARLOR. BED AND DINING ROOM * 
 
 i» 
 Mattresses * 
 Rattan Chairs * 
 Matting * 
 
 Rugs ^^ I 
 
 * 
 
 * 
 
 A 
 
 Furniture, 
 
 % REFRIGERATORS, 
 
 f GO-CARTS. ETC. 
 
 « 
 
 I 2116-2118-2120 Magazine St.. | 
 
 Belwien Josephine & Jackson. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 — 158 
 
 I NEW ORLEANS, LA. t 
 
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- 
 ton factor and commission merchant, a successful and 
 wealthy business man of that line, and the owner 
 also of several cotton plantations, living in style in 
 the swellest part of fashionable St. Charles avenue. 
 
 Mr. Gumbel was born in Bavaria in 1841. His edu- 
 cation was acquired in the public schools of that 
 country. He was clerk for a short time in Germany 
 after his school days were over, but soon migrated, 
 as so many ambitious young- men of the time were 
 doing, to the "land of the free." He came South and 
 was in business here when the Civil War broke out, 
 
 JUDGE M. L. LAZARUS. 
 
 but abandoned it and enlisted, passing through the 
 usual vicissitudes and experiences of war time. After 
 the war he eng-aged again in business, this time in 
 New Orleans, and so continued till date. 
 
 Mr. Gumbel married Miss Selma Feitel. He be- 
 longs to the B'nai B'rith and besides being a sub- 
 scribing member, takes a live interest in the work of 
 Touro Infirmary and the Jewish Widows and Or- 
 phans Home. 
 
 SAMUEL hYMAN. 
 
 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 in 1839, and was educated in part by a pri- 
 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 
 New Orleans, St. Charles Avenue. 
 
 — 159 — 
 
Independent Oil Refining Co. C. W. EICHLING, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS and REFINERS, 
 
 H. ARMBRUSTER. Proprietor 
 341 'Old No. 67) GIROD ST. New Orleans. La. 
 
 Illuminating Oils. ^ Lubricating Oils. 
 Cotton Seed Oils. ^^^ Greases. 
 
 Special Grades Put Up to Order. 
 Warehouses on I C R. R. and New Basin Canal and Shell Road- 
 
 ' Bottles 
 
 labels 
 
 Corks 
 
 bottle Caps 
 
 Straw Covers 
 
 Sealing' V\'ax 
 
 Filtering Paper 
 
 Bar Supplies 
 
 Flasks 
 
 Corking Machines 
 
 Capping Machines 
 
 Bottling Machines 
 
 Bung Starts 
 
 Beer riallets 
 
 Hand Corkers 
 
 Wood Faucets 
 i Brass Faucets 
 
 Sulphur Wicks 
 
 Cork Pullers 
 
 Demijohns 
 
 Corkscrews, Etc. 
 
 And General Sup- 
 plifs for the Bar. 
 Restaurant and 
 Liquor Trade . . . 
 
 Phone No. 1312 
 
 MANUFACTURERS of 
 SKELETON CASES 
 
 t^ !^ S^ 
 
 The LOUB AT 
 
 Glassware and 
 Cork Co,, Ltd* 
 
 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Bottles, Glassware, Bar 
 Goods, Corks, Crockery 
 
 ^^' ^^ i^^ 
 
 510 to 51 6 BIENVILLE ST. 
 
 Near Decatur. 
 
 New Orleans. La. 
 
 Seed Merchant, 
 
 TELE PH ONE 2808-L 
 
 SPi:CI.^LTII5S— f renlr and Bernnula Onion 
 Sfeds and seis. Choice Seed Corn. Eastern 
 Seed Poiaiots. .'^eeds lor Truck Karmens, 
 Fruit 'I'rees. Roses. Flower Seeds and Planis 
 
 407 Magazine St. 
 
 Between Natchez and Poydras Sts 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA 
 
 A. H. WIGHT, President. 
 SIDNEY STORY. Vice-President 
 PA CAVAROC. Sec'y-Treas 
 
 FSTABLISHED 1835. 
 
 e^e^ 
 
 CAVAROC 
 
 COMPANY. Ltd. 
 
 Importers Wines, 
 Liquors, 
 Olive Oil, Etc. 
 
 Office & Salesroom, 
 No. 151 BARONNE ST. 
 
 Warehouse, 
 No 227 DECATUR ST. 
 
 TELEPHONE: CUMBERLAND 2759. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 r^ 
 
 J. FERRET, 
 
 
 Carpenter and Cabinet Maker, 
 
 Saloon, Store and Office Fixtures. 
 
 i!KKi;iiii:ii.\'riM;s .\ni> l .\i.i, kinhs (if KKi'.vii; <{ 
 
 ICK I'.o.NKS. 
 
 WilJIK. 
 
 Ki'siik'iicc. No. (il:; r..\i;iiN\K STKKK'I', 
 
 shop, 1)111 lliirdiinc Sticcl. 
 
 Xcw Orleans, La 
 
 CONTINENTAL 
 FIRE 
 
 INSURANCE 
 COMPANY 
 
 OF NEW YORK 
 
 V 623 Gravier Street, 
 
 James Prevost 
 
 Manager. 
 
 New Orleans, La. .^ 
 
 1()U — 
 
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. 
 
 JACOB C. LAZARD. 
 
 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. 
 
 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 also took a course at Cornell 
 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 
 who have his acquaintance one of the most promising 
 of our younger Jewish business element. 
 
 ARCHIBALD A. MARX. 
 
 — Ihl 
 
f. 
 
 jfuncial 
 IDirecto rs 
 
 No 800 Magazine Street, Corner Julia, 
 ■■ AND — <> 
 
 Washington Ave. & Prytania St , 
 
 Telephone No. 697. 
 
 Fine Carriages for Hire at all Times 
 
 For Balls, Parties, Weddings. Pleasure 
 Drives, Etc. -^ 
 
 Orders Attended to Promptly 
 
 Cumberland Phone No. 3439. 
 
 JOSEPH ZIMMERMANX, HUGO STOLLEY, 
 President and Manag-er. Secty & Treas 
 
 '8 
 
 o LIMITED. o 
 
 426-428 BARONNE ST., New Orleans. La 
 
 j» -jt DEALERS IN jt -j* 
 
 Building Specialties, 
 
 IMiUitt'ls, (Irates, Encaustic and Marhlc 
 Tiles. Warm Air Heating a Specialty. 
 
 Ail Work Done in Artisth and Workmanlike Manner. 
 ESTIMATES GIVEN ON APPLICATION. 
 
 W. B Green. F. J. W. Pflug. Edw. Sullivan. 
 
 W.B.Green Photo Supply 
 
 COMPANY. 
 
 Kodaks and Films, Cameras, Dry 
 Plates, Lenses. Etc. 
 
 Apparatus and Supplies for Professional and Amateur- 
 DeveIop(ngandFinishingforAmateors,Picture Framing 
 
 132 CARONDELET STREET, 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA 
 
 Everything in Modern Photography. 
 
 2123 Magazine Street, 
 
 Bet. Jackson and Josephine New Orleans, La. 
 Insures ajjjainst Loss or Damage 
 by Fire at Lowest Rates. 
 
 Capital $ 1 50.000 . Reserve Fund $200,620 73 
 Assets $397,758 60. 
 iOFFICKKHs 
 
 .laiMt's W'il.sim, I'rfs. Dr. James H. .Mahmey. \'iue-Pres. 
 
 ■Joliii X. Wegniann, Seeietaiy. 
 
 |t| IM'U'TuUS, — l(i,,;(.pli l!;nini!iini. .1. 1''. Ixraiiz, i'"rt.ci'k 
 r.rln<Micls. I>r. .1. 11. Miiloiif y. K. 11. i:iiail\vick. Clirisliiiii 
 Miller. Ih-iirv I', Dart. Dr.' S I;. Ollipliaiit. II. Dcinnen- 
 IVIscr, riiilip" ITelTer. Dr. ('. I'ickliardt, Fred'k Qiiereiis, 
 .Adarii (laiiilicl, l.ciuis Schulfr. .1. li. llerl>erili, A. S. 
 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, 
 llerinaii Wilkc, .lames Wilson. 
 
 162 — 
 
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- 
 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. 
 
 During his managerial career Mr Greenwall has 
 
 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. 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 
 
 EUGENE H. QUTMANN. 
 
 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 
 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. 
 
 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. 
 
 ALEXANDER LICHTENTAG. 
 
 K.Jl 
 
S. V. FORNARIS. 
 
 Pkksidknt. 
 
 JONAS H. LEVY. 
 
 \'ice-Pkksident. 
 
 F. DIETZE. 
 
 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 
 
 E. ALLGEYER. 
 
 of E. Allgej-er & Co., Cotton Exporters. 
 
 H. ABKAHAM. 
 
 of H. Abraham & Sons, Limited, Cotton and 
 Cotton Factors 
 
 WILLIAM H. BYRNES. 
 
 President Hibernia Insurance Co. of New Or- 
 leans. 
 
 CHARLES A. FARWELL, 
 
 of Milliken & Farwell, Sugar Merchants. 
 
 S. V. FORNARIS, 
 
 of S. V. P^ornaris & Co., Commission Mer- 
 chants and Exporters. 
 
 J. L. HEKWRi, 
 Capitalist. 
 
 C. L. KEPPLER, 
 
 Wholesale Druggist 
 
 J. H LEVY, 
 
 of M. Levy & Sons, Cotton Factors. 
 
 PATRICK McCLOSKEY, 
 
 of McCloskey Bros., Commission Merchants. 
 
 THOS. McDERMOTT, 
 Sugar and Molasses. 
 
 I 
 
 S. ODENHEIMER, 
 
 of the Lane Cotton Mills. 
 
 W. L. SAXON, 
 
 of Smith Bros. & Co.. Ltd . Wholesale Grocers 
 and Importers. 
 
 MAX. SCHWABACHER. 
 
 of J. & M. Schwahacher, Ltd., Wholesale 
 Grocers and Importers. 
 
 J. M. VER(iNOLE. 
 Wholesale Liquors. 
 
 SOL WEXLER. 
 
 of Julius Weis & Co., Bankers and Cotton 
 Factors. 
 
 F. B. WILLIAMS. 
 
 Lumber Manufacturer. 
 
 JOHN A. WOCiAN, 
 
 of Wogan Bros , Molasses Refiners. 
 
 T. B LAMPTON. 
 
 GEO. H. RICHEY. 
 
 GEORGE CLAY. 
 
 I 
 
 — 1(.4 — 
 
LEON L. SHWARTZ. 
 
 MR. LEON L. SHWAKTZ. 
 
 Mr. Shwartz is the well-known Canal Street mer- 
 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- 
 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. 
 
 ADOLPH GOOD. 
 
 MR. ADOLPH (;OOI). 
 
 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 country many 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 
 institution which 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. 
 
J^-i 
 
 
 "^"^itz-^iA -^t3R^> 
 
 J. E. MBRILH, President. 
 
 OTTO T. MaiEK. Secretary. 
 
 ED. J. HEIMTZ, asst. Secretary. 
 
 Germania 
 
 Insurance Company 
 
 eP NEW GRLBHNS. LH. 
 
 Office, No 307 Camp Street. 
 
 Capital Paid-Up, - $100,000 
 
 Surplus, - - - 26.000 
 
 Solicits Your Insurance 
 
 At Lowest Current Rate. 
 
 WHEN YOU ENTERTAIN 
 
 guests al your aft' ' noon at 
 h<ime. iQey scruliii /,e every 
 pos.sible detail, examine 
 everything ot interest in 
 the r.otn. tspenally ibe 
 
 FURNITURE 
 
 It you have purchased 
 
 ot us. vnu can feel assured 
 that evervtbiDg is quiie 
 correct, for whether it be 
 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 
 
 The Grant FaFniture Co. 
 
 Successors to MONTQOMERY & GRANT. 
 
 21 ( )-'2 1 2 CAMP STREE^r. 
 
 JsXM^XtlrfXWKX; 
 
 WMm 
 
 tX>iWX>-WXWMXWMX>KX>^K><>JKX> 
 
 Teutonia 
 
 Insurance 
 
 Company... 
 
 OF INBW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Assets, $807,773.39. 
 
 ©FPieERS. 
 
 ABLERT P. NOLL, I'lvsiiieiit. 
 
 SAMUEL HYMAN, Vice-President 
 
 FRANK LANGBEHN, Secretary. 
 
 DIRECTORS— ,7 B Cauiors, Addlph Dumser. 
 K R. (Jdgreve, Samuel Hj'iiiaii, Henry P Hart. 
 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, 
 A Soc.la, Hy. 'I'lmele. .Albert P. Ndll.VV. F. Milier. 
 
 !()() 
 
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. 
 
 
 wt 
 
 mt 
 
 
 
 M 
 
 
 7SB 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 
 P'JI 
 
 
 ^. 
 
 J 
 
 Ifc X. " ■■. "iii .-■ 
 
 
 B 
 
 ()U3TAVE nOSE5. 
 
 DR. ERNEST A. WHITE. 
 
 Dr. White is the veterinary of the New Orleans 
 Fire Department and has a reputation in the profes- 
 sion which draws to him no little private practice as 
 well. He is a native of the city, still a voung man, 
 onlv thirty-one this year, and in making choice of a 
 profession followed in the footsteps of his father the 
 late H. A. White, who ranked among the American 
 experts in veterinary surg-ery. 
 
 Dr. White himself is a graduate of the Universitv 
 of Pennsylvania one of the most complete of the 
 higher educational institutions of the country. Its 
 veterinary department is the leading- school of the 
 kind in America. Dr. White g-raduated from it with 
 the hig-hest honors. He has since had eight years 
 practice and has earned reputation as a successful 
 "vet" which after all is the test. 
 
 DR ERNEST A. WHITE. 
 
 167 
 

 
 
 FOR PHOTOS 
 
 g Call at SMITH'S Ground Floor Studio. 
 
 ^ 2016 Magazine St,, 
 
 ps and get prices before going elsewhere 
 * .^Crayons, Pastels and Etc. a Specialty.^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 3s^ 
 3^ 
 
 SMITH'S STUDIO, 
 
 ^ Corner Magazine and St. Andrew Streets. 
 
 
 
 3«!* 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 3<« 
 ^^ 
 
 3s^ 
 3% 
 
 3^ 
 
 3fC^ 
 
 3^?6 
 3Ae 
 3S;^ 
 5^* 
 3^« 
 !«« 
 3*r^ 
 
 >Ae 
 
 3<!^ 
 
 ^% 
 3e^ 
 
 3^?€ 
 
 3IS«. 
 
 
 
 e3<:^W5^5 
 
 Q J"vi^ cKTt: ^r^ o 
 
 >Wf 
 
 Kolb's Saloon 
 
 3S(?6 
 
 3«;« 
 3S::^ 
 
 3W 
 
 Ladies' Cafe Restaurant 
 
 HOTEL, EUROPEAN PLAN 
 
 123-25-27 St. Charles St., 
 
 3^?« 
 9^« 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 ^1 Phone 2557-L Main. New Orleans, La. 
 
 )^ 
 
 36;?6 
 3s;^ 
 
 3(^ 
 
 ^ Lpiiv W3 Q^ W7 iy 1^ il*<Op ii,Aj7 Q^ ViJ IV ^ ^ 
 
 ^TUMv, ?C"5v ToOv J'&o'C yo^ T&o'C ?C">. TC"?^ -fedt yc-'TL ^S&cK. J^o^. J'C'yC >ocK. yc^f^ Jcr^ Jorf^ Ji''y^ a 
 
 38Q«;?63S;?6^?«3S?S3S;?€3^3^?6mP;^3«3^3^3S;^3^^^?63S;?«3S:«3 
 
 3^ 
 
 m 
 
 9e;^ 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 3SS6 
 
 3(^ 
 ».^ 
 3«^ 
 3S!?6 
 
 35;^ 
 
 3s;^ 
 
 «3^^3S?63fe!€3*;?6^X3^^3S;?63S;?^3S;^^;S^^?63^3^?63S;?S3%^3^?63^S 
 
 New Orleans National Bank, 
 
 IT. S. Bitiidii and Oilier Bonds Bon^lit and Sold. 
 
 ORNER CAMP & COMMON STS , 
 
 3S« 
 
 
 Capital, 
 
 Surplus (Earned), 
 
 Undivided Profits Net, 
 
 $200,000.00 
 800,000.00 
 297,311.86 
 
 $',297,311.86 
 
 Does a General Banking Business, United 
 
 States, Stale, municipal and Other 
 
 Bonds Bought and Sold. 
 
 A, liiilciwin. 
 John H. Hanna 
 R K. Craig. 
 I.ouis P. Rice. 
 
 DIRBeTORS. 
 
 A. Ualilwin. Jr.. 
 (•has. H. HecU, 
 1). K. Martinez. 
 
 10 (.; . Sehlieder. 
 C. B. Fischer. 
 Adolph Katz. 
 Frank T. Howard. 
 
 3^ 
 3^ 
 
 3i^ 
 
 3^ 
 %^ 
 3«!?€ 
 
 
 
 9£:>ie3^5^:^3<^9f;^5=C>i(9^«3f:^3s!^3i(;^3f;:5e9e;^3Ae3t!*3£;«3s!«)AeS«;^5i 
 36(;%3S;?6^3«;%3s;?-63^?«*;#«3S;;^3S;?63^3^3Sfi><3^?63«;^3^3S;^3S(«3^3 
 
 %^ 
 
 3Sc^ 
 
 3S!?6 
 3^ 
 3S(?6 
 
 ^% 
 
 3Si?6 
 
 I847-I904. 
 
 Lhote Lumber Mfg. Go. 
 
 Plant, Carondclet Walk and North Bupre Streets, 
 
 MANI'l-'Al'ri'HKHS l_il'' 
 
 e3e:^3Ae 
 
 S^?S3S!?6 
 3f;* 
 
 w 
 
 3^ 
 3W 
 
 3^ Sash. Doors, Blinds, Furniture, Cisterns ^ 
 
 3^?6 
 
 3!.* 
 
 3S?< 
 
 Sf;* 
 3S;^ 
 
 
 And Ready- Made Houses, 
 
 3^« 
 3^^ 
 
 -Also Rough and Dressed Lumber. -^^T^ 3^ 
 
 'Quality and Capacity Unequaled. 
 
 3Ae 
 
 A. Haldwin. President. R E. CiaiK. Vice President. 
 
 A. Haldw in. Jr. Sd Vice President. Wni Palfrey. Cashier. 
 Frank E. Riess, Assistant Cashier 
 
 •^ i ■^'f^ 
 3^ 
 
 Phones: Main 4CI4. 4328 and 265. 
 BRANCH OFFICE: HEAD OF THE OLD BASIN. 
 PHeNE: MHI^ 2385-W. 
 
 SMC i*; »& rfr'i: i-Si: :*4: 5m? iir :if»i 
 
 m^^s^*.-?(,iKX2f(.'K»ikim2m 
 
 & js Ai os ?^ 3>7t OA^ 3\/ 
 
 3Sc^ 
 3%^ 
 
 Canal Street and Ba.voii St. John Cars will brin^r .von to the New 
 
 Plant, nctw in full operation- 
 Do not Fail to Visit This Modern Plant; it is Deservinj; of a \'isit. 
 
 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 still comparative younjf, who has risen by 
 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. 
 
 ALBERT ASCHAHHENBERQ. 
 
 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. 
 
