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“We Ro diversity I Fi i ‘i ii if an to whose of opinion HH 3 ° fy i i ? i i g j t ge eeu risa | iM: i}! | i fi [ e £% fi i hardty be i i i H | ; i thing to de. Gir, Qfitehel, highly as 1| personally regard him, { elected, for tt 4s quite evident that the rank and file of the Republicans will hot accept ‘hin and are likely to #tay away from the polie if te is insisted upon by the Fusion committer “Nor @o we want such a mud- sling- ing campaign such as Mr. Mitchell in- augurated by hie wanton assault upon Mayor Gaynor, ts Gesignating him as & ‘decoy candidate’ for Tammany. do not believe that Mayor Gaynor's id they are legion, will readily | t! ont into the Goynor movement | because we Belleved that Mayor Gaynor. | im combination with the other Fusion Nominees for the board of estimate, war the only moans of saving the city from & return of Tammany @omination. And if this still be vouchsafed us, let us Promptly gather around Mr. McAneny, superior fitness there tn “If this can be done, and if the Fu- sion candidates for the Heara of Feti- mate and other offices can be put on the MeAneny state 1 thimk the ticket could be elected ty @ considerable ma- j t f i 3-8 j 3 z ? % ge LiL se: deter- said | busy etringing bands of crape alone the re- balustralies shall the corridors of the main entrance had $58! H ? sad THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1918. New Mayor and Old Secretary On Steps of City Hall To-Day (Photographed Especially for The Evening World by a Staff Artist.) i AASBA OEY DODGER DEEL TEE HELE DE EeOOOOOOOORED | i] MAYOR KLINE BEGINS WORK: MANY JOB HUNTERS JOIN IN GREAT RUSH TO CITY HALL |New Executive Reaches His Office Railroaded into office, as it were, by happenings of good and om at 10 0’Clock and His First Work Is a Consultation With the Heads of Departments. fortume to others, Mayor Ardolph L. Kline took ap to-day the dutiesef Cale? Executive of the city of New York. Less than four months ago an Aléer- man, enjoying, by favor of the majority of Republicans ané Fustoniate, the titular honor of vice-chairman of the Board, be has come to the Mayoralty through the resignation of John Purrey Mishel from the office of President of the Board of Aldermen and the @enth of Mayor Gaynor. ' ‘The first event of the Mayor's day wis © meeting with the official family of file prefiecessor for the purpvee of tak- fag appropriate action en the death of Meyer Gaynor, and of arranging for the city's part in the funeral Evon ‘While the menting wae in progress poll- .| tielane were edging into the carridors Of the ground floor of the City Hall, secking an audience with the new ‘Mayer. Small politicians and large—moatly emall—and all of adherence to the Re- publican party, were dn the throng. [Moat of them were tn ‘tnfarilinr au roundings, for it hae been many « year ance « Republican has occupied the Mayer's chuinbers in the City Hall, ALL HOPED TO GET JOBS FROM NEW MAYOR. Ju the mental way of politicians these early arrivals at the City Hall's that the new Mayor would begit perhaps, ing im- might have clouded the he had chosen.” The Mayor referreé to the peast- bility that Mayor Gaynor wouRl have been defeated for re-election. Later in the Gay the Mayor, with See- retary Adamaon and Lieut. Kennell, the Dolice guard of the Mayor's eiies, posse for a moving picture machine et the fear entrance of the City Hall. ‘The Mayor went from hin oMee to the special meeting of the Board of Euti- 411.8 o'clock, using the private a@t the westerly end of the City Hall. On hie return he found the corridor outside his afficg blocked. It jas necessary for Léeut. to force & way through the throng. cores of regulars, but whe - knew layor Kilme and called him by mame, Were Ingistent upon immediate audience . | with him, 4 HA® TO ABANDON OPEN-HOUSE POLICY. Mayor Kline found that he weuld have im the politician's breast, and it doesn't tate much of. hope to start aim on the tratl of a Job. Howeve' may be stated from a ‘source semi-oMicial, that Mayor Kine eas not as yet decided upon any changes ‘tm the official family of Mayor Gaynor— t that he may not make changes Mater. But there will be no changes any kind until after Mayor Gaynor PED SE 5-4-5598 §-4-9404 56-6-9-06-006-92-9-90204900 O96: oreseat thet? cards apd wait for am audience, and who hat & 2 Fe E MAYOR'S FUNERAL ORDERED ae AT TRI ON SEPT, 22 mittee are legion. Mayor " ’ ij yop (Congaueé from First Page.) It ta wot conaia. | Waldo. that he will be able to with- Beard of Estimate and Apportionment this morning. thet wil be exerted 109" ‘ ‘Merde in the direction ing 901 and Gilling some. TO CITY. WALL WITH . POLICEMAN NEAR. @ Mayor reached the City Hall wetore 0 o'clock. He wae attended & pollceman in citizen's clothes who witpin reaching @istance of all the way from Bis home et Semetca. Previously Pdlico Commis- /@louer of Street Cleaning Kdawards, who ‘the ‘Mayor's faverite, tad trailed into the building, Workmen were panctu remain of tho term of! Mayor » which Mayor Kiine has been All, the patriots who s s i On motion of Comptraller, Prendapgest,,Mayor, Kline was empowered to appoint a com- of | Maltese of the -Board, to\be supplemented, should he see fit, by a committee Of eltiieme; $0 arrange for the'femorial services, which shall beheld goon after the funeral. The meeting pf the Board of Estimate was brief. Mayor Kline, in opening the proceedings, officially announced to his agsociates the death of Mayor Gaynor and voiced his persanal sorrow in about the language he used in bis first official proclamation to the people yesterday. The Board then adopted the following resolutions: “| ‘The Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the city of New York, convened ia special session, registers its profound sorrow and regret upon the death of William Jay Gaynor, Mayor of the City and Chairman of the Board. Fow men in the history of the city have given to it a greater measure ef service or devetion. His bas been a life-long fight againet dishonesty and corruption jn public life, and e@ constant struggie to secure, through the agency of municipal government, improv im the lot of his fellowmen. Im the hearts ef the people Mayer Gayner wen a singular place, and their sympathy wont out te him, as it has gone out to few, when an attempt, almost successful, was made apon his life three years age. His courage’ in the face of suffering, and his continued struggle through a period when prudence demanded that he rest from his arduous labora, further endeared him to a people whose affections are aroused in- atinetively by the display of a dauntless spirit. OFFICIAL MOURNING FOR THIRTY DAYS. In his death the elty loses a mind that has ever been active in {ts service, and ever hopeful of {te future goodness and greatness. ‘To his associates in this board the parting with Mayer Gaynor means not only the loss of a great and honored public servant, but a loss that ia deeply personal. Be it therefore Resolved, thet on behalf of the city of New York, and as am expression of the wish of the people, this board declares the city im official mourming for a period of thirty days, and that it cause the City Hall to be appropriately draped as a mark of respect to the Jate Mayor; and be it further Resolved that this board hereby express to Mayor Gaynor’s fam- ily ite heartfelt sympathy with them in the irreparable loss they suffer, and that @ copy of this minute and resolution be sent to them ORRICIALLY ERP a aman ego ft perendia the resolutions took ooca- REG. Borough P tt McAneny in ns Ladd FOR TAGS.) sn can thas be tots the Goath of Mager Gayeer to bee perscasi lees to ‘The Executive Committee of the @ay-'| every member of the board, He spoke of the strong pefsonaltty of the nor Nominating League to-day adopted | Mayor and of the guiding hand that was constantly felt by the Board of oe Manabion of resret, sor the desth | wettmate when Mayor Gaysor was in the presiding officer's chair. No The m oe oo brig ae matter what official differences there might have been, Mr. McAneny said, Committee of the Mayor Gaynor |the sincere personal friendship felt for the Mayor would be cherished by Pasion ont Hominating League | bis