NEW ADMIRALTY DOCKS. PROGRESS OF OPERATIONS.
ERECTED IN HONGKONG
21st insi,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1906.
THE SHANGHAI, DOCK AND
ENGINEERING CO., LD. :
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the present I feare shall have to be content with six or seven Truls 'a share, but then again we may of course make some twenty odd Taels por share in our new Wharl and Godown Co., and the way it in going to be done I will show | you in my next-1 am, etc.
G. NIELSEN,
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ham, what are probably the biggest and most The powerful sheurs in the naval world. back leg. of these sheers is no less than 20 feet in length by 6 feet in diameter, the two front legs being 160 feet in length, with A diameter of feet 9 inches. The total To the Editor of the LARGEST CRANES IN THE FAR EAST weight, including links, is 146 tons. The
"Nouth-China Daily News.". length of the screw is 75 feet; over all 92 feet
Sir-Now that it is safe to assume that we with a diameter of 1th inchon, the Linch square have all sobered down after the delirium of the Sir,-It is a most excellent idén to attempt cut thread in the raw-forged state weighing no
races and do not any innger worry our heads to do something with that part of the Doc `lass than 27 coNK. Mr McGregor also erected, at the Davenport Naval Yard, sheers, the back about the relative merits of Heather King and property which is lying waste. No one who leg of which was 210 feet in length, the front Cosmopolitan, 1, as the unworthy owner of the has taken the trouble to study the problem as latter, crave your permission, Sir, to trot out 10. bow to get a fair return on the large capital legs 156 feel, and total weight 135 tons his namesake on the Pootung side for the of Th. 5,520,000 sunk in this concern can he while at Portsmouth be erected a comparative benest of the public. For, in spite of Mr.blinduo the fact that we are zea ly doing badly. replica of these, of only a few tons difference in Taylor's rhetoric, the question as to whether was shipbuilders and repairers, and the sooner weight. Though a very much travelled man,
shareholders in the Dock Co. we find a channel into which we can turn some Mr. McGregor lives a quiet life, seeming to
shall be compelled against our own judg. of our latent energy the better for our pockets. prefer work to play, and to take an intensement and inclination to
put our money But before we start something new it behoves personal interest in the great undertakings
on that gentleman's horse remains still in the us to review the causes that have landed which he skilfully supervises. His first con
us in our present sad plight-in-order that we balance.
Few people in Hongkong, if indeed any at all, are cognisant. of the very valuable addi- tions which are at the moment being made in our local aval Yard in the shape of new lit
ing power. For two decades or more the Hongkong Naval Arsenal has had to depend, for its hoisting gear, upon crasies and shears of antiquated conception and feeble power; but about this time last year the Admiralty woke to the necessity of supplying something better in the shape of material for lifting guns and other heavy weights from ship to share, and vice versa; and concluded a contract with Messrs. Cowans Sheldon & Co., Ltd., of Carlisle, for the erection, within the local Yard, of three twenty-tos and one fifty-ton Fairbairn swan-necked cranes. The first of these cranes to be erected in the Hongkong Naval Dockyard was one of the twenty tonners, and the erection of this great plece of machinery was, as will be
of
siderable piece of work was the erection Tactically Mr. Taylor was momentarily sucmay not again conimit the same blunder. large sheers in Bermuda in 1878, since which he has been busily, and all the time employed in the erection of heavy lifting gear of all kinds, in all parts of the world, including, for example, 2 sixty-ton and a one hundred and thirty ton pheers at Glasgow, and ane hundred and thirty ton derrick crane at Belfast. In 1892, after doing some important work for the Turkish Admiralty, Mr. McGregor was de-
of the fourth class, and he comes
cessful at the recent meeting in burking all serious discussion as to my question on what authority he had based his calculations engard the anticipated profits in the proposed Wharf and Godown Co. by blustly referring me to the report of his speech in the papers next day. Hnd Mr. Taylor been kind enough to oblige me by confirming, what I now see it the case; that the figures of the estimated pro- I should there and then have been able to show calculations as regards wharves and godowns are as fallacious and preposterous as have been his calculations about the much-desired Wei- haiwei gol:
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Quite another story has to be told when the 40,000 big P. & O. steamers come alongside the
eleven hundred odd feet long wharf. The bulk 1,120,000 of the business of the P. & D. will be cotton
being bo
wharf, as all bamboo edolies have to be brought
totice, which is impossible on the Cosmopolita
the case, with the others, left in the capable corated by the Sultan with the order of Mejidjeh |·fits are based on his own authordhat his [the then existing three different Dock Com. I godowns will be built; and 1to`mow of `warić-|| Wharf Co. if they could sea any possibility of
us in
Hongkong from Malta, where he was recently engaged in the establishment of some large travelling cranes for the British Admiralty.