 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 Association, the U'nai B'rith and Harmony 
 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 
 he mourns. 
 
 n. J. WOLF. 
 
 — 169 
 
-^rp:ferences : - 
 
 Whiliii-v Naliun;il I'.aiik. 
 IlilK'i'iiin l!:iTilv ;iim1 I'nisi 
 ('<)m|);iiiv. Nrw ()rlLaii>. 
 I'irsl National Uaiik. 
 ( 'miiiiHTcial N a 1 i n ri a I 
 I'laiik, Ijiiiistiiii, 'I'l'XaK. 
 
 'Hi: 
 
 m 
 
 I'kIVATE WikES Tl) 
 
 New York, 
 
 Chicag'o, 
 
 And Princii);tl 
 
 Points of 
 
 Texas, Louisiana, 
 
 Mississippi, 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 And Tennessee. 
 
 Haywaro.VicK&GlarK, 
 
 COTTON, STOCKS, 
 BONDS, GRAIN, 
 PROVISIONS AND 
 COFFEE ^^^jt'ju.ji 
 
 Main Office: New Orleans, Gravier and Carondelet Sts. 
 Opposite the Cotton Exchange. 
 
 Telephone Main No- 1139. 
 Main Branch. HOUSTON. TEXAS 
 
 MEMBERS: 
 
 New Orleans Cotton Exchanfi^e. 
 
 New Orleans Future Brokers' Association. 
 
 New York Cottoi Exchange. 
 
 New York Coffee Exchange. 
 
 Chicago Board of Trade. 
 
 Associated Members Liver])ool C'otton Ass'n. 
 
 J. I). HAYWAKI), 
 
 A. J. VICK, 
 
 J NO F. CLARK. 
 
 Nkw Yokk 
 
 COK R ESPON I lEXTS : 
 
 J. S. BACHE & CO. 
 
 Chicac'.o 
 
 CORKRSPONnKNTS : 
 
 BARTLETT, FRAZIER AND 
 CARRINGTON. 
 
 '1 
 CflLBTOIRE'S 
 
 V Dauphine Street. Near Canal. 
 
 } ] 
 
 ALL PRINCIPAL THEATRES Wl THIN A BLOCK. \ 
 
 \ 
 j'* Everything the market affords. A la Carte and Table D'Hote 
 
 A Few Desirable Rooms. 
 
 L. 
 
 Elegant Dinins; Rooms ^ 
 
 f-'oK HAN'.UKIn 
 
 ^J 
 
 r 
 
 H. W. FELDNER, 
 
 "1 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 Sipn d ©mamental Ipaintev , 
 
 716 PERDIDO STREET, 
 
 Near St. Charles, 
 
 New Orleans. La. i 
 
 Chas. Eble, 
 
 FL0RI5T 
 
 Flowers for all Occasions 
 and at all Seasons- 
 
 STORE. 
 
 106 BARONNE ST. 
 
 GARDEN. 
 
 l503 Upperline near 
 St. Charles Ave. 
 
 Phones. New Orleans, La. 
 
 Main ■.U'-if \V. UliKiuii 711! W, 
 
 P. n. LONGSHORE, 
 
 L L LHMHR. \*\ 
 
 t. 
 
 LOITGSHOIIE S, CO., 
 
 206-208 Carondelet St, 
 
 MEMBERS OF 
 
 New Orleans Cotton Exchange, 
 
 New Orleans Stock Exchange, 
 
 New Orleans Board of Trade, 
 
 New Orleans Future Brokers' Ass'n, 
 
 Assuciate Members Liverpool Cotton Excha 
 
 1J 
 
 — 170 — 
 
MK. FELIX U. LEVY. 
 
 Among the representative business houses founded 
 years ag"0 whose story of success is part of the com- 
 mercial history of Louisiana, is tlie well-known firm 
 of Levy, Ivoeb & C-o., of New Orleans. This success 
 was based upon the honor and integrity of its foun- 
 ders, gentlemen who, to succeed, bent every effort 
 to preserve its prestige untarnished. 
 
 The worthy senior member of this firm, Mr. Feli.x 
 n. I.,evy, was born in Hellimer, a picturesque Alsa- 
 tian town on January 17, IS.^d, when the colors of 
 France waved proudly from tiie Ocean to the Kiver 
 Khine. Mr. Levy enjoyed exceptionally good oppor- 
 tunities for an education. He received in his native 
 land a common school education. This was followed 
 by a college course. His studies, however, were in- 
 terrupted when he had attained the age of fourteen 
 by a desire to seek his destiny in the United States. 
 So it came about that among" the arrivals ^n the eve 
 of the New Year of IS.^0 was this aspiring Alsatian 
 youth. 
 
 Mr. Levy proceeded to Franklin, St. Mary's Parish, 
 La., where iiis first emplovment wasasclerk in a dry 
 goods store. He was painstaking and desirous to 
 please his employer and the customer. He evinced a 
 taste for business. His thrift may be judged by the 
 fact that by rigid economy, in a short space of time 
 he accumulated sufficient money to go into business 
 on his own account. His venture proved most suc- 
 cessful and for years following the future gave 
 promise of realizing his fondest dreams. 
 
 At the /.enith of what Mr. f^evy then considered 
 his career the war between the States began. To all 
 intents and j)urposes he was a Southerner, hence he 
 cast liis lot with his people, entered the Confederate 
 Army, and continued wearing the "(iray" until the 
 finale at Appomatto.x. 
 
 His war record was in accord with his reputation 
 before and since the internecine struggle, honorable 
 and without blemish. Leaving Franklin in the hey 
 da}' of manhood, leaving his business and all cher- 
 ished ties, he proceeded to a Camp of Instruction 
 where, after six months he was promoted Sergeant- 
 Major and acting Adjutant of the Camp. He was 
 then transferred to the Subsistence Department, 
 Major Phillips commanding, on the staff of Gen. 
 Richard Taylor. 
 
 Subsccjuently he was ordered to report at the I'ost 
 Commissary Department located at Alexandria, La., 
 where he remained until Banks' army moved toward 
 Shreveport. The Confederates retreated to Mans- 
 
 field, and there General Taylor took up a position. 
 The day before the battle at Mansfield Mr. Levy 
 issued S.OOO rations to the "Boys in (iray" and. when 
 lie is in reminiscent vein he tells of the time "when 
 S,(){)i) Confederates faced 2S.n(ii) Yanks, whipped them 
 and forced them to retreat." 
 
 After this battle at Mansfield Mr. fyevy was trans- 
 ferred to (General Terrell's Brigade, Texas Cavalry, 
 which disltanded at Corsicana, Texas, at the time 
 Lee faced Grant fur the last time. On June 2S, 1S(>.=.. 
 Mr. Levy wos parolkd at Alexandria, La., iind 
 thence he returned to Franklin and began life anew. 
 
 On March 1, ISbf), Mr. Levy bade adieu to his 
 friends and companions in Franklin. They wit- 
 nessed his departure with regret. He came then to 
 to the city of New Orleans, and here has since re- 
 sided. Shortly after he entered commercial life here 
 as one of the firm of Simon, Loeb A Joseph, after- 
 wards Simon, Loeb & Levy, and later Levy. Loeb, 
 Scheuer & Co., and finally with continued prosperity. 
 Levy, Loeb & Co., one of tlic prominent houses of 
 the present. Mr. Levy is now the senior partner. 
 
 Personally Mr. I^evy is a <|uiet and unassuming 
 gentleman and only those who know him intimate] v 
 would recognize in him a man who, in the cause of 
 the Confederacy, braved death on many a hotlv con- 
 tested battle-field with the nonchalance of a true 
 Frenchman. Years ago while resident in Franklin, 
 he became a Mason of Franklin I^odge No. .^7 and 
 later, penetrated the mysteries of the vails in the 
 Koyal Arch Chapter. His Masonic course won for 
 him, not only the regard of his Brother Masons, but 
 the distinction of Honorary Membershij) in his 
 Mother Lodge also. 
 
 Since taking up his residence in New Orleans Mr. 
 Levy has been identified with Congregation Temple 
 Sinai, the Order B'nai B'ritli, the Free Sons of Israel 
 and the Associations dedicated to the Jewish Or- 
 phans' Home and Touro Infirmary and the Harmony 
 Club 
 
 While Mr. Levy is a practical man of afi'airs he 
 still finds time for the little amenities of fraternal 
 and social life and is, in his modest way, influential as 
 well as earnest, in his efforts for the betterment of 
 civic conditions or in the interest of his less fortunate 
 brethren. 
 
 171 
 
[corona coal 
 
 TELEPHONE 362. 
 
 ALABAMA 
 Block Coal Co. 
 
 Office, 138 Carondt let Street, 
 
 YARD5: Corner Clio and ria}>'nolia .streets. 
 Corner Press and Burgundy Streets. 
 
 PATRICK J. McMAHON. 
 
 TELEPHONE 522. 
 
 Undertaker and Embalmer. 
 
 U 12-11 16 Dryades Street, 
 
 Oppsile SI. Jiihn ihvir. b. 
 
 Carriages for Wedding.*. Parties, Etc. 
 
 i' 
 
 I 
 
 !?• 
 
 S©©®®©*©©©©®®©®*©©©©©©^©®©^-®!-!!:!© 
 
 W.J.GquIb^Co 
 
 i\ S 
 
 i) !©©=:= 
 
 ^\_ © 30LE AGENTS 
 IMP ® FO« THK 
 
 805 CANAL STRELT, 
 
 Near Bourbmi, New Orleans. La. 
 
 k) I 
 
 ©©©• 
 
 e 
 
 © 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 © 
 
 B.SG.$3.ooKat 
 
 Sold Elsewhere for $5 00 
 
 B. & Q. Stamped in a liat means 
 a Ouarantee for both 
 Quality and Style. 
 
 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© ©&©©© 
 
 
 MILLERS 
 BILLIARD HALL, 
 
 1 16 ROYAL STREET, 
 
 NEAR CANAI. STREET. 
 
 117 EXCHANGE PLACE, 
 
 NEAR CANAL STREET. 
 
 ^ BILLIARDS. 40 CENTS PER HOUR, -j^ 
 
 Exhibition Games Nightly. 
 
 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 E. OUMBEL. 
 
 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. 
 
 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 
 man, and a liberal subscriber to the charities of the 
 faith_he j)rofesses. 
 
 MORkIS ABRAHAn. 
 
EVERY JOLLY GOOD FELLOW DRINKS 
 
 SPARKLING 
 
 ABITA 
 
 I CORBONA TED. i 
 
 BECAUSE — It doesavvav vviili tin- 
 '•after effects" Mixed 
 witli wine acids z-st. 
 Makes a perfect 
 Hi-Ball. 
 
 ABITA SPRINGS WATER CO . LTD 
 
 508 POYDRAS STREET. 
 
 BOTTLED AT SPRINOS PHONt 2000 
 
 Chronometer Depot and Navigation Emporium. 
 
 Widow LOUIS FRIGERIO, 
 
 OPTICIAN. 
 
 SIGN or THE 
 
 ■M DEALER IN .* 
 
 Chronometers, Fine Watches, 
 Clock, and Nautical Goods. 
 
 Mnllif niMtic.-il. l'liilo.-io[.ihic:il ;iiiil 
 Xaiilii'iil liistriiiiifiit 
 
 1015 Canal Street, 
 
 New Orleans. 
 
 Eyes Tested Free. 
 
 COMMOOOffE 
 
 
 H.C. Ramos, ^^(^i^^i^^ 
 
 DISTRIBUTOR. 
 
 Gin Phizz. 
 
 m 
 
 AGENT FOR 
 
 Dr. Brown's Sarsaparilla 
 Tonice?* 
 
 y Imperial 
 Cabinet, 
 
 a m 
 
 M. C. RAMOS. Proprietor. 
 
 FOR THE BLOOD. 
 
 Celery Tonic, 
 
 FOR THE NERVES. 
 
 mi' 
 
 
 302=304 CARONDELET STREET, ., ^^^ 
 Opposite Cotton Exchange, 
 New Orleans. La. ^ ^ ^ 
 
 302 Carondelet St. New^Orieans, La. 
 
 3^SH5P5asai?HSaSHSa55HSaSHSHa5HSaSHSai> 
 
 sJ ^. 
 
 Fine Wines and Liquors. 
 
 m 
 
 ^ i 
 
 — 174 — 
 
JOS. MAOfNtK. 
 
 AIR. |( )Si':rii ma(;\i-;k. 
 
 All liciii(ii\-(l naiiir in thr Jewish ciuiiniuiiily (jf W'W 
 < )rk;ms is tliis mu-; i1k- iiaiiu' of a man pcrsistciil and 
 w iinlf-lirarti.'il in tin- faith. ikAntcil to llic charities and 
 fraternal instilntiuiis ni the race, lnnj; oiie of the |)illars 
 lit 'I'uDrc) lnfirniar\ and inn;; Cdiispic'.iously i(lentifie(! 
 with the ii'nai li'rith urder. The fdllowing' from one of 
 llu lewisli perioiheals slows clearlv in wiiat estimation 
 lie i.s held: 
 
 ■•( )ii iM-iday. • )ct. _>S. .\lr. .Manner eelrlirated his jotli 
 liirthdav and on that oceasion was the recipient of marked 
 attiiition and honor. ! )n the eveninj; previou.s a si)ecial 
 joint session of the local Uxli^es of ll'nai LVritli was held 
 and resohitions con!.;ratulatinj; him and reviewdii!:^ his ser- 
 vice for the order were adopted, iudotjistic addresses ac- 
 C( nipained dicni. 
 
 '"< )ii l''rida\" further compliment was paid him. Rev. 
 I.enchl otierc<l a s|K'cial praver for .Mr. .Mai^ner diirins;' 
 sirvice at Tuoro .S\ nai;o.L;ne and after the service the 
 lli^ards oi Tnoro liihrniar\' aiul the Ori)hans"' Home 
 jointh |)reseiilcd him with a set of resolutions, hand- 
 sonii'lv en,iL;rav<.(l on parchment, seltint;' forth the cliarita- 
 iile work accomplished i)\ him dnrinj; the last 50 years. 
 Hr. Leiicht presented these resolutions and alont;" with 
 them the further testimonial of a silver lo\in<;g cup from 
 his maii\' friends." 
 
 Tuoro Infirmarx traces hack to a period lout; ante- 
 dating; the L'ivil War; lint in its present sliat)e it was 
 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 1 with the old Companx' 
 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 
 
 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 i' lome .V^sociation, and was its .secretarv for eight 
 \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 
 1 lei 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, 
 and as deepl\ interested iii the Jewish iiliil.iiithiTipies as 
 ever. 
 
 M 
 
 i:r.\IvST m. L( )I-.i:. 
 
 UK of the nn)st active and successful of 
 
 Mr. L.oi'ii is 
 
 the Imsiness nnii of .Vew < )rleans. He is considered as 
 one of the -iirewdest also. Me is president of tlie Haubt- 
 iran iK: Loeb Co., manufacturers and dealers in machinery, 
 one of the largest concerns of the kind here, president 
 of the Diana lirick (!<: Tile (\>., president of the Afetro- 
 politan Lami Id., president of the I'ine Island Mercan- 
 tile Lo., and is interested in a number of other mercantile 
 and industrial enterprises. His judgement in tlie matter 
 of .\ew ( irieans real estate has been |.iroven both ex- 
 cellent and far sio-hted. 
 
 1 louston, Texas, in 18(17 wliich 
 Me received his education in 
 Schools and began life as an 
 of the very establishment of 
 w hich he is n.ow die bea I. 
 
 Mis wife, whom he mat lied about seven years ago, was 
 Miss J'dka l'"reem,-iii. Me is a Chapter Mason and Blue 
 Lodge .\lasoii, a member of the Xew Orleans Progressive 
 Cnion and prominenl in the deliberations and iniblic 
 f.iovenipnts of the Pioard of Trade. He is also vice presi- 
 dent of the Parkways Cnmniission of the citv. His Tewish 
 affiliations are with tlie Y. M. H. .A.. Tuoro Infirmary 
 ami the AA'iiiows and < )rnlian's Home. 
 
 .Mr. l.oeb was born in 
 makes him only _^j now. 
 the -Mew ( )rleaiis Public 
 a| prentice in the shops 
 
 ERNES I M. LOEB. 
 
 — 175 — 
 
MR. SAM I I'LL 
 
 WORMS. 
 
 MERMAN J. SEIHEKln. 
 
 iii-:kMA\ 
 
 SI'.IFERTH. 
 
 A -ipk-iicid fxaniiili.' .il llu' >iK\"cssful Jew in jdurnal- 
 isiii is i!u alilc anil popular cit\ (.-ditcir ni tlic Picayitiic. 
 wIm, as a w riur himself, \vr iiia\ piTiiiil to tell his own 
 stiir\. W c' lake liis autoiiiotiraphy from ;i piihlication to 
 x'.hieh >t was eoiitriluUed some time ago by Mr. .Seiferth : 
 
 "Permit me to sa\ that I was horn in X'ashilisiiok. a 
 villaii^e near ( irodno, in Russia. ( )ctoher 31. \S(\^. I 
 learned some I h'brew hefore I came to .\merica, in 1868. 
 My father had jireceded us to the I'nited States, and we 
 remained in .\ew ^'ork• onK a few weeks, icoing' to C(i- 
 hmihiis, Indiana, where we settled and F began my Eng- 
 lish t-(lucatioti. The next vear we moved to .St. Louis, 
 and a year later to Xew < )rleans, so that I have been here 
 a (|iiarter of a eentur\ . 
 
 "1 '.vent through tin- public sciionls, graduating froir 
 the high school in l)eceml)er. 187S. I'.efore that time Dr. 
 (iutheim. ;'f blessed memi)r\. ami my father had agreed 
 that I would be an ornament to the Jewish ministry. The 
 bekn'ed doctor hail arranged for mv strulies at the He- 
 brew I'liion College, Cincinnati, and in the meantime de- 
 voted a great deal of his time to giving me (irivate in- 
 st'uction. 
 
 "I'lUt there is a ilestim which shapes our ends. Jour- 
 nalism had idreadx claimed nu' for its own. 1 had al- 
 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. I had alreadv approaciux! Mrs. Xicholson with an 
 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. 
 
 .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 i it-; 
 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. 
 
 Joseph H. -Marks vva.s 'lorn in the cit\ of Xew York, 
 e'ghty seven \ears ago. His boxhood was passed in 
 .^outli Canjlina. lie came to .Xew ' )rleans when he 
 was twenty years of age. to join his brother, 1. .X. Marks 
 in the wliolesale grocery business. Thev operated under 
 the tirm nami' of Josepn H. and I. X. Marks successfully 
 111. til the capture of Xew ( )rleans, when Joseph Marks 
 was banished for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. 
 He went to ( oliimbia, S. t"., wdiere he reinained until the 
 close of the war. .and in later years returned to Xew 
 Orleans to resume business here. Tn the meantime his 
 beautiful home had been confiscate<l and sold. Misfor- 
 tmie accompanied him to .South Carolina, as well, for 
 there he was liiirned out by .Sherman's army. 
 
 .\fter the war .Mr. .Marks took up his residence in Xew 
 ^'ork, where he managed a liranch business. He stayed 
 tin re for fifteen \ears. before settling again finally in 
 Xew Orleans. 
 
