The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 26, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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ral communities He was firmly
convinced that as the Jews were
originally an agricultural and
pastoral people they and espe-
cially those in Russia would un-
der favorable conditions again
become tillers of the soil His
idea was that as colonies became
firmly rooted in different parts
of the world they would draw
from Russia greater and greater
numbers so that in one or two
generations Russia would mate-
rially suffer from the loss of the
energy and activity of her Jews
and would either stop the exodus
by according to those who re-
mained full civil rights or would
fall as she deserved the logical
t
victim of her own intolerence
The strongest evidence of his
complete confidence in his wife
is in the fact that he left her
sole administrator of his vast
fortune After his death in 1896
she continued the administrative
office in her house in the Champs
Elysees where she was devoted
to her work from early morning
until late at night surrounded by
her secretaries A year after
the barons death the baroness
sent a million dollars to America
to help in relieving the conges-
tion in the New York ghetto
Hervplan was to encourage the
immigrants to move away from
the city into the rural districts
by offering more comfortable
dwellings at very low rates She
also sent 150000 to erect a
building for the Baron de Hirsch
Trade School in New York City
She gave 200000 to build the
Clara de Hirsch Home for Work-
ing Girls which she endowed
with 600000 for carrying on its
work of proyiding shelter for
homeless Jewish working girls
as well as a domestic training
school for immigrants She ere
ated a pension fund of 700000
for the officials of the Oriental
railways built by her husband
and a similar pension fund for
the instructors of the Baron de
Hirsch schools in Galicia She
established benevolent bureaus
in Vienna and Budapest and
gave half a million dollars each
to the Pasteur Institute of Paris
and the Philanthropic Society of
Paris The entire amount de
m voted by her to benevolent pur-
poses during her widowhood ex
ceeded15OpO 000 and she fur-
ther endowed her various foun
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dations by leading them 10
000000 in her will It was her
intention to give away her entirje
fortune with the exception of an
income sufficient for her person-
al wants and of a suitable pro-
vision for her two adopted sons
Arnold and Raymond de Forest
but she died before she had an
opportunity of completing her
plan
Thus you have heard in brief
just exactly what offices the
Baroness fulfilled And if you
remember the tenor of her whole
life was devoted to charity and
benevolence Prevented from
being the mother of a race which
would surely have done great
things for this world all her pur-
poses were redoubled so that she
might perform the deeds which
undoubtedly would have been at-
tributed to her children and
grandchildren
And what a beautiful lesson
we may take out of the simplici
ty and grandeur of her charac-
ter of heart As a parting word
let me repeat charity chastens
the heart and soul Let us all do
what we can for the great hu-
manity which is always suffer-
ing
A J SCHOENMANN
The death of A J Schoen
mann a well known and highly
respected citizen of Houston
who retired from business sever
al years ago occurred at his
home 702 Capitol avenue at
130 oclock Saturday afternoon
The funeral took place from
the residence at 4 oclock Sunday
afternoon with interment in the
Jewish cemetery Rabbi Barn
stein officiating
The following were seelected
to act as pallbearers Honorary
Judge W P Hamblen Dr J1
Burgheim A F Amerman W
L Foley George Bauss and E
Hoencke Sr Active L Roseri
wald Jonas Alltmont I G Ger
son Jules Hirsch Abe Halff and
F E Koehler
The deceased is survived by
his wife one daughter Miss Bel
la Schoenmann two sons Sol
and Joel Schoenmann nephew
Ludwig Schoenmann all resid-
ing in Houston and two broth-
ers Benjamin and Mayer
Schoenmann living in Frank-
fort Germany
Mr Schoenmann was born in
Frankfort on the Main Ger-
many February 18 1843 and
came to the United States ar-
riving at New York in 1866 ju3t
after the close of the war He
lived in New York for six months
and then started South arriving
in New Orleans at the time when
the yellow fever was raging Al-
though a poor man he devoted
his time to nursing the fever pa-
tients and rendered such assist-
ance as possible He lived in
that city four years
Mr Schoenmann began his
business career in NewOrleans
startingin the shoe business on
a small scale and gradually work-
ing his way up From that city
he went to Morgan City La and
thence to Houston where he
lived continuously
Shortly after reaching Hous-
ton Mr Schoenmann in 1875
or 1876 entered into a partner
ship with A J Loeb and opened
a place in the 800 block on Pres-
ton avenue The firm dissolved
in a short time and Mr Schoen
mann continued in business him-
self He located in the 900 block
on Preston avenue where he con-
tinued his business for a period
of twentyeight years The build-
ing in which he was then locat-
ed was put up expressly for his
use He closed out that business
and retired from active life
when the building in which he
was located was leased to Ed
Kiam five years ago
The two sons of the deceased
Sol and Joel Schoenmann took
up the business and moved to a
stand on Congress avenue where
they have since been located
Mr Schoenmann was very ac-
tive and always exhibited a de-
sire to be generous and charita-
ble He made Houston Ms home
for thirtythree years r
The deceased was a member
of Congregation Beth Israel arid
also the Knights of Honor of
which organization he was secre-
tary for years He also belonged
to the Knights and Ladies oi
Honor Black Jack Camp of the
Woodmen of the World Gulf
Lodge of IndependentOrder of
Bnai Brith New Orleans
American Guild and the Fama
brosiaSociety of Houston
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ZIONISM
By Herbert N Casson in Hamp
tons Broadway
Give the Jews a leadernnot a
poet but a practical business-
man and in ten years he will
get Palestine from the Turks
colonize it with a million or more
Jews from Russia and restore
his people to a place among the
nations of the earth That is
the plot of this story And it is
not a dream either nor a fancy
that concerns only the Jews
Being neither a Jew nor a
Turk I have no valid excuse for
meddling with this matter ex-
cept that like the majority of
Americans I would like to see-
the long tragedy of Jewish his-
tory have a happy ending before
the curtain falls
Palestine is the Jewish Father
land It is the old homestead
from which they were driven by
the spears of the Romans It be-
longs to them as truly as West
minster Abbey belongs to the
English or Independence Hall to
Americans They can never tear
the memory of that little coun-
try from their hearts and there
is no good reason why they
should It belongs to them by
right and it ought to belong to
them by the unanimous consent
of the older nations of the world
Again and again since the
Jewish nation was torn up by
the roots there have come lead
ers who tried to put it back But
until these days of railroads
steamships newspapers and
cheap postage it was impossible
to unite and organize a race that
had been scattered to the four
corners of the earth The Jews
were poor too ahd despised and
pushed into holes and corners
Every mans hand was against
them They were shut off in
Ghettos and it was a matter
of common surprise for centuries
that the sun would condescend to
shine upon such a thing as a Jew
But to day the Jews are in a
vastly different position There
is still prejudice of course plen-
ty of it There is still poverty
for four out of five But the
Jews are now so numerous
nearly twice as many as lived
in the days of Solomont they
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Goldberg, E. The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 26, 1908, newspaper, November 26, 1908; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84745/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .