Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-09-19
MAYOR GAYNOR OF
NEW YORK IS DEAD
Succumbs to Heart Failure
on Ocean Steamship.
The End Comes Unexpectedly and
Peacefully, With No Signs of
Fight for Life, as He Sits
in Deck Chair.

London, England. = (By wireless
from the l. N. S. correspondent aboard
the S. S. Baltic.)-Mayor William
Gaynor of New York died of heart
failure on board the Baltic at 1:07
p. m. Wednesday. The end came I'M
expectedly and very quietly and peace
fully, with no signs of fight for life.
Discovered by Son.
When discovered by his son Rufus,
who had just come down from the
boat deck to the promenade deck
where his father was seated to accom-
pany him to lunch, the mayors left
foot was still on the footrest of his
deck chair and his hands resting
easily on the chair arms.
Finding his father, as he thought,
asleep, young Gaynor shook him
gently, but soon realizing that he was
unconscious, summoned the ships
surgeon and the trained nurse ac-
companying him. Artificial respira-
tion and hypodermic injections were
resorted to- but it quickly became ap.
parent that the mayor was beyond
human aid, and the body was removed
to the mayors stateroom, where it
was embalmed under the direction of
the ships doctor and placed in a
sealed casket.
Coughed a Great Deal.
At the commencement of the voyage
Mayor Gaynor looked rather worn
and showed signs of slight nervous
ch hu nnt
paroxysms of coughing, evidently
caused by the continual itching in his
throat, which he believed to have been
caused by the bullet lodged in his
throat when the would-be assassin,
James Gallagher, shot him as he was
standing on the deck of the Kaiser
Wilhelm Der Crosse at Hoboken on
Aug 9, 1910.
After the first two days out the
mayor showed signs of recovery and
looked fairly we'll, except for certain
dullness of eye and flabbiness of
| cheek.
Kline Acting Mayor of Gotham.
New York City.-Ardolph L. Kline,
who will be acting mayor of New
| York until Jan. l next is a resi-
dent of Brooklyn and Republican
| BY virtue of his Office as acting presi
dent of the board of aldermen he took
the executive chair when Mayor Gay.
nor sailed for Europe. Mr.. Kline has
served three terms in the board of al
dermen.
Gaynor Born on Farm.
| William Jay Gaynor was born on a
farm near Whitestown, N. Y, in 1851
He had to help the family there fol
| the struggle of existence and in this
| fight he had to take time for his OWL
education. He graduated from the
Whitestown seminary, went to Boston
to teach school and afterward studied
law in the office of Ward Hunt o.
Utica, who later became a justice O.
the supreme court of New York. II
1873 young Gaynor went to Brooklyn
and became newspaper reporter
Two years later he was admitted tt
the bar. From that moment until hi
death Gaynor had lived in the midst o
continual political warfare.
To Be Buried Sept. %.
Funeral services for Mayor Gayno
will be held in Trinity church, thi
city, at IL o'clock on Monday morning
Sept. %. The services will be public
This was decided at conference Il
the office of Mayor Kline, attended b.
representatives of city department
and the Gaynor family.
When the Lusitania arrives here
Sept. 19, the body will be taken to tn
| In,
there until Saturday afternoon. The
1t will be brought to the city hal
where it will lie in state over Sunda
and until the hour for the funera
procession Monday morning.