The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-23
REDMOND FLATS CHILDLESC.
NIT REDMOND'S HOME ISN'T ny
4 MARGIN or TEN.

Friend of President Roosevelt Knows
What Children Are and TIfat Some.
body Kisses Fiat II no Place Tor TheHi-
How tie Came TO believe IN Teddy.
Michael Redmond, q wealthy and pic
turesque ITishman with ten children, owns
two rows OF apartments at i76th street and
BathEate avenue, but he says be wouldn't
have tenants with children IN any Of them.
Children said Mr.. Redmond with an
lnimitable Tipperary tang, Just defacs
and ruin q property. II / didn't have a
house Of me own, II isn't fat I'd be lookin'
for With me ten kids
Mr. Redmond is not AZ ell a professor
Of race suicide. On the contrary, he is
friend Of President RooseSelrs
This lie how the President and became
friends related the philosopher Of Bath
gate avenue. me friend Police Commits.
sioner Parker took me TO introduce me 10
Mr.. Roosevelt when he became Police Com.
missioner. Mr.. Redmond Mr.. Roobe-
velt' says Parker. Don't fun me, says /
I thought Mr.. Roosevelt was an American,
says I.
Well what dye think l amr speaks up
the Commissioner.
Dook,' Gays /. An dye know, It was Mr.,
Roosevelt after all? Two or three weeks
later found a chsncet TO apologize TO him.
! apologize says ].
'p'ye think now I'm the Commissioner
says he. Yer hand sayshe. Come into
mo Office and tell me all ye know
Well, Rir. Commissioner Gays ], !
know a man named Tim Smith, a patrol.
man that ought to be a Toundsuan; he's
a fine, handsome lad; the only thing agin
him Is he's born American Dye know,
the mkt time / cav Tim be had the rounds
mans stripes. Mr.. Roosevelt and have
been friends ever since ! paid the Presi.
dent a visit before election.
An. Redmond says he, j W1s Police
Commissioner, wasn't ~
That We was, Mr.. President says l, and
yen be elected President by the biggest
plurality in the history Of the country.
And bedad he was, His next election viii
be unanimous,
Like many other wealthy Americans Mr.
Redmond began at the bottom BE came
from lipperary at the age Of 81. That was
in 1869. lie served three years under Gen,
Duane In the Union Army. he bought
one and q quarter acres Of land In Wood.
lawn IN 1879 for 81, $50. Two years Inter
81 500 was offered him for 1t. Later he
bought at auction five acres more that had
belonged 20 his wife, but we're being sold
for deUt "At auction he throws In as an
aside we get a thing because yen pay
more for II than anybody else VIII lie
hired moro land, engaged IN the dairy In.
dustry in the cattle trade and in local poll
tics and prospered at everything. Lately
he sold some Of his old farm 10 the city for
Van Cortlandt Park at good price. Nine
wears ago he went on the bond OF con-
tractor Tor 50 COO The man failed TO per.
form the work and Mr. Redmond finished
the Job himself He remained contractor
for nine years and made a fortune at that
'Ah, II had all that owe, Id Ge as well
Of as they say ! am sighed the bathgatH
avenue philosopher.
And vet he Is expecting 10 build several
more apartment houses, all chldless, o1ind
l76th street and Batbgate avenue, where he
owns whole blocks.
ITS a Redmond village / want 70 mako
this said he lie has Accotnmo dations Tor
about eighty families already. He IL Rlwaye
near his buildings and himseH takes pro-
speotiye tenants through the apartments,
pcturesquely lecturing on their merits
Aren't you dear, Mr.. Redmond, from
a w0uld-be tenant.
Sure. nam, all the ladies say I'm little
dear. But for q handsome woman like
yourself these fats are none too good. Fine
picture needs fine frame
Mr.. Redmond's talk Rbounds tn shTewd
and racy remarks. Apropos Of the pub
nshed unvillingness OF certain clergymen
TO let the A. b. c. T. NJ. take Mr. Rookie
feller's gift Of $4,000 Mr.. Redmond re-
marked:
s1 them ministers don't enjoy the here
after what win become OF VA fellerS that's
always Amin for the long greenr'