The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-21
Body of New York's
Former Mayor Borne
to City Hall.
PRIVATE BURIAL
SERVICE AT HOME
Rev. Frank w. Page, of Culpeper
Reads Ritual, and Music Is
Dispensed With at Desire of
Mrs. Gaynor-Populace to
View Body Lying in
State To-Day.

New York. September 2o-In the ro-
tunda of the City Han. on the scene
OF his years OF labor for the munich
2aiity of New York, the body OF VIII
liam j. Gaynor lay in state tonight.
his coffin draped in the white silken
folds u: the Mayors official flag, and
watched over by guard or honor
from the city's police and fremen.
The Mayors body landed here yes
tcrday from the liner Lusitania, and
taken TO Ills late home in Brooklyn,
where ;'rivate funeral services were
held this afternoon, was brought this
evening through a drizzling rain to
the City Hall. from the steps of which
less than three weeks ago he accepted
peoples nomination for reelection
to the mnyoralty
Thousands Gather to Pay Homage.
Thousands gathered on that occasion
to ATTEST their confidence in his worth
to tie city as man and Mayor. Tens
OF thousands crowded about the edince
and it's approaches tonight, and stood
mute, heads laSed and bowed, as his
body was horne into the building
Tomorrow at o'clock the doors or
the City Hall Will be opened, and from
thrt hour until sunset or later, two
separate lines OF citizens will have op-
portunity to pass from the plaza in
front OF the building past the coffin
on it's bier in the sombrely draped
rotunda. and on out through the north
entrance, after gazing on the dead
Mayors features
Public md Private Service.
On Monday tho public funeral will
be held In Old Trinity Church.
The private services in the Gaynor
home were held two hours before tho
body was brought to Manhattan. The
little gathering there included only i'm
mediate members of the family and n
few close friends. The service brief
and simple. was read by the Rev Frank
w. Page. Of Culpeper. Va, formerly
pastor of st. Johns Protestnnt yEpis.
| copal Church In Brooklyn. of which
Mayor Gaynor was a communicate.
| In Difference to the expressed wish
Of Mrs. Gaynor there was no music
and DR.. Page offered only n short
eulogy of the late Mayor. as he had
known him when his rector and friend.
The clergyman's tribute was personal
and intimate.
Cortege Starts for City HaIl.
Promptly at o'clock. 200 mounted
as the coffin containing the body OF
the Mayor was carried from the house
by flremen and policemen, and placed
in the hearse
Departmental heads and members OF
the Board of Estimate, acting as escort,
otOou Will DtTtu neduS. Inc Iuneral
cortege then made its slow way to
New York across Brooklyn Bridge.
FIFTY Thousand Uncover In Ruin.
Fifty thousand persons stood uncov-
cred in the drizzling rain as the SOL
emn procession, headed by mounted
police. marched to the City Hail. Eight
omobiles following the hearse car
ried members of the Board of EstI-
mate. Mayor Adolph Kline. Robert Adj
amson. the late Mayors secretary; r.
a. c. Smith, commissioner of docks and
ferries. and Police Comm ssioner Wal
do. No member OF the Mayors family
accompanied the body.
All during the day vehicles drove up
to the Gaynor home with floral Offer
ings. 1t was necessary to employ two
automobiles to carry the flowers when
the procession started. Conspicuous
among the tributes was n wreath of
white roses. four feet in diameter, sent
by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt