New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-21
Gordon of Police at Building
and Guard of Six Keep
Night Watch Over the
Sleeping Mayor.
PUBLIC AT BIER TO-DAY
Arrangements Will Make 1t
Possible for $4,000 Persons
to See Body-Dr. Page
Pays Tribute at Ser
vice in Home.

Mayor Gaynors BODY lay uhoer
guard last night in the City Hall ro-
tunda. Deep down in that well Of sky
scrapers which used to tower over him
at his desk-some Of them rather
threatenngly, ne used TO think at times
he rested secure in lake Of silence.
For besides the six guards who stood
at attention by his side, there stretched
outside in the driZzle all night long
Gordon of police in wide circle around
the building. preventing the near ap-
proach of all citizens, no matter how
reverently inclined.
The mellowed old marble columns,
which have outlasted so many mayors.
kept the vigil. too. in their mourning
vestments. Above the bier swayed
streamers Of black and purple. caught
back in loops from the centre Of the
arched ceiling. All round about ware
placed the myriad wreaths and other
floral tributes. Behind, the stairways.
festooned with laurel garlands and
banked with ferns and palms, swept in
their famous curve up into the saad-
ows. The only light came from Two
candeabra Of seven lights each, stand
ing on the newell posts at the Mayors
head.
The public's turn TO pay its respects
to the dead in this noble setting does
not come until this morning, beginning
at 8 o'clock. Then the cover will be
removed from the bronze coffin. and
friend and former foe may file by TO
take last look at the human mask of
that powerful personality, William j.
Gaynor A portrait of the Mayor in
which j. Campbell Phillips has caught
and preserved that set jaw and that m
scrutable look so familiar to New
Workers., looks down upon his resting
place. From its bower of ferns and
palms where the stairways part 1t Will
search the eye Of every mourner. Let
the insincere bewarel
Lies in State Until 10 Tonight.
The Mayor will lie in state until 10
o'clock tonight. On either side and at
his head will stand three policemen and
three fremen, at attention, as they
stood all last night. Every half hour
fresh guard Of six will take its sta
ton there, while the faithful six 1t has
relieved takes an hours rest. Thirty
six men, eighteen policemen and eign-
teen firemep have been picked to keep
this I'D until the Mayors body is re-
moved to Trinity Church tomorrow
forenoon. They will serve In twelve
hour shifts.
Inspector George Titus, who has
charge OF the police arrangements In
side the City Hall, will have other men
there to handle the vast number OK
visitors expected to-day. He will form
them into two lines. admitting them at
the main entrance, facing the postoftice,
and passing them without pause by
the coffin and out the rear entrances.
facing the County Courthouse He
hopes In this manner to handle at least
one hundred minute. AT this rate II
will be possible for $4,000 men, women
and children to view the body in tho
fourteen hours allotted.
The funeral procession reached tho
City Hall yesterday afternoon at ex-
actly o'clock, having filed slowly
from the Gaynor home. at No. 20
Eighth avenue, Brooklyn. back over ths
same route it took Friday on its march
from the Battery. All the afternoon a
great mass of people had been gradual
ly banking itself up against the police
lines on all sides OF City Hall Square,
waiting for the conclusion OF the
Brooklyn services and the arrival OF
the hearse.
When at last the escorting squadron
Of mounted police clattered off the
bridge and on TO the plaza before the
black draped City Hall the building
and the park surrounding it seemed
like a little island afloat in a vast sea
OF humanity-of absolutely silent hu-
manity.
Immediately behind the mounted po-
lice, who wheeled and backed In obedi-
ence to their bugler. forming a long
line facing the. City Hall, came limou-
sine containing Mayor Kline, Secretary
Adamson and r. A. c. Smith, Com
missioner of Docks and Ferries. They
drove up TO where the twelve pail
bearers. six policemen and six fire.
men. stood bareheaded in double row.
Then they alighted and stood at the
curb before the steps to welcome there
for the last time the body Of the Mayor.
Body Carried Into City Hall.
The automobile hearse, containing
the heavy bronze coffin. drove up. The
big pallbearers parted to let it pass
and then fell in behind as II came TO
a halt. The two little rear doors flew
apart, and soon the pallbearers had
the flag draped coffin in their hands.
They stood there with 1t while the
members of the Board of Estimate and
the department heads, who had
alighted from their limousines In the
mean time, mounted the steps Of City
Hall and formed in double line reach
ing from the City Hall entrance to the
catafalque in the rotunda. Through
this double line the six hremen and