The evening world., 1904-06-20
THIRD FUNERAL DAY
FOR SLOCUM VICTIMS.

| Funeral trains still filed in uninter
! rupted procession through streets tha
thread ST. Marks parish to-day and ir
| all thirty-two bodies were taken to th'
Lutheran Cemetery. Middle Village
J. !.
Though tie same sad scenes that
have attended the buriais of the dis.
aster's victims for the first few days
were repeated, even more poignancy
marked the sad events to-day for the
reason that the majority OF the hearses
contained little white caskets and were
followed by throngs of school children.
the sleeves of their coats bound with
Grape bands and their wondering faces
bowed in reverence
Brothers, sisters, near relatives and
school fellows occupied the raskets
that these thlldrc, bore AZ pail bear
ers from the stricken homes, and many
or the sturdy title fellows who fol-
lowed the llearses had ueen made or
rhans ard some were let rs the one
remaining member OF large and
happy family.
school Fellows as Fall Bearers.
Thirty school boys from Public
school No. .j gathered about No. lOi
I'VE bodies were taken for burial to-
gay ON the second floor the hody of
e'Bht-Sea r-old Frederick Riohner the
honor boy of his class, lay beside the
'aSket containing his mother. His lit
tie sisters, Lydia and Christina, are
among the missing. The boys white
casket was carried out to the waiting
hearse by his school fellows, who then
returhed 10 the apartment of Charles
bundle, on the floor above, and carried
down the body Of seven-year-old
Charley Bundle. who with his sister
ard mother perished in the horror of
Wednesday.
There was still another duty for the
s.chool,boy pail bearers. however, for
the body OF slx-year-old Pauline
Borges and her mother had been Just
recovered The little girls white coffln
stairs IN her former piaymates' should
ers: Then when tho three hearses
tohta ming the hve bodies were re1dy
the funeral train.
a.: Another little body OF pupils from pub
nc !. , school No. % went to the home of
So o. sadnedi smni,eri Twelve years old. Mt
t hs pau bearers. Little Grover his
brother and mother met their death on
the burning steamboat
Requiem Masses Celebrated.
A. tne tnufCn or the Holy Redeener
on East Third street. solemn requiem
masses were, celebrated to-day for the
victims of the disaster whose families
attended that church. A special mass
was said for Mrs. Marguerite Schaier
months old child, was taken Yesterday
from the wreck. She was found with
me body OF her infant clasped to her
breast. Their funerals were held to-
day from the Schaier home at No. ia
East Third street Father Liebroth cell
ebrated the masses at the church
Before her marriage Mrs. Schaier had
been member of st. Marks Church
but later she adopted the faith OF her
husband. who had been member of
Father Iiebroths church since his
youth. She and her baby will be buried
In the Trinity Cemetery. Brooklyn.
Another funeral to-day that marked
the almost total wiping out of family
was held from the home of Martin
Reiss. No 16S First avenue. Five mem
bers II a family of six We're lost In the
Slocum disaster and they were all
buried in the Lutheran Cemetery.
Excavations Given Up.
Two east side churches We're to have
had SundaY-school excursions to-day,
but out OF sympathy for the grief
stricken relatives OF the victims OF the
disaster both were postponed indef-
nitely. The Church OF the Holy Re
deemer was to have had large excur-
sion up the Hudson and the Church Of
the. Ascension, in Mount Vernon, was
10th cases the children, who had been |
forward to these outings for
months. voted to set aside the funds |
that were to have been used for the OK