The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-13
GAYNOR'S BODY IS
PLACED ABOARD
LUSIIANIA
LIVERPOOL PAID UNPRECEDENT-
ED HONOR TO THE DEAD Ex-
ECUTIVE OF NEW YORK.
LAYS IN STATE IN town HALL
Never Before Had Anyone Lain In
State in Historic Edifice-Casket
Rested on Catafalque Brought From
Westminster Abbey-Picked Guard.
(By Asseeisted PreSs.)

wy AeaSttStOe EtCoosl
liverpool, Sept. 13.-The body of |
William j. Gaynor was removed from
the town hall where it had been ac-
corded an unprecedented honor and
placed aboard the Lusitania which is
due in New York September 49,
The body of William J. Gaynor lay
in state last night at the foot of the
grand stairway of the town hall of Liv-
erpool.
Ii was an unprecedented honor that
Liverpool paid the dead executive Of
the American metropolis, for never be-
fore had anyone lain in state in the his
toric edifice. Covered with the Stars
and Stripes and with the British Union
Jack draped over its foot, the casket
rested on a catafalque brought here
from Westminster Abbey, London, and
on which has reposed the bodies of
many of Engfand's most famous men.
It was used last at the funeral Of Field.
Marshal Lord Woolsey in st. PauPs
Cathedral last March
Candles in the great golden candel-
abra from Westminster Abbey cast
subdued light up the stairway, and
over the detail of picked men from the
Liverpool police force, who stood guard
at night about the catafalque. John
Sutherland Harmoon-Banner, Lord
Mayor of Liverpool, who is absent on
vacation, had telegraphed the city
officials to do everything in their pow
err in honor of the dead mayor of New
York, and they carried out their in
structions in minute detail.
When the steamer Baltic, on board
which Mayor Gaynor died at sea last
Wednesday, docked at $50 o'clock Fri
day evening, the landing stage was
cleared of all persons except the hold
ers of tickets. A great crowd had as
sembled outside the dock gates. AS
soon as the gang plank was run out,
Horace L. Washington, the United
States consul accompanied by del
egation from the White Star Line, went
aboard the ship.
In the saloon, Mr.. Washington met
Rufus Gaynor, son of Mayor Gaynor,
and expressed coincidence on behalf of
himself and the Lord Mayor of Liver
pool.
Mr. Gaynor readily assented to the
plans of the Liverpool civic authorities
for the lying in state of his father
Acting on the request of Mr.. Washing
ton, the port authorities waived the
formalities usual in the landing of the
dead from vessels, and the body OF
Mayor Gaynor, in plain wood coffin,
which was covered by an American
flag, was brought ashore as soon as the
Rrst-class passengers had left the
Baltic.
The coffin was taken in charge by p
London undertaken, sent to Liverpool
by the American embassy, and placed
in hearse drawn by four horses which
was followed by the Lord Mayors car
riage occupied by Rufus Gaynor and
Consul Washington The funeral cor
tege, escorted by a squad of mounted
police made its way through a dense
crowd of quiet people, who uncovered
as the hearse passed to the town hall
The hearse was followed on foot by a
woman in deep black, who had beside
her little girl The woman declined
to give her name, but said she was a
friend of Mayor Gaynor's family.
The secretary to the Lord Mayor, as
sisted by committee Of dignitaries,
received the body at the town hall
When the coffin was placed on the
catafalque, one end of it was covered
by a beautiful wreath of lilies of the
valley, bearing the inscription: Deep
est sympathy from the Lord Mayor and
citizens of Liverpool"
Another wreath, composed of East
er lilies, bore cord inscribed with the
condolences OF Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Lee Washington.
The hall where the body lay then