New-York tribune., 1909-05-14
CONRIED FUNERAL
OPERA HOUSE CROWDED.
Thousands Unable to Hear EulOgics
of Dead Director.

The funeral of Heinrich Conried. former opera
director, was held at the Metropolitan opera House
yesterday morning. The Opera House has rarely
been as crowded it when the doors were
closed at II o'clock. In the first two rows back
of the orchestra pit which draped in black,
sat the family of the late director-Mrs Helnrch
Conred Richard Conred. her son. Frederick W.
Sperling Mrs. Pauline sperIing Mr. and Mrs
Jacob Sperling. Louis Edward and Hermann
Sperling Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Frank. MI and Mrs
J. SoIky. the Misses Roetta. Miss Sophie sperins
and Henry Sperling. Several Of Mr. Conrted close
friends occupied seats them.
The stage dimly lighted and draped III Dlack
On a catafaque in the middle was placed the
coffin at the head of which toward the rear OF
the stage stood a candeIabrum. bearing seven
lighted candles and bronze bust of Mr. Conrled.
More than a hundred floral tributes were banked
about the coffin
The Metropolitan opera House Orchestra played
Beethovens Funeral March, with A L. Ro'h-
meyer conducting and William z. MacClymont at
the organ Rabbi Stephen 5. Wise. of the Free
Synagogue. read a Scriptural selection Behlhd
the hill of flowers. the summit of which was
the coffin, the choir boys Of Calvary Church VINO
sang in Mr. Conrieds first production OF 'Parsifa4
in America. gave Lacey Bakers muslcal seI"hs
to Tennyson's Crossing the Bar
Charles Burnham. president Of the Ihearlcal
Managers Association and chairman of the COM
mittee which arranged the services. said that no
more fitting place could be found for last honors
to man who had made place for himself on
the ladder Of fame. He also paid tribute 10 MI
Conried as fellow manager.
Professor william H. Carpenter, Of Columbia
University, said:
II first saw Heinrich Conrfed a young actor
Of brilliant promise at the stadt Theater. Lepsic'
when I was student in that ancient city. When'
after many years I came to Columbia College,
then at 4ath street and Madison avenue I round
him here as an actor-manaGer. I have known nm
from many sides. He actor. and therefore
a capable manager. because trained in the pest
school. I knew him as a busy and an ambitious
al ~
him as few did as a scholar and an idealist
Heinrich Conried knew accurately. wisely ana
ntelligently not merely the long repertory OF Ile
German stage but also German literature as ne-
veloped in Germany. He was an idealist by tenn
permanent and whatever he did, there was inevi-
tably back Of it the of ideality When his pro
duction OF German drama at the irving pace
Theatre became notable he was asked TO lecture
before Yale Harvard. Pennsylvania. Cornell and
Vassar college students. and did so Tor the Io'e u
his art and German literature
A quartet composed OF Nine. Louise Homer MISS
Marie Rappold. Riccardo Martin and Robert Blass
sang Handels Largo with the Meuopo'l'aii
Opera House orchestra.
Rabbi Wise praised Mr.. Conried as one who had
done great things for music in America and kept
alive the loyalty OF German-Americans TO the pest
traditions OF their own poets and dramatists After
a PRAYER the choir boys sang the 'Parslfal' Amen
and the orchestra played Chopin's Funeral March.
The casket then carried out followed by the
honorary pallbearers: Samuel Untermyer. Morris
Baar George Bischel Charles Burnham. Professor
william r. Carpenter. Otto Well \. J. Often
hoefer Alfred Freundlich, Ernest Goerlitz A d.
JuiIliard Otto II. Kahn Solomon kohn, Alexander
Lambert Henry Morgenthau Adolph S Ochs. Carl
Rosenbaun. SeIlg Rosenbaum. Maurice Rothschild,
Edward Seidle. Richard Sutor, Justice Charles II.
Truax All Hayman and Frank Mckee.
"reminiscences of the early days of the Metropoh-
tan were recalled 10 many hy the presence OF
Henry F GiTlE. who understood 10 oe the
financial backe- Of the late Henry f. Abbey. in
1ss3. when he opened the opera house. and who in
october OF that year. gave Christine Nilsson the
famous gold wreath in commemoration Of the open
ing.
From the opera house the procession passed down
broadway on It's way the Temple Bethel Gene
terv Cypress HIS Brooklyn.
Among those who passed into the Metropolitan
were Henry Clews Mr. and Mrs. Emil Boas, Mr.
and Mrs Percy Boas Mr.. and Mrs Melville Shoue
Henry WoIfsohn, Andreas Dippel and Henry J.
GiIug.
Flowers were sent 10 the opera house by the
hoard Of directors and by the orchestra Of the Met
ropotan Opera Company. employees Of the Ocean
Comfort Company. the wardrobe department. the
ushers the box office employees. the Harmony club.
the Freundschaft, Mr.. and Mrs. Andreas 5. DIPpeI.
Mr. and Mrs otto We'll. Mr. and Mrs Edward
sedla Mr. and Mrs Henry Morsenthau, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Untermyer. Mr.. and Mrs. otto H.
Kahn. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Boas. Mr.. and Mrs.
Furschgott Nj and Mrs. 5. II. Kohn, Melville J.
Scholle and Carl Rosenbaunl.