The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-09-23
EMINENT MEN MARCH
Spectators in Broadway See
Leaders in Many Walks
Pass in Line.
INFERRED AT GREENWOOD
Outpouring to Honor Late
Mayor Greatest Of Kind in
History Of New York.

ulcNVIy Ol NCW 1OIAs
The funeral OF Mayor Gaynor yesterday
was one Of the great events Of this city.s
history.
II emphasized more majesticaliy. II less
appeaiingly than the public mourning Of
sunday. the respect Of not merely the city.
hut Of tha State and nation for a man
OF genius and heart.
In times past there may have been
equally impressive funerals for men Of
great works and abundant goodness, but
there was never q funeral where the ex-
precision Of respect was more general.
more significant of a whole peoples real
feeling.
ors to Mayor Gaynor men OF great sta
tion and men Of lowiy place men who
had been his bucklers and good friends
and men who had had mischief on their
lips. They who had fought with him and
received his praise and they who had
fought against him and had felt the sting
Of his anger and wit walked together
yesterday. Offering an equal respect.
united In honoring the memory Of one
who had shown his powers to . genera
tion.
New Yosk has . way of estimating In
cold figures applause for the great living
and respect for the great dead. II 10 .
custom that has grown up In . city that
makes . god Of bigness Joy or grief 10
measured BY the Thousands or the tens Of
Thousands that are 10 moved.
$4,000 saw Funssal Pageant.
Let Il bs written therefore that In Man
haitian $780, ~ people lay down their week
10 take part IN the last oerssnsaiss ~ to
Ease with uncoversd heads and in utmost
reverence at the passing Of the conn and
Cortege.
In Brooklyn 100000 attended the pass.
ing Of the procession. To say $4,000 II
TO undsrmark the truth II anything. It
IL the estimate Of = reporters experience.
supplemented by the observations Of vet
eran masters in the handling Of crowds.
That Ia IL per cent Of the population
cf Manhattan. II II Z per cent. Of all
the people in ne greater city.
In all likelihood there were never such
masses solidified in the restricted spaces
Of lower Manhattan. There have been
occasionally crowds that stasgered COM
putation. There was such q crowd when
Theodore Roosevelt. returning from
Africa, found . nation struggling In the
nations gateway. There was such a crowd
when Cardinal Farley found all religious
denominations delighting In his new emf.
nence. But these assembiases reached for
miles northward from the Battery. There
was room and to spare for stupendous
movements. Yesterday II was quite dlRer-
ent
IMAGINE only twenty blocks Of Broad
way filed In the middle Of business
day with q crowd that would have been
notable in Q hundred such spaces.
Imagine Park Row. broad a. It ID.
choked and consested from the Brook
lyn Bridge to the Post Once.
Imagine the side streets solid with peo-
pie. Imagine 10000 alone gathered In
City Hall Park. Imagine what must
have been the appearance Of the giant
buildings .lHhose roofs and windows were
checksred and dotted with onlookers.
And finally imagine this vast gather
ing 90 patient and restrained and well
ordered that . funeral procession OF To-.
900 was able to move south and move
north on exact schedule and In true
alignment. 40 smoothly and easily indeed
as II all Manhattan had been away on a
holiday.
There were perils in yesterdays prob
lem of vast crowds In small spaces.
Many things might have happNed-
thinSD that would have made an ugly
story. That there were no accidents.
no rushes or crushes. nothing unseemly