The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY AT MANILA
GRAVES OF MANY AMERICAN SOL DIERS STREWN WITH FLOWERS.
A Few Men Spared from the Trenches to Perform the Duty-Guns of the Mon- adnoclk BOmbarding Paranqua Heard During the Exercises s-Recovery of Captain Tfl1ey's Body.

Manila, May 3O.--7:50 p. m.--Memorial day was celebrated at Battery Knoll, where Scott's guns were planted against the Filipino trenches in the first days fighting at Manila. Nearly 300 soldiers lie buried there on a bleak mound surrounded by rice fields, rough boards marking the graves, which are ranged in five broken rows. Beyond these are Spanish blockhouses and bamboo hedges, which were mown 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 was placed above each mound. The day was as mild as a New England spring day when, just before sunset a few hundred Ameri- cans gathered in circle around Bat tery Knoll, in blue and brown uni forms. Interspersed among the SOL diers were groups of American ladies. Brown faced natives peered curiously at the unwonted spectacle from points near by. The guns of the monitor Mo- nadnock, bombarding Paranaqua, boomed a significant reminder of the nearness of war. Just as the Sixth ar tillery band began dirge the thunder of the Monadnock's guns ceased, while tanS cQIn6ed from The hupIa
 Colonel Charles Denby of the United States Philipine commission presided at the exercises. He spoke briefly of the peculiar solemnity of the day to Ma nila. The chaplain of the British cruiser Powerful made an invocation. Chaplain Pierce of. the Twenty-third 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 after noon. Colonel Denby was the orator on this occasion. The graves were dec- Orated with vast quantity of magnifi- cent flowers. High mass for the dead of the Roman Catholic communion was celebrated at the Paco cemetery in the morning. Orations were delivered by Fathers MeKinnon and McQuade and Chaplain Stevenson of the Idaho reg- ment, Methodist, and Peter Mcqueen, a Congregational clergyman of Boston. Most of the business places in Manila were closed in honor of the day. The American and many foreign flags were displayed at half-mast. The graves of soldiers and sailors buried at Cavite and Iloilo were also decorated to-day.
 Brigadier General South, who was sent with a detachment of troops on board a gunboat in search of Captain George H. lilly of the signal corps, re- ported missing at Escalante, on the isl and of Negros, sent the body of Captain Tilly on board a launch to Iloilo to-day. The body 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. Gen. eral South remains at Escalante with his soldiers to search for the missing men who were with Captain lilly when he met his death.