Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1926, Page 79

Constant T Government Vigilance KeepsRiver Open for Navigation " Three Branches of F BY GEORGE PORTER. HREE branches of the Govern ment co-operate to keep the Potomac open for navigation. The improvements and repairs are made by the Engineer Corps. the upkeep of the lights, buoys and fog signals is in the hands of the Lighthouse Service, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey maps the work of those two by means of its charts, which indicate the condition of the river, These_charts are beautiful pieces of work. They show in detail the char- acter of the vver bottom and the topography of the shore line. Aids 1o navigation, such as lighthouses and buovs, and dangers, such as shoals and breakwatcrs, are also clearly shown. Four charts are issued cove ing the Potomac River from Wash- ington 1o its mouth The constant improvements in the local water front, changes in the chan- nel and alterations in the positions of lights or buoys are immediately ported to the Coust and Geodetic Sur- vey and incorporated in their charts. The survey sells its “river maps” at | cost price and encourages the use, especially by amateur pilots, of up. date ones, for the loss of nume sels is believed to have been cauded | ~ by reliznce upon old cha Information of importance needed by mariners cannot all be shown on charts, and for this r Fupplements them son the survey th a publication re- | re- ederal Organization Contribute ¥xpert Work in Order That Capital May Have Full Use of Potomac. known as the Coast Pilot. Annuall e tide tables also issued for the | | e Lo benefit of those who wish to steer as | _— — scfentificaily as possible, DREDGE OF THE DISTRI WITH ON COLUMBIA | | m | With the construction of every road must go the fnstallation of an ade-| quate system of slgn posts and danger nd ISLAND, A PART OF THE ME | IORIAL BRIDGE PROJECT. | signals, and the same applies to o | under certain conditions the note may | Wooden spar buoys are by far the to put more exacting demands upon | river road. song before the Po-fbe lost a short distance from the s of various types|the waterway. stea sing e ik i ronenly olionclen Una S| Bignat, fonly to| Bedome UncreaRmEly | s T crousFol fehie vilrlons Beynen tf:xy“.‘.}»(p;‘sxx.“;nlxv.!milz‘ “\lm:f :-lvln;:;\‘?wl:i equipped with a network of aids-to|distinet at a greater d and | On the PPotomac, as 92 of this kind are| continually as a ccmmercial thorough- navigation in the form of buoys, |conditions of this sort ry | maintained between Washington and|gare The size as well as the number lights and fog signals for the henefit | around the same locality within short | the bay. They are manufactured from | of the boats upon it increased and of those who traveled upon it. Al [intervals of time. It is for these rea- | cedar, juniper or spruce logs, and |then a series of difficulties began. For came under the jurisdiction of the|sons that radio fog signals, which en- [#re provided with an iron strap and | though the Potomac was deep enough United States Lighthouse Serviee, | ahle . navigator definitely to guide {band at the lower end for attaching|for the largest ship on the bhay in which maintained them with a singu’ | his ship if it is provided with a radio | t0 the mooring, which is, as a rule.| some places, it naturally could only lar record of efficiency, and kept them | compass, are becoming iner a heavy iron or concrete block. Such |accommodate those vessels whose breast of all modern improvements. | poput buoys are made in 4 sizes, varying in|draft did not exceed the depth of the “rlh‘r_" '34“ :~I\\':-.