roent associates. ay of the audaen death of Hon wit. |CUSITANIA DUE HERE FRIDAY. fam J. Gaynor, Mayor of the olty of The Lusitania is due in New York next Friday with the Mayor's body. New York. Arrangements for the transfer were made by cable by the Mayor's Secretary, Pia Met Ag Mircea May 8) RoBert Adamson, Dock Commissioner R. A. C. Smith and other of Mr, Gay- Mayor entitles dis name to a con- | 26's friends, spicious place in the histery of our Ardolph L. Kitne, who became Mayor of New York through Mayor Btate. Gaynor’s death, cabled the Mayor of Liverpool, requesting him to facilitate By his patience, wisdom, excep- | the transfer aud to waive legal formalities, and a reply was received that Liverpool would be honored in doing what was necessary. Complete details of Mayor Gaynor's death did not come until last aight, when a second cabled message reached Mr. Adamson, reading in tional ability, courage, independence and devotion to the welfare of the city, he endeared timseif to the deople of our city, His reform will be of enduring | part: prude, 6 Father died at 1.07 P, M. on Wednesday, the 10th, His death was @ue to beart failure. He was seated in his deck chair at the time, I and the nurse and the ship's doctor were with him. 1 Giscovered bim unconscious in his chair, though still alive. He dled about three minutes later without recognising any of us. Every. thing possible wes dene, but he seemed to go out as a candle Mickers Board. When the adoption of the port, including a recommendation that Commissioner Watdo should be re- moved, was put te a vole Col, Kline refused to commit himself one way or another, although he was urged to do a0, : ‘When the Qlayer got back to ts office | he, had @ consultation on cfty business ‘with Boreugh Presideat Cannclly of Queens ané Borough President Cromwell of Richmené. HAD NO PART IN THE POLITICAL CONFAB. Mayor Kline found his office being used as » meeting place of @ political faction. Tee occurrence wae unusual ugh to cause comment. Within a ‘ow feet of ht deuit-tm-the private of-| fice of Secretary Adamson @ommis- sioner Johnson, Mr. Steckjer, Mr, Mc. Aneny ana Comptroller Prendergast were in season: Geliberating over the Proposition of the managers of the s0- called Gaynor party to put Mr, Me- Aneny at the head of the ticket. The report gained currency outside that Mayor Kline was taking some part in the conference. As a matter of fect the Mayer was not cognisant of what was going on"in the office of his aocretury until persons admitted to his ice told htm of the political con- ference almost under his nese The poltthal aspect of the situation rather overshadowed the new Qéayor. | But he was not overlooked by the crowd outside and when Runcheaa time | arrived he had @ hattul of eamis on hie desk, i af the’ main otairway and jalrendy beed draped ta seav-e busting. | ‘Tee new Mayor shook hands with | several men who had been around the entrance to als offices, He | held @ half-emoked cigar in the lett- hand corner of his mouts an@ wore a |Pemame hat with @ broad brim pulled {@owa ever his forehead. A man of | @amocratic demeanor, he showed that he is democratic in aypirit by leaving | his office open’ to all ‘comers. walked in unobstructed by police at- tondants or secretaries and found fim waiting to reesive them. haven't anything to say,” eaid the Mayer, after he had divested himself of bis coat and hat and’ eeated himself at.the big desk, “about what I am go- {ng to do except that I intend to tulfll the duties of Mayor of New York. SAYS MAYOR GAVNOR’S DEATH ‘WAS GLORIOUS. thougtt atruck me this morn. tug. I thought what « glorious deat was that of William Jay Gaynor, He ‘was alone as he had liked to be—alo: with his thoughts and jainly satio- fied with the achievements of his eareer, The end came to him et the Pinnacle of wucctess in public fe He ‘ted never suffered defeat and had al- een true to his ideals and prip- dust at —_— GAYNOR NOMINATORS jase), shall be reported te Uhe Ftate Board of Depertadon and promptly sent back to the Mate of their residence. The New York jaw {* so anxious to get rid of alleged insane persons from another State that it provides that doctors and nurses, if needed, be supplied to get rid uf them, The United States courts have ad- fudicated me & resident of Pitte- burgh, Pa, and reaMrmed this tact within the past three months, Now, why does any New York State oMfcial squander New York money to return me? (Signed) H. kK, THAW, es THAW EXTRADITION PAPERS SIGNED BY ACTING GOV. GLYNN. ALBANY, Sept. 12.