 Mr. Marks liad ideiitilied himself with the Jewish con 
 gregations as soon .is lie c;mie to .Xew Orleans, and he 
 was readily drawn into the ( )r|)hans' Home Association. 
 He was one of its directors froiu the beginning, and 
 has maintained his interest in it ever since. 
 
 Mr. Marks retired from active busiiii'ss life in 1880. 
 and has since lived in retiri'ineiit with his lamilw 
 
 JOSRPM M. MARKS. 
 
 176 — 
 
L0UI5 5ILVHRSTEIN. 
 
 MR l.!)l"fS SirA'F.RSTF.lX. 
 
 'S\v. SilveTstein is sriiior nR'nilxT ui the firm of L. Sil- 
 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. Louis Silverstcin. to whom these paragrapiis per- 
 tain, is a native cf Warsaw. J'uland. Me was born in 
 i><y) anil is therefore this vear ( 11)04) '11 'lis sixty-fifth 
 \<.ar. Me came I0 this eountr\- in 1S73 as orthodox 
 Rabl.i and iiioliii, and this was his first employment in 
 New ( )rleans. 
 
 In 1SS3 he embarked in the crockery inisircss, and with 
 tlic assistance of his sovis has since btiilt up the very ex- 
 tensive business to whic'ii reference has been made. He 
 still exercises the nffice of viobci He is identified with 
 tile Jewish charities. 
 
 Mis familv n sidence is on I'.aronne street, in a quarter 
 much favored bv Jewish residents of the well-to-ilo and 
 nn'ddle class. 
 
 (;r-\"i-:RAL .\i)! )Li'ii .\iI':vI'.r, m. c. 
 
 A hii.;ii iifticia! nf Jewish birth and faith is the Con- 
 gressman from this the I'irst District of Louisiana, Gen. 
 Ad. Aleyer. Mis standinsj among national legislators 
 and his service lo this comnumitv are alike indicated in 
 tlie fact that he is now serviuL;' his thirteenth vear and 
 
 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 * ''■' a natural born soldier '■' •'■ ■■'■ 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. 
 Herein likely was developed the practical business apti- 
 tuiie whicbi he exini-.il> in his cai)acity of congressman. 
 He has been lirigadier general in the .State militia and is 
 prnmincntl\- identified with the Masonic order. 
 
 MR. MVl'.R LI-:MAXX. 
 
 Mr. Lemu'in is of the great cotton house of 11. Abra- 
 ha.ni iK: Son, one of the foremost here 1 m 'Change. Thev 
 sre in the cnttnn comnn'ssion Ijusiness. Mr. L M. Abra- 
 ham, nne of the firm, was. mp to his untimeK- demise, a 
 shnrl wlnle IjacK", treasurer of the I'otton Lxchange of 
 .Xew ( )rleans. 
 
 Mr. Lenir.im has besides cither extensive interests. He 
 is a sugar planter witli several plantations and conducts a 
 L'lrge co;mtr\- store where these interests are located. 
 
 1 le was l)orn in .Xew ^"nrk City about 46 years ago. and 
 was educated in the schonls of Xew ^"ork, .Xew ( )r!eans, 
 and Mayence. (iermany. He Ijegan his business career 
 as clerk in a countr\- store at Honaldsonville. La., and 
 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. 
 
 Air. Leniann iias family as well as property interests; 
 about twenty years ago lie married Afiss Carrie Abra- 
 ham. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, the A. 
 ( ). l\ 'A'., and the P.'nai B'rith : also of the Harmony 
 Chill. Touro Infirmary and the Jewish Widows" and Or- 
 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. 
 
 MK. I-.IMIKAI.M R( )SI'.X i;Kk( 1. 
 
 Ilere is the jiortrait of another leading and representa- 
 tive Israehte of Xe\v Orleans, namel\- .\lr, Ejjliraim Ro- 
 .senberg. of the firm of i'l. Rosenberg & Sons, manufac- 
 turers of shoes on a scale which gives them rank and im- 
 portance, not onl\- in that line but among houses of anv 
 line here. They were largel\ instrumental in the u[)- 
 huilding of that industry — one of the first to be developed 
 In ir on a scale of note since the city took a new start; 
 and in tliis development of the biisiness our subject took 
 prominent part. He has followed the shoe trade, in fact, 
 from tlie beginning of h's career. 
 
 .\lr. Rosenberg is a native of the cit\. lie was born 
 here in the vear 18^17. He is a married man. and whik' 
 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. 
 
 WK. kh-.Kl). K.\l'l'.\l.\X. 
 
 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. 
 
 L niler the heading ".\ Rising Voinig Man, " tlie C;e/. 
 former organ of the Voung Men's Hebrew Association, 
 and in a sense of tjie Jewish community also, savs this of 
 Mr. Kaufman : 
 
 ■'.Mr. I'erd. Kaufman is one of our li\'e voung men. He 
 was b(jrn and was educated in this city. He went into 
 business at an early age, and belongs to the self-made 
 class, who by energy and stick-to-it-iveness have made 
 their way to tile ton. I'\)r years he was witli Kaufman & 
 Isaacs, as general manager of their millinery department, 
 and still holds the jilace in the house. He was one of the 
 organizers of the \'. .\l. H. A. and is a member of the 
 Harmon}- and ^'onng Men's Gymnastic Club. He is 
 clever, oft'-handed. a "hail fellow well met." and numbers 
 iiis friends bv th.e score." 
 
 FERD. KAUFMAN. 
 
 - 17S 
 
PMINEAS nOSES. 
 
 MR. l'lllX!-.A.s .MoSKS. 
 
 Mr. Must's is tin wcll-kiunvti s!.'rrctar\- and iiianajjor 
 of the Ww ( )rli.'aiis L'arpet and Mattins^- L'o.. Ltd., l'>a- 
 •.•(jniif street. He is a native of the city, horn here dur- 
 ing' the war some fnrt\ or so years ago. He Ijegan his 
 business care'/i , after a term in tlie public schools of tlte 
 citv and the sclmol of the Hebrew lMluc;;ticinal Society, 
 at the age of 14 \ears, as cash h(i\ nf the t:rm of Danziger 
 & Sons, I'ovdras Market, one of thi' prominent houses 25 
 or 30 ycar.s ago. Tliat was in 1S70. 
 
 Mr. ?\iose> is affiliated fr.aternalK witn t'le l-'lks. and is 
 a mtniber of the >'. M. H. A. lie has i)een secretary of 
 Xew ( hdeans Lodge Xn. 30, l\. I'. ( ) Iv. district deputy 
 lor the state and four times reiiresei-.tatixe of the (Irand. 
 Lodge of the ( )rder. 
 
 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.. 
 
 J\[R. I'.LX R< )Si:xi'>.\rM. 
 
 ^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.. is a hatue of (lermanx. He came to tlu' L'nited 
 .States in 18(18, at tiie age of 15 years, and settled in Xew 
 Orleans, where he has resided constantiv since. 
 
 After filling si'veral clerical positions, the last in a 
 'wholesale clothing house, his valuable services secured 
 him a j)artnership which was dissolved six years after. 
 Then he embarkerl in a similar line in a retail way. l"or 
 teri years he occujiied the promirent location at 1 16 St. 
 (. iiarles street. 
 
 .\ taste for jomMialisni and literarv pursuits induced 
 him to found The Jczcish Lcdnicr in January 1895. 1^*-' 
 has condui.ted it ever since and has succeeded in making 
 it one of the m<ist intluential Jewisii journals in the 
 countrw 
 
 In i8c>(i In- assumed publication of the Siiiiarc and 
 L'ciiitiass, a Masonic j<iurnal which had susjiended publi- 
 cation, and tills jom^nal be has placed also on .a stabli' 
 basis. 
 
 in KjoJ he acquirtil the stock of tin- .Merchants' Print- 
 ing C'o., Ltd., and was elected it.> president b\ the new 
 board ( if ilireclors. 
 
 .Mr. .-^tecg takes great interest in fraternal organiza- 
 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. 
 
 A. STEEQ. 
 
 17'» — 
 
M^5^^a 
 
 >f? 
 
 
 ^1 
 
 3S:?6 
 3^;a5 
 
 
 
 3Sc^ 
 
 <:^ 
 
 ■(3W3 
 
 ^MMF^^^ 
 
 C3«!;*f2«:«3*:;^ 
 
 VISIT 
 
 THE 
 
 Electric Fans 
 Electric Elevators 
 
 INN 
 
 WITH ALL MODERN CON- 
 VEMENCES IN'CLUDING 
 T H E HAN DS( )M E ST ROC) V 
 OARPEN DINING ROOM 
 IN THE SOUTH, AND "'YE 
 OLDTIMEHOSI'ITALITY"' 
 IS ONCE MOKE UNDER 
 THE MANAGEMENT OF 
 
 'AX 
 
 ^ Only Artesian 
 
 M Water in the City 
 
 
 R. W. Collins Jr. 
 
 
 3S(?C 
 
 3^ 
 
 3S!?6 
 
 3S^ 
 
 5^3?!^..?;^ 3e;« s^¥ *;¥ }(■>£ ^>f ^ot. Sc^y. 3e'.>!( ^^^ 
 
 k^^f'^^X'SkK 3^;* 3S;?(3S;?( 3^;Ji3^3«(« ifcK»^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 9«i« 
 3^« 
 
 3W 
 
 3i!^ 
 9C« 
 
 63^^;»;^S;^3S;*3!C^ 3*;?63S?63^^3S;;J^3t;^ JSj;J(. ^f(, 
 
 3*;?6 
 3^ 
 
 ;^*; 
 
 3S;>^ 
 3S;?«; 
 
 3«:^ 
 
 77ie Latest Toilet 
 
 Requisites are Supplied by 
 
 Carters Drag Store, 
 
 Should You Need 
 
 Medicine you areSuretoget Ihs Best 
 
 n 
 
 
 3^^ 
 
 ALWAYS AT 
 
 CARTERS. 
 
 
 — - ,oC7p'5t 3 
 
 %« 
 
 %% 
 3Sr#<5 
 
 »9i 
 
 ?Hk 
 «3S;?S 
 
 3*0?G3 
 
 3S;f 
 
 e 3(^9^ )f^ )Ae )e^ ^^ 'V)ie "js!^ 3«:^ 3f;^^;*:3^ ifCje 5e: 
 
 C 3^^ ^i-^ ^^ ^f^f 
 
 S3S!^3S?63W3«;?( 
 
 H. WARD. 
 
 D. O'CONNELL, || 
 
 (r'"«^ia».j' 
 
 Ward I O'Conneii, 
 
 Practi ca l Plumbe rs 
 Gas & Steam Fitters 
 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 3^^ 
 3«!^ 
 
 3^^ 
 
 3S?6 
 3e^ 
 3^ 
 
 3^^ 
 
 ■%■!£ 
 
 :*.% 
 y>*i 
 
 y.¥i 
 
 3^?6 
 
 ^1 Phone 242. 
 
 y^ 
 
 K,M0>''^ 
 
 0fac3, 208 MILAN ST. 
 
 SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 y^ 
 ^k 
 
 3(^ 
 
 »M 
 y>*: 
 »x 
 ^■^ 
 
 3«^ 
 
 3W 
 
 3(;^ 
 
 3W 
 3^^ 
 3^ 
 3<:^ 
 
 ■^(^ 
 3Ss^ 
 
 3S;^ 
 
 II 
 
 Fkank a. Blanchard. 
 
 John B. Files. 
 
 3^:^ 
 }^% 
 
 y^ 
 AX 
 y^ 
 
 AX 
 
 y>^ 
 
 3W 
 
 AX 
 
 y^ „ 
 
 3^^ 
 
 Af(. 
 
 ^ot )pcK, TMt ^ 
 
 i^k^kXAXi 
 
 LAW OFFICES OF 
 
 BLANCHARD & FILES, 
 
 Shreveport Nat'l. Bank. B'ld'g., 
 -SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA. — 
 
 y>^ 
 
 AX 
 
 3^ 
 AX 
 
 y^ 
 
 AX 
 3S:*; 
 
 *. ^^^ yc'K ^^ 7o'5C ?c^ 9e^ov )r^ 
 
 ; ^?^ 3??<; ^« AX- ^f(XAXA^ 
 
 ■0 i^ 
 
 t;W3«!^3Ae3c:«3^^'3^3^3Ae2^yv3E:« 
 kX'kX-kXAXAXAXAXAXAX.AX 
 
 y^yi£y>ey>£y^%->^y.>^y>gy>£y^->i>£y)£y^y>f^yc^y)f.y>gy^y>iiy^yie 
 
 3S;;56 3S;?«3S;;^3«;^3^?£ 3SC?f J;?<; 3^?f ,^?<; ¥;?<; X'Jfe ^?<; }S;^ 3^« )S;;3t 3W 3^^ 3«(#t 3S^3^?€ 3«:^ 
 
 I A. NECESSITY, I 
 
 3^^ ' y>tc 
 
 AX 
 
 yyi 
 
 AX 
 
 y>t^ 
 
 AX 
 
 Ak 
 
 y^ 
 
 AX 
 
 A (dean Towel daily, with 
 Cabinet, Comh and Rrusli. 
 
 Let me Supply your wants in 
 this line. Yours, for business. 
 
 SPORT TOWEL SUPPLY CO., 
 
 IJ. T. DUVAL, Manager. 
 
 3^ Old Phone No. 825. 
 
 AX 
 
 y■*y^^y^^y>^y^)^>iiyoy^y^ii^^y^*f>fiy■!f.yy:y^y■>f.y■^y^!f:y^y^y■^y>£ 
 
 :^^^:^A^^KAkAXAXAX-kXA.XAXAXAXAkAKA.XAXAXAXAXA^ 
 
 AXi 
 
 y^ 
 
 AX 
 AX 
 
 y>£ 
 
 AX 
 
 y>£. 
 
 AX 
 A^ 
 
 ISil 
 
\ik. i-:lias la.\I)AL'i-:r. 
 
 ^Ir. I,;uiilaiicr is senior iiieniher of the firm of Laiidaucr 
 & Mover, w'.iok'sale millinery. Canal street, a lionse estal> 
 lisheil twenU \ears ago and a leader in its line. It has 
 ti'ade thniui^lioul tiie .Snnth and maintains a lartie stafl of 
 traxelint;' men. 
 
 Mr. Lanilaiier was nearly twentx \ears e'lga^ed in hns- 
 iness sneeessfidly in C'atahmda ])arish, this state, i)efore 
 lie fame here to New ( hdeans. He was successfn' there 
 arid has earned distinction here as a merchant of snpi-rior 
 ciiaracter and orcU'r. He is well known, in short, and 
 higids esteemed an;ong' all classes of the hnsiness connnn- 
 nity. 
 
 To the old faith, the faith of Ins fathers and fovljears. 
 he holds "with hooks of steel," and as a memher of all of 
 thi'm suiiscrilirs genenvuslv to its institntinns and ch.irities- 
 
 MR. l.KOX E. SCHWARTZ. 
 
 Mr. Sch\\;'.rtz is the head of the impurlant wholesale 
 dry goods house of Schwartz Ih'os. & Co.. and is a direc- 
 tor in the house of 1'.. Colin & Co. He was l.iorn in 
 Liberte, Miss.. ;n iH^(>, but was brought up ai'.d educated 
 here in .\ew ( )rleans. He has had a lifelong experience 
 of the flr\ goods line and is one of the most ])rominent 
 figures in that branch of trade in this part of the country. 
 
 Mr. Schwartz is a member of Touro and of the Widows 
 and ( )r|)hans' Home; also of the Harmmiy L'lub and the 
 I. ( ). 11. r>.: also of the Ivnights of I'ytiiias and knights 
 of Honor. He married some twenty years ago. Miss Ade- 
 line Trautman and this union has turned out an excep- 
 ti(.nall_\ happ\ one. 
 
 ^[R. .SICMCXD KKU'l'ER. 
 
 .\niong ihe most substantial and enterprisnig liusiness 
 houses of Wnv Orleans. KeifTer llros., 427 Camp street, 
 shoo jobbers and manufacturers, rank higii. They are 
 the pn^prietors of the Tulane Shoe Factory on Canal 
 st'.eet, !he largest in the St)Uth, and we're pioneers in the 
 manufacturing siioe business in the Crescent Cit\'. Thev 
 have trade, it is hardly necessary to add, prettv mucli all 
 over the cour.try. 
 
 Air. Sigmnnd Keitter, whose name ilea Is this account, 
 is senior member of this important firm. He i.- of ( ler- 
 man birth. l)oru in the Rhine country some (u years ago. 
 Init has spent the greater part of his life, and about all 
 his business career, in this country. His rst venture was 
 in the commission business, but he has been in the slioe 
 trade as manulactm-er since i86(). 
 
 .Mr. Kiiffer. we need scarcely remark, is one of the 
 most |)rnminent among the Jewish element of W-w < )r- 
 leans business im-n. Sociallv also and in the fraternal and 
 cliaritable concerns of his people he has distinction. He 
 is a memlicr of tlie Harmonv Club, the chief Jewish so- 
 cial organizalion 'the most luxuriously .i|)pointed club 
 in fact of the city ). and is connected with Touro. the Jew- 
 ish Home and. se\eral other institutions. He is married 
 and the head nf a grown-up family and has his home in 
 njjper .^t. Clnirks avenue among the peo|)le of wealth and 
 (pialitx- iif the city. He is. in short, a type of the high- 
 toned, charitable, successful and res|)ecteil merchant. 
 
 MR. LAZ.\R1". Ll-A'V. 
 
 Mr. Lev\ is of .Vewlierger &[ Le\'\'. cotton factors of 
 .\ew Orleans, one of the most enterprising and substan- 
 tial houses in that line. He was iiorn. reared and edu- 
 cated here and is a son of the late jacol) Levy. <if Levy 
 & Haas, cotlon factors also, fie has had ;m experience 
 of more than diirt\ years in the cotton trade. 'Ihe house 
 has other large interests. It has st(.)ck in several lianks 
 and other solid investments. 
 
 .Mr. Lev\"s Irateriiai affiliations embrace men.il)ershi[) 
 in tile Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor. His 
 relations with th.e principal Jewish institutions of the city 
 include the Harmony Club, foremost Jewish social organ- 
 izataion of the South, the Touro Infirmary and Hebrew 
 i'.enevolenl Association and the Jewish Widows and (Or- 
 phans' Home. ( )f tlie two last named he is a subscribing 
 member. 
 
 MR. LDWIX XECGASS. 
 
 This is the day of tiie young man in business in Xew 
 ( >rleans. as elsewhere. In the stressful life of to-day the 
 opi'oriunities come earlier, it would seem, to many. Xot 
 a few are tlie xor.ng men iiere associated in the. direction 
 or at the head of large monied or commercial concerns. 
 
 ( )f this Miungcr element is our subject. Mr. Edwin 
 Xeugass. son and partner of .Mr. Herman Xeugass, the 
 long established banker and financial broker of Carondelet 
 SLreet. The younger man was brought up to this line and 
 is thoroughly conversant with it: so much indeed that 
 ids indgment is accepted generallx' concerning the stocks, 
 lionds. collateral arid securities of this market as of the 
 best. 
 
 .\ir. .Xeugass is a native, is settled in life as a IJeuedict 
 and is a suliscriber to the Jewish charities and institutions 
 of ihe cit\. He is a member of tiie Harmon\- Club, also 
 the V. .M. H. A. 
 
 181 
 
^ 
 
 Batchelor's Kitchen. 
 
