Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-09-19
MAYOR CAYNOR
DIES At SEA
New York Executive Stricken
With Heart Disease.
SON SEES FATHER DIE
Following His Reformation by Great
Town Meeting of Citizens He Sailed
For Europe In Search Of Hsaith.

iOWTl mCcliHS VI Sili<S'S 10 >~''>~
For Europe In Search Of Health.
Mayor William ]. Gaynor die! on the
steamer Baltic in mid-oceGa IT
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. ac>ord-
ing to dispatch received In New
York from Rufus W. Gaynor, his son.
News OF his death we received in
message sent by wireless and cable
to Robert Adamson, his secretary, by
Rufus Gaynor who sailed with hls
father. The message read as follows:
Father died Wednesday at l o'clock
due to heart fatigue. Notify mother"
Mayor Gaynor sailed from New York
! fast failing man on the morning OF
September 4. An hour before he sail
ed only one man. his secretary, knew
oil his plans outside Of members OF Ills
immediate family.
The Mayors announced pu:pose was
q brief vacation on the ocesn Hs Ut
that the tonic effect OF the ga; :
would restore him to some mt<.nre
to health. Tae Baltic was - u
Queenstown about 4. NJ. Fridsy. 40
expected to sail for New York r. II
Liverpool September IS and to res IL
New York week later.
Word came from London that MAYOR
Gaynor's body would be sent to New
York on board the Cunard line steam
er Lusitania, which sails from Liver
pool on Saturday.
The mayr died as ths Baltic was
nearing the other side. The news OF
his death was sent by wireless to
Crookhaven b. Rufus Gaynor and re-
layed from Croollhaven to New York
By cable.
The mayors secretary received the
cablesram. announcing the Mayors
death, while he was at his home In
Brooklyn. Mr.. Adamson notified Mrs.
Gaynor at the mayors country home,
at st James, and then endeavored to
reach by telephone Ardolph L. Kline,
the acting Mayor, who will be New
York's chief executive until tho in
auguration OF Mayor Gaynor's sue
cessor, to be elected in November. In
this he was unsuccessful
Mrs. Gaynor, with one OF her un-
married daughters Is at st. James.
The other two unmarried daughters
are at boarding shcool up the Hudson.
The mayors other son is at the may
or's Brooklyn home. The mayor had
two married daughters, Mrs. ". Sew
ard Webb and Mrs. Harry X. V!ngut.
Mayor Gaynor left New York at a
time when the city was soothing IN
one of the strangest municipal politi-
cal campaigns in its history. Tie day
before his departure he was notified
on the city hall steps by representa-
tives OF the independent political or
gan!zations that they had chosen him
their standard bearer in the mayoralty
campaign. The throng that crowded
city hall park assembled to hear him
accept. He had prepared speech Of
acceptance but was SO weak that he.
was unable to deliver 1t and his secre-
tary read 1t for him, the mayor stand
ing beside him.
Before the mayor sailed his secre-
tary issued a statement denying re-
ports Of the mayors serious illness.
The recent attack Of the old throat
trouble due to the wound inflicted on
him on August 9, 1910 by James J.
Gallagher just as he was about to
leave ,or his brief vacation in Europe,
had entirely disappeared according to
Mr.. Adamson and the mayor expected
to return and enter the campaign with
! his Id time vigor. The mayor him.
self just before leaving, spoke OF his
condition as follows:
, Il have been nearly four years may
or and have not yet had any vacation.
| suppose almost everybody Will con-
cede that have one now. have been
laid up few days with one OF the
sharp attacks | occasionally have
from my mishap Of few years ago,
but am now over it. and hepe never
shall have another"
Ee was expected to attack Tam
many Hall sharply, politicalIy,as soon
as he returned to the city. Before his
departure he issued q characteristic
statement, levelled at Tanmany Hall
leaders and other political opponents
in which he referred to them as mis-
erable scamps" and asserted that they
were seeking his moral association"
Mayor Gaynor's sudden death COM
pletely overturns the municipal DO
litical situation. 1t removes from the
field a candidate for mayor who was
expected TO cut heavily into the vote
Of the fusion nominee, John Purrey
Mitchell, and leaves only the tickets
nominated by the Democrats and the
Fusionists. The forme. Is headed by
Edward e. Mccall former chairman
of the Public Service Commission Of
this district.
Mayor Gaynor was placed at the
head of the Independent ticket after
Tammany Hall has refused him a re.
nomination. He was to lead those who
opposed the reular Democratic orsani-
zatlon and yet were unwilling to join
the fusion of Republicans and Pro-
gressives. His standard was the
shovel, reminding vote,s Of his efforts
to hasten the building OF the new sub.
ways. The Mayor also said it was
emblematic of his intention to Clean