Show FAMED ENGINEERS ENGINEER'S WIFE tiFE PASSES AWAY AVAY Br Ei Associated Tress Press WASHINGTON June 18 IS 18 Mrs John Hays Hammond wife wile of th the noted engineer died here early to today today today to- to day after an Illness of several weeks With the exception of Richard P P. P Hammond who is in Paris all of her four children John Hays Jr Harris and Natalie Ha Hays s 's Hammond were at her bedside at their home on lash fash Kalorama road Mr Hammond Hammond Hammond Ham Ham- mond her year old husband anc ancher and her sister Mrs Charles Hoyle o of Washington were her constant at attendants at- at Mrs Hammond was the former fonner Miss Natalie Harris daughter of the Natchez Miss where she was born She married Mr Hammond In 1880 and traveled with the celebrated engl engi- neer reer throughout the world She was with her husband during the crisis In South Africa where he was sentenced to death for his activities as asa a leader in iii the reform movement in 1895 90 In the he Transvaal She aided in ob obtaining obtaining ob- ob taming release his for payment of a heavy fine She was noted for her civic anc and philanthropic work besides numbering numberIng number number- ing lug among her friends royalty and no of Great Britain and Eur countries She was a a. close friend of or Queen Victoria and when hen Mr Hammond was appointed specIal ambassador to England to attend to-attend the coronation of King George V in 1911 she accompanied him to London anc and distinguished herself as a hostess Mrs Hammond was In her seventieth seventieth seventieth seven seven- 3 year ear She had been ill for some time from a complication of dis dEs eases cases Funeral services were to be conducted conducted con con- ducted dueled privately at the Hammond homo late today with burial tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row at Greenwood cemetery In Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn New York |