The Saint Paul globe., 1901-06-24
IS FRUSTRATED BY GRIEF
SECRETARY HAY OVERWHELMED
BY NEWS OF HIS SONS
DEATH
HAS GONE TO NEW HAVEN
Young Man Was Personally Popular
and HIS Death Has Thrown Cloud
Over commencement
Festivities.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 23.-The
Hon. John Hay, secretary of state, worn
by the trip of nearly nine hours from
Washington, D. c., to New Haven, and
nearly Frustrated by grief at the un-
timely end Of his Oldest son, Adelbert 8.
Hay, here this morning, reached this city
at 5:45 o'clock this evening. He was ac-
cCmpanied by his secretary Mr. Whit
ney, and was met at the station by R.
L. McDuffy, of New York city, and Mr.
Charles Wade, of Cleveland, Ohio. Col.
Hay gave evidence of extreme fatigue
and the mental agony incident upon his
great affiictfon was Enthusiastically writ
ten ON his features.
The secretary, with his party, imme-
diately entered a carriage and was driven
in great haste to the residence of Mr..
Seth Mosely, sc Wall street. In the draw
ing room of the house reposed the re-
mains of the dead son. In the presence
Of the beloved dead, Col. Hay utterly
collapsed, and Frustrated by his great
grief took to his bed. DIR. Samuel D.
Gilbert was summoned and administered
to the patient. Scarcely more than an
hour passed before Miss Helen Hay,
daughter Of the family, well-nigh pros
trated by Rthe shock of the sad news,
was at her fathers bedside The meet
ing was heart-rending in the fullness Of
its dignified suffering. Meanwhile there
gathered at the Mosely residence other
mourners for the dead. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Wade, Of Cleveland, who are in
the harbor on the yacht Wadena we're
the first of the more distant relatives to
arrive. R. L. McDuffy, of New York
city, another relative, received the news
in Cambridge, where he had been in at
tendance upon the Harvard commence
ment exercises Of last week. He hasten
ed to New Haven, arriving in time to
meet Col. Hay early this evening
This evening dispatches were received
containing the Intelligence that Mrs. Hay
the bereaved mother, and a daugher
Miss Alice Hay, are en- route from New
bury, and will reach New Haven tomor-
row morning. Clarence Hay, the younger
son, is expected late tonight or tomor-
row morning from Simsbury, Conn.,
where he has been at school Mr. Samuel
Mather, Of Cleveland, a brother -in-law
Of Secretary Hay, with his wife, will also
! reach New Haven tomorrow
AT the Mosely residence tonight it was
formally announced that no arrange
| n.ents covering the removal of the re-
mains and the funeral service will be
made until the arrival Of Mrs. Hay and
Mrs. Mather.
Late tonight Dr.. Gilbert. who Is at
the bedside of the secretary, announced
that the indisposition of Col HAY is not
serious, adding that he Is Simply over
Whellned with grief, and that the pros
tration will disappear after a sufficient
rest.
TOLD BY CORTELYOU.
The secretary learned of the death of
his son at Washington within an hour
ana q half of the tragedy, through Secre-
tary Cortelyou The latter had been cali
ed up on the long distance telephone at
| by Proprietor Mosely, of the New Haven
| house, the scene of the tragedy Mr.
| Moseley briefly told Secretary Cortelyou
OF the hndlns of the remains on the side
| walk ana of the other details of the
| accident, substantially as they were set
| out in the Associated Press dispatches.
Secretary Cortelyou hastened at once to
| the residence of Secretary Hay. and com
| munlcated the sad news as gently as pos
| sible.
The secretary appeared for the moment
| TO be completely crushed, but rallied and
| set calmly about preparing for Departure
for New Haven at the earliest moment,
| Save the servants, Secretary Hay was
| alone in his house, as all of his family
| have been absent from Washington since
| the secretary's visit to Buffalo Mrs.
Hay, with Adelbert and her two daugh-
! ters, had been spending a few days in
GIeyeland az, Ohi32 y and from that place
| H, on the shores Of Lake Sunapec.
| where the family had just settled down
| for the summer, with the expectation that
| the secretary would join them next
| month.
| AS soon as the president learned of the
news news ne dispatched telegram to the
chief of his cabinet to overtake him in
his Journey northward, expressing in the
kindly and sympathetic language which
characterizes the presidents communica-
tlons IN such cases, the depth of the sor-
row he felt for the bereaved family. Sec
retary Hays colleagues in the Cabinet
! followed this example, and Secretarv
| Long also sent q personal letter of svno
pathy and confidence. The cabinet offi-
GERS viii attend the funeral of Adelbert
Adelbert S. Hay was the eldest Son
of the secretary of state and was born
while the latter was living in Cleveland.
! Ohio, about twenty-five years ago. His
second name is Stone, which he bears in
| memory of the late Amasa Stone. his
maternal grand sire. He was educated
in the private schools of Cleveland and
prepared at st. Paul's academy in Con
cord. N H., for Yale At the university
he was popular scholar, for, though