The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-09-10
TWO BIG FUNERALS
FROM SAME HOUSE
FOR AUTO VICTIMS.
Entire Neighborhood Grieves
as Little Boys Are Buried
Another Dying.

Two little boys killed when a motor
car plunged into a group of youngsters
playing last Tuesday afternoon at
55th Street and 18th Avenue, were
buried to-day from the same house,
No. 600 West 55th Street, while all the
neighborhood stood by in reverence.
When the two PROFESSIONS which, an
hour apart acco npanied the bodies to
St. Ambrose's Church in West 54th
Street, were formed passing truck
drivers stopped and barred their heads.
Many women along the line wept
without concealment OF their grief.
The first funeral was that OF Jim
mic Wylie, whose family lives on the
first floor OF the tenement. There at
10 o'clock gathered the schoolmates
OF the nine year-old youngster with
their offerings OF flowers, a large
white cross from the boys, with an
inscription, Our Comrade," and a
similar cross in red and pink marked
'Our Playmate" from the little girls
of the neighborhood. The children
were permitted to pass the caslSet for
a last. look at Jimmie's face. Jimmie
was a member Of the Infants So
dality of st. Ambrose.
Six former playmates-Willie
Lyons, Dickie Carroll, Johnnie
Schultz, Johnnie O'Donnell, John
ME Crane and Sam withdrawing
in age from seven to ten Years, in
| dark suits, with wide white collars
and white gloves. were pallbearers.
They headed the procession to
church. Just as the start was to be
made Mrs. Wylie. Jimmie's mother,
collapsed and with difficulty was
Gained sufficiently to attend the SER
vice. Behind the hearse more than
500 formed in line and tramped the
| block to st. Ambrose's. There a
requiem mass was celebrated by
| Father Ginneran assisted by Father
Fennassy.
The second little boy was Howard
Schuman, who was eight. He lived
on the third moor. For him also were
the rose crosses with inscriptions
given BIZ little boys and girls who
had known him. They sent. too. a
Chair picked out in roses on its
back. The children were permitted
to take a last look at him, and after
ward virtually the same procession
proceeded to St. Ambrose's for a sec
ond requiem mass. Jimmie and How
ard had attended the same school
and the same classes. The pail
bearers for Howard were Johnnie
Reilly, Tommy Crane. Johnnie and
George Mcnamara, Johnnie Lyons
and Francis Ryan, his. schoolmates
failed completely TO understand It all
She was Towards three-year-old
sister Mary, who kept asking her
mother. When Is Howard going TO
wake up?"
In Roosevelt Hospital four other lit
tie boys, injured in the same accident
are lying. One, Lawrence McCullum
five, has fractured skull and cannot
live, Cornelius Wylie, Jimmie's broth.
er. has both arms broken. Jimmie
McCullum has broken ribs and shout
der and Patrick Gum has a possible
fracture OF the skull.
Howard Schuman's father said to-
day to an Evening World reporter
that Eleventh Avenue had become a
deadly place for children.
1T is an outrage" he said. thai
motor cars should speed the way
they do in Eleventh and Tenth Ave
nues. Especially in Eleventh Avenue
there should be motorcycle policemen
and traffic men at the important cross
ings, or there Is sure to be another
accident such as killed my boy. Mo-
tor car demonstrators use Eleventh
Avenue to show the speed OF their
cars"