The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25
MANY HAPPY LEUDESDORFFS.
BASKETBALL TEAMS, UMPIRE,
REFEREE AND A NEW BOY.

He Is the Twentieth, and His Proud Father
Has Grandchildren Older-A Lot OF
Rooms In His Home, aud He Can't
Tell How Many Moro May he Needed.
A clatter of feet across the hardwood
floor and chorus OF shrill young voices
were heard yesterday afternoon In the
Leudesdord home at 4l4 McDonough street,
Brooklyn. A game Of basketball was
going on. There were enough OF the Leu
desdor6 youngsters to make up two teams
of FIVE on side and still have enough left
over to umpire and referee the game. From
the mothers room upstairs came thin.
wailing voice. That was the twentieth
Leudesdorff. He arrived last Friday night.
Il guess there Is not much danger OF the
name Of Leudesdorn dying out in these
parts, said Mr.. Leudesdorff. just listen
to those youngsters upstairs!"
Mozart, aged IS, had Just made goal
from field. Samuel, aged IA, WAS pro-
testing vigorously
-Oh, don't mind the noise. What
father who is lucky enough to have bunch
like that would?"
Mozart's goal had ended the game and
the young Leudesdorffs came trooping
downstairs, joyously shouting for their
father. They poured into the room where
Mr.. Leudesdorff was talking to reporter,
swarmed around his chair, embraced him,
tackled him around the legs and gave about
as strenuous an exhibition of aflcctionate
childhood as could be imagined Every
now and then the wall Of the twentieth
Leudesdorff would come down through the
hallway and the father would look happier
than ever.
Emanuel Leudesdorff Is wharf superin-
tendent in Brooklyn for a union Of steam
ship lines. He is SO years old and Mrs.
Leudesdorff ia Al.
There would be no danger Of race suicide
if every American citizen would go and do
as ! have done" said he yesterday. Il
don't know whether President Roosevelt
has heard about my interesting family,
but ! am expecting letter from him almost
any time Still, if he attempted to present
one OF his autographed photographs to
every one of my children 1 am afraid he
would get cramp Of the wrist and run out
OF photos.
A dark-faced Neapolitan with a monkey
bobbing on his back had stopped outside
the Leudesdorff door with a street piano
There was q crash Of music and the army
after exacting tribute Of copper cents
from their father. The conversation was
resumed in something approaching quiet.
'You might be interested little in the
ga o. Wy ab sad Mr years asq
old 1 worked in a tailoring establishment
kept by MIR. Newman, my wifes father.
I didn't know many people here then and
was about the loneliest young man you
ever saw. Mr.. Newman noticed that
IN al 70 cat nftla Apxpp In Sha
mouth and he invited me to call at his house
There l met my wife, who was girl of
,bout IA then. Well we fell in love with
Zach other and in short time were
married.
A dozen pairs Of Leudesdorff feet were
dancing outside to the music of 'Mr
sThere,' said Mr.. Leudesdorr. waving
hs bands s.pressivelXY,.. rs the the, result:
1Aued. and four have died. don't know,
but am inclined to think that Is pretty
nearly a record for Brooklyn, and you know
what they say about Brooklyn being city
proud father who thinks he can beat it
One of the peculiar things about the
Leudesdor1 family, is that Mr.. Leudes-
dorff's two grandchildren are older than
eldest daughter, Bella. has been married
several years, and her children are older
than the baby that arrived Friday night.
i tell you that it's getting so l am puzzled
to find names for the new arrivals, said
Mr.. Leudesdorf. MY imagination flags
at times, and when twenty names have
been used up why you can easily under
stand that the available supply has been
pretty well thinned out Maybe we will
name this a ). last baby Theodore Roosevelt
Mr.. and Mrs. Leudesdorff we're married
twenty-four years ago. Their first child
was Bella who Is now 23. Davis arrived
a year later There was an interval OF four
years before the coming Of Adolph. Malvina
came year after Adolph. The next was
Stella, a year afterward.
arrived Samuel. Mozart, who scored the
goal from field yesterday afternoon, was
the next arrival Then there were Leo,
Abraham, Clara, Minnie. Edna, Igna-
thus, Florence and Isabella. The ages of
these younger ones range from II to year
and three months. or course the latest
arrival is not figured In this.
The domestic problem becomes inter
will Be boys, and it is also true that girls
sometimes want to be boys. When there
are fifteen OF them to keep an eye on and
steer out Of difficulties why it keeps parents
busy. But they are a nice lot OF children,
II do say so myself, and they know how to
obey"
The home of the happy family in MoDon-
ough street is a three story, brownstone
number of rooms. There are none too
many for the Leudesdorffs and, as the
father said: You can't tell how many more
will be needed"
JERSEY PASTORS DISAGREE,