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Show MILLION POfLE SEE FUNERAL. Body of Mayor Gaynor Laid at Reet In Brooklyn Cemetery. New York. Historic Greenwood cemetery, tbe renting place in Brooklyn Brook-lyn of many famous dead, received c the body of New York's late mayor, I Wiilla'n Jay Gaynor, at mldafternoon I Monday, after funeral service In bis Lonor that were, without parallel In tbe history of the city. In the presence pres-ence of the family the honorary pallbearers. pall-bearers. Including William Howard Taft and city officials, among them Mayor Kline, tbe flag dropped coffin u committed to tbe grave In the q Gaynor family plot. Tbe brief episcopalian epis-copalian service was read by Hev. Frank W. Page, former pastor of St. Johns, the church where tbe mayor worshipped. A million people, It is estimated, p ww tbe funeral cortege move slowly, ilrst from the city ball, where thousand thou-sand bad witnessed tbe body lying In state on Sunday, to Trinity church, where Bishop Greer conducted tbe solemn services; then back past city ball, across tbe Brooklyn bridge, through Brooklyn streets pat tbe late j mayor's Eight avenue borne and on 0 to tbe cemetery. . |