The elevations to the Hankow and" Szechuan Roads will be treated "with stone" dressing and red bricks of a distinctive colour and texture now being burnt special ly for this contract by the Kailan Mining Administration. It ts. me tended not only t provide'a most durable facing but it is hoped also that a Little variety and colour may be infused into these somewhat dull and crowded thoroughfares, All the windows throughout the building will be of metal, those on the Bund will be of bronte, and all will Ihave specially designed outside The building is planned around a long central courtyard entered from tie Hankow and. Szechupn Roads by carriage-ways and giving access not only to the many downs, stores, boiler and machinery rooms situated on the gfouné floor, Dut also to therveveral service stair: cases and cargo lifts. The principal entrance to the administrativeofce: 4s from the portico on the Bund, through a fine- bronze screen and marble entrance hall leading to the central staircase and elevator Tobby containing. 6 elevators; some of the latter will be slow running ¥o that stops cay be made of the lower floors, express to serve storeys only, There is another public entrance, stairway and more elevators from the Han Kow Road. A description of the general arrangements of the building has alrendy appeared in these columns, It is therefore only necessary to explain that there "are storeys of offices and public rooms in the Bund block surmounted by two floors of flats for certain officials on the Coast Inspector's staff and several further floors for storage purposes, signalling apparatus, witeless plant and the machinery'of the great" clock. Six storeys of offices, Public: rooms, sample and examina: tion rooms, tifin rooms, kitchens, te, fil the central and back blocks.
'Those- offices open to the public are treated with mosaic floors, tiled walls and marble counters' with loss tops so that it may be possible to keep these vast areas spotlessly clean, at the same: time confining the cost of maintenance of the build: ing within reasonable limits. The Commissioner's and the Superintendent's of offices will be Panelled and have fine ornamental plaster ceiling and the'oflces of the other senior officials. will' also be treated decoratively, Needless for us to write that no pains are being spared in the endeavour to provide this building with the most modern mechanical equipment yet devised: There will be an electrically driven foreed draught system of ventilation supplied in four separate sections; the air will be drawn from four sources and delivered to all parts of the main offices. The fresh air, treated on the "ozonair" principle, will be Pumped automatically into the building. The boilers for the low-pressure hot water heating system fand the hot water services to the lavatories, will be fed -with all fuel, 'A new device known as the "How-den-Ljungstrom Patent Air Pro-Heater" will be erxployed to ensure fuel economy and, more important still to the general public in Shanghai at the present time, this-aystem will control the smoke' evil usually attendant upon an installation of this size. One can only express wish that other building owners and shipping companies would sider some such means of dealing with the amoke clouds which on: shroud our daily activities. who were found guilty. by the military authorities of armed robbery and maliciously wounding 4 human being early in November, were executed on Saturday after: noon, at West Gate.
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