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Show NOTED ENGINEER DIES INOAKLANb San Francisco. March HO. Albert Boschke. a notod engineer and harbor map expert, died In Oakland yc-rUer-day. iiichlsC's bst. known eng ine -i in nc hlevemett!? were the remodelling of thu harbor front of N York In th early 5'i'k; th.' plnnnlnp and bnlldinc of n.iiton's harlior Improvemeijts In jsOu-Ci; the construction of the land defense of the city of Washington during the clll war, and a map wh'cii Abraham Lincoln asserted oaveil th-caiiltal th-caiiltal from the Confederates, an I the luyln utt uf Oakland's ltiirhor in He was horn In Poland In and was of noblo par'iit;iice. For inure Ihnn forty years IMschke wnfi In tho employ i.f th. I'nited Staf.s enclneer-itii enclneer-itii department, coming to the pacifl; coaKt in l0. ills crownlnc achievement was th" bnlldiiu of a wheeled dredger which in v i. .t fh.irv.ddy wa.: .riveu Its final i.nil siKcesi-fnl le.st. He H survived by three sons and two daughters. |