—Acting Governor Glynn to-day signed the requimtion papers for the return of Marry 4. Thaw from Hampshire, POUGHKEDPSIE, Sept. 12.—District- Attorney Conger of Dutchess County to-day, carrying extra- We are bowed down by = deep sense of personal loss in the death our faithful friend and. fellow A ‘extend our sympathies to the a oore of his family, and be it urther Resolved that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes ef this eemmitton, Am all right and am trying to arrange to tring the body back to the deck to find him unconscious. The Mayor had died practically a tendency io bring on the heart att: -|WILL CALL OUT REGIMEN®S FOR FUNERAL. By order of Lieut.-Col. R. Fister Walton, Adjutant-General of the Na- tiowal Guard, with headquarters in this city, the flags on all the armories were lewered to half mast today. the family, Léewt-Col. Walton will | attend the funeral. Mrs. Gaynor was prostrated »; She was at Deepwells, their countr: received it. With her were her second son, Norman, and three of her) hastened te her mother. The othe was spending the summer, Secretary Adamson was accompanied to Deepwells by Edward M. Grout, the former jaw partner of Mayor Gaynor, and Charles H. Hyde. | Detective-Sergeant James J. MeKetrick, who frequently was the Mayor's | her cousin, Kitty O'Brien, bedyguard, wae assigned to keep curious persons from the grounds. Only a few intimate friends of the family were permitted to enter ship to the Town Hall. @ cablegram QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 12.—The chapel the body of Mayor William J. Geynor, her two days, ago, to-day. The American consul boar pathy to Rufus Gaynor, the dead Mayor's son. to Liverpool, and there the body will be transshipped to the Lusitania, which safis to-morrow for New York. ‘The flags of the Baltic were at half-mast in honor of the distinguished dead when she loomed up out of the of the mortuary chapel. ‘The few passengers who were early astir told graphically of the pass- fag of Mayor Gaynor, which was at tulnese. “He smiled as theagh in triamph,” said one, “and appeared like a man | asleep, dreaming a pleasant dream.” A fellow passenger who saw the had passed away, thought that smile was one of recdgnition and bowed as be passed the deck chair where a moment later Rufus Gaynor discovered bis father to be lifeless. “It was plain to all of us from very sick man, but on Wednesday, his last day, he told an acquaintance that he felt much better. His eyes, hed held a far-away look, as though affairs of bis office, on that day looked brighter and more animated. He sat for hours, in the bright sunlight notice of things aboard the boat than he had before. The Mayor Gaynor's luseheon order, immediately after giving which he muat have died, said that he had ordered jo, had noticed any fit of coughing or anything else that would have had arrived off Queenstown just as dawn was breaking ea eo | ea Lusitania, sailing from Liverpool on Saturday, the 12th. Rufus Gaynor said in this message, the matter of a personal nature in which was not given out, that he had left his father to go to luncheon, but, | feeling a premonition three minutes later that al: was not right, reurned | alone. Nobody, as far as despatches ack that killed him. If it meets with the approval of call out the regiments in tne city to ’ a yy the sews of her busbaad’s death, Y place at St. James, L. I., when she Griffen. rf married daughter, Mrs, W. Seward avenue, be dead, crime. sent. liner Baltic, bearing in its mortuary who died aboard ‘ded her and offered his ald and.sym- The Baltic proceeded on Irish mist, and crape was on the door once tragic and pathetic in its peace-| dead