Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-09-17

liner Baltic, upon winch Mayor Gay
nor died, is not due here until late
tonight or tomorrow morning. She
reached Queenstown. Ireland, today.
New York, Sept 12.-William j.
Gaynor, mayor of New York city and
independent nominee for reelection,
died suddenly of heart failure on
board the White Star liner Baltic at
one o'clock Wednesday afternoon
while en- route for Liverpool, Eng
land, it was announced in radio tele-
gram received here from r. w. Gay
nor. son of the mayor. who was a
travelling companion of his father.
The body of Mayor Gaynor will be
transferred to the homeward bound
steamer Cedric, which is expected to
reach this port one week from to-
day.
Although Mayor Gaynor showed ex-
treme physical exhaustion when he
sailed for short vacation on Sep
TENDER 4. the news of his sudden
death caused a great shock to his
family, friends and political foes.
Murphy Shocked Over Death.
When Tammany leader Charles f.
Murphy, whom Mayor Gaynor two
weeks ago denounced as a political
crook, heard of the city executives
death, he said:
Il am very much shocked. know
run down in health. All | cay say is
| regret Mayor Gaynors death"
The dispatch telling of Mayor Gay
nor's death was addressed to Robert
Adamson, private secretary to the
late official, and was received at 4
a. M, bat was not opened until Mr..
Adamson reached his office in city
hall nearly six hours later.
immediately ali the flags on the mu-
nicipal buildings police courts and
fire stations were lowered to half
mast The most eminent men of the
city unite in praising the work and
I charaeter of Mayor Gaynor
Mrs. Gayuor.was notified immediate
ly of her husbands death, She was
deeply grieved, but bore up bravely.
Death fastened by Throat Trouble.
believe his death was undoubtedly
fastened by grip and throat trou-
BILE. His private physician advised
the ocean trip. 1t Is believed also
that the strenuous days just preceding
the mayors departure weakened him.
He was In O. quarrel with the newspa-
pers, beset by political enemies, and
engrossed in some of the biggest mu-
nicipal problems that ever beset the
biggest city Of the North American,
continent. He had just got through
with solution of the subway prob
lem, a gigantic question involving the
expenditure of $150,000,0O0
Too Weak to Read Acceptance.
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 representa-
tfves OF independent political organi-
cations that they had chosen him as
their standard bearer in the mayOralty
campaign A throng that crowded city
cept. He had prepared speech OF
acceptance. but was so weak that he
was unable TO deliver 1t, and his sec
rotary read 1t for him, the mayor
standing beside him Before the may
or sailed, his secretary issued state
ment denying reports OF the mayors
serious Illness
The recent attack of the old throat
trouble, due to the wound inflicted on
Aug 10. 1910, by James ]. Gallagher,
just as he was about to leave this city
fer brief vacation In Europe, had en-
tirely disappeared, according to Mr..
Adamson, and the mayor expected to
return and enter the campaign with
mis- old time vigor.
Issues a Statement on Leaving.
The mayor himself just before leav-
ing, spoke of his condition as fol-
lows:
II have been nearly four years may
or and have not yet had any vaca-
ton. | suppose almost everybody viii
l1concede that l may. have one now.
have been laid up few days with
one of the sharp attacks | occasion
ally have from my mishap of few
years ago, but I am now over it and
hope | never shall have another"
Mayor Gaynor was expected TO at
tack Tammany hall sharply, political
iy, as soon as he returned to the city.
Before his departure he issued char
acteristic statement. leveled at Tam
many hall leaders and other political
opponents, in which he referred to
them as miserable scamps, and as
serted that they were seeking his
moral assassination"
The bullet that lodged in his throat
three years ago had never been re-
! moved. It was the mayors plan to
remain abroad less than week. He
sxpsctsd to sail FOR New York from