Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-24
E GlNEER CHAN ES
Transfer of Officers to Be Effected on the
First of October.
Lieut.. Gaillard to Have Charge of the
Aqueduct-Maj. Knight to Complete
the Tunnel Inspection,

Several important changes in the duties
OF officers in the engineer corps of the
army stationed in this city will take effect
on the 1st proximo. The orders are now
being prepared at the War Department
and will be promulgated in a few days.
On the date named Maj. ]. D. G. knight
Will be relieved from duty in charge of the
Washington aqueduct and placed in charge
of the School of Engineers at WiIlett's
Point N. Y. AS has been already inti-
mated in The STAR Maj. C. E. L. B. Davis
the engineer officer in charge of the Poto-
mac river Improvement and river and har-
Eor works in Virginia and North Carolina,
Will be relieved on the 1st proximo of all
his present duties, excepting those special
ly pertaining to the improvement of the
Potomac river at Washington, and will
tlen relieve Maj. Knight of the charge of
the Washington aqueduct.
TO Have Charge of the Aqueduct.
First Lieut.. D. D. Gaillard, corps of en-
gineers, now on duty with the Mexican
boundary commission. has been ordered to
report at Washington, October 10, for duty
as on assistant to Maj. Davis. By order
o; Gen. Craighill, chief of engineers. Lieut..
Gaillard will have direct and personal su-
pervision Of the Washington aqueduct, un-
der the immediate orders of Maj. Davis,
who will be in general charge and respon-
sible for the work Lieut.. Gaillard. who
has been at Fort Monroe for a short time,
arrived in Washington today in obedience
to orders from the chief of engineers, and
was instructed to make arrangements for
the assumption of his duties in this city
on the date named.
Mexican Boundary Commission.
The Mexican boundary commission will
meet at the State Department in this city
on the 11th proximo, and Lieut.. Gaillard
will continue his duties with that COM
mission SO long as they do not require
his absence from Washington. 1t is eX-
pected that the work of the commission
will be concluded within a short time, and
that the work of the American members of
the commission yet remaining to be ac-
complished can be readily transacted in
this city.
Will Inspect the Tunnel.
The orders for the relief of Maj. Knight
do not apply to that particular portion of
his work specially assigned to him by act
of Congress relating to the inspection of
the Lydecker tunnel conduit. He has been
er gagged in the examination of that tunnel
for several months. in order to determine
its practicability for future use in connec-
ton with the proposed increase Of the
water supply of the city of Washington.
He is now engaged in the preparation of
his report to Congress this subject.
The provision Of the act directing an in
spection of the tunnel required that the
report OF the engineer officer detailed to
make it should be submitted to Congress
upon its meeting On the first Monday CT
December next. Mai. knight expects to
complete his report in time for submission
to the chief of engineers about the lst of
November and he will then be relieved of
the only work in the District of Columbia
then in mis- charge.