Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
MRS. J. \. HAMMOND
DIES AT HOME HERE
Wife of internationally Re-
noWned Engineer Will Be
Buried in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mrs. John Hays Hammond, wife Of
the internationally renowned engineer,
died early today at their home, 222l
Kalerama road, after an illness OF
several weeks. Death resulted from
what was described as short, severe
attack Of encephalitis lethargica, or
sleeping sickness. Mrs. Hammond was
conscious until the end.
Private funeral services are being
conducted at the home late this after
noon by Rev. Re Barney T.. Phillips,
rector of the Church of the Epiphany,
of which she was member. Burial
will be tomorrow in Greenwood Gene
terry, Brooklyn, NJ Y, where DR.. Phil
lips also will off1ciate.
Family Present at End.
With Mrs. Hammond when she died
were her husband and three of their
children-Harris, John Hays, jr., and
Natalie Hays. Their other son, Rich
ard P. Hammond, is in Paris. A sister,
Mrs. Charles Hoyle of Washington, also
survives Two sons died in infancy.
Mrs. Hammond, the former Miss Nat
allie Harris, was the daughter of the late
Judge Nathaniel Harris of Vicksburg,
Miss, her birthplace
She met Mr.. Hammond when they
both were students in Germany, he
taking an engineering course in Frei-
burg, and she, music in Dresden.
They were welded just SO years ago
Just IS, was embarking on the career
that was to bring fame and fortune
Fought to Free Husband.
Through the adventurous years that
marked their early married life, the
young wife was at her husbands side
in far corners of the world. First,
Mexico, later in South Africa. where
she fought for his freedom when Ham
mond and three companions were con-
demned by order of Paul Kruger, Presi-
dent Of the South African Republic, to
die on the gallows, as an aftermath Of
the Jameson Raid, which grew out of
the efforts of foreigners to protect their
property against abuses by the Boer
government. She still was his constant
companion. when later years brought
honorS.
One son was an infant in Mexico; in
her travail in South Africa there were
two youngsters to be looked after. OF
this, she afterwards said:
I'VE have suffered many hardships
in common and during my early life at
the mines have known what it was
to be underfed and cold. I have slept
with my baby on my breast under
cart in the dust of the highroad. We
have Travelled together in every known
sort of vehicle-bullock wagon, cape
cart and private Pullman. For days
at time, my saddle has been the only
pillow 1 have known at night. have
always been my husbands comrade,
his greatest admirer, and his best
friend"
Wrote Two Graphic Works.
Out of her South African experiences
came two works-one a graphic ac-
count Of the Jameson Raid and her
husbands Imprisonment, and the other
a book, "A Womar's Part In Revolu-
ticn."
Mrs. Hammond was a woman of
varied interests, social, civic and philan-
thropic, but the demands on her time
were never too great to prevent her
giving deepest attention to the chill
dren, John HAYS, jr., has won fame
as an inventor; the daughter has come
into prominence by her art, the son
in Paris Is o musician and composer
and Harris, the eldest, is pursuing q
business career.
Mrs. Hammond numbered among her
friends Queen Victoria and others OF
the royalty and nobility Of Europe.
When Mr.. Hammond was appointed
special Ambassador to England to at
tend the coronation Of King George
v in 1911 she distinguished herself as
q hostess. Linked with these social
endeavors, however, always was the
work in other fields.
She founded and was chairman Of
the Womens Department Of the Ma
tional Civic Federation, in connection
with which she was instrumental in
bringing about many prison reforms.
While residing in New York in 1916,
she founded the Militia of Mercy,
which at first was instrumental In COM
batting the plague Of infantile paralysis
and bringing teatment to hundreds Of