The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-22
To Pay Last Tribute to Mem
Ory of VIM. j. GaynOr.
Rain DID NOT KEEP Them BACK
Nearly 100000 View the Body
as 1t Lies i'm State.
Honorary Pallbearers Headed
by Former President Taft.

New York Sept. 22-The body of
Mayor Gaynor was taken at 10 o'clock
this morning from it's resting place in
City Hall to Trinity church where
Bishop Grear read over it the solemn
Episcopal service for the burial of the
dead.
A standing army of citizens, many
thousands strong-greater in number
than the throng which has gazed on the
body it lay in state-blackened the
sidewalk 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 low
cortege started and the march to the
church was under an overcast sky from
which the sun shone fitfully through
riffs in the clouds.
Heading the throng of marchers was
a single line of eight mounted police.
Behind them came, in the order named,
the police band, playing the measured
strains of the Dead March, a regiment
of mounted police, twelve abreast, and
another regiment of police on foot in
lines that stretched across Broadway
from club to curb.
With the official flag of the mayor
draped over its head, the coffin lay, ten
feet above the roadway upon a cata-
falque whose sombre folds of crepe
were unrelieved by color. A great
wreath of white chrysanthemums lay
on the right of the casket, another
wreath of orchids and ferns lay on the
left and a third rested at the dead
mayors feet.
Sixteen coal black horses, heavy with
black trappings. flanked on the right
by a single file of police, on the left by
fremen, drew the catafalque through
the street. AS the coffin passed be-
tween the two walls of spectators, held
to the club by an unbroken line of po-
lice, every man barred his head and only
the blue capped patrolmen remained
covered. OF these there were 5000 in
the line of march or on duty along
the way of the funeral train.
Number Is Limited.
The twelve honorary pail bearers
headed by VIM H. Taft marched six
on each side of the coffin. Behind them
came official committees of the city,
two companies of City Hall policemen
who had come in daily contact with the
mayor during his lifetime-and the long
train of organizations and individuals
chosen from the many who applied for
places in the funeral procession. More
than $4,000 had wanted to be in line
but in accord with Mrs. Gaynor's
wishes for as simple services and lit
tie display as possible. less than half
the number We're permitted to partici-
pate.
So silent stood the throngs of specta-
tors that the tolling of the bell in the
tower of Trinity could be heard at the
City Hall when the cortege started.
Tens of thousands stood silent about
the church during the services. The
seating capacity of $50 was insufficient
to provide for even small fraction of
the crowd that sought admittance. An
overflow meeting was held in st. Paul's
church, half a dozen blocks away.
After halting at the church while the
body was taken from the catafalque to
the chance1 on the shoulders of six fire
men and six policemen, the funeral
train marched to the Battery turning
back and standing till the conclusion
of the church services. Then the march
was resumed to Greenwood cemetery in
Brooklyn.
The city's industries marked time
during the funeral services. The mu-
nicipal departments We're closed for the
day, the New York Stock Exchange
did not open till noon, the consolidated
stock exchange and several mercantile
exchanges were closed all day, a mill
lion school children participated in the
services in every public schoolhouse ,
and thousands of firms needed the re-
quest of Mayor Kline that business be
suspended for an hour.
Body Viewed by Thousands.
New York, Sept. ga moving sea
of umbrellas stretched away from the
New York city hall today as young
and old. thousands strong gathered to
play what part they might in the pub
lie funeral of VIM. J. Gaynor, late
mayor. Nearly one hundred thou |
sand viewed the body as it lay in
state last night, braving the rain for
hours in slow moving line.
The rain had not ceased at day
break, though it lesSened to a drizzle
at times as the morning wore on. The
stretch of Broadway leading south i
from the city hall to Trinity was early |
manned by police in preparation for /
the body's passing before II O'Clock.
Admission to the church was by
card only The clergymen selected (
20 officiate were the Rev. VIM. t. |
Manning, rector of Trinity. Bishop r.
R. Grear and Bishop c. S. Burch.
After the services the funeral pro-
ceSSion was to move slowly over /
Brooklyn bridge and thence to Green |
wood cemetery, Brooklyn for inter- !
uent.
Ex-President Taft. one of the hon
orary pail bearers arrived from New /
Haven at an early hour
The catafalque was built on the
order of a pageant car, 2 feet long, /
feet wide and feet high. The
body of the catafalque was made of /
heavy oak draped in black.
Order of the Procession.
The order of the procession, follow
ng the police escort was as follows: /
The catafalque with the honorory
pail bearers, former President VIM.
Il. Taft, Robert Adamson, Police Com /
missioner Rhinelander Waldo, Jacob |
D. Schiff, Herman Ridder, James
Creelman, Mayor Kline, r. A. C.
Smith, Dock Commissioner A. r. Wat
son, Justice Keogh, John d. Grim |
Minis and Edwin NJ. Groute; Lieut.. |
VIM. Kennel and the body bearers;
he board of estimate and apportion-I
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