Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
Placed in City Hall After Pri-
vate Funeral Services at
His Late Home.
PUBLIC TO BE PERMITTED
TO VIEW HIS FACE TODAY
Fifty Thousand Persons Bare Heads
In Rain as Procession Passes.
Many Floral Tributes.

/ NEW YORK, September 2O-In the ro-
tunda of the city hail. on the scene of
| his years of labors for the municipality
| whose executive he was, the BODY of
William ]. Gaynor lies in state tonight,
his coffin draped in the white slken folds
of the mayors official flag and watched
| over by a guard Of honor from the city's
| police and firemen.
The mayors body, landed here yeester-
day from the liner Lusitania and taken
to his late home in Brooklyn, where pri-
| vate 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 a peoples nomi-
nation for reelection to the mayoralty.
Thousands gathered on that occasion
| to attest their confidence in his worth
to the city as man and mayor. Tens of
| thousands crowded about the edifice and
its approaches tonight and stood mute,
| heads barred and bowed, paying silent
tribute as his body was borne into the
building.
Public Funeral Monday.
Tomorrow at 8 o'clock the doors of
the city hall will be opened and from
that hour until sunset or later two sepa-
rate lines of citizens will have oppor-
tunity to pass from the plaza in front
of the building past the coffin on its
bier in the somberly draped rotunda and
on out through the north entrance after
gazing upon the dead mayors features
| Monday the public funeral will be held
| in old Trinity Church.
The private services in the Gaynor
home were held two hours before the
i brought Manhattan.
| little gathering there including only i'm
mediate members of the family and
| few close friends. The service, brief and
| simple, was read by the Rev. Frank w.
of ST. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church
| in Brooklyn, of WHICH Mayor Gaynor
/ was communicate.
Delivers Personal Eulogy.
| The clergyman's tribute was personal
and intimate. No one knew the man
Gaynor better than the speaker himself.
said DR.. Page, and his eulogy OF the
late mayors character and good deeds
was heartfelt message of consolation
to the mourning family and friends The
city had lost it's best servant when
Mayor Gaynor died, DR.. Page concluded.
and later it's people probably would
realize this and do in his memory what
the people of Cleveland had done in Tom
Johnson s-erect a monument to. him.
/ Promptly at o'clock 200 mounted
policemen stood at attention outside as
mayor was carried from the house by
| fremen and policemen and placed in the
hearse. while departmental heads and
members of the board of estimate. act
ing as escort stood with barred heads.
| The funeral cortege then made it's slow
way to New York across Brooklyn
| bridge.
Many Floral Tributes.
| Al least $4,000 persons stood uncovered
| in the drizzlins rain as the solemn pro-
cession, headed by mounted police,
marched to the city hall Eight auto
mobiles following the hearse carried
| members of the board of estimate.
Mayor Ardolph Kline. Robert Adamson,
| the late mayors secretary: r. A. c.
| Smith. commissioner of docks and fer
! ries, and Police mmissioner Rhine
| lander Waldo. No member of the mayor
/ family accompanied the body.
All during the day vehicles drove up
to the Gaynor home with floral offerings.
and it was necessary to employ two
| automobiles to carry the flowers when
the procession started. Conspicuous
among the tributes sdi,u was "a q wreath Of
| by Col Theodore Roosevelt.
Children Pay Homage.
F; Children of the East Side offered hon.
| age in their own way tonight to the
memory of the man they had recognized
as always their friend. when nearly 500
pupils from schools in the district, their
ages ranging from eight to fifteen years.
marched through the misty rain from
Hamilton Fish Park and were allowed to
{, pass through the city hall. where the
mayors coffin rested.
| Their clothes were dripping wet, for
| they had walked all the way without pro-
lection, marching to the strains of
| Nearer, My Cod to Thee" played by a
| Boy Scout fife and drum corps.
| 1t took just eight minutes for them TO
I! pass through the hail. One of them laid
ON the coffin small bouquet of asters,
and through the night it divided honors
with the offering of the Gaynor family
that lay there.