The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-24
ADOLpH & SOPHIE, LAWYERS.
voTHER o. SIX LEADS APPEL
LATE DIVISION CLASS.
cp.r shc Was Younger, In warsaw. She
won . Medal Given by tho Czarina
After . Long Domestic Interlude Re-
,urns o Her Studies Like House Anre.

won 4 Medal Given ny the Czarina
After Long Domestic Interlude Re.
,prns TO Her Studies Like q House Anre.
Adolph Mayer. notary, OF 105 Attorney
.,ree, sat In his Office yesterday afternoon
surro,,uded by flowers. SCOTCH whisky and
.,,iles Every now and then Q member
-, ,he Essex Market Bar Association or
nsohbor in Sabbath clothes came In.
nrosped Adolph by the hand, said enthusiast
,,c words In Yiddish, drank highball and
denarted. To all congratulations, Adolph
,et,,rned this dignified answer In English:
.sbe il a remarkable woman. say II,
yes-but she H..
For Adolph was holding a reception by
,,ory for Sophie, his wife, the mother Of
Il, Who has Just passed the examination
tor the bar before the Appellate Division
a. the very head Of large list OF candidates
Mrs.. Mayer has gone to Ocean Grove to
Get the vacation she has earned; 80 Adolph
took the congratulations. but he looked
a. haopy as though he had done it himself.
The firm will now be .Mr. 4 Mrs. Mayer"
Two wears more when James Mayer. their
oldest. graduates from law school. it will
he .Mr. Il Mrs. Mayer a Son.
T, was in 1879 that Sophie Rosenberg
.,ea,ed a mild sensation in Warsaw by
graduating from the gymnasium with
bonors equivalent to a Harvard summa
ann laute She received for this silver
medal from the Czarina. Few Jewish
girls had been allowed to enter the Warsaw
symnasa up to that time, and this was
THAT attracted attention to Sophie Rosen-
bergs scholarship. She became a teacher
and lecturer in the Warsaw schools, a osi-
tion to which no Jewish woman had ever
attained before.
Then Adolph Mayer came along. He was
an Austrian Jew, an attache OF the Austrian
Consulate at Warsaw. 1t was love match
Adoph Mayer is proud to declare. They
married in 1880. In order to evade the law,
Adolph represented himself to the authori-
ties as merchant, since no foreign Jews
except merchants were allowed to marry in
Poland at that time. About a year later,
It dawned on the Russian secret police that
ldoph Mayer wasn't merchant. Mr.. and
Mrs Mayer, at the loss of nearly all their
property, had to leave Poland in hurry.
The marriage certificate which made all he
trouble is folded up in Adolph Mayors cafe
with Mrs. Mayors precious diploma Both
are so worn with showing that their folds
are pasted together with waters.
The Mayors came to America, OF course.
At Cleveland, where Adolph worked as
craftsman, Mrs. Mayer helping out by
teaching ono or another OF her seven Ian
euagee, their first child was born. Then
Adoph decided to be q lawyer. He re-
moved first to Port Jervis and then to New
10 id a
admitted lawyer. He was getting pretty
fair grasp on the law when he stumbled In
dark stairway one night, fell on the back
Of his head and got up blind. The fall had
injured the optic nerve. For two years he
could only tell the difference between dark
ness and daylight. The American physicians
sent him to Germany as last chance.
The German specialists brought back his
sight, although imperectly. He can SEQ
sny object pretty clearly up to six feet. but
hecan read only with q powerful magnifying
class, and then just fewlines at time.
Adolph Mayer, with what knowledge he
had, kept at the law. He could never
study enough to get admitted to the bar,
30 he stuck to the lower courts. Now and
then when he wandered into the higher
courts, the attorneys and Justices over
looked the fact that he had no real standing
before the bar.
When the other lawyers object said
Mayer proudly to Blum, the rabbi, yester-
day, y say to them:
What Are you afraid of Mayer
them and that fetches EN-"
Mrs Mayer, besides bringing up her six
children, used to read him his references
hn1y uytt ho
found time in odd moments to keep up
her general reading. They say on the
East Side that she Is the most learned woman
Of her people in New York.
1t was something more than two years
ago, as Adolph Mayer remembers it, that
his wife came to him and said
Look! Julius Is years old now, and
doesn't need much care any more, and we
can afford a girl. shall have nothing
10 do l want to study law and be your
partner One Of the family shall be ad-
mitted."
The next fall she entered the New York
University Law School. Prof. Ashley
Who dropped in on Saturday to congratu-
hte the family, aaid that she led all the rest
In her classes.
ana you ouenC 10 sec HeI e'uoJ eoAN
Adolph. she used to get up in the morn
ing at o'clock and light the gas and begin.
After breakfast she got the children reaoy
for school and started of with them. When
she didn't have classes she was working
In the library. At night she went to lee
lures, and when there weren't any lectures
she studied.
Yes, they used to laugh to sec this family
nights. There she sat in the front room
At the table working. and all the children
learning their lessons around her. l can't
read or study. and there's nothing for me
to do nights but talk, maybe. 80 kept
order. ! sat here with strap, and the first
boy that disturbed his mother, he felt that
strap, you let you. But the boys were
mostly good
Mrs Mayer, before her whole family
proudly assembled on the front seats, took
her LII, B. at commencement time. On
June IL she went to bed early for about
the first time in two years. and got an
eleven hour sleep because the all-day
bar examination came next day. After
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