 When vou are in Shreveport 
 and want Good things to 
 Eat, Clean things to Eat, 
 Cooking in full View, call at 
 
 Bat chelor ' s Kitchen . 
 
 522 McNeil Street, 
 
 Opposite Court House. 
 
 Traveling Men and Ladies will find our 
 Kitchen a Nice Clean Place. 
 
 Suits to Order, $15, $l(i, $18 and $-2n 
 
 Pants to Order, - $4, $.5 ami $6. 
 
 > 
 
 STRICTLY MADE TO MEASURE. > 
 
 E.A. HALE, 
 
 The Popular Pri ce TaiJor- V 
 
 527 Market Street. 
 
 SHORT ORDERS AT CUT PRICES. 
 STEAKS and CHOPS A SPECIALTY. 
 
 
 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 G. H. BREWER, 
 
 The Upholsterer, 
 
 Furniture Repairing, Mattresses Renovated 
 and Made to Order, Tents'and Awnings. 
 
 4 Shop |853 Texas Avenue, 
 
 TELEPHONE 296. 
 
 Shreveport, La. 
 
 f 
 
 w 
 w 
 
 
 SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 
 K?\. fHrXi aN?t a\/X rr\r\: 3 
 
 / "iP*: -si"^ ■^E'■^ '^'i£ "iP^ "if" 
 \ iTSrt: ^rx. tA/x i7\/^ iT\ri <7\i 
 
 3^ 
 
 3« 
 
 It will pay you to g-et prices from us when in 
 need of (ialvanized Iron Cisterns. Koolinff, 
 (iutterinuf. Steel Ceiling, Skv Liirlits cV Etc. 
 We also do Kepairini;-. 
 
 WRITE OR PHONE 296. 
 
 C. J. BREWER, 
 
 Tin and Sheet Iron Works, 
 
 855 TEXAS AVE. SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 ' "^-^r "^^ 'it"*: "^■^ ■^■^ "iP^ itf^ ■^t'^ itfNar "^sfr'i; "i&"ic :iS^ "iM^r "iW^ "i&"^ "is^ lit"^ iw 
 
 3<« 
 3^ 
 
 3e:^ 
 
 
 3i^ 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 i^ 
 
 3Sr^. 
 3^?6 
 
 3S0*; 
 
 Agurs & Kingsmore, 
 
 Lumber, Shingles and Laths. 
 
 Moulding-s, Moulded Casinofs and Base 
 Windows, Doors, Blinds, Cords and Wei<rhts. 
 
 YARD and OFFICE, TEXAS AVE. 
 
 PHONE 707. 
 
 SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 
 3^ 
 3^ 
 
 3«:>« 
 3^ 
 
 3^ 
 
 182 — 
 
Mu. s. ( )i)i<:\iiI':imI':r. 
 
 Mr. ( )(lci"]lK'imcr is (listinguislu'd in tlu' l)iisiiu-ss wcirld 
 or' .W-w < )rk'ans is tin.- licad of uiu- ut its larj^cst and most 
 (•ros(5erous nianufacttn-inij institutions, nanicl\- tlic Lane 
 (_'otton -Mills, tlu' oldest licrc. Me is associated with [.eli- 
 Uian, .Stern i^ l^'o. in the conduct of this enterprise, the 
 recent enlart;enii'nt and extension of which shows how 
 it- luisincss. uriiler his nianagvniont, is iiroijressint;' 
 
 He is in fact a ?nan specially e(|uipped for his task. 
 
 I'xirn in I'.aden. ( lcrinan\-, he was ed\icated at the tjvni- 
 n.asinni of Darlach. ani! a.t the I'oK technican of Karls- 
 ruhe, in the fashion characteristic of school meth- 
 ods in the thoroniih-tioin>; l'"atlierland. and besides 
 had already displayed his fitness for the l)nsiness at the 
 cotton mills of Tuskaloosa, Ala. 
 
 Mr. ■; )'fU-nheinKr is a man of famiK. Me is a son-in- 
 law of the late Julius I-'revhun. president of l^aue Mills in 
 his lifetime, and one of the successful men of Louisiana. 
 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- 
 evolence lie is neitiier a lukewarm nor rigid sujiporter. 
 however, of the faith he subscribes to, or of Jewish insti- 
 ti'tions. He is a contributor to the jjrincipal philantho- 
 ])ies and charities, with special interest in the \'oun,g 
 Men's He'irew Association, c)f wliicli he was one of the 
 founders and organizers. He is a memlier also of the 
 I larnioiu C lub. 
 
 .MR. 1 .M. LICHTh:XSTKfX. 
 
 .\mong i.resent-da\' financial and business men of dis- 
 tinction in New < )rleans and Louisiana, the name of 
 Isaac .\L Lichtenstein is one l>oth wideh' and highly es- 
 teemed. He is a merchant of prominence in the cotton 
 trade, a banker and ca()italist, and is largel\' interested in 
 the industries and enteri)rises of this state and its neigh- 
 bors. 
 
 .Mr. Lichtenstein was born in Summit. Miss., and was 
 lirought up and received his elementar\' education there. 
 
 llnishing the uill public sciiool course of \ew <)rleaiis. 
 through the firal high school grade. Mis Inisiness ex- 
 i>erience was earlv accpiired. He began with Hyman, 
 Lichtenstein (!t Lo.. cotton factors, to which his house. M. 
 Lichtenstein & .Son. one of the largest in that line here, is 
 successor, and leceived, in their employ, a tlioroughly 
 practical business education. f4e was one of the organ- 
 izer.s of the Commercial .\ational Hank of this citv ; also 
 of liie Coinmeicial Trust and Savings I'.ank, and is vice- 
 Ijresident of luith, and lie has interests al.so in other lumks 
 of Louisiana. 
 
 Me has iinested !argel\- also in rice lands, rice culture 
 and rice nu'lling; lijis l)een one of those most activelv 
 identified in a moneved \\;i\ witii the develoiiment of 
 business in that staple. Me is a director and ]>rincii)al 
 owner in fi\-e large Louisiana rice mills, is [^resident of the 
 Wrmilion Irrigation Co., and president of the Lichten- 
 steiii-Hechingcr Canal Co., one of the most extensive en- 
 terprises of the kind in tlic couiUr','. 
 
 MR. W 
 
 LEX'GSFIiaJ). 
 
 Here we have one id' the notables of th.e business world 
 of Xew < )rleans. and at the same time a man well known 
 in Jewish social circles, a keen business man indeed, a 
 club man and patron of Jewish institutions and charit\-. 
 
 Mr. Lengsfield is of the important cotton house of 
 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 
 foremost fre(|uenters of the floor on 'change. 
 
 \Ir. Lengsfield has fretpiently given the benefit of his 
 time and means to Touro Infirmar\- and the Widows' and 
 O'phans" Home. ;ind this in most lilieral measure. He 
 belongs to the Harmony Club and to the \'oung Men's 
 Mel.'rew Association. ( )ther charities and institutions, 
 Hcth Jewish and Christian, have been reci|)ients of his 
 liounty. He ranks, to sum all up, among the more promi- 
 lunt and reprt seiitatiw of the Jewish element in the 
 Crescent City, 
 
 — 185 — 
 
r 
 
 Sfcu 
 
 ALBERT UHL A. I. E. E 
 
 ft 
 S. R. ELLIOTT, j [}j 
 
 UHL & ELLIOTT, 
 
 iil I. E C^ T K C A I. P: ^ O N E E R 1 ^^ O 
 
 A >: ij c; c) N s T R u c t i o i^ . 
 
 i WE INSTALL AND REMODEL: 
 
 C 
 
 ©iectric JL^ignt ar^d zJov^cr ^iaT>ts vJ eiepi>otAe i^irycs aT>d ®xcl>aT>ges. 
 
 TESTS AND REPORTS 
 ON ELECTRIC PLANTS. 
 
 INTERIOR WIRING 
 AND FIXTURES. 
 
 > Local and Long Distance Phones 69. 
 
 CI 
 
 Shreveport^ La. 
 
 J 
 
 CASPER LPARY. W. D. NORWOOD. 
 
 PRES A GEN. MaR. VICE-PRESIDENT. 
 
 MODEL STEAM 
 LAUNDRY CO.. 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 Domestic High and Gloss Finish. 
 
 SPECIAL ATTENTION TO CLEANING 
 AND DYEING, WASHING WOOL 
 BLANKETS AND LACE CURTAINS. 
 
 OUR WAGONS CALL EVERYWHERE. 
 Telephone No. 362. 
 
 Shreveport, Louisiana. 
 
 A. G. CHATWIN 
 
 SAMUEL CHATWIN. 
 
 CHATWIN BROS. 
 
 Sanb anb Contvactino Co. 
 
 ARTIFICIAL STONE. PLAIN and 
 ORNAMENTAL, SIDEWALKS. 
 CURBS. AND ALL OTHER 
 BRANCHES OF THE CEMENT 
 BUSINESS — - 
 
 ALSO TILE FLOORING. 
 
 
 -Office 
 
 Market and Travis Streets, 
 
 Phone 1341. P. O. Box 23 
 
 .Shreveport, La.. 
 
 184 
 
THE STATE AT LARGE. 
 
 SHREVEPORT. BATON ROUGE. MONROE ALEXANDRIA, 
 DONALDSONVILLE. LAKE CHARLES, ETC. 
 
 
 SHREVEPORT. LA. 
 
 81 ll\l''.\ I'l'l >l\'r. situated mi tiu' t'aildd Muffs (if Kc<\ 
 l\i\cT, in tin- uiirthwfstcrn ]>art nt l.iaiisiana. is the 
 second city (if the state in iJ(i|Hilati(tn and li^ade. It 
 has aliont 25.OUO inhahitants and is an inip(jrtant vvlidle- 
 
 it has tin transportation facilities uf eiglit raiiroads, 
 ;,ni(iny them the Texas (!i: Pacific. Queen & (Vescont and. 
 iron Mountain trunk lines. 
 
 ."^hreveport is an old citw It was chartered in 1839. 
 ii)]i\ even before the civil war was a supjjly point for 
 TeNas. Its growth has heen steady and substantial and 
 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 
 markets and has for its trihnt;irics a field emliracing. not 
 onlv North I,ouisi,an;i lint the adjacent parts of Arican.sas 
 and Texas as well. 
 
 Its immediate snrnnnidiufjs id' the "hill coiuitry" of 
 North Louisiana, so called, and the Red River alluvial 
 lands, are very productive. Resides the lines of river boats 
 
 in.'-titutions. social. i^(i\ernirienlal. educational, religious 
 and charilalik, iiaN'c de\eloped. It is the seat of one of 
 the .State liospitals. In respect of water works, fire de- 
 partment, pulici protection and other municipal provi- 
 sions it is well equipped and city like. 
 
 .'^hreveport has a large Jewish business element. Tiiis 
 element maintains, besides its Hebrew Zioii congreiiation. 
 
 185 
 
s. 
 
 S 
 
 ^ 
 
 Perry Bridges. 
 
 John Y. Snyder. 
 
 PERRY BRIDGES & SNYDER, 
 ARCHITECTS, 
 
 404-5-6 First National Bank Building, [g 
 
 Shreveport, La. 
 
 \ 
 
 9 
 
 e 
 
 ^ 
 
 %_,„0S^-\(S^:f^!^i^%f^:^,,.^ 
 
 Garson Bros. 
 
 Contractors 
 
 AND 
 
 BUILDERS. 
 
 10 
 
 ShrcVeport. La. 
 
 ^ 
 
 J 
 
 H.H. BAIN, 
 
 Sheet Metal 
 
 a 
 
 Ci 
 
 WORKS, 
 
 Anything in the Sheet Metal Line 
 
 L*t Heating and Ventilating. ^*t 
 891-807 Texas Ave. 
 
 ShretJeport, La. 
 
 \s 
 
 J 
 
 f 
 
 ^ 
 
 Galvanized Iron Cisterns made in any Capacity. 
 Roofing and Guttering a Specialty. 
 
 EMILE WORTMAN, 
 
 TINNER, 
 
 1030 Texas Ave. I? 
 TELEPHONE 63. 
 
 SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 V 
 
 J 
 
 — 180 
 
twii olulis. llic Ilarmuny, fdunclcil in iScXi. and tin- ("n- 
 li;nii)ia, founded in iS(;i. I'lu' clul> Imusts in\'n|)i(.'d liy 
 one of these is siiown lierewitli. 
 
 As lon,ij ajjo as 11X48 there were ti-n nr twehe lewisli 
 families making their homes in Shre\e|)i)rt. and in 1851; 
 the city donated a pit'ce of ground fur a jiwish grave 
 yar<l. 'J'lie Jtvvisli residents hail hy this time formed a 
 congregation, n.eeting ahoni from placi' lo place wherever 
 convenient. Tliis was the nucleus of the present /.ion con- 
 gregation nf that city wnich was organized in iSfic). Its 
 president, fur man\ \ears, was Sinum 1a'\\. |r, I'or fivi. 
 years Herman IKri'oli' occupied tlu- chair. Since the 
 year i8';o -Mi'. \\ ni. Winter, hereinafter nientiuned, has 
 licdd this office. Rah'ii Israel Saenger was spiritual ad- 
 \iser ijf the congregation for a long term of \ears. 
 
 stein, was educated at the llehrew I nion College, Cin- 
 cinnati, ( )hio. and has the 1!. .\. degree of the I'niversit}' 
 of Cincinnati. 
 
 He was Kahhi of ( 'ongregation Uith Israel. Macon, (ia.. 
 three years; of I'.i-thel. .San \utonio. Te.x.. tw.o years: 
 of I'.'nai Israel, .Salt Cake City, three years; of Rodef 
 .^holom. ^'oung■stown, ( ).. two \ears ; of Kein'llath .Anshe 
 .Moarahli. l_'hicagii. 111., tln^ec years and iia-- also heen 
 editor of the /i 7i'm-// ( hronitlc. .\loiiile. .\la. 
 
 .\IK. .\RTIirR T. K.XIIX. 
 
 }dr. Ka.hn is 
 ,^hre\eport. He 
 
 liank. treasurer of the Conger, I\ahn & (iihhs Co., whole 
 sale drugs, and has other interests hesides. He is a na 
 
 leading citizen and iinsiness man or 
 president of the Shreveport National 
 
 MKBUKVS ZION SYNAGOGUE, SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 The \elIow fe\er epi<lemi.- of 187^5 was \'cr\ disastrous 
 to the lewish element of Shre\eporl. During that time 
 i.mi after it the old cemetery raj)idly filled up. In 1886. 
 therefore, a new <mv was purchased, laid out and openeil. 
 
 There is a Sunda\- school building on the same grounds 
 with the Temple. < )ne of the ntosi unite 1. hest organ- 
 ized and nn)st Hotnashing of Jewish communities in short 
 is this of .^hre\ i.pi 'rt. 
 
 R.M'd'.l j.\C()l'.S-)X ( )|- .SHRl'IVKl'ORT. 
 
 -Moses Perez Jacohson, says the .American Jewish A'ear 
 l!ook, is l^abbi of Hebrew Zion Congregation. Shreve- 
 port. La. He was liorn August 25, i8f)4. at I-T. Wayne, 
 Iml. He is the son of Elkan Jacohson and Fannv Roseu- 
 
 tive of ShrevetJort, thirty-three years old. a bachelor, was 
 brought up to the banking business as clerk in the Mer- 
 chants & Farmers' I'ank of the Xorth Louisiana metropo- 
 lis, and is a member of the {''lies, the Hoo-Hoos. the T. 
 1'. .\. and Shreveport Lodge \o. 1 13. V . &. .\. AI. 
 
 MR. SOL. K.MIX. 
 
 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 
 ( Irleaiis. He has lieen there about four years. 
 
 lie is an Alsatian by Jiirth. about 48 years old, a mar- 
 ried man. formerly, for sixteen years, a resident of New 
 ( )rleans. He was married to Miss Hannah Feli.x in Ken- 
 ner. La., in 1881, and is the ha])ny father of three fine 
 girls. He is a K. of P. and K. of IT. 
 
 — 187 — 
 
r 
 
 L. N. MANAHAN, 
 
 Commission Broker, 
 
 Cotton. Grain, Provisions, Stocks. 
 
 OFFICE 
 
 124 Milam St. 
 
 TELEPHONE No 64. 
 P. O. BOX HI. 
 
 SHREVEPORT. LA 
 
 Kkkkkknces 
 
 Shreveport National [iank. 
 Citizens National Bank. 
 Fairchild & Hobson. 
 Logan & Bryan. Private 
 Wire Service to all Exchantres. 
 
 (/'oiiKEsi'OMiEN'is — Fairchild & Holi.^oii, New t)rleiiiiK. 
 Logan & Hi van, (Chicago. .7. 8. liaclic & ('o.. New 
 York. Mclntyre & Mar.shall, New York. Henry 
 Hentz A- Co., New York. S. Munn Son & Co., New 
 York. Atwood, Violett & Co., New York. I.ogan & 
 l?rvaii. New York. 
 
 Prompt and Satisfactory Service. 
 Q)rrespondence Solicited. 
 
 r 
 
 p. VOUKEE. Piesidem 
 A T. KAH!». Cashier. 
 
 H H. YOUREE. Vice- Pie.sident 
 A H VAN HOOK, Asst C'lisliier 
 
 n 
 
 THE 
 
 Commercial National Bank, 
 
 of Shreveport, Louisiana. 
 
 Capital Stock, ... $ loo.ooo.oo 
 
 Surplus and Undivided Profits - $359.5" 93 
 
 REPORT OF CONDITION. 
 At Close of Business, November 10, J904. 
 
 • J* jt RESOURCES: J* -j* 
 
 Ijoans. Discounts and Overdrafts 
 
 United .States Bonds, premiunins, stocks, etc. 
 
 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 
 
 ensH, ... - - 
 
 Tiilnl, 
 
 jt LIABILITIES, i^i 
 
 « "62.977,1.'; 
 
 102,W2, l.'i 
 
 9, .144-37 
 
 646.615 95 
 
 .^9.819.939 63 
 
 Deposits 
 
 Capital Stock 
 Surplus 
 
 Undivided Projits 
 Circulation 
 
 Total, 
 
 lOft.00.1,00 
 
 31 ooo.no 
 :«)1.I27 11 
 
 L. 
 
 2 297 812 21 
 
 422.12741 
 100.000 (Kl 
 
 1(3.819.939 62 
 
 This Bank has More Surplus and Profits than all other 
 
 Banks in the city Combined. 
 Accounts ol Banks, Corporations and Individuals Respect- 
 fully Solicited. 
 Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Correspondence 
 Solicited. 
 
 BIG STORE ON TEXAS ST., 
 
 Opposite the Court House. 
 
 Is the Leading' and Largest Dry Goods 
 Store in Shreveport, or North Louisi- 
 ana. The Store is New and up-to-date 
 in all its appointments. Largest 
 Stock of Dry (ioods. Largest Stock of 
 Millinery, Largest Stock of Carpets, 
 Mattings. Linoleums, Rugs and 
 House Furnishings. Fine Dress 
 Making Department. Sole Agents 
 for McCalls' Patterns. Agents for 
 W. B. Corsets. Mail orders promptly 
 filled. 
 
 / Visit this Store and you will find what you 
 want, and Save Money. 
 
 t.. 
 
 f E. G. SCALES & GO. | 
 
 i I 
 
 Commission Brokers. 
 
