The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-29
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BANTER STREETS ROMANCE.
JESSICh COHEN'S ELIgHT WIN UEB
rOUNG CHRTsTTfN LOvER.
How the Biue-eyod Dnushter OF Jevi.h
Tailor Made I" Goose Other Ola Fn,hcr, and
AstOnishcd the Nciabborhood Of Five Points

Loewcnthal Cohen Is n merchant tailor.
and one Of the stable citizons Of tho Sixth
Ward. and up to Tucsday evening he dwelt
very comfortably upon the precise apcx OF one
OF tho Five Points. OF Saturday the pros
porous merchant tailor and his family never
Jailed Ia the neighboring synagogue in Chat
ham square to return thanks for the good for
Juno which their own thrift and the necessities
OF the people had secured to them.
Mr. Cohen had n daughter. He had also
several other offspring, including a stalwart
son or two. whose broad shoulders sct of hand
sOmey the coats OF the patcrnal establishment;
bu, more than all else ne had n daughter. She
was beautiful. But more than for her beauty was
Caroline Cohen esteemed by her ncighbors for
her womanly discretion and evncod desire
to assist her parents. In tho mcrchnnt-tailor
shop of her father she was priceless assistant,
ana unrolled the pieces Of satnet which wore
designed for trousers. like vcritable angel Of
light She wandered with an eternal sweetness
OF manner from till to counter and from coun-
ter to till, and exchanged the trade-dollars OF
her fathers customers with n courtesy that was
unvaryng. and with charm that won its way
to the hearts Of all who bought trousers from
her. Then. when business was slack in the
shop. shc set up stand on the sunny
corner outside. whereat she sold soda water and
apples that were neither more sparkling nor
more rosy than herself; but the police. lust
after Recorder Jackets arraignment Of tho
Board Of Aldermen. removed the stand. although
they cast many deprecnting glance at tho fair
huckstress while they were doing IL.
owen Fal, lon IS thrifty blacksmith. living
lust around the corner from IOewenthal
Gohen's merchant-tailor shop. in Park street
FOR many years, from carly morning until late
p paa mi trS,eGS i9rgi ms been HGcus9med
work 70 cool tho dollars he had accumulated
We're they red hot, and his hammer would have
rna oF sRaen as ali the norscs h belong
horses, belonging TO the Board of Health.
ana he puts shoes also, upon, most
leather merchants ~ the Swamp. Those who
know owen FHllon and his business say that
nus Iast iteln alone Is enough to insure him a
lucal alycrsity ever become deprived Oi Tho
others. He lives with his family like good
citizen soberly and unost"ntat iously. above the
smithy IN which lie works. and at evening goes
out In fresh suit Of clothes among HIS hcigh-
bors. by whom ho Is widely known and cs-
owen Fallon has a son called Tom, young
cording 70 report. is a worthy successor of his
father. He graduated from the ward grammar
school, and passed an exawinntion to enter the
fathers smit9y 10 learn ~ blscEsmitf S trads.
be aSS to shoa 5ar time Eoo BE S came
horse in twelve minutes. and for soma
iu' Ihh no ms tNkfn inc WIOlt WORK OF mo
shop upon his own shoulders. Broad shout
ders are they, too. those OF Tom Fallon. He
stands about Ave feet nine is handsome ms an
IAlndalusan and sinewy as, a mule, has fingers
like rives and arms like axle trees is possessed
Of good habits, strong head. and a warm
buy his clothes at Loewenthnl Cohcn's Tho
first pair OF trousers that were handed to him
10y Caroline Cohen were handed by school
girl. plump and pretty. to be- sure. hut scarcely
n years q age The last pain, of trousers
that Tom lallun bought were handed TO him by
NNftline I On n, Il tluSllng and frlp1
woman Is years Of age. Between the epochs
nlotc heart Transaction Ind occurred between
IN. two One WINS n Jewess and the other
Catholic. but no possible bother on that account
eyer occurred to the mind Of either Of them,
Not so with the minds Of the elder Cohene,
jews OF the most orthodox type, tho, frequent
Christian blacksmith at their dnnghter nllcd
them with religious ,alarm They said nothing.
It had long been the hab, Of young Fanon 10
ireI9ent oi an cysnns TINT point Of TIE Five
tailor The YOUNG Jewo-s. rosy with the cons-
cousncss 4 the love that WIS IN h,r heart was
inwrQhiy tLere, just outside the door 10 meet
nm. Whom she Kept the 50 la water stand ha
was one of her b'st customers. and after the
stand was abolished he eamr and the two re-
moved tu"ir vows under the grove Of coats
which swing hubliuully in front Of the
Tier Cohen,7 snor ON sunday last no went
was I'm t"ars. As lie Huproaohrd conroallnn
herself behind the doorpost from the view u
mother, brothers and sisers hal ali afGtuis.ed
her together for thinking of the young smith,
9ni had notified her that she was to 70 To the
Synagogue on the Sunday following md marry
h"r cousin. Henry Cohen whom She did MOI
love and whom she had never thought Of
All the strong blacksmith's will was reused In
younG t"l,on IN az an in7lant, CHANGING inside
young ellow with fat legs and ring on each
ingrr sitting contentedly on a CHAIR. and smok-
fofsd II: and S 6aE s@a 9m
that must have pleased her. for she dried hcI
iears. mn when nc went away from her few
minutes later her face was wrenthed ia smiles
On Tuesday evening. az II o'clock the soun Ia
OF rild comm CON issue! from the then closed
first the noise WAS muilrd. but then the shutter
OF dormer window WAS thrown open. and
lace appeared therein, stricken with dlsmay
aud dcathy pale in the light OF the neighLorina
Strset lamp d and the y2iee of the tailor
lower door was thrown .ouen and The whole
iamlly-iuthor mother. sisters, and brothers..
N ono dire. tion, others ran away in another.
shortly all five OF the narrow thoroughfAres
hen"
had met, and some who profcsscd to know were
not la 'kward in declaring to the boreayed
Cohen family that the pair were fast married
n fifteen, minutes Baxter street was black
with excited Hebrews. The tailor aud his wife
These also daried about and huttonholcd and
lnterrogRted all those whom they came across,
II was all in vain. Although everybody tora
quarter OF q milo around WIS engaged In
spirited inquiry, nobody knew anything OF tho
missing young Jewess.
In me mean time young Christian citizens.
dawdling over their beer in the barrooms
winkel and smiled. Not n few Of them pro.
tessrd TO know all about the whereabouts Of
Caroline Cohen, but no Inducements could
the distracted tailor that his daughter had gona
81 with Tom Fallon. and, that Father
rarely in James street had married
them Locwenthal Cohen ran to the smiihy In
lark street and reused w tho elder Fallon.
The old blacksmith came down and said that
his boy was gone, but that beyond that no
knew nnothing H. asked tho tailor TO 80
Young couple and Loewenthgl Cohen con-
snnted 70 take cigar The neighbors
gathered around, and n rousing health was
drunk To- tho young"ouu AZ the expense of the
old blacksmith who declared that the girl
might goa long way before she'd nnd another
one as good rs his lusty young son. Tom Ii
was several hours before the neighhorhood be-
came composed again
The scar h was resumed yesterday. Lawyer
Shrom aud twenty others tried their best to