The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-26
STRIFE OYER A BURIAL PLOT.
THE BIXERS AND CHEWIVERS
IN LEGAL COMPLICATIONS.

To-day justice hickey WIN Settle The COE-
trOVersy, some Of the Details Of which
Are Here set ~FOrth-ThcS Are Too
Inv DIV ed for Head Lane Analysis.
Jpsttce Dickey at the Special Session OF
the Suprsms Court, Brooklyn, today Will
settle a six months war Of secession in the
consolidated Jewish congregations OF Blker
Cholsm Lenas HGlalu and First Chewiver
Congregation Of 81 SUFFOLK street. The con-
troversy involves possession OF a burial
ground in the Washington Cemetery as
we'll ~ sundry sacred articles Of synagogue
paEaphernalia supposed to be in custody
Of City Marshal Alfred Freeman.
On the docket the case Il styled Biker
Cholem tenas Halslr, n Religious coFpora-
ton, versus First Chcwiver Congregation,
q religion corporation. These corporations
existed separately up to twelve years ago.
Then the plaintiff contracted for the pur-
chase Of a burial plot from the Washington
Cenetery Company in Brook Ign.
The second congregation supplied a por-
ton of the funds which the first lacked to
complete the purchase. and both were
consolidated with the approval OF the Su-
re1ne Court into a new corporation q
the double name of the two original bodies.
Tho decd from the cemetery was taken IN
the name Of the new corporation.
But while the resources under the new
arrangement were doubled. the hOnors
were reduced to their square root. Thrrr
wasn't half enough offices to go around
and discussion arose in East Side Jewry.
With the thirst for dignities strong tlron
them. twelve Of the elders declared them
selves before the congregation last April
and seoeded. Six resolved themselves into
the original Bikers and the other six re-
constructed the Chewivers.
Tie Neo- Bikers , Iectsd as trustees Moses
Schachman This mark, Harris Weitzenblit
(his mark and Samuel Mtntz. David
Greenberg was made president Of the
Neo-Chewivers. The next step was the suit
by the Bikers to recover from the Chewivers
the cemetery plot, in which many in
Israel had been gathered unto their fathers.
The defendants d~efaulting, the Supreme
Court last April awarded a decree in favor
OF the plaintiffs. Then a process in re-
plevin was executed against the defendants
by City Marshal Freeman, who knew not
Joseph and entered the synagogue and
levied Upon two scrolls Of the Torah, a
shOfAr Hebrew, not ROose v~eltianl, a
Tnagiller or history OF the delivery Of tho
Jews by Mordecai. an altar cloth and four
sacred pictures.
By this time the members OF the Biker-
Chewiver Consolidated got wise and busy.
They had the writ of replevin annulled
and called upon Freeman for the property
Of the synagogue. But Freeman couldn't
produce. The day he made the levy he
was waited upon by a committees. The
Scroll. OF the Law should not be kept in
uuhallowed hands. he was told. Rather
should the treasures of the temple be |
guarded by some devoNt spirit.
Willing n defer to their feelings, the
marshal suffered himself to be introduced
10 a rabbinical looking Jew. with long
flowing heard and curly hair, who was
as good as a. storage house." This proved
to be none other than Mintz. an officer
Of the plaintiff corporation. Once in pos
session. Mintz refused TO give up.
Notice ~ the Judgment in the land suit
was nov. served upon the Washington
Cemetery Company. The consolidated
congregation found their dead ravished
frord them and sleeping in allan soil. The
Of a thousand dollars WAS collected
in no time and a lawyer employed to de-
fend their itie.
Lawyer Charles Goldzier Of the firm Of
House. Grossman Il Vorhaus presented
befone Judge Dicoey yesterday a motion
to set aside the decree in the case. and
affidavits TO prove title in the
consolidated congregation. His position
was that both the plaintiff and defendant
are fctitious. the original corporations hav-
ing been merged in the new corporation
years ago. and that they have no
standing in court.