The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1921, Page 3

> OF PATIENTS $700 |} i \ \ Jptter, it was further HE BETS TOLORENZ. V. Y. Lilliput BY REVEALING FIND Crippled Boy Picks Up Gems | ‘and Is Taken to Surgeon Ahead of Long Line. Several diamond rings, more than $700, picked up on the| stdewalk under the feet of the great} crowd awaiting hopefully to see Dr. | Adolf Lorenz at the Hospital Joint Diseases, Madison Avenue and | 123d Strect, to-day obtained for little | Harry Coopersinith a chance to s the celebrated su ‘on at} before he hud had any ting to him. The youngster, who is eleven years old and lives at No. 1784 Hunt Ay nue, the Bronx, has hip disease wears steel braces on both i He was in the line yesterday for the fourth day, waiting for an opportun- | ity to be examined by Dr. Lorenz. But there were so many sufferers abi of him in the patient I:ne that he and his parents despaired of having him} examined for at least a week It was while he was waiting, shift- | ing from foot to foot in line outside the hospital yes terday afternoon, that he found th Uttle packet of rings, tied ‘together with a piece of string and wrapped in} @ cloth covering. He took them home valued at for | t a week | hope of get- the uneasy doors with him ben he came into line again tc for the fifth time, he called a patre man, told him what he had found and asked that he be taken into the| hospital. The boy gave them to Supt. Charles | F. Diehl, telling him he hoped that | now he was in the hospital a card to see Dr. Lorenz would be given to him, This was at once done and the boy seni upstairs to take his place in the crowd of 150 already waiting the surgeon's ministrations, Arrangements were later made for him t» bé examined to-morrow, and he left the hospital far happier than when he came to it. Dr. Lorenz finished his morning's elinio at 11 o'clock, after he had ex- mined seventy-three patients. The ged surgeon, who has not been well for nearly a week, was much fatigued and it was announced that next weck he would hold but four clinic on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fri- day. It wes also announced that after he would examine no infantile paralysis caases, but wauld confine ‘himself solely to diseases of the joints, He wishes to occupy himself with op- erative cases, infantile paralysis umually being given massage treat- ment Cards to prospective patients hhere- here- ted, will be limited to thirty a day, serially num- ered, These cards are to be obtained from Miss Veronica M. MacMillin, superintendent and head nurse of the infirmary. She said she preferred that they be applied for by mail. patie 2S RALPH A. DAY SWORN IN AS PROHIBITION CHIEF. And Issy Einstein Greets Him With Before-Breakfast Seimre, Ralph A. Day was sworn in to-day us Prohibition Director for the New York State District, He said he would try to carry out the plans of Prohibi- tien Agent Yellowley, who expects to return to Washington within a few days, and might enlist some new men. Mr. Day was welcomed at his office by Izzy Binstein, who got up before $ st literally #o make a seizure, 8 in his “asin the window h ae, M No. 117 Ridge passing bearing Distributing and had his who was wait- waik, stop the it contained 26 of wine. . Evening World Ten-Second Movie of Big People i ; Introducing to the Camera Our Old Friend William J. Bryan Looking Things Over at Washington Maintain Home of Giant-Size Happiness There Are 6 “Girls” and 13 “Boys,” Who Escape Em- barrassments Encountered in Hotels, Where Public Curi- osity Becomes an Annoy- ance—So They Conduct Their Own Joyous Estab- lishment, By Fay Stevenson. The happiest “little “household” in New York City! That's what they are! Nineteen of them, none over three feet tall, some as tiny as Tom Thumb and his wife, most of them in the early twenties and all! unmarried. Instead of the land of Lilliputians this is the house of midgets, the house where little men in Norfolk sults with big pipes in their mouths and little women in dainty gowns and high heeled slippers run up and down stairs as happy as larks and pipe their blue-bird thoughts in falsetto voices. But don't think’ these nineteen midgets—there are six women and thirteen men—live in a doll house or use “small sized” furniture. There's nothing like that in their family. ‘They live in e@ big, four story and basement, brownstone front at