Considerable power is going to waste in Shanghai these days all due to the Customs Clock, and as this clock is not, it is another case of the intangible force called brain Producing horse power, Btu. of What not. People who for years have looked to the Customs Clock as a special dispensation by which they could set their watches, cannot get used to its absence and searcely pedestrian, riesha rider or tram Patron passes without a sidelong glance at the spot where Shanghai's "Big Ben" used to clang out the hours to say nothing of the quarters. The brokers would have proferred eights or twelfths, but clocks are not built like brokers.
But how much power is lost and what could we do with it?
Mathematically Speaking.
'Take the head as being 1/16 of the weight of the body and for conce the body weight at 160 ish it were," says my averdupoisic friend:).' The weight moved is 10 Ibs, and the distance may be taken as 2 inches upward and 3 inches to the side." The resultant of these two distances is the square Toot of 19 or 8.606 inches equal to three-tenths of @ foot 3.006 ft. lbs. er. person, Now 60,000 people more or less pass the clock tower by the Bund, and Szechuen Road, daily counting four passings per day for the 15, 000 odd (some of them extra odd) people who past that absent clock on their way to and from work. This gives 180,00 foot pounds as the daily waste of energy on the part of the passer-by or counting 83,000 ft. Ibs. ax equal to a horsepower, some 6.6 hop. is represented. Tt has been calculated that the rapid worker uses 3,904 ft. Ibs. each minute so that this energy' represents the work of one man for 46.18 minutes and as it takes about 20 minutes to go by sampan to Pootung, this energy means 23 trips across. the Huangpu. It would be tough to draw the three-tenths of a trip and get stuck near the naval buoy, bat then who wants to go to Pootung anyway?—P. B.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.