The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-18
WILL REST In NATIVE SOIL
Col Alex. Nj. Mason to Be Inferred
in Oak Hill.
Served Under Many Flags -Conspic-
uous for Gallantry in the
Confederate Navy.

| Ihe funeral services over the remains of
the late Col. Alexander Macomb Mason
mason Beyj, OF the Egyptian army, viii be
held tomorrow afternoon at o clock from
| his late residence, No. i7l6 Rhode Island
avenue northwest. Rev. Randolph H. Nc
kim VIII officiate. Interment will be at
| Oak Hill.
Col. Mason was native of this city, hav-
ing been born here in 164I. He was the
| son of John Mason, a prominent member
| Of the District bar, and a grandson Of
George Mason, of Gunston Hall, Va, au-
! thor OF the bill of Rights" Another
grandfather was Major General Alexander
Macomb, cOmmander-in-chief of the United
States Army at the time of his death in
1S41. He was also first cousin OF Gen
| Fitzhugh Lee.
| Col. Mason's first naval service was as a
| private's mate on board the frigate Nj
| agara, when that vessel was engaged in
| laying the first Atlantic cable In 1858
| he was appointed a Inidshipman, and en-
| tered Annapolis, from which place he re-
signed in 1861, TO join the Southern Con-
| federacy. Throughout The war he served
with conspicuous gaIlantry. He partici-
| pated in the great naval fight in Hampton
ANO1hS bI Gn . ISDSs he was at
Drury's Bluff when that fertilization re-
| pulsed the attack of the Galena, Monitor
and Stevens batteries; and was in the
Chicora at Charleston, on the occasion
OF Admiral Ingraham's repulse OF the
| squadron blockading that port.
In 1863 Col. Mason ran through the
blockade at Charleston, and went to Eu-
| rope on business connected with the Con-
federacy. While in England he acted as
private secretary to his uncle, then ex-
United States Senator, and the Confederate
commissioner, who, with Mr.. Slidel, was
taken out OF the Trent by Admiral Wilkes
In 1864 Col. Mason returned to this coun-
try, running the blockade into Whining
ton, and served with conspicuous gallantry
until captured at Sailors Greek, one of
the last battles of the war.
AT the close of the war he served in the
Chilean army against the Spaniards, for
some time was mate on merchant vessel,
and took service with the Cuban revolu-
tionists against Spain.
In 1870 he entered the service of the
Khedive of Egypt as an officer in the
Egyptian army.
Col. Mason made the first survey of
the Lake Albert Nyanza, and the famous
Gordon made him governor of Equatorial
Africa. He was theintimate personal friend
of Gordon, who sent him, in 1877, to Masso-
wah to keep the peace between the Sou
danese and the Abyssinians In 1878 Col.
Mason was againin Khartoum with Gordon.
In 1880 he was engaged in surveying the
public domain. In 6S4 Mason Bey was ap-
pointed governor of Massowah and high
commissioner of the Soudanby the Khedive
of Egypt. While occupying these high
places Mason Bey was sent by she khedive
on a most important mission to Ras Allula,
at Kassala, and also was ambassador to the
King of Abyssinia.
He has held many other positions Of
prominence in Egypt.
Col. Mason leaves a widow, but no chill
dren. AT the time OF his death he was
still in the service of the khedive, having
come here few months ago on waiting
order pay in search of his health