TRE-SIKA POLICE.
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brisk
over from the Shanghai side. This means des tection in the discharge of the vessel, involving. loss to the shipowner. Besides, the place is ina most exposed position, and, broadly speaking, it will take one day to move.cargo from the wharf for transshipment, say, to Tientsin, plus all the risks of the cargo being shut out on account of being löö late,
How, if this new scheme is a good, scheme.
4 presumed that wharf people in Sunnghai, people with professional knowledga with money to invest, would immediately buy up dock shares, so that they might benefit by the crimpulsory issue of shares ability of How a moderate return on their investment. many wharf people in Shanghai have been convinced that the proposed new wharf scheme will be able to give a return of 6 per cent, andễ how many, have bought shares on their own account?
want of Quite apart from the fact that the wa godowns has now been satisfied, and that no steamer is at the present time in need of wharfage or goduwas it will be interesting to make a comparison between the now existing wharf and godown companies and the proposed Dow company, for it is a comparison which will appeal to everybody by its simplicity and which can be understood by everybody...
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$3,000
Yangtze W. & G. Ca... 8
$30,000 S, & Ikew Wf, Comans 9,743,00,000* $15,000 Proposed Schema zákon 12.
5415 3,000,000
433,000
*The Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Co. have in addition to the capital a debenture naus of Tis. 7 4.500, of which 70 per cent, how- ever, is covered by the Reserve Fund. It has to be noted that the wharf frontage of the new scheme to reality only amounts to about 1,150 feet as you can scarcely call the Old Dock, into which the lighters have to go, wharf frontage.
16, 00 shares @ Tiskas will be issued to an eager public...... Debentures it is hoped will be
taken up a mounting to
yern each bale weighing about 440 lbs. This And the Dock Company's own
capital will then amourt to..... 4,140,000, is one of the least paying commodities to store; Total capital of the whole con-
it being so heavy and bul: 1, its sixe far exceed- COIN....................... Tis. 7,140,000ing any other cargo, likely to go to that Now, you may shuffle the cards as much as wharf. It stands to reason, and will certainly you like, the fact remains that as far as the be a fact, that no head coolle man will
cargo of Famall packages as for instance at- press shareholders in the Dock Care con- take on the job for less than double the
the Shanghai & Hongkow Wharf Co.'s wharves cemed they are forced into a combination with ordinary wage where there is a larger mixture a capital of over 7 million taals, for, except in of car nasty the two concerns will remain one.
where coolies,
on the Shanghai, side, We have had ample experience as to the
at work at a moment's dangers of inflated capital and it remains-now--Can be summoned and to examine closely as to whether this proposed capital of Tis. 7,140,000, or, if you prefer it, Tis. 14220 and 11, 3,009,00 respectively, is workable and holds out any promits of a Rood return. With the picture already painted of the present state and future outlook of the deck in I have given all the details before in that fustry it-tafe to assume that the shareholders in that Company will have cause to congratar- most valuable but unfortunately now departed ate themselves if they can earn a dividend of fis, & per share and we need, therefore, only periodical The Cosmopolitau," but as it is
confine ourselves to an examination into the now nine months since that article appeared, and as people's memory is short, will probable earning capacity of the Wharf and perhaps be just as well to repeat, the salient points of that expoid, What, then, are the
Godown Co. That Company has to earn a causes which have landed us in our present
dividend on a capital of Tls. 3,000,000, and and their working adsets consist of Mow 20 7 sad plight Capital: Nothing but capital. 8, 9, in the Old Dock, where six four-storeyed Foo much capital. Before we amalgamated Hands of Mr. McGregor, the supervising
Ind near the Cosmopolitan Dock, where like engineer of Messis, Cowans bheldon, with the
panies their agregate capital amounted to Tiwiko, six four-storayed godowns will be con satisfactory results which will be seen later ou
7,320,000, of which S, C. Farnham & Co. were
sructed.Wharves to suit the requirements on These cranes mark an epoch ja hoisting power
responsible for Tls, 750,000, lloyd & Co, for the Pootung side will be built, whereas it is in the Orient, since not only are they more
Tis, 300,00, and The International Dock for
intended to leave the, Old Dock open so that powerful than anything of their kind in the
I have now read, marked and inwardly Tis. 770,000. There was a very good and Eastern world, but are also the sole examples
digested Mr. Taylor's able effort, and will ealthy competition between the three rivals lighters may go inside and discharge cargo
direct into the godowns there. avail myself of the opportunity which was then, and with the exception of the last-men They are intended to be worked electrically. One sequel to the strike among the Sikh denied me at the recent meeting of criticizing tioned they did remarkably well. But a finan- of their capacity outside the United Kingdom,
