Now that in all probability Sir Charles Hartley will be asked to revert upon the question of the Woosung Bar, it may be of interest to reproduce a sketch of his m the pages of Men and Women being the son of W. rou' merchant, of engineering at Bishop Auckland and Leeds, he was appointed one of Messrs. Stevenson, Brassey, and Mackenzic's district engineers on the Scottish Central Railway, and held that post till 1848, when he was nominated Resident Engineer at Sutton Harbour, Plymoutl under Mr. J. Locke, on the completion of the Works, he accepted a commis si in the' Turkish Contingent served at Kertch with that force until the end of the far, for which he received the Turkish war medal, In December 18: he was elected Engineer-in-Chief to the European Commission of the Danube, on the recommendation of Major (now Lieut-General Sir John) Stokes, &.. n., and General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart. fu March, 18 inspected the early works of the Suex and reported favourably on that scheme to the English Government. In September, 1862, he received the honour of knighthood. Tu 18 he was awarded the Emperor of Russia's "Grand Competition Prize" of 8,000 si roubles, for which there were twenty ce: editors, for his plans for enlarging the he our of Odessa. In 1872, when the depth at Sulina had been increased. by natural scour only, to 204 feet, and many important river provements had been effected, he ceased 10 ide at Sulina, and became' Consulting Engineer to the Danube Commissi which he still retains. During abroad he was also employed by the Austrian Government, to report on various schemes f improving the port of Trieste; by the Turkish Government, to report on dock accommodation at Constantinople; by the Russian Government, to survey and report-on the mouths of the Don; by the British Government, to report on an international question of engi ering, ceted with the Scheldt; by ti Indian Govermnent, to report on the Hooghl by the Khedive, to report on the " Barrag across the Nile; and by the Roumanian Government, to prepare surveys and drawings for a harbour on the coast of Bessarabia, In January 1874, he was the first engineer to recommend the improvement of the South Pass and Mouth of the Mississippi in preference to either of the other Mouths. 1u Aug., 1875, he visited the South Pass as a member of Mr. J. B. Ead's Advisory Board, and remained in constant communication with that distinguished engineer till the summer of 1879, when Mr. Ead's well-planned operations to deepen the South Pass and Mouth, by means of parallel jetties, as at Sulina, were crowned with complete success, In 1875-77 he acted as Consulting Engineer to the Cattewater Commissioners for the Cattewater Breakwater at Plymouth. In May, 1879, he was appointed a member of the Panama Congress, but abstained from voting
project, as he considered that the engineering, Tata collected up to that time were insuff: cient to determine satisfactorily the best route for a ship canal across the isthmus. In 1881 he prepared detailed surveys, plans, and estimates for the enlargement of the harbour of Kustendjie, in Roumania and, in 1889, for the construction of a commercial harbour at Bourgas, in Bulgaria, In 1884 lo was created a Knight Commander of S. Michael and George. In 1884-45, on the recommendation of H.M.'s Government, he acted as one of the English members of the International Technical Commission appointed by the Suez Canal Company to report on the best means of improving the Sue Canal, He is the author of papers on " The Delta of the Danube," on "Public Works in the United States' and Canada," and on " {ulmd Navigation in Europe." He has been decorated with the Orders of the Medjidieh and the Star of Reoumania, and has received the Stephenson the Telford medal, the Watt medal, the premium, and the Manby premium, from the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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