RIJKE, A complimentary dinner was given on Tuesday eveeing at the Shanghai Club by the Council of the Shanghsi Society of Engineers and Architects Monsieur Johannes de Rijke, Eogineerto the Hoangpa Conservancy casion of his departare The members of the E. Cornish, E. J. Danstan Prentice, C.W. Thomas, 'T., Weir and Capt. F. W. Tyler; while the guests included, la addition to the ducat of the evening, Sir Pelham Warren, ji, toe Zeppelin Orermoler Mon lo, H E.R, Hanter, Tet Bell At the conclusion of the dinner the Chairman, after reading bee of regret from Mr. A. H. Coll President of the Society for he iasbility to be present, referred to the parpose of the gathering that evening. He said thet he was very mach taken by sarprise on Satardsy to hear from Rijke that be was retaroiog home on Thursday next, and though the time at their disposal was too short to arrange a larger gathering, the ' oancil of the Engivesring Society decided that it could not let bim deport without expressing their esteem of the services he had rendered to Sbaoghsi, M. de ij bad woo for himself ap front renk of En-Bineors before he was appointed by the Chinese Goverment to come to Shanghai to train the Heangpa, on which the city depends for its existence. He had outlined his scheme in a report to the Chamber of Commerce and Manicipal Council io 1898, and that the scheme was 8 sound une, and that it bai ly carried oat with marked jad been confirmed by the recent report of Sir John Wolff Barry, Sir William Matthews and Mr. OG.
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It had been said that Engineers have left monaments to themselves all over the face of -the globe. Sir Benjamin Baker had left ® monument to himself in the shape of the Forth Bridge, imposing strata il to impress anyone it, and go it woald remain for, a fitting monument to the man who designed it. M. de Rijke's moonment as far a6 Shanghai was concerned lay in the bed of the Hoangpu,—there was nothing ahunt it to appeal to the eye, bat its maintenance was nevertheless
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