The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-09
SU6Bh PRNESS OYER A BABY
g7MRKE DAYS or FRANKIE H0CH-
MANS CHRISTENING THERE WAS.

mlV1nNt0m street wants some Sieop Now
Amt ItF-My. but IL was Grand while
rs Lasted. for Frankie's Father Is .
.,RR@phet and Planned It All Out Ahead.
It's a good thing for little frankie Hoch-
man Of 100 Rvington street that his father,
Abr, ta prophet by trade. frankie. who
wfl be ten days old at twenty minutes
past this afternoon. and who is spend
ing the present week end at his home being
ehEistened, would not have had anything
near 20 stylish a christening II Papa Able
had not had a bunch months g that the
mew, baby couldn't he christened Rachel
becssse IL wasn't going 10 be that kind OF
10 baby.
For II Frankie had been a girl he, or she,
would not have been christened so hard
that traffic on Rvington street would
glut from Clinton street to Attorney, a.
10 did when Frankie began TO get his name
last Thursday evening. nor would he-she-
have had the distinction Of having the
police reserves of the Delaney street
seation turned out in his. or her, honor.
But the bunch Of Frankieis mind reading
papa came true, and 40 the christening
which by this time has probably simmered
down to a mere racket, was just about the
.moet stylish christening ever pulled Oh
-"
on the East Side.
Only one who has ever worked and
Thought over the preparations necessary
for an elaborate function Of this kind can
appreciate what time, trouble and money
n pamphlet can save. For instance, when
Nste Of the provisions needed for the chris
h~tsning-supper, breakfast, luncheon, dinner
and 90 on-were being made out and Frank
les father, Able. said, after a glance at the
stars, tina 32s pounds OF spring chickens,
ducks and geese would be about right. his
wife, Mrs. Able HICKMAN suggested to let IL
70 nc $40 pounds, as che doubted that Sam
Eindsr could come, because his wife, Rosa,
has a sickness. But Prof. Able said that
both the Finders would be on hand at 9
o'clock, and, believe IL or not, they were.
sBnt why should we to pave a tank Of
milk2' inquired Mrs. Able th~oughtfully,
when we shall to have eighteen boxes OF
bear, twenty cases OF seltser maybe
whiskey?" This was two weeks g last
Because, Sarah" returned Able
promptly, five days after the boy-the
rsturn from Europe, and as ! am perhaps
The Official phrenologist OF Florrte's club
F1orrie will come by the christening and
drink the milk"
And Able guessed right-if guess. may
be used in 20 exact a science--not only the
very fret time, but in every other prediction
he made. Florrie stepped on the United
States last Tuesday and has been . guest
at che christening on and on for the lest
two days, because IL was Prof. Able that
gave Christy Sullivan a hunch in May, 1905,
up In MoDermott's saloon, that King Pepper
would Nin at 8 TO I the next day.
Chfisty passed the mind readers tip
GlonS to Florrie and the Bowery, as readers
ofTHs Sun will remember, and sure enough
King Pepper and the Bowery got the money.
A q result Prof. Able was made a member
Of the Florence j. Sullivan Association,
With the title of Official Phrenologist n
Telepathist, Notwithstanding that some
Of tho club members objected to having a
regular club phr~enologist, on the ground
hat II their nails needed trimming they
could do it themselves.
The christening began exactly at S o'clock
last Thursday evening, when Rabbi Apple
dorf Of Ridge street entered the HICKMAN
i1at" at the head of fifty Hebrew orphans
whom" the rabbi looks after. The rabbi,
the fifty small boys and the Hochmans
ranged themselves around the bed OF Mrs.
for fifteen minutes. This, explained Able
20 the reporter. is a stylish Yiddish custom.
AZ the end Of the prayer IL is considered
quite as stylish 10 present to each OF the
orphans a gift of some kind.
The presents had hardly been distributed
when the first relay of invited guests came
troopinR up the HICKMAN stairs. The
FelRying OF guests was necessary because
there are limits to any fiat, even though
DR.. rMose Duckman o n the fiat below and
the Morris Weinsteins across the corridor
bad opened their apartments for the over
Cow.
Prof. Able had arranged 2Os chairs for the
frst relay, or supper squad, who were sup
poeed TO get down to things at $ p. M: At
eight minutes to eight 2Ol Of these chairs
were occupied because the Sam Finders had
not yet arrived on the job. As the minute
hand dragged toward 3 o'cloc anxious
guests who didn't like to see their host
fall down on his star gazing glanced sor-
and then toward the clock. The silence
OF the room was tremendous.
But they will be here said the pro-
feesor confidently, "they will be-
q footstep could be heard on the stairs, not
q sound of any kind but the evening song
Of little frankie. The professors face
blanched. They simply must come. he
eaid excitedly, while the clock was striking,
because the stars could not lie. Even
while he spoke the eighth stroke had come
and gone and nothing doing in Sam Finders.
Gloomily the professor paced up and
down the silent room, a troubled, defeated
expression on his face. For a full minute
he walked among his guests, who sat in
deathlike st illness, when suddenly there
was a step on the stair and in anne the
Sam FINDERS. But, alas for the professors
reputation, Il was too late row
AEyenink. everybody said the Sam
flinders, pleasantly. N.Y. but your clock
has a fastness!"
Instantly every watch with a diamond
setting in the room was flashed, Abie's the
FIRST at the post.
"Gott, / am right" he shrieked ~eostati-
cally, 1T Is perhaps now but one minute TO
And hardly had he finished speaking
when through the open door Of the Wein-
stein fiat across the hallway came the boom
ing Of the Weilstein clock and the day
was saved. Then everybody sat down to
supper:
Besides the S2s pounds Of chickens, ducks
and geese there were three boxes Of pears,
four of plums, three OF grapes, and more
vegetables and trimmings than Rivington
street had ever seen before. But there
was not too much. not so much as a need
less chicken wing, for the mind reader
had attended to that.
The whole supply Of food was not eaten,
Of course. at the supper, because at its con-
ckusion at 9 O'Clock on Friday morning
the breakfast, luncheon and dinner squads
had to be thought Of. A short rest fol-
lowed the supper, and two hours after its
conclusion the fifty guests invited to the
actual christening ceremonies began to
arrive.
frankie was christened by the Rev. Yudy
Ber HOFFMAN Of 1870 Attorney street, a cousin
Of the professor, from Q to 10 o'clock on
Friday morning. Then the fifty break