The Sentinel=record., 1913-09-21
BODY IS LANDED AND LIES IN STATE IN CITY WHOSE EXEC
 UTIVE HE WAS IN LIFE.
FUNERAL SERVICES PLANNED
Remains Are Taken to His Home in Brooklyn Where Thousands Call to Pay a Tribute to the Dead City Ex- ecutive.

New York. Sept 20.--In the TO.
 tunda of the city hall, on the scene of his years of labor for the munich i pality whose exc ltive he was, the body of William l. Gaynor lies in state tonight, his coffin draped in the white silken folds of the mayors of fiCial flag and watched over by a guard Of honor from the city's police and firemen
 The mayors body. landed here yes. ierday from the liner Lusitania and taken 70 his late home in Brooklyn, where private funeral services were held this afternoon, was brought this ] evening through a drizzling rain to the city nall, from the steps of which less than three weeks ago he ac- cepted a peoples nomination for re- election to the mayoralty.
 Thousands gathered on that occa- sion to attest their confidence in his worth to the city as man and mayor Tens of thousands crowded about the edifice and it's approaches +onight
 and stood mute. heads barred and bowed, paying silent tribute as his I body was borne into the building. Tomorrow at o'clock the doors of ! the city hall will be opened and from
 that hour until sunset or later two separa e lines of citizens will have opportunit yto pass from the plaza in front of the building past the coffin 1 on it's bier in the y-draped
 rotunda and on out through the north entrance after gazing on the dead mayors features. On Monday the
 public funeral will be held in old l Trinity church.
 The private services in the Gaynor home were held two hours before the | body was brought to Manhattan | The little gathering there included only immediate members of the fam | fly and few close friends. The service brief and simple, was read ! by the Rev Frank w. Page of Gull pepper, Va. formerly pastor of St Johns Protestant Episcopal church 1 in Brooklyn, of which Mayor Gaynor was a communlcant.
 The clergyman's tribute was per sonal and intimate No one knew the man Gaynor better than the speaker 1 himself, said Dr. Page, and his eulogy 1 of the late mayors character and good deeds was a heartfelt message | of consolation to the mourning fam l ily and friends. The ely had lost | lsaNr AaN nIs died, Dr. Page concluded. and later 1 it's people probably would realze this and do in his memory what the peo- ple of Cleveland had done in Tom | Johnson s-erect a monument to him. Promptly at o'clock 200 mounted policemen stood at attention outside
 as the coffin containing the body of | the mayor was carried from the house by firemen and policemen and placed in the hearse, while dppart- mental heads and members of the board of estimate. acting as escort,
 stood with barred heads. The funeral
 cortege then made it's slow way to
 New York across the Brooklyn
 bridge.
 At least 50.0O0 persons stood un- covered in the uri2zling rain as the solemn procession, headed by mount ed police. marched to the city hall. Eight automobiles following the
 hearse carried members of the board of estimate, Mayor Adolph Kline, Robert Adamson, the late mayor s
 secretary; R. A. Smith, commissioner of docks and ferries, and Police Com missioner Waldo. No member of the mayors family accompanied the
 body
 All during the day vehicles drove lup to the Gaynor home with floral offerings and # was necessary to em-
 ploy two autos to carry the flowers when the processio nstarted Con-
 spicuous among the tributes was
 wreath of white roses four feet in
 diameter sent by Colonel Theodore
 Roosevelt
 Children of the east side offered
 homage in their own way tonight to the memory of the man .hey had
 recognized as always their friend
 when nearly 800 pupils from schools in the district. their ages ranging
 from s to IS years, marched through
 the misty rain from Hamilton Fish
 park and were allowed to pass
 through the city hall where The mayors coffin rested
 Their clothes dripping with water
 they walked all the way without pro tection, marching to the strains oi Nearer My God to Thee" played by boy scout fife and drum corps. | l took just eight minutes for them tt pass through the hail One of then laid on the coffin small bouquet oi . asters, and through the night il