The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-31
DAVD'S FLAG FLIES
NEAR GIRLS COFFIN
Rabbi Tells 1000 at Street
Service Little Sadie Was Vic
tim of Misunderstanding.
POLICE MIX IN CROWD
Child Who Killed Herself at
q Block Party Is Buried
I'm Mt. Lebanon.

A little blue and white flag carrying
the Star Of David and two black stream
ers hung listlessly yesterday from the
Are escape In front OF SIS West 125th
street. The small flag found scarcely
enough energy from the vaSrant breeze
that famed the heavy, dense atmosphere
to move on It's tiny pole.
In the house across the way there
reposod little, plain pine coffin In
which was the body of Sadie Dellon,
10 years old. She died for the flag Of
her fathers, and in the street between
the houses that held on the one side
the nag and on the other the coffin 1000
persons were banked.
Police reserves from six Harlem sta
tlons marched about the neighborhood
or stood stolidly before the houses %
prevent any act OF violence. or perhaps
n race riot. 1t was not possible TO hold
the funeral from tine Dellon nome. be-
fore which the flag hung, because the
child's mother lay Ill there and excite
ment might bring another death
The coffin was moved to the front
neighbours home Over It Rabbi Bernard
Drachman Of the Ohev Zedek Syna-
gogue stood to deliver an address to
the 1000 mourners who gathered In
honor OF the little girl.
Police Ready for Trouble.
"She was the victim of a misunder-
standing and wrong conception ON the
part OF the people" said the rabbi who
told how martyrs had died in the days
of Rome.
Through the emotional street crowds
the police moved necessarily. Fast
glances we're sent to house tops and
windows by the bluecoats, Persons who
appeared in the neighboring windows
were warned to get back
Down with the Jewish nag" shouted
a woman who appeared at one Of the
windows with a milk bottle poised to
hurl at the funeNl party.
A policeman ran through the hallway
and dragged the woman from the win
dow.
Slowly the long procession OF 1000
marchers followed the hearse containing
the child's coffin to the synagogue at
1l4th street and Lenox avenue. In the
line were many STUDENTS of the Jewish
Folk School. - East 11lth street, where
Sadie had been n pupil. When the ser
vices were over the body was taken to
Mount Lebanon Cemetery.
The block which is bounded by Am
s,erdam avenue and Broadway held a
celebration Friday night In honor of the
boys who have gone over seas. Leo Del
Ion, father of the little girl. went TO the
celebration committee and asked that
the Jewish flag be hung with the other
decorations. The committee declined the
request.
Rescued by Policeman.
Then II was that little Sadie. whose
brother In across the sea. climbed on the
fire escape and swung TO the breeze the
flag OF David. Boys In the block struck
the little girl when she sent her gon-
Talon to the front and they were ham
ding her roughly when n patrolman res
cucd her. The nag was brought down.
The child came back into the street
again.
Again the street boys began jeering
her. She ran into her fathers plumbing
shop and barricade the door. Outside
the young gamins stormed AT the door.
Albert Goldman. 54s West 125th street.
looked through the window and saw the
child raise q bottle to her lips Then
a policeman broke open the door and a
doctor who came from Knickerbocker
Hospital said she was dead.
Dear Everybody" said a note beside
the body, 81 cannot see my flag insulted.
Good-by all"
a storm OF protest was aroused In the
section. The girls parents demanded
that the celebration he stopped. and Jew
ish residents insisted upon the right TO
display their flag. Other residents said
that the flag OF David had been placed
higher than the Stars and Stripes. and
that the little girl did not understand
the demand for a change in the relative
position.
Last night an extra police force was
still patiently pursuing the task OF keep
ing vigil over the Melting Pot and hop
ing that 1t would not again boil over.