Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-22
euBLic FUNERAL At
TRINITY CHURCH TODAY
Massivs catalaqus Built Similar %
Pageant ca-Fermsr President TAFT
Among Honorary Pail esarsrs-
Thousands Stand In Rain for Hours
for Funeral Procession TO Pass.

funeral Of tho late Mayor Gaynor.
Nearly 100000 viewed tho body last
night, Drawing the rain for hours in q
slow moving line.
The rain had not ceased at daybreak.
The stretch Of Broadway leading south
from the city hall to Trinity church
was early manned by police in prepa-
ration for the body's passing shortly
before IL o'clock.
Admission to the church was by card
only. The clergymen selected 70 Of
fciate were David H. Greer and Bishop
C. s. Burch.
After the service the funeral process
sion was to move over Brooklyn bridge
and thence to Greenlawn cemetery,
Brooklyn, for interment.
Ex-President Taft. one Of the hon.
orary pallbearers. arrived from New
Haven at an early hour.
catafaique Like Pageant Car.
The catafalque was built on the or
der Of pageant car. twelve feet long.
eight feet wide. and seven feet high.
The body OF the catafalque was made
OF heavy oak draped in black.
The order Of the procession follow
ing the police escort was as follows:
The catafalque with the honorary pan-
bearers, former President William IA.
Taft, Robert Adamson, Police Commis .
sioner Rhinelander Waldo. Jacob III.
Schid, Herman Ridder, James Creel-
man, Mayor Kline. r. A. G. Smith, dock
commissioners. u. r. Watson. Justice
KeoSh. John D. Crimmina and Edward
n. 0rout: Lieut.. william Kennel ana
the body bearers: the board Of esti-
mate and superintendent: the commit
tee from the board OF aldermen: heads
Of city departments: United States
slature; the Justices of the supreme
court: judges Of lesser courts; city
magistrates and the public service
commissioners; Maj. Gen. Thomas Fl.
Barry, u. s. A., commanding the east
ern department, and his staff; Rear
Admiral Cameron Winslow, U. S. n.
and his staff, and Capt. Albert Gleaves.
commandment of the United States navy
yard, and staff; commanding officers
and STATS of the National Guard Of
the state of New York, consular repre-
sentatives; representative Of the lord
mayor of Liverpool. and delegation of
mayors from cities In New York state;
citizens committee headed by Seth
Low; delegations Of almost 100 organ
izations, clubs and societies: repre-
sentatives Of city departments and
borough and county officers.
Thousands View Body Sunday.
In double line that never seemed to
decrease In length as the day wore on,
thousands OF persons Sunday filed thru
the iower-filled rotunda Of the city hall
and past the body Of William ]. Gay
nor lying In state. Unmindful Of a
heavy downpour Of rain In the morn
ing, frequent showers during the after
noon and threatening skies last night,
the people came in q continuous stream
silently to find places in the long. slow
moving procession that extended for a
half a mile along lower Broadway and
thru City Hall park to the city hall. 1t
was New York's spontaneous tribute to
its dead mayor.
About q nth Of the crowd were wo-
men and children, and many Of the lat
ter carried small wreaths or bouquets
Of flowers which they placed near the
COFFIN
Bishop orssr Reads Services.
The body of Mayor Gaynor was
taken at 10 this morning from the city
hall to Trinity church. where Bishop
Greer read over it the solemn Episco-
pal service for the burial Of the dead. .
Many thousands Of citizens blocked
the sidewalks from curb to building
line as the funeral train crept along
the ten blocks Of lower Broadway from
the city hall to the church. The low
lying clouds lifted shortly before the
long cortege started. and over the
march to the church the gun shone fit
fully. q
Heading the throng Of marchers was
single line of eight mounted police.
Behind them came the police band
playing the dead march. A regiment
OF mounted police. twelve abreast, and
another regiment Of police on foot in
lines that stretched across Broadway
from curb to curb. followed. Next was
the coffin.
with the official flag of the mayor
dfaped over. it's head the coffin lay
ten feet above the roadway on a cata-
falque whose somber folds Of crepe
were unrelieved by color. A great
wreath Of white chrysanthemums lay
ON the right Of the caslxet, another Of
orchids and ferns lay on tho left, and
third rested at the dead mayors feet.
9ixtssn oiaelss Draw caeafaique.
Sixteen coal black horses, heavy with
black trappings. ana flanked on the
light iby single file Of police. on the
eft by firemen, drew the catafalque
thru the, streets.
Al t1e ebfIin passed between the two
walls Of spectators held to the curb by
IN unbroksn line OF police. every man
sered hi0 head and only the blue