man before it was known that he the outset that Mayor Gaynor was a which before that, for the most part, | his mind was busy back home with the of the deck, smiling and taking more| ward who took & more hearty meal than usual.” SECON ID MAYOR TO DIE IN OFFICE; FIRST WAS WILLIAM F. BAVEMEYER Mayer Gaynor was the second Mayor of New York to die in office since the United States became a nation. The first was Mayer could be summoned By @ atngular ceincidence Mayor Havemeyer's son, William F. Have- jo yesterday. meyer, Was buri Wiliam F. Havemeyer, who was stricken at his desk in the Mayor's room at the City Hall in 1874 and died before medical aid sna SISTER NOT BUT ENJOYING HIGH LIFE Brother of Missing Artist's Model Scouts Suigide Letter and Pretty and headstrong Madeline Co Iman, xeventeen and an artist's meéel has tried to create the Amprension in the mind of her family that she has committed suicide, but her half-brother, who reported her disap- nce to the Bronx Detective “Bu- to-day, salt he believed #he had eloped with | Posuessen aytomobiles daughters, Helen, Marion an@ Ruth. Mrs. Harry K. Vingut, one of the! !nx accoutrements of Mayor's married daughters, was at her cottage near Deepwells, and the eyes of a young girl | Griffen, who lives at No, 111, Pugs | told the detectives that his Webb jr. was summoned by telephone from Bay Shore, L. 1., where she | sister had quarrelied with’ her family | Decause of their objection to her conduct and had been boarding at the home of a “| friend in the vicinity. went to Middietdwn to pay a tint to to return to the Bronx on A the following day a mailed a@ Newburgh, was received It was explained that Mrs. Gaynor was too ill from the shock | her family. to see any one. There is general sorrow at Bt. James over the Mayor's Genth, and thé post-office is in mourning, while ali Sage are at half mast. Mayor Gaynor’s Body In State in Liverpool LIVERPOOL, Sept. 12—The Liverpool authorities will render full civie heners to the body of Mayor William J. Gaynor of New York, who Gied on Wednesday afternoon on board the steamship Baltic, several hundred méles off the Irieh coast, on the arrival of the steamer at this port te-day. The body is to lie in state in the Town Hall, guarded by a detachment of police, until the casket is put on board the Cusard line! steamer Lusitania for shipment to the United States. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool took charge of the arrangementé, and tn compliment to New York, with which Liverpool has such close ties, and |&'!# Deen malied in Paris tos es a mark of sympathy with the American people, he arranged with the steamship officials to have the body transferred immediately from the| He has assigned mounted police to escort the cortege frem the head of the steamship pier to the Town Hall and bas picked men to guard the coffin continuously through the night. The body will be cemoved from the Town Hall to the Lusitania to-morrow morning. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool to-day sent to Mayor Ardolph L. Kline his sympathy with the people of New York. “By the time you receive this I will rend one passage in the letter “You will never see me alive again. But don't werry about me.” CINK POSTAL CLERKS .:. WITH $625,000 Testimony at Triai of Five Suspests in Necklace Theft Seems tour Show Connivance. » * LONDON, Sept. 1° ployes connived at the theft of the pearl Becklace valued at 925,00, which ays terlously disappeared on July 16 after jdeaier, seems to have been established by tile evidence presntd at th hes¥ing | to-day bfore a pollce magittrate ofthe Bow Btreet Court of the five men weld on suspicion of being concerned in the Whether the employes belong to the French or to the English postoMce, how- ever, the authorities decline to divatke verte aa DEAD Theory. wealthy qdimirer who “Bad other tempt: weallt giluping in Ns. On Aug. 0 she letter from lage ‘ROBBERY ~That postal iem- ndon On Steaks Write or Phone ; THE STANDARD PAINT CO, Se World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders. 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