Evening journal., 1913-09-12
ARRANGING
FOR FUNERAL
OF Mr.. GAYNOR
Family to Determine Whether
There Will Be Public OBJ
SequieS Next Week
LATE MAYOR LEFT
MORE THAN MILLION
BY Tho United Press.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-The fortune
left by the late Mayor William J. Gay
nor was today estimated at between
S1,OOO.OO0 and Sl,5OO.OO0 Friends Of
the late executive esplaincd that in
the early days of Brookiyns develop
ment. before Gaynor went on the
bench. he was town counsel for Flat
bush, then sparscly settled section
Of Brooklyn. Gaynor bought choice
locations In this section and as the
district gave promise OF greater de-
velopment, invested still more extsn-
sively In property there. Flatbush is
now one of the main suburbs of Man
haitian and by his investments there
Gaynor's fortune grew to the million
mark in the past twenty years.
Arrangements for the funeral of
the late Mayor will be completed to-
day by members Of the family and
Mayor Adolpn Kline. Whether the
funeral will be public rests entirely
with the widow and other members
of the family. SO far as is knowr
Mrs. Gaynor has no objection to Z
public funeral
The remains of the late Mayor viii
arrive In New FORK Friday Afternoon
of next week, IL is expected. Th'
city hall is draped in mourning to
day as are many other municipa
buildings. Thousands of messages
OF coincidence we're received today b.
Mrs. Gaynor and by Mayor Kline.
Campaign button firms who laid il
big stocks OF Gaynor campaign but
tons we're quick to get into action to
day. Attaching touch of black e
the buttons, the vendors appeared oi
the street today crying:
"Gaygor mourning buttonsl"
They succeeded in selling the but
tons probably more quickly than the
could have hoped to do during th
campaign.
Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
QUEENSTOWN. Ireland. Sept i2.-
e Putting in at Queenstown only Ion
4 enough. in todays gray dawn. TO di
h charge mail and few passenger
I the steamship Baltic, with the boo
OF the late Mayor William J. Gayno
! of New York, aboard her. stoame
y on her way to Liverpool. Rufus Ga.
nor worn out with the shock of h
fathers death and the strain OF ha'
ing the body cared for and maxim
y wireless arrangements, was aslce
! and had left a request that he be nc
disturbed until the boat reaches Lii
erpool. There the body will be hel
E until the Cunarder Lustania sal
= from that port tomorrow
The American consul ct Queenl
town boarded the Baltic to offer a.
sistanoe. and Americans. friends
the Gaynor family. came down froi
. London and made the trip to Live
= pool.
= The flags OF the Baltic we're 6
half-mast in honor of the distinguish
ed dead. when she loomed up out {
the Irish mist and a bit OF crepe wa
on the door of the state room tihi
! had been converted into a mortuar
chapel
The few passengers who wei
! early astir told graphically Of tf
! passing Of Mayor Gaynor. which wa
at once tragic and pathetic in il
I, peacefulness.
= He smiled as though in triumph
!, said one. "and appearti like a ma
: asleep, dreaming a pleasant drear
" A fellow passenger who saw the des
mayor before IL was known that I
had passed away, thought that smi
was one of recognition and bowed {
he passed the deck-chair where
moment later Rufus Gaynor disco
cred his father to be lifeless."
The steward who took Mayor Ga
nor's luncheon, Immediately after gi
. ing which he must have died. said tn
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