Report by Elmer L Corthell, Delegate of the United States Representing the State Department, To the Seventh International Congress of Navigation, Belgium, July, 1898 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Report by Elmer L. Corthell, Delegate of the United States (Representing the State Department), To the Seventh International Congress of Navigation, Held at Brussels, Belgium, July, 1898

There were 121 government delegates, representing 24 nations. Then there were delegates of municipalities, engineering and other technical societies, chambers of commerce, navigation associations, and commercial and industrial organizations of various kinds interested in any way in the subject of navigation. Of these there were 410 delegates. Twelve engineering societies were represented by regularly con stituted delegates. There were 59 of these delegates. Twenty cities were repre sented as cities, with 34 delegates. There were 37 chambers of commerce, with 56 delegates. There were 75 navigation and commercial organizations, with 45 dele gates. There were industrial and agricultural societies; manufacturers, like manu facturers oi dredging machines; the John Cockerill Works at Seraing and other similar works; steamship companies; ship-canal companies; in fact, the whole range of navigation was represented at that congress. There were private members in addition to these, numbering 840; that is to say, not delegates of governments or municipalities. The total membership was Of these, 882 were from countries other than Belgium. There were in all 35 nationalities represented. The number of civil engineers was about 600.

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