The times., 1899-06-20
GENERAL MhCAULEY'S
REMAINS ARRIVE HERE
Borne to This Country on
Board the Detroit.
Arrangements for the Refinement
to Be Completed Today.
The Site Selected as the Last Rcstin =
PIacc-To De buried With
Military Honors.

A trim ship-of-war, the cruiser Detroit,
arrived at the Washington Navy Yard
yesterday afternoon from Greytown, Mica
ragua, bearing the remains of the late
Gen. Daniel Macauley. who died with yell
low fever at Managua, the capital of
Nicaragua. about five years ago.
Early this year political conditions were
of such a turbulent character at Bluefields
that this Government deemed it wise to
despatch a cruiser to that place, and it re-
mained there until about two months ago,
when affairs had queted enough to war
rant the withdrawal of the vessel. 1t was
then that members of Burnside Post No.
s. of the Grand Army of the Republic, in
| this city, undertook to arrange for the
transportation of the remains of General
Macauley. which had been resting in a
scaled vault in the Nicaraguan capital
| since his demise to his native soil for
reinterment. Lafayette Post No. 14O, of
the Department of New York, of which
! the dead general had been member, be-
came interested in the movement, and
through the local post in this city brought
the matter to the attention of the State
anu navy
The proposition met with, general favor
! and while Lafayette Post arranged to bear
the expenses of transporting the remains
from Managua to Greytown the general
Government agreed to convey the body
back TO this country on thes4Detroit, which
was about to leave Bluefelds.
| Accordingly, on May 6. last, the body
was despatched from Mauagua by rail for
I roda sh..-l ,-Tx
! steamer and conveyed across Lake Nicara-
! qua to San Carlos. AT the latter place the
| remains were placed on a second steamer
and taken down the San Juan River which
forms part of the waterway of the pro-
posed Nicaragua Canal. to Greytown, on
/ the coast In the mean time the Navy De-
! partment had ordered the Detroit TO that
! port and by the time the steamer bearing
! General Macauley's body reached Greytown
J the warship was there ready to receive the
casket.
As soon as the Detroit was moored at
her wharf at the navy yard here steps were
/ taken to complete final arrangements for
the reinterment at Arlington. This will
be accomplished with military honors un-
der the auspices of the Burnside and La
fayette Posts of the Grand Army of the
| Potomac Thursday afternoon. Silas W.
| Hastings, of this city, who was a life
long friend of the general, and who was in
the vicinity Of Managua when the latter
fell a victim TO the rayages Of yellow fe-
yer, is chairman of the committee which
was selected by Burnside Post TO confer
with another committee chosen by. La
| fayette Post, of New York, to complete
details for the burial. He communicated
with Wilbur F. Brown, Adjutant of La
! fayette Post, by long-distance telephone
/ yesterday afternoon and ascertained that
| 1t was the desire of the New York COM
mand that the funeral be held Thursday
afternoon, also that large delegation will
attend the funeral from that city.
The committee of seven, of which Mr..
I Hastings is chairman. will hold a meeting
! at Ais o'clock this afternoon and arrange
the military features OF the funeral. This
committee consists of Nathan Bickford.
| Gen. T. NJ. Vincent, Gen. Arthur Hen
bricks, Past Department Commander; DR..
/ 4. ]. Huntoon. George Rose, George Sim
mons. and Silas W. Hastings. Adjutant
| Brown will arrive in this city from New
! York tomorrow night. He will confer with
! the local committee. The New York dele
] cation will leave that city at 1855 o'clock
the following day.
General Miles yesterday afternoon di-
! rected that caissou report at the navy
yard from the Washington Barracks at 8
o'clock this morning. At that hour the
| body will be taken from the Detroit and
informally transported on the caisson
| from the navy yard to the vault at Arling-
ton. This will be attended by no cere-
mony, but the funeral which will occur
Thursday afternoon, viii be wholly mill
/ tary. The dead general will be homo ell
with a final resting place at beautiful
spot on the magnificent east slope at Ar
! lington, just below the old Lee manson.
/ On this terrace are the graves of Sher-
d.ra (.pnc char nd Iaft IL l.
understood that Lafayette Post will ere
a handsome monument over the grave.
General Macauley had distinguished
| military record, and was one OF the most
widely known and best liked men in the
I country. He was born in New York in
| 1899. At an early age he moved to Buff
4 falo. During the late fifties he left that
city for Indianapolis, becoming one of the
most prominent business men OF the latter
! place, which was then a wonderfully thriv-
ing metropolis. He took an active inter
I est in Indiana politics, and served three
/ terms as mayor of Indianapolis after the
! close Of the Civil War. Al the outbreak
of that conflict he became adjutant of the
| Eleventh Indiana Volunteers under Gen.
Lew Wallace the soldier-adthor. When he
/ left the service at the final muster out he
was a brevet brigadier general.
After long and useful career had been
spent in Indianapolis General Macauley
came to Washington to accept position
as chief of the appointment Division Of the
/ Treasury under President Harrison. Dur
I ing his residence in this city he made
many friends and became quite popular
He adhered to the tenets of the Republi-
| can party.
During the spring Of 1894, General Ma
cauley was induced TO go to Nicaragua as
general agent for the Nicaragua Maritime
Canal Company. Silas w. Hastings ho
is in charge of the funeral arrangements
was then general agent for the Nicaragua
Canal Construction Company. It had
charge of the engineering features Of the
great waterway, while the Maritime Com
pany was attending 20 the financing.
General Macauley and Mr.. Hastings left
New York on the same day, May 10, 1894,
the former going by way of Panama TO
the east coast of Nicaragua and the latter
via New Orleans to the west coast of the
country Shortly after his arrival at Man
aqua, the capital. General Macauley was
stricken with yellow fever and died July
s. 1891.
He was buried in a vault at Managua
with the highest military and civic honors,
I President Zeyla, of Nicaragua. and lead
ing officials OF the Central American cdpi-
tai attending the services which were held
over the casltet in the Hotel La Ponies.
The late Louis Baker, who recently died
in this city and who was the then Amcri-
can Minister at Managua, officiated. BY
order of the Nicaraguan Government regi-
ments of cavalry, artillery. and infantry.
and a military band were in the funeral
procession.
General Macauley was a brother to Ber-
nard. familiarly known as Barney" Ma
cauley, who was famous footlight ia