The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-31
Missiles Are HutIsd at Chief Rabbi JOseph's MOurners
HUNDREDS ARE INJURED
With Thousands Packing the Street a Fight Begins by WorlSmen Throw Ing Water on Heads-Poice
 Reserves Are Called Out.

New York, July 80-The funeral Of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph. head of the Orthodox Hebrews of tie United States. which was held here today was the oc- casion of one of the most remarkable demonstrations ever witnessed in this city and led to a collision between the masses of Jewish mourners and the po- lice. The streets were packed with thou sands of Hebrews. the stores were gen. orally closed and every point of vantage along the route taken by the funeral procession to the different synagogues were crowded.
 Directly In front of the house where the body has lain in state for the last few days, more than one hundred pa- tfolmen kept the crowd from the en- trance with considerable difficulty. Af- ter the services at the house the body was taken to each of the six synagogues on the Eastside, where brief services were held. When the procession was passing the printing press factory of R. Hoe 6 Co.,, on Grand street. on It's way to the cemetery in Brooklyn, the em- ployes of the factory emptied pails of water from the windows of an upper floor on the spectators massed upon the sidewalks. Pail after pail, 1t was said, was emptied on the throng. which shout ed and struggled and stampeded in vain to escape. Then overalls and clothing soaked In water came down from above, and even tools. scraps of steel bolts and dead cat
 Water on Crowd.
 The angry populace, most of whom were Hebrews. retaliated by throwing back into the factory windows the mis- siles that fell on them. They also gath cred up stones and sticks, and in few minutes there was scarcely a whole pane of glass on the Grand street side of the factory. Then some one in the factory turned loose a hose and played 1t indis- criminately all over the funeral process sion. At one time, as many as five streams were playing on the crowd. Drivers of mourning carriages whipped up their horses, trampling over citizens and the stronger men trampled women and children under foot in their efforts to escape.
 The police, in the meantime, had taken l d HdIu III LDt llOuDlS eillb WGlC CAuDbil6 l the people right and left They were, however, unable to cope with the crowd and the reserves of half a dozen pre- cincts were dispatched to the scene. It was more than half an hour before order was restored and the streets in the yicin- l ity of the factory cleared. Many ar rests were made, among them being sev- eral employees of the Hoe company. l Many persons were found about the streets bleeding from wounds on their | heads an other parts of their bodies. | Ambulances had been summoned. in the meantime, and thres responded Surgeons l were kept busy for some time dressing the wounds of the injured. Several police men also were injured, receiving cuts and bruises. Two men were taken to the hos pital. One of them had sustained inter- nal injuries and contusions, and the other a sprained leg.
 Later in the day the persons arrested were arraigned in police court and fines of $5 and s10 were imposed in several instances.
 Bad feeling is said to exist between some of the employees of the Hoe com pany and the Hebrews residing in the neighborhood and this is said to have been the cause of the trouble.
 Hoe Makes Statement.
 Herbert Hoe of the printing press com- | pany, made statement after the trouble was over, in which he says fighting was going on in the ranks of the procession passing the factory. Some Of those at tackled were forced to the door of the office and there the fighting continued while missiles thrown by the crowd broJxo many windows of the factory. Then it was, says MT. Hoe, that his employees tried to drive the assailants back by hurl- ing missiles at them and finally turning the water on the crowd. He added that boys working in the factory had been in the habit of jeering at Hebrews 2d he had tried everything in his power to have the practice stopped even discharging boys oi whom complaints were made.
 After the riot had been quelled the funeral procession proceeded to Brooklyn, where the body of Rabbi Joseph was in- tered.
 The funeral procession did not reach the cemetery. however without incident. As 1t passed through a Brooklyn street some one threw a heavy block of wood from the roof of building into the line of mourners. The latter broke through the police lines and tried to get Into the building Threats of clubbing by the po- lice finally restored crder. Forty theus- and people were crowded in and about the cemetery at Cypress Hill in an attempt to witness the servio es at the grave.