New-York tribune., 1920-09-29
Thousands Pay
d.
Last fIOrlOrs to
Jacob III. Schiiff
Crowds Wait Long Behind
Police Lines to See Coffin
ON Way to Temple Emanu-
FL, Where Service Is Held
Burial at Salem Fields
City Courts, Red Cross
and Foreign Nations Are
Represented at Funeral

Funeral services for Jacob H. Schiff
were held yesterday at Temple Emanu-
Ell. For three blocks Fifth Avenue was
cleared by the police OF all but essen
tlal traffic Behind the police lines
were clustered thousands of persons
some Of whom had come far and waited
long, merely in the hope of catching
sight of the 'fower-strewn coffin.
thousands more waited patiently at
the curb along Fifth Avenue and Fifty
ninth Street and the Brooklyn through
fares through which the funeral cortege
was to pass on its way to Salem Fields
Cemetery. The eagerness Of those in
the rear ranks when the word was
passed that the procession was ap-
preaching threatened at times to OBJ
struct the road despite the efforts Of a
squad of motorcycle police who pre-
ceded the carriages.
Courts Honor Memory
The courts of General Sessions, parts
of the Supreme Court, the Domestic
Relations Court and several police
memory of Mr.. Schiff Business on the
East Side was suspended while the
funeral was in progress. Throughout
the day the Broadway and Cypress
Hills elevated trains were crowded with
pilgrims who desired merely to see the
mausoleum in which their benefactor' S
body lay.
The funeral services were at 10 a. m,
In accordance with the wish of Mr..
Schift, the name that he'd brought thou
sanas to the temple, clustered other pa
tient thousands along miles OF streets
anc suspended business and the ad-
minlstration of justice, was not men
toned during the services, 1t was
likewise, in accordance with Mr.
Schiff's wish, that the graceful beauty
Of the temples interior was not
adorned with flowers or mourning en-
blems.
The organist played kol Nidre. and
Robert Leona rdt chantcd the ancient
anthem as the coffin was borne down
the aisle. Behind it came the honor
airy pallbearers and members of Mr.,
Schiff's family-his. widow and their
son, Mortimer L. Schitf; their daugh
ter. Mrs. Felix Warburg. with her hus-
bard and their son. Fred, and Mrs.
Walter Rothschild, another daughter.
Mrs. I. n. Seligman, Mrs Joseph Selg-
man, Mr. and Mrs Paul NJ Warburg,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Warburg, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel A. Lewlsohn and Mrs
Maurice Loeb, Mr. Schif's sistcr-ln-
law
Rabbi Silverman Offieiates
Rabbi Joseph Silverman read the Re-
formed Synagogue burial liturgy and
The Twenty-third and other psalms.
Cantor s. Schlagel led the responsive
singing of Shiviski-~"T Put My Trust
in the Lord Rabbi Samuel Scnulman
read the second part Of the atonement
1tayer-"The Adoraton" The serv-
ices came to an end with Handels
Largo" and Chopins "Funeral March :"
Among those who attended the serv-
ices were Governor Smith, Mayor Hy-
Ian, Oscar Straus and Henry Morgen-
Mr. and Mrs. Grant straus. Mr.. and
Mrs Percy Straus. Bernard Baruch.
Alvin ". Krech, president of the
Equitable Trust Company: George W
Dawson. president Of the Central
Trust Company; f. F. Loree. pres
ident of the Delaware & Hudson
Company; Newcomb Carlton, president
Of the Western Union; Magistrate and
Mrs. Joseph S. Schwab. kyo kuma aka.
Consul General from Japan; Herbert
W. De Forest; W. H. Williams. vice
president of the Equitable Trust Com
pany, and Eugene Meyer, banker
The Chamber of Commerce delegates
were Irving I. Bush, A. Barton Hep
burn, Charles l.. Rernheimer, Albert
F. Marling. r. A. c. Smith and Darwin
P Kingsley.
Judges Thomas c. 7. Grain, Otto A.
Rosalsky and James 7, Malone came
from the Court Of General Sessions.
a md .JllstIcaS 7 oh NJ or1o
Platzek and Mitchell l.. Erlanger and
former Justice Daniel L. P. Hayes
from the Supreme Court.
Red Cross Represented
Among officials of the New York
Robert De Forest, Mrs Whitelaw Reid.
Mrs. w. K Draper, Homer Folks. Cor
nelius n. Bliss. Eliot Wadsworth and
John Bassett Moore. Mr.. Schif was
secretary-treasurer of the Red Cross
from 1905 to 1919.
Arthur Meyerowitz represented the
Jewish Editorial Association Of Lon
don, and sent a wreath by direction of
Israel Zangwill, novelist.
Henry Street Settlement Emanu.El MAJ
Sisterhood, the Central Union Trust
Company, Baron De Hirsch Fund.
United States Mortgage and Trust
Company, Mount Sinai Hospital, He
brew Orphan Asylum, Hebrew Shelter
ing and Guardian Society and Monte
fore Home. Employees Of the Schff
household and OF Kuhn, Loeb { Co.
were present.
Messages of sympathy for the family
of Mr.. Schiff continued to arrive yes
terday The following came to Mrs
Schitf from Niscount Uchida, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of the Imperial Jap
anese Government:
Il have received with profound shock