Evening star., 1901-12-26
FUNERAL OF MAJ. BELkNAP
WILL BE INFERRED BESIDE HIS
FATHERS GRAVE.
Ceremonies to BE Held at Arlington
Career in Congress and
the Army.

The body of the late Major Hugh r. Bel
knap, paymaster, L. S. A, will arrive in
Washington tomorrow by the Pennsyl-
vania railroad from the west at 10 pm.
The funeral party will be met by a squad
ron of cavalry from Fort Myer, and the
body will be taken direct from the train to
Arlington cemetery for interment beside
Major Belknaps father Gen. Belknap, the
former Secretary Of War There appro-
pirate religious and military ceremonies
will follow. Mrs. Meta Belknap, widow OF
Major Belknap, and Cadet George II.
Steele, jr., of the navy, her brother, ac-
companied the remains from the Philip
pines and were joined at Marion, Ind, by
Representative and Mrs. George W. Steele
and other members of the family. The
honorary pallbearers will include the fol-
lowing named officers of the pay depart
ment: Col. C. c. Sniffen, Lieut.. Col. Geo.
w. Baird, Major Webster Ninson and Capt.
Otto Becker. Major Belknap had many
friends in this city, and it Is probable that
his funeral will be largely attended
Major Belknap died at Clamabas. Luzon,
November u, only three weeks after his
arrival in the Philippines. A letter re-
ceived from Colonel E. w. Halford of the
pay corps, secretary to the President dur
ing the Harrison administration, who was
with Major Belknap when he died, states
that he left Manila in apparently good
health on November 10, was seized with
an attack of appendicitis on the following
day, and died on the 18th after an opera
ton which revealed a hopeless condition
of gangrene of the intestines.
Major Belknap spent his boyhood days
at Washington and Keokuk, Iowa. He left
Phillips-Exe Academy to enter the en-
ploy of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at
Baltimore in 1879. He attained the posi-
ton of chief clerk to the general man.
ager of that system, leaving to become
superintendent Of the Alley l. road in Chi
cago, the affairs of which he managed
with signal success. He received in 1894
what was regarded as a hopeless nomina-
tion for Congress in Chicago district, but
was elected over his democratic opponent,
few votes. He was reelected in 1896. Dur
Ing his four years in Congress he became
one of the most popular of the younger
members of the House.
In 1897 he was married to Miss Meta v.
Steele, daughter of Representative Steele
Of Marion, Ind. Upon his retirement from
the House he was appointed a paymaster
In the volunteer army, at the solicitation Of
members of the Illinois delegation. He
made an excellent record, and was one OF
the two volunteer officers appointed major
and paymaster in the regular establish
ment by President Mckinley under the
army reorganization. He was for some
time stationed at Chicago, and later at San
Francisco. In October he sailed, In COM
pany with his wife. for Manila. He visited
Washington friends Immediately before
leaving, and was complimented by them on
his seemingly excellent condition of health.
Mrs. Belknap was summoned from Ma
Mia to Calambas when the condition of her
husband became serious. and was sent
down on a launch, in company with Mrs.
Wade. but arrived too late to see her hus-
band before his death. The strain of her
long journey home was relieved to some
extent by the companlonship of her broth
er, whom the Navy Department was able
to order to join her at Nagasaki.