The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-10-21
Former Chiefof '. s. Signal Corps, Stretching Wires Orer
 AInskd, Passes A,vayin D. C.

WA6f1lNIlON, OcU. zl. - 1tll. Adolphus W. Greedy, aged 91, Arc tic explorer, died in a hospital here Sunday. He became seriously ill on October and was removed to the hospital where heart ailment and artery trouble brought death. Two sons and four daughters survive. As Chief of the United States Sig nal Corps, Gen Greedy is estimated to have directed the laying of 34,- 600 miles of telegraph wires.
 Delayed Recognition
 Related recognition came to Gen. Greeley for distinguished army ser vice which stretched from the .Arc- tic to the tropics and spanned nearly half 8 century of active duty.
 A Congressional Medal of Honor was bestowed upon him March 27, 1885, his 91st birthday, but this was 51 years after he had led an expedition of regular army men to the then ''farthest north" and 27 years after he had gone on the re- tired list as a Major General, a rating to which he had made his way from a start as volunteer pri- vate in the Civil War Friends said it was typical of his lifelong deter imitation that he chaiked the figure IS on the soles of his shoes so he could tell federal recruiting off cer in 1861 that he was lover 18," although he had then just turned IT.
 The m d al was presented fin recognition of a long life of dis tinguished public service and the aged recipient acknowledged it with T am very grateful to the Congress and the people of the United States for hestowing upon me this honor"
 Reach "Farthest North"
 Up to that moment the Ameri- can government had given almost no recognition for Greely's most specacular feat, the leadership of the Lady Franking Bay expedition which went to the Arctic in 1881. Their regular relief ship was crushed in the ice. two other relief parties failed to find them and it was not until 1884 that Greedy and his six companions were brought back, sole survivors of an original party of 25. They had attained to the then "farthest north and assem- bled weathed data of worldwide importance.
 Greedy, a First Lieutenant at the time and in line for promotion, re- turned to find instead of honors, that the captaincy which rightfully was his, had been given to another and that he had been denoted several files in the promotion list. His men were unjustly accused of having practiced cannibalism in their extremities of starvation, and Greedy was criticized for having or dered the execution of one of his men who had endangered the lives of the entire group by stealing the pitifully small ration of his com rades. Greely had to wage yigor- ous fight to obtain recognition for the survivors of the expedition and to get the commission as captain which was his by right of seniority.
 Attached to Signal Corps
 After the expedition Greedy was attached to the Signal Corps, in which he became Chief Officer of the United States Army with the rank of Brigadier General. He was first volunteer private soldier of the Civil War to attain that rank in the regular army
 He performed constructive service in the development of the insular territory of the United States and in Alaska from 1898 to 1902 He supervised the erection of thousands of miles of telegraph lines in Cuba and Porto Rico after the Spanish American War and linked together