Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-08-06
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C.~-x,,rny HALI.-Min Forrest makes her
third appearance tonight, and she will no doubt
give entire satisfaction, ~ heretofore. She is
evidently q very highly cultivated vocalist, and
her executions are exQuisite. All who 60 TO Can
terbury express entire satisfaction with her music
The Beievante Brothers, a. daring eymnasts as
any the stage, still entertain with their daring
and per lous trapeze feats, which performance II
Of Itself worth the price Of admission.
FoRp's ADMINISTRATORS good audience
greeted the performance at Ford's last evening.
Miss Mollie williams took benefit, and appeared
in three characters In the military drama Of the
French Spy. Tonight, all the prominent per-
II. Donaldson will make one Of his psrilous tight
rope sscensons, and a very laugh able pantomfme
will conclude the performance. A hne opportu-
nifty for an evening Of enjoyment.
APOLLO CoscERr SALOON In the daily resort Of
thCse who are fond Of paTtaking Of good cheer at
the same time that they enjoy good music, Is
executed by Winterstein and Nachman.
ACADEMY OF Music The free concerts at
Rosenthal's are very inviting. Attentive walters
dispense refreshments.
LIBERTY Hall ALExISDRIA.-Thisis the
fourth week that the Canterbury troupe have
been delig hting the good citizens Of Alexandria,
and with renewed succefs nightly. The lit OF
performers embraces many who have heretofore
delighted Washington audiences, and added to
teese 10 Wills Armstrong, an amusing clown,
juggler and pantomimist. New songs, new acts
and new dances are offered nightly.
ALL Asour TRAssPoRTAI1oN.-The public is
tolerably well aware that an immense amount Of
business Is transacted In the department Of that
energetic ofacial, Quartsrmaster ID. H. Rucker,
but its varied details we Imagine 1t has very
imperfect IDEA. Take for instance the transpor.
tation department. Though we see the long
trains Of teams passing through the city hourly
through the day, and hear them a. continually
through the night, none but the initiated, we
imagine, have ghost OF an idea where they all
"put mp at, ;" or how they are managed. Hap
pening In at the unpretsnding three story brick
al The corner Of and Twenty second streets, oc-
Dana, General Superintendent Snow, Forage
Master Mclean, Bookkeeper Noyes, and q busy
hive Of assistants, and glsncing casually ut the
neatly kept books, we were struck by the ccm-
pleieness with which all the vast work Of the de-
partment Is systematized. With the name of
capt. Dana, a most interchangeable and efficient
othcer, the public Is familiar. With that Of Mr..
Snow, not 90 much %. He 10 a New Hampshire
man, remarkable for energy and executive abil-
iiy-in fact, as was said Of Webster, he Is a sort
OF "steam-engine In breeches;o as he has need 70
upon his shoulders. II 10 a boast OF the ONCE
that notwithstanding the thousands OF men, ami
mails and vehicles In service daily, not so much
as wheelbarrow II 10 misplaced that It's precise
location cannot be axed at any time The daily
morning reports, for instance, of the brigade
wagon masters and ambulance masters, shows
the exact condition Of wagons, ambulances,
teams, &c, IN the charge OF each such MASTER
how many horse teams how many mule teams;
how many 2 or horse teams; how many 2, 4, or
mule teams; l, 2, or horse ambulance teams;
or horse express teams; or horse medical
wagons; transport carts; carts; how many teams
n or unit for service; In use, not In use; number
Of men Employed number Of teams detached,
when detached, &c, &c. We may as well men,
ton here that q wagon master directs TWENTY-FIVE
teams, and brigade wagon msster one hundred
teams, or a brigade Of teams.
