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HOW GREEN ISLAND CEMENT IS MADE

Green Island Cement is manufactured from hard limestone and clay. It is necessary that these materials should be finely ground in order that they may come into intimate contact with one another in the burning process.

The finely pulverised materials are mixed in a certain definite proportion, roughly one part of clay to three of limestone, and are fed to the Rotary Kilns.

In these kilns they meet the hot gases and flames generated by pulverised coal blown in at the other end of the kilns, and after various chemical actions have taken place, they combine to form Portland Cement Clinker.

The Clinker is ground down with a small percentage of gypsum to regulate the setting. time, and Green Island Portland Cement is thus " produced,

"Although sounding so simple, in reality the process is an intricate combination of mechanical, physical and chemical operations, needing great skill and care. Nothing but constant and accurate supervision will yield the results so well-known with Green Island Cement, namely, strength, uniformity and reliability.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1931.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

ADMINISTRATION BUILDING: GREATER

SHANGHAI

MODERN BUILDING IN CHINESE

RENAISSANCE STYLE.

TO COST SEVEN LÄKHS.

Built at a cost of no less n'auri Tan assembly hall, library and offices than $700,000, the new administra on the second floor; and offices for

ELECTRICITY IN JAPAN.

USED IN COTTAGE AND

FACTORY.

50 YEARS OF ELEC TRIC RAILROADING.

EDISON'S PIONEER EFFORT

RECALLED

HIGH-SPEED DIESEL ENGINES.

GERMAN INVENTION,

While it is recognised that the high-speed diesel engine, which is The queer little electric hauler

now being extensively developed of afty years ago was scarcely as large as one of the trucks of the for the propulsion of road vehicles present-day electric locomotive, and rail cars, must of accessity Probably few, if any, people Edison huilt and operated an differ considerably from the type make more universal use of eles experimental electric railroad at of engine best suited for use op tricity than do the Japanese It Menlo Park, N.J., in the spring board ship, nevertheless it serves has been estimated that there are of 1880. It extended for a third reduction in weight can be obtain

to indicato the extent to which an average of 21-electric lamps per of a mile and the locomotive way household in Japan, and electricity purposes and for transportation. with a couple of long brake handles, publ is used extensively for industrial

simply a crudo assemblage of.

The use of electricity for lighting

equipment on a species of fat-car,

d by the use of high speed of rota tion.

Particulars have recently been

tion building for the City Govora the Mayor and the different de is not confined to the metropolitan control switch, and a few board published of the heavy oil compres

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rails,

ment of Greater Shanghai, in the partmental heads on the third had areas, but is to be found in almostats for the crew

The electrosion-ignition engino, which has been proposed Civic Centre, ie the fourth floors. The basement will every village, 'ns well as in isolat current ran

developed in Gerraday by the well- section between Kiangwan, Yang-be used as a boiler room.

through tszepoo and the northern district

ed farm houses, or sometimes more entering the rims of the wheels, known Junkers drm and which has When completed, the building of the International Settlement, will have cost $550,000 for coned from centres of community life,

Perly, thatched huts, far remove then through a metal" spider"

een fastalled in a commercial just been will be ready for cecupancy in

freight-carrying aeroplano. struction alone and, with fittings Practically all the industrial.or January, 1933, according to included, another $150,000 will tablishments in Japan use elec. statement made to the North-China have to be spent. The other fem tricity for power. Important sec Daily News by Dr. Shen Yi, Comi-

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to an Edison bi-polar generator, laid on its side and doing duty ne The current

Atraction. motor..

Ths engine in question develops 790 h.p. at a speed of 1,700 r.p.m.j

missioner of Public Works for the Porary buildings for the various tions of the Government Railways then passed through" the opposita and has a weight of 1,760 lbs, or

City Government.

ancs.

bureaux will cost 2300,000 exclusive of fittings.

have been electrified, notably the section of the main line from Tokyo to Yokohamn, and extending from Yokohema westward some 35 miles to Kozu. The princiual cities are, in addition, served by electric trolley lines, and of recent years

of Kobe, and also between Osaka

44 per bp and it is claimed wheel and into the other rail, to

that as compared with the equiva return to the power-house, The. whole outfit had a nondescript aplent petrol engine, the fuel costs pearance-but it worked.

are, reduced by no less than two-

Two years later Edison, built

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a

thirds, while the radiul of action

is increased by nearly one-half The comparison with petrol is not. of any great value from the point of-view of marine propulsion, but

taking: the saving of weight, even into account the weight of the speed-reduction devise which would be essential, would add very con-

siderably to the cargo or passenger

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The ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone took place on

Work to Take 17 Months. July 8 when the Mayor, General

Work began last month and it is Chang Chun, presided and fully expected that this will take not five thousand people were in attend-less than seventeen months. The

authorities hope to complete it by there has been considerable exten more pretentious electric railway, Dr Shen Yi, the Commissioner the end of 1932 and say that it sion of high-speed electric inter-three miles in length, with sidings, of Public Works, stated to a repre- | should be ready for occupancy by urbans, In Eastern Japan these

curves and trestles, and his

his loco sentative of the N.C.D.N. that the January, 1933, when the staff will interurbans connect Tokyo, and its City Government had taken the enter upon their duties there? port. Yokohama, 15 miles to the motive was much more business usual step of purchasing all the