 122 Milam St. Shreveport, La. 
 
 OFFICES. 
 
 WACO. TEXAS 
 TEHPLE, " 
 TAYLOR ■' 
 
 SHREVEPORT. LA. 
 BROVVNWOOD, TEXAS. 
 BELTON. TEXAS. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 New York Cotton Exchange, 
 New Orleans Cotton Exchange, 
 Chicago Board of Trade. 
 
 I 
 
 r 
 
 Direct Leased Wires to New York, 
 Chicago and New Orleans. 
 
 18S — 
 
HENRY FLORSMEIM. 
 
 MR. HEXRV ]-L.')RSHEl.\l. 
 
 This is the prt-sidcnl and nianagint;' partner of the ini- 
 piiitaiit I'lorsiieini llrus.' Dr\' Goods Co., one of the prin- 
 cipal concerns of .Shreveport. He is also a director of the 
 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. 
 
 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 185.V His education was obtained in the 
 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 
 Kaufman, of Duerklieim. ( daughter of Max Alayer Kauf- 
 man and E.sther Weil Kaufman ) ; and again to Mrs. Rosa 
 I'.arnett. daughter of the late Isaac Simmons, and Airs. 
 Henrietta Lew .Simmons, of Slireveport, formerl\- of 
 \ew <■ )rleans. He has eight children living, .and two 
 Grandchildren. 
 
 MR. SLM( )\ 1I1-:R( )L1). 
 This gentleman has distinction among his conferes of 
 Slireveport, as president of the old Chevra. which went 
 
 — 18'i — 
 
 SIMON HEROLD. 
 
i i 
 
 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. 
 
 We carry 
 the large.vt Hi 
 Stock in ^1 
 North Kou- '""' 
 isiana. 
 
 Comprising 
 Everything 
 in "V 
 
 Bed Room Sets >> 
 Dining Room, Parlor 
 Sitting and Library. 
 
 We invite you to call and examine our 
 Mammoth Stock. 
 
 OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS THE LOWEST. 
 
 508-5)0 Texas Street, 
 
 SHREVEPORT, LA 
 
 OPP. COURT 
 HOUSE. 
 
 — l'»0 
 
 WELLMAN & CO. 
 
 UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS, 
 CALLS NIGHT AND DAY — 
 
 rE^^n^''- Shreveport, La. 
 
 TELEPHONE 187. 
 618 
 
 WELLMAN ^S 
 
 Exclusive Paint, Oil, 
 Varnish, Wall Paper 
 and Glass House. 
 
 bOl TEXAS ST. J» Shreveport. La 
 
WILLIAH WINTER. 
 
 MR. W ILLIAAI WIXTRR. 
 
 Shreve|jort is tiic Imhk- alsn nl Wm. Winter, s^'en-.'ral 
 ai^i-iit for till" Xcw \'(irk Lite Insurance Company, direc- 
 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 
 
 \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 all — practi- 
 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 
 a member id the city council of Shreveport. member of 
 the Shreveport I'.oard of Health and has had other hou- 
 or.s at the hands nf his fellow citizens. 
 
 His collections for, and contributions in aid of the 
 Jewish ( )r|ihans' Heme in Xew ' )rleans have been espec- 
 iall\- generou.s. 
 
 HERHAN MEROLD. 
 
 191 — 
 
THE BANK OF BATON ROUGE 
 
 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. 
 
 CompKiHlive Statenif lit show- 
 iti({ steady Ki"""'!! <>f I'"! Brtiik 
 of Baton Kiiiifie: 
 
 Surplus ami 
 Diite. ('iiiMt;U rmlivicU'il 
 
 Protiirs 
 
 Oct. IWnil— tSd.OOd (1(1— tlf>9,0T5 TCi 
 
 ■• IHOl— 50,(1011 0(1— 179.591 K9 
 
 •• 1902— 50.000 (K)— 191,641 •,'() 
 
 •• 19ua— 50,000 00— 310,888 r2 
 
 Dividends Paid. 
 
 Sim. 1 to Hsenii Hiinual 
 
 4 per cent, - *2K,000 00 
 
 Xos. 15 to n semi annnal 
 
 (i per cent, - H.OOO 00 
 
 Xos. IS to "20 semi annual 
 
 7H per cent. - 11,250 00 
 
 Ti>tal Dividends Paid »4R.350 00 
 
 Or 96', per cent of the CHpital 
 stock. 
 
 MB Accounts and Collections 
 solicited. 
 
 RKSOURCES, 
 
 Detnan<l loans, - - - - *I09,22-.' 58 
 
 Loans secured by mortKaj<e, - - - 144.1.S6 90 
 
 Otber loans and discounts, - - 299.723 81 
 
 Overdr-afts unsecured, - _ - - 1,688 49 
 
 Other bonds, stocks, securities. et3., - 98,445 00 
 
 Bankint! house, furniture atid (ixtiires, - 1 OO 
 
 Other leal estate owned, - T.SOO 00 
 
 Due from banks and bankers. - - 434,890 42 
 
 Olieckii and other cash items, - 311 96 
 
 Gold Coin, ------ 4,858 00 
 
 i^ilver, nickel and copper coin, - - 13,945 24 
 National l)ank notes and all issues 1*. S. (iovl., 37,743 00 
 
 I'lKal. 
 
 «l.l.-i«,»l« 40 
 
 LIABII.ITIKS. 
 
 Capital stock paid in, - - - » .50 000 00 
 
 Surplus, .--.-- 200,000 00 
 ITndivided profits, lessexpeusesand ta.xes paid, 49.396 65 
 
 Due to other banks and bankers, - 201,319 48 
 
 Diviiienils unpaid, . . . . 48 (HI 
 
 Individual deposits not bearing interest, Ii51.257 SO 
 
 Certified checks, - - - 271 87 
 
 Cashier's checks outstandinfi. - - 524 60 
 
 Total, 
 
 !il,15«,8ie 40 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 VV.M. .J. KXOX, - - President 
 O. B. STEELK. ■ Vice-President 
 JCS. GEBEI.IX, - - Cashier 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 (iEo. Hll.i., 
 Planter. 
 
 A. STRENZKE, 
 Dry Goods Mercbanl, 
 
 O. B. STEELE, 
 Planter, 
 
 BEX K. MAYEK, 
 of Ben. H. .Mayer Gro. Co., Ltd. 
 
 SAM'L LAYCOCK, 
 Lawyer. 
 
 EDW. SCHLOSS, 
 Cotton and Moss Ginnery. 
 
 WM J. KNOX, 
 President. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1888 
 
 EXTENSIVE 
 DESIGNS 
 
 We have added 
 to our extensive 
 and beautful line 
 of 
 
 CORRECT 
 PRICES 
 
 Rings, Lockets, Fobs. 
 Brooches, Studs & Scarfpins. 
 
 A New and Complete Assortment of 
 
 Diamond Mountings & Diamond Jewelry 
 
 Mail orders receive our prompt attention. 
 
 J. K. ROUMAIN, 
 
 ^Wholesale and Retail Jeweler..^ 
 
 SOLID 
 SILVERWARE 
 
 Baton Rouge, La. 
 
 HIGH GRADE 
 CUT GLASS 
 
 ^ 
 
 m, 
 
 7^$$i$$r$$«^;$-$:$-$S-$.^^i$^rdS-SdiS-$l$$Sdf$€^S$l&.9i9»S 
 
 3B. 5. (3oo6inan, 
 
 I •<-Hrchitcctj4^ 
 
 * 
 
 i Sll 1W. Boulcval•^ ipnonc 100 
 
 i :fi5aton IRouac lla. 
 
 ft! 
 
 * 
 
 
 I 
 
 1>)2 
 
 Si 
 
 Dr. C. BOURGEOIS, 
 
 DENTIST, 
 
 12 1 2 Mr.T:N STREET 
 
 UP-STAIRS. 
 
 i!6*e$^eeees*ss:6e«es*e«eeeeeeeeeee-«eee« 
 
 M/ 
 \l/ 
 
 \l/ 
 
 M/ 
 
 \l/ 
 * 
 
BATON ROUGE. LA 
 
 "DA r< )\ R( >r'. il':, tlu- va])ilai lit Li)in>i;ma. is a suli- 
 ■■-^ stantial and attradivc cit\ ni aliniu 15,000 'iiliahi- 
 tanls, situated mi tlic .Mississippi and tin- T. (Jt P. 
 and Mississip|)i X'alk'v •.'aili'nads. alunit (jo iiiilcs nnrtii of 
 Xew ( >rk'aiis. It is an old city, si'ttk'd l)v tlic l*"rcncii an 1 
 siirrdi'.ndfd willi a l.iyhly fruitful ci)untr\. and is tile seat 
 (if ;; nunilier id' the state institutions. The jewisii ele- 
 ment of the pdonlation lias a strong hold, not onlv upon 
 the husiness ni the place hut of |ilanling interests in all 
 the surmunding' conntr\. .\s a class it is well res^rded 
 and many individuals are liitjlily esteemed. Anions; sucli 
 we may name the (•'arruhachers, father and son. and 
 iitlu-rs mentioned herein. 
 
 RAinU IRA.VK 1.. K'OSEXTHAl. AXl) TMK ("OV 
 C.Rlj; A'i K )\ r/XAl ISRAEL. 
 
 The Ji.'\v.-- ot l'>aton Rouge form, as we have said, a 
 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. 
 Kline, who .servetl about fifteen years, up to 1900, and the 
 present pastor. Rev. Frank L. Rosenthal, wdio occupies 
 the puliiit also of Temple .Sinai, at .St. l'"rancis\'ille. La. 
 The Rev. Rosenthal came to Baton Rouge in 1901 from 
 
 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: 
 
 Horn Ma\ 
 
 iSf)^, in Xew N'ork Citv. .Son of Rubin 
 
 Rt.senthal. who conducted his Hebrew education. Secu- 
 lar t'llui-ation rtcei\c 1 in the pui)lic schools of Xew A'ork 
 (.'it\ and tile college of the City of .Xew York. Was Rabbi 
 five years of the 'congregation 'House of Israel," Hot 
 .Springs." 
 
 Tile latest inform;it'on obtainable gives the officers of 
 this congreg:iiai: m as follows: Ren. R. .Mayer, president; 
 .Svlvan Toijias. \ice-president : L. II. .Ma\er. secretary: 
 j- j. .\lendeUobn. treasurer: J. |-'arrubaciier, Ed. .Schloss 
 and lien l-listiiian. trustees. 
 
 MR. SVIAAX TOI'.I.XS. 
 
 ( ;•! note also :uiiong lewisii residents and business men 
 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 
 town of considerable importance, tiie market place for an 
 
 >YLVAN TOBIAS. 
 
 exceedinglv ri.li agricultural country, situated not many 
 miles from his present (U niicile. That event occurred in 
 1S57. Me was educated at the famous .Soule Commercial 
 
 193 — 
 
(( 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» .* 
 
 I A. ROSENFIELD, N. S. DOUGHERTY, 
 I D. M REYMONU. R A. HART. 
 [( S. 1 REYMO.ND, W. C. WHITAKER, 
 
 r/ W. P. CONNELL. 
 
 Capital $100,000 
 
 Surplus $100,000 
 
 Fiscal Agents for the State of Louisiana. 
 |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. 
 
 C; A PITA L loO.OOn. SURPLUS $6,000 
 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits. ^( 
 
 -OIR KCTORS- 
 
 II. MHIOViXUIN'l) K A.HAUT. SI REYMdND 
 
 A .M( HI'FtNKY .1 ACKSCN. R.I HUMMKl., JJ \ 
 
 (I. KO.VDKRT. A. ROSKNFIKLI) ]\ 
 
 e 
 
 ^ )t 
 
 ^ 
 
 Mktai.ic Cask.s 
 
 AND CaSKKTS. 
 
 
 Coffins and 
 BuKiAL Casks. 
 
 Parlor. Office and 
 Cookinif Stoves. 
 
 m^ 
 
 Ai.i. Job Work 
 
 (il^AKANTKED... 
 
 Mrs J» Gilbert-Geddes, 
 
 Undertaker and 
 Funeral Director 
 
 Bi 
 
 206 NORTH BOULEVARD, 
 
 j*.MJ*NEA.R THE STATE HOUSEv»e ■;>«.;* 
 
 a 
 
 Cumberland Phone J7I. 
 
 Baton Rouge, La. 
 
 li. 
 
 J 
 
 M. I. WILLIAMS, 
 
 WORKER IN 
 
 TIN, COPPER, ZINC 
 AND SHEET IRON. 
 
 ^ Kitchen, Tinware, Grates, 
 Mantels, Etc. 
 
 ! [U 
 
 313=315 5T\air) Street 
 
 BATON ROUGE, 
 
 LOUISIANA. 
 
 '^. 
 
 J 
 
 104 — 
 
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 
 
 ■ 
 
 
 ^B 
 
 nH 
 
 ^m 
 
 
 ^^^^R 
 
 
 HHi 
 
 
 
 fM 
 
 JACOB FARRNBACMER. 
 
 lon,>' as almost to have fori^otlen the place of his origin. 
 He is an 1. (). 15. 1'. and a generous supporter, not only 
 of the Congregation IS'nai Israel, hut of all the charities 
 of his faith. 
 
 .V i[niet. unassuming. sul)st;nitial citizen, in a word. 
 
 MK. K. H. MAYER. 
 
 .\lr. \la\er is an \lsalian. like so many of the race in 
 this h'rench speaking part oi the country, is luarried and 
 is now ahout fort\-tive \ears old. lie is a cultivated gen- 
 tleman, well liked, not onlv witliin tile circle of his sect, 
 hut anions; all classes as well. 
 
 MK. S. FAKRNBACHER. 
 
 The Karrnbachers ari' well known in the I'.aton Kouge 
 district of country, the son. .S. harruhacher. especially. 
 I le is a native of the l.ouisiana capital, and a graduate of 
 tlu ."^tate L'niversity. lie is a Mason, memher of the K. 
 of I', anrl 1. ( ). II. 11. , the .\. ■: ). l'. W. and Red Me\i. 
 
 lie has lieeii coiuiected with his father in mercantile 
 business for t\vcnt\- \ears. is a ilirector of the Louisiana 
 ."s'tate I'ank. am' identified also with other public inter- 
 ests of ids home cit\'. 
 
 .M.VRlTS .\1. 1.1■A^, •■ >!■■ (ili;.S()\ AM) I)' )\ \ j.-.K. 
 
 .\lr. l,ev\ is a general merchant at '. .ihson .-md I )onner. 
 Lafourche parish. La., imd iuis interests consisting of 
 .swamp i;m 1 an.j express timl)er. lie is treasurer also 
 (if the ( iihson (^'rosstie and Timber Co.. of ("libson. La. 
 
 He is a naiivt' of St. James parish. La., aliont .V M'ars 
 old ; was I'ducated in tlu pu'.lic schools of the State and 
 gradnati'd into his present eniiiloyment from a place with 
 M. lu'rtel i^ Co.. \ aclierie. La. He is married. Mrs. 
 Le\\' was .Miss Dora ( iarritson. of Xew ! )rleans. They 
 iiave two ciiildren. botli girls. He is a menilier of Thiho- 
 dati.x K. of 1 '. lod.ge and mindful of his charitable obli- 
 gations of Touro Infirmary and I'.e'H'voleut Xssociation, 
 Xew ' )rlean,s. also. 
 
 MK. ABK. LEVY. ELKINSVH.LK. 
 
 '1 his gentleman is another prominent resident of Baton 
 Kor.ue. a well-known merchant, moinber of the ^lasonic 
 fraternity, the Knights of Honor and L ( ). 1'. 1j. He is 
 secretarv of the Congregation B'nai Israel, being, in that 
 cajKicitv. one of tlie licst known Israelites of the Louisiana 
 capital. 
 
 — 195 — 
 
 .\t Duppigheim. .Ms.ice. Xov. J.^ 1S54. \l)e Levy, 
 ir.erchaiit, now of I-dkinsville. St. Charles parish, was 
 b')ni. .\lr. Lew, we need hardly say. is well known ail 
 through this part of the coiuitrv. He began as clerk 
 for -Max hraeiilcel at Rosedale. and was at I'ort .Mien 
 from '73 to '-<). He has l)een at Elkinsvilie since 1883. 
 
 .Mr. Lew remaineii 111 old ,\lsace long enough to .get 
 ins schooling. He was educated at Strasijourg. He came 
 to this countrv in 1872. at the age of 18. He is mar- 
 ried and has a family of six. He is a memlier of vhe 
 I. ( ). 1'.. U. since 1882. and as to reli.gion is a consistent 
 and conscientious Israelite. 
 
QUS. KUHNERT. 
 
 PAPER HANQER and DECORATOR. 
 
 New Patterns Constantly Arriving. 
 Estimates Furnished. Prices Moderate, 
 
 REHEMBER I AH THE ORIQINATOR OF 2o8 THIRD STREET. 
 
 NEW AND UP-TO-DATE WORK IN THE CITY. 
 NO WORK CAN COHE TOO FINE FOR ME. I'MdnB 58 
 
 o B^ton Rc3uge;. Y^ei o 
 
 r 
 
 HE MONONGAHELA RIVER<^ C 
 
 [} 
 [} 
 C 
 
 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^ 
 
 COJSfSOLIDATETy COAL AJWV COKE CO. 
 
 BATO/'f 'RO\/GE, LA. 
 
 \A/M. O. DAY, Manager. 
 
 f^- 
 
 ^^ 
 
 t Jacob Lkbekmuth, President. .Iohn S. Thibau'i\ Vice-Pres. & Cashier. Paui, Br.\ud, Asst. Cashier. ^ 
 
 BANK OF ASCENSION, 
 
 ; Capital $30,000.00 
 
 DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 
 
 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. 
 
 V 
 
 112 ST. LOUIS ST. 
 
 BATON ROUGE, LA 
 
 J 
 
 — 19t) — 
 
DONALDSONVILLE. LA. 
 
 D'lX \l.l)S!)V\|LLi'.. Ascension I'arisli. tlic liiih of 
 tlir suj^a! hi'lt, is at tlio junction of the ,!j;rcat river 
 with iiaymi Lafourciie, an important stream ieacl- 
 ini; tlinnn;ii the lv;art of tlie sii.t>;ar and rice districts of 
 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. 24, i8go. Tlie sxnagogue was erected in 1871 and 
 is located on Railroad .\venue. it has 55 members. 
 .Michal Tobias is president: Walter Lemann, vice-pres- 
 ident ; Willie Pforzheimer. treasurer ; Raphael .Singer, 
 secretary. 
 
 Divine service is held by this congregation Friday 
 evenings and Saturday morning. Schlesinger and Gold- 
 stein's mu.sic is used in accordance with the Union Prayer 
 P>ook. The building was repainted last year, inside and 
 outside, with the assistance of the Ladies' Hebrew Asso- 
 ciation, the officers of which are : Mrs. Jacob Bluni', pres- 
 ident ; Mrs. Michael Toi)ias, vice-president; Mrs. Alex. 
 Eloomenthal, treasurer: Mrs. Raphael Singer, secretary. 
 
 The officers of the P>'nai EVrith Liwlge here for the en- 
 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. 
 
