The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05
100000 MOURN At
SOCIALIST FUNERAL
Berlin Citizens Of All Glasses Pay
Tribute to Man Once a Polit-
ical Exile.
SILK AND FELT HATS THERE
Steady Stream of Sorrowing Ger
mans Makes Solemn and I'm
pressive Sight.
SILK AND FELT HATS THERE
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
| BERLIN, March at Is calculated
that 750 900 people took part IN Paul
Singers funeral obsequIes. showing the
great esteem In which the famous Social
ist leader was held. Twenty five years
ago Singer was expelled from the coun-
try. a political refugee.
The professional route was FIVE miles
| long. Along the least frequented portion
crowds were standing Ave to seven deep
on both sides OF the road. Where the
masses Were densest the spectators We're
eight to ten deep. and the back rows
standing on chairs benches and boxes.
In addition TO the people actually In the
street there were five miles OF three.
four and flvc-story houses with their win
Gows packed with tiers OF heads one rls-
Ing above the other.
The procession which preceded the
hearse flowed on for over an hour. Thou
sands and thousands OF all different kinds
OF people were there. Then came the
hearse, with a dozen candles in lamps
burning around It. n body OF Socialist
deputies and members OF various com
mlttees, and once more a black stream
of anonymous mourners
II was middle -class crowd The
men. for the most part, wore black
ties and hats. SILK hats were TO those Of
felt In proportion Of one to three. The
floral tributes numbered 1000.
Suggestion Of Old Romance.
AS the bearse passed the house OF a
well known family. a gray-haired woman
threw from the window a bunch of i'm
mortelles. II is said that the woman
was in her school days a sweetheart OF
the famous Socialist.
The police left the management of the
procession to the Socialist party. Where
they appeared. however they wore pis-
tolls strapped on the outside OF their over
coats. The demeanor of the crowds was
exemplary.
a deep impression was created by the
unprecedented spectacle.
Herr Bedel the Socialist leader. writ
ing OF his memories of Singer. says that
the latter cured himself OF tuberculosis
forty years ago by eating twelve raw
eggs daily.
Another Socialist IN Trouble,
y Socialist organizer named Hanke has
been sentenced at Dusburg to four weeks
imprisonment for lese majestic. The Of
fensc was that Hanke, in u public lee
ture, described as a conscious lie a
In an interview.
The reichsteg committee TO which the
Alsace- Lorraine constitution bill has been
referred has adopted by a vote OF 16 TO
an amendment raising Alsace- Lorraine
to the rank OF an independent federal
state.
In this empire. as elsewhere. there are
super patriots who live In a state of per-
pctual anxiety for their country's safe
ty. They are constantly trembling.
Their latest cause for alarm is the
menace to the German script. The true
peril does not yet lie very close. The
committee that examines the innumerabe
petitions showered in upon the reich
stag has recommended a proposal put
forward by one OF them that the use OF
Latin script should be taught In the ele-
mentary schools. Gothic scrlnt is going
the samo way as the Gothic print.