When General Chang Chun, the south, and Tokyo and the national like, having cab, bell and even Jand used for the Civic Centre as Mayor, uses a silver trowel to shrines in Nikko about 50 miles cow-catcher. However, then well as for the roads which had place a layer of cement over a part

to the north. already been constructed and which of prepared ground, a military

Similar high-speed gineer of the late Mr. Henry interurbans run between Kyoto, the Villard, president of the Northern were planned or a course of con- band will render selections and struction. Not a single piece of massive piece of stone, weighing former capital of the Empire, and Pacific railroad, reported unani- land, he said, had been confiscated, about three tons, will be lowered Osaka; between Osaka and the port mously that the idea was forever carrying capacity of the vessel..

In erecting the new Administra. on to the space prepared and the tion Building of the City Govern beginning of the new Administra

impossible, and foolish. Moreover, Particularly in conjunction with an engineer of the Pennyslvania the electric, drive, the high speed ment in the new Civic Centre, it tion Building will be formally

marked.

The National Government has railroad stated that the electrifying diesel engine appears to possess was the intention and the hope, of

great possibilitios for the propul the authorities and the City Plan-

under aétive consideration further of his road from New York to ning Commission, of which Dr.

electrification of its own railways, Philadelphia would never be possion of moderate-sized vessels, while A hollowed space within this Shen is chairman,, to show the public that the authorities actually great piece of granite corner-stone which to a certain extent compete Bible. To-day two of the Pacific its use for auxiliary purposes and intended to carry out their plans will hold a metal box within which with the privately owned inter roads have electrified their moun- small craft work is already an ao- for the development of a Greater copies of the plans for Shanghai's urbans. Transportation, however, tuin divisions, and the Ponday).complished fact.-Shipbuilding.

municipal centre, together is "cheap in Japan, the Japanese vanis railroad evidently no longer Shanghai. By having the main new building of the City Government with copies of Chinese and foreign

will be deposited. love to travel, and there should be thinks that electrification of its lino confidence and they would be en- Then the space will be sealed. By enough business to go around. between New York and Philadel couraged to buy innd and to build the end of next year the first unit Motor 'buses are being more and phia cannot be accomplished. Pre- of the deposited plans will be more, but are still probably not an sent-day mammoths of electric rail reality-four storeys of a beautiful building of "Chinese Renaissance" important factor in inter-city roading weigh approximately 265.. architecture with a green glazed transportation, although in Japan, tons and are rated at about 3,000. tile roof resting on dark red the buses have made substantia? horse-power, Edison's first little

·' Chinese Renaissance Style.

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"We propose not only to have the new Administration Building erected," said Dr. Shen, "but we are building two temporary true tures to accommodate the various bureau. The latter will be used until permanent buildings, which have been planned but which can- not at present, he constructed owing to lack of finances and owing time to the considerable length of they will take, have been put up. Then we are already going ahead with the construeton of huilding

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columns and polychrome beams

and brackets.

Subsequent corner-stones for the others of the eleven units, which will constitute, the future home of Shanghai's City Government, will be laid. The building" under con." struction from to-day, is the prin cipal one of the group which will occupy a total area of about 3,000 for the members of the City Gov. mow of land. This group of City ernment's staff, several thousand in Government buildings will be situ- number in addition to their faminted in the centre of a cross- lies. These people must of neces shaped section of Riangwan Dis sity move down near the Civié

Centre in order to be near their triet. The space within the see- place of work. The public will section, covering over 100,000 mow of this and they naturally will be en- level ground, with spacious boule-

to

couraged to move in that direction, vards and land-scaped areas, with

with the result that we hope

see the district developed and arched bridges spanning pools and flourishing within a decade or streams, a magnificent pai-lou and pagoda towers, is the heart of the Shanghai of to-morrow.

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fect in

Buliding Described;

Of reinforced concrete and steel The new Administration Build. ing, which will be four storeys construction, the building for which Chun laid the a sive structure with a Chinese de-

corner-stone will measure 205 signed exterior, architectural plans for which have been drawn up

Jength, 80 feet in width, by Mr. Dayu Doon under the 'direction and rise to a height of 102 feet. and guidance of the City Planning It will cover an area of 25,000 Commission. While the exterior

equare feet, with a floor area of will be of ancient Chinese style, the interior will be arranged along 95,000 square feet."

Modern in dil respects from the entirely modern lines and it will be Stied with the most up-to-date utilitariab Standpoint, the interior arrangements, including electric as well as the exterior of the build.

interior

ing will retain the picturesque lighting, heating and cooling ar rangements, sewage, etc." There bounty of ancient Chinere archites will be an entrance hall, a safety tural decoration. deposit vault, reception rooms, will have vermillion columnt, poly. dining hall, conference rooms and chrome beams, general, offices on the ground floor, wall panels,

and Nara.

inroads into the volume of traffic

handled by the urban trolley cars- Far Eastern Review.

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electric locomotive weighed ten tons and could develop twelve, horse-

power.

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