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ENGINEERING AND THE EMPIRE
ECONOMY AND ENTER- PRISE
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Elgin in proposing the toast of the even ing at the James Watt dinner of the Institution of Engineers, and Shipbuilders in Scotland, had to speak to the subject of Engineer ing and the Empire. It was stat ed, said Lord Elgin, that ours) was an Empire on which the sun never sot the same might well be
THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREET LIGHTING
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN
200 YEARS
Nearly 200 years ago a London | magistrate, one Henry Fielding, wrote Tom Jones, and thus, 'ac» cording to Gibbon, made it certain
KWANGTUNG RAIL-
WAY LINES
COMMITTEE FOR JOINT
CONTROL
PROPOSED FOR ALL THREE LINES
Pro-
FINDING THE HARDEST ROAD
A TEST WITH HAMMERS
- Hammers have been dropped on te roads from varying heights in a attempt to find the hardest ma- terial from which to make roads.
Thus one of the experiments dea- oribed in an official report on roul surface.
The hammer dropping showed that "road material becomes some- what more resillient, or harder, in the wheel tracks as compared that his name would continue to Chinese National Railways in this
Canton. The three lines of the with the other parts of the road." be remembered when that of the city, the Canton-Kowloon, Canton Tests to find a non-skid road sur- mighty and collateral. house of Shiuchow and the Cantou-Sam- face have been carried out with a Hapsburg had faded into obsea-shui, are under separate manage
ichts. Sometime ago, the
motor-cycle combination. "The rity
Otherwise he might have vincial Government appointed machine used for the work," the said of engineering. The initial gene, down to posterity as the in. Purchasing Commission for all the report continues, "has given very
three lines and this Commission letter of the two words called to since it was he who insisted that torily and has facilitated all mat- ed incapable of withstanding the ventor of public street lighting, has been working very satisfac satisfactory results, but has prov- mind two other words both pro householders should place lamy tors in connection with purchases heavy duty imposed upon it with raînent in our minds, namely, eco- outside their dwellings, and thas of the three lines, nomy and enterprise. Enterpri×3 |
Encouraged by this success, it is
out considerable expenditure assigt the Bow-street runners to proposed that was the keynote of engineering. counteract the
large Committee maintenance, depredations ef be appointed for the general mana- The Buez Canal had altered the foot-pads. The fact that
fagement of all the three lines. The BO
opinion of the present directors .f turn of mind has an interest other in case the general opinion favours engine power. mous an author had so practical the lines is being asked for, and broke, and there was insuficient
Consequently than the historical and the
such now Committee, steps will machine had to be bought. be taken for its early inaugura and with this teste are being con- chological
tion. These directors will become
tinued."-Router, members ex-officio of the propose l Committee according to the pre- rent plans.
whole outlook of the world. He
Fiolding's Policy.
ps
Improvements to Canton-Hankow Linas.
"The spokes came out of the back wheel, the sidecar chasis
YUNG RIVER POWER PLANT SITE
a
thought the opening up of the St. Lawrance Waterway, adding as it would sonte 5,000 miles of cont line to the United States and Canada, was bound to have far-1 reaching effecta. Although much tonnage was laid up at present,
For by connecting persons and be believed that the Empire would property in the way he did. Field- still remain dependent upon a ing laid down a policy with ro
Mr. Li Sin Kan, managing- great and efficient mercantile ma-gard to this public, service which director of the Croton-Shiuchow Mr. Lin Yun Kai, Chairman of rino, possibly somewhat changed has been consciously or unconcious the Cauten-Hankow Railway, irerament, proposes to make a tour and Canton-Samshui section of the Kwangtung Provincial Gov. from what WO had known. Itly followed down to the most, mo- reported to have received advices, of the north-eastern region of the might be that the future would not dern times. The result of lighting from the Ministry of Railways, in province next month to select as see so much attention paid to the streets to prevent crime has, in fact,Nanking to the effect that a sum! suitable site on the Yung River working of the round trip as to been that little attempt. has been the British Boxer Indemnity. Re- electric plant, it is reported.
of £30,000 has been obtained from for the installation of a hydro-
prompt delivery by means of faster made to provide such a standard fund Commission in connection ships.
Mr. Hsieh Ying Chow, Provin of illumination as would enable all ments to the two sections of the who returned from an inspectio
with repairs and general improve cial Educational Commissioner, classes of traffic to move about, Railway. The sum will bo remit- tour of the schools in the east re-
tod here in due course. The ap-gion, may accompany Mr. Lin propriation now granted is the his trip. result of the efforts of Director Li who sometime
Ago went up to Nanking personally to impress up on the finistry the absolute need menta for certain repairs and improve
to his lines in order to bring the services up-to-date.
