Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-10-03


grain and empty -four barrels. Nj. Jas. Ridge.
way, cooper, will loose about $500 or 5000 worth
Of material and barrels. Messrs. HYDE s. Tyler
The shipping has escaped Injury, with the ak
ception of two schooners, which dragged their
anchors and brought up against Easbyss wharf.
Seneca mills, but it Is believed they were swept
away. In consequence OF the mills stopping
and the confusion incident to the condition Of
Change. Mr.. Lyons mill, on Rock creek. Is
the only one now in operation, the flood not in
terferiDg with him.
VESSELS CAUGHT.
The steamers Lady OF the Lake and f.. e.
Knight, also several schooners and some coal
boats, are detained here in consequence of the
condition OF the Long Bridge, which is impassa-
BILE for boats. The T.. G. knight, however. is
taking in cargo, to be in readiness to start
whenever the condition OF the bridge viii ad-
This morning the schooner Thomas T. Tuu
captain Cooper, from Norfolk, with lumber "a
Wheatly & Sons, in attempting TO near the
wharf, run into a hidden pile, STAYING a hole
oWed mn TO Ss1 0o6 was got off and
THE CHKsAPRAKR AND OHIO CANAL,
NO very reliable information relative TO the ex
ten.of the canal damages between here and Har-
pers Ferry has been received. Above that
point there was no material rise in the water.
ana no damage sustained. As the President OF
s n,s SS0mnPapy Is an energete man. it IS pre-
confidence OF the. business community. by
prompt and energetic action on this occasion.
Mr.. Il. Il. Fugltt retained here this morniny
rom the Great Falls, and reports another sud-
den rise In the river at that point at sin o'cloc
a. m, but from what cause no one could tell :
A CHILD's HAND.
AT the Aqueduct bridge, where an immense
quantity of debris from above has been wedged
oeneath one OF the piers, the upright hand Of a
cniia was discovered on Saturday afternoon pro-
70 recover the body, rush was made by several
persons on the wedged mass, which gave vav Inv
she motion. when the body of the unfortunate
little innocent sank and disappeared. being
carried away by the torrent.
HOUSES AND VESSELS SWEPT OFF.
new frame structure on the fish wharf he
longing to Mr.. Power, was washed away on Sat
urday afternoon and completely demolished by
coming in contact with the distractions near
the Long bridge. On the same afternoon, and
nearly az the same hour, two full-rigged
schooners near by were washed from their moor
lpes, one OF which was carried down the stream
rs far as Easby's Point, where 1t was landed
upon the flats. The other was more fortunate,
ner anchors having been dropped, which held
iast, thus securing her from material damage
Messrs King " Dickson are sufferers to a great
extent, BY the loss Of great quantity of wood
TIE CANAL cur. .r.
The canal was cut by authority, we learn, on
Chain bridge, thus diverting the water into the
Potomac channel. In consequence of this ac.
ton all the water Is out below that point and
our several flour mills have been brought to a
sudden stand still, and will doubtless SO remain
LOT some time 70 come, as II is impossible "a as
certain what damage the canal las sustsined
above the Chain bridge.
LIVE sToCk SWEPT OFF.
Mr.. r.. Moody, living near Edea' mills about
two miles above Georgetown, visited the low
lands near his residence about 1 O'Clock on Sat
urday morning to look after a quantity of sheep
and cattle he designed bringing to market
during the morning. He found them all safe,
and retired to bed. Two hours later he was the
loser OF two hundred and seventy head of sheep
and six fine beeves, the whole having been swept
off by the flood.
The oldest residents give it as their opinion
far exceeds all previous floods in this locality.
and that the water has risen several inches
higher than ever before known.
The Affairs Of the Water Departme nt.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM g. r. BoND, LATE WATER
REGISTRAR.
Editor Erening Sdr:-ln your issue OF Friday
last appeared report Of the present Water
Registrar to the Water Board, interspersed
with sub-heads by your reporter, 1 presume,
and also an editorial under the caption Of The
Wafer Department." wherein were some state
ments and remarks upon which beg leave to
make few comments through the medium of
your columns. Some of these statements, which
will not dispute, apply only to the adniinistra-
ton OF the Water Registrars office by my pre-
decessor, yet, taking in connection with the dis
paraging captions introducing them, they are
calculated to impress the general reader as
severe animadversions upon the whole admins
tratiOn of that Office without discrimination as
10 dates; of the remaining statements and com
ments, some are incorrect, and Others can only
be properly understood in the light OF explaua-
tons which will occur to any one familiar with
the business of that office: but not, perhaps, to
/. In your remarks Introductory of mir.
Cranes report you descant with proper force
ter Board, but to say that this board has held
no meetings for several years Is not correct. The
Water Board elected at the same time with my
selt, IN July, lseS' organlzed ana held meetings,
lett In the office, and their proceedings were
published in The STAR at the time. When !
came into office there was not foot of water
pipe Oh hand to lay, and none had been laid
during the year, while there was only balance
of s3,7sl4 standing to the credit of the water
fund, with bills unpaid. 1 was obliged to 60 to
work without even seeing my predecessor or his
assistants in the office as he senuthe keys to me
by a messenger. There was NO record OF his
accounts, nor of the past transactions OF the
Office, such as left for the period Of my official
term. The Water Board met and organized,
and laid before it . statement OF the facts,
and, with its advice, such Arrangements were
made as enabled me to lay some ID 900 feet OF
water mains before the close of the season. l
do not remember how many formal meetings
OF the water B0ard were held during that year,
but they were few, and it is matter for which
am in no way responsible; but the members of
the board made frequent examinations OF the
affairs Of the office, and of such changes, and,
venture to hope, such improvements as were
made therein. At the end Of the fiscal year,
after careful review Of these matters, the
board (Messrs. VIM. b. Todd, j. Sayles Brown
and Charles Hendley being presently reported to
the Mayor i'll writing, from which report the
present circumstances may warrant me in
making the following brief extract viz-'The
Water Registrar has conducted the affairs of
the water department so Is to give gener al sat
lsiaction, reducing its expenditures, economic
ing its means, and systemizing its general man
agement much to his own credit and to the in
terest Of the CITY,"
2. MT Cranes report shows that on the 23d of
June he found a balance of 81 1876 81 to the
credit Of the water fund, and there was then
due from the ward funds to the water fund.- as
per my written statement filed with the present
Mayor in pursuance Of law, the further sum of
about 81 coo, making the water fund balance of
nearly $4,000. This does not show the financial
condition OF the water department in quite so
deplorable a condition as the public would infer
from Mr.. Cranes statement and your COM
ments. During the two years l was in office
there was laid and paid for as much water pipe,
at least, as had been laid in the previous two
years, and more fire plugs erected; from which
facts the inference naturally occurs to an I'M
biased mind that to increase the balance of the