**Well and good. Now as to the money the but seeing that, at present, Hongkeng has no Police on September 30 was witnessed yester his plausible figures. For it can hardly be cial genius appeared among us who gathered
new Company has invested in the property, They intend to spend on electric powerto give them, they will be worked day, says the N. C. D. News, of 16th inst... denied that the question is one of vital import- the three companies into one single concern,
Tis of for the time being by steam, for the supply when ten of the ringleaders were charged before ance not only to the poor deluded shareholders and without altering or instituting any e- which the contractors are also furnishing en
Building and development of Old the fudge of the Supreme Court and bound in the Dock Co., but also to some extent to septint improvement in any of the yards the
-Dock property
400,000 ver to produce various sums as a guarantee of Shanghai generally, and I cannot express my-capital of the amalgamated Companies was gines and boilers. The specifications of these Rian: elevators will, we think, prove interesting good behaviour with the alternative of deportas. If with sufficient emphasis when I say that raised with one fell swoop to nearly double. Building and development of Cus alike to professionals and to those who take non to India. It will be remembered that at
Mr. Taylor's figures are the figures of an A few months later, when it was found that mopolitan Bock property... 600,000 an interest in things naval. They are as follows: the time of the strike no punishment was meted
amateur, at amateur who by profession is an business (1,6., share business) was pretty
'Tis... 1,000,000 out to the malcontents; they were reprimanded ble statistician. By the aid of statistics one a further new issue of shares was launched on THE SPECIFICATIONS.
for their insubordination and sent back to duty
Leaving a balance of the debenture may also prove anything, but it requires no the market at 15 per cent premium, and as
220,00 -The jib of each crane is strong box section,
issue for Contingencies of with the promise that, if they behaved them special acumen to see that such calculations the rumour had duly gone forth about fabulous constructed of mild steel plates and angles, all
selves, their grievances would be listened to at
are after all only chimerical, and may profits these shates were, of course, snapped securely riveted, and rising from the base to
Total Tin... 1,220,00 the end of one month. Yesterday's proceed. the jib head in a curved form; hence the ap
ings do not altogether fall within the letter of cause us and M. Taylor-sore disappoint up with alacrity by a confiding public. The ment. The dangers into which a theorist and capital of the Company now stood at 115. pelation "swan-neck." In the case of the
this undertaking, and the reason for this is to statistician of Mr. Taylor's calibre may 30,000 and just to encourage them the larger Consequently they invest no less than TIs. twenty-ton cranes, the radius of each from the
1,780,000 in the Old Dock properly and the centre of the base to the centre of the main lift be found in the arrival of Major E. S. Hall of lead us, if he has assurance enough to rely proportion of the money derived from the new.
the 27th Sikh Regiment, stationed at Tientsin blindly on his own figures and disregard the issue was used to inflate the dividend to swaste land on the Footung side, or, say, one is sixty feet, the haight from the ground level
inquire on behalf of the Municipal Council very obvious and only sensible course to adopt, 27 per share. Just think of it! Twenty-seven million taels for the Old Dock and Tls. 780,000 to the centre of the jib head is sixty-five feet,
I course people went crazy, into the condition of the Sikhs attached to the mely, the consultation of professional evid- els per share. and the length of the wire rope is so arranged
for the waste land on the Cormopolitan property. They pay, therefore, Tls. 50,000 per mow for that the hook of the crane may be lowered Shanghai Police Force. For some three weeks ence and the reading up of old records, are so and the financial genius rubbed his hands,
this able officer has been investigating the apparent that the mere mention of them ought
for the Old Dock property, and Tis. 7,0:0 per thirty-five feet below the ground-level with not
But the next year the Company only paid a to be chough to cause people to pause in finnt dividend of Thu, 17 per share. The next year
wow for the waste land on the Papiony side. less than three complete turns remaining upon question of the Sikh insubordination, and the barrel. Needless to say: special lounda with the help of a Jemadar he has satisfied
of an ama cur's plausible argument. The after that ls, 1g only was earned and paid, is a fact. If you know the multiplication himself that the men charged yesterday, retically Mr. Taylor will be able to prove to and the next Tis, 12, while last year we did not
table you can figure it out for yourself. If that tions have been made both on the arm of the
you by a bewildering array of figures that by carn, but were nevertheless pald-Tis-8-per is the true value of the Old Dack properly my naval "Camber," and on the east and north not only were responsible for the strike an sides, for the reception of these cranes. Pend-September 30, but also had tried to provoke a sinking a shaft 1,500 miles long and investing share, and judging by what is going on we will head reels at the mere idea of the value of the
a few millions in a diamond drill, and then probably get a good deal less this year.
