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Many At Funeral Of Mr. Guggenheimer. Newsboys Send Mourning Delegation to Pay Last Honors to Lifelong Friend. Dr. Silverman's Tribute. Dead Man Told Family His Greatest. Asset Was to Leave Them a Good Name—Burial in Salem Field. Randolph Guggenheimer, the lawyer and philanthropist,' who died after a short illness at his - Summer home at Elberon I last Thurbday, was buried yesterday morning, and the newsboys, whose friend he was for so long, had a delegation in the gallery at Temple Ernanu-El to do what honor they could by being there and expressing their. sorrow. He had made them glad so often that it was easy for them to be sad. His annual din-ners furnished many of them the biggest day they over . had. They came from the Newsboys' Home, in Duane Street, with which he had so much to do. But this was but one or the delega-tions at the funeral. His activities were wide, and these also were among the or-ganizations that sent delegations of mourners: The Bar Association, the Democratic Club, the Board of Education, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, the Mount Nebo Lodge of Masons,, the Tammany Society, the General Committee of Tamthany Hall, and the Southern So-ciety. Among the immediate manners of the dead man's family present were Mrs. Gug-' genheimer, his widow; Mrs. Philip Lew-' isohn, his only daughter, and his two at ns, Charles S., who was associated with him in his law firm, and Henry R., a mining expert of Denver. His half-broth-ers and legal associates, Samuel, Isaac, and Maurice Untermyer, were also pres-ent. Shortly after 10 o'clock the coffin was F brought in and placed in front of the altar. It was completely covered with smilax, lilies of the valley, and purple orchids. Behind it a great screen of many floral tributes had been placed. It re-quired several carriages to transport the flowers to the cemetery. The pallbearers were John B. McDon-aid, the tunnel contractor: ex-Justice Mor-gan J. O'Brien, William Roffman, Presi-dent John Fox of the Democratic Club, Moses Weinman, George C. Clausen, Eger-ton L. Winthrop of the Board of Educa-tion, Rheinhold Van der, Ende, the banker; Louis Marshall of the law firm of Gug-genheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, Rollin M. Morgan and E. Piepel, for many years Mr. Guggenheimer's private secretary. Others present were Jules Ehrich, Max Stein, Judge Rosenthal of Brooklyn, Judge Samuel Lachman, Dore Felbel, Miles M. O'Brien, R. A. Gushee. Samuel Schaeffer, Leo Schlessinger, G. IV. Wortz, Isaac Stern, Judge Goldfogle, Charles F. Murphy, Bird S. Coler, John B. Hasloch-L er, P. F. Donohue, Thomas F. Smith, Thomas F. McAvoy, De Witt Clinton Flannagan of Morristown. N. 34 David Robinson of the Southern Society, Eugene Bush, and John J. Quinlan. At the conclusion of the service the coffin was carried out to the hearse in front of the Temple on Fifth Avenue, and the cortege moved to Salem Field, East New York, where the body was buried I with Masonic rites. The line of carriages I extended through many blocks. " A good name is better than riches," said Dr. Joseph Silveriban, Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, who delivered the funeral I sermon. " Loving favor is more than I gold and silver. If we had not read this I from the Proverbs we would have it from the lips' of Randolph Guggenheimer. He ( told his family that a good name would be the greatest asset that he could leave them. " Of superior stuff was Randolph Gug-genheimer made. His true manhood rang clear. He was cast in a noble mold. " He was ever ready, when the rights of others were concerned, to curtail rights I properly his. He was just as ready to ask I forgiveness as to forgive. The strictest I lines of Justice were his. • "....1.4.• " He was a true man, loyal to friends, generous to nts foes. and devoted to his faintly. He was kind to the lowly and the unfortunate. This was one of the key-notes of his busy life. He was a good representative of man in the image of his Creator. In the highest sense of patriot-ism he was a true American. " Ile was not a Jew merely with the accidents of Americansm, but he was an American of Jewish faith. That is the kind of citizens we want. We want American citizens—whether of Christian, Jewish. or other faith that reason or con-science dictates. " Randolph Guggenheimer believed in the cause of political organization. He believed in politics raised to the highest point of patriotism, purity, and efficiency. He served his city, your city, as one of its noblest citizens, and exemplified the most lofty principles of manhood and citizen-ship." CHARITIES NOT FALSE. Salvation Army Officer Denies Asset% ton of R. W. Bruwire. The assertion made a week ago by Robert W. Bruwere, general agent of the , New York Society for Improving the Con-1 dition of the Poor, that nine-tenths or New York's charities are false or based on sentiment only, was flatly denied yes-terday afternoon at the West Side Y. M. C. A. Building, 31T West Fifty-seventh Street, from the same platform which Mr. Bruwere had occupied when he made the statement. Yesterday's speaker was Major Frederick Nice, M. D., who is at-tached to the headquarters staff of the Salvation Army. " Nine-tenths of our charities are not false or merely sentimental. There is much work to be done in charitable lines, I and the problem that it presents will never be solved behind roll-top desks or by organizations as such, It will be solved, however, by those who are willing to roll up their sleeves, go down into the slums and work." at New Nark Elmo Published: September 16, 1907 Copyright © The New York Times

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