The San Francisco call., 1899-10-25
REST FOR THE
BODY OF BRAVE
COLONEL M|LEY
Inferred in Preside
Cemetery.
WITH ALL MILITARY HONORS
COLONEL METCALF HAS NOT
HEARD OF HIS FORTUNE.
Kansas Regiment Will Not Return
Home in Time to Participate
in the Coming State
Election.
WITH ALL MILITARY HONORs
COLONEL METCALF HAS NOT
HEARD OF HIS FORTUNE.

The last tribute to a brave and capable
soldier was paid TO Lieutenant Colonel
John D. Miley yesterday whose body was
laid in the National Cemetery. The strict
letter of the military law that allows only
a platoon for a first lieutenant was
stretched to the extent of a battalion.
Colonel Miley was a first lieutenant in the
regular establishment, but his funeral was
that of a lieutenant colonel. All the otfi-
GERS of the Preside and Colonel Petit
and Lieutenant Colonel Hayes of the
Thirty-tirst Infantry attended, besides
large number of civilians. The officers
marched on foot, led by Colonel Freeman
Of the Twenty Infantry, COM
mandant of the Presidio.
The Preside chapel was far too small
to accommodate the people who wished to
do honor to the dead soldier. They
crowded aisles and pews and doorway,
and even the stone walk to the en-
trance Of the church. There was nothing
more than the simple Episcopal rites to
the services at the church. There was no
eulogy, nor was any needed. The dead
man 5 record was eulOgy enough, and the
friends who gathered at his funeral were
sufficient testimony to his worth.
For escort there were Batteries l. E and
of the Third Artillery and half of Bat
terry A and half of Battery n, making a
battalion of four companies. under COM
mand OF Captain Pratt of the Third Artu-
lery The whole battalion acted as fir
ing party.
The pallbearers were Major Groesbeck,
judge advocate Major Gallagher com
missary; Captain Greene, signal officer;
of General Skaters staff; Captain Nc
Alexander and Captain Sage Captain
Sage is the officer who accompanied the
body of Colonel Miley from Manila to
this country. The Casket was borne by
six sergeants of artillery detailed from
the Preside and BeneCia barracks. They
fNrsf4f l.. of
necia, who had served under Colonel
Miley; Sergeant Miller, Sergeant Wonder
Itch and Sergeant GrombOw of Battery c,
Third Artillery, and Ordnance Sergeant
Schnull and Ordnance Sergeant Maurel.
The Kansas men will leave for home next
Sunday, after being mustered out next
Saturday. A special train provided by the
State will take the men East They have
gained a week On the Government. for it
was not supposed they would leave the
service until the first week in November.
1t was figured out by the politicians in
Kansas, however, that If the regiment
came home during the excitement OF the
election there would be other excitement
10 disturb the voters of the State, and
they would go off TO see the regiment in
stead of doing their duty at the polls. As
a consequence a lengthy communication
was sent to Washington, asking that the
muster-out be delayed or hurried, 50 that
the homecoming of the troops would not
interfere with the politics of the. state.
The result was a week earlier in the
muster-out Of the regiment. 1t Will arrive
home early in November, and by the time
the date Of the election comes around
the people will have cooled down a little
and will be willing to devote themselves
to voting.
Colonel Metcalf has heard nothing of
the honor in store for him. 1t was an
nounced in dispatches from Washington
yesterday that he was to be brevetted a
brigadier general for gallant service and
as balm TO two honorable wounds he re-
ceived while fighting hard out in front
of his men. He says he has no reason TO
suppose he will be honOred with any such
distinction. as he has done nothing to
merit it, but according to the dispatch
the Government thinks otherwise, and his
brevet may reach here before the regi-
ment has been mustered out of service.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Francis g.
Engelhardt has been assigned to duty at
the general hospital at the Preside;
Acting Assistant Surgeon John t. a.
Slavter has been detailed TO the transport
PENNSYLVANIA as quartermaster and com
raissary Acting Assistant Surgeon John
S. Hill has been detailed to the transport
Tartar in similar capacity.
Major Joseph w. Duncan, Thirteenth
Infantry. and Walter S. Scott Fourth In
fantrv. have been relieved from duty and
will proceed TO Manila on the transport
PENNSYLVANIA.
Captain Eben B. Fenton, assistant COM
missary and an authorized clerk, has been
ordered TO leave for Manila on the trans
port Newport.