The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-06
MORE CHILDREN; MORE RENT.
UBtTH or GOERCK STREET ON
IiNDIORD m SS'S HEAD
nrcause He's served DIsposSesses on
Ihosc VINO Wouldn't Pay the Advances
He's Taken Refuge In Ills Room
>oW. while the Children deer at Him.


He's Taken Refuge In His Room
NoW. While the Children deer at Him.
Tho sir story tenement at Goerck street
tsmmed Ike a hive Of angry bees yester-
dav Through the dark Railways rang the
voices n the tenants, Isaac, Isaac. Wy you
make dot gedt oudt nodiss? loafer you
vas Come oudt or We will beat you"
Isaac Russ. the little landlord with n
bairnrish pompadour and a sad mustache
Of corn yellow, rocked the cradle Of his
yoiiupcst and started at a sound,
In the Hat Of Mrs Rosa Blank upstairs
a noodle board beat upon the floor and
tho si1 small children of R5sa and Solo
mon played on fife and drum the new
Nareillai-e Of Goerck street, composed by
Nori'z Guhistein, the lame poet OF Suffolk
street
Never was there such a TO do as in that
tou.a Of ll3 children and their parents
never AZ least since old Morris Ebstein,
the PITT street baker and goose merchant.
ran away with sixteen-year-old Rosie
Fidlemann and married her before his
seven grown daughters could get TO the
rabbi
II all came about in this way On March
the little landlord served notice on his
tenants there are twenty-four families
in the tenement-that because of the hard
leartedness Of the agent from whom he
leased and because OF the goodness OF
Jehovah he would have to have more rent
The agent sad he had raised his own lease
price II was too bad. a great pity, but
more money he must have. The goodness
Of Jehovah he explained by saying that
there were too many children in the house.
Was II right that in a house Of twenty
four families there should be li3 children?
q was kind man who loved the prettle
Of children : voices he had kinder of his own
but Ach lie was losing sleep. He could
not think in his head. His accounts he
could not figure straight. Only day or
two before he had overpaid Rabenstein
the butcher cents because the children
Of Rosa and the children of the house of
Levy we're playing war In his own hall.
Those who had the most chi dren must
nav the most rent, Mrs. Blank with her
tr dollar and half more, Friedman
with his three, fifty cents more, Mrs. Levy
dollar more.
Followed much trouble. The Blanks
and the Leyys and the Friedmans and
the Franks and all the rest vent TO the
rabbi for advice. 4 wise man, he connselled
/
tPay or GO said Cohen That Is the law.
Children do not count in the law"
Then they pleaded with Russ while the
small children cried, and the older ones
kept very still, but the little landlord was
firm More children. more rent. | must
ma ke II so. said he They counseled once
more and refused TO go. threatening Isaac
and calling him names which mean 20 many
things that no English words could hope to
do them justice.
On Friday. in real alarm Isaac went to
court From Justice Sanders who sits in
the Thirteenth District Court at 200 East
Broadway, he procured dispossess notices
ordering all tenants who would not paw
the advance 10 appear in court at O'Clock
this morning to show cause why they should
not get out. Even with that overt act peace
might have come If Gust ppina Margili and
Mrs. Rosa Blank hadn't come to blows over
the matter Of children. Giuseppina has
none. Rosa has six. Therefore Giusep-
pima took lsaacs side and said Rosa's six |
were nusances
Rosa answer was a shifting Of Glusep- |
pima on the head with the useful noodle
board Everybody in the tenement was
there in a minute, deafening little Isaac
with their outcry. Mrs Rachel Tobias
who during the meat strike closed up $50
kosher shops as the whole Fast Side knows
told the story of what happened then:
-Rosa full OF a mad hit Giuseppina on
Der head Down went Giuseppina and lay
quite still Her children they scream like
wild birds. | try to help Giuseppina
las re eben' (let her lie) cried Rosa 'Ach
you will 20 by der police house. You will
get der electric chair, says Isaac Vat
do care?' says Rosa
And all the while those mad children
they cry. Glib. Rib, glib You know vat dat
nesnsl No? II means Give EN- hel.'
So Isaac he make his mind up Rosa must
move anyway The others they make a
stick by her That is all
So all day yesterday they were making
a stick by Rosa II Rosa and Solomon
and their six had to move then all would
move But oh. that Isaac let him as
much as poke his head in the hall and what
things they would do TO HIM
Photographers and reporters visited
Russ in iocks yesterday. took his picture
rocking the cradle took him in an attitude
a. the deepest detection. took him as Russ
defiant lighting his revolution took him
n dozen poses II seemed 10 make the
little landlord bit happier He gave his
.lGe Oh the rImpus in a stream of pure
ll15ish. I, was not that he disliked chill
1ren a. children he had his own but when
lis tenants kept getting more and more,
\ seemed that they ought to pay more
rent
II they paid the advance all could stay.
'are Rosa she would have 10 go. said Isaac.
She Il, fighter. 4 man Of peace am |.
Mrs Blank said she would appeal to jus
ice Sanders this morning, taking all her
'hidrcn 10 court with her. Other tenants