The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-25
With His Family and the Body Of His
Eldest Son He Is Now En- Route
to Cleveland.
ACTION OF THE CLASS OF '98
DEATH OF ADELBERT S. HAY DE-
PLORED BY YALE GRADUATES.
Denial of a Report that Secretary Hay
Intends to Resign-Many Mes
sages of Sympathy.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, June 2i-At 7:1O
o'clock this evening the body of Adelbert
S. Hay. who was killed by a fall from a
third-story window of the New Haven
House early Sunday morning. was started
on the journey to Cleveland, o., where the
funeral and interment are to take place
In the party accompanying the body were
the Hon. John Hay, Mrs. Hay, mother Of
the dead man, the Misses Hay, his sisters,
and Clarence Hay, younger brother.
Arrangements Tor the departure from New
Haven had been perfected during the day
while the members of the family were
awaiting the arrival of the mother and of
Miss Alice Hay, the youngest daughter,
from Newburn, y. II. Mrs. and Miss Hay
reached the city at $50 and, entering a
carriage, were driven directly to the Mos
ley residence on Wall street. There mother
and father met. After the sad greetings.
Col. and Mrs. Hay, with their daughters
Helen and Alice, and Clarence, the son,
entered the quiet room where the dead
lay. For a few minutes only they re-
NAMED and then the casket was closed to
be opened no more. All the members of
the family went through the trying ordeal
covered in a large measure from the pros
tration of the preceding day and Mrs. Hay
and her daughters although showing evil
dent traces of their sufferings when they
came out of the house an hour later. bore
up well. Immediately after the closing of
the casket the body was taken to the
railroad station.
About o'clock the family, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Wade. of Cleveland. arrived from the
Mosey house The casket, inclosed in
massive box of polished mahogany, was
placed in a mail and express and the
train left for New York. The party will
reach Cleveland tomorrow at 1890. Ar
irving there it will go at once to the Lake
view Cemetery and in the chapel there will
be held the last rites.
The general feeling of sadness so notice
able this morning still pervades the throngs
of graduates in New Haven tonight, and
especially is this true of the '9s men, with
whom Adelbert S. Hay spent the four
years of undergraduate life. Henry B.
Wright, secretary of the class of 1898. re-
ceived the following message from Bartlett
Harding Hayes. Of the triennal class at
Harvard tonight: "In the midst of our
triennial celebration our hearts are made
extremely sad by the deplorable death of
your classmate. Adelbert S. Hay. Our deep
est and most sincere sympathy is yours"
The reply follows: please extend to
your class the gratitude of Hays friends
at Yale for the fraternal message of SYM
pathy.''
The class held a meeting to-day and
passed resolution deploring the untimely
death of young Hay and expressing "appre
citation of his noble character and admirable
qualities" Two hundred members of the
class who are here to attend the triennial
reunion-the largest class reunion known in
Yale's history-were present at the meet
ing. Frank E Simmons, of St. Louis, pre-
siding. The ball game which was to have
been played by members of the class with
a team representing the class of '9S. and
was TO have been a notable feature of the
festivities, has been given up.
A committee consisting of Robert Rey-
nolds Hit, son of Congressman Hit, of
Illinois; Payne Whitney. son of ex-Secra-
tary of the Navy William C. Whitney, of
New York; James T. Wadsworth, son of
Congressman Wadsworth. of Genesee, N
Y; Robert Garrison, of New York, and
Julian Starkweather Mason. of Chicago
will represent the class at the funeral. Mr.
Hit was roommate of Adelbert Hay in
college