New-York tribune., 1905-07-03
4 SIMPLE FUNER4L.
arrangements announced at. CIeUe-
land after Late Meeting.
IBY TELE9RAPH TO THE TnIp,yE.


Cleveland. July 2.-Troop and a committee
of prominent business men will meet the body
of Secretary Hay, which will arrive here to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock. 1t will be taken
to the hall of the Chamber of Commerce Build
Ing, where it will lie until Wednesday morning
the time of the funeral. Then it will be borne to
Lakeview Cemetery, where a brief service con-
ducted by DR.. Hiram G. Haydn pastor of the
Old Stone Church, will be held. Only friends of
the family. President Roosevelt and members of
his Cabinet and delegation Of the Chamber of
Commerce will be permitted at the service. In
Difference to the wishes of MIS- Hay it will be
of an extremely simple nature. The service will
be held at IL a. m. and President Roosevelt and
his Cabinet members will leave Cleveland i'm
mediately after burial
The body will not be subjected to a public view
While it lies in the Chamber of Commerce
building only friends and relatives will be per-
mtted to view it.. This arrangement was made
at the express wish of Mrs. Hay. Mayor Tom
L. Johnson is in Brooklyn at the bedside of his
mother and acting Mayor Charles Lapp to-day
issued the following proclamation:
The remains of the Hon. John Hay Sec
retary of State of the United States will lie
in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce from
Monday to Wednesday morning. when they will
be inferred in Lakeview Cemetery. That due
respect be shown to the memory of so distin-
RuiSnen q man ana as a proper sense or our
appreciation of his exalted service to COM
country. l recommend to the people Of
Cleveland that far possible business be
suspended along the route taken by and espe-
cially during the passing of the cortege on
Wednesday morning.
further recommend that on July T. while the
remains are lying in the Chamber of Commerce
Hall, all persons refrain from making noise or
demonstration by the explosion of fireworks or
otherwise in the public square and in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the Chamber of Commerce
Building.
The funeral train will arrive in Glenville a
suburb at Z a. m but the car containing the
coffin will be held there three hours. and will
not reach the Union Station in this city until 10
o'clock. Colonel Hay one of the founders
in 1875 OF Troop A. He member of the
organization until he left the city, in 1856 Since
veteran member The non-commissioned Off
GERS of the troop will act as pallbearers at the
station.
In keeping with the wish of Mrs. Hay there
will be no ceremony at the station 1t is ex-
pected that there will be spectators since the
whole character Of the ceremonies is to he as
private as possible. IL is President Roosevelt's
desire to respect the wishes of Mrs. Hay and he
will not be entertained while here. simply driv-
ing with the cOrtege to the funeral, witnessing
the burial and returning with his party about
3 O'Clock He is expected here at o a. m
Wednesday
The central conference of American Rahbis
in session here, tonight adopted resolutions de-
statesmen who ever guided the destinies OF the
people of the United States. and who was one
of the greatest friends the Jewish people ever
possessed in any country at any time.