No. 10 West 71st Street, within a stone's throw of the park. And thelr house is furnished from top to bottom with adult furniture, How did all these happy little souls meet? Well, of course, they're in the show business; midgets always are. In fact they are playing at the Colo- ial Theatre but they all live together hecause they are very domestic and they want a home of their own. Hotel life doesn't appeal to a person who is so tiny that guest turn about and stare, Then, too, these midgets have a family of pets which must be prop- erly gheltored. One of the “boys” has four sheep dogs, all taller than himse.f; another keeps forty canaries, and then he family” has a midget chef, a mid- get shoemaker who knows how to Take tiny shoes and a dressmaking establishment right in its own house. For five years these midgets have rented a house in this city because when they are not on tour, they want to enjoy home life. ‘There are two sisters, two brothers and a brother and TRO a sister in the group, but the rest are in no way related. The only American midget in the crowd is Eddie Wiimont; the rest are Germans, Hungarians, Bohemians, Poles and Austrians, But they all ‘ook like a jolly crowd of fou:- year-olds and as each camo into the living room and shook hands with me J had all I could do te restrain myself from picking them up and going back to my “playing doll” days. The six “girls” are the sweetest, merriest girlies you ever saw. They have thelr own boudoir on the second floor, and all room together from sheer sociability, Two full-sized beds and two couches, with two dressing tables, elaborately supplied with lip sticks an’ everything, and chairs so large and comfy that they have to give a little jump to get into them, complete their furnishings, “We have one great day after an- other,” piped little twenty-one-year- old Victoria Nelder, who is fondly called “Vickie” by the boys, and is the beauty of the sextette, “At pres- ent we're getting each other Christ- mas presents, and the smugglin, them into the house !s one big task. “Vickie” has a sister, Anna Neider, who is twenty-four, The other four girls are Emily Jarenyi, twenty-two; Dora Velig, twenty-seven; Mary Jarenyi, twenty-two, and Isabella Steingruber, forty-two, Isabella Is “getting along” in life, and although have made her the house on she doesn't look much older Vickle,"” Just glance over the names of the “boys” and vheir ages and then you'll feel acquainted. They came saunter- ing downstairs right after break- fast yesterday morning with their hands in thelr pockets and big pipes in thelr mouths. There was Julius Darenyi, 24; Carl Florien, 29; Frank Steingruber, 37; Eddie Wilmot, 18; Sandor Roke, 25; Vincent Tarabula, 29; Fritz “Tara- bula, 21; Peter Binek, 26; Joseph Posher, 36; Louis Vaschek, Becker, "34; Gabor Bagi, Stephen Mitosch, 45. “With the exception of a maid who does the rough work, we do all our own work in this house,” Julius Darenyi told me in a high-pitched little voice as he stood with his hands in his pockets and spoke for the ‘reat, of “the family." The six girls and thirteen men had all come down to the living room to have a morning chat and read the newspa- pérs. Some of them perched on the arms of chairs and others stood about and grinned like a set of jolly chil- dren or happy elves, The bo was full of happine 20, IAN TENANT: —_—_————————— and joy and merry laughter. Canary birds sang from upstais, the sheep dogs lay about like big rugs, and Julius, who did most of the talking, held his pet Pekingese, “Vickle” also did a little twtking and frequently rolled her doll-blue eyes in a most filrtatious manner at “the boys.” “She's aways got an answer for you—one right on the spot,” volun- teered Julius, while the ‘rest all giggled in chorus. “She has a beau who's following her life out,” piped Charlie Becker, who, by the way, is the chef and the only “boy” who possesses a mus- tache. “You quit telling family secrets,” chuckled “Vicki And then as they all stood silently I popped the question I had been dy- ing to ask ever since I had supressed my desire to play dolls with them, “Why is it that romance has escaped you? Why are you all unmarried?” They gave a unanimous roar and I saw three clap their hands. “Not yet," cried Julius, who is but twenty-four. “We know each other too well,” chirped “Vickie.” “We are like a bunch of brothers and sisters