The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-22

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Tho sffihe ~ the dnwntown funeral
drivers f%esuiiHst yesterday IN y SINAI ier
number ~ funerals on tho Etst stle Noai
~ the employers VIM have NOT as'tlei
WITH the a,ribors preferred 10 wait a day
~ 80 ~ 500 how matters would 60 hefor'
talking chnncca There VIVA a disposition
nj tho part " tho employers tn meet the
representative ~ the downtown unipn ~
drivers NJ u body, but tho d rivers early
IN THO day decided 10 make settlements
With individual employers only. Al tho
funerals witch did take place the owners n
tho hearAes aa n rule drove them.
III" Slciety Aglinth Athim Ch"sset Sh'l
Emoth, q Hehrrw charitable Organization
which giver burial 20 the dead ~ tho Hebrew
poor, had four funerals held up m sunday,
but succeeded in carrying through four
funerals yesterday. The aociety has chnrg'
Of about 1000 funerals a year, thu dead
bcing buried In Silver Lake Cemetery on
'aten Island. President Burnett Friod-
man ~ the society called at tho Rldridgs
straet station yesterday morning and asked
Acting Police Inspector Fornosa 10 have a
police escort with the funerals. Th' pro.
lection was given and a policeman sat
iIFlAiT tI t1tN't "'IV IN
over the ferry in undsrtakers' wagons.
Supt, Adelmen said that he had seen the
offOTs of the union and he did not believe
there would he any further trouble.
In the afternoon n widow followed a
hearse containing the body Of her husband
on foot, while n number Of strikers kept a
little distance behind. The hea ne was on
it's way to the Williamsburg Bridge and had
to pass the Eldridge street police station,
where the woman broke into loud lamenta
ions and was becoming hysterical. Act
ing INSPECTOR Formosn then came out and
the strikers diSappear red. Formosa escorted
the hea rse across the bridge, the woman
following in a trolley car.
Undertaken Sicardi OF l43 Sullivan street
sent out a hea re and four coaches in the
afternoon, bound for Calvary Cemetery. AT
Washington Square and Fourth street the
funeral was halted by President O'Brien
Of the union, and the drivers came down
from their boxes at his direction. The
mourners were very angryand IL looked as II
there would " trouble at once. Tn rela-
tives made a fearful appeal to 0'Brien and
other officers Of the union, and just then a
policeman came up. Either the pleadings
of the people or the presenoe Of the police
man had the desired effect, and the funeral
was allowed to proceed.
According to President O'Brien and Bust
ness Agent Smith OF the union twenty out
of the t~hirty-five employers against whom
the strike was ordered had signed indi-
vidual agreements with the union. II they
gained their demands they will be better
off than the uptown union, as they de-
handed twelve hours out of every twenty
four and the agreement Of the uptown
union provided only ten hours off. The
union representatives and the employers
tell different stories as to the agreement
which the downtown union has broken by
striking. The union says 1t was to have
gone into effect ON May / and the employers
say it went into effect only last Tuesday,
The Funeral Coach Owners Association
will have its regular meeting tomorrow
night, The strikers say, however, that the
but against its downtown members indi-
vidually.