The sun., 1902-08-25
GEN. SlGEL'S WIDOW In NEED
SHE Will PETITION CONGRESS-
ron I pension.
The Generals Funeral Ncsterda, Attended
u, Great rowd tarl ScEurl Among
the speakers Thousands View the
bod, and 90 TO the Genet cry.

Maior-Gen Franz Sigcl, who was buried
Yesterday, left his widow amos, pcr niess.
4 member of his family said yesterday
that the will left all TO the widow and named
as executors Mrs. Sigel and his son Franz.
tn" General left no property except n
collection Of war relics and lctters from
Lincoln. Grant and several cf tho Generals
on the Union side These and his life in
surance Of 81, ,OCO are all the widow will
receive
OF late years Gen Sigcl has been draw
ing a pension Of 81 200, but his constant
sickness ate into the amount and there was
barely enough to support the family.
Mrs. Sgcl said last night that she in
tends to petition Congress that she may
bc recognized and pcnsioncd as are widows
Of other Civil War Generals Sh" said
that one Of her daughters had communi-
Gated with President Roosevelt on the
subject and the President had promised
to do what he could in her behalf
The funeral Of Gen. Franz SIgel, who
died last Thursday AZ his home, ..G3 Mott
avenue, ~ The Bronx, was hcld Yesterday
at the Mclrosr Turn Nercin Hall. ljith street
and tOurtlandt avenue Gen. Sigcl's body
guard Of honor from the elisa Post, No 26l
c. A. r.. consisting Of Martin Dierz. 1heo-
dore Wagner. John y. llen,2. : Ham
burger and &. n lerch. The coffin,
wrapped in an American flag, was placed
on n CalafalQue banked with flowers and n
large portrait Of Gen. Sigel and the flag
Of the German revolutionists Of lSs-4a
Fully 1900 peopl" marched by the body
while il lay in he hall.
At the services "A number Of addresses
in German were made and choir from
the Mclrose Turn Nerein sang
Among the speakers was Carl Schurz He
said that Germany would not be what II is
to-day but for the revolution Of lsis and
lsi9, which made possible the success of
1874, He said he had fought in one German
war with Gen. Sigel and one American
war, and for f!fty-threc years they had been
friends.
Mr. Schurz said that he believed that the
present generation does not realize tho
value of Gen Sigels services to the country.
and for that reason he was almost forgotten
by many people. but he would never be for
gotten by his comrades After Mr. Schurz' $
address Chaplain Thomas :. Harris of the
Gilsa Post read the Grand Army burial
service
The coffin was then placed on caisson
from Wendel's Battery. The different
societies formed in line, headed by the
elisa Post band. First came two com
panies Of United States Artillerymen from
Governors Island Then came the elisa
Post, G.. A. r., Of which Gen Sigel was a
member, with one Of the members leading
a charger behind the caisson bearing the
coffin
F Dammbacher. F. J Schlott, C. A. Roth,
Charles Fraenznick, Adam Laber, Richard
Marsam, C. A. SCHNEIDER and +. Philip
Koerner members of the Society OF Pa
triots of ls4s and 1870, were the honorary
pallbearers.
After them followed delegations from
other G. A. X posts. the North Side Board
Of Trade, the Eleventh Army Corps Society,
the Fifty-fourth Regular Veterans. the
General Sigel Company, No. -, NJ =. Is tho
+ = Schuetzen Eund, the German Press
club. the German Literary Society Of Nor
risana and the Nlelrose Turn Nerein
The line Of march was up Courtlandt
avenue to l6ist street and then through to
Jerome avenue whore the coffin was placed
in n hearse and the parade dismissed A
bugle sounded taps and the exercises ended
by the soldiers firing rolley,
Fully 10000 persons were az WOodlawn
Cemetery where the body was inferred
The speaker there was Siyt Carl kopff
He said that Gen Sigel never attained the
renown which his services to this country
merted Gen. Sigel, in hi- way, he said
was as great man a. Baron Won Steuben,
who aided us in Revolutionary times.