Hering, Rudolph

civil engineer, born in Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1847; graduated at the Polytechnic School in Dresden, Germany; was engineer in charge of surveys and preliminaries for the change in the water supply of Philadelphia; chief engineer of the Chicago commi ion for drainge and water supply; consulting engineer in numerous other American cities. He prepared, for the National Board of Health, a report on the sewerage of European cities, and jointly with J. C. Trautwine, Jr., translated and supplemented Gan quillet and Kutter's Flow of Water in Rivers and Channels. He ring ton, in Kansas, a city of Dick in son co., on C., R. I. & P. and M. P. R. Rs. Pop. (1895) 1,446. Her komer, HUBERT, artist, was born at Waal, Bavaria, in 1849; was taken to England in 1857; studied at the Southampton Art School, and for a few months at Munich and South Kensington; settled in London (1870) where he was engaged in art work on The Graphic; founded a school of art at Bushey. His exhibited works include figure subjects and portraits, in water-color and oil. His picture, The Last Muster, is by many considered his best, while Chelsea Pensioners and its companion piece, Eventide , have been much admired. He was elected an A.R.A. in 1879, and Slade profe or at Oxford, in 1885; is an honorary member of the academies of Vienna and Berlin, and an officer of the Legion of Honor.