by the choir. Among other musical numbers was a choral setting of Handel’s “Largo,” which was a favorite of Mr. Ochs. The full Emanu-El choir was directed by Lazare Saminsky, the famous Jewish composer.
Several hundred members of the New York Times staff sat in a body in a reserved section of the synagogue. Among those at the services, in addition to the widow, other members of the family and the honorary pallbearers, were Felix M. Warburg, Bernard M. Baruch, Nathan Straus Jr., Harry Guggenheim, Paul M. Warburg, John Schiff and a distinguished assembly of notables in the professions and in business.
Twelve coaches were required to carry the flowers from the temple to the cemetery. Twenty-three coaches carried mourners, which included Governor Lehman and former Governor Alfred E. Smith. A guard of city police consisting of 100 patrolmen and twenty-five mounted men escorted the cortege to the city limits where State police replaced them.
The Justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court attended the funeral in a body. The State Chamber of Commerce of which Mr. Ochs was a member since 1902 and vice-president since 1933 was represented at the temple services by an official delegation.
Mr. Ochs’ body was interred in a mausoleum he had built in the Temple Israel cemetery. The body rests in a sarcophagus constructed at his request from marble from Tennessee, the State in which he passed the early years of his career and in which he died.
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