@rowertur Vertical Pump for Additional Supply to Shanghai 4 Inauguration by Sir Peter Grain Who associates romance with the mechanical labour of pumping water into a city? A river of lake one side, an intake, filter beds, Shore underground pipes and a tap for your morning bath. "Tt sounds prosaic enough, But to those of who paid a visit to the Shanghai Waterworks at Yangtszepoo on Aug. 29 when Sir Peter Grain started the big new pumping engine, Grater supply. will henceforth bear fan entirely new meaning. eral Chang Ting-fan, Mayor Greater Shanghai, Mr. T. T. Chen, General Chang's' Secretary, Chevalier S, K. Chen, Mr. Chun Bing-him, Mr. Lo Pa Hong, Managing Director of the Chapel Water Electricity Works Ca., Mfr. O. M. Green, Mr, Chang Nich-yuen, Mr.
Bersani snd Mr. R, Michau, of the Compagnie Francaise de Tramways et d'Eelairage Electrique de Shanghai, and several Directors and members' of the Company's Staif.
No. 3 main Engine House at The dignity and impressiveness, the beauty of Intricate self-resper sibility, the wondrous cense of perfectly directed and controlled power, Which one derives from watching Bil the mighty machinery that uppiles Shanghai with water, is awe-inspiring. Bnormous fly wheels, twenty feet or more in diameter, spin noiselessly on bearings adins fed-to within thousandths of an ines, Huge "pistons move slowly and majestically in and out, surrounded by an infinite number of smaller pistons, levers, valves and governors each with his appointed work to do Sand going about it-with the precision cof the iodine. A faint thud thud from below marks the actual pumping, but otherwise the machine shops are curiously quiet and freamy, and all as exquisitely clean fas a model in an exhibition, Even the furnace room is clean and quiet. 'The coal fs fed automatically, one workman alone attending to' the Goppers, and the only. sign activity' is a busy chattering little chain which keeps the grids below the furnace moving slowly, to. sit out their own ashes. The labour of stokers with shovels and hooks no more, Through AM Adversity Notwithstanding wars and political upheavals, Shinghai continues fo expand, and this is proved by the ever increasing demand for water, Twenty years ago the Shanghai [Waterworks Ca, supplied 9.76 million 240 gallons in one day to its consumers; WUhas on one day this y To meet "this demand the Company has steadily added to its parification and. pumping plant-and, in spite of having, as regards turbidity "and pollution, probably, the worst source of any large city in world, has succeeded in giving its consumers a supply which, quality, will bear comparison that of any city and, moreot snaintaing this supply day and night, year in and year. out.
Tis consumers, probably do not realize the vigilance which is quired for such a work, but, un-tingly, they pay the ' Company the highest compliment possible by expressing intense indignation whenever their water, supply is for any reason "cut off." But under no circumstances do they ever suggest Yat the cessation of supply is due to failure of the' plant to meet the
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