One asked him the purpose of the! Congress and what it had achieved. Even he could not be very explicit fas to the purpose, but he was frank and definite about the achievement, Mr, Meyers said t) sup posed the greater number of the Engineers gathered at the Congress went there with a very hazy and no! very appreciative knowledge of the) Japanese. They came away, he said, every man of them, firmly convinced that the Japanese were a very over-burdening—in hospi engineers, at Toast the equal of any of their guests, and in some ways even superior to them. remarked that this especially seemed to be the American view.
was the first affair of the sort, and it had its faults, For instance, it was too big. Eight hundred papers were read and there were 15,000 pages of reports. There was practically no time for discussions though it is in these that the real value lies, but the Congress did get down to something concrete in three main resolutions which were agreed ut. In the first, the delegates of the various nations were requested to explore the situation ith a view to ascertaining the opinion in their own countries as to the advisability and practicability of bringing forward for action some plan aiming at a World Engineering Federation.
In the second, it was noted that the Netherlands' Royal Institute of Engineering was willing to take the lead in the investigation of certain irrigation questions of intern: importance, and the Congress, therefore, favoured an international investigation under such auspices, for a report to the next Congress, together with an inquiry as to what! subsidies might be paid by various, governments for this and allied purposes, including flood control.
'The third resolution was' something about hydrostatic uplift. It} seemed perfectly feasible and almost understandable when it was being reduced to shorthand on the back of an envelope, but in the transcription the "statics" were the more pronounced. There was also somethin abut "dams" in the original. It hoped, however, that the official ports will make it all clear to those who know all about it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.