and say, when we get angry we know how to kick chairs." “But we soon make Julius and they all heads, “Marriage is a disease and divorce the cure,” laughed Charlie Becker, the chef, while the shoemaker, Peter Binek, said “Give us time and we'll wed, We're young, you know, most of us.” “By the way, we sometimes gam- ble,” chuckled the American midget, die Wilmont, ‘Only the boys,” laughed “Vickie.” But you girls smoke cigarettes,” piped Julius, and “Vickie” kicked her slipper against a sheep dog and re- marked, “That'd just why none of you thirteen boys has ever won the hand of any of us six girls. You know too much about us and we know too much about your poker games. “And how about ‘home brew?” I asked, “Nothing but the real stuff for us," declared Julius, “It's easy to get it you know how.” A pony cart and two motor cars were waiting outside to take the mid- gets driving, All of the crowd carry their own cameras and snap their own favorite views of the park. A victrola, a piang and all the “com- forts of home” are within, It beats a hotel, doesn't it?” asked Vickie," and all the other midgets up.” giggled nodded their seconded the v4 C = - © | Campbell, ians in ‘House of Midgets”’ cil EMPLOYEE. a HELOINATTAGK ON “BROOKLYN WOMAN McManus, Whose Arrest Re-| sulted in Laura’s Suspen- sion, Again in Toils. | Philip McManus, 82, a clerk in the employ of the Street Cleaning De- | partment, was arrested this morning | (01 | by Patrolman Campbell, of the Fitth | Avenue Station, Broklyn, after hav- ing been chased to the roof of No, 582 Sixth Avenue, that borough. MoManus lives at No. 584 Sixth Ave- nue, which {s about a block from the station. Residents in the neighborhood were aroused by the screams of a woman and sent word to the station. Campbell hurried around to\ the house, Mrs, Lydia Robbins, of Nu. 651 Park Place, whose screams hud Jawakened the neighborhood, men had dragged her into the hall- | blackened and she was hysterical. McManus said he was coming home from a card party and, hearing screams, ran into the house next his The first thing he knew he was being chased to the roof by he said. He ‘was ‘held upon a short affidavit until Mrs. Robbins is able to appear in court. Shortly before election McManus |came into prominence through ‘his ar- rest for an assault upon another em- ployee of the Street Cleaning Depart- ment, It was charged this employee vefused to join the union, und McManus, a deligate, assaulted him. It is alleged that Deputy Commis- sioner Michael Laura of Brooklyn sought to Influence Magistrate Liota in his behalf, Commissioner Leo, who own, said that while passing the house three | way and attacked her. Her eyes were | had urged the prosecution of mte- | Manus, suspended this deputy, who was a candidate for Sheriff of Kings County, He was under suspension on Blection Day was one of the few Democrats who were beaten. After election, when Commissioner Leo re- signed, Laura was reimstated. ‘i'he caso ‘against MeManus still is pending. | wo ‘ 1,741 AUTO DEATHS | IN N. Y. THIS YEAR One Month to Go, With Figures | Mready 312 Over Last i Year's Toll. Seventeen hundred and forty-one, persons have met their deaths by) automobiles. and motor trucks in the| State of New York since Jan. 1 Inst, according to the report of the Na- Highways Protective Soclety ivwued to-day. In November 225 persons were killed. Seven of these, who were oc. cupants of motor cars, were killed at | vailroad crossings. In New York City | during the past month sixty-six per- | sons were killed by automobiles and motor trucks, ‘Trolleys killed seveR. The futalities for the first eleven months this year are more-than the total for the entire year of 1920, when 1,429 persons were killed. Col, Ed- ward S. Cornell, secretary of the Na- tional Highways Protective Society, | said the list so far this year was probably fifty or sixty higher than that given, as inquests are still pend. ing in 2 number of casen. phabitntet ae 2c |SOLDIER A SUICIDE, etter Pinned to © Bast Niver. A man's brown coat pinned on it was found at 934 Stree and the East River this morning by tleven-year-old Frederic Ginazao, No 1836 Second Avenus, who told a police. man, ‘The detter, ‘addressed to y Dear Wife.” said ‘in part: i I have been out of work so long and dependent on your old father—cai't stand it any longer. 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