The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-12-25
GLAD TO WORK FOR
HIS HEALTHY FAMILY.
Would Welcome More, but
".,tNer Again" Name Any
for Roosevelt for He's Lost
Faith in President Who Is
Arrogant.

Emanuel Leudesdorff. descendant of
Viking rovers and soldier of fortune
thirty years ago, sits in his curio-laden
home at No. iii Decatur street. Will
iamsburg. to-day with groups Of his
seventeen children playing about his
knee as he listens to the tidings of
cheer echolms from the Christmas
chimes. For sixty-one years his ears
have heard Yuletide jingles, but to-
day lie fails to recognize them
Instead. lie harkens to the alluring
call OF the Pacific slope Every pee
from church tower forces the summons
of the wild stronger upon him. and now
after twenty-nine years OF bl.sstul mar
ried life, he is ready to respond. II is
there he would build anew q lost for-
tune FOR his little flock Possessing
wonderful stamina AMI goaded by the
ambition Of other days, he is ready to
move hearthstone and kin to Califor-
Mas cline, where years OF labor may
Yet be added TO those already spent for
his children ana wife.
Until his family rests on the bosom
OF the slope he VOWS that sleep and
peace will be strangers He says that
the world owes the hsndsomest and
healthiest family Of children in all
Uncle Sans domain a living And he's
about right. No please inter- faced group
OF children are TO be seen, and the
strange part of the scene Is the father
clinging TO ideals OF earlier days, with
youngsters more like his grandchildren
than mis- own.
Loves to Work for Them.
why man, / m a strong man today.
Ia go out now and shovel snow. and
shovel 1t well, too, We're it necessary.
for these little boys and girls" he said
10 an Evening World reporter to-day.
so this is Christmas Day, Ell? Other
Chr1stmases were not as this. They say
I'm getting too old to work. My sons
are not making money enough and my
daughters must not work Hence, !
will do II. l love 10 work for such as
these. And maybe / can't go some"
he added, displaying two huge arms OF
steel, bare to the elbow.
His shoulders Strengthened and his
head became erect as he recalled the
'olden days" when he swan in the
East River of Fifty-ninth street every
day OF the winter and knew no hard
ship too severe and OF his proves as a
collar and elbow wrestler wherever n
sail was unFurled at sea. ponderous
set OF shoulders and wrists whose mus
Giles stand out like wnipcords still give
evidence OF the old mans one-time
might
children. this man says to-day's
Christmas. Well. are you all happy"
For answer six OF the little curly
headed chaps, boys and girls. tlptoed
to their fathers chair and, with beam
ing eyes, planted kisses on his wrlnkled
face. Then they returned to munich
their hickory and walnuts and cookies,
but no candy. Candy las never entered
the home OF Emanuel I.uedesdorR.
Is Happy Family.
The ruddy-faCed father and his wife,
almost twenty years his junior, gath
cred their brood about them, each little
Youngsters eyes twinklng with pleas
ure and health. and they told of an
ideal life OF simple bliss of twenty-nine
wears, and OF his rules of living. which
had cost his family only $40 for doc
tors bills In the first twenty-five years
or their welded life. The mother is n
surprisingly young looking woman, who
has never been i'll day In her life.
She is foriysIx years Old. Four other
children died shortly after birth.
Their lives are wound up in the future
OF their progeny. and the proud-almost
smilingly confessed that
he likes TO Joke and jolly his sweet
heart as he did thirty years ago
Leudesdorff is mint OF philosophy
He did not marry until thirty-three
years OF age. Until that time his ad-
nature carried him around
the world as sailor, dragged him to the
stage as comedy actor land he still
displays ready witt, coaxed him into
the fields OF painting and sculpture, |
lured him to the insurgent camp Of a
South American republic and then
turned him into merchant, which |
occupation lie says is not ideal. In all
his wanderings his alert mind absorbed
sighis and studied nature with the eye
OF the confirmed iconoclast. He is well
read, positive in his convictions and
determined. lie says the secret of right
living Is obedience 10 Natures laws.
Lost Faith IN Roosevelt.
Early in President RooseveIts ad. |
he named his tenth and
last born son Theodore. and when a
MISREPRESENTATION