The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-19
TALKING BABY TIP RUN DOWN
THE TRUTH AND THE WHOLE
TRUTH ABOUT A PRODIGY.
There Is a Baby which On the Day OF ItS
Birth Talked a. We'll as It's Mother and
the Facts Are Now known without the
Aid or the Zeuner Wireless Bureau.

Aid or the ZeAner wireless Bureau.
For a long time now all the complicated
mechanism of the great East Side Wireless
Telegraph Bureau. Louis Zeltner. presi-
dent, Of sk-sH-SH-p Pitt street, has been
reaching out tenuous tentacles to land the
biggest news story that has happened since
Fiddle-Dee-Dee Mandelbaum took the East
Side on a Seeing New York Summing trip
up Fifth avenue to show the other half how
the other half lives.
Only Looie Zeltner. who is the greatest
tirster since Paul Revere. knows how
stTenuously his company has labored TO
find the address Of the Yiddish woman who
gave birth to a %youngster that from the
m it was born could talk as 1uently
as its mother. Mr.. Zeltner has worked on
the story for exactly one month and
! eighteen days. day and night. partly be-
cause he loves his art and partly 30 that he
could give the story exclusively TO each Of
the newspapers.
In the opinion Of this newspaper the time
is now ripe to tip of the Wireless that there
probably is nothing in the story. This story
had its doubters from the first moment that
Sam Levy. dealer in real estate and cash
bail bonds, said ont loud in President Zelt-
q . lltdl NIX luhl ut uhu ItdTu lL6TG was
such a baby in town. Theoretically the
yarn is absolutely true, but when it is eK-
amined into oven the Wireless organiza-
ton must see that il lacks value from an art
viewpoint.
Sam Levy told about the baby en- May /
in tho course of a conversation with Cross
Eyed Senftmln, Humpty Hanover, Rosey
the Lawyer and Frank the curt Shoe
| ehfnor - R,,a- kAo,ia. A. ozI. tzzaLI.1I.
in New York whose name isn't Tony. Louis
Zeltner was standing against the wooden
Indian in front OF Citron's cigar store across
the street from Essex Ma ket court when
Sam Levy told OF the baby, For fully five
minutes after President Zeltner had grasped
the tremendous new importance OF the
story he stood 80 rigidly that if it were not
for the mechanical rise and fall OF his chest
a passerby couldn't tell which was Presl-
dent Zeltner and which the cigar sign In
dian.
When the president of the Wireless finally
came TO he hurried into Citron's and bought
the hest five cent cigar in the house. He
hurried out TO Sam Levy.
Observation-Disclosures " said President
zeltner with an effort to control his emotion.
Have a cigar, Sam"
Sam Levy took the cigar with the remark
hat the address had slipped his memory
President Zeltner went back into Citron's
and bought another cigar and tried again.
From that time until Sam Levy went to bed
that night the wireless tirster bought Sam
eighteen cigars, each Just as good as the
other n way you smoked il, a dozen
pickles for Mrs. Sam and a couple of quarts
Of candy from Sol KRrschstarts cart to be
distributed among the little Sans. Nothing
doing.
Then when the wireless chief saw that
Sans memory was hopeless Mr.. Zeltner
got on the job. Little Gus Meyer, who
looks after the Zeltner baby when the presi-
dents wife is shopping and who tends the
wireless apparatus and the flag signals on
the wireless roof, was sent out TO comb
Manhattan from the Battery TO The Bronx.
The four oldest Zeltner children we're put
on the trail after school hours the next day.
The president himself. still holding sus-
picions, presented 10 Sam Levy a graphic
phone containing a record OF President
Zeltners typewriter speech in both the
languages as delivered before the East Side
Tipsters' Union No. / at the third annual
commemorative exercises OF the Williams
burg Bridge fire. which were held in Clinton
Hall in the fall OF 1905.
Sam Levy's conscience smote him just
after he had finished the second box OF
Zeltner cigars. This was a week ago last
Saturday. Sam felt that his tip about the
infant prodigy was keeping the Wireless
from proper attention to its regular news,
ana when DdH nOdTO, 100, tlht ne WAS not !
footing 1t all over Manhattan TO find the
baby and that he would often have to make
many trips a dav from some part OF The
Bronx back to Pitt street in order TO use
his own telephone when letting the papers
that so far he hadn't found the baby
but expected 10 before night-then Sans
heart was touched and he told President
Zeltner that the woman's name was Dobros-
kie and that she lived at 5203 st. Marks
place.
. Tbaro ;ap't erob nn,,ho.; G.. ,t.l,.
place so far az can be learned. When
President Zeltner called Sans attention
to this fact Sam said that perhaps il was
52O3 East nth street. Ian less than twenty
four hours the wireless machinery had
dragged in the news that there is no No.
52O3 in East nth street either. Morris
Furstenburg. the cigar man at 100 Centre
street. was the next to get a bunch on the
number, and Morris Immediately sent word
to the Wireless office that the Dobroskie
woman lived at 1909 Fulton street, Brook
Ign.
Mr.. zeltner hurried out on a Fulton
street car, and when he had come to the
end Of the line he walked on through the
dark fields, measuring off each twenty-five
lot on the way so that when he would
TO 1900 he wouldn't pass il in the
dark owing to the absence of houses. Toward
midnight last Monday the ~tireless tipster's
tape measure ran down a beach some place
and into the water. and again MIR. Zeltner
hat his friends had been mistaken.
How Sam Levy could be so mixed up
in the number is difficult to understand
as the mother Of the child that
as well as she lives just back Of Sam,
whose home is at SOL East Tenth street.
is indeed the mothers name
and she is a deaf mute. The child's name
lie Yankele and he was born on the first Of
April, Sam says.
Sam may be joking. In the meantime
The Sun wishes to state positively to Preei-
lent Zeltner that all the facts Of this news
item were gathered absolutely without
he valued assistance Of the Wireless Tele-
graph Bureau and that there lie nothing
1oing in the way Of space rates for the
bureau, This office has hung onto one
nd OF a telephone for one month and
eighteen days in the forlorn hope that
llr. Zeltner would produce the goods. J
The Incident il now closed.