Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-16


Stricken with a fatal heart attack
while attending the circus yesterday
afternoon, Gen. Miles lies peacefully
sleeping in the drawing room of his
home at the Rochambeau apartment
today, awaiting the arrival of his son,
Maj. Sherman Miles, who Is nearing
New York on the Leviathan, before he
is laid to rest in the quiet mausoleum
that was built under his personal di-
rections.
Rites Wait on Son.
Arrangements for the funeral have
been placed in the hands of Mai. Gen.
Rockenbach, commander OF the dis
trict of Washington, who had worked
out tentative plans for services fitting
the high rank of the dead warrior and
the services he gave to his country.
These will be submitted to Mai. Miles
Tor his final approval upon his arrival
In Washington some time Monday.
The body of Gen. Miles will be taken
TO st. Johns Episcopal Church, Six.
teenth and Fl streets, at 2 O'Clock
tuesday afternoon with military es.
cort, where short religious services will
be conducted. The cortege will then
proceed to the mausoleum in Airing.
ton, by way of the Highway Bridge.
where the last rites due a soldier will
be accorded by every branch of the
Nations armed service, in the pres.
ence of high officials of the Govern.
ment
Troops to Go With Body.
The casket, draped with an Ameri.
can flag. will ride on an artillery
calSSon drawn by six black horses
Beside it will march high officers of
the Army, Navy and Marine Corns
followed by Gen Rockenbach, as com.
mander of the District of Washington.
and his entire staff. The United States
army Band will march behind the
stan officers, followed by a squadron
OF cavalry with Sabers sheathed.
A battalian of the 18th Field Ar.
tlllery with guns draped in black: the
so Battalion of the 18th Infantry. a
battalion of engineers, the Navy Band
a battalion of United States Marines
from Quantico and a battalion of sea
men from the Norfolk naval base will
march next in order. Immediately be-
hind carriages containing members of
Gen. Miles immediate family and
close friends will march representa-.
tiVes OF military and patriotic So
cieties.
Gen. Miles daughter. Mrs. Samuel
M. Reber, arrived in Washington TO.
day from New York with her hus.
band, Col. Reber, where they have
been visiting. Maj. Miles, the late
generals son, has been on a long
tour OF duty with the American high
commissioner at Constantinople and
is expected to land in New York some
time tomorrow or early Monday. He
has been appraised by wireless of the
death of his father.
Was Romantic Figure.
With the passing of Gen. Miles one
of the most romantic figures on the
vanishing horizon of Americas ear
ller history of expansion has been re.
moved, and the final chapter of that
crucial era has all but been closed.
The hero of two wars and conuueror
of the wilderness empire that is now
the great American West, he was the
sole survivor of that gallant band of
crusaders who pushed the frontier of
the New World to the shores of the
Pacific.
The same stamina and grim deter.
mination that carried him safely
through the Civil War, the conflict
with Spain and to a crashing triumph
over the Indian nations that had TAX
en- up their last stand beneath the
shadows of the unconquered Rocky
Mountains served him up to the last
minute, and Washington recalls how
IN late years, throwing off the weight
OF more than three-score years, he
continued active in the interests of his
country to the very end.
AS late as 1922 he called back to his
support his remarkable, robust nature.
Gen. Miles had been designated to
serve as grand marshal of the mill
tary pageant that marked the unyeil-
ing of the Grant Memorial here. A
few days before the event he was
stricken with double pneumonia, and
when his chief-of-staff called at his
home members of the family an
nounced fatty that the general could
not, and should not, ride in the parade.
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