It is gratifying to know that the engineering profession has not been
forgotten when honors have been conferred on distinguished men; and
among others may be named Sir William Fairbairn, Sir John Rennie, Sir
Peter Fairbairn, Sir Charles Fox, Sir William Armstrong, Sir Joseph
Whitworth, Sir John Hawkshaw, Sir John Coode, Sir William Thomson, Sir
Joseph Bazalgette, Sir Charles Hartley, Sir Charles Bright, Sir James
Ramsden, Sir John Anderson, Sir George Elliot, Sir Daniel Gooch, Sir
Henry Tyler, Sir Samuel Canning, Sir Edward Reed, and Sir Frederick
Bramwell. With many noble examples before us, and with signs of an
improvement in many branches of commerce, he trusted that the latter
part of the present century will, with somewhat greater exertion of
thought and enterprise on our parts, be marked, not only by numerous
small improvements, but by many substantial inventions for the good of
mankind.
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THE HOBOKEN DRAINAGE PROBLEM.
Our thriving neighbor, Hoboken, just across the Hudson River, has a
large and vitally important problem to solve. Of the 720 acres within
the city limits, 270 acres lie at a considerable height above the river
and constitute what are known as the knoll or uplands of Hoboken.
Between this low ridge and Palisade Ridge lie 450 acres of marsh lands
or meadows, 140 acres of which have already been built upon.
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