The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-08-06
JEWISH RIOT IN new YORK.
Thousands of East Side Hebrews
Attend Funeral of Chief
Rabbi.
Many Reserves Called Out. Many Injured
Sent to Hospital.

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Sent to Hospital.
New York, July 30.-The funeral of
the late Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph,
head of the orthox Hebrews Of the
United States, which was held here to-
day, was the occasion Of one Of the
most remarkable demonstrations ever
witnessed in this city and led to col
lision between the masses Of Jewish
mourners and the police. The streets
were packed with thousands of He
brews, the stores were generally closed
and every point Of vantage along the
route taken by the funeral procession
| to the different synagogues was crowd
ed.
Directly in front of the house where
| the body has been lying in state for
the last few days over 100 patrolmen
kept the crowd from the entrance with
| considerable difficulty.
After the services at the house the
body was taken to each Of the SIX
synagogues on the East. Side where
brief services were held.
When the procession was passing the
| printing press factory Of r. Hoe & Co.
on Grand street, on its way to The
cemetery in Brooklyn, several en-
ployes of the factory emptied pals of
water from the windows of an upper
| floor onto the spectators massed upon
the sidewalk. Pail after pail, it was
said, was emptied on the throng which
shouted 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.
The angry populace, most of whom
were Hebrews, retalated by throwing
back into the factory window the mis-
siles that fell on them. They also
gathered up stones and sticks and In a
| few minutes there was scarcely whole
pane of glass from the Grand street
side of the factory.
Then some one in the factory turned
on a hose and played it indiscriminate-
ly all over the funeral procession. At
one time as many as five streams were
played 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 had in the meantime
taken hand in the trouble and were
clubbing the people right and left.
They were, however, unable to cope
with the crowd and the reserves of
half dozen precincts were dispatched
| to the sceue. 1t was more than half
an honr before order was restored and
the streets in the vicinity of the factory
cleared. a number of arrests were
made, among them being several en-
ployes of the Hoe company.
Many persons were found about the
streets bleeding from wounds on their
heads and other parts of their bodies.
Ambulances had feen summoned in
the meantime and three responded.
The surgeons we're kept busy for some
time dressing the wounds of the in
jured. Several policemen also we're in
| jured, receiving cuts and bruises. Two
men we're taken to the hospital. One
/ of them had sustained internal inju-
| Tres and contusions and the other a
sprained leg.
Later in the day the persons arrest
ed were arraigned in police court and
fines of S. and $40 were imposed in
several instances. Bad feeling is said
| to exist between some Of the employees
of the Hoe company and the Hebrews
residing in the neighborhood, and this
is said to have been the cause OF the
| trouble.
| Robert Hoe of the Printing Press
company made statement after the
| trouble was over in which he says fight
| ing was going on in the ranks of the
procession as it passed the factory;
| that some of those attacked were fore
ed to the door Of the Office and there
| the fighting continued, while missiles
| thrown by the crowd broke many win
dows of the factory. Then it was, says
Mr.. Hoe, that his employees tried to
drive the assailants back by hurting
missiles at them and finally turning
water on the cowd. He added that
boys working in the factory had been
| in the habit of jeering at Hebrews
and he had tried everything in his
power to have the practice stopped,
even discharging boys of whom COM
plant was made.
After the riot had been quelled the
| cOrtege PROCEEDED TO BROOKLYN Wne[e
| the body of Rabbi Joseph was inferred.
The funeral procession did not reach
the cemetery, however, without in
cident. AS it passed through a
Brooklyn street some one threw
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 build
ing. Threats of clubbing by the police
finally restored order. Forty thou
sand people were crowded in and about
the cemetery at Cypress Hill in an
attempt to witness the services at the
grave.
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