The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
iSTORK EPIDEMIC AT MARTINS
WEDDING AND BERTH PRICE
COSTS THE HOUSE $3.50.

however the rECtlCN HSDeeASNANN-
weep over the deterioration Of the stork IN
France there IA no doubt OF tho lustiness OF
the big white birds, with . look Of anxiety
fastened 10 their long necks. that hght Tor o
perch on the ton Of the haRpole rising shove
the roof OF the Cafe Martin. New York.
Once the c~anvasSack and the trufied pate
Of chicken A Ia relee were the all important
ornitholcgical studies Of the Martin en-
plov4 and EMPLOYEE, but since NJ. Jean
Baptiste Martin posted notices In the pantry
hat he would give 500 TO each OF his cn-
ployees that married and an additional
$50 for each subsequent birth the sbOrk has
handed the sliced lemon to h parfait OF
DuckIinr Lambertye and all the other dead
ones on the men
Yesterday afternoon NJ. Henri Prince.
the cafe bookkeeper, was bUslly engaged
adding columns Of figures from n big calf
skin book labelled Marriage and Births"
and he heaved q sigh that was not alto
gether one Of despair as he totalled the sum
that M. Martin viii have to hand out at the
end Of the month to the employees that took
the boss at his word a year ago.
The harvest began when the walters came
on the job one day to find q big poster tacked
to the pantry wall that ran:
oRDRE DE SERVICE NUMfRo l01.
A partir de ce jour. tout employee on EN- =
nloy4e du Cafe Martin, qui &c mariera apres
un an de service dams Ia maison. receVra une
qualification de cent dollars 0ioo.Ool.
Tout employee marie. eEalement su service
de Ia maison depuis Un an. reoeVrau pe gratir-
cation de ~cinquante dollars 0S0.Ool. q Ia nsls-
sance de chsaue enfant.
Par ordre J.P, MAhTiN'
lie Ter Ssptembre, 1905.
That was perhaps the most expensive
poster ever designed 10 little old New YORK;
AT the end of this month. when the marriages
and births are paid of, the total cost OF It
will have touched the Martin pocket for
exactly $3.50. OF this sum $1,000 will
have been paid out at marriages. There
has been the mystic number Of t~wenty-three
births at $50 per birth and all the returns
not yet in.
M. Louis Andreys, first saucier cook,
was leading a troop Of trained Welsh rabbits
through the pantry on the morning when
the ordre de service numero l02 was hrst
displayed. The cook paused to tnvesti-
eate when he saw little FRANCOIS Dupin,
the omnibus, mailing the poster to the
pantry wall with a tack hammer n a
blush. FRANCOIS stole away sheepishly
and left the fret saucer cook studying
the poster t~houghtRuly.
Silently studying, the cook did not hear
a soft step behind him until the voice OF
Suzanne Jacquier, the housekeeper. asked
~anxiously:
The poster is it that the reason OF to
be, Monsieur Andreys, thcre is told that
the wages they shall to be paid on the
Friday instead OF the Saturday.
NO, mam'selle," answered NJ. Andreys.
Rather 1t is that soon there will be some
thing doing. In this the house OF Mon
sieur Martin henceforth-
There was a soft brushing Of wings against
the pantry window and mam'selle screamed
Obi" in French as q great white bird
settled suddenly on the window sill and
craned an anxious beak toward the Foster.
M. ANDREWS withdrew toward the kitchen
discreetly. Mam'selle began to count the
bundle OF napkins in her hand rurousiy.
With frightened shrteks the performing
Welsh rabbits scurried below stairs TO
their kennels.
That was the beginning Of everything.
On the very next day the first saucer cook
and Mam'selle Suzanne were married,
ma the date, September ?, 1905, entered
in the Martin marriage and birth book
will show. A few weeks later the head
cashier Of the res~taurant-Tho admitted
Yesterday that the notice had spurred
him on, but refused his n~ame-decided
that he wouldn't let the first saucer cook
nut IL all over him. Wherefore the cashier
married a pretty French girl whose name
is on ohampasns 6ostl e. r,,d per ta'ner 5
SYou want names Of some OF the en-
ployees that have been married, repeated
Bookkeeper Prince yesterday. All, mon
sieur, brave names ] can give There is
A.. AA.A an ah4or-
%Pardon, monsieur, " interrupted the head
cashier, there is not the head cashier:
True, him was married; but the name--no.'
SOne thousand pardons, a onsieur. re-
plied the bookkeeper ahashGH, But there
Is N. Vincent Wassile wski a Pole that NJ.
Martin met in Poland the last year. M.
Wassilevsh was suffering from the stick
of the sword Of the Japanese war; He
comes here to America with -. Martin
and quick is made the second assistant
saucer cook.
And. an, monsieur, there is a romance
NJ. Waseile wski, he loves in Poland Ia belle
Francese Golubiew ska. This our second
assistant saucter cook ne sees the poster
Comes across the seas la belle krancese
They ere married on the next February l
last Is IL not beautiful, this romance2
Famous are others that have been mar
ried here. There Is Monsieur Edouard
SCHNEIDER. He IL is that is the waiter that
serves Harry Thaw on the most momentous
night. Think Of that! Down to the District
Attorney has he been, and when the trial
begins he will be a witness OF much renown,
He gets 500 from monsieur le boss when
last October he marries Mam'selle Leroy
who is not Of this establishment: But when
Nj. Andreys marries the houeekeeper they
each get 800.
Then there was married leon Papillon
; No, not a waiter, but the assistant wine
steward no less! This month we shall marry
Ambrose Naeder for 500 and Maurtce
Gabuoud. These be walters, but many
famous persons in this establishment ave
we married among the t~hirty-nine weddings
Of the year. /, alas, am married before this
proclamation was posted"
That first stork hat settled on the pantry
window sill q year 6 must have been q
lady stork, because Il couldn't keep the glad
news to itself. For a long time there were
only occasional distant whirringB OF gray
white wings TO tell that the birds had their
eyes on the restaurant and had got the
street and number.
But time ran on apace: The birds grew
bold. Then on a sunny afternoon in August
last a big stork was seen to wheel around
and around far up above the building. Tied