The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02

time ior the study or the practise OF law
IN that office IN those days; twas a school
Mr.. Hay was constantly about Lincolns
business. From those days until the MUIR
der OF Lincoln In 1895 Mr.. Hay was always
at his side and the closest in his confidence
He learned to know the attitude Of mind
OF Mr.: Lincoln toward all problems Of states
manship.
When Lincoln became President he
took Mr.. Hay who had just been admitted
to the bar, to Washington with him as an
assistant secretary. with Mr.. .Nicolay.
MIR. Hays duties we're far broader than
those which are now associated with the
post which he occupied.
SERVICE AT THE FRONT.
In, order that he might act for Mr.. Lincoln
at the front he was made an Assistant
Adjutant-General with the rank Of Major.
He was also the 'adjHtant Of the Com;
under Gems Hunter and Gilmore.
He was breveted Lieutenant Colonel.
All through the war he lived for the most
part at the White House when he was in
Washington, and his hours Of duty followed
the clock through its rounds; he caught
sleep and food when he might.
When the Administration household was
torn to pieces by the assassination there
was general feeling at Washington en-
trely without stimulation by MIR. Hay,
that his abilities ought not to be lost to the
The secretaryship Of the Legation at
Paris was offered to him and he accepted
it with lively sense Of the opportunities,
public and personal. that 1t afforded. He
distinction through several periods when
Mr.. Bigelow was away from France:
He went to Vienna as Charge o'Affaires
in 1908. From his post he resigned. Soon
after his return to the United States MIR:
Hay was sent to Spain as Secretary OF
Legation under Gen. Daniel R.. Sicklee
He came home in 1870. He told his friends
that alt though he had gained much by the
opportunities for travel and for the study
Of world policies and for literary obeerva,-
gone as far in the diplomatic service as he
could get without many years OF rather
barren service.
WRITER on THE TRIBUNE
He sought the opportunity Of expression
To this end he began writing for the New
York Tribune. Horace Greeley had long
had his eye on Mr.: Hay and had once tIied
by the offer Of 5000 a year, which was
s.. 200 a year more than the Government
was paying Mr.. Hay. At that time though,
Mr.. Hay ives engrcssed In work which
he felt that it would not be fair to turn over
Mr.. Hay was writer. for the editorial
columns Of the Tribune for five years and
fully justified Mr.. Greeley's confidence In
his abilities. In 1871 Jim Bludso' and
Little Brooches" were published. with 2
were produced in Mr.. Hays days at college.
under the title pike County Ballads"
In the same year his sojourn in Spain was
reflected by the publication Of 'cassilian
Days"
HIS MARRIAGE TO CLARA STONE.
While Mr.. Hay was still in the employ
Of the Tribune, in 1874. he married Miss Clara
L. Stone, the daughter Of Amasa Stone OF
Cleveland. Mr.. Stone was very rich man.
whose rugged simplicity had made Mr..
Lincoln very fond Of him. 1t was through
President Lincoln that Mr. Hay met Mr.,
for the same qualities which had impressed
themselves on the President.
Mr.. Stone was eager to have his dau ghter's
household as full of comfort as his own,
il not more go. He crowded gifts on his
son-in- law, who was soon in position to
follow his literary inclinations without
any thought Of the income to be gained
In 1878 Mr.. Hay moved to Cleveland.
Except for two years IN Washington a.
Hayes and a brief activity as presiding
officer OF the International Sanitary Con-
gress in 1881, Mr.. Hay almost dropped out
of public life.
SONNET OF LOVE AND VENICE.
He contributed constantly to the periodi-
calls: his verse was by no means OF the Bret
Harte school, Out of a great number OF
gu CHI fu gitive verses this sonnet is typical:
Love- In the summer night do YOU recall
Midnight. and Venice. and those skies Of June:
Thick strewn with stars. when from the s'lh iagoon
We glided nolseless 10 the dim canal!
a sense of some forgotten festival
M H9nS a sn% SHI
Ilt up on dome and tower and palace wall mai.
whS; chests OF SySen sros ar
saw In those rich beams that kissed your hair
"a Of wv In
Ali the dead loves Of Venice In my heart.
MIR. Hay translated Emilio Castelar,
Treatise on the Republican Movement IN
Europe, and the work was puplsM1e e FL, he 70
ton, where he has made his home ever since.
He then began, with Mr.. Nicolay, Abraham
Lin coln, a History" a work which Is and
will remain the final authority on the history
Of this country between 1880 and 1859. Inc
Works" The life Of Lincoln occupied nearly
all Of Mr.. Hays working time for fifteen
years.
NOVEL THAT MADE STIR.
aThe Breadwinners.' novel published
an on ymously, made tremendous literary
stir on it's publication In 1893, A score OF
more or less prominent though noI par' leu
bility for it's authorship Mr.. Hay was not
among them. though it H. now known that
the work was his. and formal announce
ment Of the fact from the publishers is now
to be looked for.
Mr.. Hays literary papers and addresseee
in this period. as all through the renewal
Of his public life after 1897 have been marked
by the distinction of their literary quality
and their freedom from tricks OF phrase
and scholastic veneer. Simplicity without
roughness, scholarship without pedagog-
ism flowed evenly through all his writing.
and in his political and memorial addresses
such for instance as the Grafton on Presi-
dent Mckinley, there came with his words
a sense of warm feeling and a depth OF
sincere emotion which gave him a place
in the esteem Of the people which was far
different from that of the professional
speechmakers Of the land.
AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND
Mr.. Mckinley made Col. Hay the Ambassa-
dor to England in 1897 -. To the peculiarly ar,y
have come to regard as inevitable in an
American Ambassador Mr.: Hay had TO to
war with Spain. The friendly offices OF
Great Britain in that war were received
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