The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-09-24
GAYN0R'S BODY ARRIVES.
CAME IN ON CITY'S BOAT AND
WAS TAKEN IN STATE TO
FORMER RESI-
DENCE.
Private Funeral was Held at Resi-
dcnce Saturday; Public Funeral at
Trinity Church MOnday-BOdy
Wrapped In American Flag.

New York, Sept. 19.-The body of
William j. Gaynor, late mayor of New
York, who died at sea September TO-
today lay in the privacy of his Brook
lyn home.
In drizzling rain it was lowered at
4 o'clock this morning from the high
decks of the great ocean liner Lusi-
tania to the city's boat Correction.
Through a mist that lay heavy over
the harbOr the Correction steamed
to Pier A at the Battery. There
a picked squad of 100 police
men. who had stood all night in the
rain, formed it's escort to Brooklyn.
The funeral ship glided into the
harbor and came to anchor at quar-
antine at 100 | this morning, the
United States flag at her stern droop-
ing at half mast. A dozen stalwart
sailors carried the body in it's heavy
lead casket from the mortuary chapel
to the deck.
The carpet Of flowers under which
1t lay was removed and only the large
United States flag placed over the
casket at Liverpool covered it as a
MINDLESS lowered it slowly rs feet
down an inclined plane to the deck OF
the Correction.
Aboard the smaller boat the body
was taken to heavy draped cata-
falque in the centre Of the upper
deck, on which rested q coffin The
body was placed in the coffin and the
lid closed; wreath and a branch of
palms were placed above 1t. The Cor
rection cast off and dropped anchor a
short distance away, awaiting the
coming of day.
The black mist had changed to gray
when the engines began to throb and
she started on her short journey to
the Battery. The rain had ceased.
1t was full day when the Correction
came to rest In her slip. Eight six
foot pallbearcrs. four in the uniform
CT the fire department and four in the
uniform OF police, each man with a
bit Of crepe on his sleeve, lifted the
casket to his shoulders and bore it
on the gangplank to the hearse.
The long wait of the squad of
mounted police sent to the pier at 8
o'clock last night came to an end
and they then led the funeral train
through the deserted streets. The
funeral route lay through lower
Broadway and past the city hall to
Brooklyn bridge. Over this bridge
which the mayor had SO often trod
on his way to and from his home,
the funeral party went with measured
tread.
1t was after o'clock when they
reached the late mayors home. There
the body was taken to q large room.
The committee appointed by the city
to receive it withdrew; the hundred
policemen clattered back through the
streets to their station houses, and
the body was left with only the fam
lily around it.
1t will remain there until tomor-
row night. Private funeral services
will be held there tomorrow afternoon
and at their conclusion the body will
be taken to the city hall, where il,
VIII lie in state until Monday morn.
ing when funeral services will be held
in Trinity church.
With the committee on funeral ar
rangements that went down the har-
Dor aboard the Correction were Nor
man Gaynor, the mayors son, and
Harry Vinget, his son-in-law, repre-
senting the family. No other member
of the Gaynor household was aboard.
1T was Mrs. Gaynor's wish that as
little publicity as possible be attached
to the landing OF the body. TO facili-
tate this the spot at which the body
would land was not made public in
advance. With the exception Of the
mounted police less than 100 persons
witnessed the transfer from the Cor
rectiOn to the hearse.
The II honorary pallbearers, head
ed by William III. Taft, formed two
lines through which the casket passed
at the GaynOr home. For three blocks
around the house there was stretched
during the night a Gordon of police
To Keep away the curious The lines
were still drawn today.
Rufus w. Gaynor, the moyor's son,
who was with the mayor when he
died looked Carcworn and aged. lie
was at the point of collapse when he
reached home and had to be assisted
mp the steps \ physician was called
To attend him ana the mayors widow,
bOtfl OF WnOm were SUFFERING from