'The Shanghai Association of the! Institution of Civil Engineers. held its always interesting annual dinner on Friday. Dr. H. Chatley, in presiding, was in' a practical frame of mind and discoursed briegy. but Mluminatingly on dredgers. The sub-Ject is of enormous importance to dredger which it is hoped will solve some of the Whangpoo'sserious problems and, in due course, remove apprehensions which must inevitably entertainment when the peculiorities of the Yangtze's silt are given passing thought. The honour first applying machinery to the ancient art of dredging is claimed in Europe by Holland and Italy. Netherlanders long ago took to their canals what was called the "bag and Spoon" dredger. This sounds dredging had some affinity with golf. It 1s understood that such a notion Is hardly sustainable "although, admittedly, some of" Mr. Bernard Darwin's rabbite "are supposed at times, in casual and other' water, to conduct operations which. might arouse envy in Dr. Chatley's breast. Mr. C.D. Pearson's happy note of confidence in Shangha's ability to apply its own engineering genius to solve its own problems was no less timely. The gathering that evening certainly presented a wealth of en: gineering talent to which few conceivable engineering projects here could not be safely and satisfactorily entrusted.
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