New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-23
]. v. GATES'S BODY HERE
Public Services for FinanCier viii
Be Held in Plaza Hotel.

The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse ar
rived here yesterday with the body Of
John W Gates on board. Charles o. Gates.
the financiers son. Mrs John W. Gates.
Miss Florence Hopwood Charles Gatess
fiancee and Mrs Frank W HopwoOd Miss
Hopwood's mother, accompanied the body
from Paris Harry 5. Black, of New York,
was also of the party.
MY father made "a good fight for life.
said the son as the party prepared 10 leave
the pier but there was no hope-the odds
were heavily against him. Most heroic
methods were resorted to, and when my
father would regain consciousness h. would
call for his cigar and sit in bed and smoke
and talk just as # he We're in his Office
Many flags in the.city We're AT nalf mast
when the body was removed in its ma
hogany coffin from the steamship TO the
Hotel Plaza The grand ballroom Of the
Plaza will be used for the services this
morning at 10 O'Clock Two whole floors OF
the MOTEL have been engaged by friends,
who have come IN delegations from Port
Arthur and Beaumont, Tex. and from ~.
Charles. H.. Mr.. Gates birthplace. TO at
tend the funeral Chicago and other cities
Of the Middle West also Will be represented
among the mourners.
The body was placed at the south end
of the ballroom, where it lay through the
remainder Of the day. Seven hundred chairs
have been placed I'm the room. The two I'm
nnense windows have been draped heavily
In mourning Behind the coffin "a huge DlacK
frame has been erected, reaching TO the
ceiling and extending for 20 feet across the
room on which is banked flowers seat py
friends Along q second framework sur
rounding the coffin We're arranged pro
fusion Of cut flowers. also the orfcru IS Oh
friends.
The Rev. Wallace MacMullen, pastor OF
the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church will conduct the services. wnich
will he public. The musical programme VIII
ba under the direction OF Nahan Franko'
former leader of the Metropolitan opera
House orchestra Il is expected that 'He
ceremony win take three-quarters OF an
hour. after which the body will be placed
in a motor hearse and. followed 10y tHe
family and intimate friends in automonhes'
conveyed TO Woodlawn Cemetery
The honorary pallbearers viii De JohA :.
Harris. J. ; Cuuinane, Alfred clifford Ar
mold Schlaet. John a. Drake C.. III
Schwab. James Hopkins. Alvin w. hrecH,
W Ogelby. John j. Mitchell Sir Donald
Mann. r. II. Woodwork. Harry 5. Black
Edwin Hawley. c. q. Smith, Grant q.
schlev. L. H. Lapham, John A Topping
III, G. Hanna. Frank a. Vanderhp' Johh
Lambert. q. Watson French. James G..
Hutchins. Walter B. Sharp and V. C.. Hogg.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse was de-
tanned an hour in Quarantine owing 10
the illness of a steerage passenger. Among
those who suffered from the delay were
dftv-two members OF the Boston Chamber
Of commerce and their families. who were
returning from a business trip in Germany.
Port Arthur Tex, Aug. 2-Wmle me
funeral OF John W Gates is taking place IN
New York tomorrow memorial services
will be held here by the Elks lodge, the
CITY administration. Catholic and Protest
ant churches more than one thousand en-
Moves of the Texas Company, five thou
sand 10 six thousand citizens Of Port Ar
tbur and several thousand from Beaumont.
Houston. Orange. Galveston and other
Texas cities. All places Of business IN Port
Arthur will close for half a day. and all
If the flags in the city will fly at half
stan