\_\ been nlnrvilt-nnvm ® . length from 20 to 50 feet over-all, and | stream at the shallowest part of the U e st v the wesdiar gt is | C NS B B0 s Db pounte. | coeee. ARG B e B 4 lighthouses. The spectacle of a light | [ 8¢dition fo tle Kot o e Hoto. | All buoys are required by law to be | the controling depth. was an in jhe darkened distance( blazing| tons there A oo emawn as wne|DaInted. and in some cases numbered, | as ¢ feet along the Washington water Pealed o man's poctie Inetinets: The | buoys. marking dangers and defining | {, BTN (0 iver, fraic -vosula-| front. Oblouly ametiiig tad fo e Potomae has 11 lighthouses in e 110 | guannels, | Deviees of this sort 1ave | proaching te chanel fron seinvard | National Caplial were to keep abreast | miles between its mouth and Wash- | @me into use during the st 40 years. | fad huoys with even numbets be found | of the expansion of th ngton, while i the same distance | and are regarded by many mariners ax | on the. yight or starboard side and | l(]}-l(\ll;;ln: S48 Whore of the duiEl. thers are. l'V;"x;xljn(vlv':m\vllx-'.llrl») L 8 Shec | among the most vaduable of the aids| black buoys with 0dd numbers on the | nation to conceive of sucfi conditions | taculap In thelr oneiation, leing n |t navigation. hose on the Potomac lett ‘wr porj aide. Buova with red|today, but it la true, nevertleloss. attended it caually important pro | burn geetylens zas, which is stored Inland black horizental stripes without | that Georgetown was an incorporated D e e roer o thate | tnks fitted into compartments in the | numbers _indicate rocks, shoals —or | town and a thriving shipping port be-| proper functioning | body of the bouy, and piped to the lan- other obstructions, with channels on | fore Washington had a whart worthy e re |"lV at its top. both sides of them and may be passed | of the name, ¢ * dver gas buoy are firmly moored |on either hand, while buoys colored | The oldest authentic record of the IHIL\' K. CONWAY, deputy commis- | sfomer of lighthouses, ~explained | comething of the nature of the lights on the Potomac ‘In the case of attended lights, said, “where resident keepers are em- | ployed - which are generally regarded by the public as lighthouses proper there are several types on the local | river, One popular form, an example | of which may be seen on Blakistone Island, consists of a combined tower and dwelling of timber or brick con- | struction. Another kind of lighthouse | frequently encountered on the Poto mac employs a pile foundation to sup- | port a dwelling over a submerged site. | Maryland Point has a light of this sort.” The oldest lighthouse still in use on the Potomac is at Upper Cedar Toint, this station huaving been put into operation in 1821 The Lighthouse Service itself is older than our v ernment. Its history dates back to 1716, when Boston Light, the first of this continent, was built by the prov ince of Massachusetts at the entrance to Boston Harbor. Several other lighthouses were built while the Colo. he | nies were still loyal to Great Britain, and by the time an independent Gov ernment had been established 16 werc fn operation, all of which were ceded to the National Government by the individual States, that they might ander more efficient service undo Federal supervision Their mainte: nance was placed under the Treasury Department until 1903, when the Tighthouse Service was transferred to the Department of Commerce. On | Iuly 1. 1910, the present Bureau of | Lighthouses was established Speaking the illuminant e J ployed hy the various lights, Mr. Con- v said that since 18K) kerosene | has been the principal one in use. | “The incadescent oil vapor lamp.” he continued, “which is now generally employed for important lights, burhs vaporized kerosene under an incan- descent mantle, givin a powerful lght. The kerosene is stored in a tank and is forced by compressed air, produced by w hand pump, into the vaporizer lamp. The air pressure Aacreases so slowly during the oper- ion of the light thdt only a few strokes of the pump once or twice a night are necessary “Increased efficiency is ziven by means of automatic thermostat | alarm, a device which summons the | attendant by the ringing of an elec tric bell when the light is not burn- | ing properly, either too high or too tow. Smith Point Light. o the| south side of the mouth of the Po-| tomac, is equi in this tashion and gives a 1 that is visible 13| miles.” | Various illuminants now nsed by the service can be seen on | the Potomac. Oil gas is burned at many lights along the river, includ- fng Piney Point and Blakistone Is- land. Electric incandescent. lights| are used at the Kort Washington | light station and