Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-01
The Smithsonian Institution.
ESTABLISHMENT AND OFFICERS As CONSTITUTED 3,
THE RECENT ELECTION

ESTABLISHMENT AND OFFICERS As CONSTITUTED Ry
III. RECENT ELECTION.
The establishment and officers OF the smithson-
ian Institution, constituted 10y the recent cleo
ton, are as follows: Members (eX-oniciol or the
Smithsonian lnstitutton-President Arthur. Chief
Justice Waite, Secretaries Frederick T. Frrling-
huNsen, Charles !. Folger, Robert r Lincoln
William ii. Hunt and Samuel ]. Kirkwood. Post
master General Timothy q. Howe Attorney GEN
ehrat benlamin +. Brewster aud Commissioner OF
fatentS Edgar VI. Marble. Regents Of the Institu-
tlon-thief Justice Matte, senators Hoar CNassl
iiill cody, and MaNey TEX Repr,cntativ Deer.
ny l0wal. Taylor Ohio, and Cox ~. W; Prof
John MacLean lof Princeton, Nj, Peter Parker (of
hiShlngtonl, Gen ". +. sherman Prof Asa
Gray Soi Cambridge, MasS.D, Prof. Henry Coppee
Sot Lehlgh University, Pa.), Noah Porter OF New
Haven, CONN.,, president OF Yale College. Fxecu-
I've Cominittee OF the Board Of Regents-Peter
Parker, John MacI.ean, William r. sherman
Officers OF the Observation-Disclosures Arthur eX-
olhclo presiding officer: Chief Justice " ate cham
cellor; Spencer +. Baird, secretary: William j.
khers. chief clerk. Officers O. the National Mu-
seun-Spencer r. Baird, director Of the museum;
L. Brown tioode, assist mt director: curator. de-
partlaeht or arts and industries; Tarletun H. Bean,
curator, department OF fishes; William II. Dahl
honorary curator. department OF moIluskS: Fred,
erSk L. Dewey. assistant. department OF minerals
ana economic geology; James NJ. Flint. honorary
curator, section OF mateI1a medica: u Howard
Gore, honorary curator. section OF foods; George
W Halves, curator, department OF minerals and
economic geology; Richard Rathhun. curator, de-
partmeDt OF marine Invertebrates; Charles Rau,
curator, department of antiquities; Robert Ridg-
way, curator, department OF birds; Charles V.
RILEY. honorary curator, department Of Insects:
IL W. Shuiedi. honorary curator, section 90 bird
SECTIONS: Robert f. {. SteaTnS, assistant denart-
meIt of moliussS; Frederick ". Tayior, chemist:
Frederick ". True, librarian: curator department.
of mammals; Lester +. Ward, honorary curator,
department OF fossil plants; Charles A. White
curator department Of fossil Invertebrates Henry
tio narrows honorary curator department Of rep
superintendent OF buildings.
CONVENIENT CLERK CHARGED WITH vroL.TIr;a
TIE LICENSE LAws-IhiS morning Special License
Agent Ran Swore out a warrant against BENJAMIN
r Moore, clerk in the sixth auditors office Post
ofrce department. charging him with acting as
commercial agent without license. IL is sasd that
A9Gre has for "A long time been agent for the En-
ceslnr Furniture Company OF Cincinnati, Ohio,
ana mas Deen taking many orders IN the District,
ana undertaking carpenters and others III putting
III pewS and otherfurnture la churches. halls and
schools 1t is said that he underbii two carpenters
IN putting the pewS into the 9Th street " T. church
There are said 10 be other in the government
departments where clerks are receiving orders for
groceries, dy goods, fancy goods, medicines, and
many other kinds Of goods
THE WORK IN THE WASHINGTON CH,SSEy.-Tbe
National Dredging Company is making good pro-
gresS In widening and deepening the Washington
chahnef OF the Potomac from the arsenal point TO
near the Long bridge. The weather thus far has
been good and but little time lost since the work
was commenced in the fall The purpose AT start
ing was To make this channel 500 feet wide and
from IA 10 10 feet deep At ow-water mark, and this
viii be accomplished. The dump, 1t win be re-
mc1nbered, is made on the river flats lust below
the Long bridge, and the plan adopted OF carrying
the mud by tranway has been found u work very
we'll This tramway was butt by Mr.. Elv OF Bal
tmore, running nearly parallel with the Long
bridge and several hundred feet below IT. The
mud, being soft, when dumped sinks and spreads
out, and IT has 10y this means formed the founda-
ton Tor an island which already occupies several
acres in extent at high-water mark. This dump
has been made and the island formed about oppo-
site the central part OF the causeway and the mud
has spread up 10 the causeway wall. The highest
point of the island thus formed appears to be al
ready as high as the roadway of the Long bridge.
IL does not seem likely that this island can be az
tected with the tides nor floods, protected IL is
by the bridge.
MAKING READY FOR THE FISHING SEAsoS-Mr.
William Knight, the weli-known Potomac Usher
man, sent OF yesterday a gang OF about thirty
men TO Fairy Landing with an entire outfit fish
ing parapherRaa to engage I'm the winter fishing
and prepare for the regular shad and herring fish,
eries when they open Id The spring An early sea-
son is anticipated Mr. William Stewart viii re-
main here and dispose of the fish sent up by Mr.
Knight. Mr.. Henry Knight will fish the shores at
the south end OF the Long bridge, and is now max
nets. The Indications are that the coming will be
asuccessiul season for shad and herring.
THE ALrHA DELTA PHu-A Washington gradu-
ate association OF the Alpha Delta PHI fraternity
was formed last evening at Nillard's. and thirty
members OF the fraternity renewed their old vows
ana became college boys again 1T the banquet Ia
Die. Officers OF the new association were elected,
IS follows: Hon. GLENN ". Scofeid, Hamilton, 40,
lice-preadent: Robert J. Mitchell. Williams, Sd,
secretary and Treasurer; Addison +. Andrews,
Dartmouth, IS, chorister; RUFUS ii. Thayrr, Pc
nfnsua, 20. Matthew Trimble, Kenyon, Co. and
James f. Allen, Dartmouth, '62, executive commit
Tee AT the banquet remarks were made by Con-
greSsmen HRbben and Willis, Judge Scofield,
Prof Able, Charles $. Bundy, Rev. Dr. Wynkoop,
George G. Round, Matthew Trimble. Samuel L.
Butler, Augustus ii. Nanderpool, Williams, 81;
Talcott " Williams, and Others.
crank named Sullivan assaulted Mt. Weldon, a
member OF the Dominion parliament, last night.
The cause OF the attack is not known. Mr. Weldon
is seriously injured.