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Show MAYOR GAYNOR DIES OHSTEAMER END COMES WITHOUT WARNING AND IS ATTRIBUTED TO HEART DISEASE. Found Unconscious in Steamer Chair by Son, Who Was His Traveling Companion to Europe in Search of Health. New York. William J. Gaynor, mayor of New York city, voyaging over sea on the steamer Baltic in- the hope of regaining his strength to enter en-ter the three-cornered municipal campaign cam-paign as a candidate for re-election, died suddenly Wednesday on the Baltic, Bal-tic, as the steamer was within a few hundred 'miles of the Irish coast. Dispatches from his son, Rufus W. Gaynor, who was his father's only traveling companion, gave details which showed that the end had come with shocking suddenness. "Father died at 1:07 p. m. on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, the 10th," said the message. "His death was due to heart failure. He was seated in hrs decs chair at the time. The nurse and I and the ship's doctor were with hirn. I discovered dis-covered him unconscious in his chair, though still alive. He died three minutes min-utes later without recognizing any of us. Everything possible was done, but he seemed to go as a candle flickers out." The death of Mayor Gaynor automatically auto-matically transferred the office of mayor to Colonel Adolph L. Kliue. a Republican, president of the board of aldermen. Colonel Kline took the oath of office late Thursday, and his first official act was to call the board L.w'v-'-w'-.,v..'.''.-a?rja r i r y , . i f x 1 l X r - IVi 1 WILLIAM J. GAYNOR. cf estimate together to lay plans for the public funeral services of his predecessor. pred-ecessor. Mayor Kline then ' declared that during his short term of office, which will terminate on January 1, 1914, he. would carry out the policies cf Mayor Gaynor, so far as he knew il.ein. Rufus W. Gaynor was born at Whitestown, N. Y in 1S51. He bad been a reporter, lawyer, justice of the supreme court, and as a politician gained a national reputation in his fight for political purity. |