REVIEWED, Some Important Points in Which the Port is Ahead of Other Leading Cities of the World: Fascinating Presidential Address by Mr. C. D. Pearson The Engineering Society of China held its opening meeting for the season on Tuesday, when Mr. C. D. Pearson, the new President, deliver-his inaugural address, Mr. Pear-jon dealt with the progress of engineering in Shanghai, and gave a ety interesting account.of what, has and is being accomplished, He' said:
Tu taking the chair for the first time as your President, I have to thank all here and the members of the Society gen honour they ha tion than ours in, his president address said that "an engineer can have no greater reward at the close of a long professional life than to be conscious of the goodwill of his professional brethren"; I esteem myself fortunate that you have, in confirming the nomination of the Council, furnished me with evidence of your goodwill before, or a little before, the end of my' professional career 1d my strongest hope is that 1 shall succeed in retaining it, My predecessors have in most eases. adopted the wise course of addressing you on the subject with' which they are most conversant, but Tam afraid that you are becoming somewhat tired of water ongineering, and Thave consequently bad the temerity to take the engineering progress of the town we live in as my subject, and I trust that, fellow members in other ports will find that is not without interest,
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