st of Suez it is understootl tthirsts are to be found, Shanghall is Very East of Suez; Shanghai also Very Thirsty; Shanghai is Mu Thirstior than it used to be. the old days when the Waterworks. were just a pleasant homely adjunct Jof the Settlement and the House of the Chief Dowser was a come fortable redbucked, deep vorandahed country mansion, looking down ha. pily on the river and revelling int the country, Shanghai demanded, from the Waterworks ten gallon a day per head—should it not per mouth?—of the population Now the demand is for forty gals ons and Shanghai's population haaf vastly increased. That is why the House of the Chief Dowser delight fully covered with creeper, fronted ey smooth velvet lawns and sheetd ing water, stands now ad relic of past glories. It is jostled by a noisy but energetic cotton milt door and it is made to lod odd by the greatly increased activity of the Waterworks thems selves. 1 Then there is the Whangpoo That is what Shanghai drinks and baths Now of all thd rivers in the world the Whangpod the cloverest in attracting to ibe self bacteria, Shanghai should ba 80 proud. There probably is not imply was. this. a moment to order the car for the return journey from this concentra: coal was pulverized, or uted in its Shanghai deinks it hot ie cease tion of Power so there was time to raw state to make gas or fire-hy the reason for the existence of listen to the grumbler. furnaces—so force that they sted ho Chie! he y|the eyeballs at a glance—in order is, graphs and his menagerie of;}to produce steam through the ines. He will not permit Shang When you are having tea on the top foollers ard that steam passed! nat to telok the Whangpoo in alt through the lace-like copper trap-ite of the roof in that perfectly organiz-ichness. So he lays out tank@ pings of the pin wheel made it 1e-ed restaurant think it out. We bear the first onset of the Volve at the required speed which pin-wheels are the pivots of Shang-drown soup-like liquid and, yf generated the power for Shanghai's, hai and of this Power zone. Noth-gentle coagulation with alum, lights, plants and transport. Every ing else matters. Shanghai seven-Separate most of the mud from the kind of process was employed to teen years ago installed two of us—|t 0 5 coe ae ie: beh is about as clean as the Thames water. After that process the wait clothed properly in our turbines—and arranged for space to be left for eptved, ty the iewenious device! Richmond, so the strength of the expansion. The Mayor of Shanghai, or whoever does that kind of job, declared our building open. The speeches referred ecstatically to our Joint capacity for giving 4,000 horse power. Reference made to the! bare possibility of Shanghai requiring one more pinwheel—only they called it a turbine for they do not realise that the pin wheel is the soul of the plant—but most people smiled purities and circulated Jas if such a dream was idle, We two grinned to ourselves. We knew that the Mayor and everyone else were hopelessly wrong. We knew that, having tasted our Power. Shanghai would want more and note and would grow accordingly, What would that mayor say to-day if by saw fifteen pinwheels—ber, pardon turbines—in a space six mes bigger than that originally ted to us. You looked down the of our labours, did you not? So just remember we, the slaves of the lamp. are the true ard proper" the furnace houses, imprisoning it in a long piping and foreing it by Jdraught on to the furnaces and thus making the period of stoking up as short as possible. The super-finity of steam was condensed by a special demand on the water of the Wangpoo—that long-suffering The water was drawn in, cleansed of its more flagrant imround the vessels holding the steam. There [ere positive forests of girders, pines, boilers iron staircases under huge roofs. These underlings of the pin-wheel cared little about their appearances. They seemed to rest content with the challenging power of their daily routine. An occasional glimpse of a wicked red-gold glow from a furnace door elicited the only note of colour. There was an air of rathlessnes about it all, an absence of the human element which clinched the pinwheel's arguments, Whangpoo's claim to be in its nature al state the dirtiest river in thd world can be dimly gauged. Thea the Weangpoo mixture, thus ime Prisoned, is poured into filters-—slow or fast—and, after suit at chlorination, enters an underground reservoir with its original inhabitants reduced by the amazing figure of something like that.
In other words the water, whic a few hours before, was a positive Playground for germs, microbes setts ict "was crawle ing and it stunk, is now so exe ceedingly pure that the real connoig= sour in waterairinking—fertunatse ly there are very few in Shanghai would criticize it on the ground that it lucked flavour. Indeed Londow to obtain the same result only roe aires a reduction of 97 per conte Still Shanghai's motto has. alwayebeen "Let us be pure at all costs. And it obviously must cost santee when the Whangpoaglortea fithizess and Shangtai gloria
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