The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-02
JrBILANr TENANTS PARADE.
won From the Landlord, All mt the Nav
OnIcast achcrlinE.

About thirty -nine families reioiced last
night In Simen Frindel's tenement at NJ and
NJ Hopkins street. Brooklyn. A casuai
passerby might have supposed that the ten
ants were all getting married on the same
evening. In the fortieth fat however, hat
Of Louis Soherling. gloom prevailed.
The andlord recently gave orders to his
housekeeper to collect 81 a month more
from each tenant The housekeeper, who
answers to the name Of Herman. visited
he tenants yesterday. with poor results.
They refused energetically in the first place
to pay the higher rent; secondly, they APP
pointed Morris Gold, Jacob Weist barter,
Heiny KatA and Johnnie Wollman as a COM
mittee to bring the landlord to terms. Nor
Iis Gold said he was willing to stay home
and devote his time to fighting the landlord
Heiny Katz said that he wasn't working
just now and would do likewise. The
tenants-thirty-nine Of them swore ale
glance to the Gold-Katz committee and
raised a campaign fund. But Scherling,
when interviewed in his cobbler shop in the
basement said hat he would settle will the
landlord for himself. He thought their
idea was fne-oh, yes. Only he would just
stay in the back a little and see how things
would GO.
The Gold Katz committee did not argue
with him. There was weighty business on
hand. The deputation had an appointment
WltH DIN TTlIlutl, JIG hIulOiu'
After long bargaining the arguments OF
the Gold-Katz crowd were 30 persuasive
that Sim wrote out and signed IN agreement
to raise no rents until January, 1907, with a
single exception. Then he wrote another
paper, a bill debiting Scherling with, not
81 but s. more rent.
The committee were doubly pleased
They ran down Hopkins street with the
good news. and VOC noises of triumph
broke out in thirty-nine flats. All afternoon
women stood in front of the cobbler shop
and cried Aha, Scherling! See how he
iss nowi"
When the men came homo for supper
it was all told over. Somebody then sug-
gested a parade Of the tenants, and about
o o'clock the Mayfower Fife and Drum
Corps mysteriously appeared on the scene.
The Mayfowers after Numbering their
bass drums and lighter accompanying
pieces started with a serenade in front OF
the shop Of Louis Scherling. Thence they
travelled to the roof and down again, play
ing Wat ye goin' do wen de rent comes
roun'?"
As they issued into the street they were
followed by the ranks of the tenants, ranged
by families, all the way upstairs. On reach
I In the first line right behind the music
marched men h wore their best black
coats. Following them came two lines
of women with babies, followed by a small
detachment of baby carriages. Then came
men in suspenders, about two lines in all,
and finally the children in irregular forma-
ton, some of the girls dancing in rings.
Thousands were out to see the parade,
from all through the neighborhood, at
tracted by the martial noises and by the
blaze of candles set in the windows of the
tenement, AS the procession passed tene:
ment after tenement the jewellers rushed
to the windows.
The procession kept steadily OF as fai
as Wassermann's saloon, where it seemed
to melt way, all but the mothers and baby
carriages, who. deprived Of the music. were
constrained to turn back.
Scherling, the cobbler, said that II the
thing got into the papers he would get
square with them, il it cost him $50.