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Show FUNERAL WILL OCCUR ON MONDAY, SEPT. 22 NEW YORK, Sept. 1 2. While all New York mourned today for William .1. Gav-nor Gav-nor and signal honors were being paid , the dead mayor in Liverpool, tentative arrangements were being made for the public obsequies planned to constitute a final and striking tribute of his home city to the memory of Its late executive head. Mayor Gaynor's funeral will take place in Old Trinity church in Lower Broadway Broad-way at 11 o'clock In tho morning of September Sep-tember 22, with Bishop Greer of the New York diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Episco-pal church officiating. His body will be laid at rest in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. The solemn ceremonials on the' day of tho funeral are to be preceded by various vari-ous distinctive tributes to the dead executive. execu-tive. On the arrival, probably next Friday Fri-day forenoon, of the steamer Lusltania, the mayor's body will be taken direct from the steamer to the Gaynor home in Brooklyn, there to remain until Saturday Satur-day evening, when, according to the plans. It will be removed to the city hall In Manhattan to lie In state on the scene of the late mayor's activities until the hour of Ids funeral on Monday. The striking event of the day In connection con-nection with the political complications which have arisen through the death of Mayor Gaynor, who was an independent candidate for re-election, came when the Gaynor campaign managers designated George McAncny, fusion candidate for president of the board of aldermen, as their candidate for mayor, to take the vacant place on the ticket. Mr. Mc-Aneny, Mc-Aneny, however, promptly declined the honor, declaring he would not accept agnomination ag-nomination in opposition to John Purroy Mitchcl, the fusion nominee. There existed tonight the impression that the Gaynor managers would persist, for a time at least, in their plans of putting put-ting an independent ticket in the field. William R. Wilcox, former chairman of the public service commission, was mentioned men-tioned as another man whom the Gaynor leaders had urged to accept a place on the Independent ticket. |