Puget Sound That He Loved To Receive Hayden's Ashes
 The waters of Puget Sound, loved in life by Brig. Gen. John L. Hayden, U. S. A., retired, will receive this week the ashes of the former commander of the Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound. General Hayden died yesterday at his Port Townsend home.
Carrying out the wish of the 69-year-old Coast Artillery veteran, relatives and friends were arranging yesterday Masonic funeral services, to be held this week at Port Townsend. Cremation will follow the services, and the ashes will be scattered over the waters General Hayden first saw as a child and grew up to defend.
Amid Scenes of Boyhood 
General Hayden's death came amid scenes of his boyhood, where the traditions of the Army were absorbed by him as soon as he could understand them.
Two sons of General Hayden, who followed his footsteps and entered the Coast Artillery service, were at the bedside when their father died. They are Maj. James L. Hayden, United States Military Academy instructor, and Capt. Frederic L. Hayden, who flew from the East after the general suffered a stroke February 8. Double pneumonia developed from the stroke, but oxygen administered by physicians for several
days offered temporary strength.
Retired in 1922
Thirty-seven years after he was appointed to the Military Academy at West Point, General Hayden retired March 31, 1922. Since that time he had lived in his comfortable but unpretentious home near Fort Worden.
The general was born November 2, 1866, in Chicago. He was the son of James R. Hayden, a captain in the 19th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. When young John was several years old, the family moved to Olympia and he spent his childhood there and elsewhere on Puget Sound.
When John Hayden was 17 years old, he was appointed to the Military Academy, June 15, 1884. Four years later he was graduated, sixth in his class. He was appointed a second lieutenant and in September entered the service at The Presidio, San Francisco. He went to Fort Mason, Calif.,   the next year. 
In Indian Campaign
As a lieutenant he returned to Washington when he was stationed at Fort Canby, at the mouth of the Columbia River, then spent a short time at Fort Columbus, N. Y., in 1890. He joined a light