The sun., 1905-11-25
TIE YIDDISH DUMAS is DEAD.
.,HOurR PiSSES Uii iND ALL
mn EtSl SiDE MOI rms.
NJ. rausrrrr va 10 Have Been Married
yo.n,c'r0w at Hospital where Hr Lay
-rt l,dao' NJ over 0m NCNcls and
r.g.;',l OF Funerals Planned.

+. frot This fact * of no particular
.,s,,0.,u,c to the English reading public
,ut m hebrews Of high and low degree
,..nl tine greatest Importance. Schooner
,,,.thc friend Of all Jews and their best
Lrownnu,horand dramatst. His death has
r,u.oIur versa mourning among his people
w ,hi. ,.fy for he sInnt the last sixteen
ycar4 Of hp- lfo here.
GhoiLrWll. who was better known by
b.. ron name of schooner, died yesterda y
rornlne IN the Beth Israel Hospital, at
torer-on aud Cherry streets, He had
reen m the hospital for several weeks suf-
tor,nr from stomach disorder which he
re,l.god -um" time ago would cause his
,,oaih That he died 80 soon was great
.hock,o h- family and his friends,
some ,Inr ago he tcld his family that he
,boggl he might never get better and
10 e,rr,,,.I his desire to see his daughter
Minnie rngrried tefore he died She was
te,rothcd to Charles Nunger, son of the
rav.h poet. All arrangements were mace
,obaye the maria ge performed at the bed
.,4e Of the .ick man at the hospital to-mor-
rov evening While Miss Shaikewitz was
ucorinr over the body Of her father yester-
d,v her wedding dress arrived at her home,
Tho managers of the Yiddish theatres
boro wore getting together to give hene-
fl Performance for him.
S,h,m.r ba'am' too i'll to work nine
,nonth. ago tip to that time he was one
Vi the hardest worked writers that ever
}yed He has written over three hundred
toyeI- and plays, and in addition he found
time In write considerable poetry That
hi. writing, were uf high character is
e,idenred hv the title his readers con-
fcrrpd upon him. They called him the
Yidd-h Dumas.
He will be- buried Tomorrow, Sunday,
from hiS late home, at 2ss Fast Broadway
He will have the biggest funeral that was
ever on the East side, not excepting that
Of Rabbi Joseph, three years ago, those
who know the Fast Side prophesy. As
soon AS it hr ama known that the author
wa. dead his friends organized a COM
mitec and asked the family to allow them
to make the funeral arrangements, This
request was granted. The committee is
made up Of writer's for the Jewish press.
Jacob Saphirste.n Of the Jeri@ Morning
journal is the chairman.
The committee me, yesterday after
noon AT the Educational Alliance and made
some plans for the funeral. The full plans
will he Icrre ted to-day. There will be a
procession from the schooner home, at
?ss East Broadway, around a good part
Of the East Side. Somo OF the committee
men were in favor Yesterday OF holding
the obse.uic- in Rutgers Park. II this is
done remission will he obtained from
the Park Department for the ere ton of a
stand ore of the committeeman visited
Police Inspector Flood yesterday and told
him of the thousands OF people who were
expected to attend the funeral. Flood
said he would have 500 reserves along the
line Of march. He wont take any chances
en- not having POLICEMEN enough to handle
the crowd
After the funeral committee adjourned
their meeting the Jewish actors met in the
Educational Alliance and resolved to do all
they could to make the funeral everything
that il shoU!die. schooner did more Tor the
liddish stage in this country and in Russia
than any other writer.
Last night the Jewish typesetters held a
meeting and passed resolutions on the
death schooner, 1t was said for them that
there was not a Jewish compositor in this
city who had not at some time or other
all going 10 his funeral.
If the readers OF Schomer's writings
should all turn out the entire East Side will
pay tribute to lis memory. Ris popularity
among his own people was never exceeded
by any other Jewish writer. Es had
iscile pen and wrote only of his own people.
he was the most prolific writer the Jewish
race ever produced. Ee was born in Nes-
Wlh, in the government of Minsk, Russia,
on December Is, 1919, As boy he wrote
short stories. and his first literary efforts
were printed in a Russian Hebrew paper
which has since ceased to exist.
He was successful in a modest way from
the start and got 10 know many Of the
prominent writer's of his race in his native
land. He gave up writing for a time TO
90 into business, and when he tired Of this
he travelled about Russia He settled
down in Bucharest after time, and there
he came under the influence of the Jewish
Theatre After resolving to become a
dramatic author he settled in Odessa and
began work. One OF his first plays was
Der Rewl2or,' and it was produced in
odessa in 1883. 1t was an adaptation of
Gogols 'Revizor" and attained great sue
cess. That play was written in Biblical
Hebrew and was highly praised as literary
effort
-, 1t wasn't long before Schooner realized
mat his writing only reached educated He
orews He wanted to reach the masses,
auu When the Jewish lheatTe was closed in
russia by the Government he listened to
the call OF his friends in this country and
emgrated here. He arrived here in 1881.
he mad some money. and soon after arriving
ne became the editor of a weekly Jewish
paper callei Der Wenschenfreund Later
pc was the editor of Der Judischer Puck,
humorous weekly.
once settled here where so many of his
nce had come he found a constantly in
vFaslng field for his literary efforts. Ee
vote in Nddish when he realized that
mIS was the language that would reach the
Greatest number of his countrymen. Re
wrote novel alter novel and then began
write plays for the Yiddsh stage. Ee
could not wrte plays as fast as the
manager wanted them and keep abreast
o. me demand for his novel writing The
oeTlsh papers clamored for his stories,
Snu II lH SAID Of him that at various times
,h ne Ied serial stories running in each OF
s.e nail dozen Jewish papers in this city
E., a., o1D UIna. l-e did great deal of work
~ ht IrTSh MOrntHg journal and the
'eNSt b7iy NCus.
,,Nu Ms u!avS seemed to lie successful.
a1Sn ap WaS called a roalist, and it seemed TO be
ooI"duy easy Tor him To make people laugh
wrI$. That hc has not let fortune be-
'n.u muu nun vas the .dult OF himself and his
JJu"UnhEn"-- To b" bothered by business
malIS' lis play The Jewish Fmigrants"
n,""" nm, 'nom money for its producers than
Guy Guy, "'ner play ever pot on the Hiddish
,jjag' N 'hls city. schooner sold that
KAY "ntrlgh' FOR $500. The buyers of it
nIea''" $4,000 w to year ago, and the
rriIa3 sun on the boards. Next to this
~, I' ,"n most successful ones were