several other lichts near the Capital City “In addition to the light tower. oil house, keeper's dwelling, workshop and landing wharf,” resumed Mr Conway, “a completely equipped | Mght station includes an efficient fox | signal. The first fog signal in \ United States was a cannon in-| stalled at Boston Light in 1719, which | w red when necessary to answer | the signals of ships in thick weather. Guns of varfous types were used at other lighthouses, but have now been abandoned | “Bells were introduced at an early | and are still extensively used of the light stations along are equipped with bell fog signals, and another, Smith Point Light Station, has an air dia- phone for this purpose, with a bell | for emergen: in the dia- | phone becomes disabled | “The diaphone is a powerful in- strument operated by compressed air, date Thirteen the Potomac use, case and giving a sound simflar to that | produced by a siren, but with an| abrupt grunt at the end of the note | which adds to its effectiveness “Practically all fog signals, us now snstalled,%are provided with a goverr ing device for timing the strokes or blasts. For instance, the diaphone at | Smith Point emits a note of three | seconds’ duration and then is si 12 seconds. The bell at Blakistone | lsland rings once every 16 seconds. these sounds heinz controlled by mechanical clockwork Every effort is made to start the fog siznals as soon as signs have been ahserved at the continued Mr. Conway. A creeps imperceptibly toward land. and a vessel may have been in it| <ome time hefore olserving it at Hm“ iznal. Bound is conveyed irregularly that the atmosphere, so through | P st & A GAS BUOY BEING LIFTED AND PUT ON WHA condition of the Potomac in the vicin. ity of Washington is found in a map made in 1792 by Mr. Ellicott, a civil engineer. There are many traditions in their position with a heavy chain,!with black and white attached to a concrete or iron sinker. | stripes without numbe The smallest them weighs 2,800 | channels and may be § pounds, and they burn continuously,|on either hand. ~ The perpendicular indicate mid ssed close to | numbers and by duv and by night, for periods of |letters placed on all buoys are made | of the old channels around the city six months without recharging. twith standard stencils to insure uni- | previous to this, but they cannot be The Lighthouse Service is constant- | formity and the lurgest size practic- | verified. One tells of the formation Iy receiving requests for more gas| able I8 used, so that they may show | of a channel in the Spring of 1780, Buove and for buoys with more brilli- |as brominently as possible, | following an unusually severe Win' | it e hts | A few buoys built of fron or steel | ter, when the “waters came down in a Pt of the gas buoys on the Poto.|Plates and havinz thelr interiors di- | great torrent, carrying with them a e e Al ovided. with bell fog | Vided into compartments to prevent | whole forest of trees which had been Signals, such buoys being known as)Sinking when damaged. are in use on | uprooted from the low grounds near e el buose. The | the Potomac.” When such buoys are | Littls Falls.” " The effects of this im- pombination s e i ‘of the |made with the portions which show | mense freshet of ice and wood was to e D his tope i ‘off |above the water line in cylindrical | plow a new channel through the low Hains Point. and marks the junction | (orm they are known as can buoys; ground connecting what is now. Ana- Hains Point, and marks the JAction | when their ‘tops are conical they are | lostan Island and the Virginia shore. o e Wt o et itape (called nun buoye. There are only| Another tradition of cxceptional in- channels | Its flashing bt i he | four nuns and three cans on the Do- jterest tells of Gen. Braddock landing sily be {tomae, all in the lower part of the [his forces upon a rock near the site speedway | river. {of the old Na Observatory in All the buoys on the Potomac are| Georgetown at the start of his mem- pliced in position and cared for by Rt or e dinge the | orable_expedition against the Indians the. Hghthouse tander, Maple, which [T e e A h‘”f‘“;'"h'l:"h tn 1735. is provided with specially desizned | GESa Gna of keeping it re. | Leaving tradition® for facts, and derricks and lifting gear for handling | (he ChEATNE SO OF, SEIECs Tof L retting back to Bllicott's map. we | them The Maple has its head-| §I"" 400t engineer, Maj. J. A.