Shangbai & Hongkaw Wharf property on the ing, as we have suggested, the necessary supply fresh strike for the end of October. He is of of electric power, the lifting gear is to be "pinion that the retention of such men in the boring for all you are worth you are bound to
Now, how is it that we have slowly but sure. Shanghai side only. It must amount to twenty force constitutes a menace to the loyalty of the strike gold in paying quantities. He is quite driven by a motor, the first reduction gear being of steel with teeth machine cut from the police and to the safety of the Settlement. The sight-theoretically-but in practice it will not ly come to this most u satisfactory result? 1 million taels at least. And as for the little item affidavits of Major Hall and the famadar, to work, far less pay. Why, may I ask, has Mr. cannot improve upon wha I wrote in the "The of Th1, 780,000 to be paid for the Cosmeplitan
Calculated on the same basis as the figures Cosmopolitan "last February, namely: The property you may not be aware that a few days Taylor neglected this most obvious duty to con Rether with the evidence adduced in Court, are a clear indication of the seriousness of the si-
vali professional evidence on a subject which combined earning capacity of these docks ago 18 mow of land with a tiver frontage at arrived at by the promoters of the new scheme; 2,250 feet situated hardly a biscuit's throw from namely, a profit of The. 420,900 on` twelve tuation six weeks ago when the constables
the Cosmopolitan property was sold for godowns, half of which are situated beyond the 'I'ls. 100,000 or Tls, $55 per mow. na exaggeration to say that the carrying out of 250,000 a year, which means to per cent, on
limits of law and order, and disregarding his scheme will mean either the success or the the capital then invested (Tls, 2,320,000).
entirely the fact that the Yangire Wharf Co the complete inadequacy of the measures taken at that time to cope with the insubordin
hapeless ruin of the Company, and why do our
gedowns are less than half the distance down' astion.
di ectors sit idly by and neglect their own duty. In addition to marking out for punishment
river, and also the fact that over one hundred godowns belonging to the hanghai and Hoog. the ringleaders of the recent strike, Major Hall the shareholders? For if the directors had done what to most people would seem to be
kew Whats Co. are situated on the Shangbut is to embody the results of his inquiry and such the performance of an obvious duty, they would
side at aboutthe most kleal spot for storage, we suggestions for the permanent control of the naturally have bestirred themselves and found
hind that, by employing the standard used by October 14. out from professional evidence, in the interest
the promoters, the angize Wharf and Godown Sikh Police as his experience and local invest- igations may prompt into a Report which the of the shareholders, what this new thing, this
Co. ought to show a profit of Tls. 280,000, Council has undertaken to l'ending the publication of this document, to assure that the chairman's remark that
Sir-Inasmuch as you cannot separate the whereas they only earn 21s 55,000, and that make public. new scheme, really means. It is permissible which will be awaited with great interest, the directors are neutral" is synonymous with
individu from the family in the patriarchal the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Co. ought to show a profit of 1 s. 7,175,000. But having we have no wish to anticipate Major the supposition that as they know nothing about heights which made ship-owners wince. Still, ide of the Chinese, where the sins of the sons
nie visited upon, the head of the father so you regard to the fact that the majority of the Ball's findings лог to see the Coun
Mr. Taylor's scheme they prefer the sharehold for a couple of years the Company held undis
cannot separate the Shanghai Dock and Ea godowns of the latter Company are undoubled. cil take any decisive steps in regard to the
ers to find out and fight it out between them-puted sway; but then competition began to handing of Sikhs or to the chief command of selves-they will not interfere.
make itself felt again, as it must always do sineering Co. from its proposed offspring, they smaller than those contemplated to be the Shanghai Police Force. The moral of yes-
But in heaven's name, what have we direc when a monopoly is sought to be created, Mr. new Wharf and Godown Co., the birth of which, erected by the promoters of the new scheme it will be more reasonable to suppose that the erday's proceedings in Court, however, isos for? For the sake of being sentral or for Blechynden started a shipbuilding and repair it is not stillborn, will be either a blessing or
curse to the parent, Company. To the or- Shanghai & Hongkew What Co. can really. clear; practically all the evidence now forth.
the sake of knowing nothing? No, sir. Strange ing yard, Mr. Ord did the same, and many.