 ( )ur subject was born in Hatten P^lsass, Feb. 2, 1853. 
 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. SAMCEL BLC.M. 
 
 liere wv have or.e of the elders of Congregation Bikur 
 I'iiolim, Donalds' in\-ille, still surviving at the ripe old age 
 of four score and four years, still bearing in mind and 
 nil ileling Ins conduct as ever, upon the injimctioiis of that 
 
 MR. SAMUEL BLUM. 
 
 faitii of tin- pjilriarcbs and pro]jhets he was born to. Mr. 
 Bhuu first saw the light in Xiederlirunn, .\lsace. in 1820. 
 He has had a long, prosperous and honorable career as a 
 merchant of Donalclsonville and is one of the most highly 
 respected members of the Jewdsh community resident 
 there. 
 
 .MR. HEXRV PFORZHEIMER. 
 
 A resident of Donaldsonville for sixty-five vears, this 
 gentleman was well known and highly respected. He 
 was born in Baden, Ciermanv. in t8i8, and came to this 
 
 MR. HENRY PFORZHEIMER. 
 
 — l')7 — 
 
Now 
 
 1 
 
 ^For 
 j Drugs 
 
 F. M. Brooks & Son, 
 
 -limited- 
 
 Baton ROUGE, LA. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail. 
 
 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 
 
 411-413 MAIN STREET. 
 
 it&^yM,^ PMONE 176=3 
 
 BATON ROUGE, LA. 
 
 S. C. Fridge, 
 
 Livery, Feed ix*° Sale 
 
 . . STABLE . . 
 
 CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE 79-2. 
 
 SALE 
 
 Saddle Horses, Roadsters and Mules ^^^" 
 
 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. 
 
 "ir 
 
 — l'),s — 
 
t'lunlrx ;i( {'.k- am- nl' ii). Ik' landed in NV-w ^'o^k in 
 1X3(1. Ill' Iki'- served an appreKtiei-slii]) (.f llu' usual 
 ier.oth in tliat da\' al ihe linte'ners' trade in the 'ild eoun- 
 tr\ . hilt lie;.^an lite in the land of the tree as a nierehant. 
 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. 
 
 MAAS TOBIAS. 
 
 1:1 e was a man highly esteemed in the community in 
 which he liad passed so much of his life, of note +'or his 
 hi'iievolence, h.is sterlins; cliaractei, and among' his own. 
 lieople. as a faithful worker for the cause of Judaism. He 
 was l<i!''g a n'eniher of the I'.'na P.'rith of New ( )rleans. 
 and also was a Kniglit of Honor and meniher of the ( )r- 
 der of Workmen of Donaldsonville — in fact, was one 
 of the hcst known and foremost citizens of that place. 
 
 MR. Ai'.k All A.\l KLOTZ. 
 
 This gentiimaii has nu-ntii'ii among the iiotahlcs of 
 ll'.e -State ill the work of the " I '.iogra[)hical and Histori- 
 cal Memoirs of Louisiana;" as a merchant. |)lanl'.'r and 
 
 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, he is an Alsatian liy birth, born in 
 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- 
 tricl, .Ascension parisli, La., market for a rich country sit- 
 uated about 64 miles north of New Orleans by the Texas 
 and Pacific road and somewhat further by the winding 
 course of the river. The sugar planters, it neerl hardly 
 be said, are the aristocracy of the State; their estates are 
 unusualh baronial in extent and operation. Mr. Israel, 
 suiilice it to say, is one of this favored class. Hfe is a na- 
 tive of Donaldsonxdlle. 35 years old. a graduate of Roa- 
 iioke College, Salem, \'a., is married, and a member of 
 various organizations, benevolent and fraternal, his favor- 
 ite among them the .Mnha Tan ( )mega, his college frater- 
 nitv. His place of worsni]) is the local Bikitv L hdliin. 
 
 I'M) 
 
^ 
 
 CADDO-RAPIDES LIMBER CO.. Ltd. 
 
 ,yllej>candria. La. 
 
 Miinufacturers of and Dealers in < 
 
 i 
 
 Lumber) Shingles, Sash, Doors-, .'J 
 
 Blinds, Hardwood Mantels, 
 
 Grates and Tiline. 
 
 1 
 
 i Office and Factory Monroe Street, from 61I1 to 7tli. yi 
 
 '^=*i=-<^= 
 
 Lumber, Shingles, Cisterns, 
 
 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 
 manner tlian ever before. 
 
 '1 
 
 J> Sash, Doors, Blinds and Window Shades | 
 
 » 
 
 I- 
 
 HaviiiK a I'IhiiIli; -Mill in connection with 
 niy IxisinesK I can fnrnisli complete l^otise 
 
 bills, witli material as desiieil. making, 
 sul)stitntioii iinnece^sarv. t'ountry Onlers 
 liiven Speiial .Atteiuion. 
 
 V. B. Hayslip, °"'"' Xn^^'p^'^i" 
 
 ' -T^ ' Cor. loth and Fisk Sis. 
 
 { 
 i 
 i 
 
 4 
 
 L. 
 
 Telephone No 198. 
 
 niexandria. La. 
 
 -.J 
 
 c 3K?( fKrTi 2KrK. ^ 
 
 
 0, W. Clle^cander, 
 
 (^ 
 
 i>8uraT\cc. 
 
 3^ 
 
 
 C^tcxaiA^ria, ^a. 
 
 €WWW5^>i( = 
 
 
 ;)«ie*«% 
 
 
 
 
 9^ 
 3^« 
 
 Rapides Steam Laundry 
 
 TWILLEY & TOWNSEND. Props. 
 ALEXANDRIA, LA. 
 
 
 
 ^^ P. O. BOX 331. 
 
 3W 
 
 e.^^')i^^i>f 
 
 
 PHONE 232. ^ 
 
 l^3Ae3e:>iC5f!*3^3 
 
 
 3^^ 
 
 
 WE VALUE TEWISH 
 PATRONAGE 
 
 Q SHEE BROS- 
 
 ALEXANDRIA, LA. 
 
 1 3K/^ 3*^^ c^?^ 3^?^ d^T^ 3sr^3s?€ 3^!^ ^^rQ J^^ 
 
 
 
 JOS, CAFIERO 
 
 Paints Repairs, Puts Up and Takes Down 
 
 Smokestacks. Sugarhouse 
 I Chimneys, Machinery, Etc. 
 
 u ROPE SPLICING A SPECIALTY 
 
 1' O. MUX 232. ■■ 'rKLKl'miNIO »l. 
 
 DONAI,lJSON'VII.I..H;. l.A. 
 
 -=:*==# 
 
 Donaldsonville Broom Factory, 
 
 N. F. GROS, Propkirtor. 
 
 r 
 I 
 
 I Manufacturer of Brooms. Brushes. Etc, of all ^ 
 
 'I GRADES AND PRICES. 
 
 |f .SIM'IM.VINC THK TU.MlK ONLY ■. 
 
 f FACTOR Y-Railroad Ave, Half Block from Passenger Depot ) 
 
 { 
 
 i.onu Distance Phone 231. 
 
 P O. Hox 106. 
 
 L^ 
 
 Excelsior Steam Laundry 
 
 ST. PETER'S ALL EY. W . E. Boudreaux, Prop, 
 
 ^OFFICERS: 
 
 '1 
 
 (l L. Caspari, President. H. M. Ilyams, IstVice-President 
 fi' ,I.W. Fieeman, linil Vice President. S H. Hill. Cashier. 
 
 I 
 
 ^DIRECTORS: 
 
 I 1... L'aspari. H M. Hyums. ,1. W. Freeman. Jno. M. Tucker 
 
 / Sarnuel Nelken. Julius A ron. C E Oreneaux 
 
 '' .1. H Willinnis J T.. Hrv:in 
 
 } 
 
 'J 
 
 I THE PEOPLES BANK, 
 
 NATCHITOCHES, LA 
 
 ,1 Capital Stock - $30,000 00 
 
 Accouiils and CNilleoiions ol Banks. Bankers Coritoralions 
 Firms and Individnal.s Solicited. 
 
 L. 
 
 — 200 
 
ALEXANDRIA, LA. 
 
 Alexauilria. I\a|iiilcs [larisli. La., i.-^ in alniust the seog- 
 ra[)hii-al ccntir of ilu' .suiti.-. It is un Reil Kivi.T. mii- of 
 the principal iiranclics of the Mis.sis,si])]M. ami on tlirec 
 iine.s of rail, the Texas and Pacific and Iron Mountain 
 roads of tile ( lonld system, and tiie Kansas City. W'atkins 
 alid (a;lf. it is one of tlie most rapidly _oro\ving and 
 substantial cities of the State. Many Jews have made 
 tlieir Iv nies there, and contriljuted. as thev do every- 
 wlure. 1.1 the life and prosperity of the conimunitv. They 
 are nunier. 'i!> enoU;.;li, in fact, to maintain a permanent 
 iiousr ol w. irsliip. 
 
 .\ I lelirew llcni-xdlent .Vssociation was ort:;anized in 
 Alexandria as loiii^ ago as i.'^54. .MI its members were 
 young men and all single men but two. .\11 the organiz- 
 er^ of this association have passed awa\ l)ut lulius Levin 
 and 1). Lehiiian, both of whom still reside in '.Mexandria. 
 
 stil! enjoying perfect health, and along with it llu- fruit 
 f)f a career of energy and prosperit\. 
 
 Mr. Levin is a natix'e of Prussia. Me wa'^ born .it 
 Regenswalde, in that kingdoiii, Julv jtli, 1X3^. llis pa- 
 rents, Jacob and Fanny Daus Levin, were worthy tiiougli 
 not wealthy people of tl.e same place. 
 
 He comes of n)ercantile stock: bolli his fathtr .and 
 grandfather were successful business men. He grew to 
 manhood in Kegenswalde and on reacliing suitable .'ige 
 was placed at school at Deush Crone. West Prussia and 
 tiiere completed his term of literar\ training. Lea\ing 
 school at 10, he adojjted for life the sterling principles of 
 iiis class and race. .\t .Stoli) and at Hamburg he mas- 
 tered tile drv goods calling, and in i.'^32. .at H). came to 
 the L'nited .States. 
 
 'j'iie special objecl of ihe association was charitv and the 
 maintenance of a jrwish linrud place. 
 
 Some seven \ears later a congregation was formed 
 with the s niie officials and management, and ;\ I\al:l)i was 
 secured for il. It was originally an orthodox congrega- 
 tion, but for some \ ears iias been reform. It numbers 8,^ 
 members. During the holidays, however, from 330 to 
 40C' attend. The presidei't of this congregation is Gus 
 <ieh.r, the vice-president Isaiah \\ eii, the treasurer l';u.d 
 Lis-o. and the secretarv Jos. Lew. 
 
 MK. I cues LKVIX. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is one of the most !)romi- 
 nent re^idLUts of central Louisiana. He is one of tlu- 
 best known men in the rapidly growing center of that 
 {lislri<-t of tiie country, .Alexandria, Rapides parish, 
 which has doiililed in population and wealth in the last 
 ten \ears. just lalel\- lie celebrated his 70th birthdax', and 
 though he has reached the Psalmist's allotted s\rm. is 
 
 Here first he sptiit a year in ( i;i!\-eston and in .Missis- 
 sippi, and then in 1.S53 came to .Mexandria. iMilbarking 
 111 business here, he was Iioth successful and popular, 
 lly the time the war i-ame on he liad ac-:|niri-d a handsome 
 C( n.petence. 
 
 In Vii the tocsin sounded, and Ia\ing asiile personal 
 interests he enlisted in the Confederate caus^'. We need 
 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. 
 
 l'"rom the close of the war until 18S0, Mr. Levin car- 
 ried on prosperonsK a mercantile business. Then he 
 retired and invested in the Inm'cer business, applying 
 therein the attention and perspicuity which had thcreto- 
 I'ore made all his undertakings thrive. Withdrawing 
 from that be iinbarked largely in real estate. 
 
 Mr. Levin has risen to tiie council of the Masonic fra- 
 ternitv. He has been a member of the cit\- council of 
 .Alexandria and iiresident of its school board and lias 
 
 201 
 
S. GOETTE, President-Manager. 
 
 -TELEPHONE Nc. 78.- 
 
 JAS. FOR TIER, Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 DONALDSONVILLE ICE COMPANY, Limited. 
 
 DONALDSONVILLE. LOUISIANA. 
 
 ITD /'^ II Ci /"^ 'i '5r^ nn T\ 'I Piire>t iinrt Hesl IJiKility R'K al I.DwesI Mar 
 
 ce, rJeer, Cold btorage. Capacity, dU 1 ons JJaily. ''""'^,,r^u:::l:r<f^uJ^:'^'iH^r^r''''^ 
 
 MISSISSIPPI STREET, Opposite Market. 
 
 arkei 
 
 r,ocal Aj.'eni-.v (or the niamniolh A VHKUSKK-HUSfH BKKW.'Nti ASSOCIATIONS celebrated KEli and BO'I'TI-K. HEERS. (KAt'sT. Anhkiskh. Hoc k 
 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. i Mders lefi at ilic factory 
 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 
 
 
 
 ^//i\\^ 
 
 ASCENSION COAL COMPANY 
 
 CARROLL BARTON, Manager. 
 
 PAINCOURTVILLE, LOUISIANA. 
 BRANCH OFFICE, ^ DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 
 
 
 w- 
 
 
 Im W .M .M( >; Al.l.lAKl) I'HAS. A MAUKIN. W I) PAKK, 
 
 ['resident \'ice-Presirieni Cashier. 
 
 Bank of Donaldsonville. 
 
 OF DONALDSONVILLE, LA 
 
 Capital, $50,000. Surplus, $30,000 Undivided Profits, $20 000. 
 
 DIHKCTOKS Henry McCall. Adol|ih Netier. I- .1 Hriin. 
 
 (has A- Maiirin. ('. Kline. Nicholas Kris. CH Aicman. .1 K TiicUer. 
 Dr. \V. M .Mctialliard 1. K. lientley. 
 
 CRIMINAL AND CIVIL SHERIFF. 
 » 
 
 NAPOLEONVILLE, ,;>» ASSUMPTION PARISH. 
 
 
 y^ 
 
 ALLEN^S FOUNDRY 
 
 Railroad Avenue, Near Texas and Pacific Pass. Depot. 
 
 : REPAIRS ON : 
 
 Sugarhouse. Rice, Cotton Gin, Steamboat and Other Machinery. 
 
 Heaviest lliscount on Stean) Pumps. Link Belt Chain anil Klevators. Shafl- 
 inu' and Pulleys. 
 
 DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 
 
 C. L. TRICHE, 
 
 ORDERS PtiOMPTl.Y l-'ILLED * I.i)Ni; UlsTANCK Ph.i.nkB:!. 
 
 LUCIEN CASSO, 
 
 "THE OYSTER KING" 
 
 Dealer in Fine Oysters and California Fruits, 
 
 Fine and l-'resh Hayou (N.iok and Ba\' (.>.\sters. 
 Se,vin^^^hor.Order^^.^^_^ ^ DonaldsOttViUe , La. 
 
 202 
 
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. 
 
 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. 
 
 MR. JOXAS ROSI'.XTHAL. 
 
 Xot onh in .Mexandria. where he has been in busi- 
 ness for more than tliirty years, and where he has held 
 more than one official position, Init throughout tlie whole 
 
 JONAS ROSENTHAL. 
 
 Mr. R( .■'Cnlial is a man of family. In 1873 he mar- 
 ried Aliss Jeannette Weil. They have five daughters 
 and two sons. It was a great blow to tliem when their 
 e'dest son. Lugene. well known in .Alexandria as book- 
 keeper of tlie Rapides Bank., died of typhoid fever after 
 a lingering illness in 1903 at the early age of 28. Like his 
 father before him. he was a prominent meml)er of the L 
 ( t. r>. I'), anil oihir Jewish charitable institutions. 
 
 20,^ — 
 
JAS. W^ ARBOUR, 
 
 WORKER IN TIN. COPPER. 
 ZINC AND SHEET IRON. 
 
 No. 113 Third Street. 
 
 Telephone No 552. 
 
 SI.ATK KDOKINC AXU "■ 
 IM.I'MHINi; A SHKCIAI.TY 
 
 BATON ROUGE, LA. 
 
 JAMES D. BOGAN, 
 
 Contractor and Builder^ 
 1227 SOUTH BOULEVARD, 
 
 Long Distance Phone 434. BATON ROUGE, LA. 
 
 CHAS . A. BELISLE. 
 Draper and Tailor 
 
 209 LAUREL STREET. 
 BATON ROUGE, LA. 
 
 FRESH 
 DRUGS. 
 
 vL 
 
 -^\ 
 
 H. R. Stroube, 
 
 Elks Theatre Bldg. 
 BATON ROUGE, LA. 
 
 
 ' PROMPT 
 DELIVERY 
 
 RATES, $2.50 A DAY. 
 
 FRED. ROGGE, 
 
 PHOPBielOR 
 
 POSTOFFICE 
 BOX 76. 
 
 JL)onald8Gi>viirc, -La* 
 
 
 '-r 
 
 X RAY^ 
 DRUG STORE 
 
 RICHARD & ST. MARTIN. 
 
 Drugs and Medicmes Perfumery, 
 Soap Toilet Articles. 
 Fine Cigars. Etc. -^ 
 
 Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. 
 
 EDMOND RICHARD. Druggist 
 
 ^ Corner Mississippi and St Patrick Sts. ^ 
 
 P Phone 1,^8 C 
 
 t DONALDSONVILLE. LA. 3 
 
 'A 
 
 204 — 
 
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 
 
 MR. ACHILLE BAUER. 
 
 l-rcnch era. linl a resident here from his youth. He is 
 ex-i)resident of ( ieniilath Chasodim Congregation, Alex- 
 andria, is a Mason and I. O. B. B., and is the father of 
 t\\(i fine boys hy liis wife, nee Hortense Schmaliiiski. of 
 Alexandria. 
 
 Till-: LATi'. i!i':.\j. I'Ai.K. LAi'AM'.rri-:. 
 
 .\lr. I'alk was in his time one of the foremost citizens 
 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. C ( ). Mouton, on the 
 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 
 
 VICTOR LEVY. 
 
 the place — lx)ni there in 1872. making liim 33 now — and 
 finished his schooling at the State L'niversity, Baton 
 Rouge. He began Inisiness as a clerk in his father's 
 store, and soon lieveloped the f|.ualities that command suc- 
 cess in mercantile affaiis. He is liapj)il\ married and be- 
 longs to the L o. r.. n. 
 
 BENJ. FALK. 
 
 2(15 — 
 
& 
 
 ^ 
 
 F. L. Trepagnier. 
 
 ^ ■ S. Trepagnier. 
 
 
 F, L. Trepagnier &Bro., 
 
 Watchmakers andjeivelers, 
 
 Donaldsonville and Plaquemine. La 
 
 DIAMONDS, 
 
 Watches, Jewelry, Clocks, Spectacles, 
 
 SOLID and PLATED SILVERWARE. 
 
 MAIN HOUSP:, Donahisonville, ].;i. 
 
 ;fi 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 aSHSaSHSaSHSHSHSHSHSSSHSHSSHHSHSHSaSS;* 
 
 il 
 
 r 
 
 Chas. Maurin, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail 
 
 Groceries, Wines and Liquors, 
 
 CIGARS AND TOBACCO. 
 
 A full line of Glass, Tin, Wooden and Queensware 
 
 Agents Moline Agricultural Implements. 
 
 Complete Stock of Haidwiue. Paints, 
 
 Oils Varnishes and Brushes, 
 
 Furniture and Wall Paper. 
 