|find from that document that there | quarters at Baltimore, but makes at | (e, SISUICH CREINEER, | TER s di. | Were then three channels in the Po-. | least two trips annually up the Poto- | (COMIE FORIN S B o ents | tomac. They were known as the mac in the course of its routine work | pyor LARRE AT B0 S T Washington or eity channel, with a | of maintaining the local aids to navi-| “"g,m IG5 Ut e ‘work of this de. | CONtrolling depth of 12 feet; ‘the mid- | eation. | partment can be gained if it is jdle or “swash channel, with a con- | It 15 customary to relieve all buoys | Paficn that for.n long time the river|trolling depth of 6 feet, and the| at least once a year, for overhauling. | Just ran-.there was mo effort-made by | GOTESLOWN channel. with a control- reparing, cleaning and painting. This!pan to direct its flow or control its | ling depth of 8 fect. The last men- | mikes ft necessary to kepp an ample | gepth, . There it was: there, as far|{oned was scarcely decp enough to | Tubuly of Spare or relief buoys always| e the oldest inhabitant could remem. | float the trade of such fin active port, | on hand.” The reserve supply not|her, it had always been: and would, |0 It is not surprising to find that in | only provides for the systematic re-|for all practical purposes, always be. [ 1804 the citizens of Georgetown peti- | leving of buoys on station, but also|If you wanted to use it for transpor- | tioned Congress for a dam to be built | = Tor emergencies which frequent- | tation purposes, well and good. It | )‘""“.t“" the island and the Virginia | Iv ‘arise when buoys are carried away | would, no doubt, “fill tfe bill” quite {Shore" in the hope of improving navi. | gation, which had been “obstructed by a mud bank recently formed.” | The petition was favorably acted | | upon, but the dam did not do the work | | satisfactorily, and two vears later'a {form of dredge, then designated by | |the highly descriptive but rather non. | | technical name of “a mud machine,” was put to work. In 1825 a resolution was passed authorizing the mayor of | Georgetown to “employ a suitable per- son to stake out the channel with satisfactorily. But the time came when men began during the storms or follow ons. i or sunk ing colli B - B BT R e 5 ‘a |mud machine’ and to keep it staked J.»m during the coming year." ! ok n | CONGRESS took a hand in_the | | engineering work on the river {in 1833 by approving certain channel {operations, and, again, in 1549, by | providing for a survey, but for a long time the task was carried on by funds | supplied by the interested parties, as |in 1869, when the “corporation of | Georgetown" spent $10,000 for dredg- {ing the Georgetown bar to a depth {of 13 feet and a width of 80 feet. The | next year, 1870, Congress adopted the {original plan_for improvement and priated $50.000 for the purpose. | appropriation i regarded as the | made by the National Govern- for the hetterment of the »und Washington. should be remembered that at {that time there were flats along the Washington water front extending to the edge of the Virginia channel. They embracés, what is aow Potomac YS BEING PLACED VER GAS BU STATION. HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C | the | the spot. | also believe that the remains of Payne | completed in 1905. | sediment that may have accumulated. UGUST 15, 1926—PART 5. Further Details of Story of Wirz, . Prison Head, Offered by Rambler Washington Incidents of Period Im HE body of Capt. Henry Wirz, | hanged in the yard of Old | Capitol Prison, November 10, | 1860, was buried at the Arsenal, now Washinston Bar- racks. It was removed to Mount Oli- vet Cemetary, the last day of Febru- Lary, 1869. The body of John Wilkes ! Rooth, brought to Washington from the Garret Farm, near Bowling Green, Va., and exposed on the deck of the monitor Montauk at the navy yard, was also buried at the Arsenal, and I have read that “it was buried