Chinese followed suit, earning an excellent dinary man, who is being backed up in his only make a profit of Tls. 5,000,000 a year, coming should have been in the hands of the ty enough, directors are usually chosen for the
The opinion by professional people it would seem which in all, conscience is quite satisfactory. authorities within twenty-four hours of the
purpose of doing the thinking for the share living by charging reasonable prices,
So fit, all my criticism has been destructive, event act of insubordination. That it was not holders. They are suppored in know more than earnings of the amalgamated docks became less that the Dock Co. by disposing of the Cos- enough. so is due exclusively to the fact that the officers any shareholder about anything which will every year in spite of Mr. Twentyman's annual mapolitan land will for ever lose the only chan-
which, under the circumstances, it was bound f concentrating its business, a mea- of the Police force were entirely out of touch affect the Company's interest, and the share-
assurances, which, if you will take the trouble so it has of
of their language, to collect such evidence or with the Sikhs and unable through ignorance holders expect in be guided by them whenever to look them up, y u will find are of a uniform sure which has for long engaged the attention to be, as there is not a single feature of the of shareholders and directors alike. The In- scheme which can appeal to any ordinary man, indeed to communicate in any satisfactory way Company is being brought forward. But our
any pr position affecting the welfare of the stereotyped tone of sanguineness.
Still, competition was no sa formidable as ternational Dock and the Cosmopolitan Dack with common sense. But I have one con
structive suggestion to offer, which is this with the recalcitrant constables. As things directors will tell us bothing. They simply yet to give rise to uneasiness. But threathinge are separated by just that very piece of land on
the handing over to the Wharf Co. of this pro- be more reasonable if we mare some litla, to our local stock company....... done; there has, however, been an exhibition say that they prefer to be neutral! Certainly have now happened which are a real danger which it is the intention to erect godowns, and Would it not, considering our present plight,
The courage of the majority of people is at a
"The read thing is that, in addition to the perty will therefore scatter instead of concentra-sacrifice for a few years by paying to share
holders in the lock Co. a nominal divid nd of tops up, but that is scarcely why we have competition already mentioned, another dock ing the Dockician's
If by a magician's wand you could erect the say Th, 3 per share, and whatever more we elected them. As Dr. Gilbert Reid very point with ample facility for executing all sorts of edly remarked: the responsibility rests with repairs started business in December last, We twelve gedowns and construct the necessary may earn to use it for improvements of our. refer to the Kiangaon dock, which we shall wharves without any cost, it stands-to-reason-
promoters of the new scheme. In two or thres years we should have half a dozen godowns Here comes & most amiable and polished prave even to the satisfaction of the Hong that the prospects of earning money would be property on the same lines as suggested by the war at that the directors should look upon gible quantity as he wants to make it out. For the new concern the leas your profits will be ready somewhere on our properly, add as our his would seem to be so self-evident that I capital would remain the same we shout have him in any other light than that of an amateur the present we shail only remind you that five
an excellent chai ce of earning a good substan- Gnancier, here comes this gentleman and lays short years ago Mr. Twentyman said with re- only mention it because I have actually come a certain proposition before the directors and gard to the incorporation of the Engineering across people whom I have hitherto regarded tial prost on the money sunk the e....
*s sensible enough, but who have seriously ar- shareholders, & proposal the realization of Dorkin Farnham, Boyd & Co.that the incorpora-
gued that the capital of Taels 3,020,000 is of no which the directors must be aware will either tion would do away once for all with a most make or mar the Company, and these gen ruinous competition, Put only eight months agent is intende
it is intended to dispense with the caisson of eta aiake their venerable heads and say: the same gentleman expressed quite different May be you are right, Mr. Taylor, er may be views by giving uslerance to the statement that you are wrong. As for ourselves we will let the competition of the Arsenal Dock meant nothing to Farnham, Boyd & Co.-there was the shareholders decide the matter.
Wight I suggest that the shareholders should nothing to fear.
