Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24

but he didn't come. We understand that
a subscription list is being handed around
to get ZIP a public supper 10 ceIepi" 'e
his return when he comes
A later issue of The Star OF the same
week printed announcement 'ha' WI
liam r. Dove. president of the board OIL
aldermen, had received through the state
Department the resignation or Mayor
Berret. dated at Fort Lafayette the i''h
instant The matter was referred 10
Joseph II. Bradley, the corporation at
torney for his advice as to the neces-
sary action to be taken by the corpora
ton.
Notwithstanding the strict orders OF
Gen. Mcclellan that officers should re-
main with their commands
Officers except when engaged in OF
fetal duty elsewhere, there
Aoose. was some relaxation of dis
cipline following the first strict ENFORCE
ment as the following, printed IN Inc
Star of September 10. 1861, attests:
1.-The Washington city hotel halls again
swarm nightly with volunteer officers, IN
spite of Gen. McClellans general orders
to the contrary 1t would be well Tor
Provost Marshal Gen. Porter to send his
squads once an hour. from until IL,
through them. rightly arresting every Of
fcer absent from his regiment without
leave and gathering facts on which to
bring charges against any general onicer
or regimental commander who grants
leave to subordinate officers to be spent
in hanging around the Washington bar
rooms and hotel lounging places The
Army of the Potomac will never be an
army in fact, we care not What IL may
cost the people of the United States, until
this crying evil is thoroughly eradicated.
~.
One of the first duties Of the new board
of police commissioners after organizing
the force was to adopt
po1ice uniform, thus described in
The Star of September 10.
OHlloiM. 1861:
1.-The committee on uniforms OF the
metropolitan police commissioners recon-
mend the adoption of the report of the
uniform of the New York police for our
force. AS the board will probably adopt
the report of the committee without modi-
fication, description of the proposed uni
-
the Superintendent to be blue dress coat
with police buttons. and the dress OF the
sergeants and roundsmen to be double
breasted blue frock coat, with police put
tons and blue pantaloons. the patrol-
men, when on duty, unless specially au-
thorized to appear in citizens dress: slia,i
wear black stock, a frock coat or navy
blue cloth. Single-breasted and with Toii-
ing collar: nine buttons on the breast,
two on the hips and two on the bottom
of the skirt: blue waistcoats and piue
nantaloons on the outer seam of Whlch
shall be a white cord: the coat to be
buttoned at all times when on duty. Inc
sergeants, roundsmen and patroimen'
when on duty, shall wear caps, shleids'
badges. emblems, devices, belts ana put
tons corresponding to a sample deposited
in the office of the superintendent, ana
the time of wearing them shall be oil
rected by him. AS the caps are eA-
pectad shortly, we hope to see the ser
badges and the patrolmen of their yet
more abominable hatbands."
II has been some years since the "ad-
yertised letters lists appeared In the
columns of The Star, the
Advertised Postmaster General having
discontinued this practice
LeLIeIS. of bringing to attention the
letters unclaimed in the city post office.
During the civil war this method was in
use. and at stated intervals The Star
printed the lists, which ran to great
lengths, inasmuch as numerous letters
were sent to Washington for soldiers sta
toned here and in the field. For instance.
the issue of September 20. 1861, contains
nearly two and a half columns of names,
ptatn
columns, in all about 1000 names. The
great majority of these were for officers
and enlisted men, and while no doubt
MANY of them were delivered through
this method of publica ton, unquestionably
hundreds of them never reached their
destinations, but remained in the WASH
ington office until they were finally sent
10 the dead letter office, there to await
final destruction In after years. These
columns of advertised letters printed in
The Star during the war tell mutely OF
many tragedies affecting homes in all
parts of the country.
In the metamorphosis of Washington
incidental to the outbreak of the war
numerous military institu-
Conifo1 tions developed that gave
employment to large num-
BAKERY. bers of men. In The Star of
September 81. 1861 is a half-column de-
scription, for example. of the govern
ment bakery on the Capitol grounds, in
part. as follows:
Few are aware of the extent OF the
arrangements made by Uncle Sam for
supplying his army here with good, fresh
bread Hundreds pass daily over the
fiery ovens at the Capitol as they prone
made on the broad terrace, who, il their
attention is attracted by their chimneys
along its outer edge, content themselves
with a peep over into the yard at the
roofs of the sheds without peering into
the establishment or considering for
moment the immense amount of labor
performed daily or the enormous stores
consumed in the manufacture OF the huge
wagon loads of bread which are seen
constantly winding out of the Captol
grounds and stretching away to the vari-
Gus camps about the city Just inside
the arches, by the fountain, are the de-
partments for the manufacture of the
Yeast, where several men are busily en-
gagged in stirring in casks a mixture OF
boiled potatoes malt, ete. which, when
thoroughly mixed is allowed to stand
about two hours, when 1t is ready Tor
use At the left, in the vaults formerly
used for storing wood. coal and cinders,
six huge brick ovens have been con-
structed into whose fiery mouths the
loaves are thrust by hundreds as they