under the stone floor of a cell in the Old Penitentiary.” Before the building of the District Jail on Reservation, No. 13, between Nineteenth street east and the Eastern Branch, the jail for Distriet prisoners and United States prisoners in the District was on the Arsenal rescrvation, and local chron iclers speak of that building as_the Old Peniientiary. The bodies of Mrs. Surrat, Herold, Payne and Atzerodt, hanged from a scaffold near the north wall of the Arsenal grounds between the Four-and-a Half street gate and James Creek Canal, were burled in Arsenal, but I do not know The body of Booth was moved to Greenmount Cemetery, Bal- timore, in 1869, and the body of Mrs. Surratt to Mount Olivet Cemetery the | same year. I think the body of David Herold was surrendered to his rela- tives and given a_grave in Congres- sfonal Cemetery about that time. 1 and Atzerodt were not claimed by kin. rom one reference in the matter soon to follow I assume that the body of Wirz was buried under one of the buildings of the Arsenal. The burial of bodies beneath buildings strikes me as strange and I cannot explaln it. There was no lack of space for graves in the open spaces of the Arsenal. Louis Schade, coun- sel for Wirz, made the request sev- eral times to Presidenf Johnson that the remains of Wirz be delivered to Below Washington a channel 24 feet deep ‘“at mean low water’ and 200 | feet wide was dreadged to the mouth of the river. This was an immense undertaking, authorized in 1899 and The reclamation project around | Washington was not finished until | 1913. In examining the channels a total of 50,000 soundings were taken and 380 miles of sounding lines were run, covering a length of 20 miles of channels along the river. The area embraced In this sounding work was square miles. No redredging has been done on the seven shoals which obstruct the river helow Washington since the completion of the original project in 1905. During the intervening 20 vears the channels have shoaled so that the controlling depth is only 21 feet Instead of the 24 feet recom- mended by the plan. For this reason the engineer's office has requested an appropriation for _redredging the channels in 1927. Nearly a million a half cubic vards of material were excavatgd during the first dredg- ing, and it is expected that a greater amount will be removed next year. Two dredges are kept constantly on hand for use around Washington, and more can be obtained from other dis- tricts It necessary. The dredges are at present working in the Virginia Channel, where Columbia Island, a part of the Memorial Bridge project, is being bullt by the same reclama- tion process that was used in the con- struction of Potomac Park. The largest dredge is operated 16 hours a day and requires a crew of 35 men. When it has finished its share of the work on Columbia Island it will begin another big reclamation task along the west side of the river between Washington and Alexandria. That locality is familiar to all Wash- ingtonians, for the rever is a mile wide there, and excursion boat pas- sengers often wonder, in passing it, why the captain does not isteer nearer the center of the stream. It is impos- sible to see from the deck of a steam- er that the broad expanse of water is only 3 feet deep, and few take into consideration that if their boat gets out of the channel it will be as ef- fectively grounded as in a dry doc Besides their reclamation work the dredges of the District engineer’s | office have to redredge the Vitginia | Channel once every two years. Thea Washington Channel does not require redredging, being kept at the requi- site depth by an ingenious system of flushing worked by the inlet and out- let gates of the Tidal Basin. When the tide is coming in those gates which open into the Washington Channel are closed, while those at the opposite end of the basin are opened. allowing the water to enter from the Virginia Channel. When the tide recedes the upper gates are closed and the lower opened, permit- ting the water to wash back past the wharves, effectively removing any and The engineer's office notes, with no | small degree of satisfaction, use of the Potomac in