"How shall we reconcile these two expres present The directors with a dice box and a ret of dice. It would be much easier. for oursions of opinion? Later we shall see which is trusted heads to come to a decision in that the more correct of the two.
solid raw forged steel; the barrel of the winch is of cast iron turned and grooved to fit the wire rope. With regard to speed, of which we
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shall have something to say later, it is under-reinsed duly. They serve also to emphasize affects our Company to such an extent that it is only fivo shorl years ago-was altogether Tis.
stood that the gearing is of sufficiently smple strength to deal with the test load of 30 lons which is the full test weight for. these 20 ton cranes, the working load of 20 tons should, it was arranged, be lifted at least 20 feet per minute; and a light lift was to be provided for capable of dealing with loads up to five tons al the rate of 80 feet per minute. The brake gear, which is a mon serious point in dealing with weights of this enormous character, is on ar ranged that it may be worked wither by hartier by an electro-magnet connected up in series motor, so that whenever the
ith the applied to the motor, the brake is
current automatically released; but should, from any cause whatever, the current be broken, the brake is sufficiently powerful to take on and hold the test-load of up to thirtyons, The revolving gear in so arranged that the cranes will turn at a speed of 150 feet per minute at the hook, with the working load of to tans suspended; but the first tests have proved that, both in this respect and is lifting speed, they can do better.
THE FOUNDATION.
them.
Suddenly the three concerns were amalgam. aled and started life with a capital of Tis 5.520,000. You will see at a glance that if the same rates had now been charged for repairs cic, as when there existed a healthy competi on between the three docks the earning capa City on the capital invested would have been less than 5 per cent. But, of course, the idea and no sooner wa the competition done Away of analgamation was to get rid of competition, with than prices charged for repairs rose to
Have we so much money that we can afford to throw it away, or are we merely continuing in Mr. Awentyman's footsteps?
I will endeavour answer this question my next.
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I am, elé,
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"GNIELSEN:
Not the least interesting item in the part that these heavy weight lifters will play is the founda- ton, the plates which are cast iron and adapted for liva roller arrangement. The foundations go--are a minimum amount of harm has been 29 feet 6 inches into the ground and the found ation pit is lined with a cast-iron cylinder of of moral weakness and it is safe to assert that ebb when the question of responsibility one inch in thickness; the joints are necessarily when the insubordinate constables were cajoled water-tight, and the flanges machine-faced, into returning to duty, yesterday's dénouement while the revalving racks, secured to the top é
of was not contemplated by the authorities Ir the foundation plates are in segments. A steam will be well if the result of the sentence is the pump, which is also capable of being, work-repudiation of the ten prisoners by their ed manually, is fitted, with the "object of
fellow countrymen, to be followed by their genileman, a.man whose profession does not kong panegyrist is by no means such a negli-fosy, but for every dollar yonʼhave to spend on keeping the foundation recesses dry. As to electric motors each crans is fitted with two, of the totally enclosed and direct current type, capable of developing 120 volts at the terminals. The engines, which will provide the power for driving the cranes, until such time as a supply of electricity is available, are of the double cylinder type, fitted with link motion, and designed to do the full work with a pressure of go lbs, to the square inch. The boiler is a vertical one and bears a maximum working *pressure of 100 lbs. to the square inch.
THE FESTS.
The original tender to the Admiralty provided for the supervision of the erection of the cranes Messrs. Cowans by two engineers from Sheldon's works; and we shall now see what very excellent results. Mr. McGregor and his assistant have achieved in their task. After the erection of the first 20 ton crane the local authorities at the Naval Yard made the necessary official tests, with the following Happy issue. The crane lifted her test-load of 30 tons, deflecting only 4 9/16 of an inch, and straightened herself up again without any sign of strain. The brake-test was then made, and, without any scam control, the crane lowered
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Now, the above table speaks for itself. The figures given for the new scheme are not my figures, but the figures of the promoters, and the figures of the other two concerns are not my figures cher, but are taken from sources which are accessible to the promoteis of the new scheme as well as to every man in Shang- hai and the rest of Chin who can read, add up figures, subtract, multiply and divide.
Finally, I wish to thank you, Sir, far the courteous hospitality you have extended to me in your columns, and I trust it will be a long time before 1 shall again obtrude my insignific aut name on them- am, etc.,
