The San Francisco call., 1909-06-11
NATION MOURNS
THE DEATH OF
REV. [. {. HALE
Chaplain OF Senate Breathes
His Last in His Home at
Roxbury, Mass.
President and Mrs. Taft Lead
Whole Country in Express
SionS of Sorrow

BOSTON, June 1o.-The morning g
light was breaking as Rev. Edward
Everett Hale. D. D., chaplain OF the
United States senate, Unitarian divine
philanthropist, author. journalist and
lover of peace, breathed his last today
in his home in Roxbury.
At the bedside were his wife, his
daughter. Miss Ellen d. Hale, and his
son, Philip L. Hale, the artist The
other sons, Arthur Hale of Washington
and Professor Edward Everett Hale Jr.
Of Union college, returned home TINS
evening. Tomorrow 1t is expected that
partial arrangements -or the funeral
Monday in the South Congregational
church. of which DIR. Hale was the pas
tor emeritus, will be announced
WHOLE COUNTRY MOURNS
On his return from Washington
few weeks ago 1t was reported that Dr.
Hale was not in good health, but ne
soon regained his activities, and until
Tuesday attended meetings and re-
ceived friends.
1t seemed as if the whole country
Joined in mourning the loss or DR..
Hale. Messages expressing sorrow
and esteem poured into the Hale mousse
hold, one of the first being from Presi-
dent and Mrs. Taft
DEATH SHOCKS BOSTON
News of the death of DR.. Hale
shocked Boston to an unusual degree,
because comparatively few knew that
he was Ill. A week ago he was pres
ent at a celebration in honor OF the
ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, his contemporary in many OF the
reform movements with which both
had been identified for more than %
years.
To his family it had been apparent
for some time that DR.. Hale's health
was failing. His great age, 81 years,
initiated against him. But even yes
terday he was up and about his apart
ments. He retired at the usual time
last night, but as the night passed DR..
Hale constantly became weaker until
death came.
NATIVE OF THE HUB
DR.. Hale was born in Boston in April.
1922, and by training. education and
tradition he represents throughout the
81 years OF his life the spirit of the
founders of the Massachusetts, Bay col
ony. He was graduated from Har-
ward in 1889. He was actively con-
nected with the Boston Advertiser
many years ago, and his first charge
as a clergyman was church in
Worcester. He was a prolific writer,
and had for years been allied with the
principal philanthropic movements of
the city, state and nation.
FAMOUS AS AUTHOR
AS an author DR.. Hale's fame rests
on his short stories, such as The Man
without Country" AS an instigator
of social uplift. the work of the two
great organizations, the Lend-a- Hand
club and the Kings Daughters, will al
ways add to his renown; as a minister
and pastor his half century in the pull
pit of the South Congregational church
and his preaching in many other
churches were prolific Of wise spiritual
inspiration; while as a historian his
writings have become authorities.
Besides being a preacher. Rev. Ma
than Hale was printer, and in his Of
fee the son, Edward, learned type
setting and developed a leaning to-
ward newspaper work, which, during
his college course at Harvard, he cul-
tivated by becoming a reporter on the
Boston Advertiser. In later years, al
though he had elected to follow his
fathers calling as a clergyman of the
Unitarian Ialtn, he DecdHe euiloT oi
the Advertiser, occupying the chair at
the time of the civil war.
DIR. Hale's pastorate at Worcester
over the Church of the Unity, followed
service with a number of smaller
churches. The South Congregational
church of Boston became DR.. Hale's
ministerial home in 1856. Since 1898
DR.. Hale has been pastor emiritus OF
the sparish.
MARI Twain Caddeued