Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-21 | Page 8 | Thousands Stand Uncovered in Rain

THISIDS ST1D HO 1 Ml Body of Late Mayor Gayndr Removed to City Hall After Private Services. H NEW YORK IN MOURNING H Public Funeral Will Be Held Monday in Old Trinity Church. NEW TORE", Sept. 20. In the rotunda. ro-tunda. of the city hall, the scone nf his years of labor for tho municipality whose executive ho ivas, the hody of William .lay Gaynor lies- in Btae to-night, to-night, his coffin draped in the white ! silken folds of the mayor's official flap, and watcned over by a fjuard of honor from the city's police and firemen. fire-men. The lnayor'a body, landed here yes-torday yes-torday from tho Jiner Lusitania and Jaken to his late home in Brooklyn. Inhere private funeral serviceB vrere held this afternoon, was brought this evening, through a drizzling rain, to the city hall, from tho stops of which, Icsb than three weeks ago, he accepted a people's nomination for re-election to the mayoralty. Thousands gathered on that occasion occa-sion to show their confidence in his worth to tho city as man and ma.yor. Tens of thousands crowded about tho edifice and its approaches tonight and stood mute, heads bared and bowod. paying silent tribute as his body was borne into the building. Public Funeral Monday. Tomorrow at S o'clock the doors of the city hall will bo opened, aud from that hour until sunset, or later, two separate lines of citizens will have, opportunity op-portunity to pass from the plaza in front ol' the building past tho coffin on its bier in the somberly draped rotunda ro-tunda and on out through the north entrance, en-trance, after gazing upon the dead wi or "s features. On Monday the ;pub-lir'jiuiural ;pub-lir'jiuiural will be held in" Old Trinity el'i.rcli. The private services in the Gaynor homo were held two hours before the bodv was brought to Manhattan, the Hfl litrli' gathcriug there including only HR immediate members of the family and a few done fiiends. The service, brief and simple, was read by Pev, Frank H W. Page of Culpepper, Va., formerly 1 pastor of SI. .John's Protestant Episcopal Epis-copal church in Brooklyn, of which Mayor Gaynor was a communicant. The I'lerg.vman's tribute was personal per-sonal and intimate. Io one knew the man Ga.yuor better than the speaker himself, "Dr. Pago said, and his eulogy of the late mayor's character and good deeds was a heartfelt message of con-solati6n con-solati6n to the mourning family and frionds. '"'Tho city had lost its boat servant when Mayor Gaynor died," Dr. Page concluded, ''and later its people probably would realize this and do in his memory what tho people of Clove-laud Clove-laud had done in Tom Johnson's orect a monument to him," Promptly at 1 o'clock, 200 mounted policemen stood at nttention outside aB the coffin containing tho body of tho mayor was carried from tho notiso by firemen and policemen, nnd placed -in the hearse, while departmental heads and members of the board of estimate, acting as escort, stood with bared hhads. Thft funeral cortege then made its slow way to New York across the Brooklyn bridge. Thousands Stand in Rain. At least 50,000 persons stood uncovered uncov-ered in the drizzling rain as the procession, proces-sion, headed bv mounted police, marched march-ed to tho city hall. Bight automobiles, following tho hearse, carried members of the board of estimate, Maj'or Ar-dolph Ar-dolph Kline, Robert Adamson. the late mayor's secretary; R. A. C. Smith, commissioner com-missioner of docks and ferries, and Police Po-lice Commissioner Waldo. No "member of tho mayor's family accompanied the body. All during tho day vehicles drove up to the Gaynor home with floral offerings, offer-ings, and it was uecessary to omploj" two automobiles to carry the flowers when the procession started.