The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-31
Burial of the Late Chief Rsbbf Sz@ob
Joseph. Head OF Orthodox HebTSTTs'
Attended with Disorder,
MoURNERs FIRST ATTACKED
DRFNCHED WITH WATER AED
sHowERED WITH MISSILES
Then Factory windows Were nF~i-S1
and Police Reserves Called oss
Many Persons Injured

NEW YORK. July 30-The funeral 81 the
late Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph. head OF tho
orthodox Hebrews Of the United States
which was held here to-day, was the occa-
sion Of one OF the most remarkable demon
STATIONS ever witnessed in this city and
led to a collision between the masses ~
Jewish mourners and the police. TR@
streets were packed with thousands Of fhe-
brews, the stores were generally closed and
every point of vantage along the route
taken by the funeral procession TO- the diff
ferent synagogues was crowded. Directly
in front OF the house, where the body has
lain in state for the last few days. mors
than one hundred patrolmen kept the crowd
from the entrance with considerable Diff
Guilty. After the services at the house, thes
body was taken 10 each Of the six syna-
gogues on the East Side. where brief. serv-
ices were held.
When the procession was passing the
printing press factory of r. Hoe & Co. ON
Grand street, on its way 10 the cemetery i'm
Brooklyn. the employees OF the factory
emptied pals Of water from the windows
of an upper floor on the spectators massed
upon the sidewalk. Pail after pail, it was
said, was emptied on the throng. which,
shouted and struggled and stampeded I'M
water came down from above, and even
tools. scraps of steel, bolts and dead cat.
The angry populsce. most Of whom were
Hebrews, retaliated by throwing back into
the factory windows the missiles that fell
on them. They also gathered up stones and
sticks and in a few minutes there was
scarcely a whole pane of glass on the'
Grand-street side of the factory. Then somea
ono In, tho factory turned on hOzn and
played it indiscriminately all over the flu
neral procession. 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 chill
dren under foot in their efforts 10 escape.
The police in the meantime had taken n
hand in the trouble and were clubbing thes
! people right and left. They were. however,
/ unable 10 cope with the crowd. and the re-
serves of half dozen precincts were dis
| patched TO the scene. 1t was more than
half an hour before order was restored andl
| the streets in the vicinity Of the factory
! cleared. Many arrests were made. among;
them being several employees of the Hoe
| company.
Many persons were found about the
streets bleeding from wounds on their
! heads and other parts of their bodies. AM
balances had been summoned in the mean
time and three responded. Surgeons wereo
kept busy for some time dressing theD
wounds Of the injured. Several policemen
also were injured, receiving cuts andl
bruises. Two men were taken TO the hospi--
tai. One of them had received internal in
juries and contusions and the other IA
sprained leg. Later in the day the PERSONS
arrested were arraigned in Police Court andl
fines of s. and SO were assessed 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.
Herbert Hoe. OF the printing press
company. made statement after the,
trouble was over. I'm which he says lighting;
| was going on in the ranks OF the procession
as ii passed the factory; that some Of those,
attacked were forced TO the door OF the
Office and there the hghting continued.
while missiles thrown by the crowd broke'
many windows in the factory. Then il was.
says Mr.. Hoe. that his employees tried to-
drive the assailants back by hurting mis-.
siles at them and finally turning water ON
the crowd. He added that boys working in,
the factory had been in the habit OF jeeringi
at Hebrews, and he had tried everything in,
his power TO have the practice stopped.
even dscharging boys of whom complaint
was made.
After the riot had been quelled the fu-.
neral procession proceeded TO Brooklyn.
where the body of Rabbi Joseph in.
/ TERED. The procession did not reach thel
| cemetery, however, without incident. AS
IL passed through a Brooklyn street some,
one threw a heavy block OF wood from thei
roof of a building into the line OF mourn.
ers. The latter broke through the police,
lines and tried to get into the building.
Threats Of clubbing by the police finally
restored order. Forty thousand people,
| were crowded in and about the cemetery
at Cypress Hills i'm an attempt 10 witness
the services at the grave.