New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-16
FIXES BLAME FOR RIOT.
COMMITTEE LAYS 1T TO HOE EMPLOYEES
AND CENSURES FIRM. POLICE
AND MAGISTRATES.

The report of the special COMMITTEES appointed -
Mayor Low to investigate the riots at the funeral
OF Rabbi Joseph was made public yesterday In .
document of about FIVE thousand words the COM
mittee. consisting of Edward B. Whitney. Louis
Marshall, Thomas NJ Aiulry. Nathan Blur and W.
H Baldwin jr-. finds that the police were extreme
~ rough in language and manner; that there was
unnecessary clubbing and that Police Headquarters
negligent in its manner of handling the funeral
procession The primary Of the trouble is at
triouted to employees of r Hoe Co The He
brews are exonerated. the Hoe firm is eensured and
the police said to be entirely out OF sympa-
thy with the peaceable residents of the East Side
The report first recounts the conditions under
which the funeral heId-the universal mourn
ing the crowded streets and the very small polics
force assigned TO duty. Before the procession
started Sergeant Brady teIephOned to for more
men but no attention paid to the messages
The committee finds that there gross negh-
sence in failure transmit to Inspector Cross
information relative to the unusual nature OF the
funeral and that more policemen would be needed
After stating that the hearse passed the esab-
Hshment of r. Hoe & Co. just before O'Clock,
at a time when a number OF the employees were
returning from their luncheon. they nnd that ths
procession was loudly jeered by employees OF that
establishment from some of It's upper windows.
and that number OF missiles were reeklessiy and
wantonly thrown therefrom upon the mourners
and spectators one OF them az least narrowly
missing the hearse itself and that these insults
occurred to extent sufficient to justify resent
ment and active protest The committee recites
entrance q
the office of Hoe & Co, following a COMMITTEES
of the mourners. who had received promise from
the firm that the conduct of it's employees would Be
investigated led the riotng. the turning Of the
hose on rioters and the clubbing by the police.
The report continues
EVIDENCE AGAINST POLICE.
There is every Indication that the number Of per-
sons in street who threw missiles at the build
ing was comparatively small and that, 20 Tar F, -
had been thrown out of the Hoe building they were
scter Of the mass Of people composing the
blage is demonstrated by the fact that as soon az
half dozen policemen arrived upon the scene and
ton or that Of the arm of P. Hoe s Co. the mul.
three policemen able to clear Grand-st in
trouble was ali over by about In p. m
serves. who had been summoned from adjacent pre-
cncts arrived ARD without ss T9Td OF S
of the gathering. some Of them with great rough
very strong evidence that certain unidentified
bers of this body dubbed number Of people with
evidence in their behalf and therefore leave ths
sioner for the reasons hereina fter stated.
Many complaints have also been laid before "a
suitng and brutal in their treatment Of the Jews
Der of cases Of this character have been brought
before the Police ,Commlssioner upon charges pre-.
result Of obtaining the dismissal of any of the se
we're sufficiently established require such SEN
we find that b sr e gn b aaq EYER
Individual Policemen are ineXcusa3ty common In IN
witnesses who appeared before US testing their
accuse lions it appears that charges OF unprovokee
policemen with the result that they repri-
manded or fined few days pay ard were set re
tanned the force.
SUGGESTS PROBING OF MAGISTRATES.
We have likewise received serious complaint nos
only from the residents Of the lower East Side bur
nfio 1ely aT re efc.pcS Of the police oy the
rOnt oO1Ot will
sauts. such as those which contributed to the ss-
district that magistrate are very arbitrary IN
their acton, 9t,en aee d Ggafy Ssr, resusins
to hear the witnesses produced: that certain mss
of business than in the administration OF Justice.
and that certain magistrates 1t pgeSf s Wnesse=
that they refuse them fair heaTing even WIN
These charges have been made not only by , tne
1HSisb gesidents of the district but likewise by
Impartial non-Jewsh observers whose stIe
that the matter is worthy Of investigation p sae
First-It is universally conceded that those who
actually took part in the funeral procession are
necfor cross and others to cast the blame for com
mencing the disturbance upon 0{stGg ,es and
without anv basis Of Justification
ThiTd sIons in the establishment OF r. Hoe Co.
employed in the upper stores
CENsURE FOR HOE < CO
Fourth-Whe there is no reason 10 suppose tHtC
the members of the firm OF h hoe q ~. ~ W." -.
eVare at the time Of the funeral that ther en-
nloyes were insulting and assa1l1ng the fnouIhSIS
nobody seems have been DISCHARGED ,S or even even
censured by them after the oceuTrenee s me ssnS
step taken by them seems to nave neth ior eaciI
Foreman to canvass the men under him for sigma
tures to a statement that they had seen hO.lirs
thrown from the building To us there seems 70 DS
every indication of a concerted eHort 10 husH "
faeto r11' from discharge prosecution The mem
hers of the have not avaiied themselves %
the opportunity TO appear before US. ny s IN ar
however. fit to prevent the success Sr tIn o.
tempt made by to secure the ldehthcdr, u
of the Offenders Certain wiInes sss.f., e
stated that they could make the
perrnItted to go through the factory during WVfhs
hours counsel who represented the hrI on In1S
uuiry invited the committee TO Visit lher .I
with the witnesses for that purpose Ohe OF ne
committee accordingly went Win tlS 80.
but one Of the members OF tne M, nr"' ""' "''
present, refused them the opportunity .-..,.-
find that there was negligence az s-;I
tiers in accepting the Judgment OF an un S 49,
an occasion. after information that twenty LhS ~
sand people expected 70 pc IN hne az w IL
neral Further inquiry should nas o the subject
especially after the information a.
telephone at midnight We nnd Snat .le ns1Sif 70
Their gross negligence in the iaiure W - -
Inspector Cross the information received i IN
son or persons who are responsiOis III LIS ~
can be best ascertained through in'sSNe1'i0' y
the Police Commissioner --t,-.,-a =, tns
SAventh-We ind that there was negligence N tIs
Police Department in failing up 70 noon vl stf-
Albertson. in command OF the IhlI 1870 ~ 4bS4
the fact Of the very unusual I S SsiI,ire on the
osrt of 6,aptan Thompson to give SuIncleut 49,
TO headquarters OF the magnltudS Oh SnS Lrs1z -
StbjTe unusual occurring in his precinct seems 20
ms 70 indicate that there was a lack OF P'ope'
supervision somewhere
F4VORS THE WHIPPING posi-