The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-12
Was Taking Vacation at Sea
in Hope of Improving
Health
DEATH DUE TO
HEART FAILURE
Was Aboard The Baltic
Which Was Nearin q
Queenstown And The
News of His Death Was
Sent By Wireless To
Crookhaven And Cab1ed
To New York.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.


New York. Sept. 11.-Mayor Gaynor
died on the steamer Baltic in mid
ocean at 1 o'clock Wednesday after
noon according to cablegram received
here today from Rufus w. Gaynor, his
son.
News Of Mayor Gaynor's death was
received here in a message sent by
wireless and cable to Robert Adamson,
his secretary, by Rufus W. Gaynor, his
son, who sailed with him.
The message read as follows:
Father died Wednesday at / o'clock
due to heart failure. Notify mother"
Mayor Gaynor sailed away from New
York a fast failing man on the morn
ing of September. A. An hour before
he sailed but one man, his secretary
knew OF his plans outside of members
of his immediate family. The mayors
announced purpose was a brief vaca-
ton on the ocean. He felt that the
tonic effect of the salt air would re-
store him in some measure to health.
DUE AT QUEENSTOWN.
The Baltic was due at Queenstown
ecday. T41e mayor dfea as sf1s was
nearing the other side. The news OF
his death was sent by wireless to Cux-
haven by Rufus w. Gaynor from
Crookhaven to New York by cable.
Mayor Gaynor left New York at a
time when the city was seething in
one OF the strangest municipal politi-
cal campaigns in its history. The day
before his departure he was notified on
the city hall steps by repres entatives
of Independent political organizations
That they had chosen him as their
standard bearer in the mayoralty cam
paign. A throng that crowded City
Hall park assembled to hear him ac-
cept He had prepared a speech Of
acceptance, but was so weak that he
was unable to deliver 1T and his secre-
tary read 1t for him, the mayor stand
ing beside him.
Before the mayor sailed his secretary
issued a statement denying reports of
the mayors serious Illness
The recent attack Of old throat
trouble due to the wounds inflicted on
August 8, 1910, by James j. Gallagher
just as he was about to leave this city
for brief vacation in Europe had en-
tireiy disappeared according to Mr..
Atfarnson, and the mayor expected to
retur na.nd enter the campaign with
his old time vigor. The mayor himself
Just before leaving spoke Of his condi-
tion as follows:
nave D0Sn nSad1y TOUT years mayor
and have not yet had any vacation.
suppose almost everybody will concede
that may have one now. have been
laid up few days with one Of the
sharp attacks occasionally have from
my mishap of q few years ago. but
am now over 1t and hope never shall !
have another"
HIS OLD TROUBLE.
Lacking details of the manner OF the |
mayors death. his friends here believed |
that the heard attack spoken of in |
Fsufus Gaynor's cablegram was brought |
on by a return of the coughing fits |
that had recurred at intervals since he /
was shot.
Although the mayor had 20 PRESENT.
ment that his trip would end fatally,
he had at different times within the
last year or two told his secretary that
the violence OF these attacks were a
great strain on his heart and he feared
that at some time or other one Of them
might result seriously.
Just before he received notification
Of his nomination by the popular dem
onstration at the city hall the mayor
had been In bed off and on for about
week
Mrs. Gaynor and one OF her unmar-
He'd daughters are at their country
pace. Inc OEQST TWO unmarried
daughters are at a boarding school.
The mayors other son is at the may
1r's Brooklyn home
The mayor had two married daugh-
-ers, Mrs. W. Seward Webb and Mrs.
Harry K vingut.
The mayor was expected to attack
ramnany Hall sharply politically as
soon as he returned to the city. Be-
fore his departure he issued charac-
.eristic statement levelled at Tammany
Hall leaders and other political oppon-
ents In which he referred to them as
miserable scamps'' and asserted that
hey were seeking his moral assas-
;ination."
The bullet that lodged in his throat
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