Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Pinkus Emanuel of No. H3 Madison street,
New York, is not a self-confessed gour-
mand, but he has certain eating proclivities
and digestive powers Of which he is proud,
and, more, he is willing to stake a little
coin of the realm with those Doubling
Thomases who dare challenge the capacity
of his food displacement.
Aaron ]. Levy, assemblyman from the
Fourth district. is the last man who came
to grief when Emanue agreed to get on
the outside of more nutritious butcher
shop %pemmican in one sitting than Dr.
Cook and his two Eskimos had for tho last
twenty days of their dash to the pole.
Emanuel and Levy are old cronies. They
came out Of the east side synagogue Satur-
day at s o'clock, after observing the fast
OF the Jewish Yom Kippur, when Emanuel
remarked:
IL feel so hungry l believe l could eat a
house and lot. But, on the square, I'll bet
l could eat ten pounds of steak for dinner
tonight"
Lewis sporting instinct could not let this
def go unchallenged, and promptly he re-
torted:
Fletcher $50 you can't"
The outcome of the controversy resulted
in the said fifty being posted by each man
and epicurean rules drawn up for the bout
with the foodstuffs. Emanue asked per-
mission to take some liquid refreshments
and be allowed to eat five large behring's
for an appetizer. Levy offered no objection
to this.
TIL news soon spread along Madison
street and fully fifty friends Of the two men
assembled to see Emanuel break his fast
and the record.
1T was like taking candy from a child, I"
said Emanuel. Why. l could rave put
away a third more with perfect ease. After
l had eaten the ten pounds of steak and q
lot of bread to boot, 1 bet him the drinks
for the crowd that l could eat five apple
dumplings for desert. He lost that bet, too.
But for goodness sake, don't say anything
about this in the papers. People will thirk
l am a cannibal and will be afraid to come
near me-
Emanuel's eating weight is 25 pounds. He
said the big dinner did not affect him in the
least, except he was unable to eat any
breakfast this morning. His regular break
fast consists Of fourteen fried eggs, with
bread and coffee accompaniment.
IAN Irish tugboat captain, who is a
popular favorite along the New York
water front on account Of his bluff, hearty
ways, imbibed somewhat freely of the
schooners passing over the bars OF South
street the other night, and finally, when
he up-anchored and steered for the pier
at which his boat was lying, he carried
q faiT-sized cargo" George w. WorreIl
Of New York was saying at the National.
Boarding his boat, he gave orders to
cast off, and astonishing his mate by in
forming him that he was going out to
look for a tow.
HE steered his boat out into the
dark, foggy night, until some time later
he ran by a lightship, which he was I'M
able to make out because of the dark
ness. 1t so happened that the keeper was
trimming one of the lights at the time,
and thus only one light was showing,
which is the signal for a tow. The cap
tain ran his boat up alongside and bel
lowed out into the night:
Z" Hey, aboard ship thereg
N reply.
90 say, aboard ship thereg repeated
the captain in stentorian tones.
This time the keeper responded with g
whoop.
" DO you want a tow in? shouted the
captain, making a megaphone Of his
hands.
'Ye drunken fule.' came the reply
don't you see this here is a lightship?'
The captain squared himself belllger.
emily and shouted back in evaporation
"A phwat does thot matter, We sor
! OF a goat? Faith. I don't care g
d-n whittier yez are light or loaded. II
, tow yez In, anyhow"