The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-06-18

At the bedside was his aged wife
his daughter, Miss Ellen d. Hale
and his son, Philip l.. Hale. tn
artist. Two other sons, Arthur Hal
of Washington and Professor Edwart
Everett Hale, Jr., of Union college
returned home last evening.
On his return from Washington
a few weeks ago, it was reported tina
DR.. Hale was not in good health, bu
he soon regained his activities, ant
until Tuesday attended meetings anC
received friends. Wednesday night
however, he showed signs of distress
and rapidly weakening, passed peace
fully away in the morning.
1t seems as If the whole country
joins in mourning the loss of DR..
Hale. Messages expressing sorrow
and esteem are pouring into the Hale
household, one of the first being from
President and Mrs. Taft. People of
all walks of life, and especially those
whose professional careers brought
them in contact with Boston's leading
citizen, are eager to pay tribute to
a life so full of fruitful works. so in
spring to his fellow beings.
AS an author his fame rests on the
short stories, such as THE Man
Without Country" as an instigator
OF the social uplift the work of the
two great organizations, the Lend-a-
Hand clubs and The Kings Daugh-
tsrs, will always be to his renown;
as a minister and pastor, his half a
century in the pulpit of the South
ing in many other churches was pro-
lifc of wise spiritual inspiration !;
while as a historian, drawing patriot
ism from his famous uncle, Captain
Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary
martyr, his writings and antiquarian
works have become authorities.
II was DR.. Hale who, many years
before its contamination, predicted a
world wide peace tribunal; 1t was DR. :.
Hale who upheld Garrison and Phil
lips in their anti-slavery work; it was
DR.. Hale whose benevolent counsel
brought comfort to the sick and
wounded soldiers of the battlefelds OF
the Civil war, as a member of the
sanitary commission.
Edward Everett Hale was born in
Boston April 8, 1922. DR.. Hale's
father, born in Westhampton in
1884, was a journalist and one Of the
editors of the Boston Weekly Messen-
ger, the first weekly periodical de-
voted to literature and politics to be
published in the United States. In
March, 1914, he purchased the Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser. He was also
editor of the Monthly Chronicle and
was one of a club that founded the
North American Review in 1915 and
the Christian Examiner in 1923.
With his father so deeply interested
in newspaper and magazine work il
was not at all surprising that the son
should imbibe something of the at
mosphere OF the printing office, es-
pecially as he early learned to set
type in his fathers office. Indeed, in
after life II was DR.. Hale's proud
boast that he had been through every
department of a newspaper Office,
from reporter to editor-in-c chief. and
in his interviews with representatives
of the press he never lost an oppor-
tunity of fondly referring to those
days.
Hardly at any period Of his busy
rife did he relinquish his association
with the press in some form OF an
other. and up to the last issue of the
Christian Register he had edited a
department called Good News, ="
which was eagerly read. He also
contributed a signed weekly letter
to the Lend-a-Hand Record.