The evening world., 1911-03-01
WOMAN IS DEAD
At AGE Of 1O7:
Welded Ct YEARS
Aged Solomon Goldberg
Mourns for Wife in Squalid
Tenement.

Leaning heavily on his cane, Solo
mon Goldberg stood b%rooding this aft
ernoon at the foot of the straw pallet
on which. stretched out on the floor,
was the form Of his wife. Bella, whose
life ebbed out this morning
The man, a pathetic figure. looked
much more than a hundred years old
as hr dolefully shook his head. \ tear
rolled down his furrowed cheek to lose
itself In his beard. which tumbled In
cascades to his waist.
She Lived 1907 Years.
"Sixty-seven years We lived together
sixty-seven years, through sorrow and
through JOY, and now Bella IS gone"
no said to his children, bearded men
and bewigged women, who had has
tened over from their homes In the
nearby tenements when the "shammas"
of the little synagogue, to which old
Solomon belongs. brought them word
that their mother, who had lived to
the rare age Of 1G years and a half.
mad passed away. after being a bed
ridden invalid for over five years.
Downstairs in the W stores that
occupy the ground floor of the squalid
tenement house, No. lbs Attorney street.
no one knew that a family named Gold
berg lived In the house, and no. one
knew that any one had died.
The picture in the poverty-stricken
little two-room apartment when an
Evening World reporter visited it this
afternoon called FOR the brush of a
Cruikshank. A white cloth covered the
shrivelled and withered bod Of the
woman who had lived so well l,rnnd
the century mark, three candles. In
heavy brass candlesticks, stood at the
head Of the straw pallet and n white
sheet covered the mirror-chief adorn-
ment Of the squalid home to which
death had come almost as a messenge,
of relief. a table, covered with a red
cloth. two wooden chairs. and in the
aicove bedroom "A broker down bed.
This was all, save for the wooden boxes
which had already been brought into
the house to serve as the low stools on
which the o n and daughters and the
aged widower will sit the "~shiva"-the
seven days of mourning.
Made His Own Living.
Solomon Greenberg. for all his ninety
years, is a man of independent charac-
ter. He would not permit any OF his
children to contribute to his support
from their own mcagre means, but
every day he took "A long, shallow bas-
ket filled with small articles OF mer-
ohandise and shambled from door TO
door In the tenement houses OF the
Ghetto Offering his wares for sale. lie
began TO peddle almost the very first
day he landed here, twenty-one years
ago, and he saved, penny by penny,
until he had gathered enough to bring
his Bella here.
Some of his children had preceded
him here and had married. and these
children. the oldest of whom. Samuel
Goldberg, Is f~orty-nine, has five hill
dren OF his own TO support, And 50
with Minnie Satisfy, the eldest daugh-
ter. forty-eight years old. Morris Gold
berg. forty, and Sadie ManaSawitz.
each with their wi large families-a
total of thirty-two grandchildren.
The funeral will De In charge OF the
''chevra kadisha," the hoy society
of the Sephard synagogue at No. 81
Norfolk street. 1t is the custom OF the
orthodox to bury their dead on the very
same day that the soul goes to face It's
Maker.