Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-17
viii Convene at PHILADELPHIA
to Compare feats Of Con.
StruCtioD Work
Over Thirty Nations Will Be
Represented by Their
Leading Engines
By Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA


Twelfth International Congress OF
Navigation, which will convent in
Philadelphia on May %, will bring to-
gether representatives of more than
thirty nations, engineers who are
famed in their own countries for feats
in construction work and many other
men, who have technical ----owledge
OF or are otherwise interested in in.
land and maritime navigation. Cong
ress at Washington has taken official
notice Of the coming meeting, and
President Taft as we'll as Governor
Tener of Pennsylvania and Mayor
Blankenburg of Philadelphia, will be
among those who will extend formal
welcomes to the delegates and men,
bers of the Congress.
The Congress will be held under
the auspices of the Permanent Inter-
national Association of Navigation
Congress which has its seat at Brus.
sells, Belgium. The International AS
ISOLATION is governed by commits
sion composed of delegates appoint
ed by the governments contributing
to the support of the organization.
Its membership is made up of these
governments, and corporations and
individuals interested in maratime
matters.
The previous congresses were held
in Brussels in 1885; Vienna, 1oo6;
Frankfort the-Main, 1888; Manca-
ester Eng, 1890; Paris, 1892; The
Hague, 1894; Brussels, 1898; Paris,
1900; Dusseldorf, 1902; Milan, 1905;
and st. Petersburg, 1908.
The object of the congress is to
promote the progress of inland and
maritime navigation by keeping it's
members informed regarding the
most recent experience in the con.
structon of great public works for
navigation and the technical improve
ments in these works. The recent
great sea tragedy off the Newfound.
lana Grand Banks will give the Cong
ress added interest because some of
the questions that have arisen in
connection with the laundering of
the Titanic will be a matter of dis
cussion when the question Of the
safety of navigation comes up. The
safety of navigation was considered
at an interesting conference in St.
Petersburg last March and a report
will be mode to the coming cong
ress.
The subjects to be discussed at the
Congress were selected two years ago
at meeting held by the Commission
governing the Congress. These sub.
jects are:
Inland Navigation.
Questions.
l. improvement of rivers by regu.
lation and dredging and, If needs be,
by reservoirs. Determinations of the
case in which it is preferable to re.
sort to such works rather than to
canalization or the construction Of
lateral canal
2. Dimensions to be assigned, in
any given country, to canals of heavy
traffic. Principles of operating. d. ;
mansions and equipment of the locks !
3. intermediate and terminal
ports. Best methods for combining,
facilitating and harmonizing the
transfer of freight between the wat
erway and the railway.
Communications.
I. Applications of reinforced con.
crete to hydraulic works.
2. Report on the works undertake
en- and the measures adopted or pro- :
posed for the improvement and de-
velopment Of lines of inland naviga.
ton, as we'll as for the protection OF
the banks of navigable highways.
3. Utilization of the navigation OF
large but shallow rivers. Vessels and
motors. /
Ocean Navigation.
Questions.
1. Means for docking and repair
ing vessels.
2. Dimensions to be given mari
time canals Technical point of view.
Probable dimensions of the sea-going
vessels of the future.
3. Mechanical equipments of ports.
Communications.
1. High powered dredges and
means for removing rock under wat
err.
2. Report on the most recent
works constructed at the more i'm
portant seaports, especially on those
relating to breakwaters. Applications
of reinforced concrete; means for in
surfing its preservation.
g. Bridges and ferry bridges; tun-
nels under waterways used for ocean
navigation. Economic and technical
study.
4. Safety of navigation. Lighted
buoys.
The papers that will be presented,
according to official announcements
made by the officers of the congress,
we're prepared by some of the most
eminent authorities on the subject.
The questions will be discussed first
and tle communications will be then
aiken up and considered a. long as
lime will permit.
Representatives selected by each