New-York tribune., 1920-09-28
Thousands to
Join I'm Schiff
Funeral To-day
Services Will Take Place
at Temple Emanuel at
10 O'clock; Edifice Far
Too Small for Mourners
Rabbits Eulogize Banker
Governor and Staff Will
Attend Obseqslies; City
Courts To Be Adjourned

Funeral services for Jacob II. Schih
will take place at 10 o'clock to-day at
Temple Emanuel. Thousands of
mourners will stand along the route of
the funeral cortege from the temple
to the cemetary in Brooklyn. Thous-
ands more, pushcart men and other
humble merchants of the East Side,
will do no business during the hour of
the services.
Ten thousand persons besieged the
offlce at 81 William Street yesterday,
where cards of admission to the funeral
were to be had. There were only 1000
cards, that being the limit of the
seating capacity of Temple Emanu- Ell,
and hundreds of them had to be held
IN reserve for directors of various
organizations supported by Mr.. Schiff.
Governor and Staff to Attend
Governor Smith and his staff will
attend the funeral. Besides delega-
tlons from the various organizations in
which Mr.. Schiff was personally in
terested, there will be representatives
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, the United States Mortgage and
Trust Company, the Chamber of Com
merce and the Central Union Trust
Company. Members of the joint dis
tribution committee of the American
Funds for Jewish War Sufferers will
meet at the temple at 9:15 o'clock and
attend the services in a body. The
American Jewish relief committee will
close its Offices in this country and in
Canada for the day. Most of the
courts of General Sessions were ad-
journed yesterday until Wednesday,
that the judges might attend the serv-
ices.
The honorary pallbearers are DR..
Cyrus Adler, Martin Beckhard, Paul D.
Cravath, Abram 1. Elkus, Daniel Gug-
genhcim, Jerome j. Hanauer, James N.
Jarvie, Otto H. Kahn, R. S. Lovett,
Charles A. Peabody, George A. Plimp-
ton, Samuel Rea, S. G. Rosenblum,
julius Rosemvald, S. F. Rothschld, Pro-
fessor R. A. Seligman, Henry Solomon,
Leopold Stern, Jesse I. Straus, Henry
Tatnall and General James H. Wilson.
Rabbis Speak in Eulogy
Euiogles of Mr.. SchifF were delivered
yesterday in many synagogues. Rabbi
Henry S. Goldstein declared in his har-
vest festival sermon at the Institu-
tional Synagogue, 112 West 116th
Street, that Mr.. Schiff was a "gaon,"
VI oSHoldi. VI HlSHel IdHh lHdil 1dUDl ,
by nature and by inheritance.
Jacob Henry Schiff was scion of
gaonic family" he said. "His an
cestors were the famous Maharam
Schiff, author Of The Hiddushe Ha-
lachos, and Jacob Schiff, the great
gaon of the fifteenth century. There
ran through his veins love for the
knowledge of Judaism. Invariably. in
his public addresses before his people,
he would quote in the original Hebrew
or Aramaic. sayings from the Bible
or from the Talmud. Though a great
universal financicr, he was always
proud to express himself in this Jew
ish way"
Rabbi Israel Goldstein said in Tenn
pie B'Nai Jeshurun: "Of the many
in favor of Judaism. one of
the most potent is the life of Jacob H.
Schiff When the world beholds such
a man and such Jew, the world re-
veres the character which can thus
grow out of the bosom of Judaism,
and the world respects the Judaism
which can produce and nourish such
character"