Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-09-12
BUILDINGS DRAPED in BLACK
BODY is EXPECTED TO ARRIVE
FROM ENGLAND A WEEK
FROM TODAY
new CANDIDATE is NAMED
INDEPENDENT PARTY LEADERS
SELECT McANENY TO HEAD
THE TICKET

New York, Sept. 12.--New York was
a city of mourning today for its dead
mayor, William j. Gaynor. Flags
flew at half-mast and public buildings
the city hall, police headquarters,
the municipal building-were draped
in black.
The board OF estimate, called to-
gether by Adolph L. Kline, the mayors
successor, met this forenoon to arrange
for public funeral to be held short
" after the arrival her of the may
or's body aboard the steamer Lusi-
tania, which sailed today from Liver
pool and is due here week from to-
day. Monday, September %, has
been suggested as tentative date.
There also were to be meetings Of
the dead executives cabinet, COM
missioners of city departments, and
of the board Of aldermen, to pass APP
propriate resolutions on the death of
the chief executive and to take in
hand the reins Of the city government
confused by the mayors sudden TAX
ing off. The recent resignation Of
John Purroy Mitchell, now candidate
for mayor, from the presidency of the
board Of aldermen, and the sudden
elevation of Mr. Kline, vice chairman
of the board to the mayors chair
has left that body without a head
The new mayor, a republican, who
viii serve until a successor, to be
chosen at the coming November elec-
ton, is inaugurated on January I, In
tends, he has announced, to carry out
the policies of the Gaynor admins
tration insofar as l know them, and
to make no changes in appointive Of
fices. None of these officials, it was
believed today, would hand in their
designations.
Messages Of coincidence from all
parts Of the country continue to pour
in today at the office Of Robert Adam
son, the mayors Secretary, and at
the Gaynor country home St James
Long Island, where Mrs. Gaynor and
her Children are reported to be bearing
their loss with fortitude.
The dead mayors friends recalled
today paragraph he wrote in a let
ter to sister soon after the attempt
on his life three years ago. 1t was
this
Man of Great Faith
Il was not bit afraid to die if
that was Gods win of me, l said TO
myself, just as well now as a few
years from now. No one who contem-
plates the immensity Of Almighty Cod
his universe and his works and real
ICES what an atom he is in it all, can
fear to die in this flesh, yea, even
though it were true that he is to lose
his identity and be dissolved forever
into the infinity Of matter and mind
from which he came.
McAneny is Candidate
George McAneny, president of the
borough Of Manhattan and fusion
candidate for president Of the board
of aldermen, was designated today by
the Gaynor campaign managers as
their candidate for mayor, to take the
place made vacant by Mayor Gaynor's
death
McAneny was quick to decline the
designation as head of the Gaynor
ticket.
sincerely appreciate the honor he
said in formal statement, "but under
no circumstances could / accept
mayoralty nomination in opposition to
Mr. Mitchell, the fusion candidate"
The Date Is set
Funeral service for Mayor Gaynor
will be held in Trinity church, this
city, at II o'clock on Monday morning,
September %. The service will be
public
When the Lusitania arrives septem-
her 19 the body will be taken to the