MRS. HAY BURIED, STUDENTS MOURN.
WIDOW OF FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE INTERRED IN LAKEVIEW CEMETERY.
WESTERN RESERVE CLASSES AND FACULTY ATTEND CHAPEL SERVICES.
Burial services for Mrs. Clara Stone Hay, widow of former Secretary of State John Hay, were held at non yesterday on the campus of Adelbert College in Amasa Stone Chapel, dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Hay's father.
The service was attended by relatives and friends and by students and professors of all departments of the university. Seniors of the College for Women filed silently into the chapel at 12:15 in formal cap and gown. Friends were ushered to seats by Profs. W. G. Leutner, H. W. Springsteen and H. E. Bourne.
Rev. Dr. Charles F. Thwing, president of the university and friend of Mrs. Hay, assisted Rt. Rev. William Andrew Leonard, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Ohio, in conducting the services. A choir composed of students of Adelbert college sang "Defend Us, Lord, From Every Ill," a hymn composed by John Hay.
Preceding the reading of the service, G. G. Miller, Adelbert college junior, sang "The King of Love My Shepherd Is." An organ prelude was played by Charles E. Clemens, professor of music at the College for Women.
All activities of the university were suspended while the service was being held.
Clarence Hay, only surviving son of Mrs. Hay, who was in Mexico at the time of Mrs. Hay's death, could not reach Cleveland in time for the funeral. It was not known yesterday whether he will come to the city.
Mrs. Payne Whitney and Mrs. J. W. Wadsworth, daughters of Mrs. Hay, both of New York city, attended the service. With them were seated Samuel Mather, 2605 Euclid av., brother-in-law of Mrs. Hay, and Samuel A. Raymond, 3826 Euclid av. Mr. Raymond was related through marriage to Mrs. Hay and acted as her Cleveland agent.
The congregation which filled the ground floor of the chapel rose at the beginning of the reading of the service and remained standing as the funeral procession headed by Bishop Leonard and Dr. Thwing filed out.
The casket was covered with ferns, orchids and lilies of the valley. During the service it stood in the chancel, which was banked with flowers.
Pallbearers were S. Livingston Mather and Amasa Stone Mather, sons of Samuel Mather; Henry J. Raymond, George Garretson, Jeptha Wade, Garretson Wade, Henry P, Bingham and Chester Bolton.
Mrs. Hay was buried in Lakeview cemetery beside her husband.
Immediately after the funeral, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney and Mr. and Mrs. Wadsworth left for New York on the private car Wanderer which brought them to Cleveland early yesterday morning. The casket containing the body of Mrs. Hay arrived on the same train and was taken at once to the chapel of Adelbert college.
As soon as it arrived there the flag of the college was lowered to halfstaff and remained so throughout the day. Students of Adelbert college, which was named after Mrs. Hay's brother, acted as a guard at the chapel in the morning.
