The funeral of Maurice Bloch, leader of the Democratic minority in the Assembly and prominent young lawyer of this city, who died last Thursday morning after an operation for appendicitis at Roosevelt Hospital, was held Sunday afternoon at the Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East Eighty-seventh Street.
While about 2,000 persons, including men and women prominent in public life, representatives of numerous religious and philanthropic organizations and a delegation of members of the State Senate and Assembly, filled the sanctuary of the Free Synagogue, Rabbi Stephen Wise delivered a eulogy over the rose-blanketed coffin of the young man who had been his close friend. Dr. Gabriel Schulman, rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue, officiated at the services and also delivered a short eulogy.
Before and during the services in the temple, a crowd of several thousand persons stood in the street outside, completely filling Eighty-seventh Street from Madison to Park Avenue. A detail of 120 patrolmen, besides the regular motorcycle escort, was necessary to marshall the throng.
Speaking of Mr. Bloch’s public career, Rabbi Wise referred to him as a man of utmost promise and superlative integrity. He recalled that only six years ago he had performed the ceremony of marriage for the dead leader.
Rabbi Schulman spoke of the work Mr. Bloch had done as a trustee of the synagogue in obtaining the new home in Eighty-seventh Street three years ago. He then pronounced the farewell and benediction.
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