Electricity works on the Markham road Extension were formally opened. Corering an area of some twenty mow alongside the Soochow creek, next to the chief depot of the Shanghai-Navking railway, the works are a model io design and construction, Bailding began in June 1910, and regal water and electricity wi on August 1 last, It is a tribute to the value of modern scientific and enggineering kill that the Soochow creek is being made to yield "supply of pare water, The course of intake has been dredged for a length of 300ft., and to a depth of fifteen feet at low wat The water is firat conveyed to" settling tank, (bout by the Shanghsi Dock and Engineering Ca.), and after the first purifying processs, it gravitates to the filter beds, There are three beds constructed with brick and cement, each ninety feet by a boodred and twenty, rd longitadins) and transversal drains, The filtered water next enters the clean water tank—eighty feet by on and sixteen feet deep, built forced concrete, and having " flat roo! supported by twelve pillar The principle features of the machinery are the two horizontal doable acting steam planger pomps, direct driven, each capable of supplying 1,000,000 gallons of water io twenty four hours. They were built by Mecsrs, Borsig, at Lenin. The three vertical tabular boilers, each baring 60 aq. metres heating surface, were installed by the Petry—Dereux company, of Hanover. A water tower is being oon-stracted with steel on reinforced concrete foundations on the North Honan Rosd Extension, It will be 110 feet high, and
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