G. NIELSEN. November 15.
prompt deportation to India. Quite with in the bounds of possibilty might be the general resentment of the whole force against such vacillating treatment and the creation of
To a great many people it is sufficient for the a state of affairs worse than was threatened on
success o' a propoped new undertaking to sow September 30. If the community escapes from
that it is being backed by such names as Sir the latter dilemma, it has to be grateful to the
Charies Dudgeon, Messrs. A. M. Marshall, Jen- agitation which induced the Municipal Council to seek extraneous help in inquiring into the
the Old Deck a d let lighters full of cargoner Hogg, Cecil Holliday and F. E. Taylor. The into the commodious godowns. To discharge weight in a community like that of Shanghai, In dealing with the question of the chief
pass right in and discharge contents directly names of these gentlemen carry an enormous cargo into lighters in the stream and then dis- but somehow figures wili teil in the end, and it command of the Municipal Police, arising out of the trouble in the Sikh force, it is possible to
charge a second time into the godowns, 1 un does not matter whether you spell your same all inla, one of twe errors. We may either
derstand will be more expensive than the with a Z. or an N, as long as you can prove that mistake in their ordinary, way of discharging direct from the these gentlemen have made exaggerate the incident or we may make light of it to such an extent that we shall be
The second competitor is the dock in steamer alongside the whaf. I do not know, calculations. Happily there is still a little only this prepared to perpetuate with a light heart
Our directors have evidently taken Mr. Tsingtao, which started operations a couple of only ask the question, and I ask further: if commonsense lelt in hanghai, and
xtra cost is connected with this modern way morning a gentleman, whose name carrier as months ago.his dock will in future attend the crils of existing conditions. It is, un Tayloriously. If they (as they as well as
of facilitating the unloading of a ship, who is much weight as any of the above, discussed tha doubtedly, true that the Sikh Police ate at. Syfer ought to have done) had consulted to the German men-of-war in these waters, going to pay this extra cost? The shipowner, matter with ine, and he said that although he present far from being a large body, and they professional evidence they would not have clear loss to the local company.
had promised to take some shares in the Bow "In a few months the Dewey dock will the shipper, the consignee or the Wharf Co.? have been installed in Shanghai for nearly a
been in need of any dice box. After proper in
The question may not be one of very great concere he would now, seeing how matters score of years without causing any striking vestigation they would have found that Mr. start operations in Manila and gather all
importance, far I understand that these lighters really stood, absolutely refuse to take them up. amount of irpoble. Agnia everyone will admit Taylor's godowns are barne on sand, meta-American men-of-war in its capacious fold, that the Chinese constitute an important as.
phorically speaking, and that his figures have This will mean another curtailment of business will not make many journeys in and out of the Is it possible that others have had their eyes well as by far the most numerous section of the
been bred in Weihaiwei.
for the local dock company, which used to open dock before that place ta been filled up opened as well?
with mud, so that no lighters can go in there forct. To expect to find combined in one
Before proceeding to hoist Mr. Taylor with make a good thing out of the Americans. man an intimate knowledge of both races
"About the same time Messrs. Butterfield & at all. I notice that every lime a ship goes his own petard I should like to mention that her burden in capital form. This trial was a and languages is clearly out of the question, no disrespect is meant to Mr. Cecil Holliday or Swire will pen their dock in Hoogkong, and into the Old Dock a deposit of mud is left by directors of the new Wharf Co. to leave the severa que for the man at, the brake, for there and the problem to be decided is whether air Charles Dudgeon when I say that it is dif it is safe to say that all steamers under control the swirling tide, and I would recommend the is always a possibility in a heavy test of this knowledge of the Sikh or of the Chinese is ficult to suppress a smile at the idea of these of that firm will be sent there."
All these things have,doly happened as prog- Old Dock open for a month or two in order to kind of the brake "firing" an occurrence preferable as a separate qualificat on for the two level-headed business" men sitting at the which would generally be calculated to end in command of the Shanghai police The matter
feet of the oracle Mr. Taylor, the great au- nosticated in that costly magazine, with the save the expense of filling it up. The tide will the total extinguishment of the plucky opera- requires careful consideration and due atten-thority on gold mining, docks and wharves exception of Butterfield's dock in Hongkong, do it for them quite automatically, and free of tor. In lifting her specified weight of 20 tons, tion to expert opinion. As things are at pre- and listening to that gentleman's plausible which will start active operations shortly. If charge.
As for the wharf and godowns at the Cos this crane showed a deflection only of 3 sessing any knowledge of Sikhs. Such a con
sent there is, no police officer in Shanghai po rhetoric. These two gentlemen or at all you study these things and compare them with inches, and again went back stiff-necked and
events the first named-have both publicly de- the accounts of the Shanghai Dock & En mopolitan Dock, only three miles away from erect, without any sign of strain, whilst dition of affairs is fatal, so long as we rely upon clared that they have been much impressed by gistering Co. for the last six years it will civilization, it stands to reason that shippers as to speed, she lifted the irreducible lest aur Sikhs as our first line of defence in emer-
Mr. Taylor's figures, and we have it on Mr. become quite clear to you that our earning and consignees will much prefer to have their
A boxing tournament was held at Singapore minimum of 30 tons 20 lect in 46 seconds, gencies. There will always be a large staff in Halliday's wn admission that Mr. Taylor capacity as a ship-building and repairing con cargo stored three miles down river. Every time being
cern (with the capital with which we are ham they wish to take delivery of part of their stored on the gib inst. The Free Press says: The seconds in advance of the contrací
the Police force thoroughly, cognizant of the has been able to withstand a most severe demand, and in the matter of revolving speed, Chinese, their language and customs, moreover, cross-examination at his hands. Mr. Taylor, pered) is going from bad to worse, and that goods a fast steam-launch will speed them chief event of the evening, however, was
property, and even if the tide is match between Jaber White of the Sherwoods she did 188 feet in 88 seconds, the contract they do not seem to require the exercise of
on his own admission, have worked out all nothing can be more sensible than to try and down to their calling only for 150 per minute. The crane
that personal influence and parental authority there figures himself without any expert assist turn some of our idle assels into profit-earning against them it will not take them more than and Sam Newman, who has fought many fights.