The Copenhagen Exhibition.
with the same freedom as in day- The exhibition at Copenhagen, light, and has imposed on vehi from which he had just returned, cles, and sometimes even on foot was an example of successful en-passengers, the necessity of carry. terprise. Agriculture was an iming lights of sufficient intensity to portant industry awaiting develop permit them to proceed with anfe- ment by engineering enterprise, ty. and in that connectión he was glad to see that a Doctor of Science. Major Walter Elliot, Lad been made Minister of Agriculture. Ma- jor Elliot, in responding to the toast, said that 90 per cent, of the Government's attention at the pre sent time was probably occupier with economy, but for all that, enterprise was no less imperative.
Oil Lamps and Reflectors,
That this is so, as was pointed aut by Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison in the presidential address which he delivered to the Illuminating Engineering Society
It was necemonry for bath the G. in proved by the statement thet! vernment and business men 'to exa- since
1748, when Mathorot do mine more searchingly than ever Prugney and Bourgeois de Chn- the circumstances of industry.. It
was a good sign that, in spite of teaubland developed street "Jan- all the post-war catastrophes which teras embodying oil lamps and po- it had faced, the engineering in-lished metal reflectors which gave dustry still kept heart."
*
Past Crisis Recalled,
The Scott Centenary had just
been celebrated, and it was an in teresting fact that at the end of Sir Walter Scott's life the state
a light so intense that a person could be recognised 30 paces away, the standard of illumination in a large proportion of our streets and the technical methods employed to
of industry had seemed more secure it have not progressed t
gloomy than ever before, while all. In fact, the only important there were added troubles from in-advance in street lighting has ternal dissensions due to the en
franchisement of the masses. Of again antil recently, been in the any such divisions we were, fort nature of light sources, and not unately, free. In an industrial in their application. The reasona community the ups and downs
Bopid Progress."
per-
came and went more quickly than for this are two. One we have ni- in an agricultural civilisation. We ready mentioned, while the other were now entering upon a new is that, perhaps rightly and place through the Ottawa agres haps wrongly, it was felt that to ments. This experiment might suc coed or it might not. One thing, pay out good money on providing however, was certain, and that anything more than a glimmer, was was that to-day it was not a choice
bad finance. between Ottawa and the revival of our Nineteenth-Century trade, out between Ottawa and nothing, for the reason that other 'nations had excluded our trade. It should now
The successive replacement of lu-] be our main object to extend those minous-flame burners by upright areas in which our trade might mantles, inverted mantles
:an 1 dourish. Mr. B. H. Green, presi- high-pressure gna, and of Jabloch- dont of the Shipbuilding Employkoy candles, are lamps and vacuum ern Federation, who also replied lamps by gas-filled units, together to this toast, said he was sufficient with the possibility that the latter of an optimist to believe that, will also disappear in favour of owing to the watchfulness of the are discharge through inert gasn Government, we were now some contained in glass envelopes, has, what on the up grade. Both in however, meant such a cheapening. technique and in enterprise British of the light sources that the cost f engineers would be found in the the energy is often less than the front rank, he thought, when trade maintenance and capital costs and once more began to Bow, Com- there is now no reason why a mander Craven proposed the toast bountiful supply of luminous eper- of the Chairman, Mr. A. Gilch- rist, O.H.E., and the latter, in By should not be provided when acknowledgment, said that he hop- The complicated problems of how over artificial lighting is required, ed that men new out of employ best to provide illumination on the ment would keep themselves scale which is implied in the pro abreast of developments so as to be coding statement is, as Comman ready for work when it came to der Harrison' rightly pointed out, them. He fancied that even now primarily the concern of the illa- Tight. Engineering.
ing it with vigour.................
But the public, must learn to As a stop to revive the silk marment Works Construction of the cement for roadmaking in Kwets to survey the mineral deposite of existing buildings to be used as help themselves, and by allowing fet and the woaving industry mill will be undertalcen immediata South China, the Bureau of Roly. The hemp and cotton mills chow, the local headquarters of Kwaichow, which are reported to fixtures for the lighting units must construction has proposed the will be erected near the silk mill the 4th Group Army has formulat he very rich.
facilitate that increase in the tablishment of a silk weaving mill, in the middle part of next year, ed pinns for the construction of The proposed Kweichow coment number of points which provides hemp mill and a cotton spin which time tulichinery from a sement factory of a suitable witworks will be tatit at the cost of the trust and most economics thos ning mill on Honna Island. J
England-will be delivered,... in Kweichow province. An 88,000,000; and when completed it mination without the introduction The raw silk of Kwangtung will gineer from Canton will, proceed will have a daily output of 1,000 of unneedysary obstacles-En- be spun by the silk mill
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THREE MONTHS
Messrs. Dang Pi Yen and Leo' Ku, who were sent to Shaughni to
within three months.
The silk mill, it is. reported, will
be situated near the Honam Co In order to meet the demand for
Mr. Hau Shung Ching, member of the Kwangtung Provincial Council, will leare soon for the east region to complete his inspec- tion-tour of the district govern- ments of that region.
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