Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1912 — Man Who Saw Napoleon, Alive [ARTICLE]

Man Who Saw Napoleon, Alive

Until Seventeen Years Ago He Lived in Warsaw, Poland Where He Was Engaged In Business for 70 Years. New York. —There was a wedding, at the Hotel Astor at which the twen-ty-year-old bride danced with a naan who saw Napoleon on the famous march to Moscow, one hundred years ago. This man is Abraham Hanover, of 162 East 110th street He is 106 years old now, but during the night led in the dancing at the wedding, appearing on the floor nearly a dozen times* and performing with his young partners waltzes, two-steps and several varieties of the Boston*. .. With a twinkle of humor in hia eyes, the old man declared that his next accomplishment would .be to learn the famous turkey trot The wedding jras that of Samuel Steinberg, of 600 West 136th street to Miss Sadie Frankel, of 808 West End avenue. Mr. Hanover is the grandfather of Mr. Steinberg. Until seventeen years ago the centenarian and his wife, who is eightyfive years old, lived lg Warsaw, Poland. Then the old mah retired from the business in which he bad been engaged for seventy years, and came to New York where his seven children bad preceded him. "To wbat do I owe my long life?’’ he asked today. “Why, to my wife’s cooking, of courge. Nobody else has ever cooked for me, and nobody else

ever will. If I die before I am 120 I shall be surprised.” -With not a gray hair In his head, and with just a shade of snow in his long beard, with his eyes as bright as when he was twenty, and his muscjes just as supple, Mr. Hanover laughed when his ability as a dancing swain was mentioned. “Yes,” went on the centenarian, ‘1 was a small boy at the time, but I remember seeing Napoleon march through our village on the famous progress to Moscow. He sat very small, and very compactly on —his horse, and looked neither to right or left We were afraid to go out hut I recall my father pointing out the great general. Ail day and night his soldiers followed behind him past our home.” "You see,” he said, “Mrs. Hanover does all her own housework, even though she Is well along In years. “But now you will have to exeuae me, as 1 want to hang some pictures, and move the piano into -the next room v My slncerest wishes that you may live so long as I have” ,1 ■