Among the teamsters are quite a number of
contrabsnds, who are spoken Of a. doing excel
m - itE no arnIA
OF the transpt rtatcn department branch in every
direction from this ONCE. To the south are the
numerous shops for work and REPAIRS one en-
ploYing dfty men, where thousands upon thou
sands 6f army harnesses for horses and mules
have been repaired, oiled, &c; next q carpenter
shop, where men are at work up1n all sorts { (
Soa Joos, boxes Tor quarterms.ters, clutches for
ihe he pitfalls, &c, &c; next IL q row Of extensive
Warehouse, just erected, where orders are filed
for hardware, harnesses, &c, per acquisitions Of
Quarterma stefs Some three thousand sets of four
horse harness are now on hand ready for use and
other articles In the same line in similar proper
tons Just here, too, IL a oommssary house.
where the nfteen hundred men employed In the
nelghoorhG cd OF the main ofdce are supplied.
There are two ether commissary houses con-
nectsd with this depa tment; one at The Nine
teenth street PARK, supplyi two thousand men,
and the other at the railroad park, supplying per-
haps i've huEdre
On Twenty -nzst street between and F. 10 one
OF the most interesting features Of the Transports
tin departments varied operations, In the shape
Ol t1c tnOclhE hnQ IL pairing shops, Vher6 S1XtY-
four dOuble-breasted FORCES keep the air lively
with the ring Of hammers, and q mere old shoes
pulled from the aninsls LON up in piles twenty
feet high.
Hersaboa,s, too, Is a shop for repairing ambu.
lances, or making new ones on occasioni q shop
for making and repairing army buckets; a paint
shop; = storehouse hIled TO the roof with dlpli-
cate parts Of army vehicles, &c. Mr. E AL.
len Is the superintendent uf the repair shops
Facing towards the observatory we come TO Ii
great Goyernment eorrals and here we note, a.
an indication Of the extensive scale Of oper
q grtr mill with two run Of stones solely to
grind corn and oe1 for the half dozen acres more
Of less, CT Uncle Sans I" animiles - Quartered
thereabOut; and next neighbor 70 the grist mill
are two mammoth horse power hay cutters, busy
at work on q like duty. The number OF horses
at these corrals vary much, there being now some
1890
tSains," then to q hospital for sick horses, an I,
then 70 the mule corrals Some 3 coo green mules
nave been broken here within the last month
and, a. this animal 10 apt TO " slosh around ~
some In The breaking process, some amusing and
high old times are 10 be seen here. c. 6 Mcclure
suPerintends at the horse corral and A. w. Jack
son at the mule corral r-.- ~
The AUCTION yard, where disabled animals are
knocked Of 70 the glue manufacturers and other,
Tor from three levies 70 fty dollars each 10 In this
vicinity. sometmes the purchasers get bergA Aims.
and s9netimes they don't One chap, at the Last
sale, bid OF 90 so horse mot q 10 nag) and the
criIter gave up the ghost ON the street, whereby
the purchaser was out 10 the extent OF tnother
$3.50 70 get his horse carted away and buried.
But this was an exceptional case. Most Of the
buyers manage to get their purchases home alive
Al the auction matt, the corraIs, the breaking
grounds, the trial ground, flor testing animals
oHefed for sale 70 Government,) the blacksmith
shops and elsewhere, an American Rosa Bonheur
could End ample work for the pencil In /" hoa''
and mule studies.
Passing next the extensive depets of the forage
department, the buildings hers grain 10 received
from the cars, &c, and glancing a. we 20 at
spacious yards packed .lll Of ambulances, we
cross PennsYivsnia avenue, and proceed to the
Nlnteenth street park, the main encampment
where horses, mules and wagons are spread over
acrss Of ground, and reg uisition for hundreds
Of teams can be filed az q moments notice
There, a. elsewhere, Notwithstanding the inn.
merse scale Of operations, order reigns 81 preme;
every vehicle, animal and harness duly placed,
and the whole ground occupied as cleanly swept
al q house door. Mr.. John German 10 the super
intendent It this park Not far from here 10 the
Quartermaster's hospital, an Institution, ve take
u, Of whose existence the public II a. Ignorant az
ourselves, until we visited IL. 80
The teamsters and employees Of the transport
ation department, II win be remembered, are
not enlisted men, but hired by the month, and