The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-16
MILLIONAIRE ORGAN GRINDER.
DREAMS THAT SOOTHE HoRO.
WITT, GEBUSTED INSIDE.

Ten Thousand Dollars, He Says. He Has
Spent, Running Down the Other End
of His Rainbo N-Auen Street Rid!cules
Claims OF Suffolk Street Heir eos.
There lie probably no Horowitz fortune,
although Mr.. Joel Friedman and Mrs.
Friedman and Mrs. Weinstock think that
there is. Certainly, il there eIste such a
fortune. tied up in the California Courts Of
Chancery waiting for an heir, 1t does not
amount TO ss5, ooo. 900 as Friedman and
Mrs. Friedman and Mrs Weinstock think
that it does. But Just the same. Friedman,
a painfully little man with a painfully big
burden, goes about day after day grinding
out I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy on a
barrel organ for the pennies 70 pay 10!
law business and keep a family ot potential
young m~ilionalres alive.
And Mrs. Friedman on Allen street and
Mrs. Weinstock on Suffolk street wash and
bake and brew and attend to many children.
while they plan what they will do with
the Ss5 900 900 which Jacob Horo~itz LETT
in the golden land Of California, and OF
which each believes herself the rlshttu
posseseor and heir. Whenever LIE grows
dull for them they go TO zee each other
and fight over il. Whoever started the myth
upon which these three simple Hebrew people
are living through their nights and days
nobody knows. Jacob Frank. the lawyer,
is attorney for both sides and gets 40 per
cent Of anything he makes out OF the estate
Forty per cent Of s35 coo 900 is worth having.
Yesterday was Sunday and Passover
tine, and Friedman, the organ grinder
With a wife worth thirty-fve millions,
took a layoff and told all about II. Fried
man is Of the bigness of q kosher bologna.
while his organ is as large as q shetland
pony. and he says that something IN ms
inside has "gebusted" because the organ
is so heavy and he has to run so hard Then
the cop ohasee him of the beat Across
the shoulders Of his brown fusttan coat he
weare a leather pad. the badge Of his trade,
and he has close cropped red hair and a
smile like Dave Warfeld's This is in case
he plavs beneath your window To-day. 30
that you may know you ale entertaining
a millionaire Mrs. Friedman, the rlghtful
hair. is dark and bu1om and mostly OYER
run with children.
Friedman fret spread on the table 4
whole armful Of Russian documents and
~several papers drawn by Lawyer Frank,
and than through the interpreter he talked
The elevated. which rlns past the windows.
punctuated his remarks.
Jacob Horowitz renowned the faith,
be said in be inning He became 4 Chris
tan and a priest .Afterwa!d he was q
Bishop. Eut there'were troubles, SO that
he left Russia and went 70 California IN a
time when there was much gold there
Sometimes in California they called him
Father Martin. and he was a priest Of the
Roman Catholics, for he left his faith a gain
But there was much gold there and ne
made much and put it into lands, So
when he died he was very rich Aber, !
hear thai now il is worth thtrty-fve mil
hons and getting richer all rhe time for
il is a rich country, that California, I
have been there and have seen peaches Of
a blgness.
50 when be died he made a testament.
which left al that he had 70 hls three
brothers And one OF the brothers lives
but of the other two there are only children
remaining So there are five heirs, and
Schmidt here, the wife. she is one of these
One-ffth Of thirty-6ve is seven millions
but if we 60 and get the money and If the
Others have used fraud, we get it all. amt
IT. So the lawyers in Russia tell me. And
some o. the Others have used fraud. There
is his brother Nathan that lives in Paris
He lives rich He has much money though
he seems TO be poor. He cannot fool me
He is taking money from that estate.
Schindel had no dover when I married
her IN Russia except this money I have
with the hands because Of this money
For first l went 10 San Francisco, The
LAWYERS there would tell me nothing
Nathan had paid them Some of them
lied and said there, was no HoroTitz estate
though I showed them his birth certificate
But I fooled them Lock What I got, and
it cost me So 900. ,
Here, from the heap on the t able he ished
out a piece of typewriting which purpoLted
to be a cory Of an article from the San
Francisco Call II II ever appeared IN a
it must have been translated
into Yiddish and back into English again;
for il was a quaint and ungrammatlcal
editorial paragraph. speaking OF Ire Rus
sian Fortune which vas waiting there IN
San Francisco for some one
And now all the money lie gone and l
IL side said friedman And thai Mrs
Welns9ock comes here and says that she
is toa 6 Horowitz. say, Where ara your
Then into. her face I shove these Quite
suddenly. the little organ grinder gathered
up q handful Of documents and thrust
them into the face Of the reporter. And
she says EHe Ilde d lawyer - 81 LIZ 5St
the same LAWYER. SO he won't hurt me-
But. first. | sign with him a paper
The paper was an agreement Of Mr. Frank
settlng forth that whereas the Friednlans
and the Weinstocks are both clients of his
in the same case, and whereas their interests
) may come into conflict, be binds himself
not to favor one ove the other, also, be
!, is to get 40 per cent. of all the moneys com.
ing from the estate.
THAT fixes him said Mr. Friedman
piling documents into the tin box which he
brought from Russia to hold the family
capital. That fixes him