The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
70 SETTLE FUNERAL STRIKE.
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The protection N he police va necessary
a. the funeral ~ Alonzo Bell ~ IS Fast
iieth street. Assistant Secretary ~ the
In,eyior under Presidents Grant and Oar
aeld. The funeral, which took place In tho
afternoon, was held up Ivy the pickets ~
Local i0g, the branch n tho International
Brotherhood Of Transfers. which is ou
strike. The funeral was q very large one
ne Mr.. Bell, WIN had been n member Of this
New York Assembly for nine years, was
connected With the Tax Department uf this
city, and n civil war veteran, had a large
circle Of friends Among those at the
funeral services, which took place az the
house, were a number Of city officials.
In line at tho funeral were eight coaches,
a hearse and an undertaker's wagon. The
hearse was driven by IT, owner and two
Of the carriages we're private ones. just
as the funeral was about TO start n walking
delegate came to the house and had a talk
with the drivers OF the six undertaker's
carriages. the result being that they drove
of. leaving the hearse and the two private
carriages.
Undertaken Ashmead Of Eighty-seoond
street and Third avenue, who had
charge, applied at the Fast l2eth street
station for police protection, and Bicycle
Policemen McGrath and Hanley ac-
companied the hearse to the Central
Bridge, l55th street and Seventh avenue.
A crowd of strikers followed the funera
to the bridge and policemen from The Bronx
escorted it TO Woodlawn Cemetery.
: Frank Belsky of Seventy third street and
First avenue, a member Of the Funeral
Coach Owners Association, managed TO
get a funeral carried through without
trouble. 1t appears that p. $. Baird, secre-
tary of the union, had instructed the strike
piokets not to interfere with the hearse
wnen It contained the body in the casket
The funeral was that Of Margaret Sleaak
of S32 East Seventy-third street.
Word was sent to the headquarters of
the strikers at Murphy Hall, Forty-ninth
street and Eighth avenue, that this funeral
was going to take place and a committee of
the strikers was on hand. The hearse was
driven by a union man and there we're
four Goa ches.
Joseph Tauber, a livery stab e keeper of
A45 East Seventy fourth street, drove the
first coach, The second coach was d rivsn
) by Joseph Trapini of Ruggiero h Trapini.
stable owners. The third was driven by
Dolsky himself and the last coachwas driven
/ Dy BelSky \ son tnaTleA' lne tdHkeI WIS
in the hearse before the committee APP
peared. and the interment was made in
Calvary Cemetery without any Interference
by the strikers.
The body of Mrs. Minnie Robinson of 40
Tenth avenue was taken to the Lutheran
Cemetery on Long Island in a large auto
mobile. s, Simon, an undertaken mt 37S
Tenth avenue, bad charge of the funeral.
Thirty mourners sat in the automobile,
which was Of the kind generally used by
sight seeing parties. They sat in inclined
tiers and the BODY was in a CaSket on the
floor OF the car where it could not be seen
by the strikers, The clergyman who off,
oiated at the funeral services was one OF
the passengers. The automobile was taken
over the East River by the Twenty-third
street ferry, and then proceeded to the
cemetery
E.. J. Kavanagh Of lsl West Thirty-sev-
enth street, who had to hire porters to CON-
vey a casket to the Grand Central station On
! Friday for interment In Woodlawn Gene
terry, said yesterday that he had no funerals
on hand at present,
used, the mourners following in one case
ton. f +. Wokal, an undertaken. of 345
East Seyenty-third street, who signed an
= agreement with the drivers individually.
tore up the agreement yesterday after "a
consultation with other members of the
Coach Owners' Association. He has in
Z charge to-day the funeral of Thomas Kir-
stead, ASH East Eightieth street. but said
I that unless the strike was settled he would
4 not take out either carriages or hearse, but
! would take the body to the cemetery in his
wagon.