New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-31

freely. scattering the crowd like chaf- Police
lines established 10 keep the streets near
the factory clear and IL hours before
traffic at that point resumed its ordinary
Several arrests were made. Two of the per-
sons who were hurt were sent 10 hospitals.
They were J. r. Gastenberg. of No. go First
ave. who had been bruised seriously. and z.
Lipman. of No. 1876 Riviugton-st, who had been
trampled on. and had sprained ankle. Many
persons seen leaving the scene OF the riot
with bleeding hands and faces. Detective Ser
geant Manning and Patrolman John O'Donnel
were among those who received cuts from flying
missiles
Robert Hoe said I'm the afternoon that there
were three hundred apprentice boys among the
eighteen hundred employees in the factory. and
some Of them might have offended the Hebrews
in the neighborhood
We have done everything in power TO
prevent these boys from annoying anybody" he
said although we have no jurisdiction over
them when they are on the streets. We have
discharged quite a number of them. against
whom complaints have been made
Mr. Hoe said the trouble did not seem TO have
been started by employees of the factory. The
damage TO the building about $500.
a tremendous crowd of Hebrews gathered
near the home of Rabbi Joseph, in Henry-st..
before 1870 a. m, when the funeral services
tories of the orthodox Hebrews in the district
had been closed early in the day. and the tene-
ment houses of the district had been pouring
forth streams Of people TO swell the throng.
Nothing like it had been witnessed there.
police squad of thirty men in Henry-st.
seemed poweress to keep even the semblance
of order near the house. Newsboys who went 10
Henry-st. with copies of The Jewish World"
which contained picture of the dead rabbi.
J.
papers bought up.
Rabbi Philip Klein had charge Of the funeral In
the house. and there were present many visit
ing rabbis from other cities. Members of the
Chevra Kades. Holy Society went into the
improvised chapel where the body of Rabbi
Joseph lay and prepared it for burial First the
body bathed in cold water Then white
sand from Palestine was sprinkled on the face
covering of white linen. the talith. or prayer
CLOTH which Rabbi Joseph had worn on each
Day of Atonement since his marriage, and the
kittel, or death shroud We're placed about the
body. Then the body was placed in a plain
pine coffin. covered only with a black cloth and
unmarked. in token of the IeveIIing power of
death
Several hundred children of the Hebrew
schools were in front of the house when the
coffin was borne out TO the hearse. They began
to chant the "Thilim." one of the Psalms of
David. The chant was like Oriental prayer
song-a sustained. monotOnous wailing. The
children marched ahead of the hearse and con-
tinued the chant all the way to the ferry. un-
needing tumult and excitement
LAMENTATIONS OF THOUSANDS.
For some minutes after the body was carried
TO the hearse IL cries of lamentation raised
by the great throng in Henry-st. almost drowned
Il wailing tones Of the chant The hearse
moved far as Montgomery and then was
b, Ncked and surrounded by a throng of excited
people. AS II moved by common impulse the
throng closed in the hearse. those people
who got nearest to 1t prostrating themselves on
their faces and reaching their hands toward the
coffin. moaning sobbing and .uttering prayers.
The police squad that formed the escort tried
to raise the blockade. but the policemen We're
swallowed up in the crowd. Then police re-
nforo ements charged the throng clubbing right
left and driving people back to the side
walks Frightened Hebrews kicked and cliv-c
t,Irdn