The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-08
EAST SIDE PAYS
TRIBUTEATBIER
OF YOUNG WIFE
Innocent Victim of Shot
From Detectives Gun
Is Paid Honors.
TO BE BURIED TO-DAY
Costly Funeral Arranged
With Scores of Floral
Pieces and Carriages.
JAMES STREET M0URNS
Fund Of 500 Collected by
Mayor Vanella and Friends
for Mrs. Bifulco.
TO BE BURIED TO-DAY
JAMES STREET MOURNS

In a white hearse adorned with kneel-
ing angels and drawn by six white
horses the body Of Doiarato Bifulco will
leave 50 James street this morning. An
open carriage laden with a hundred
floral pieces and many punches OF lilies
and roses will follow. In the next car
riage win ride Frank Bifulco. husband Of
Dolarato. and his mother. and Franks
mother will carry Dan Bifulco, twenty
five days old and son OF Dolarato and
Frank. In the wake OF the family car
rage will roll thirty more carriages
filled with sympathetic folks. led by no
less n parsonage than Hon" Robert
Vanella, undertaken and Mayor Of
James street"
Any one ignorant Of the circumstances
might have Joined the throng that shut
fled through the dark halls Of "a James
street yesterday and decided that per-
son far more important in the worlds
affairs than Dolarato Bifulco was being
mourned. You almost had TO fight your
way up 10 the third floor rear and
through the two miniature rooms to see
lavender and white coffin, and last night
two policemen from the Oak street sta
ton had TO be called upon to keep the
crowd moving. You may take the word
Of Mayor" Vanella that not in five
years has there been any finer funeral
south of Delaney street and east OF
Park Row.
Shot by Accident.
Last Thursday a lad snatched pack
age from a wagon trundling through
Oliver street. between Henry and Mad
ison. Detective Kenny. one OF Capt
Kinsler's men UP in the First Branch
Detective Bureau. chased the youth and
fired two shots after him. Dolarato
Bifulco was standing almost opposite
Gov. Smiths home In Oliver street. The
second shot tore through her abdomn.
She died an hour later in the Volunteer
Hospital
Then James street recalled that al
most as soon as America declared war
upon Germany Frank Bifulco. then only
% and trying to acquire sufficient money
to marry Dolarato, enlisted in the
United States Army. Dolarato, no less
enthusiastic. went about TO the various
canteens and huts where soldiers and
sailors were entertained by the X of C..
and the Red Cross She volunteered TO
do anything she was capable of-wash-
ing dishes. waiting on tables. scrubbing
floors. anything.
Frank came back from France intact
and wearing "A couple of decorations He
lost no time getting to work. and in less
than month after being demobilized was
employed In an Oak street bakery. where
lie still reports every morning. Frank
and Dolarato were married in splendid
style. and less than a month ago the
baby appeared.
s"MayOr" starts Funeral Fund.
Nobody was sorrer than Capt. Kinsler
and Detective Kenny Kinsler suggested
that he and Kenny start a fund and that
policemen and anybody else on the East
Side might contribute. Mayor" Va
nella told James street about Il. He
started the movement by saying that HIS
services as undertaken were donated In
a day 5000 was contributed and no do
nation was greater than a dollar. Yes
terday the Mayor of James street an
nounced that the fund amounted to al
most $500
TITS TO be put in the Bowery Savings
Bank said Mayor Vanella, "as a
trust fund for the baby I am very
proud of my people OF James street.
They love each other and are good clti-
zens. And so long az we Americans love
each other we shall be all good citizens
and America will continue 20 prospr."