The sun., 1916-11-27
AGED PAWNBROKER
IN GOLDEN DELUGE
Aaron Wollheim and Wife, so
Years Wed, Celebrate
Their Nuptials.
GIFTS FILL MODEST FLAT
Jam in Street Prevents Three
Balls Association From
Parading.

a pawnbroker have gone or In Manhat-
tan uninterrupted almost since tho days
Of Aaron Burr. celebrated . golden
wedding all day yesterday and last
night. which went far to prove that the
financial sharps are right-ths worlds
supply Of gold 10 right here
This morning as Aaron wollheim. his
white haired bride" his four daugh-
tiers and four sons. his thirteen grand
over tho array Of golden wedding pres
ents stacked up In Aaron's fiat at ITS
East Seventy-ninth street the House of
Wollheim may safely bet eight to 1ve
that IL American strong boxes o hold.
roughly speaking. o one-third Of
the gold OF the world Aaron and Mrs.
Aaron now may speak Just as roughly
about owning tho other t~wo-thirds.
Word had reached a. far south a.
City Hal Park yesterday afternoon that
the Yorkville branch Of tho benevolent
organization known ~ the Three Balls
Association was going to parade In a
body to Aaron's home. headed by . band
playing guitars. clarionets, comets, ac-
cordions and the other musical instru-
ments whose usual habitat II the win
dows under the three ball sign.
Flood OF Gifts Chokes street.
Then. according TO the East Side
Wireless News Association bulletins. the
Three Balls Association and It's band
was to . q the way TO Tuxedo Hail.,
Fifty-ninth street M Madison avenue.
for the inner and dance which were
to make the evening and morning n
day.
But the East Side wireless News
Association UaQ M ssltaa1 ahaNluNAlv
wrong. The Three Balls Association
did not turn out. at least not In its Of
fciai capacity. and II II had its parade
never could have got into S~eventy-ninth
street owing to the clutter of ten ton
trucks and safe hosting apparatus un-
loading gold presents at Aaron's second
story fiat.
Aaron wollheim admits that through
out the a he has handled between
two and three million pledges in his
pawnery at 1ts3 First avenue. but
handling these was q light task COM
pared TO receiving and arranging the
gold platters. gold vases. gold fruit
dishes and all the rest Of the cleaning
flood that debouched into the wollheim
nat yesterday.
Everybody Was Kept Busy.
II took all the time Of all Aaron's
daushters-Mrs. Sam Greenwald. who
had come all the way from Hammond,
IND. to help handle the gold Mrs. Abe
Joseph. Mrs. Nathan Katxenberg and
Mrs. Sam Henschell-and all the ms
Sam. DR.. Jacob. Isadors and Sol-not
to mention the thirteen grandchildren
and Great-erandson Gilbert Hyman. to
open and display SO many gold presents
that Aaron's front parlor long before
dusk had begun to make the Philadel-
phia Mint look positively laughable.
Standing down at the street door OF
the fiathouse in front Of the establish
ment of Donovan Bros. stood James
J. Donovan. head of his flrm. looking
obvious and dour as the worlds visible
supply Of gold continued to pour toward
the wollheim a Jay Jay Donovan
and his brother are merely prosperous
plumbers.
But let the gold flow inward inces-
santiy-what cared Aaron and Sam and
Isadore and the rest OF the House OF
wollheim. Tho sun was setting. also
enviously, and 20 II was time to don
tho soup and fish clothes and hurry
away e Tuxedo Hall.
Ceremony at Tuxedo Hall.
In the hall at Q O'Clock Aaron and his
silvery haired wife went through a
golden wedding marriage service con-
Quoted by tho Rev. DR.. Eiseman and
Cantor Solomon Baum. with d~escendanti
and relatives Of the House of Wollhein
to the number Of 125 looking on rev
erently.
Aaron kissed his bride" then and
Mrs. Aaron cried happily amid con
Rratulations and lights and %splendor'
that Aaron and his blushing Bertha littl'
had dreamed when they were children
a long time back in Ostrowo. Prussia
some day would be theirs. There wa
a feast then. and much dancing after
ward. and no thought at all for even tn