The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
HON. JOE LEVY SAD,
BUT FIGHTING MAD
With Ballots Ready to Elect
Him Mayor Of Second
Avenue, He Loses.
GONG AND JAP TO BLAME
Also Six Little StanchfieldE
and Essex Bar Crowd
Chasing q Client.

II 1t were not for the fact that all the
Of the well known legal hrm Of
Solomon. Solomon. Solomon, Solomon.
q solomon--known from floor
to ceiling Of the Essex Market Bar AS
ISOLATION as the six Little Johnny
stanchfields'-and numerous colleagues
were hurrying after an ambulance
throughout the greater part Of yesterday
tho story this morning Of the election
yesterday of Mayor Of Second avenue
might be somewhat different.
As every one who Is any one knows.
the Office Of Mayor Of Second avenue has
been vacant since the occupant Of the
position for many years. the late and
very much lamented Simon Stelnsut.
passed on TO the reward awaiting him
for his life of good works. So great
was the grief over the passing of Mayor
Steingut that for a long time no one In
the Tenth Assembly district oven %
much az thought Of q successor.
Time Arrives for Action.
But as the days went on the crying
need of q coadjutor Mayor. who could
carry on the municipal executive affairs
Of the Tenth while Mayor Hylan was in
Palm Beach or Atlantic City or Atlantic
City or Palm Beach or somewhere. be-
came more pressing. Wherefore at an
informal convention at Ike Hirschborn's
place Of business, First street and Sec
ond avenue. last Monday, the greatest
statesmen In all Second avenue unani-
mously decided that things could 60 on
xtS . TIM
Job.
After some discussion the st. Pat
ricks Day convention at Hirschborn's
fixed upon Thursday. March 20. which
according to our calendar fell upon yes
terday, as the time and Ike Hirsch-
born's the place to elect Mayor OF
Second avenue for the ensuing year.
Immediately the Hon. Joe Levy. best
known as the Duke OF Essex street.
hurried out OF Hirschborn's place OF
business, jumped into the 1917 fore
closure limousine which the Duke ac-
quired at the same failure which won
for him also his classy homo in River
side Drive. and directed 1ttchee. his
Jap valet-chaufreur, to dash across the
street with him to the offices of Solo
mon. Solomon, Solomon, Solomon. Solo
mn a Solomon.
A Round OF Conferences.
For half an hour the Duke was
closeted with the entire firm OF the Six
Little Johnny StaEchhelds. sum OF
money, said to have been six crisp one
dollar bills. is said to have passed. Be
that as II may, the Duke came forth
and again jumping into his Limousine
had Ittchee drive him pellmell to the Of
Aces OF Meyerfeld, Kirschbaum. Meyer
field & Kirschbaum. where again there
was a conference behind closed doors
Then the Duke climbed into his cal
again and had Ittchee back across the
street to the entrance to the law offices
Of the Hon. Sidney Fechtheimer-suc-
cessor to McGroarty. Mcnamara. GILL;
gan & Fechthelmer--for still one more
conference.
II was still only late afternoon on
the Seventeenth of Ireland and the cleo
ton had been set for yesterday. new
ertheless after the conference in the
Fechthelmsr ONCE the Duke gave up
business for the day and wandered smil-
ingly UP and down Second avenue with
the air of a candidate suffering the
joys Of a bulge about the right hand or
vote keeping vest pocket.
Gets an Army of Voters.
All the solomons had promised the
Duke to be present at the balloting yes
terday, accompanied by all their sons
brothers in-law. clerks. stenographers
and the families and friends Of the
Solomon clerks and stenographers. As
surances of a similar kind had been re-
ceived by the Duke, so he said last
night. In all the offices OF all the other
leading law firms OF the Essex Market
Bar Association which he visited.
IT was said in political circles last
night that undoubtedly the Solomons and
all the rest OF the Essex Market lega
lights were sincere. Something hap
pened yesterday, that's all. Just as the
Dukes supporters we're gathering in the
, corridors OF the Essex Market Court tc
march in a body to cast their votes dur
ing the business mems free lunch hour
at Hirschborn's the clang of an ambu
lance was heard.
Mr.. Milton Solomon. the senior mem
Der OF the Six Little Johnny Stanch.
fields, heard the bell first From this
direction Mr.. Milton Solomon took the
rest OF the Essex Market Bar Associa
ton gathered that the ambulance hat
turned south In Second avenue from
First street
Exodus OF tne voters.
you should come back, my colleagues
shouted the Duke above the thunder o
galloping shoe leather. what Is bust
ness on a day like this. You shoulc
come back!'
And to the everlasting credit OF tn,
Hon. Joseph Levy. Duke of EsseI
Street and Pastor Emeritus of the Es
sex Market Bar Association, be II salt
that m resisted all temptation 10 leav
the election fiat and Join In the rusl
after the rapidly disappearing ambu
lance. Ittchee. from force OF habit
| started the engine OF the Dukes car an,
had gone many blocks after the ambu
lance before 1t dawned upon him tina
nothing but the Dukes automobile trsv
cling law library was encased In tn
plate glass covered tonneau. And tn
lacing Ittchee got from the Duke whei
the valet chauffeur came sheepishly bacl
to the Duke was something fierce.
"All day" cried the Duke, have
| been saying to representatives of tn
United States Steel Corporation. to rail
| road officials and assaults and batteries