The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-20
FUNERAL SERVICE
TO OCCUR MONDAY
Private Funeral Service at
His Home This Afternoon
and Tonight Body VIII
Be Conveyed to City Hall,
Where 1t Will Lie In
State Until Monday.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, Sept 19.-The body ot
| William j. Gaynor, mayor Of New
/ York, who died at sea September 10
| lay today in his Brooklyn home. In a
drizzling rain 1t was lowered at
/ o'clock this morning from the high
decks Of the liner Lusitnania to the
citys boat, the Correction. Through
a mist that lay heavy over the har-
! Dor, the Correction steamed to pier A
at the Battery. There a picked squad
of 100 police who had stood all night
in the rain, formed its escort to Brook
lyn.
The funeral ship glided into the
harbor and came to anchor at quar-
antine at 1:o2 o'clock this morning, the
American flag at her stern at half
mast. A dozen stalwart sailors car
ried the body in it's heavy lead caslzet
from the mortuary chapel to the deck
The carpet of flowers under which 1t
lay was removed and only the great
man at his horses head as the caslxet
at Liverpool covered II, as a windlass
lowered it slowly twenty-five feet
down an inclined plane to the deck of
the C2Tsctton:
vsf,ses led ! lohsn. The 60dy Yas
placed in the cofin and wTessth aue
q
It. The Correction cast of =
weighed anchor short distance SwstsS
awaiting the coming Of day.
BODY is LANDED.
The black mist had changed to gray
when the engines began to throb and
she started on her short journey to the
Battery. The rain had ceased. 1t
was full day when the Correction came
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bearers, four in the uniform of the fire
department and four in the uniform Of
the police, each man with a bit Of crepe
on the sleeves, lifted It over the gang
plank to the hearse. The long vigil Of
the picked squad of police sent at 3
o'clock last night to the pier came to
an end. They stood at attention, each
man at his horses head as the casRet
was placed in the hearse, then mount
ing their horses, led the funeral train
through the deserted streets.
Their route lay through lower
Broadway and past the city hall to
Brooklyn bridge. over this bridge,
which the mayor had so often trod on
his way to and from his home, the
funeral party went. It was after
o'clock when they reached the late
mayors home. There the body was
taken to large room. The committee
appointed by the city to receive II
withdrew. The hundred policemen
clattered back through the streets to
their station houses and the body
was left with only the family around
II.
It will remain there until tomorrow
night. Private funeral services Will
be held there tomorrow afternoon and
at the conclusion the body will be
taken to the city hall, where 1t will
lie in state until Monday morning,
when funeral services will be held in
Trinity church
With the committee on funeral or
rangements that went down the harbor
aboard the Correction were Norman
Gaynor, the mayors son, and Harry
Vingut, his son-in-law, representing
the family. No other member Of the
Gaynor household was aboard.
NO PUBLICITY DESIRED.
It was Mrs. Gaynor's wish that as
little publicity as possible be attached
to the landing Of the body. To facili-