The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-01
MAGNIFICENT FUNERAL
GAYNOR's BODY PASSES DOWN
CROWDED STREETS.
Over a Million View Cortege on Its
Way to Cemetery-Ex-President
Taft q Pallbearer.

Historic Greenwood Cemetery, the
resting place in Brooklyn Of many
famous dead, received the body Of
New York'ss late mayor, William Jay
Gaynor, at mid-afternoon Monday, af-
ter funeral services in his honor that
were without parallel in the history
Of the city. IN the presence Of the
family, the honorary pallbearers, in
cluding William Howard Taft and
city officials, among them Mayor
Kline, the flag, ,draped coffin was COM
mitted to the grave in the Gaynor
family plot. The brief EDiscopalian
service was read by the Rev. Frank
W. Page, former pastor OF St. Johns,
the church where the mayor worship
ped.
A million people, it Is estimated,
saw the funeral cortege move slowly,
first from the city hall, where thou
sands had witnessed the body lying
in state Sunday, 10 Trinity Church,
where Bishop Greer conducted the
solemn services; then back past the
City Hall across Brooklyn Bridge,
through Eighth avenue home. and on
| to the cemetery.
Upon the bridge, hung In black,
traffic did not move. City employees
stood six feet apart, heads uncovered,
| as the police-escorted catafalque pro-
ceeded into the mayors home bor-
| ough. Below, the river noises were
stilled. Not craft blew Its whistle,
not a gong was sounded. The funeral
train across the bridge and for dis
lance in Brooklyn paralleled a fov-
orite route Of the mayor, who In all
kinds OF weather was accustomed to
walk to and from City Hall.
The bell in the tower Of the Dor
ough hall in Brooklyn tolled for the
first time In many years. Numerous
church bells also sounded their meas
ured beats, Trinity's first and then In
Brooklyn. In Brooklyn public schools
turned forth their pupils, who stood
among the mourners in the streets
In the mayors own nelghborhooo
clubs and residences were draped IN
crepe, while flags futtered at half
mast.
Heading the throng Of marchers
was a single line Of eight mounted
police. Behind them came, In the
order named, the police band playing
the measured strains Of the Dead
March, a regiment Of mounted police
twelve abreast, and another regiment
of police on foot in lines that stretch
ed across Broadway from curb tc
curb. Next was the coffin.
With the official flag OF the mayor
draped over its head, the coffin lay
ten feet above the roadway, upon 6
catafalque whose sombre folds Of
crepe were unrelieved by color. A
great wreath Of white chrysanthe
NUNS lay on the right OF the casket
another wreath of orchids and ferns
lay on the left and third rested al
the dead mayors feet.
Sixteen coal black horses, heavy
with black trappings, fianked on the
right by a single file Of police and or
the left by fremen, drew the cata
falque through the street, as the
casket passed through two walls Of
spectators, held to the curb by ar
unbroken line Of police every mar
barred his head and only the blue-cap
ped patrolmen remained covered. o.
these there were 5000 in the line Of
march or on duty along the way Of
tho funeral train.
When the church services had end
ed the great masses Of flowers thai
had been in Trinity and the City Hal
we're sent to various hospitals, the
choicest among them, orchids snc
chrysanthemums, to st. Hary's the
Hoboken, N. j., institute, where Mr.
Gaynor lay after being shot doWI
three years ago.