The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-09-22
Twenty Thousand Children,
Many Bearing Flowers.
Among MOurners.
FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY
Solemn Pageant Will Pass From
Trinity Church Over Bridge
to Brooklyn.

There were such evidences II ia pub
lie mourning for Mayor Caynor yester.
day AZ daun, simple. accurate oescrip-
ton
One can say thai Go 600 people passed
rcyerently through the City Hail and
looked upon the Mayors face, TINT they
were unmndful OF rain and tina; tie.
endured with patience and ordcrilness
such as the Mayor preached a. rul,
life the tediousncss of a .wo %
march.
one can ,ay.hat for nearly ff:een houra.
from S ococli in the morning until .0:30
p. II there was a vast triangle cf
moving columns, triangle whose &
touched Bowling Green, whose ba . was
Chambers street and whose sides were
Park Row and Broadway
Al 1880 the crowd began To- thin. BY
II 10 it had decreased so much that the
guards around city Hall Park were
withdrawn and those who waited were
admitted freely into the rotunda.
When the barriers were taken down
the policemen who had been on duty all
day got their first opportunity to pay
final tribute to the Mayor who had been
their loyal friend.
BY 80 o'clock there was no longer
a line, and at midnight, when the last
straggier had passed the bier, the doors
Of the City Hall were closed.
In the middle OF the afternoon when
! the press vas greatest, there were not
! fewer than 10000 people flowing slowly,
inches at a time, along the sides ~ the
vast inverted Y formed by the police
sentinels
The people who entered upon that
two mile march made necessary by the
simplicity and intelligence of the traffic
arrangements, were two hours passing
from Chambers street and the Brooklyn
Bridge down Park Row and the east
side of Broadway. up the west side
of Broadway from Bowling Green I,
Chambers street ana down the cas-, side
of Broadway again to the west entrance
To the City Hall plaza.
Besides those who were minded to
! gaze upon the MAYOR as he lay in state
were other thousands-a great crowd
watching "A great crowd-who pressed
| against the house walls. backed into the
side streets and moved ceaselessly in
Centre street in the nelghborhood OF
! the approach to the bridge and in
| Broadway above Chambers street.
| Not fewer than 100 600, a conservative
estimate. massed in lower Manhattan,
drawn by theft desire to express re-
spect for the Mayors memory OF by
respectful interest in an unparalleled oc-
cason. There may have been many
! more
WaidO's EstimRte 10000.
! Police Commissioner Waldo believed
! that 100000 had been admitted to the
! City Hall Police Inspector Titus es-
! timated the number that passed through
| the City Hall al 10000. The estimate
of $1,000 WAS formed by reporter for
THE SUN. who timed at frequent inter-
J walls the number that entered the City
Hall in a single minute.
! The people entered two at "A time. al
| though on the Park Row side of the
| triangle the column was often eight or
|
d half minutes after the doors OF the
! City Hall were opened at S:lj \. NJ $50
persons stepped over the threshold.
| That. however. was an average which
| did not continue. At $3.50 a. NJ the
people We're entering 70 to the minute.
! As the crowds increased the procession
! slowed gradually AT . A. NJ 20 per-
sons We're the minutes count
Showers. little delays occasionally by
! the movement of trolley cars or the
manpuvring of large forces of foot and
mounted policemen reduced the min.
utes toll sometimes to 52 or ~ or 56.
but careful observation indicated that
20 minute was as close an aoproXima-
ton for the whole day as could he ar
rived at. This meant that 4,2OO were
| entering the city Hall every hour,
or 90 900 in 14ia hours, or very nearly
$1,000 for the sixteen hours that the
City Hall was open.
Without doubt. there was greater
outpourns Of citizens to honor the
memory of "A great man than was ever
| known in the history Of New York.
Men who remembered the day in 1865
when the body Of Abraham Lincoln lay
In state in the city Hall thought that
the crowds of yesterday were greater
by a third than appeared to honor the
martyred President.
Was Greatest Outp0nrimE.
II was a greater assemblage than was
remembered by those who recalled tho
day Gen. Grants body lay in the City
Hall, and other occasions. such as the
manifestations Of public respect tor
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