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But the Rhinelander brothers, William and Frederick, were integral members of the political machine in power. One was the granting of land under water, the other the granting of city real estate.
In the course of this work it has already been shown in specific detail how Peter Goelet in conjunction with John Jacob Astor, the Rhinelander brothers, the Schermerhorns, the Lorillards and other founders of multimillionaire dynasties, fraudulently secured great tracts of land, during the early and middle parts of the last century, in either what was then, or what is now, in the heart of New York City.
Indeed one Rhinelander was of the opinion that it would be worth while giving up Courland to get an unlimited supply of labour. In the meantime the Germans have not been idle in other directions. Until Hindenburg called up his immense levies in the late summer, Germany exported steel building materials and coal to contiguous neutral countries, but she can no longer do this.
Freedom is the best thing in life including the freedom to do stupid things." "Perhaps he knows of some cave where he is going to turn hermit," said one of the group. "Or he has a little business appointment, and we should be in the way," said another. They laughed, and the Rhinelander went on: "Well! moon away here, and we will travel on. But before all things be true to yourself.
This is considered such a petty attempt at defrauding, that the Aldermen call it an "unreasonable petition" and refuse to accede. In 1834 the Aldermen allow him a part of the old Hurlgate road, and Rhinelander a part of the Southampton road. Not a year passes but that he does not get some new right or privilege from the city government.
In the spring I offered it for rent and quickly found a good tenant in the agent of the Rhinelander estate. Our four daughters were entered at the school of the Misses Ely on Riverside Drive and made rapid and satisfactory progress in their studies. As soon as we had become thoroughly accustomed to life in New York I think every member of the family was glad of the change.
In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient mother-city, nor more honoured burgess swallowed impartially red juice and white under the shadow of his own fig-tree.
But now, after the war, all was changed; craft was more serviceable than fortitude; and the gay Rhinelander brought to the irksome task of subservience to the conqueror a courtly insouciance under which he nursed the hope of ultimate revenge.
Suppose, for example, that you wish to get Bryant 4310. Remove your hat politely and speak that number into the mouthpiece. "Central" will then say, "Rhinelander 4310." To which you reply, "NO, Central BRYANT 4310." Central then says, "I beg your pardon Bryant 4310," to which you reply, "Yes, please."
George J. Gould, Mrs. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. M. Orme Wilson, Mrs. Simon Baruch, Mrs. Oliver Herford, Mrs. Wm. Reynolds Brown, and Mrs. Douglas Robinson. When this storm had subsided, Henry Ford rose to renew the pacifist attack.
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