The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-12
GOVERNMENT SALES.

I ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT BUILD
- IN&SS AND OThER PROPERTY AT POINT
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT wAsHrEeroN,
OFFICE OF CHIKF QUARTRRMAsTBR,
- WASHINGTON, ID. g December 90 1895 \
Will be sold at Public Auction TO the highest Sid
der at POINT LOOKOUT Nd commencing
THUtlRsSD,AY, tlS January lS 1866, at 10 o'Cock A.
UNITED STATES GENERAL HOSPITAL.
One Headquarters Building, 17b by 6 feet. IL
Hospital ards each 175 by 25 feet; one Meas houee
2o by rs feet; one Guards Quarters, 167 BY "a feet
one Conuaband Quarters, so by IA feet one Kitchen
co by 2S feet; one Chapel u by % feet; one Laun
dry w by 22 teet, with stationary Engine Locom0
tive Boiler and ali the necessary apparatus for steam
laundry and Crying; one Cow Stable, 81 bv Ia feet;
one Horse Stable, 80 by 81 feet; one WAGON House,
small; one Baggage House, s. by 2b ieeti one
40 BY 80 ieet and 10 feet bigh; Water-tank
Building, II by II feet 80 feet high with circular
wafer tank, l6 feet diameter; two Coal Houses, one
saw House, one Forage House, one Dead House, and
one Wash House, OF various Dimensions; also,
wide. -'N~
Il lhe a63oye,msntioped Headquarters Building is
two stories high, lathed and plastered the fif-
teen Hospital Wards, the Mess-house and a few
other structures are also lathed aud plasterod
PRISON CAMP.
10 Hospital S 11g 1W1aSds each l4O by % eotj Cook
wings each 30 by 20 feet; one Headquarters Build
ing ~ Dy "a ieet with TWO wings each 40 by 20 feet;
one z; = Siorehouse 90 by % feet; one Dspensary,
40 by 3S feet; one Chapel, 100 by "a feet; ore Exs
press Office 80 by I6 ieet one Guard Honse SbloekI
SV @ Dy 10 Ieeti one Quartcrs one Office, and one
Storeroom, OF various dimensions; also alSS hneaI
feet OF Fencing IL feet high; $40 ineal feet OF Oard
renee, 9 feet highs 7Q0 hnea feet of covered Plank
toOtwaks IL tee wide; and 9SS hneal feet of Plank
Footwak leet wide, with rail. = = '''1-
QUARTERMAsTER'S DEPARTMENT,
One Quarters, 100 by % feet; one Quarters 100 by
lS feet one Quarters, 12 by % feet one Quarters.
so by % eet three Stables averaging 189 by "a feet
shop, 50 by "a feet; one wheelwright shop 57 bY
- eetj ana tour Offices three Quarters, two Store
houses one Clubhouse; one Saddlers Shop, and ono
Mess House OF various dimensions
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS, AND OTHEI
PROPERTY. - -
One Post Hospital, 20 by 25 feet; one CommiasaFy
room and Office 81 by 27 feet; one Office "a byI
feet; one Guard House loGG so by so feet; om
Guard House Qog) 81 by 20 feet; two frame GuarJ
Houses small size; one Barrack, at Fort Lincoln
feet one Slaughter House 40 by "a feet with She'd
"a BY 13 feet and Outbuildngs, by feet one Sta
bic, So by ~ feet; and 10 Kitchens, Quarters, etc,
One wparf of Timber and Lumber 476 feet lope
and varying in width from % to 102 feet 24S lined
feet OF Stockade, II feet high on the Potomac side
with blockhouse 20 by 80 feet, four platforms eal
10 Dy II leet and lQO lneal feet OF plank footwaN
with blocF house 25 by 20 feet and three platforTA
| of various dimensions and footwalk.
One Hose Carriage; 2S Fire Ladders; "A Axes; 1l6
Fire Buckets; and six lengths of Hose each 61 feet
| long.
Three Cooking Ranges; one Perpetual Oven;
quantity of oid Lumber and q number of Pumps.
Point Lookout situated at the junction of the Po-
| tomac river with Chesapeake bay, was, before the
| war favorlte watering place. and is well adapted
for the purpose noV, having excellent facilities for
sail. ater bathing and abundance offsh and game.
The buildings above enumerated under the head Of
UNITED States General Hospital" are located di-
rectly on the Point, the principal structures being
| arranged in circle, radating from O common
| centre, and connected by covered footwalks, and
| could with moderate expense be fitted up properly
tor the accommodation of visitors steam laun-
dry, ice-house, coal house. water-tanks, and many
other necessary structures for the purpose ready
| Tor immediate use. An excellent opportunity is
also afforded to land owners the vicinity and else
where, to secure valuable fencing and building
| material. ,
| A steamer will leave the Government wharves,
south side ofthe BASIN, Fardy's shipy ard Bal
tmore, Md, at 10 O'clock on the morning of We'd
nesday, January IL, 1866, for the transportation Of
bidders TO Point Lookout; and will be retained until
the close of the sale to return the passengers to Bal
| hmore, Meals will be furnished on the boat at the
usual steamboat rates. s..
The Buildings Will be sold singly, and otherpros
pertY In lots to suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain IN charge of the
Buildings etc, Tor if1 cen days after the sale, If
desired and purchasers will be allowed twenty days
| in which TO remove their property.
| TeTms-Cash, IN Government funds.
| NJ. i. LUDINGTON,
| Colonel and Chief Quartermaster,
| 1115t Department OF Washington.