 DONALDSONVILLE, LA 
 
 ^ 
 
 la 
 
 \ 
 
 <SSasaSHSasa5H5H5HSH5H55^ci±3rlSHSaasa5a5HS 
 
 J 
 
 ^5H5HHHSH5aSiaHHSH5P.5H5dSHij"a5H5aSH5aSHSR 
 
 \'. Miiiiiiii, rri's'taiid TriMs. Clias. Alauiiii, N'ici'-I'res't 
 
 .Ids. Xlaiitili. SiM-ri'taiv. 
 
 s 
 
 The Maurin Co., Ltd., 
 
 Proprietors R. E, Lee Stables and 
 I'ndertaking Establishment . . . 
 
 K 
 
 Stylish Drivini,'- and Saddle Horses to Hire. 
 Fine Carriag-es, Surreys and Bug^gies. 
 
 Handsome Hearses, Plain and Ornamented 
 Coffi-ns, Caskets, Etc., of All Kinds. 
 
 Special Rates to Commercial Travelers. ^ 
 Long Distance Phone 56. 
 li^ DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 
 
 ^SHSHSHSBS 
 
 J 
 
 ^rHSHsasasHSHsasHsasHsesasasHsasasHsasHS^ 
 
 The Hartford Fire Insurance Co. 
 
 ORGANIZED 1794. CHARTERED 1810. 
 
 EASTERN DEPARTMENT 
 
 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\ . 
 
 a 
 
 ^ L. A. Colomb & Son, Agents. 
 
 DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 
 
 Representatives of Leading Ameri = 
 can and Foreign Insurance Go's. 
 
 Real Estate Roui^ht and SohL 
 Stock and Bonds Bouglit and Sold. 
 
 ^SE5H5H5H5H.5H5HSH5HSHSHSH5H52SHSHHHS^£ H^ 
 
 f{] 
 
 20() — 
 
MONROE, LA, 
 
 M 
 
 ( ).\1\'' )1'".. ( )u:u-liita parish, i.s a city of about 
 8,000 poiHi.lation. situated ou lx)tli sides of 
 tlu' ( )iiaciiita K'i\er at the crossing- of the Iron 
 ^hluntain and the X'icksliurg and Slireveport raih'oads. 
 Loeks are now under construction to make the f Hiachita 
 nax'i.iLj'alile tlie year round. 
 
 It was first settled in liie nid Spanish days more than 
 a hundred \ears aijo. hut its recent growth has been 
 most marked. ]t is one ot the briskest and most flour- 
 ishing and progTessi\c towns of the State. Its cotton re- 
 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- 
 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 OF 
 .\ir).\I<()F.. 
 
 In this city of .Monroe, that thriving au'l attractive 
 trade center of Xorth I^ouisiana, the Jews onstitute by 
 their industry ;uid progressiveness. if not by numbers, a 
 conspicuous eli'ment of the population. Among them, 
 and in the comiuunity generally, for that matter, their 
 Rabbi. Israel Heimberg, pastor of the Congregation B'nai 
 
 J. HEIMBERG. 
 
 Israel, has been secretary of the school bciard of the 
 citv for the past four years, and is a man of mark. 
 
 I'astor Heimberg. we need hardly say. has recognition 
 in ]^lonroe as a man of education anti culture. He was 
 
 born at I'aiiberg, tiermany. 4O years ago. His education 
 was acquired in that country of advanced schoolmen, at 
 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 
 L'niversity of lionn am Rhein. to be known of which is 
 sinelv, among the learned of this coiVntry, and every 
 otiier, credential enough. The late Dr. Henry Zirndorf 
 of tile Hebrew I'nion College faculty was one of his 
 preceptors, as director of Marx Haindorf. in his earlier 
 student da\s. 
 
 Rev. Heimberg's first charge was at Ibbenlniren, \\'est- 
 [ihalia. and next at I'.onn; next again at Brussels, Bel- 
 giiMu. a.nd aftir that at London, 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 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, 
 however, not unmindful or unsympathetic as to his less 
 fortunate co-religionists abroad. And as regards that 
 cr.aritv which in the proverb is said to begin at home he 
 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 
 of the successful business men of the place. He was 
 lorn in Herrlisheim, Germany, in 1865, but migrated to 
 this country in early life. He began his business career in 
 .America at Lee. Miss., but being ambitious, .soon rose 
 al'ove the clerkship at which he started. 
 
 - 207 
 

 
 
 
 DONALDSONVILLE 
 Moss Collar Co.. Ltd. 
 
 
 # 
 
 -—A- Makers of thet 
 
 w 
 
 m 
 
 Best Moss Collars, 
 
 Donaldsonville, La. 
 
 
 w 
 
 M 
 
 (\\ 
 
 /♦^ 
 
 /IS 
 
 /♦S 
 /|s 
 /»> 
 /IS 
 /IN 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IN 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 
 /|s 
 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 
 '^^ 
 
 N^€= 
 
 Donaldsonville 
 
 Cooperage Co,, Ltd. 
 
 Manufacturers and Dealers in 
 
 Staves. Headings Hoops 
 and Ccoperage. 
 
 Matched Car Lots a Specialty. 
 
 OKI' K'KRS— Victor Viosca. I're:-i'lHi]t. Ur. Hojjer 
 Meib. Vice-President. K. I'eroy Viosca, .Secretary 
 'I'reasiirer, 
 
 1)IHKCT((KS— Victor Vinsca, Jniiies P. Kock, 
 Dr. Roger Steib, Leopold Cbri^t. K. Percy Vio.sca. 
 
 DONALDSONVILLK. I-A. 
 
 \M 
 \l/ 
 ^t 
 
 \»/ 
 SI/ 
 % 
 \\i 
 Vl/ 
 SI/ 
 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 
 Vf/ 
 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 
 Vl/ 
 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 
 J' 
 
 /IS 
 
 /is 
 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 /IS 
 
 I 
 
 /IS 
 
 /is 
 
 /AN 
 
 1^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^(S 
 
 CLUB SALOON. 
 
 H. R. BUEKE. Proprietor. 
 T. E. MCSEMAN, Manager. 
 
 DONALDSOiNVIl.LE, LA. 
 
 
 Vl/ 
 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 
 Vl/ 
 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 vl/ 
 
 Sf> 
 
 
 m 
 
 (f'^^is^'O^a!*'''^ 
 
 
 
 Donaldsonville La 
 
 L, BLANCHARD, Parmacist 
 
 
 w 
 
 # 
 
 ^0^ 
 
 \^ 
 
 %^,.^afiir^(r''''^&^ 
 
 
 f 
 
 20S — 
 
OPELOUSAS LA. 
 
 (Jpelousas, La.. Cdunty seat of St. Landry parish, is 
 in one of the oldest — that is to say, longest settled — and 
 fairest parts of the State — one of the garden spots, in 
 fact, of that charmnig semi-tropic and fertile alluvial 
 .\tchafalayan paradise of South Central Louisiana, which 
 has long been renowned for its mellow climate and af- 
 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 
 mav be numbered the following: 
 
 MR. ISAAC Rons. 
 
 his gentleman. l)nrn in ( )pelousas. Dec. 24. 1866, is 
 distinguished as merchant, lianker and cotton man of 
 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, 
 
 S. JACOB. 
 
 MR. 1). ROOS, OPELOUSAS. 
 
 Mr. D. Roos, merchant, born in Weinenberg, Alsace 
 ( tlun France, l)ut (iermany now J. Jan. 25, 183^1, very 
 near indeed, the patriarchal age of three score and ten, 
 and accorded, by his neighbors, the respect due a long 
 and honorable residence and career among them, a mem- 
 ber of the American Legion of Honor, and the L O. B. R. 
 and true to the faith, to sum all up, of his fathers an<l 
 forbears — wiiat more need be sai<l? 
 
 MR 
 
 ( ).sl 
 
 ISLCM. CROWLEY. 
 
 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, 
 etc., of that vicinity. He was born in Herxheim, near 
 London, in the Rheinfalz. Germany, Xov. 9, 1846 (mak- 
 ing him s*; now ), and was educated there. His first em- 
 
 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. 
 
 tile Knights of Honor and 1. < ). L'. 
 the estimation of his neighliors and 
 
 W 
 
 fel 
 
 . also high in 
 ow citizens. 
 
 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- 
 cessful as a business man and has a high reputation in his 
 communitv. He is single, and is a member of the Jewish 
 Order of the L O. B.' B. 
 
 200 
 
Board of Directors. 
 
 H C DREW. 
 
 President. 
 
 GEO. IIOKRIDGE, 
 Capitalist. 
 
 LEWIS S. CLARKE, 
 
 Sujrar Planter, St. Mary's 
 Parish. 
 
 D. R. SWIFT. 
 
 President Swift-Kirkwood 
 Company, Ltd 
 
 W. E. RAMSAY, 
 
 President Bradley-Ramsay 
 Lumber Co. 
 
 \ J. A. BEL. 
 
 !•/ President J. A. Bel Lum- 
 
 V ber Company, Ltd. 
 
 } J. G. POWELL, 
 
 }i Lumber Manufacturer. 
 
 M J. ROSTEET, 
 Retired. 
 
 FRANK ROBERTS, 
 Cashier. 
 
 r 
 
 V, GEO. HORRIDGE, 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 H. C. DREW, 
 
 President. 
 
 Cashier, j \ 
 
 J. A. BEL, Vice-President. 
 
 E. N HAZZARD, Asst. Cashier. 
 
 CALCASIEU 
 National Bank 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. 
 
 Capital, $ 1 50,000,00. Surplus, $ 1 00,000.00 
 
 i 
 
 i I 
 
 Lake Charles, La. 
 
 nri)OI,l"H KR.MTSE. President 
 
 W. K PERKINS. Vice-1'iesirtenl 
 
 W H. MA.V.ACAN. Sei-y :iii<l Treas. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1873. 
 INCORPORATED 1892. 
 
 PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000.00. 
 
 PERKINS & MILLER 
 LUMBER CO., Ltd. 
 
 Manufacturers of Rough and Dressed 
 Calcasieu Long Leaf 
 
 YELLOW PINE LUMBER 
 
 Also Dealers in General Merchandise 
 
 WESTLAKE. ^ LOUISIANA. 
 
 fCALrASIKU PakishI 
 
 H. W. MILLER. I W VANSCOY. 
 
 3i. t£). mm 
 
 er 
 
 Qrocer^ VSon\pan^ 
 
 RETAIL 
 GROCERS 
 
 We Cater to First-Class Trade 
 
 Phone No. 589. jt 815 Ryan Street, 
 LAKE CHARLES. LA. 
 
 — 210 
 
LAKE CHARLES, LA, 
 
 N-; ) LTr\' in Lmiisiaiia. not fvcn New ( trleans. is ad- 
 vancing: faster than Lake Charles. Its population 
 h\ tile Tniteil States census of upo was C).68o, a 
 i,fro\vtli of more llian 3.400 in tile ten preceding years. 
 Since that report was made it has lieen growing faster 
 even than liefore. and now has full\ 12,000 inhabitants. 
 
 Lake Charles is sustained Iiv twn ,ureat industi-us of 
 its territorv. viz.. luniher and vice. Its sawmills are 
 among the largest and most modiTu in the .Sduth. Large 
 ([uantities of their product are exported. 
 
 The rice kusiness is scarceh' second in \-alue to the 
 city . This indnstrv has gr^wn in Louisiana — particu- 
 larly in the neighlmrhnod of Lake ('harle.s — by leaps and 
 
 It' ('iiiier. .Arcliite^'l . 
 
 LAKE CHARLES SYNAGOCJUE. 
 
 i.cunds. \ ast tracts iif lands are given over to cultiva- 
 tion of the staple, and costly irrigation and drainage 
 works have been introduced. 
 
 r>iscnverieft of n:ineral ore nearby have increased the 
 manufactures and general business of this little burg 
 many fold. The prospect of cheap fuel is very favorable 
 to tne inlro(lncti(Mi of new industries. There are three 
 national banks ami (piitc a nu.mher of extensive business 
 concerns. The ])lace is alread\- consideralile of a jobbing 
 center. 
 
 Lake Charles is beautifully situated on navigable water. 
 It is within reach of the mollifying influences of the Gulf 
 and has a soft, siia\'e. Southern winter climate. It i."! 
 sujijilied with all the metropolitan conveniences, electric 
 
 light plant, water works, street cars, tire department, 
 opera house, and so fortn. In short, it is one of the 
 prettiest, busiest and most progressive cities of the South. 
 
 The congregaticin at Lake Charles, Congregation Sinai, 
 \\a^ organize<l in HKH- Jt has 45 members. Its oflicers 
 are L. Kaufman, president: A. Levy, vice president; .M. 
 Rosenthal, secretary ; Sol I'lock. treasurer : trustees, S. 
 Li-vy, 1. Reims. S. Kaufman. 
 
 This congregation has raised at Lake Charles a new 
 svnagogue at a cost of $50,000. The new edifice is of 
 [)ressed brick and limestone, with metal slates. The in- 
 terior woodvvork is handsomely panelled. There is a gal- 
 lerv over the choir. iJy the entrance are two deep niches. 
 ( Hitside over the doorway is a massive marble keystone 
 re])resenting the tables ar.d commandments with suitable 
 I lebrew biscription. All in all. it is a structtn-e highl\ 
 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 Warsaw, of \ew 'Sork. formerly Rabbi of I'lelh 
 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 was educated in Strasbourg, city of the famous min- 
 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 
 him it can be trul\- slid that where he lives "his word 
 is i'<iiid eu'iugn ci'llateral." 
 
 MR. IS.XnnR!.: [L n.W'LS. 
 
 Lake Charles is also tiie home and place of business of- 
 Isadore H. Davis, a Jewish merchant, who, though 
 born abroad, came here in early youth an<l is thoroughly 
 Americanized. He was born in Krakan. .\ustria. in iSf),^ 
 He was twelve years of age when he landed in Xew 
 \'ork in ii^75. and it was in the metropolis that he ob- 
 tained his schooling. He began life as a clerk, but soon 
 blossomed out into business on his own account, and has 
 made a success of it. He is a benedict, and a member 
 Of the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the Workl. 
 
 — 211 — 
 
OFFICERS. 
 
 GEO. LOCK, President. 
 
 L KAUFMAN. VicePres't. 
 
 N E NORTH Cashier. 
 
 W H. SIMMONS, 
 
 Assistant Cashier. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 GEO. LOCK, 
 L KAUFMAN, 
 R. H. N ASON, 
 I N. PRATER, 
 A . P . P UJO. 
 
 First National Bank 
 
 OF 
 
 LAKE CHARLES 
 
 «,>,;,q^^ 
 
 'mmi 
 
 Established in November 1889- 
 
 THE OLDEST 
 
 Bank in Southwestern Louisiana* 
 
 .1 A HKI-, I'res :u)ii M^'r 
 f( W S. UOOS. \k'e-('iesident 
 
 n 
 
 ;; 
 
 W W KI.ANDKKS. .Secly and Treas. 
 
 \V (i Mi>KI,.'>J(i Asst Sect'y iind Tre;is. 'A 
 
 J. A. BEL LUMBER CO. 
 
 LIMITED. 
 
 PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000 
 
 •"-^ Manufacturers and Dealeis in ^^ 
 
 Calcasieu Long Leaf 
 Jl YellowPine Lumber 
 
 Railroad Timber and Extra Lengths and 
 
 Sizes a Specialty. << 
 
 1 
 
 H. C. GILL, President. 
 
 CHAS. S. RAMSAY, Vice-President. 
 
 W. A. OUILLEMET, Cashier. 
 
 i 
 
 Lake Charles^ La. 
 
 
 LAKE CHARLES 
 NATIONAL BANK, 
 
 LAKE CHARLES. LA. 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. 
 
 Capital, ^ $100,000.00 
 
 EFFIQENT SERVICE AND 
 LARGE PATRONAGE. * 
 
 — 212 
 
MU. JAKI'. Sl.NK I'X. 
 
 'I'liis ircink".naii is llu- vicf-i)rcsitli.-nl of tlu- Kaufman 
 Mercantile I'c cit Lake Charlt's. one of tlie principal 
 l)i:siiicss concerns ni that rapidly risinj^ little city. He 
 is a native of I'alls Uiver. this State, and was educated 
 
 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 institutit)n. Mr, Meyer was liorn at Muttersholz, Al- 
 sace, froni which part of the world so many of our 
 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 (). I'.. 11. ;nrl of other Jewish 
 si'Cial and charitable bodies. 
 
 M'^ AR.MAXl) Ll'AA'. 
 
 Mr. Levy is one of the men of that growing city of 
 the southwestern section of the state. Lake Charles. He is 
 a clothing- merchant and tailor there, and is also in- 
 terested in the clothing business of Levy 15ros.. at Beau- 
 mont. Texas. 
 
 He was born in (irand Coteau, La., 34 years ago an<l 
 w.is educated at the Jesuits' College at that place. His 
 hrsl emplovment was as clerk in his father's store at 
 Lafayette. I, a. I'Vom that he branched out into business 
 iiir iiimself. He is married and the father of three, two 
 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. < ). I'>. 1'. 
 
 .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- 
 
 WOLF MOFFHAN. 
 
 filiations with the social, fraternal and religious in.stitu- 
 tions of the race a substantial man, good citizen, and 
 faithful lew. in short. 
 
Gabriel D» Stanford, 
 
 Manufacturer of 
 
 «^ Building Brick and Tile. ^ 
 
 
 C{ Sizes of Tile 4 lo 12 Inches. 
 
 Lime, Cement, Fire Clay, Fire Brick. 
 
 THE HIGHEST GRADE WORK GUARANTEED. 
 Special Delivered Prices Made on Large Orders. 
 
 LAKE CHAH.LES, LA. 
 
 t 
 
 "^ 
 
 (T'-'^^sa^ 
 
 THE 
 
 ^.jiaiif-^ 
 
 Lake Charles Planing Mill, 
 
 a 
 
 G. MUTERSBAUGH, Proprietor. 
 
 Manufacturer of Mouldings, 
 Brackets^ Turned Work, Sash 
 and Doors, Corner and 'Base 
 Blocks. Interior Finish a 
 Specialty, 
 
 - ^^j'^^s^^'s'^^ '=y^^>^^'''=Y'^^^^ ^^r" ^^f^ 
 
 ^ THE.< 
 
 Lake Charles Steam Laundry, 
 
 WYLIE F. G.ArTfllEK, Prop. 
 
 TOILET SUPPLY 
 
 Telephone 35 
 
 P. O. BOX J45. 
 
 I 
 
 LAKE CHARLES, LA. 
 
 (t J- A. r-ANUitY.Pres. T.J. KiKi). Vice-Pres. D- J- Landky. Treas. \ 
 
 p. O. M<)S.s, Secretary- \ 
 
 THE LAKE CHARLES | 
 
 ^ Ice, Light and Waterworks Co. ? 
 
 \ Capacity of Artesian Wells 3,500,000 Gallons Daily. 
 
 ,f Dealer in Domestic I ump & Smithing Coal, 
 
 c 
 
 L, 
 
 Distilled Artesian Water ICE. 
 
 LAKE CHARLES, LA. 
 
 r'^ 
 
 } 
 } 
 
 I. C. Carter, 
 
 ARCHITECT. 
 
 818 Ryan Street. 
 
 Loiiii Distance Phone .509. 
 
 V Jorrespondence Soliciteri. 
 
