New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-31
HONORS TO MANILA DEAD.
SERVICES HELD AT GRAVES OF THREE
HUNDRED SOLDIERS.
FLOWERS AND FLAGS ON THE BURIAL
PLACEs-BUSINESs PLACES CLOSED
FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN TILLEY.

PLACES-BUSlNESS PLACES
FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN TILLEY.
Manila, May 30.-Memorial Day was cele-
brated at Battery Knoll, where Scotts guns
were planted against the Filipino trenches in the
first days fghtng at Manila. Nearly three hun
dred soldiers lie buried there, on a bleak mound
surrounded by rice e-ields. rough boards marking
the graves which are ranged in five unbroken
rows. Beyond these Spanish blockhouses
and bamboo hedges which were pierced by
shells from the American guns.
The few soldiers who could be spared from
the trenches came to Battery Knoll dusty and
bronzed, bearing flowers with which TO strew
their comrades graves. A silk flag placed
above each mound. The day mild. Just
before sunset a few hundred Americans gath
cred in a circle around Battery Knoll, in blue
and brown uniforms. Among the soldiers were
groups of American women. Brown-faced ma
lives peered curiously at the unwonted spectacle
from points near by. The guns of the monitor
Monadnock bombardins Paranaque doomed
significant reminder of the nearness Of war.
Just as the 9th Artillery Band began a dirge the
thunder OF the Monadnocks guns ceased, while
taps sounded from the bugle.
EXERCISES AT THE GRAVES.
Colonel Charles DENLY, Of the Philippine Com
mission presided at the exercises He spoke
briefly Of the peculiar solemnity OF the day to
Manila. The chaplain Of the British cruiser
Powerful made invocation. Chaplain Pierce,
of the 23d Infantry and Chaplain Cressey, of
the Minnesota volunteers. delivered orations,
and the soldiers sang appropriate hymns.
After taps had been sounded. soldiers took
the flags from the graves to send to relatives OF
the dead.
Similar services were held over the dead In
the Paco Cemetery this afternoon Colonel
DENLY was the orator this occasion The
graves were decorated with vast quantity OF
flowers High mass for the dead,pf the Roman
Catholic faith was celebrated at the Paco Gene
terry in the morning. Orations were delivered by
Fathers McKirnon and McQuade and Chaplain
Stevenson, OF the Idaho regiment. Methodist
and Peter Mcqueen, a Congregational clergy
Of Boston.
Most of the business places in Manila were
closed In honor of the day. The American AMI
many foreign flags were displayed at half-mast
The graves of soldiers and sailors buried at
Cavite and Iloilo were also decorated to-day.
CAPTAIN TILLEY BURIED
Brlgadier-General South who was sent with
a detachment Of troops on board a gunboat In
search Of Captain George II. Tilley. of the Sig
nal Corps, reported missing at Escalante, on the
ISLAND OF Negros. sent the body Of Captain
Tilley on board launch to Iloilo to-day.
The body Of Captain Tilley was buried later
In the day, with notable ceremony. English
friends of the captain Joined with his comrades
of the Signal Corps in arranging for the funeral
and heaped wreaths OF flowers upon the coffin
Of the dead soldier
General South remains at Escalante with his
soldiers ~ search for the missing men VINO
were With Captain Tilley when he met his death