The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-27
$4,000 JEWS
AT FUNERAL
OF WRITER

New York, Nov. H=Nathan- MYer
shalkewitz, whose followers called him
the Yiddish Dumas, was buried today and
a rood part OF the East Side turned out.
Inspector Flood. who had charge of police
arrangements in Manhattan, estimated
that 1900 persons lined the streets to
watch the funeral.
s~haikewitz died Friday, and since his
death the Yiddish newspapers have been
telling their readers that II was their
duty TO turn out to his funeral. The
writer was unknown personally to most
OF his countrymen, but all OF them who
can read knew of him and his work.
The Shaikewitz home is at 2sS East
Broadway, and there his body was re-
moved from the Beth Israel hospital after
his death on Friday. The body in a plain,
unvarnished wooden coffin laid on the
floor I'm the room where ShaikewitZ did
all of his literary work.
on the barred floor the coffin rested until
1880 o'clock this morning. whensit was
removed from the house and placed in
the hearse. BY that time East Broadway
for two blocks in either direction was
dense with people.
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or more writer's for the Jewish press.
Then came a delegation OF Jewish actors.
actresses and chorus men. Jacob Adler,
the Yiddish actor, was in this delegation.
The Society OF the Natives OF Pinsk,
Russia. where Shaikewitz was married
and where he had spent several years OF
his life. turned out in a body. LINED up
against the wall OF the building across the
way from the house OF mourning were 30
old men and women from a Jewish home
for the aged. The old women all looked
alike and were dressed alike. Each wore
the same kin of a wig and each wore
a 1000 with a purple ribbon on top OF
IL.
ALL MOURNERS AFOOT.
Five minutes before the coffin was car
ried from the house on the shoulders OF
the pallbearers the chorus men and ac-
tors surrounded the hearse and began 10
chant a funeral dirge.
When they had finished the coffin was
| brought out. When the door of the
hearse was closed the funeral process
sion started with a dozen mounted police
I'm the lead. Next come the Jewish news
| paper writer's afoot. and then the actors
and chorus men chanting "A pslam. Then
followed the hearse and a foot after il
was the family OF the dead a
Fifty empty coaches followed. Then
came the crowd. which had been held IN
| check by the policemen until all danger
OF trouble had passed.
IL was after II o'clock when the coffin
was carried into the auditorium Of the
| Educational Alliance building. followed
10Y the mourners and the marchers. The
| coffin was carried down to the stage and
placed at the foot of Il platform so that
the speakers stood over II.
The spectators and the speakers kept
| their hats on all through the service.
The services lasted for an hour and a
half. but tho crowd that had gathered I'm
the streets stayed on.
The procession started the second time,
with the chorus men chanting and all the
| paraders walking. on passing the syna-
gogue at S3 livingston street tho process
sion stopped long enough for Rabbi Fine
| to come TO the steps and chant a psalm
Ills voice carried for a block, and the
onlookers could not have been quieter OF
more attentive. Then the journalists,
actors and chorus men piled into car
riages.
II was $3.50 O'clock before the funeral
reached the Union Hin cemetery in
Queens, and several hundred persons
were on hand there when the hearse ar
rived.
The Rev. DR.. Adolph Badin OBLIGATED at
the ceremonies al the grave lie was as.
sisted by the Rev. H. Brodsky OF Newark.
Alex Harkavy. "a writer on educationa
subjects. was the last TO speak.