The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
COLONEL HAY N ENGLAND
"PERIANDER'' JOURNEYED WITH
THE AMBASSADOR no ALBION.

Vivid Pen Sketch of Mr.. Bayard's Sue
cessor-His Strong Americnnism Made
Patent in His southampton Speech
Comforts and Discomforts of Ocean
Travel.
southampton, April 21st, 1897,
To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
The steamer st, Paul of the American
line has just landed at this English
town His Excellency Colonel John Hay,
ambassador of the United States to the
Court of St. James. Among the other
passengers was a modest individual I'M
known to fame, whose veracity howev-
err, the New Haven public has come to
trust implicitly In all matters which
come within the revolve of his benign
eye and the reach of his humble pen,
The colonel having been projected by
the present administration into his eX
allied position from private life is
public character. His fellow citizens
have the same right to know all about
him they have to know all about new
public building, or new tariff meas
ure. When to this right is supplement-
ed sympathetic desire, and curiosi-
ty tempered by considerable regard, it
becomes wrong to withhold from an ex-
pectant public facts gained by the con-
junctivities of an ocean voyage.
| Mr.. Hay Is rather short but well put
| together. He has still the outline of
youth and vigor. His trousers were too
| long and too large to display the curves
of his limbs; but his steps were elastic,
quick, springy, nervous. His round,
well-formed head is abundantly clothed
with thick, dark hair. His side whis-
kers are also dark. On his chin there
are gray hairs. His moustache is deci-
dedly gray but strong and aggressive,
If the rest of his face were shaven, the
| moustache would present firm, mill
tary, hirsute front. Mr.. Hays eyes are
dark. Through his spectacles they ap-
| pear large and glowing. But Mr.. Has
is very near-s sighted and his glasses are
| magnitiers. Without the glasses his
eyes appear small and have a little of
| that uncertain look which is insepara-
BILE from extreme near sightedness, but
which must never be regarded as indi-
| eating weakness of character. If you
were to see Mr.. Hay without knowing
who he was you would think you were
| looking at a person who might be an
eminent physician, an illustrious teach
err or celebrated writer
In conversing with Mr. Hay you are
first struck by the melodious tone of
| his voice and by his very distinct pro-
nunciation; then by his vocabulary.
He uses words which other people have
to look up In dictionaries. His off-hand
sentences are worthy of places IN stud
led compositions. Yet there is no af-
fectation In his talk 1t is simple, hon
Sot, otl calSiittOl al u, Will d vein VI llu-
NOR and a fine thread of Imagination.
Every educated gentleman ought 70
talk in the same manner. To do So,
however, he must school himself and
not allow any inelegancy or inaccuracy
to pass his lips.
AS Mr.. Hay held position under Lin
coin, he must be nearly sixty. RE
doesn't appear a day over forty Ave
He may have lived sixty calendar
years. He hasn't lived many more
than forty of his own years No great
er nonsense than that of measuring all
liz es alike by one fixed calendar Gus
mans years are so weak and short that
he may have reeled them off while the
world is calling him thirty. The years
Of another are so long, virle and ex-
panding that at sixty he may be still
reaching his prime. Consult Sperry
and Mr. Ketcham on the subject
Mr.. Hays opinions and intentions
may be cleaned from the little speech
he made this morning. As soon as the
vessel was fast at the wharf deputa-
ton came aboard headed by the mayor
of Southampton done up in his red
robes preceded by his mace bearers
also in their toggery. The party con-
sisted of quite variety of the city's
officials, and was determined to deliver
.nrtt nf f,,Io t,,,,
speeches and addresses. How insuffer-
ably hot became the ships so-called H.
brary, where the performances took
| place; how difficult it was to hear, anG
how those who were wise and near the
doors got out before the thing was halt
over, need not be narrated. The mair
| point is Mr. Hays speech, which was
published verbatim in the afternoon
papers. Here it is. Read it carefully
and read every word of it: 81 canno,
tell you how much I am gratified
pleased and touched by this most kind
and unmerited compliment rendered tc
one entirely unknown to you. l car
only regard 1t as a manifestation o.
friendly feeling towards the country
represent (hear, hear, and from tina
point of view it is Infinitely more pleas.
ing to me than any personal civility
could possibly be. I come here to worl
to of NV o1eDdar oil 60,