Interesting Description of the Gathering To the layman, the World Engineering Congress recently held int Japan conveys but little. He has read or heard about engineers from number of countries gathering: in Japan and he has vaguely imagined that they probably talked about engifieering—a science which he a5- somes has something to do with engines of one sort or another. Engineers, so far as he knows, are mostly named "Mac" and. either wear greasy overalls or else draw large salaries. Hence, so far as he understands, the purpose of the World Engine: to discuss either engines It has remained for a most engaging and interesting Dutch] gentleman, Mr. A. A. Meyers, the Government civil engineer in Java, to give an understandable explanation of the Congress. Mr. Meyers did not say so—one could understand after a few minutes conversation with him that he would not—but a cursory glance through some of the official papers of the Congress showed that he was a fairly substantial part of it, His return journey called for a short stay in Shanghai and he almost naturally gravitated to the Whangpoo Conser-vane Board, and there he was discovered.
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