Details of Additional Machinery and a Fresh Intake for Water from the Huangpu: Some Highly Interesting Engineering, pr: nothing could better demonstrate the steady" growth of Shanghai than what could have been seen at the Waterworks at any time for weeks past. There have been huge pieces of machinery "deposited in the vicinity of recently erected buildings; and the appurtenances thereto, some still in packing' cases and others lying packed up on the mud which is inseparable from reconstruction and extension, could not but convey the idea of what somebody haa called orderly contusion. The position is that with an ever greater mination in the us er more th: envisaged by the original en; the present work is towards this end As one sees the pumping station today it represents to the lay ince where huge flywheels noiselessly revolve and pumps on their well-oiled heavings. force water from the station on the bank of the Huangpu to the water towers in Kinochow Road. This water has all come from the Huangpu, having been drawn from it by centrifugal pumps actuated by powerful motors, and first of all has been drought into the great settling tanks in the midst of which the visitor finds himself. Then the filter beds deal with it, and finally these engines pump it along the great mains which the company has installed.
The purification plant and engines in operation up to the end of 1925 are, however, no longer adequate to supply the pressure and volume of weter for the use of the Sclilement, and hence the present series of engincerins tions which are designed to m new conditions. fo give the most idea of these, and to give some i tion of the problems which confront the Waterworks Ca. it will be best to start at the point where the water leaves the Huangpu.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.