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Show MILLION PEOPLE SEE FUNERAL. Body of Mayor Gaynor Laid at Rest ' In Brooklyn Cemetery. New York. Historic Greenwood cemetery, the resting place in Brooklyn Brook-lyn of many famous dead, received the body of New York's late mayor, William Jay Gaynor, at midafternoon Monday, after funeral services in his honor that were without parallel in the 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, the flag-drapped coffin was committed to the grave in the Gaynor family plot. The brief Episcopalian Epis-copalian service was read by Rev. Fraai W. Page, former pastor of St. Johns, the church where the mayor worshipped. A million people, it is estimated, saw the funeral cortege move slowly, first from ths city hall, where thousands thou-sands had witnessed the body lying in state on Sunday, to Trinity church, where Bishop Greer conducted the solemn services; then .back past city hall, across the Brooklyn bridge, through Brooklyn streets past the late mayor's Eight avenue home and on to the cemetery. |