recent years by an in- creasing number of ships drawing 20 to 24 feet. Perhaps the largest of these is the St. Mihiel, with a_draft of 24 feet, operating between Wash- ington and Quantico. The Red Bird, carrying sulphur to Alexandria, draws 23 feet 10 Inches, while the Paraguay and the Henderson, each with a draft of 23 feet 6 inches, bring gas-making oil to Washington. Freight and pas- senger traffic have also reached im- posing figures: of late. Last vear over $15.000,000 worth of frelght and near- Iy half a million passengers passed | through the local wharves. One hun- | dred and fifty thousand visitors sailed down the river to Mount Vernon, 90,000 went by boat to Norfolk and 80,000 rode to Colonial Beach. Six thousand took the leisurely but en- joyable water route from Washing- | ton to Baltimore, THE COURTROOM IN WHICH CAPT. WIRZ, THE ANDERSONVILLE JAILER, WAS TRIED IN WASHINGTON. FROM PHOTOGRAPH OF DRAWING MADE IN 1865. ter: Poter be military order order Rev. church officiating. recollected, Father was o commissior and Nov. that t Gen. at b issued directing that it terred at the Ar wat Wirz, and Mr. sel, each promised to given a Christian burial. the remains of Mrs who i enal. the spiritus S X was S Bovle of Wir mvicte of it | prisoners placed under his charg, Andersonville the morning of vas Father Boyle manding the department. to session of the body of Wirz, but that vas countermanded an another hould be in Boyle, executed 10, 18 ime given Augur, ¢ Father 0 adv Louis Schade, his coun- ce that the body rratt were livered to her frienfls, a few day Mr. Schade made an applic half of Wirz and Mrs. Ward Cemete yesterda ““To His Excellency President of the United States When you gave the order to Sir John F. Tt undertook family to arrange for his interment. | were preparing for or talking The necessary Wednesday 1 delivered to Mr. family on order v whe and in the ult at “Washingt February 26, 1869, hnson, Any e they remained for his remains, er of the Sixth behalf of was given st and the remains were Augustus Burgdorf undertaker, and by him placed in « | the account of handsome mahogany coflin and ried to the chade, considering it a matter duty, addressed the President the lowing lette: Mount Olivet | member “the neighing steed and the | Norton Chipn until | shrill _trump, th pirit-stirring |tdvocate of the o meantime Mr, | drum, the ear-piercing fife, the royal |convicted Wirz of | banner and all quality, pride and cir- | Richard T. Merrick, ol- | e stance,” etc. That of the [date for 1 e on, D, C., drew Jo LT by, murdering o ke po tion, in be- mediately Following Civil War Relate Partly to Funeral Services and Burial. 5 A "| will be interred on Sunday next at|have the remains of Capt. Wirz de- | promenade and chat, and perhap i T e ates by | Mount Ollvet Cemetery, some frlends | ivered to me it was certainly your in- | there were attempts o dunee. e e aviar Bovle of St.|of the family having provided a lot f tention that 1 should get the whole | coatroums were in the tup sturs B Cthollc CHurehy weho.. s | for thabi Burpose.: [body and not a parc of i The coffin | a pleture of the aflair. here s B o Wit for deatt. 1] This paragrivh was one of & hun | However; which wda delivereld to nié at | letfer to the cditor ot The | Hually preDere e 1n The Bvoning|dred i that issue of The Star and|the Arsenal contains only the frame,| which was printed in our Star February 25, 1869: 1t was read with mild interest or | the head, right hand and the spine be- | March 5, the day af H B farroor thel remairial| D0ssed without readiiic by many|| g miksinG, If (hey hadbeen fetalnad | oA loudigruw) DRy A ccutfed m| Washingtoniane, as pressnt Washing: | foF the'benefit and in the nterest of| Mr. Bdltor: I am one of the ma O e Tinor. yail. om| (onlens reatl 6u do iniobi readitems| selence, Tiwouldicertalnly have mo of | sufferers that lost their hats and oves November 10, 1863, under a sen.