The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-12
This IS A NEAR.JEROME BABY,
AS NEAR As THE PROUD FATHER
COCLD GET IN HEBREW.
JerOboam, Maybe, for HeWas a Mighty Man
Papa Siiberman, the One Armed Law.
yer, Gives a Birth Meahie Party East
Houston street Never Saw EQuaIIed.

Houston street Never Saw EauaIIed.
There is another baby in the family OF
Mamie SHERMAN, the East Side attorney
who got an education in law for the arm
that he lost under a str et car. The first
baby in the family came a year ago last
February. As told in THE Sun at the time,
the Birth Mcahle party for that baby was
the grandest affair Of its kind that East
Houston street ever saw. For that baby,
Ahner named. was the first in the Silber-
man family in this generation; and the Gott-
liehs, the Grossmanns, the Apfelhaums
and the other allied families, even to the
fourth generation, gathered to see and to
eat afterward with Mamie. Judge Foster
was there too, for Mamie studied law in the
Judges Office after he lost his arm and
became no good for the clothing business.
Now, there il another-a boy, too.
Because the eight days allowed for a Hebrew
baby to remain out Of the faith stretched
70 include it, Mamie had the festival Of
Birth Meahle set on the Feast of Purim,
which occurred yesterday. The baby
Abner brought blessings with him. az his
great grandfather prophesied that he would.
Mamie has been able to afford not only the
second floor of the ancestral house at 4l9
East Houston street, bought by his father
when he came a refugee from Hungary,
but the third floor as we'll. So the cere-
mony performed by Rabbi Gross and safe
guarded by DR.. l. Ritter, was performed
in the parlors. front and back, Of the second
floor; but the third floor, stripped for the
day Of beis and cribs and carpets, was the
banquet hall, where hundred guests sat
down after it was over and the little limb of
Israel lay among the laces in the arms of his
pink and white little mother.
Mamie had made a reception room Of
his Office out behind the back parlor. There
he received the guests, passed drinks and
issued hat checks. And as he received
he talked. The Silbermans all maintain
that he is the best talker in the family.
Come right in, Mr.. Unglaub. Your
health. Morris, pour a Manhattan cock
tail for MIR. UngIaub. Put two cherries
In it. And, Morris, put a toothpiok in one
Of the cocktails.
Mr.. Unglaub, this is the gentleman
from THE SUN that wrote a long piece
about Abner last year. II is framed inside.
Want to see it?
He's going to be named Jerome. Not
Abner, but this one. And hos got three
great BldllNlpditHts Htlt' NO., he all Y
called Jerome after the District Attorney.
| am a Democrat myself. 1t ls hard to
tell you the Hebrew name that he is named,
but Jerome is something like it, and the
Judge is such a good man, II he amt a real
Democrat, that it's a good name to have
for him. This is Purim, so we have every
thing Of the best. | always have Of the
best when | entertain. You know about
Purim, don't you? Well, there was a
Persian King named Ahasuerus and a Jew
- IN mad AI@.l@@At n-l - 1Axy r,,nA~ AN1~I
Esther, and Haman was what you call the
villain. Well-oh, you know about it? Say,
you're a regular Hebrew scholar
This is DR.. Gross, the rabbi. Rabbi,
shake hands with the gentleman Of The
SUN. Rabbi Gross was always rabbi
This is Edna. She is the dark beauty Of
the family. No, 1 amt smart. The gentle
man can see you are. She is my cousin.
There's going to be a silver wedding to-
night up in Harlem. 1t is the Isaacs. If
You want to come along, you can give my
card at the door Everything will be Of
the best. Don't you want to see the baby's
mother2 When You saw her last year
after Abner she was pretty sick, but she is
better of this one."
Mamie led the way through the front
parlor, where the women we're sitting up
very straight in their chairs, their hands
folded in their laps. Mrs. Weinberg,
o ther of Mrs. Slide and grandmother
u NC lazy IA dNiNltSSiIB II ii III i Il-
Within, Mrs. Mamie was sitting up in bed.
She was in a pink M gligfe and wore her
dlam2Pd earrings on account of the fes-
tivity, Across her lap lay the crumpled
rose leaf that was soon to be Jerome. limb
OF ls<lel. He was swaddled in a robe of
lace. and over his face was a thin veil, above
which her hand lowered continually-for
he had taken his mothers blessing, this
unnamed child, and must be touched by no
other hand before he was taken to the altar.
nE NhA l~I aaN A-- E~h~ --- DO ~ SO
OF the young mother and by the same token
the great-grandmother Of the baby. She
wore a lace dress of marvellous old fashio e1
cut and a new wig over her hair. For all
Of her 90 years she is bright of eye and
alert: Mamie started to touch the baby,
but the hand Of Mrs. Silberman interce pted
him. Then Mrs. Kohn said something in
Nlddish,. and. Mamie laughed.
"Grandmother makes a joke" she said.
She says that he is canned and sealed for
the altar!
Come out now and I will introduce you
to Doctor Ritter. We always nave Or.
Ritter. Morris, give the doctor a coat
check What are you going to have to
drink, Doctor? This is Mr.. K~oroskovitz.
He can't talk English because he just came
from Russia. He was driven out. He used
to be rich, but they took his property and
he lost every cent. You can zee by his
dress that he used to he a rich a Did
you see upstairs? / told them to have
Of the best. You stay and III give you a
scat right beside the dark bea uty. Every
body will tell you that when | entertain I
do everything right.
Come on, now. They're going to begin.
You can have a place right back of the
Rabbi. Grandfather is going to hold him
on his knee just like Abner. Don't forget
your hat" 7
A procession, composed of Grandfather
GIottlieb in a new silk hat, the Rabbi, the
doctor and heads Of the allied families
moved from the inner bedcham ber, from
which Mrs. SHERMAN could hear the sound
OF the chanting. Every one rose and in a
few minutes there was another member of
a house Of Israel,
HAS SEQ BOND 126 YEARS OLD.