The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-19
Baxter Street IN TEARS.
|Ths Original Cohens and Other Lead
ins Families Weep at the Bier
Of Mrs. Louis Levy.
kLgYEN OF HER CHILDREN MOURN.
v.,Yd Scenes at the Funeral. Hold In .
Street Gay with Bunting for Q
Cbowder Outing.

rhere were many f,ags flying in the
venth Ward yesterday In honor OF
annual picnic OF the John II.
earn Association. In tho single
ock on Montgomery street between
,nry and Madison streets there were
least fifty swinging in the wind and
rain. but there we're none on the
four-story brick house at No. %
bntgomery street, the residence of
uis Levy, Of the firm OF Levy &
hen, Baxter street clothiers. The
bther Of eleven children was lying
ad in that house, and the lamenta-
ms of her relatives could be heard
entire length Of the block.
Il was an agonizing sound, this wall
In unison Of three or four hun
red persons. Public school children of
religious persuasion other than that
the mourners, who came trooping up
the Levy residence gleefully shouting
one another to hurry and see the
hn." became very quiet and awe-struck
they saw tears streaming down the
ices Of men and women who crowded
he stoop and the front hallway, and
lstened to the wailing which rose and
ELL. in great pillows Of heart-rending
The funeral Of Mrs. Levy was in
progress, and as she was connected by
birth and marriage with the three
xsaithiest and most influential families
bias been achieved through the selling
Pf cheap clothes in Baxter street, near
all the representative people of that
nanny more in fset than eould get into
The house, big as 1t Is. They were the
|ame people Who less than three weeks
go went down to Rockaway Beach on a
Dandy road from the station to the sea-
Tide residence Of Harris Cohen behind a
brass band playing The High. School
Cadets" to witness the marriage Of
On that festive and memorable oc-
casion they all wore diamonds. The
women had them in their ears and the
flashed again yesterday in and about
the house Of mourning.
II was the orthodox Hebrew funeral
service, In which loud public lamentation
minutes before the Rabbi stationed him
self at the head of the bier in the dark
end parlor Of the Levy residence men.
women and children were chatting to-
3eets. as all people do al, funerals.
chant began, all within sound of his
oxysms OF grief and emitting Il a Series s1 of
sounds which were indescribably dis
tressing to hear.
Suddenly above the minor tones was
heard a voice blood-curdling in its
shrillness which cried: Let the father
down! Make room for the mourners!'
A narrow lane was made through the
crowd on the stairs, and the widower,
followed by his eleven children, descend
ed.
Their appearance at the head Of the
more direful than any that preceded.
1t was evident that the noise below
had wrought them to the verge Of hys-
terra. Two Of the daughters tainted
owing to the excited condition to which
vysd SS eod Water which WAS
killed. in their faces. The face Of the
widower was ashen pale, and his head
hung Imply over his shoulder as though
his neck were broken. His eyes were
tightly closed, and from his lips there
The fresh air of the street revived
the mourners. although their lamenta-
lions could be heard after they had en-
tered the waiting carriages and the pro-
cession had started on Its way to the
Mach Paleh Cemeter, at Cypress Hills.
at the house had consisted of the into
nation Of Hebrew prayers by score OF
orphan boys from the free school at No.
237 East Broadway, during the chanting
of which number of long-bearded men
moved among the funeral guests solicit
collectors carried a tin box.
The dead woman was said to have
been richer than any other woman who
was ever identified with Baxter street.
She was the daughter Of the original
Morris Isaacs, and her mother Ia q sis
n of hA iutr nj