The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-08
GOTTLTEBS' GOLDEN WEDDING
WITH A LETTER FROM ROOSE-
WELT TO MARK THE OCCASION.

right children. IN grandchildren and Great
CrandchIIdren UntiI You Lost the
Count Attend the Dinner Seven
YeAr.OId Makes The Best speech.
There was a flashing OF carriage lamps.
brighter flashes OF diamonds and still
brighter flashes from dark eyes when the
daughters, sons, grandchildren, great-Rrand-
children and other relatives OF Mr.. and Mrs.
IOnatz Gottlieb OF 800 Second street gath
cred TO the number Of almost 200 in the
Progress Assembly Rooms. in lower Ave-
me A. last night to celebrate the golden
wedding OF the old couple. Outside the
hall the excited East Side held an over
fow meeting and drank in the music OF
the orchestra and the tinkle Of the glasses
from afar.
inside the hall were floral arches that
swung across the tables and almost touched
the ceiling. There we're speeches by the
proud offspring Of the prouder host and
hostess down to the second and third gen.
Grafton. Prominent rabbis told the couple
nj the head Of the table OF honor how glad
they we're to be with them. And when
Toastmaster Abe Fisher stood up to read
a bundle Of kilograms n letters from
Judges, relatives and friends and wound
M hy reading a note Of congratulation from
the President Of the United States old eyes
beneath the finest floral arch of all were
swimming in tears.
Dusk had hardly begun when the guests
began to drive through Ea&ASide streets,
first to call at the Gottlieb hom e, in Second
street to congratulate the aged couple and
present gifts Of gold and then TO assemble
in the ballroom on the second hocr Of Pro-
grcss Hall. in Avenue A.
Mr.. Gottlieb was frock coat a: high
hated and had had a rose pinned on him
self. His wife was all brown satin beneath
her matronly gray hair that flashed with
Jewels and bloomed with roses. They led
a grand march of succeeding generations
rs gayly as they could have led it twenty
five years ago, when they landed in America
Following The couple we're the eight
children according to age and accompanied
by their husbands and wives. Then came
the big second division of the procession,
the forty-two grandchildren. Those of the
great grandchildren old enough to toddle
comprised the third division and we're ar
ranged according to height-or lack of
height. Applauding the marchers vigor-
ously from the side lines were three rabbis,
many relatives and Louis Zeltner, president
of the East Side Wireless News Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gottlieb led the marchers
down the stairs at 3 O'Clock and all found
places at four tables, a long table Of honor
running across the upper end of the hall
and three tables twice as long running
lengthwise.
At the tables the guests we're grouped in
families. The Isaac led of the first table
Of the three lengthwise ones and extended
down the hall twenty-five feet to where the
Gottliebs began. The Silversteins, witt
the head of the family. Lawyer Emanuel
]. Silverstein, as a beginning, came next
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gathering. Then there was the kafka
belt, and next the kornreiches, the Herself
kowitzes, the Fischers, the CHEESEMAN'S and
many more. In the Presidents letter
there was no reference to race suicide.
In a corner was a long table for the very
little offspring. That was the table old Mr..
Gottlieb visited mosC when the speeches
had started and the wine was sparkling
and the kilograms and letters were being
read. The children were decorOus till the
~fricasse Of Long Island duck had been
reached and then those that belonged to
the Silverstein group just had to get out
Of their chairs To tell the press table that
il was their father, cousin or what not,
making tina stirring speech. Rosy Silver
stein, a fluffy ball Of blond Curls, blue hair
ribbons, starched white linen and smiles,
had to tell all the tables that Emanuel was
her cousin.
Congratulations for the fifty married
years that have passed telegraphed the
Goldfngers of Boston May the next
fifty years go quick" The President had
his secretary write from Washington that
Mr.. Roosevelt was sorry he couldn't he
with his old friend of the Little Hungary
days. That was when Helen Gottlieb fell
OF the chair.
You couldn't buy that letter from father
for s15." said Abe Gottlieb after the Presi-
dents letter hal been read. The letter
on the White House note paper will be
framed.
The speech Of the evening was made
by se~vea-year-old Belmont Gottlleb, the
youngest grandChild. Master Gotllieb con-
graduated the old couple on the fact that
they we're his grandparents and said he
hoped to see them at his wedding. Then
there were speeches in high German by
Rabbis Klein, Wechsler and Guth. The
last named bears so close a resemblance
TO Prof. James Brander Matthews that for
some time the press table was fooled.
A dance followed the dinner and is prob
ably still in progress among the younger
set.