Funeral services will be held today for the late Emanuel Watson Bloomingdale, vice-chairman of the New York Bridge and Tunnel Commission, prominent merchant and welfare worker, who died Monday morning. He was in his seventy-sixth year.
Mr. Bloomingdale, who was born in Rome, N. Y., became identified with Bloomingdale’s Department Store in 1883. He was a trustee of the Hudson Tercentenary Commission of Seventy in 1894, a trustee of the McKinley National Memorial Association and Treasurer of the Election Laws Improvement Association. He also served as Republican Presidential Elector in 1900, in the Electoral College which made William McKinley President.
In 1905 he decided to give up his interest in the department store to devote his full time to the practice of law and his many philanthropic and public service interests. In 1906 he was appointed a member of the Bridge and Tunnel Commission, and when a similar New Jersey commission was formed for the building of the Holland Tunnel be became a member of the Joint group.
During the past seven years Mr. Bloomingdale devoted most of his time to the construction and planning of the Holland Tunnel. At the time of his death he was Acting Chairman of the Bridge and Tunnel Commission in the absence of Gen. George R. Dyer.
He had also served several years as President of the Board of Managers of Juvenile Delinquents, under whose anspices the House of Refuge is conducted in this city. He held that office until his death.
The funeral services will be held at eleven o’clock this morning in the Chapel of Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn.
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