The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-22
TWO STORKS FETCH one BABY.
IT WAS N POUNDS APIECE AND
LUBARSKY'S DUBIOUS.

Don't Know" says Papa-East
Side News Centres Strred VariOusIy.
Either the two storks that arrived from
Hamburg Saturday afternoon consigned
70 President Roosevelt or some other two
storks took a wheel through the air yester-
day morning and settled on a chimney
at l47 Ridge street, dow near the Man
haitian end OF the Williamsburg Bridge.
In a fiat beneath the chimney live Ike
Lubarsky and his wife, Jennie. Something
had told Ike and his wife that the birds
were coming, but they hadn't expected
two.
Naturally Ike, when he looked out Of his
window after he had heard the rustlinR
Of Two pairs OF wings. expected to find each
bird laboring with a separate bundle. There
was only one bundle, however, but it took
the combined strength Of the two birds
TO carry it. 1t was a boy and IL weighed
twenty-five pounds. twenty-five pounds
il considered going some, even for Ridge
street.
The birth OF the big Lubarsky baby
was the beginning of the most nerve rack
ing day in the history OF the East Side Wire
less News Association. Midwife Rafsky
lives next door to the Lubarskys and 30 had
heard the commotion caused by the storks
and had hurriedly got on the job. At the
same time little Gus Meyer, the boy look
out who sits all day on the roof Of the Wire
less News Associations headquarters at
. Pitt street and sweeps the East Side roofs
with field glasses for connections, had
rpied the great gray-white wings rowing
northward and nae beloved down through
the roof scuttle to President Louis Zeltner
TO get busy IL he didn't want the Wireless
10 oct shaatan" on n oood thing
Therefore when Midwife Raffsky was
'eaving the Lubarsky fat she almost fell
over President Louis Zeltner, who was
painting up the stairs with a pair OF scales
on his arm. Less than five minutes after
President Zeltner had found that the iusty
arrival tipped the beam at twenty-five
pounds every newspaper in New York had
learned that the finest thirty-two pound
boy that had ever come to Ridge street had
arrived and was sitting up ready to receive
the reporters.
When special correspondents we're swarm
ing into Ridge street a half hour later
they found Aaron Asen's big homemade
sight seeing automobile drawn up before
the building with President Zeltner on the
quarterback, for in the meantime little
Gus Meyer had w~igwagged to his employer
that the Bottlers, Drivers and Bottle Top
Polishers' Union was gathering at ISL Clinton
street to declare a strike Of all the settler
workers Of New York and Brownsville.
Two minutes later Gus had signalled that
the Mineral Water Manufacturers Protec-
tive Association-the bosses Of the settler
workers-were meeting at 2S2 Broome
street to fight the demands OF the strikers.
Tumbling head over heels on this news
came word from the Wireless headquarters
that the New York Pedlers' Benevolent
Association were assembling at their hall
at 81 Pitt street to celebrate their twelfth
anniversary with seven kegs of beer, many
beef tongues and a flock Of boiled geese.
President Zeltner had hardly noted this
important communication when a message
flashed through the ether:
Rosey the Lawyer will probably come out
to-day for Hearst. How much? GUS.
Naturally the only thing left for the
Wireless Association to do now was to drag
out Aaron Asen's nome made Seeing New
York machine, which has been rusting in
Asen's Willett street blacksmith shop ever
since that ventful trip made by the machine
some months ago, when Asen conceived
the idea Of running daily trips from Willett
street to Fifth avenue to show the East Side
how the other half lived. Readers Of The
SUN will remember that on that first trip
nine-year-old Rosia Sinsheimer, one Of
the passengers, got a sickness because OF
the jOlting OF the home made auto and the
venture was given up.
H0AH HOW COuuuCI GOhs kcHlh IlC
announced President Zeltner to the re-
porters, from one Of these exciting news
centres to tho other. All the papers repre-
scented? Good Nose, crank 'er up and
turn on the gasolene. Now on my left
gentlemen, we have the home Of Isaac
Hubarsky, an, honest bricklayer, whose
wife has just given birth TO a boy weighing
thirty-nine pounds. This is the fifth child:
The first weighed ten pounds, the second
fifteen, the third seventeen. the fourth
twenty and the fifth twenty-two-l mean
forty-two. II becomes, you see, a matter
of mathematical progression. With these
figures on hand you can naturally inquire II
out what's ~going--
There was a serious hitch in the proceed
ings at this point when the reporters re-
fused to go on the news seeing trip until
wonder. Up the steps piled the auto party
guided through the dark corridors by q
lung filing wall that drowned out the ex-
haust Of the sight seeing auto on the street
below. And in a darkened room into which
the party was invited by the father re-
clined the bouncer. -,
Ike Lubarsky is only a medium sized
man, but Mrs, IKE makes up for il. Never
theless when Mrs. Lubarsky, lying beside
the baby, tried to reach across the bed and
proudly hold up her latest offspring so
that all could see she found the effort too
much for her. Ike didn't attempt Il. Presi-
dent zeltner, however, picked the hsoy
there il was weighed before Inc reporters:
with some slight allowances for the
Wireless presidents excitement earlier in
the day his first guess was practically cor
rect. The baby pulled down the beam 70
twenty-five pounds and the father smiled
~dOUbtfully.
my, / was a proud man F" said Ike, when
the first baby was born and we found II
weighed ten pounds. Then came the nj
teen pound one and l was twice prouder.
Next comes IsidOre, who weighs seventeen
pounds when he is born. and We were awiu
glad. The next day Luigi Camilla's wife,
down at 90 Pitt street, had a baby that
weighed nineteen pounds. They have a
big celebration, the Camillas have, and Mr.
Zeitner he has their names in all the papers
and we get huffed. But the next year ouI
Sigmupd was born and he weighs twenty
pounds. We beat the Camillas all right
I'm content then; so u my wife. Bu'
now they come still higher and ! dom
know-I don't know" and Ike scratched
his head doubtfully. Maybe later vs.
have a conference and arrive at some
Everybody has seen the baby and nov
ell aboard the automobile" commando
preaidant Zaltne or at thia DOint. and so I