The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
WERE NO HEARSES
TO CARRY THE DEAD OF CHICAGO
To CEMETERIES.
WAGONS AND STREET CARS
HAD TO BE USED IN PLACE OF 9TH
Err VEHICLES.

Striking Carriage and Hearse Driv-
ers Making Their Strike Felt-NO
Livery Carriages Were Permitted
to Form Part of PrOcessiOns-OnIy
Private COnveyances Could Par
ticipate - Violent Clashes with
Strikers Were Avoided.
Chicago, Dec. 19.-Undertakers' wag-
ons and street cars were used to con-
vey the dead to the cemeteries to-day
on account of the strike of carriage
and hearse drivers. In nearly every
instance the funerals were watched
by union pickets, who were there to
see that no livery carriages formed
part of the funeral procession.
The most prominent funeral of the
day was that of Judge Jones Hutchin-
son. for fifteen years on the bench
of the Superior Court. The remains
of Judge Hutchinson were taken to
lakewood Cemetery in an undertaker's
wagon, while the private carriages of
his personal friends were used for the
pallbearers and intimate friends of
the family.
Some disturbance was caused at the
funeral of Mrs. Anna Week, a Be-
hemian woman, who was murdered
three days ago by her husband. When
Undertaken Linpart drove up to the
church with his wagon he was hooted
and jeered, but no direct violence was
offered.
Police Protection Promised.
Police protection against strikers for
funeral corteges on their way to the
cemeteries was demanded of Chief of
Police O'Neil this evening by a COM
mittee from the Joint Livery Associa-
tion,. and was promptly promised by
the chief. He ordered the police in
spectors to afford every protection in
their power, but refused to allow the
officers to be seated on or drive the
vehicles bearing the bodies.
The funeral car, instead of a hearse,
as we'll as police guard, was utiliz-
ed by Undertaken Joseph Blake, to
circumvent striking pickets, from
whom violence was feared, at the flu
neral of the baby daughter of Joseph
Keefer, president of a tea company.
The body of the child was placed in
common undertaking wagon, instead
of a hearse, driven to Thirty-first and
Wallace streets, and put on a street
car in waiting. The n1ourners board
ed a second car, and the trip was made
to lakewood Cemetery. The Keefer
residence was surrounded at the time
of the funeral by pickets. The po-
lice were present holding themselves
in readiness in case of violence, but
none was encountered.
Undertaken His Own Driver.
Permission to move sick from
their homes to hospitals was denied in
several instances by striking livery
drivers. Undertakers John McLaugh-
lin and Frank Kummerow were each
summoned by emergency calls to re-
move Catholic clergymen to hospitals.
They sought permission from the
strikers, but were denied. McLaugh-
lin; accompanied by a clerical asso-
ciate of the sick priest, finally drove
the carriage himself. Although some
of the pickets threatened violence,
none was attempted Undertaken Kun
merow also took his patient to the
hospital, accompanied by the attending
physician and a priest.
A dead" wagon, driven by a son
of Undertaken Perrigo, returning from
Graceland Cemetery after a burial, was
pursued through downtown streets by
a coal wagon, whose union driver at
tempted to ram the undertaking wag-
on with the pole of his wagon. Lash
ing his horse into a gallop, young
Perrigo managed to escape.