concerns.
The man who can do that will about an hour to get there, provided they do in the Philippines and China. The match was put a brilliant climax to her trials by lifting a
necessary to bring out the best efforts ance, and from the courteous way in which he which is weight of 5 tons to a height of zo feet in 12
deserve the everlasting thanks of the share not miss the launch, which will start punctually, for $600 and the championship of the Straits. of the Sikhs. We wou'd again urge that jud referred me to the enjoyment of them is the seconds, having proved herself the most immeublication of Mejoradio withheld pend morning paper there is not the slightest doubt holders in the Dock Co, and if Mr. Taylor is it will later punctually on the way back, Newman and White fought at 145 lbs and 173 culately record machine outside of the British the publication of Major Hali's Report. Above that that gentleman himself is thoroughly in the man ro one will be more ready than nyand you may again miss it, or you may lbs respectively. Newman thus giving away not have got through your business but then, over two stane. The contest took place with
4 DL. fighting gloves and was for to rounds ail it would be unwise of the Municipal Coun. |
Briefly, Mr. Taylor's scheme is to construct of course, you will have your cold tifin with
Referee Mr. R: Love THE SUPERVISING ENGINEER. * cil to commit itself to any appointment which pressed by their soundness, and that his dis self to applaud his success.
ciple, Mr. Holliday, is a fanatical convert. Mr. McGregor, the supervising engineer is not likely to meet with the approval of the
I wonder whether Mr. Holliday remembers six godowns on the Old Dock property and six you and spend at altogether delightful after for Meters, Cowans Sheldon and Co., is one of bulk of the community.
the time when be used to heckle Mr. Twenty godowns on the Cosmopolitan Dock property noon. Then there is the vered question of most genial and enthusiastic personalities we
man? If Mr. Holliday would please go to the fronting the latter with indispensable wharves, copiics The e gentlemen have to be brought have had the pleasure of interviewing. Em Two coolies were before Mr F. A. Hartland, trouble of perusing an old speech of his own, and to do that Mr. Taylor wants to increase over frm the Suaugbal side, an operailon ployed originally ara comparatively young man on Monday, on a charge of behaving in a reproduced in the North-Chins Herald," he our already excessive capital by Tia. 1,620,000 that may prolong the picnic a little longer, but af chief engineer of the Perim Coal Company, riotous and disorderly manner in a house of would be somewhat taken aback at his own making it a comfortable round Tis. 7,140,000 which will naturally be a source of joy to the now this is a mere detail, and the new wharf Mr. McGregor soon turned his attention to the ill-fame at Yaumati on Sunday. "Were you figures the other day when be spoke about 18 in all. After the cards have been properly patinets man who is out on a holiday. Any special work of erecting lifting gear, in the noisy in this house?" asked the Court. We or so Taels dividend on each Dock share, shuffled your hand looks like this
The present shareholder' in the Dock Co will have a firm friend in the junior clerk, who abape of sheers and cranes, of high capacity, | had a lule too much to drink," replied the first Yes, that was the good old times when wo On behalf of Mentre. Day and Summers of defendant, "and I am sure we were making a used to increase our capital in order to use will be forced to take $5,100 shares in the new will have many an involuntary picnic down Bouthampton, for example, he put up, at Chat row," Fined $5 each.
part of the money to pay dividends with. For Tls, 25 Tl. 1,380,000 there,
Intes,
Astro SIR..
"BOXING IN SINGAPURI.
NEWMAN CHAMPION OF THE STRAITS,
Round one opened with White stacking and in the first exchange he got his left home on Newman's mouth lightly, and later Newman In round two White rushed and swang and countered finely on his mouth
which sent White to the boards and he kne Newman took advantage to put in wright duty counted out. Newman fought At Ho style in both rounds and bis knock-out blow Was exceedingly clever and judged to a nicety,
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