Masons Honor Goldberg with Special Rites

Several hundred representative Jews and non-Jews paid tribute to the memory of Harry M. Goldberg at funeral services held at his home, 50 Riverside drive, yesterday.

The president of the East Side Chamber of Commerce and former Deputy Attorney General of New York died suddenly at his home Wednesday evening at the age of sixty-two. Burial took place at Bayside Cemetery, Queens.

Rabbi Aaron Eisemann of Hebrew Tabernacle officiated at the services. Members of Darcy Lodge 187 of the Masons performed the Masonic funeral rites for Goldberg, who was a member of the organization. Maximilian Zipher, prominent architect and nephew of the deceased, was chaplain of the Masonic ceremonies.

Rabbi Eisemann eulogized Goldberg as one devoted to the doing of great deeds for others who needed his help. His work and his private life will be an inspiration to all those who have known him, the rabbi said.

Among those present at the funeral services and burial were Orrin C. Lester, chairman of the board of directors of the East Side Chamber of Commerce; Jeremiah Levy, vice-president, and Joseph Platsker, secretary; Alderman David Mahoney, and James Dooley, Assemblyman of the First District, Manhattan; Ignatz Reich, president of the Greater New York Taxpayers Association, and Frank E. Resen of the Grand Street Boys.

Present also were large groups representing the East Side Chamber of Commerce, the Masons, the Greater New York Taxpayers Association of New York and the Manhattan Washington Lodge of B’nai B’rith.

Mr. Goldberg was well known on the East Side where he was born. For many years he was interested in the developments of this section of New York. Long a member of the East Side Chamber of Commerce, he was elected to the presidency of the body January 1, 1933. Before that, he was vice-president and chairman of the Chamber’s committee on better public markets. Only last week he headed a committee from the Chamber which visited Governor Lehman in Albany to consider the problem of housing conditions on the lower East Eide. He pleaded with the Governor that the section should not be eliminated from the city’s low-cost housing program.

Although a property owner for many years, his interest in the East Side during the last twenty-five years were wide and altruistic. One of the reforms he advocated was elimination of cellar occupancy by the poor of the East Side.

In 1910 he took an active interest in tenement house reform and was a member of the commission that proposed elimination of rear-house tenements and reorganization of the old Tenement House Department.

He was graduated from the Law School of New York University in 1893 and was admitted to Supreme Court practice in 1899. He also studied at the School of Political Sciences at Columbia University, and for many years was a trustee of the College Settlement. He was a Deputy Attorney General under Morton S. Lewis.