New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-12
NEWS OF MAYORS DEATH
SENT TO CITY HALL BY SON

w men ne came up from 81. JdhiS' ~
the notification ceremonies last week
he said TO Adamson.
i've had another bad attack. but
! I'm over the hill Of it, and now l
! won't have another for at least year
The message from Rufus Gaynor an
nOuncing the Mayors death was deliN-
cred at the City Hall at \ o'clock, after
! it had been telephoned to Adamson'
The Mayors secretary hurried down
| 10 his Office. first sending word to the
| family at st. James of the cable ne had
| received. He instructed the telegraph
I bureau at Police Headuarters to notify
! Colonel Kline at his Carlton avenue
! home in Brooklyn.
/ When Adamson reached the City Hall
| he found the police had finally traced
| Colonel Kline TO the home Of his SON
! in-law in Jamaica, but the police mes
! senger arrived there just after Kline
| had started away.
! The news reached Colonel Kline
! finally when he boarded subway tram
I
1 lyn when he met Charles +, Murphy
/ the Brooklyn Republican leader. Muir
ply approached him, saying he sup
posed Colonel Kline had heard the
news. and was surprised TO learn he
/ had not. 1t was then a little after ~
o'clock in the morning. but Colohel
Kline had not noticed the newspaper
headlines on his trip TO the city.
When the acting Mayor and Mr. Ad-
amson conferred in the Mayors ONCE
/ the first plans considered included the
transfer Of the Mayors body from the
/ Baltic at Queenstown TO the Cedric out
/ later developments showed that such
transfer would be impossible. and the
final arrangements made later in the
dav. for the transfer at Liverpool to the
Lusitania will bring the body here just
/ as quickly as by the Cedric.
For hours after the receipt oil the
! first brief messages from Rufus GaNnor
details Of the Mayors death were lack
| ing hut as the Baltic drew nearer TO
Tho Irish coast wireless stations inc
story was rapidly amplihed. From the
circumstances surrounding the ocean
fra gedv il developed gradually that inc
AIavor had been apparently improved
by the voyage and that death Was lu'
| thest from his thoughts
The trained nurse who accompanied
the MAYOR had left him comfortably
.,ro.cbad ont on his deck chair from
,,.bicb he had ordered his luncneoh' nc
dock steward had been ordered by the
,ta,.or 70 serve the luncheon IN DIS
, noarbv stateroom. Rufus Gaynor hau
remained on the boat deck above "he'e
his father had been walking a'ou''
with him just a few minutes before.
Ae the details sifted in 10 the lily
t5au II appeared that the Mayor han
hoor left alone for not more than 'hrce
minutes just before his death ahd h'u
inst previously ordered the luncheo''
which he expected TO take in his state
room. .,..,
In that brief interval he was aiiackeu
with a coughing spell, according 10 the
| belief of his close friends mere WHO
have known the physical STRAIN 'ua'
those spells brought TO nm. MI
! ,damson said Yesterday, in discussing
this point. that while the Mayor mao
belittled these attacks right along ne
had noticed that lately he was APP
parently more weakened by them IMAM
he was directly after the Gallagher at
! tack. \ short time before he sdiieu
the Mayor remarked to Adamson that
these coughing attacks put terrihc
strain upon his heart.
81 have been afraid sometimes that
my heart would burst" was the way
the MAYOR put II.