Show WILLIAM ASTORS FUNERAL I Vt ill be Very Quiet Mr and Mrs Preston to ho Itcconciled Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK May 0The funeral of William Astor will be a very quiet affair Only a few intimate friends besides imme diatc members of tie family will be invited in-vited to attend tho services The pews of Trinity chapel not reserved for tho family and their friends may be occupied by as many uninvited sympathizers as can bo accommodated When tho church has been omfortably filled the doors will be closed and as far as possible mere curiosity curi-osity seekers will bo excluded The oaken steellined casket procured in Paris will not bo changed The casket and the body weigh something over one thousand thou-sand two hundred pounds Immediately after too ceremony at Trinity chapel tho body will be conveyed to trinity cemetery and deposited in the family vault Only close relatives will attend the interment MEETING OF MR AND MRS DRAYTON The meeting of Mr and Mrs Drayton at the dock when La Bourgogne arrived Sunday Sun-day morning was tho first step toward reconciliation rec-onciliation between the unfortunate couple The family had decided that the easiest way I in which to got rid of tho scandal that attached at-tached to Mrs Astors daughter as a result of tne published duel correnpondcnco was a I I I reunion of her and her husband By meet inc his wife at the steamer and escorting her to her mothers house Mr Draytou apparently ap-parently took the initiative towards a reconciliation but as was pointed out today to-day the meeting was prearranged Mrs Astor is determined that her daughter shall resume her proper placo in society To do this successfully Mrs Drayton must either be reunited to her husband or obtain a divorce di-vorce Divorce proceedings would naturally natur-ally aggravate the existing trouble and a reconciliation was regarded as tho wiser I policy even i it were only on the surface |