 LAKE CHARLES, LA. 
 
 L.. 
 
 — 214 
 
ABBEVILLE, LA. 
 
 Ar. 111". \ 1 1 -LI'".. \'cr;iiilli(in parish, is in SuntlHTi! 
 [.cuiisiaiia and is tlic terminus o{ one of tlie 
 l.ranciK's oi tlic Scnitiicrn Pacific road. It i.s a 
 place of aboiU i ,8no jjopulation with substantial hanking 
 and business interests. 
 
 Jennings, in Calcasieu parish, is one of the must rapidly 
 growing cities of the State. It is on the Southern Pa- 
 cific, in the rice and oil country, which has had such 
 an amazing development in the last few vears. In the ten 
 years between i8c)0 its ])opulatioii. l.y the ( iovernment 
 census, increased fourfold. 
 
 (..'rowles, on the ."Southern racitic, in Acadia pari.sh, 
 has had ,i phenomenal growth during the last ten or 
 fifteen \ ears, due to the development of its rice am' 
 oil production and other industries, and iias come to be 
 one of the nrincipal centers of ])opulation and Inisiness 
 in the soutliern part of the .State. In iSijo it had only 
 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 
 
 same year, 
 amassed a 
 
 He 1 
 consid 
 
 legal 
 crab 
 
 SOL. WISE. 
 
 business as a 
 
 retaining. howe\er, certain farming, real estate and such 
 ir.terests to emplov his time. 
 
 .Mr. Wise iias been a resident of .Abbeville 50 years. 
 He has taken alwavs a deep interest in the welfare of 
 his peo|)le, both at home and abroad. Some six or 
 seven \ears ago he assumed charge of the Lafayette 
 Jewish Ilurial .\s.sociation. The organization then was 
 in a state of chaos and the cenietcr\ practically abandoned 
 and given over as a grazing place for cattle. Through 
 bis efforts all this was changed and the place has been 
 converted iiUo a moilel cit\ of the dea<l. 
 
 .MR. F.LI WISL. APd;i';\ILLF.. 
 
 I'Ji Wise was born in .Xbiieville. Decemiier Sth, 1863, 
 in the identical place in wliich \v: now conducts one of 
 the largest and most popular mercantile establishments 
 <if the to\\n. He attended the schools of his liirth- 
 plfice until he ha 1 attaiiu'd a rudimentarv educati(jp. and 
 
 liedlar 
 competence is now 
 
 , and having 
 retired, still 
 
 ELI WISE. 
 
 was then sent to New ( >rleans, where he remained at 
 its best schools two vears. In 1874 he went to Cin- 
 cinnati, ( )., from which city, after a three year course, liis 
 ec'ucation completed, he returned home. 
 
 Entering mercantile life with his honored father, at 
 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- 
 teous gentleman and recognized hy the people of his 
 section as a verv jirogrcssive citizen. He belongs to 
 the Kniuhts of Honor and the 1\. of P. 
 
 — 215 — 
 
Calcasieu Steam Bakery, 
 
 S. & J. JESSEN & CO. 
 
 LAKE CHARLES, LA. 
 
 404 GRAND ST. 
 
 Phone ;i73. 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 H. 1' NICUlll.AS. W .1. I!I':NV. 
 
 NICHOLAS & RENZ'S 
 
 SHAVING PARLORS, 
 
 THE POPULAR TONSORIAL RESOkT, 
 SIX CHAIR?. 
 SeHROPTON WORK DONE HBRB, 
 HOT n\D eOLD BHTHS 
 
 821 RYAN STREET. LAKE CHARLHS. LA. 
 
 snTispneriON guhrhivtbed. 
 
 I J. H. MATHIEU, I 
 
 i Prescription Pharmacist, ► 
 
 1 RYAN STREET, t 
 
 4 LAKE CHARLES, LA. ^ 
 
 1 
 
 1). R. s\vii'"r. Piv,. 
 
 II. VV. I,. A.N/.. Vii'p-l're-- 
 
 W. 10 I'.XTTKK.SON. Seir.-'rrea^. 
 
 Carriage & Implement Co. , Ltd. 
 
 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 
 Presses, Gaar-Scott Tlireshers and Engine-, 
 Boilers, Engines Saw Mills. 
 
 Cor. Ryan & MillSts. Lake Charles, La. 
 
 , Short Order Work A Specialty. ^ 
 
 r> I >ak:k !^iijk><^ 
 „ STEAM LAUNDRY, . 
 
 riJ .Limes H Huston, I'roprietor. m 
 
 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 
 
 121 MILL STREET. 
 
 Phone 171. 
 
 %s 
 
 LAKK CHARLES, LA. 
 
 H^<' 
 
 [ji W. P. Dunn Bricks Supply Co., ^ 
 
 Lake CharleSf 
 
 V 
 
 outstana. 
 
 aBH5?HB" 
 
 P^a/ 
 
 Carlson & Co. 
 
 The Largest Jeivelry Establish- 
 Ci ment in South-west Louisiana. H 
 
 ^. 
 
 Solicits a Portion of your Patronage. 
 
 LAKE CHARLES. LA. 
 
 J 
 
 e. 
 
 \ 
 
 J. FRED. GEORGE, 
 
 UrSUHAlTCE. 
 
 LAKB CHARLES, LA. 
 
 21f. — 
 
 J 
 
MR. TIII'.O. KAIIN. ( )!•■ J I'lX X 1 X( iS. 
 Herewith is llic "piTMiitMiriit.' as Shakes] a-ari.- lias it, 
 of ciiu' lit tlic "Imt" iiu'ii 111' that livi- link- hiiru;" '>i 
 Calcasieu ))arisli. K-iiniii^^, l.a., nanieU . M". riviulori- 
 him. iiitrn(h'ctiir\ . sn tn spi-ak, tn timse tn wlmm this 
 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' 
 
 THEO. KAHN. 
 
 _;(i: a native el ANace. Imrn in the did j-'rench. da\ s at 
 Ihi.ucna.n. educated there and th()nu!.t;h!\ trained to a hus- 
 iness callins' as ixKik'kecper in that part <if the world. He 
 is in the gents' tuniishiniis husiiiess at h'nnings. is a 
 nienilier nf ihe lennin^s Lummercial ".eague, a Knight of 
 IMliias and is ai'filialeil with the Lake Charles cnngrega- 
 ti(in. 
 
 MR i.h:()i'()Li) ;':L(,L'TTi':k. xicws-'-Lltox 
 
 l-'or 28 vears Mr. I'Llgutter has heen .a resident of 
 .Xewellton. lensas |)arish. ujjpei" l.imisiana, (ir its vicinity, 
 and has ciime l(' lie recngnizcd thereahmUs nut nnly as nne 
 (if its must pnisperoirs, hut nsi'fu! and influential citi- 
 /iNis. In .Xewellton itselt he is an anthrrit',. He is a 
 leader in all _-hnrities and pulilic mn\eiiiei;ts, is W'orsl^p- 
 ful Master (if the Mascuic 'jidge. and .Master df W'cirk, 
 K. (if 1', Mindful (if his duty, he Imlds >er\ice always 
 on Jewish Xew \'ear and the Hay nf .\t(ineuient. and 
 idwa\s with a full ([uoruni. 
 
 .Mr. I'llgntti,r is from Kempen. i'rdvince df I'nsen.lier- 
 man\-. Me was Ixirn there in 1853. and tlu're receix'ed his 
 eieiiieinar\ educatidu. He has heen in iuisiness for liini- 
 self from .iiulh. [U- is a man well dli in this world's 
 goi.'ds. witii stores, dwellings and dther nrdjurties to his 
 credit. 
 
 lie is the father of a faniil>- of si.\ children, four boys 
 iiiid twd girls. He had heen happily m.arried fnr seveu- 
 
 t( en vears marK, when his wife. imfdrtunatel\ , departed 
 tnis life, in iijoj. leaving him almost incdiisolahk . .Ml in 
 all. it is ndl tdd nnich tu designate our subject as a man 
 (if liigh character, whole-souled and charitable; aiiiniig 
 in> neighlrors, of whatever religidU. both respected ;md 
 |i(ipular. 
 
 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. 
 
 MR. jCLKS HRLVFCS. XKW lUb'.KIX. 
 
 This is the hdine alsd df Jules Dreyfus, merchant an(| 
 banker and ri';e anrl oil mill man. bnrn at .Muhlhausen. 
 .Msace. April 1. l8fi6. a few years befnre the b'rancd- 
 I'russian war jK-rmaneiitly changed the nationality of that 
 pro\ ince. lie was brought up an'l educate'! on that side 
 of the waier, began life here as a clerk: is married, is 
 a .\Lasdn an(| member nf ntlur fraternities, and is kudwn 
 as an un)dghl. cdiiscienti.ius and cdusistent Jew. 
 
 MK. Lb'.ox D'MA'i'CS. ')i' x:-:w ii;krl\. 
 
 .Xew Iberia lies on the Siiuthern Pacific Railroad and 
 on l'ia\(iu Teche. the nidst typical and beautiful of Limis- 
 iana Idulard streams, .alidut 123 miles due west of Xew 
 < hlcuis. It IS in tin- rich alln\ial cnast i-egion of .South- 
 ern Lduisian.a. which pnubices in pr.ifnsidu sugar, garden 
 tinck. the orange, line timber, live sldck. hsh and game. 
 If is the c )untr\ jiro lucing the fanidus Tobascd pepper 
 sauce condimeut, kunwn like Lea iS: Perrin's. the W(>rld 
 (wer. 
 
 Leon Mrevfus. born in Doruach. .Msace. Jidy 2> iSdd 
 — tiiat is yj vcars ago — is one df its |)rincipal merchants. 
 Me was educated abroad at the Ciewerbeschule. Muhl- 
 h.iusen. .Msace. and the/:f('/(' ih' /'/.Ma.tv (('((/ I'ilaturc. 
 He began ids business career as clerk for Abraham Klot7 
 at Kldtzville. I'.avou Lafourche, and remained there fotu" 
 
 217 
 
Finest Liquors and Cig-ars in Town 
 
 
 e3am s Oai 
 
 i 
 
 oon 
 
 %Mlar^ 9. 
 
 OOtT\ 
 
 '^5®'^^=«y^^^ ^®=!^^ia^ "^*«ge5**'"==^j^ 
 
 S. AYRAUD. Proprietor. 
 
 ^W 
 
 \ .^.>DONALDSONVILLE LA. .>=^ ^ 
 
 e 
 
 ^ 
 
 A National Bank Note 
 
 Tlie Policies of the Illinois 
 Ijife Insurance i-ompany 
 are the National Bank 
 Notes of Life Insurance. 
 
 III 
 
 Illinois Life Insurance Co. 
 
 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
 
 JAMES W. STEVENS, PreMdent. 
 
 T. J. COCKE, Manager 
 30' Hennen Building N^w Orleans. La. 
 
 a 
 a 
 a 
 
 ^ 
 
 J 
 
 You are hereby extended a verv 
 cordial invitation to visit 
 
 Cbeap Sony's 
 BiQ IWevv Store 
 
 COL. A. D. VEGA. Proprietor. 
 
 (f— «ig^.^ 
 
 Mississippi Street, 
 Head Railroad Ave. 
 
 Donaldson ville, 
 Louisiana. 
 
 HeH<)()uaners for Dry Gou<is, Ciotliinfi, Xiitioiis, 
 Laiiirs and Gents' FurnisliinK Goods, Shoes, 
 Hat,.i. .Millinery, Kloor Oil Cloth, Carpets, Kujis 
 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. 
 
 f 
 
 H 
 
 Telephone 16. 
 
 New York Office, 74 Grand Street. 
 
 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- 
 ing, the Kiverand Railroad Avenue. 
 
 » 
 
 >/ 
 
 Blue Grass 
 STABL ES. 
 
 ED. C. WATHEN, Proprietor. 
 — : DEALER IN :- 
 
 Kentucky Mules 
 and Horses. «.^«^*^ 
 
 Mississippi and St. Patrick Streets, 
 DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 
 
 I 
 
 — 218 — 
 
\cars. At invsent ho i> eiii;a,i;i'il in tlic lianlwarc ami 
 mill supplies line at Xew llieria. a.nd is tlie v'ice-iiresident 
 of the Xew lljeria Milling \- 1 )eveli)i)inent Co. of Xew 
 llieria, a concern with a capital of $125,000 operating 
 tiiree irrii^atniL; canals, six cotton .^ins, a cotton oil mill, 
 a rice mill and syrup mill, lie married, ahout ten vears 
 agxi. Miss Edith I.ev\, dauLjhter of I'. \. Levy, of Xew 
 (Orleans, a \\ cll-!<no\\n merchant, lie is president of the 
 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 the postoffice for Crosse Tete. Here lives Jules 
 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 
 still a voulli and his first experience of his present iinc 
 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\. in Fangiijahoa parish, on tlie eastern side 
 ol the State, is one of the growing cities of that region. 
 It is a summer and winter resort, a lumbering and farm- 
 ing center. That part of the State is known as "the 
 Morida parishes," and is rapidlv developing. Many set- 
 tlers are con";ing in, and the shipment of truck and small 
 fruits to Xorthern markets is an est.aijlished industr\-, 
 
 David Stern, born at .Xatchez, .Miss.. juUi 15. 1852. is 
 a leading merchant and banker of .\niite ( so called for 
 s'lort), where he has resided for many years. He was 
 educated in Xew ^'ork and. Texas, and his first emplov- 
 nter.t was as a clerk for Charles Kaufmi'u iiV the Blue 
 .Store, near the French Market, Xew Orleans, In other 
 words he liegan his business career at the bottom of the 
 ladcKr, and served ins business ap]irenticeship in the 
 g<}od old-fashioned retail wav. 
 
 .Mr. Storr, is president of the People's Hank 
 in .Amite, and has other imp(M-tant investments. He is a 
 -Mason, a 1\. of P., a memlier of the Knights of Honor 
 and of the L ( ). li. H, of Summit, Miss. He is a man 
 of family, of cliaritable disposition and is counted of the 
 solid clement of his part of the State. 
 
 .MR. SOLO.MOX KLorz. X.\P( )LKOX\"lLLK. 
 
 Xapoleonviile is a thriving olace on tlie T & P. R. R.. 
 m tlie parish .jf Assumption, of alxjut 1,000 or 1,200 i^o/)- 
 ulation. It has its seat amid iiighly fertile a.nd jji-oduc- 
 tue surroundings. 
 
 .\lr. Klolz is a distinguished merchant and business 
 man of .Xa-poleonville, .\ssuniption parish, and that ])art 
 of the countrv. He is also notable in public and *'rater- 
 ral .-itiairs. He is director of the I'.ank of \ssumplion 
 
 I ) 
 
 SOLOMON KLOTZ. 
 
 and ol the Pioneer Printing Co., and does a verv exten- 
 sive insurance business He is a member of the town 
 loiincil and of the Democratic Executive Committee. H<' 
 i^ a Mason in high standing and a member of the Knights 
 of Pxtbias and Knig'.Us of Honor. He also iielongs to 
 tiic L s ). P.. B. 
 
 .Mr. Kloiz was born in Chrixillcr, .\ls;ice, ii. i85_|. He 
 came (wer tpiite young ainl began his busmess life here 
 as a clerk. \Ve neetl hardly say after the mention of 
 his connections and nftiHation a'love. that he has been 
 wiicllv successful. 
 
 MORGAN CITY, LA. 
 
 MoKG.\N City, on the Southern Pacific in St. Mary's 
 Parish, is situated on Berwick Bay into which Atclia- 
 falaya makes its way. It is a prosperous little city 
 and port of about 4U0n inhabitants among whom the 
 Jewish element is by no means last or least. 
 
 / 
 
 — 21'J 
 
AD KAFFIE. 
 
 VICK-PKESIDKNT 
 
 J C TRICHEL. Jk 
 
 CASH IKK. 
 
 TRANSACTS 
 A GENERAL 
 BANKING 
 BUSINESS 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 J 
 
 cine G)7ccnange JdanK, 
 
 OF NATCHITOCHES. LA. 
 
 Surplus and Profits $31,141.50 
 
 
 Q ^sj't <7Vq 3vb 3v*Q 3°\?t 3"0^ d"(76 ^^?b ^^ 
 
 aw 
 
 B. E. BLACK. Crowley. I P. BLACKJennings. 
 
 3^^ 
 3Ae 
 
 3«lX 
 
 Black Bros* & Co. 
 
 Crowley and Jennings. La. 
 
 Farm Machinery and Harness. i| 
 
 Irrigating Pumps and Stationary Engines a Specialty- 
 
 WAGONS AND BUGGIES. 
 
 Vou will ahvnvs Hnd ;i i\\ 
 
 k% 
 
 3^ 
 
 ■:*; 
 
 :« 
 
 ».% 
 
 me oi ^g 
 
 White Elepliant, Goluiuhus and Mover |^ 
 Buggies and Surrey.*^ at our Repository. |i 
 
 HARNESS and LAP ROBES. 
 
 CROWLEY, LA. 
 
 .1. .\. HiilViMaii. 11. X. llotrijKni r. .1. IhiflMian. 
 
 CROWLEY 
 STEAM^**^ 
 LAUNDRY. 
 
 HOFFMANN BROS. Proprietors, 
 
 Corner of Avenue G and Seventh St. 
 
 CROWLEY. LOUISIANA. 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 127 ^-t.M-Jt-Jt 
 
 Good Work Guaranteed. Caters to the Jewish Trade 
 
 
 1 
 
 k^ 
 
 
 J 
 
 — 222 
 
} 
 } 
 
 ^ 
 
 E. L. MoNNOT, President 
 
 L U. FoLSE, Vice-President. 
 AuGTTSTE Thibaut, Cashier. 
 
 F. J. RoDKiGUE, Asst. Cashier. 
 
 Bank of Napoleonville, 
 
 NAPOLEONVILLE, LA. 
 
 CAPITAL, $30,000.00 
 
 SURPLUS, $30,000.00 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 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. 
 
 i 
 
 J 
 

 
 ■^■1 
 
 'QUEEN&CRI5CENT 
 ROUTE 
 
 
 ^^^^^^H 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^m^^^^^^^^M 
 
 ■■H 
 
 
 THE SHORT LINE TO 
 
 WASHINGTON, CINCINNATI, 
 BIRMINGHAM, ST. LOUIS, 
 
 CHATTANOOGA. 
 
 . . ♦ Elegant Through Pullman Sleepers . . . 
 
 Dining Cars Serving All Meals* 
 Service Unsurpassed, ojt Fast Trains, 
 
 TICKET OFFICE, 
 No. 2U ST. CHARLES STREET. 
 
 GEO. H, SMITH, General Passenger Ag-ent. 
 
 R. J. ANDERSON, Assistant General Passenger Agent. 
 
 J. R. WILLS, Division Passenger Agent. 
 
 J. H. LIVELY, City Passenger Agent. 
 
A. BALDWIN, Jr., President. 
 
 H. T. BALDVIN, TreMuret. 
 
 A. BALDWIN & CO., Ltd 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1822. 
 
 »li 
 
 m. 
 
 -\N-', 
 
 IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF 
 
 Hardware, Stoves, Crockery, Lamps, Machinery, and 
 
 Agricultural Implements* 
 
 LARGEST STOCK CARRIED IN THE SOUTH. 
 
 Camp and Common Streets* 
 
 «JtB 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 j^ i- 
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
 014 646 188 8