Arizona republican., 1913-09-13
Unprecedented HOnOrs Are Being Paid by Britains to the Dead Executive of the Metropolis of the United States
NEW YORK IS
 PLANNING OBSEQUIES
Services Will Be Held in Old Trinity Church on Lower Broadway, Bishop Greer Officiating Burial in Greenwood Cemetery
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH


 | LIVERPOOL, Sept. 12.-The body
 of William J. Gaynor lay in state tonight at the foot of the grand lstairway in the town hall of Liver lpooI. It was an unprecedented hon
 or that Liverpool paid the dead ex-
 ecutive of the American metropolis. Never before has anyone lain in state in the historic edifice. Covered with the stars and stripes and with the British Union jack draped over the foot, the casket rested on catafaIque brought from Westmins-
 ter abbey, London, on which has reposed the bodies of many of Eng lands most famous men. It was last
 used at the funeral of Field Marshal i Lord Wolseley at St. Paurs cathe- draI last March. The candles in the great golden candelabra from West minister abbey cast a subdued light
 from the wide stairway over the de-
 tail of picked men from the Liver pool police force, who stood guard
 all night about the catafaIque John Sutherland Harmood- Banner, 1 lord mayor of the city, who is ab- sent on his vacation, teIegraphed to
 the city of Liverpool to do every
 thing in it's power to honor the dead mayor of New York and the officials carried out their instructions to the minutest detail.
 When the steamer Baltic. aboard of which the mayor died docked this evening, the docking stage was clear ed of all persons except the holders of tickets. A great crowd assembled outside the dock gates. Soon the gang plank was run out and Horace L. Washington, United States consul. accompanied by a delegation from the White Star line. boarded the ship. In the saloon. Washington met Rufus | Gaynor, son of the mayor and ex- pressed condolences in behalf of him self and the lord mayor of Liver pool.
 Gaynor readily assented to the plans of the Liverpool civic authori-
 ties for the lying in state of his fathers body. Acting at the request of Washington, the port authoritives waived the formalities usual in land ing the dead from a vessel and the body of the mayor in a plain coffin. which was covered by an American E. the first class passengers left the Baltic. The tide was so high it was impossible for the pail bearers to carry the body from the ship and the coffin was let down from the deck through the baggage chute. Here | it was taken in charge by a London undertaken sent to Liverpool by the American embassy.
 From the dock the coffin was car
 ried to the street where it was placed in a hearse drawn by four horses, which was followed by the 1 lord mayors carriage occupied by Rufus Gaynor and American Consul Washington. The funeral cortege, escorted by a squad of mounted police, made it's way through a dense crowd of quiet people who uncovered as the hearse passed to the town hall. The hearse was followed on foot by a woman in deep black who had at her side a little girl The woman declined to give her name, but said she was a friend of Mayor Gaynor's from New 1 York.
 The secretary of the lord mayor assisted by a delegation of civic dig
 nitaries, received the body at the l town hall. When the coffin was placed on the catafalque one end was covered by q beautiful wreath of l lilies of the valley.
 1 The Cunard line tonight detailed | the superintendent of the port to | take charge of the reception of the ] body of Gaynor on board the Lusi- tania tomorrow.
 l Rufus Gaynor and the nurse, <who accompanied the mayor, will return | to New York with the body.