The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-13
GOT IKE COHEN'S MONEY
UNTIL REBECCA, HIS WIFE, TOOK
4 HAND IN THE GAME.
~ e Got Back some and Then Hadt o House
Committee % n Gu With q Swell Name
Arrested How the Spirit OF ANartce
Led Hari Working 10 Hia Downfall.

HIV Sptt' '"
Led Hard Working Ike 10 His Downfall.
Ike Cohen aud his wife Rebeoca. their
four children and the family cat knew no
sorrow until Ike began to get really Ameri-
can in his ideas and terried at the club on
Saturday evenings instead OF going straight
from the shop to his little Hat, at 4Ol East
Eighth street.
In the early days, when the Cohens had
JUST come from the other side and Ike,
though he worked eyer SO hard in the
sweatshop, could earn only go a week,
there was plenty to eat and a little money
to put aside for a rainy day. And when
Ike became more skilful with the needle
| and learned that he could demand better
pay for the better work that he was doing
he and Rebecca decided that life would
be more bearable with kinder for company.
There was quite enough for all, even when
the family had increased 10 six ali told md
there were school books to be bought for
| the older ones and many pairs OF shoes for
little feet that romped over the cobbie-
| stones.
Ike az the end OF each week went home
and laid his a in the hand OF Rebecca
Some weeks there was as muoh "a S25 and
then there would he only $50. Ths little
Cohens kept fat and grew wise with much
learning in the schools. And Ike began to
get wise also and TO read OF the things that
men did, for the children taught him to spell
out the words hat went with the cO.orcd
pictures in the Sunday papers.
On his way from work he saw the red
automobiles speeding through the streets
filled with smiling women, and when he went
,.nr ,Ia rrant H1;I1a .LaN tnnl hin, -, Ella
home Of friends in Williamsburg he was
told that the white vessels with their shining
spars were the yachts of the rich. And
uptown 10y the big park there were hand
some houses. in front OF which stood car
riaRes with men in shiny hats and coats
with big silver buttons, who drove the
sleek horses and opened the doors for the
gayly dressed women and their dogs. 10
have such things meant money more
money than ever Ike could earn sewing on
coats day after day when there were six
mouths always waiting and four pairs Of
little feet as we'll az two larger pairs always
to be shod. Money.
| Ike knew that in the lower part Of The city.
where the streets were narrow and the
buildings were tall, much OF the money
that went to pay for these things was made
made in the rise and fall OF stocks. what
ever they might be and that it took money
to get even the stocks. First he must have
enough to buy some shares maybe the
rest would come for him as it had for others.
Then he learned OF poker. a game that all
real Americans played, and soon he learned
where il was played and then how. At
least he learned how the ca were matched
and how three OF one kind would he better
than twice two kinds unless the two kinds
were all one kind, which was better than
anything except what they called a straight
flush -and Ike never saw a straight flush
and never hoped TO see one except in that
1900 aarf Of N that hnnna
for things that he knows might happen
but don't very often. And Ike began 10
get home later in the evenings.
Sometimes the money that he handed
Rebecca was not even $2O-it never was
SOS, as often before 1t had been. and she
wondered, A few nights ago Ike came
home very late and when he did come he
slipped in quietly and said never a word to
Rebecca. He didn't even look at her or
at the children.
failed? Didn't you get your money!"
sLostitY How? Where? Come, tell me.
And Ike realized that he must tell or there
would be no peace. There was food to buy
for the coming week and though there was
Rebecca knowing, because she kept the
bank book between the mattresses.
He told her. even took her 10 that very
house where he had lost il and old her the
name OF the cluD, Wnlcn strangely enough
was Waldorf-Asto Club, spelled Just the
same as the big hotel uptown where the
| rich folk sit about and look at one another
and turn up their noses. in spite Of the fact
| that il was tucked away on an upper floor
al 30 obscure a number as 100 Suffolk street.
In there you Lost IL? | will get it back, 4"
cried Mrs, Cohen and she went up the steps
and made q kick.
When she came down she had SIS OF the 500
Ike had lost. 1t was all the manage had
| and he hadn't got that much until he took
a collection among the men who sat about
a green covered table playing something
that was not pinochle.
Mrs. Cohen was not satisfied. She wanted
SIS more, but Ike had the gamblers spirit
/, of honor and would make no protest to the
police. However, Mrs. Cohen did, and
Louis Lakner, who was the house COM
mittee, was arrested, and Ike was called
ae an unwilling witness.
Yesterday in the Essex Market court
I.akner wa held for trial in $500 bail.