New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-16
YIDDISH MARK
TWAIN IS BURIED
Vast Throng Follows the
Body from Bronx to
Cypress Hills.
DIR. MAGNES READS
HUMORIST'S WILL
Testimonials at Educational Alli-
ance Punctuate March of ShO-
lem Aleichem's MOurners.

ltlII hltIlHtHl MOuI ntIS.
Sholem Aleichem was buried in
Mount Neboh Cemetery, Cypress Hills,
yesterday afternoon.
Tho Yiddish Mark Twain had
taught his people 10 love him. They
who had laughed with him in life wept
as the long, winding procession thread
ed its way from The Bronx TO the low
or East Side. As the mourners marched
the army that choked the streets AMI
overwhelmed the police was reinforced
at each step by more men, more women,
more children.
when die the people whom | have
created will follow me to the grave ="
once said Solomon Rabnowitz. As he
had commanded, Menachem Mendel and
his wife, Schaina Scheindel, led the line
Of the master humorist's servants. Reb
Yozipel, the rabbi viewed the scene
in bedroom AZ 96S Kelly Street, The
Bronx. where all last night three old
men kept watch by Sholem Aleichem $
side. Chain Chana. the teacher. saw
struggling thousands try n touch the
casket Yesterday morning. Tovieh, the
dairyman, heard lawyers and writer's,
bankers and professors, eulogize his
master in the Educational Alliance at
noon. Stempeniv saw his body lowered
into the grave. Yosele Solovee heard
the sobs Of thousands Of his masters
friends. fellow writer's and admirers
when Sholem Aleichem's widow rent
her clothes.
Three Old Watchmen.
All through the night the three old
men had watched at the side Of the
writer. A row Of candles had been lit
around the coffin. Occasionally a
mourner tiptoed in, cried softly as he
viewed the box and stepped out quick
w. Then. when dawn filtered IN
through the windows. the three old
men were relieved and the Psalm sing
ing ended. But with dawn Sholem
Aleichem's friends began 10 congregate
On the sidewalks in the street below. A.
Q o'clock they had formed an impossible
barrier 10 traffic. the police were hght-
ing a losing battle and reserves were
called.
The door opened. The spectators saw
the coffin and began to cry. lhey
iumped into line behind the process
.ior and ttaiieG the cabs TO i49th
Street. It took an hour to cover less
than a mile. At Prospect Avenue 300
boys and girls. pupil in the National
Radical Schools Of The Bronx, ranged
themselves I'm front OF the hearse, eacn
member of the vanguard wearing as an
armlet a bow Of black ribbon. Behind
the hearse marched the twenty-five
honorary pallbearers. among whom
we're Herman Bernstein, Abraham
Kahn. Solomon Ash, J. Levine-Epstein
David Pinsky. The cortege stopped IN
front OF the Synagogue Ohab Zedek, IN
tt6th Street near Fifth Avenue. From
windows gazed scores OF crying women;
rooftops were black with men and boys.
And above the shuttle Of $4,000 feet
came the curses and yells and com
mands Of about fifty policemen under
Csptain Gargan, OF the West l23d
Street precinct
The Song Of the Cantor.
Slowly down the steps of the syna-
popue came A blsck-robed iigure, the
Rev. Joseph Rosenblatt, cantor. he
sang "El Moh Rachamin,' prayer for
the dead. When the last note had
foatcd out toward LenoX Avenue.
where the changing ears had been
forced TO halt. the procession TOOK up
its march south 20 10th Street through
Fifth Avenue, turning cast to Madison
Avenue at Seyenty-second Street. herf
and there the procession stopped while
pravers were offered. At the Jewish
Community Building. $50 Second Ave.
nue. volunteer guard was forme !
from the crowd. Meantime all the re,
serves below Fourteenth street haa
been ordered out by Captain Robinson
of the Seventh Precinct, and THESE
fastened to Seward Park, across tns
way from the Educational Alliance
where the procession was heading.
Buildings along the route were
draped with black. Sholem AleIchem
picture greeted the crowd from the
windows Of stores and homes. Al the
Hebrew Actors Club. l0S Second Ave
nue.. large picture Of Sholem
Aleichem was displayed draped IN
mourning, and under it the inscriptions;
I'VE Mourn Our Loss" The building
occupied by Hook and Ladder Company
ls few flag at half staff. Seward
Park was jammed with humanity Cap.
tain Robinson estimating that 10000
had crowded into the open space.
Reads the Humorist's Will.
The fortunate ones who had tickets
were permitted to enter the Educa-
tional Alliance. on the platform sat
Jacob II. Schif. Oscar S. Straus, eX-
Congressman Henry Goldfogle, Pro-
fessor |. Friedlander. DR. Joseph Sill
yerman. DR.. J. l.. Magnes and two
score other noted Jews. Suddenly the
assembly arose. while through the aisle
passed the coffin Of Sholem Aleichem.
DR. Magnes began his eulogy slowly
and softly. He read the will of the