Sterilizing Mineral Waters by Ultraviolet Rays: A Tour through the Factory influence upon the art of Asia as great as that upon the art of Europe.
The following is a quotation from his chapter upon Japanese Sculpture:
Earliest in point of time is a bronze figure formerly in Horiuji but now in the Nara Museum. It is of the sixth century: pure Korean, or, if not that, then the earliest of all Japanese work and executed under Korean orders. foe os Not only is it a fine type of pare and law-abiding sculpture, full of beauty and spiritual calm, but it is a priceless example of that amazing Asiatic modification of a Hellenic norm which proves a ramification of classic influence, a persistent survival of the Greek idea, in lands and among people severed from the. primal source by almost the whole diameter of being.
The influence of Athens upon the art of Asia was as great as in the case of Medieval Europe, and the man who will-undertake to trace the devious course of this influence from Hellas across the whole width of Asia will have anew field full of great' possibilities."
If the architect of the new Yokohama Specie Bank has not actually traversed that field of. research, he has' certainly grasped the possibili-
Watson's Mineral Water Company's new factory, at No, 86 Wayside Road, was formally opened on Wednesday, when throughout the morning and afternoon a reception was held and guests shown over the Premises.
The new building is a fine big affair, and most of the plant installed is new—all of it up-to-date, Shanghai people consum mendous amount of mineral water in the course of the year, and with the uncertainly of the purity of the water which we get here, great care has to be taken in sterilizing and distilling. Watson's are particularly careful in this respect, and. the greatest care is taken in distilling and "spotting." What chiefly impresses the visitor is the spaciousness of all the departments.
The ground floor is principally taken up with godown space and the large filling room. This room is, particularly interesting with little thought as to how it is made. In the filling room are four automatic filling machines, shortly be Supplemented by two. more, sand each of these machines will turn jour one hundred dozen. bottles in an hour. Carbonie. acid gas is. manu-actured in a special tank, distilled and. purified, before passing. mtg the gasometer where tremendous pressure is put upon it before it passes through the syrup and distil-Ted water in the bottles. Then the ettles are automatically corked and carefully packed, after which they are shipped on the company's motor lorries and: sent away."
On the upper story is the steriliz~ ing room, where the water used in the manufacture of the mineral waters is first of, all distilled in Bergfeldt filters and.then sterilized by the medium of ultra violet rays.
On this floor is also the store room where English essences and Taikoo sugars, all used in the manufacture of minerals, are stored; also the syrup roo where the various stored. syrups for flavouring drinks are
Tu addi nto the present premises, preps rations are being made for further exten ions during the year.
Amongst those present at the reception were Sir Skinner Turner, the Very Rev.. Dean Symonds and and Judge Milton Purdy.
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