Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-12

?. Esynor mayor of New York city, voyaging over sea on the steamer Bal lie in the hope of regaining his strength to enter the three -cornered municipal campaign as a candidate for reelection, died suddenly on the Bal tic as the steamer was within a few hundred miles of the Irish coast yes -erday afternoon.
 The first news of his death. flashed uy wireless and relayed by cable from Europe, reached his secretary. Robert Adamson, this morning. The mayor had succumbed to heart failure. the message said.
 Later messages from his son Rufus. who was his fathers only travelling companion. gave details which showed that the end had come with shocking suddenness-
 Message from His Son.
 Father died at L07 D. m. on We'd nesday, the 10th" said a message from rhe son received by Secretary Adam son tonight His death was due to heart failure He was seated in his deck chair al the time. and the nurse and the ships doctor were with him I found him unconscious in his chair though still alive. He died about three minutes later withou recognizing any of us. Everything possible was done but he seemed to go as a candle fickers out Am all right and am try ing 10 arrange to bring the body back on Lusi-ania, sailing from Liverpool 0u Saturday. the 13Jh-7
 Heart in Weakened Condition.
 That the mayors heart had been in a weakened condition for years was the statement tonight of physicians who treated him at the time he was shot in the neck and almost done to death by an insane discharged eLoplOye of the city in August 1910- They would not declare their belief that the wound inflicted by the assassin's bul- d C h. r1--r- but did affirm that his general resist luce had been iessened thereby to a verE great extent
 ublic Funeral Planned.
 Plans for a public funeral to be held probably on Monday, Sept 22. will be made tomorrow by the board of esti- mates Late adyices from abroad say rhc body will be transferred from the Baltic 10 the steamer Cedric, sailing from Queenstown tomorrow, or if that arrangement cannot be effected, to the T.usitania- sailing from Liverpool on Saturday, and should arrive in New York Friday or Saturday of next week.
 New York Has Republican Mayor.
 The death of Mayor Gaynor auto- r1aticaIly transferred the office of may or to Colonel Adoiph L. Kline, re- publican, president of the board of aldermen Colonel Kline took the oath of office late today and his first official act was to cal the board of estimate together 10 1av plans for the public funeral seTY7ce Of his sprede- eessor-
 Mayor Kline then declared nat dur ing his short term of office which will terminate on January l, 1914, he would carry out the policies of Mayor Gay nor. so far as he KneU taenl-
 Municipal Campaign HaIts.
 While messages 1f sympathy from 'acal political leaders and from aH
 -.-.r a fvaz.~a nA 1aayors office in the cj-y nall and at Ae CfaEnor country home at St James, Long Island the heated municipal sampaign came uo a sudden stop al Enough many conferences were held ao review the sUddeL change which Mayor GayuOF's death made n the general situation George AcAneuy, fusion candidate for president Of the board of aldermen aunoJuce1 late to- day that he had decided to postpone his vacation trip abroad cn wi.ich he had planned 10 start on Saturday. Ac- Aneuy and William A. PFendeT2asr fI- sion nominee for city comptroller. were fu conference with Gaynor leaders ret | aEiEe 10 accepting their endorsement when news Of the mayors death was announced
 Roosevelt Pays Tribute.
 Whether another candidate to head the Gaynor League ticket would be named was probiematIcaI tonigEr. it
 
 with the personality of Mayor Gay nor removed it would be useless to continue The league
 Of the many tributes 10 Mayor Gay nor from men of prominence in pub Ic life. one from Theodore Roosevelt was among those made public: Mayor Gayuor's caTee~ has been rut only dis1i1fE uisiled i.c1t in atI it's characteristics unique" said Colonel Roosevelt We have lost ir, him not .F -Ig ,ssf rf t1e most original and interesting Cf an our public servants. national and local.-
 Had Troublesor1e Cough.
 A usee4< before Mayor Gavnor sail rd cu the Baltic. if now develops. he vss visited al his country home at St James. I. J., by his secretary. Rob erf Adsmson and Fire Commissioner Joseph Johnson The latter tonight in =neaking of the mayors condition at that time quoted him as saying of '1 eoUghed all night long. I could not step it. My right lung WAS fight ing it out with the fish hook in my throat. don't see how my heart stood it ' thought fl would burst, But the dortoF now says that I am sIl right, He says my heart is still good. ! think l shall be ali right shortly"
 Many Messages Of Sympathy, News uI Ths death of her husband reached Mrs, GayR6F at the Gayaer country residence at St. yaHss earfY this morning, With her weFs Nor maH the seesHd eldest sea- aRa EeF daughters Helen, Mari0R and Ruth Airs Harry k Ffasat aHstAeE daaga- ger. lives in eettasE near the Bay nor home and at once joiaed Uhe fam ily circle AR8thsf married daugh- ter. Airs Webb, has beea spending the summer al Bay Shore, where she Sas notified sf her fathers death 3iany messages of symRathy aRd ceadoleHce were received by Mrs Gay nor. only intimate friends of the family were admitted to the home.
 Had Heart Trouble Many Years. Mayor GayBer's ia Rlily physician. Hr TahH ". Parrish. said today that E. usyas had suffered from heart Ir.-L.L.. InT rnaRN NaHra. ThlS RaS a