New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-20
RUFUS COLLAPSES
OVER MAYORS BODY

Continued from nrst page
TO improve his health FOR the hard
work ahead in the fall campaign. His
body was taken from the Lusitania
quietly and without ceremony Just be
fore dawn yesterday to his Brooklyn
I home.
In Drilling Rain.
Before the hurrying workers were on
the streets in the downtown section Of
the city. and without public announce
ment. in Difference 10 the wishes of
Mrs Gaynor the cortege guarding
the. hearse which bore the body OF
the former chief executive Of the ely
marched up Broadway from the Bat
terry through a drizzling rain. passed
the City Hall now draped In mourning,
crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. where the
Mayor loved II walk. and delivered the
body 10 the waiting widow and chill
dren.
The final details OF the plan for landing
me body were closely guarded by the
committee OF arrangements in order 10
avoid any public display, and there were
few persons at the Battery. where the
body was landed. at 6:i5 a. m. or along
the lire Of march. small crowd assem-
bled at the entrance Of Pier a. attracted
by the presence OF one hundred mounted
policemen. who later acted as an escort
for the body. They barred their heads re-
specially as the suto-hearse appeared
from the covered pier.
Now and then pedestrian along
Broadway realized the significance OF the
slow moving column and paused 10 I'M
cover his head. but most Of those astir
at that hour did not know it was their
MAYOR returning home.
The fag-draped coffin was carried into
the Gaynor home. at No. % Eighth ave
nue.. Brooklyn at s o'clock. three hours
after the Correction left the side OF the
Lusitania. riding at anchor just south OF
Quarantine. The simplicity and quietness
OF the arrival were impressive in their
solcmnity II had been as the Mayor
would have wanted IL. and as his widow
requested-shorn OF all acknowledgment
except the deep and heartfelt recogni-
ton OF the immediate family and few
friends
The Mayors body will remain IN the
privacy of the family home until late this
afternoon. when Il will be conveyed
across the Brooklyn Bridge again. 10 lie
in state al the city Hall. whore the pub
lie may look for the last time upon the
face Of the city's executive.
A private funeral service will be held
at the Brooklyn home at o'clock to-day.
The services will be conducted by the
Rev. Frank W. Page, for many years
the pastor and an intimate friend OF the
| family. This service is for the immediate
| family and close relatives and very few
/ intimate friends. The only official note
will be the presence Of Mayor Kline.
Robert Adamson, Dock Commissioner r.
A. G. Smith and Lieutenant William
Kennel.
Makes Request TO Public.
Mayor Kline made request from his
Office at the City Hall yesterday that the
public should refrain from going 10 the
Gavnor home at the time OF the services
/
there. and pay It's respects to the late
Mavor at the City Hall Sunday and Mon
dav morning or at the funeral exercises.
Mayor Kline announced that in appre-
citation OF the extraordinary honors paid
| 10 the late Mayor by the Lord Mayor and
! CORPORATION OF the City OF Liverpool, as
we'll as the citizens OF that city Mrs.
| Gsynor and Rufus Gaynor have es-
neciallv requested the committee OF ar
engagements TO have the British flag en-
tanned with the American flag In Trinity
Church. In further appreciation OF the
cr.at kindness OF the British government
ard the people Of Liverpool the British
Consul and his aids have been asked 70
occupy seats with the family.
| The transfer Of the body from the
Curard liner at Quarantine Just as the
oret gray OF dawn was creeping through
- mist over the bay was dramatic
-, i,,,nressiye scene. Long before the
! |,ar~oction and the tug Manhattan. the
! 80. carving newspaper reporters
a,,,h,od the Insitania everything was IN
a,,,ross aboard the liner 10 make me
.rons,er The big ship doomed up out OF
80. a..,,,ose ike a giant catafalque, with
ito rnvrlads Of lights t"inkhns from 'no
docks and port holes IKE so many
candles around the funeral pier
Tbo Correction. with the committee OF
.x.a,,or,.nts OF which Commissioner X
A g Smith is chairman, ana three i''eu'-
hers ot the family-Norman payho'' III.
ua,or's vopnger son: Seward Webb ana
| -, ,-i,,,, eons-in-law-swung IN on