And with these extensions and improvements, the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works is now able to cope with the large volume of business most expeditiously, especially so since the termination of the Great War and steel again is available from England and America.
It might be well just to mention that besides ocean-going liners, the Kiangnan Dock is making vess: ls of a few hundred tons weight for river-plying purposes, tugboats, lighters, and other smaller craft.
There is music in a cotton mill.
In a long shed-like room where 50,000 or more spindles and looms, or only 10,000, are the musicians there is a volume of sound that may truly be described as music, without stretching tie visitor's imagination. It is a strain of great force and strength, yet it is neither jarring nor loud. Loud, yet not loud, an uninterrupted, continuous rhythm made by the whirling of countless wheels, mingled with the higher pitch of numberless light pieces of falling and lifting metal, and the spinning of myriads of spindles—and all in cadence. A child would find it a lullaby; it is music.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.