New-York tribune., 1905-07-02

Hoe Mr. Hay appeared in NezOspa-
per York, College and Public Life.

In regard to the character of Secretary Hay
a recent writer says:
a of profound convictions, Secretary
Hay has carried his religion into his daily life;
not that one ever hears him talking 1t or setting
up a moral code that he would force upon his
neighbor but it governs all that he does and
rules his life. The foundation of all religion, It
has been said, is charity and Justice and those
two cardinal virtues find their full measure in
Secretary Hay. His innate love of justice and
his scrupulous regard for the rights of others
follow as a natural cOrollary TO his houndless
charity, for the charitable must necessarily
be the just It is this characteristic which
has enabled Secretary Hay to win so many dtplo-
matte triumphs and which has made his admin
!straton of the State department. ever memOra-
BILE in American history.
One Of his associates when he was an editorial
writer for The Tribune was E. V. SnaIley, and
in writing of him in later years he had this to
saw
When I first knew John Hay we fellow
workers on The New-York Tribune in the old
building on the corner OF Spruce-st. and Print
ing House Square which Whitelaw Reid subse-
quently pulled down to make room for the first
of the modern tall structures erected in New
York The main editorial redolent Of
sour paste and printers ink, but 1t housed
number of of the brightest in American
Journalism. The ceiling was low and the win
dows were cobwebbed and fyspecked. The little
desks griTny from long use, stood so close to-
gether that the writer's could almost touch ell
bows On one side of me sat Bayard Taylor the
poet and on the other George Ripley, the great
est and kindest of the literary critics of his day
Other occupants Of the room were John Hay,
John r. G. Hazard, our best all round leader
writer; Charles c. Congdon, Isaac H. Bromley,
who has never been exceled on the New-Yor
press as a satirist and humortst, and Edward L.
BurlingaTne. now and for many years past the
Editor of "Scribner's" Hays work was gen.
eraI editorial writing, and he especially
strong in national politics and foreign affairs.
In writing of his college days William l.
Stone classmate at Brown has this to say
Of John Hay:
He at once took high rank as writer. This
was evident not only from his essays in the de-
partInents Of rhetoric and the various sciences
in short in all those studies in which good writ
ing subjoined TO a thorough knowledge Of that
subject is required-but from the fact that
whenever anything above the ordinary
needed in the way of composition his services
were at drawn upon This, too was the
more noticeable when II is recalled that the
class of which he was a member was made up
of an unusual number Of brilliant men, ex-
ceiling especially in composition, and many of
whom have since become eminent in different
walks of life particularly that OF Journalism
Upon his first entering the university. the
Intellectual buIIies of his class. mistaking these
traits for weakness, were disposed to look down
upon the newly entered collegian from Illinois.
1t was but ii little while, however. when his
sterling worth gave them pause During his
entire college life the stand IN scholarship taken
by HAY among his classmates was of a high
order Nor did his industry although his abilf-
~ rendered that habit of less value to him than
members of his class not so gifted.
Regarding Hay as poet, his Pike County
Ballads" depicting a peculiar phase OF Western
Civiization and published some years since.
gave promise of it's authors eventually attain
ing high rank in that department of letters
ana to his friends it has always been a source
of much disappointment that he did not WOO
the muse more Zealously. Hays faculty OF
rapid composition simply marvellous. and
would scarcely be believed. by myself
had | not repeatedly witnessed IT.
In an article in THE Review of Reviews"
Henry Mcfarland has this TO say Of Secretary
Hay:
Colonel Hays great good fortune, the cor
nerstone of his successful career. was his early
association with 4 hraham Lincoln. He IS the
only survivor in prominent place or Lincoln .
men. and IL distinguished from other public