New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-13
.LAUD LIVES AND DEATH
Of Mr.. AND MRS. STRAUS
Reserves Called to Handle Car
negie Hall Overflow Crowds
in Nearby Streets.
Mr.. GREENBAUM PRESIDES
Mayor Gaynor, Andrew Carnegie,
Jacob H. Schiff and Bishop
Gailor, of Tennessee,
Praise Victims.

50 great was the outpouring Of folk
Eager 70 pay homage TO the memory OF Mr..
end Mrs. Isldor Straus yesterday afternoon
that tho custodians Of Carnegie Hall threw
open its doors an hour ahead of schedule,
only TO close them again before the organ
prelude announced the opening Of the
meeting. That vast amphtheatre-plat-
form, boxes, galleries and all-had in that
time choked up with worshppers of the
double ideal expressed in the passing OF
the Strauses, leaving half as many more
outside IN the cold, to he driven across the
street. away from the temple of their
faith, by the police reserves.
All nationalties, all Creeds and both
SoAes mingled i'm that mighty human gath
sring. mutely responsive to the sentiments
voiced by a chosen feW--JustiCe Green
baum, Mayor Gaynor, Andrew Carnegie,
Rishop Gailor. Of Tennessee. and Jacob H..
Schlff-on tho death Of man and a
Woman. From floor 10 roof they remained
silent for an hour and a half through sons,
address, and PRAYER. and then dispersed to
the four corners of the metropolis.
we have come together" SAID Justice
Creenhaum who presided. as n rose to
Fare this aWe-iuspiring audience from be
hind the little crapc-Coyered reading desk
NC have come together drawn ~ an ir-
reestible impulse. TO show the feelings
With which We are inspired 10y tie deyO-
tion and sacritic" OF these two loving
souls IN the face Of death. and To- give low
Ing tribute 10 them
His voice sounded small and far away,
but clear. and from tho rear of IN" hall.
where the late Corners stood four and five
deem his white head appeared hardly dis
tInguishable against the mass of people
banked lshind him ON the stage. Still
further behind and above him stretched
two deep borders Of black ana between
these borders hung American fIaCS draped
with black In tho box Just ABOVE tie
stage on the speakers left sat the children
Of Isidor and Ida Straus IN the deepest
mourning-the three sons. Jesse. Percy and
Herbert Strsus. and the daughters, Mrs.
Hess. Mrs. We'll and Mrs Herbert Schcftels.
one Of the rear boxes held Oscor :. and
Nathan Straus, lsdor's brothers, and Mrs.
Lazarus Eohu, his sister.
Now. after the horror and distress Of
the first few DAYS following tho terrible
Disaster" continued Justic" Grccnhaun.
peace at last has come upon ~. We ar"
knitted together closer than We ever were
before as il We. TorchanCe. had caught a
passing glimpse of the dream Of the
prophets in the vision of thos" Who lives
'ost so heroically
"A dream terrible but sublime was real
,zed there In mid-occan, and the greatness
Of man made seIf-cvdent by his many acts
~ seIf.effacemcnt. And Of the thrilling
SCENES there enacted there WAS none more
touching than that which marked the
death Of Isiior Straus and his wife. Ida
Straus.
Those Of us who knew those beloved
ones as friends said to ourselves when We
n.a7S Of tho disaster that if, perchance.
both % them could not have been saved,
Rat would happen which did haop.u. This
was the inevitable result Of tn" lives they
lived