| iR tod paper which a successor | jeetion to it nor would the relations | coats at the nevertobe fozotten | November 10 1865, under @ $en:| o che Rambler may serve to them as |of Capt. Wirz in whose benefit 1 act, | auguration il lust t It wa Y - der| Tmttere CBMGORITmoment | o shiow ((BRCithe skulli o Capes Wirz oc feoirie)| a selling affair, for never wers murder and - consniing Sto o s | you that Washingtonianswere gofng|| othicr] part of hisibody hid Leen ‘ex |citizenasc They were Union prisoners Dlaced under ot | to work, to lunch, to home and to the | hibited at the OId Capitol Prison by a | like so m: wine o charge at Andersonvllle, were remov.| ghows just as we do, I hand you the| discharged soldier for money. For that [apicee re t and even ed from alongside the remains of | goowing advertisements which were | reason and no other 1 respectfully | security of life. The nuwiascmont i Pavne in No. 2 Warehouse of the | gnly inches from the paragraph about | ask you to glve an order that the |the gentlomen’s rom was particn Ar::u‘ll'fi:y ;\'!lr fl;}*uk)ur.:(\"::\\'(' U‘l:;- "!Irr Wirz's remains: | missing parts of the remains of Capt |1y bad. The fact is i was outrise for removal, -and the remains were | Week and will give some four or five )y oflice, may be delivered to me for | man could get his hat and cont at once taken to Mr. Burgdorf's ‘(,r i ¢ musical ente A onts at ..vl Ulll? wit I” he 1‘\(. her parts, ! waited f'nl two Iu»\ll; in line to pr R D Tt s aventa |(an Hall. Tom always | ¥ atternoon '.:xl o'clock. | sent my check. Hefore me was a (Various mutilations of the body are driws here.” e | S e B L described in this old report, but the | “The Duvenport Brothers cive thelr 8 D s Ramiblec! sidps: thepi) The: '_l.m“im‘}.‘u.{ ‘inxl = ince ‘n‘u:ht at Metzerott i “No answer \v:;s received 1.)‘(m: np:\lllr:‘;'::-:ll h;d] lm -:1:>!l'<:)h--'wn-"\(- 2 b e e 7 all. These exhibitions are anoma-|to yesterday afternoon and at 2 janc zretted sincerely that he, whe were placed in « plain neat coffin and il THRE CEILANE S0 0 or | o'clock in the afternoon a number of | he had nearly roached the window, s=————————————————— himself and form his own opinions of | 'persons assembled at St. Peter's|was, lke the rest of us. told that it i | them.” Church and took carriages for Mount | Was no longer possible to return i Park, and, being largely bare at low | flle. Idelie, the accomplished pre- | Olivet Cemetery, where they arrived | articles, as everything inside vas 1p water, were considered an active | micre danseuse, the Italian danseus, | just before 3 o'clock. There were on | side down. The policanei ot the wi agent’ in the propagation of malaria | the (an-Can, the marble groupings, the ground about 50 persons, includ- | dow then comme need to call the i and other diseases. and other attractions at the Canter-| ing Rev. Father Hoyle, Mr. Schade, | bers of the packages nearest. That | The Washington Channel was only | pury tonight.” Mr. ker and several members of | however, was like a lottery, for there about 10 feet deep, so the engineers | \ For the account of the funeral of | St. Peter's congregation, and the cof- |Were more than 2000 nimbers. ond went to work on the killtwo-birds- |\irz we will turn to The Evening Star | fin having been set on the bier at | therefore about two-thirds of the \]\-mfion‘;szl:;‘x’:o y!)dnri[l)ln.md‘(m‘rl‘l:'m ::e of Monday, March 1, 1860 | the door of the receivimg vault, Mrs. L:m\t:\-u; n \'l;n had contide mr’uv depth o channel and using the | Lyocoia Toet 0 e remains | Schade in behalf of the daughters of | Wardrobe to the mianagemen \ x_:_x;::lm{glirgm:rl?‘l]#l‘:”::‘rlu‘lm_“;&p'k}&":‘-‘,,f Capt. Wirz, which were removed | the deceased placed on the coffin ..rlln;lll Iv{:{'l! o expose thems e fre made 20 feet deep, and both channels | SFom the Arsenal on Wednos ane,; Homabene meean. I fedtoome o the olérclie en 2 3 annelsi| coe e rvad Aount Olivet Coma: | Boyle read the services of the church | ed roo o the pier el were widened. e b e Qe cem | and the remains were carried to the 5. We saw Senators, members of will | grave in the southeast portion of the | Congress, genermls, captains. men a | grounds, where the services were of the press —in fact, everybody concluded. F [ Boyle re- tering deep dngs’ toward 1t | marked that he had fulfilled a long- to whom were Indebte on | promised request in conducting the | for this