New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-05
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HERMAN RDDER
German Representatives at
Funeral in Church of
Blessed Sacrament.
CARDINAL FARLEY
CHANTS THE SERVICE
Thousands Attend the Mass,
While Many More Do
Homage in Street.

Funeral services for Herman Ridder
were held yesterday at the Church OF
the Blessed Sacrament, Broadway and
Seventy-frst Street. A thousand per-
sons filed the church, from 10 o'clock
until noontime, while outside another
thousand crowded the street for a
block. keeping seventy-fye patrolmen
and three inspectors busy. New York.
it seemed, had forgotten varying war
sympathes TO honor the man ~ho de-
clared a few months before he died:
Much as love Germany, America
comes first"
Cardinal Farley, assisted by Bishop
Hayes and score Of brilliantly robed
clergy, pronounced the pontificsl abso-
luton and chanted "Requiescat in
pace
While a private service was proceed
ing at Mr.. Riders home, 20 Wess
Seventy-foUrth Street, attended by the
family and few old friends, a steady
stream Of automobiles drove up to tho
church
"Ah, the burgomaster." exclaimed
gray-hared veteran of she Franco
Prussian War. as Mayor Mitchel's car
halted at the entrance. Close behind
the Mayor came President McAneny of
of the Board Of Aldermen. Controller
Prendergast. President Churchill Of tho
Board of Education, Fire Commissioner
Adamson. Senator O'Gorman, Otto Cor.
itz, of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany. and Sherif-elect Alfred r.
Smith. Representing Ambassador Bern
storff was Prince hatfield W. $.
Hossenfelder and Nuber Won Pereked.
consuls general OF Germany and Aus
ria-Hungary, were also present with
their st~fs.
The coffin. covered with orchids, yio-
lets and bays. was borne into the church
followed by Mrs. Ridder. her son Der.
nard, who succeeds his father in the
management of the "Staats-Zeitung,'
and the latter's little son. Behind them
came Victor and Joseph Ridder and
their wives, Henry Ridder, a brother.
and his family. Then came the honorary
pallbearers: Morgan j. 0'Brien, Mel
Vile r. Stone, Oscar ). Straus. Fritz
Acheis. Edward VI. Burghard. Joseph
Frey, Leonard Giegerich. Herbert +.
Gunnison, DR.. 4. j. Hexamer, Henry
Heide, Gustave Lindenthal and Thomas
NJ. Mulry.
While Father George Winkler. an old
acquaintance of Mr. Ridder. sang the
mass, the choir chanted Dies ir9,"
and amid swinging censers the Cardinal
arose 70 pronounce absolution. Car
l dinal Farley chanted the Latin service
and adm Mustered the last rites Of the
church.
/ No eulogy was pronounced, but the
congregation knelt in prayers for the
repose of Mr.. Riders soul. Burial
was in Calvary Cemetery.
Nearly every civic body in the city
was represented. Among the clergy
assisting Cardinal Farley we're the
/ Rev. Terence h. Gimartin, the Rev.
Stuart Chambers, Father Thomas Bar
rett, Monsignor Francis Wall, Monsig-
nor Bruden. DR.. Thomas Carroll,
Father Joseph Dineen. Monsignor Jo.
seph Mooney, V. g.. Monsignor Michael
| J. Lavelle, the Very Rev. John j.
Hughes, Monsignor James Ii. Mclean.
Monsignor John Burke. Monsignor
Francis O'Hara, Chaplain Bader, U.
S. A.; Richard S. Tierney, 5. j.;
Father Malachi Fitzpatrick, Father
William Livingstone, Father James
Powers, Father John Wynne, s. j., and
Father Michael j. Henry.
Nearly 100 German societies were
represented, including the Arion So
ciety and the Liederkranz.