Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-06-11 | Page 4 | Edward Everett Hale

EDWARD EVERETT HALE Boston i is in mourning today lie Ie who has been an au inspiration to its people for three score years ears who for a quarter of a It century past has luts been their grand old ld man is dead c The scholar the tile preacher the writer riter the author the patriot who held that no rio sacrifice for native nathe land was was anything more than a citizens citizen's duty is dead He lIe whose mast masterful brain was not great cat enough to carr carry out the higher longings of ot heart I and soul has bas fal fallen cn asleep and Boston is bereft bereft for fori forthe forthe i the people there have long felt that Dr Hale was the ver very highest highe t t type pe of New ew England character and that amid Massachusetts giants he lie stood in inthe inthe inthe the very err front row In the last years ears of the nineteenth century there was a a. a gala galaxy X of great men in that state stat which no other state could rival Edward Everett Hale flak was one of those these He lie paid his tribute to one after another until all had gone and now he has Joined the august company and one more nore sacred ed grave must be made in that soil which is hallowed by br more sepulchers of immortals than an any other state has to keep watch over o One woman is left Julia Ward ard Howe She passed assed her ninetieth birthday birthday birth birth- day on May Ia 27 7 and Dr DI date went to give her his ble blessing sing He Ue had passed hi his seventh eighty birthday birth da day on the 3rd of April That Tha was his last public appearance even ven then the machinery of his b body d was running down Yesterday morning it stopped and toda today w all Boston i is standing in iu tear around his bier