The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-21
HOUSE OF 200 BABES
HAS GOOD LANDLORD
Max Dick Does Not Raise Rent
on His Tenants, Who Have
Pickle Feast.
HE'S PRAISED IN VERSE
Looic Zeltner Strikes His
Bloomin' Tyre for Benefit
Of Rivington Street.

That there should be 200 babies in the
house should be enough to make the
house happy. That Grosmutter Dick. %
years old. should promise that there
make them happier. But that. on top
of all that. she should call her son. Max
Dick. and say:
MY son, why should the tenants be
afraid we should raise the rents? Tell
them that we have enough and that we
will not raise the rents, no matter what
these other landlords do. And this Is
the Passover. Why are they afraid to
come to me and ask that the rooms be
repspered and painted like always on
the Passover? The Passover Is the
Passover. when all should be new and
clean. Not only should all the rooms be
papered new, but all the woodwork
painted. And no, there shall be no
raise of the rents. Go tell them and go
do It."
Now when that sort OF news gets
loose It explains why the sixty families
with 200 babies in the house at SO to 73
Rivington street should buy out every
pickle on the stand OF Able Pokolsky. the
pickle man. and plunge into celebra-
tion which sounded all the depths and
heights OF Joy attainablc by the use OF
the well known Pokolsky acetic acid
products.
Looie's Poetic Outburst.
II explains why Looie zeltner, the
Marconi OF the East Side, should for the
moment foresake the wireless for the
wires Of the harp which has no connec-
tion with the arrival OF the Sixty-ninth.
why he should pose the classic instru-
ment between his two highly articulate
hands and sing In the iamblc hexameter
Of the epic bard that
"He is the greatest landlord in New
York town, we say,
Because he doesn't raise the rents from
day to day.
And Looie Zeltner didn't have to wait
10 die and have seven cities claim him,
nor to 20 blind, nor study all the the
ology in the world and write an inferno
before that gem was recognized. The
keen literary eye Of Harry Marcowitz
spotted 1t In flash. No sooner spotted
than painted, With the brush and ink
with which Sheftel Jacobson marks the
price cards on his pushcart-when he
marks them-Harry painted the i'm
mortal words on the back OF a nice
clean almost new suit box and any one
who runs through Rivington street may
read them there to-day. Which Is not
80 bad for poet.
But it's not 20 good for Grosmutter
Dick. For. 1t will be observed, the Zelt-
ner saga has a masculine subject. The
bard was carried away. as bards SO
often are. from the wrinkled visage Of
~ to the shining cheeks of Max who Is
mere child OF but so odd. Though II
Max's mother has had to sec her glory
20 to her son. as far as the Immortality
Of the lyric art Is concerned. she had her
consolation in the happy faces of the
200 children who thronged around her
chair yesterday. OF course the children
didn't care much for the raise or the nc
raise In rent. but because it was no raise
each child was full OF Able Pokolsky's
bittorest sweet pickles.
Child Industry Cultivated.
Nor was 1t mere chance that the Max
Dick houses are blessed with the picked
smiles OF merry little children. Max
has deliberately cultivated the child In
oustry with his mother he came from
Austria thirty-two years ago. lie rose
by hard struggle and close saving
through the successive glories of coat
maker, bartender and owner OF his own
place, and ever since he owned his own
place he has been encouraging the baby
L.
There Is a standing prize OF $500 for
twins born in that house and $3.50 for
any couple whose ninth Is a boy, thus
proving that Max Is not only a patron
or the Industry but a man who knows all
Its sporting chances And though neither
OF the prizes has yet been claimed, Max
gays that one OF the things that keeps his
tenants happy is trying to win one.
Proving the lengths to which the
In hlfNENs T.f =.
points out Boris Rabinovitch, who has
twelve; Able the Pickle Man, who has
six: Harry Marcowitz. with seven and a
long list of COhens. Levys, Goldsteins
ana Abramsons who trail along with a
meager four, five or three. Max himself
is one OF the few traitors to the cause.
There are but two in his own personal
flock.
But he insists that he keeps all the
others happy by not raising the rent and
thus getting their papas and their
mammas to buy for them the luscious
Pokolsky pickles. And incidentally Max
has started a landlords war in Rlvtng-
ton street. The non-Max tenants look
with envying eyes on the Max. and the
Max tenants look down with scorn on
the non-Max. And the non-Max tenants
spent most OF yesterday taking their
landlords, all OF whom have raised the
rents TO walk by the sign where CLOVIS
the fame OF Max.
And epic bard Looie zeltner believes
he sees the material for another heroic
verse drama in which the lot OF the happv
is contrasted with that OF the unhappy.
When he gets II finished he is going to
start telephoning II around and that will
mean the finish of the lettering wreck OF
Mr.. Burelson's telephone system and
I.o0ie will be alone and supreme with
only the Postal Telegraph to rival the