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The following expression of Mr. 'T. H. U. Aldridge's views on electricity questions in China is taken from the December issue of ''Cassier's Engineering Monthly."
The Shanghai Municipal system has been evolved to no little extent upon the lines of the Chinese Customs Service rather than on British municipal lines. The Electricity Department has for some years now outgrown the system, and is in fact, though not in name, a complete business concern supplying on an extensive scale a public commodity dreamt of when the Shanghai Municipal Administration was coordinated. development of electricity in the form of telephones, electric trams, light, heat and power is all tending towards a higher grade and in place of a large coolie population am artisan class will spring up.
Already in Shanghai electricity is being used very extensively for driving machinery for industrial purposes, such as cotton mills, rice mills, flour mills, printing works and many other industries too numerous to mention. From the extent to which it is now being employed in Shanghi reasonable to assume that it is more economical than Mr. A. E. Moses 100
Kiukiang, per Mrs. King......100 Mrs. T. A. Clark 5
Mr. John Smith 10
Mrs. Holt 10
Collecting cards Jo 18.78
Bandage Department. steam or other forms of power, but beyond this there is the undoubted improvement following electrification of ud factories, since the elimination of steam boilers reduces smoke and consequently the amount of dirt and gloom which is always associated with indus cities, Mrs. H. E. Campbell, collected.... 0
Monthly in Shanghai, January. Mr. A. Rose Therefore, it is a just claim to put forward that electricity contributes to no little extent towards improved conditions of public health.
Ohinese Electrical Undertakings.
While on the subject of urban electricity supply, it may not be out of place to offer a little advice regarding the development of kind of work in Chinese cities. know there are many difficulties, not only in creating schemes for lighting Chinese towns, but in obtaining the best advice relative to the schemes themselves and the technical details involved. I am THIS Living ORATH afraid an enormous amount of money has already been wasted in many Chinese electrical undertakings simply because there has been no guiding hand to point out which schemes may be suitable and which may not. As things are, it is usual for those getting up or forming a scheme for electricity supply in Chinese town to ask for tenders from various foreign manufacturing representatives.
Very often a scheme is ask-for which will provide so
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