The sun., 1918-12-25
MAYOR OF SECOND
AVENUE IN HOSPITAL.
Admirers, Going to Offer
Birthday Fluctuations, Find
Steingut in Bellevue.
PLAN RECEPTION TODAY
Ex-Deputy Sheriff Victim Of
Throat and Tongue
Trouble at SO.

Around one Of those high and mar
row beds in Ward MA OF Bellevue
Hospital a combined Christmas and
birthday celebration is scheduled to be
staged to-day that will be redolent Of
all the folk lore of the East Side. The
recipient win b Simon steingut, Mayor
o. Second avenue. philanthropist, ex-
Deputy Sheriff. near lawyer and nearer
politician and general benefactor Of
his people.
It was only yesterday. on the ocoa-
sion Of the sixty-third birthday OF the
First Citizen Of Second avenue, when
delegation Of friends Journeyed up
town to his office at A West Forty
second street, that they learned that
the object OF their attentions was Sc
rlously Ill in Bellevue with an affection
OF the tongue and throat.
Tho hospital authorities were I'm
me diately communicated with and It
was learned that Mayor" Steingut
was not so Ill but that he could see his
friends, and that furthe rmore, al
though he might not be able to make
speech. he would hold a reception
that would lack in cordially nothing
that could be done by any Mayor New
York ever had.
Christmas Baskets for Poor.
The delegation went stra!ghtway to
the hospital In the group, which was
accompanied by the Mayors" son,
Irwin, were Representatives Christy
Sullivan and Henry Goldfogle. former
Coroner Solomon Goldenkranz, DR..
Meyer Wolf, Joe Levy, Duke OF Essex
street, and Isaac Hirschorn.
Arrangements were made imme-
diutely for the formal reception to-day,
and at the same time Mayor Stein
gut directed his son to see to It that
the usual distribution Of Christmas
baskets to the poor of Second avenue
that 1t had been his custom to make
be continued. The distribution was
made accordingly at Hirschorns cafe
last night.
Not only that. but Mayor Steingut
expressed himself so pleased with the
treatment he was getting at Bellevue
that he directed his son 10 give the
authorities a Christmas check IN ap-
! probation.
simon Steingut has been a promi
nent figure In the life Of the East Side
| for more than thirty years and deep
was the concern yesterday when Il
became known that he was laid up.
For the greater part OF those thirty
years It has been his friends custom
to call upon him In his home. So Sec
ond avenue. on Christmas Eve to fe-
! licitate him on his birthday and wish
| him the compliments of the season.
Mayor" Steingut's friends were re-
| calling yesterday occasions when out
siders threatened his supremacy as
/ the leader OF Democratic thought IN
| Second avenue. For thirty years he
held undisputed sway and It wasn't
| until 1919 that he was ever inter
rupted in a political speech. The &C.
casion was when Joel .Mandinski, II
porter and resident Of the neighbo =
! hood, called him liar. All that hap
pened TO Mandinski was the eNped'-
tious ohliteration of his features when
the Mayors" audience rose IN mass-
to the attack.
Detailed During Celebration.
Then again. after he had been
, elected Mayor" for the uppt.eth time
and when Isaac Hirschorn was tend
! ari11 q cprDpMr1ap.ar,, lI,y..,,t d, ttn
Cafe Boulevard Mayor" Steingut suf-
fered the second greatest humiliation
of his life. He had honored his admirers
! by arraying himself in a new open
face dress suit that he admitted cost
$50. Somebody shredded OF the coat
tails when Simon wasn't looking and
the incident nearly caused Z, factiona
row in Tammany.
Mayor" Steingut aspirei to public
office, and in 1905 was fiGlring on &
place in the Tenement House Depart
ment as a Deputy Commissioner But
he went to examine "A gas leak in the
home OF his old friend, the late Sheriff
Julius Hamburger. and during his in,
spection of the leak cracked open al
automatic cigar lighter.
NHdt "apPehed ne" al tns rene
ment House Department aspiration
out Of the Mayor" Sheriff IIarourgeI
named him depAty, but when Sherif
Max Grifenhagen took Office Stein
gut turned in his badge along with
lot more Of Sheriff Julius's appointees
The Mayors" boast OF his chic
contribution 10 the welfare Of til,
country was that he passed up a thIrC
interest in a legacy left in Hamburs
by his father in 1912, because ne would
not neglect his duty as a delegate t,
the Democratic national convention
in Baltimore, so that no could E,
abroad TO collect It.