The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

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On, avs ~ Napoleon wctc ssaInat cverv
man and every mans hand was against
Nsra,.on, bpt until he w'lAei into Me.
narrsa don Yesterday morning his wits,
slIrp tarr drnoniarally hcru, kept him
~, In hia ~,ichrdncss For q year he
'1H uu sicadv home, NJ place to curl up
..,, and drrnin ~ deviltry lone or to-
do The l'tlc restaurant ~ which he
90. ',ns an ornament and Pride closed
~ doors TO Napoleon, aud even the mild
hammered otto. who had protected him
AGAINST ireuyird customers, turned on him,
Dgt he wont. outlaw. pariah, unreRenerate
and uurereutaut rascal, Where he had
Lyed for the la, year nobody knew. How
A- 81. ...-t.-t ,v,.s, vN sha Faninn
iar.for. are wen informed and can give
PARTICULARS With nuency. AK Herr Man
toI,auu. who dwells IN the ca mon " Pitt
.trest. and Frau Mandelhaum and the seven
.ons that are theirs; AJAX old Solomon lckei-
berg head n the seed cake trust; ask Cohn-
ssilor Zetner, the Pitt street Blackstone;
ask a hundred others, and they VIII tel
Won that there never lived such u devil
Of a cat a. the late Napoleon; Like some
other noted thieves. HE finish was the
direct result Of rank ingratitude.
Frau Augusta Swiss, whom you may see
ds6 market under the Williamsburg Bridge,
twenty 0ne large cats walking sedately
behind her. each cat in its proper place,
noses ID inted straight behind the irdti,
tails straight IN the air. was a ir,enu IN
eyicted him. The frau Is a friend TO every
smaIl animal who has met with, misfortune;
She was good to Napoleon, as she was good
TO a thousand others 81 hi kind, feeding
him and stroking his beautiful black iur
out of natural charity and kindliness.
The frau il the housekeepcr Of the big
anartmNlt house which stands on the north
west corner of Grand and Pitt streets. she
Il big and stout and a fearsome foe TO those
that despise and i'll treat dumb animals.
She has been known to walk straight up 10
a man ought kicking his dog and with
out unnecessary words or parley grip. mis-
neck and shake him a. she would q VICIOUS
rl-~ l,l,n q. mot aha would m Va the
dog and give il a home. She Is a Prlssian
woman and speaks English stumblinRly,
but get her TO talking her native language
and you will hear stories worth remember
s sise about the '0ur 'oo''0 ""u' = - N's
At tho apartment house the Frau, by
virtue Of her strength, her good heart and
her clean, industrious German ways, holds
the high Justice, the middle and the iow.
None residing there may dispute against tie
Frau without pain of sudden removal, FOR
seyen wears the Frau has lived there and
given a home to such luc6less cats and
dogs as she has rescued from the dangers
and torments of the streets, which hold more
children than any others in New York. Her
husband. Maurice. an electrical engineer,
thinks as the Frau thinks, and 50 do her
daughters, Hermina and SeimlnA' DURING
these seven years the Frau has gwen nouns
10 more than 200 cats and maybe hfty
dogs. Now she keeps in the areaway twenty
cats and in the house are three dogs ihess
are permanent guests, but she mas more
than sixty cats that visit her twice a DAY
for food and the gentle stroking OF backs.
Every morning the Frau buys with her
savings 40 much COWS lung, 80 much KID
new, 50 much liver, so much milk, figuring
closely on the known guests ana those
likely to appear Az she goes 70 hlafkee
ten cats meet her every morning at the
steps Of a synagogue OF the eighporhoou
and follow her home In orderly iashion'
Her morning visit to the flsh market n an
event on the East Side and it Is a sight 70
zee the big, broad, smiling. woman stride
at the head of her family Of cats; Woe TO
the boy that let's fly a stonel Better the
smack of six noodle boards than the slap
OF Frau Augustus mighty hand.
Il il her custom, having STUDIED the
needs OF the cat people, to get out Of bed at
o'clock in the morning and dole out pof-
tons of cows lung a I'd Kidney TO her board,
ers n he area way. If antilles have arrived
she provides milk. hot and very sootaing,
hotel. Once the tenants, disturbed by the
yowling, the caterwauEng and the meow
ing, r,tised n III NOUS. How could poop Q
get their rest they said, with such q to1dot
The Frau put her hands on her Jutung mp
and delivered this die un: So.
aWenn meine nachbars en- lieben nicht
meme schoenen katzsn, damn koenheh sie
m,venl"
such advanta ges that the tenants decided
they would like the pretty cats rather nan
get out,
It was a yearago when Napoleon the black
and sleek, Ma poleon the handsome Napo-
leon the utter thief came Frau Au,
rusta's way. There had been lean and
,Snprohtable days for Napoleon; He, was
ank and bony. A terrier had chewed one
of his ears and his It'll no 'olger waved de-
fiantly. He looked sEockingly on. his
unpers, he was down and out. and the
Frau saw it and took Napa!con into her fam
ily. He beha we'd we'll AT iirst, but his ma;
turai depra vity and cussedness rebelled
against the concord and m~onotonou' hum
drum Of existence In the Frsu's establish
nett. He disappea red, sleek and upbuiit
Nv the Frau's cha rity, and went out TO fol-
low his natural bent of piracy and ouc-
Caneering,
Very early yesterday morning, after
the Frau had gone lack TO bed from feed
Ing | er cats, and there was a mt II ed Ero"i-
ing in the freaway, the noise of the FIau,s
cats at their meat, Napoleon returned,
grim and hungry once more g got IN
through the entry way and grin, farming
no doubt, for Napoleon was a strategist OF
the first order; to make a swift, sudden rush
at Posen, an old woman cat, seize her share
of meat and retreat as swiftly a. he came
Part of his manu uvre he executed with
precision, He was half a back 10 the