New York Trade Divisions Prepare for U. J. C. Drive

The Hotel Biltmore served the first Passover luncheon in its history last Friday to enable committee chairmen of the Trade Division of the United Jewish Campaign of New York to go through with a scheduled noonday meeting without violating the Passover dietary law. Carrying out in every detail the ritual injunctions governing the preparation of food during Passover, a special kosher Passover menu was prepared in a kitchen equipped with new utensils and served with silver and dishes used for the first time on this occasion.

Speakers at the meeting were David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign and Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

The Trade Division now being organized will constitute a key section of the drive organization, and is expected to bring in a major portion of the quota. Each of its committees will undertake an intensive canvass of factories, offices, and business houses in the particular trade or profession it represents. The various units of the Division embrace practically every field of professional and industrial activity in which Jews are engaged in New York.

50,000 ATTEND FUNERAL OF JACOB P. ADLER

The funeral of Jacob P. Adler, for almost half a century the leading exponent of the Yiddish theatre in Europe and America, was marked yesterday by a demonstration in the lower east side seldom equaled in the history of New York. Fifty thousand persons paid their last tribute to the dead actor.

Members of the immediate family included the widow, Mrs. Sarah Adler, and seven children, Irving, Luther, Jack and Charles Adler, Mrs. Frances Adler Sheingold and the Misses Julia and Stella Adler. Another daughter, Miss Celia Adler, is in Detroit and was unable to be present.

More than 100 patrolmen and a squad of twenty-four mounted police were stationed along the line of march when the procession started for the Kessler Theatre.

More than 2,000 persons crowded the auditorium and stage of Kessler’s Theatre during the services. Cantor Israel Breeh officiated. Among those who delivered eulogies were Abraham Cahn, editor of the “Jewish Daily Forward,” Louis Mann, representing the Jewish Actor’s Guild of America and others.

Following the services in Kessler’s Theatre, the cortege started down the Bowery, past the Yiddish theatres on the East Side, across the Williamsburg Bridge and out to the grave in Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Cypress Hills.

A site for a Young Men’s Hebrew Association building was purchased in Carbondale, Pa. It is planned that the new building will have a gymnasium, swimming pool, bowling alleys and a large auditorium, besides other features which are necessary in Y. M. H. A. work.