New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-19
j. Il. u. HASSARD DEAD.
A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR AND CRITIC.

xo ,.xcoupr AIMING STRUGGLE WITH con-
srMpr,os-LABoRs FOR the TRIBUNE
John Rose Greene IIassard. who for more than
..,entv wears WIS leading member Of Ink
r,,suxr editorial staff, died yesterday morning
a. bslfna 2 o'clock at his homo, No. els East
E,rhteenthst., from pulmonary consumption. lie
.vas conscious almost TO the last and passed away
ouietlv in the presence of his wife and mother
Mrs. Augusta Greene Hassard. Monsignor Preston
remained in the house all night. He was born
on September A, 1876, in Houston-st., almost OPP
posite the old Convent of Mercy, and was married
bv Monsignor Preston In ST. AIMS Church. on May
S 1872.
Though he had suffered for nine years from
consumption, IL was not until Saturday that his
ambition changed so much for the worse that
his death was expected at any hour. After that
time he ate almost nothing. Monsgnor Preston
Who has been his intimate friend for years. and
u. spiritual adviser as WELL visited him every
dav after Saturday and was by his bedside
mn 10 within short time before his death
he was sitting up until Tuesday morning
when the weak spells which foreboded death be
same so threatening that he was obliged to take
n his bed for the first time during his sickness,
ana there he remained until he died. For several
dsvs he lived on liquid food exclusively and such
other condiments of o medicinal nature as the
doctor prescribed little icc-crean was about
the last thing that he ate.
His illness due in q measure TO the labor
which be devoted TO translating the Tilden cipher
dispatches in 1878. 1t began with slight
cough to which he paid no attentions neglect
which undoubtedly cut short his life. He spent
the summer of 1870 in Europe, during which
time he wrote series Of interesting letters for
TnR TRIBUNE from London on places made famous
by Dickens, Thac]1eray and other wellknown
writers, which were afterward published In book
form. From Nassau, In the Bahamas, whittier
he went in the spring of ssl, he also wrote sew
eral letters lie revisited Europe In the following
vrar spending the winter months along the shores
Of the Mediterranean, and beguiling his time by
picturesque sketches for TaE TRIBUNE Of all that
was worth seeing or writing about IN that section
Of Southern Europe He had scarcely rested after
bis return home when he was once more on the
road in search of health his path leading him this
time across the Continent to Southern California.
His letters from Pine Mountain descriptive OF
Mat trip were In his usual delightful vein. The
winter of lss3's4 he passed in the Adirondacis
and his summers since then have been spent IN
that region But the fatal disease, already firmly
lmbedded in his system, could not be shaken OH
The funeral will take place at o o'clock Oh
Saturday morning in st. AIMS Church In the
presence of Archbishop Corrigan and large num-
Der Of priests The Archbishop will deliver
brief culogy Of the dead man. The Catholic
societies TO which Mr.. Hassard belonged will be
represented, and also the Century Club and the
Authors Club Of both Of which he was men,
ber The burial will be at Calvary Cemetery.