New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-19
EAST SIDE BURlES DEAD.
Funeral Professions Move Through
Mourning Crozcds and Draped Shops

! ing those of the wife of the pastor of ST. Marks
and thirty-two unknown dead taking place be-
tween sunup and shutdown.
From long before noontide until long after
Gay had grayed to dusk mourning professions
| of which white baby hearses struck the domi-
nant note moved through the streets or the
stricken parish and wound across the new Will
iamsburg Bridge to the Lutheran Cemetery
| in Middle Village Long Island At times such
was the congestion that separate funerals be-
came interlocke1, and coach and hearse drivers
in the confusion unwittingly found themselves
part and parcel of another procession.
Genuine grief whose expressions ran the
whole gamut Of emotion, from comatose, eN-
kausted apathy which no longer understood TO
frenzed paroxysms of hysteria that would not
be controlled was patent every sidewalk and
in every house. So. too. was maudlin curiosity
that sought in the grievous scenes the pleasure
of a new sensation, and paraded its giggling in
humanity by abruptly deserving one funeral to
scramble for another that promised more per-
fervid emotions larger display
While il was true that the resources of under
takers were sorely taxed by the volume OF the
funerals. several instances were on record where
they did not scruple to profit by the CONSTRUCTED
supply and extorted from stricken widows twice
the ordinary cost of coach or hearse. Even so, II
was necessary TO send TO Jersey City. Newark
Hoboken and various places In Westminster
County to meet the demand.
The scene in the stricken district early in the
day defed description. That part of Second
ave. which threads this section was hardly rec
ognizable. Business had been in most cases
suspended, and nearly every store fronr was
draped in black. Even the smaller stores hal
wreathed their windows and awnings in jet rib
bon. while from stores and tenement houses
flags dropped at half mast that had never flown
| baf he nd y4b ta
bols OF Deaths visit TO man. woman and child,
were numbng I'm their frequency and number.
1t though the plague had passed
through, entering every household.
one house. No. 80 East Ninth-st.. showed two
black and white and seven dead white crepss
the doorposts. and few were the houses
where there was not least streamer
tackled to the outer door. The general gloom
that bowed heads and made hunchbacks az
erect figures seemed to have communicated it.
self even to the little children Their laughs
We're heard but seldom. while time and again,
and for immediate reason one might have
been heard TO cry. Such sound only served
10 wiring fresh sobs from some bereaved mother.
Every church in the neghborhood filed
yesterday 70 the last seat. and cergymen from
ali parts OF the city left their own congrega-
tions to lend what aid they :aight. At the
headquarters OF the various political organize
TONS IN the district an unusual silence pre-
ions were sent 10 each church in token OF re-
spect and sympathy.
Perhaps the most dramatic. certainly one OF
me most Significant funerals was that OF Mrs.
Anna 5. Haas, wife OF the Rev. George c. +.
Haas. pastor OF the church which took place at
the pastors house, No. 81 Seveuth-st, ~ 30
o'clock IN the afternoon
While the body being placed in the
hearse after the service the serried throngs
! that swarmed about the street and sidewalks
lined the verandas and escapes and leaned from
| every easement in the block. were astounded
| 10 see the pastors black clad form emerge from
! the entrance OF the house 10 the head OF the
stone steps.
At the sight a murmur half wonder half pity.
| rippled across the crowd. Breaths were In
! drawn sharply the figure Of the loved pastor.
! walking II daZed his eyes dun and fixed on
vacancy his left outlined IN court plaster,
| slowly descepded the steps, leaning heavily on
/ his young sons arm. Amid "A profound silence
| his disappeared in the waiting carriage and the
! crowd breathed more freely.
The body of Mrs Haass sister Mrs. William
! A. Tetamore, of Brooklyn, had been identified
at the morgue earlier In the day. but friends had
persuaded the minister 10 consent To the burial
| Of Mrs. TetamOre without the formality Of
! funeral Friends arranged. 10 have her body
! taken from the morgue direct 10 the ferry.
| There the hearse containing Mrs. TetaInore'S
body Joined the funera! procession of Mrs. Haas.
and both bodies taken to the German
Lutheran Cemetery in Middle Village. Long ISL
and. where the bodies buried side by side.
The services in the house were attended by
Miss Emma Haas. sister OF the pastor, and
ganiSt in the church, who had been missing for
two days, and who was severely burned about
bandages, and scarcely able TO walk. Miss Haas
insisted being half led half carried. down
| the stairs to the parlor. where the body OF her
sister-in-law lay.
The Rev. A. Alexander Richter. OF ST. Mat
thew's German Lutheran Church, Of Hoboken.
spoke OF the noble character OF Mrs. Haas. and
said:
Anything that has happened TO us is due to
Gods will. We Christians should bear with
equanimity whatever the good Lord fit TO
infiict upon us We Christians in times like
these should show to the world that our faith in
God is mistaken. God did not prohibit the
cident. Was the cause OF the tragedy due to
and the persons the boat? That cannot he
said at the present time, but God had His hand
In It, and we have to recognize it.
At the edge of the great grave stood the Rev.
| ID. w. Peterson, pastor OF Trinity Lutheran
| Church, of Middle Village. Back some ten feet
a Gordon OF blueCOats gently kept in check a
throng Of hundreds, Germans all All around
were other graves surrounded by similar
throngs and In and out, never stopping, rolled
the hearses and their carriages
AS at the Morgue, laborers carried the cOf-
fins, one by one, from the hearses. and as fast
bers on the plates were checked off, and the
| laborers began to fill in the grave. When the
last coffin had been lowered the Rev. Mr.. Peter
son solemnly intoned in German I'm the name
OF the Father, and the Son. and the Holy Ghost"
Let sing. friends, verse OF Nearer My
God, to Thee" he said. and as he sang the first
few notes the throng, In trembling voice. Joined
with him, until every around singing.
There hardly a dry eye.
"Erde Zu erde" ran the solemn form the
laborers renewed their task Of filling the great
public grave.
FUNERALS IN BROOKLYN.