beautiful pleco of arrans An | services. | ment. In almost ;-\v'x*l corner on the ol SEee e preNant visite rpet, even on the tiles of the pa L A\ number of those present visited i g i oy i ! the grave of Mr: | part of the cem the lot voted to the fami neatly sodded, u cross of laid on the at the cornes | of the lot marble blocks set of | initials ‘M. E. S.'” [ have no record that om- and found t induction to office of the Chief Mag istrate and the Vice DPresident the parade you may | 100k up for yourself. Some of you r | inau u wtion which De: my tories were used for music_ eatin, A & Y, B i aih it oamibad § BRIG. GEN. JOHN H. WINDER, C. S. A, WHO WAS COMMANDING £ OFFICER AT ANDERSONVILLE, Y . Photo by Handy, ¢ had been flowers the missing pur- W waitin protectors, who time on a wild go ts and coats, inted, and it v to get even { was the crowding. with the | parts of Wirz's body were returned by .\rwr:!.m- vernment, but they may have| ¥hom the blunc ol i | inly somebody s ago,| At the time of the burinl of Wirg | 12d1es and gentlcn at Mount Olivet the inauguration of | MUCH by the tota Grant and Colfax as President and | T find among t | Vice President was five days in the [ants at the ball a the | future and most Washingtonians {peared in the hout | Henry Wirz and on | the matter. The old account of the [t appear in th those at* whe Among Louis Schade French flow 1 the District of C | private u and ice in to Washing of the District's of a territory in 1 wppointed Chipi territory. can convention 1 ind Frederfck 1 prominent candids Chip W Gongress Jand vlectead “:Hl over their faces, th | Ramble full dress with laces and F/tHe When the ith anguish depieted » return of their were in the meat ose chase after their fany Ladiies et i as a1 dithien! downsti ve We annot say to v rizman he names of few which several which ought next installment the 1 was “Mr ) wor white sati “ he n . nilitary « and who Democratic to Cor tumbia urt defeated nd when was give the pose. because 1 believe it will inter- | territorial government, was a st more persons, is the ball. It was |ball. Chipman had been a worti held in the Trensury. Halls in the |Union officer and served under <Grant ‘\ut.\l‘nlf‘nl and the first and second [in the West. He left his practice « {law in Towa, enlisted in the Army a be a war ton brigadier ger opened o law oOn the change ernment that 71 President Grant i seeretary of t District Republ net Gen. Chipma Jouglass were th tes for deleg: in nowinated wir te an wis Gen. Chipman at t ant-Colfux inauguration ba | Among others at the ball were Mr {Grant, Mrs, Colfax, Mrs. Ci Mr Denby, Mrs. Comste Miss” Nellis IGirant, Master Frede Grant 1 in the uniform of 4 West? Poin Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Rice, wite or Rice: Mrs. Emory, wife of {Gen. Emory: Mrs. John Morrisses {here's a chanee for a good story al {John <scy, born in Tipper jary ter. allround sport and {n very good Representative). Mrs George Palmer, Christophe: Graham, Miss Hickman, Mrs. W. E Mrs. William L. Wall, Mrs ith, Mrs. Marshall Erowr Hunt of New York, with Dr i Peter P Vest Point 4 Lou Porterficld of beautiful daughter Sem Chandler'”; Mrs. Morgan . of S ator Morgan: Mrs, ‘oole [wife of Judge Cooley: Harvey Watter in. Alexander R. Shepherd, John W Thompson, Franklin Philip, Fdv ard ark, Adolph Cluss, Willlam Wall, I’ W Browning, Thomas Berry, James K. Berrett, “former Mayor Wallach ind lady” and Lewis Clephane The Motor Shovel. In unloading ore or coal from the | holds of vessels on the Great Lakes » i3 always a certain amount of material in corners and b pen | hatches that cannot be reached | the unloading buckets. The superin | tendent of one railwa # designed {a motordriven scraper shovel that moves such material much faster | than it can be moved by hand The machine carries a shovel that | can be raised an i cally, but whene or conl ix push hateh opening:, v buck+«ts hau per she 2 to 40 power-sera | work of 1 d dumped automati er possible the ore t underneath the ere the unloading 1t of the sk wvel is said to do hovelers, according | to the type of boat, und to save from one to five hours’ time in the un- loading process,