The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-09-19
MAYOR GAYNOR DIES ON SHIP|
BODY LANDED AT LIVERPOOL,
LUSiTANlA RETURNING
WITH BODY.
The End Came Very suddery-Mes.
cage From His Son Tells
Of His Passing.

Liverpool-The body of William
Jay Gaynor lay in state Friday at the
foot of the grand stairway of the
town hall Of Liverpool.
1t 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
historic edifice.
Covered with the stars and stripes
and with the British union jack |
draped over its foot, the casket rested |
on catafalque brought here from
Westminster Abbey, London, and on
which have repOsed the bodies of
many of England's most famous men.
1t was last used at the funeral of Field
Marshal Lord Woolsey in st. Pauls
Cathedral last March.
Candles in the great golden Candida
bra from Westminster Abbey cast
subdued light up the wide stairway
and over the detail of picked men
from the Liverpool police force, who
stood guard all about the catafalque.
The steamship Lusitania departed
Saturday for the United States with
the mayors body.
The funeral will take place in old
Trinity church, on lower Broadway,
at II a. m. Monday, Sept. %, with
Bishop Greer of the New York do
cese of the Protestant Episcopal
church officiating His body will be
inferred in Greenwood cemetery, in
Brooklyn.
New York.-William ]. Gaynor,
mayor of New York City, voyaging
over sea on the steamer Baltic, in the
hope of regaining his strength to en-,
ter the threecornered municipal cam
paign as a candidate for reelection
died suddenly on the Baltic as the
steamer was within few hundred
miles of the Irish coast Wednesday.
The first news of his death, flashed
by wireless and relayed by cable from
Europe, reached his secretary, Rober
> Adamson, Thursday morning. The
mayor had succumbed to heart failure
the message said.
Later dispatches from his son, Ruff
. w. Gaynor, who was his fathers onl
= travelling companion, gave detail
i which showed that the end had com
with shocking suddenness.
Father died at 1907 p. m. Wedne'
IN day, the 10TH" said message tro1
his son received by Secretary Adam
n son. His death was due to heart fai
ure. He was seated in his deck cha
at the time. and the nurse and tn
ships doctor were with him. disco
in cred him unconscious in his chal
m though still alive He died abo'
Of three minutes later without recogni
If ing any of us. Everything possib
10. was done, but he seemed to go as
candle flickers out. Am all right al
M am trying to arrange to bring Il
no body back on the Lusitania, sailll
nj from Liverpool on Saturday, the l5tf
nh The death of Mayor Gaynor au
bo matically transferred the office
no mayor to Colonel Ardolph L. Kline,
~ republican, president of the board
on aldermen. President Kline took t
~ oath of office late Thursday ana
no first official act was to call the boa
IN of estimate together to lay plans
&c the public funeral services OF his p
are decessor.
Mayor Kline then declared that d
roc ing his short term of office, when V
Ne. terminate Jan. /, 1914, he would ca
no out the policies of the reform ma
inf. so far as he knew them.