The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-26
THREE DAY FEAST FOR BABY.
THE DE LUCCAS CELEBRATE THE
PITT STREET WEIGHT RECORD.
Stin Busy This Morning on the Job or
Feeding the East Side In Relays The
F1rstborn, Shorn or His Glory, Slept
Beneath q crazy Quilt OF Food.

Feeding the East Side In Heiays-The
Ftrstborn. Shorn or His Glory, Slept
Beneath q Crazy Quilt OF Food.
Over in the fiat Of Gaetano De Luoca at
IS Pitt street Maria, the wife. has been fes-
tooning spaghetti vines along the picture
moulding and killing and plucking plump
spring bologna sausages for a week. The
three day christening party in honor OF the
newest De Lucca baby boy, Carmine, broke
loose on Saturday night. At 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon President Louis Zeltner
OF the East Sid Wireless Views Association
estimated that there had been so accep-
tances of the 200 invitations sent out by
the DE LucCas.
The response to the invitations doubtless
would nave been even more prompt had not
word filtered through the East Side at noon
Yesterday that Signor De Lucca had thrown
discretion TO the winds and had engaged
five closed carriages from Tony Lippo's
undertaking plant to haul the guests TO the
d. Lucca home. When this bit of society
gossip got out the invited guests sat back
in their own homes and awaited the glory
of driving away 10 the feed in a one horsc-
power hack. The hangers back changed
their minds to some extent, however, and
nuIIleu away OH IOOl Wlth VIZ Nphi iNiS
brought the news that repeaters had already
exceeded the list Of invited guests.
Little Carmine was born our months
ago me III was christened just as soon
as his parents felt sure il would take. The
interval has been given up almost ex-
Clusively to preparing the three day feed.
At first only the regulation two day spread
had been planned, but when the twenty
- 4 I,-.Iy, lohu ND 9 horn almost
directly across Pitt street last October the
plans were elaborated.
The exercises began formally on Satur-
day night at o o'clock, when Carmine's
father opened a window high up in the
tenement at Pitt and Broome streets and
threw handfuls OF confetti into the street,
making a noise in the meantime like the
Gotterdammerung.
we cooka da chick. we killa da bologn!"
announced Maria from the other window
To the vide, wide world. We gotta da
fruit, we gotta da nuts
How moo cha da bah he weigh'' yelled
Louis Zeltner in Italian from the Ere escape
OF the Wireless headquarters.
-Feefteen pound when born -twenta-
eight now
aGoodl" yelled President Heltner, Slam
minis the window. Gus, call up the papers
and tell them there's a twenty-eight pound
baby at IS Pitt street
notwithstanding the fact the De Lucca
baby that preceded Carmine by ten months
| really did weigh nineteen pounds at birth
and held the East Side record, or at least
the Pitt street record, until the twenty-five
pound Lubarsky baby appeared, there
wasn't half the fuss over the nineteen pound
baby that is now gaining Roadway all on
&C count of CaTmine.
Where there were but eight kegs of beer
over the first baby there have been ten
used on this occasion, and about two more
DAYS to go. Forty chickens and a side of veal
already have gone into the chicken potpies
and it has been estimated by President
Zeltner that the spaghetti stalks on the
menu IL placed end 10 end would reach
from the Battery 20 the Columbus statue
in Fifty-ninth street, ever allowing for the
traffic regulation routes through Maulson
and Herald squares.
There was not much oral j~ollfication
around the dining table yesterday as every
body was bent on business. Some said
the lack of hilarity was due TO the desire OF
the liners 10 eat a city block or two OF the
spaghetti in the time allotted 10 them by
Signor Gaetano, but others maintained
that some recent monkey business on the
part of the police had cast a bit OF gloom
on the many Neapolitans present.
The dinner was modelled after a Big Tim
feast in that the tables were cleared when
the boss thought one shift Of the diners had
had enough, and their places were given TO
the next batch in the waiting line. The
entrance to the De Lucca fiat Is through
the kitchen, and from this the diners passed
through the single bedroom 20 the COM
binatiOn buffet-drawing room. Here a
table was set that left only a limited amount
of room between the backs OF the chairs
and the walls, 40 limited that one had 10
eat his way from the right side OF the room
around the table and 40 on out.
Slumbering peacefully through the feast
yesterday afternoon the irstborn lay asleep
on the single bed between the kitchen and
the combination dining room. The sun.
light worked in through a dirty pane and
lighted up his fair hair till a golden hale
shone about, while his little pink feet rested
in a plate OF cold ham. Owing to the abnor-
NAL conditions the bed was also being used
as a dining table by the impatient and 80
the child practically slept beneath a crazy
quilt made up OF fricassee OF chicken, gores
Of boiled ham and tassels OF m~acaroni, tht
whole prettily spangled with fish scales
There was a scarcity OF chairs, but many
found seats on the atmosphere.
%Ah, looka da babe he smile criec
Maria fondly as President Zeltner movec
about the fiat carrying Carmine, the CAUSE
OF the excitement. Besides the two meT
assistants in the kitchen a neighbor had also
been pressed into service to hold Carmine
but Mr.. Zeltner left the neighbor little to do
Throughout the racket Carmino looked OF
with only Indifferent interest.
Long before dusk Signor Gaetano anC
his wife. Maria. had decided that they had
quite overshadowed even the blaze OF glorI
that had attended the entrance OF tn
will stay doggedly on the entertainment
committee. however, till the evening ant