The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
ARE ARRANGING FOR
GAYNOR FUNERAL
Will Be Held From Trinity Church on
September % With Bishop
Greer Officiating,

New York. September 12.-While all
New York mourned today for William j..
Gaynor and signal honors We're being
paid the dead mayor in Liverpool, where
his body, was taken ashore from the
steamer Baltic, on which |ie died sudden
ly at sea on Wednesday. tentative ar
rangements were being made for the
public obsequies planned to constitute a
final and striking tribute of his home
city to the memory of it's late executive
head
Mayor Gaynor's funeral will take place
in old Trinity church in lower Broad
way at II a. m. Monday, September %.
with Bishop Greer of the New York dio-
cese of the Protestant Episcopal church
officiating. His body will be inferred in
Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn.
The solemn cereinonials on the day of
the funeral are to be preceded by various
distinctive tributes to the dead execu-
tive. On the arrival probably next FRI
day forenoon of the steam Lusitania the
mayors body viii be taken direct from
the steamer to the Gaynor home in
Brooklyn there to remain until Saturday
evening. when Il will be removed to the
city hall in Manhattan to lie IN state on
the scene OF the late mayors activities
urti, the hour ri his funeral on Monday.
Military Escort Offered
hall to the hearse and from hearse to
church on the shoulders of uniformed men
OF the fire and police departments. Gen.
Thomas Fl. Barry, commandant of the
department of the east. has offered an
escort of soldiers from Governors Island
for the body of the mayor from the time
of its arrival in the city until the burial.
Should Bishop Greer, who is in Maine,
be unable to fficiate at the services, his
place will be taken by Suffragan Bishop
Burch. Assisting will be the Rev. DR..
Frank Page of Culpepper, Va, formerly
pastor of St. Johns church in Brooklyn,
of which Mayor Gaynor was a member,
and the Rev. l.. E. Holden, pastor of the
Episcopal church of st. James, Long
Island, which the late mayor attended
while at his country home in that place.
The arrangements for the funeral will be
submitted TO Mrs. Gaynor at st. James
tomorrow for her approval
Meetings of various bodies. at which
Resolutions of regret at the mayors death
and tributes to his career a man and
official were adopted, marked the day.
Messages of coincidence continued to
pour into his family at St James, and to
Mayor Kline at the city hall.
The new mayor, who actively entered
upon his new duties today, reiterated his
disclaimer of any intention to make any
radical changes in the personnel of the
city's officials over whom he has the
power of appoin' and removal
That Mayor Gaynors family will ne
found to be well provided for when his
will comes to be probated seems the gem
eral belief.
Estate Was Large
Friends of the family and individuals
In position to know more or less ac-
curately the extent of the mayors hold
ngs of real estate and securities vari-
ously estimated today the value of his
estate as from 100000 to S3,000,000.
with the consensus of opinion favor
ing a sum not more than half the larg-
er figure Mayor Gaynor had large
and lucrative law practice before he
went on the bench and had realized
much in fees from important trustee
ships and from wise investments. Hts
legal allowance in the settlement of
the estate of William Zeigler. the bak-
ing powder manufacturer. of which he
was trustee, was large.
The striking event OF the day in con-