Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-22
CITY MOURNS AS
MAYOR GAYNOR IS
BORNE TO GRAVE
Many of Nations Most Distin-
guished Persons in Solemn
Procession.
TWO BISHOPS ASSIST
IN SERVICES AT TRINITY
One Hundred Thousand in Rain
All Night to Get Last
Look.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Attended by
representatives of all classes, the fu-
neral of Mayor William J. Gaynor
was held here today The body was
taken from the City Hail. where It
was viewed by many thousands since
Saturday last religious services be-
ing held in Trinity Church. Bishop
David III. Greer of the Episcopal
Church. ofaciated. The interment
took place in Greenwood Cemetery
A standing army of citizens, many
thousands strong, greater in number
than the throng which had gazed on
the body as it lay in state yesterday.
hlackened the sidewalk from curb to
building line, as the funeral train
swept along the ten blocks of lower
Broadway from the City Hall to the
church.
The low lying clouds lifted shortly
before the long cortege started. and
the march to the church was under an
overcast sky from which the sun
shone fitfully through riffs in the
clouds.
Heading the throng of marchers
was a single line of eight mounted
police. Behind them came. In the
the measured strains of the dead
march. a regiment of mounted po-
lice. twelve abreast. and another regi-
ment of police on foot in lines that
stretched across Broadway from
curb to curb Next was the coffin.
Drawn by Sixteen CoaI-BInck Horses.
With the official flag of the mayor
draped over its head. the coffin lay,
ten feet above the roadway upon a
catafalque, whose sombre folds of
crepe were unrelieved by color A
great wreath of white chrysantho-
NUNS lay on the right of the casket,
another wreath of orchids and ferns
lay on the left. and a third rested
at the dead mayors feet. Sixteen
coal-black horses. heavy with black
trappings. hanked on the right by a
single file of police, on the left by
hremen. drew the catafalque through
the streets.
AS the coffin passed between the
two walls of spectators, held to the
curb by an unbroken line of police,
every man barred his head and only
the blue e-capped patrolmen remained
covered. OF these there were 5000 in.
the line of march on duty along th.
way of the funeral train.
z The twelve honorary pall-bearers,
beaded by William H. Taft, marched
six on each side of the coffin. Behind
them came officials of the city two
companies of the City Hall police,
men who had come in daily contact
with the mayor during his lifetime
and the long train of organizations
and individuals chosen from the many
who applied for places in the funeral
train.
More than $4,000 had wanted to be
in line, but in accord with Mrs Gay.
nor's wishes for as simple services
and little display as possible, less
than half the number were permitted
to participate.
So silent stood the throngs of spec
tators that the tolling of the bell in
the tower of Trinity could be heard
at the City Hall when the cortege
started.
The order of the procession fol-
lowing the police escort was as fol-
lows:
The catafalque. with the honorary
pail bearers, former President
Taft, Robert Adamson, Police
Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo,
Jacob H. Schiff. Herman Ridder,
James Creelman, Mayor Kline, r. A.
c. Smith, dock commissioner; A. r.
Watson, Justice Keogh, John D. Grim
MINIS and Edward NJ. Grout, Lieuten-
ant William Kennel and the body
bearers; the Board of Estimate and
Apportionrnent, the committee from
the board of aldermen, heads of city
departments, United States senators
and committees from the Legisla-
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