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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

BEAUTY IN INDUSTRY

SHANGHAI OF THE FUTURE

IMPORTANCE OF FORM AND POOR HARBOUR FACILITIES-

DESIGN

The importance of beauty in in dustry was urged by Mr. J. A. Milne, chairman of the Council of the Royal Society of Arts:

THE MAYOR'S CRITICISMS

to

According to General Wu Teh Chen, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, the city of Shanghai is rated as Since its inception in 1784, the the third largest in the world. Its Royal Society of Arts, he said, had harbour accommodates tens of mile) consistently endeavoured to force lions of tons of cargo in shipping. home the inevitable connexion be Yet it takes more than an hour tween the designer and the manu-

for any individual steamer facturer. The fact that the advent come up to its berth for mooring of machinery and mass production In many eager passengera are had superseded handcraft render obliged to take to lighters or 'ten- ed that connexion more imperative dera to reach the shore. The value than ever, as, in the production of of this unnecessary waste of time We all large quantities in repetition of and cost is incalculable.

important admit that this is condition everyday goods, the question of form and design was which can no longer be tolerated. prone to be overlooked. The idea For what would happen if this that anything would do could not were to continue for another do- longer be tolerated. In fact, to cade or two?

recent article in The quote a Times, we must see to it that an article must not only look nicer," but he plainly better for its pur- роле.

British Craftsmanship.

No one could deny that in craft manship and technical execution British manufacturers stood pre eminent, hat in design, and in the production of articles which were pleasing as well as practical, they were still as a whole inclined to lag behind their foreign competi- tors, although recently a good deal af leeway had been made up owing to the intensive propaganda which had been taking place.

H equoted the following extract from a letter by Sir Malcolm Ro bertson, which "appeared recently in The Times:-

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Greater Shanghai Gets the Best Advice.

Was

Two

plan ago a Jears drawn up by the City Government af Greater Shanghai, and it was decided to begin the programme with the establishment of a New Civic Centre north-eastward of Kiangwan. The schema thus drawn up includes also the creation of a new harbour and the building of bridge across the Whangpoo River"

PROPOSED HYDRO-!

ELECTRIC PLANT

PLANS AND ESTIMATES SUBMITTED TO EXECUTIVE

YUAN

CHINA'S COAL DEPOSITS Rich Source of Hidden V Wealth Awaiting Development

Source

In the South.

Deposita in China.

at Chinghuachen in Henan pro- There is a vast quantity of coal vince, and the South Manchurian in China In 1990, Mr. V. K. Railway Company, who own the Ting Director of the Geological Fushan mines, which is a Japanese Survey of China, stated that China undertaking. There is no place" would be able to keep the world in the world where there aro, such" supplied with 1,000,000,000 tons a thick seams of coal to be found year for a period of 1,000 years. than in the Fushan mines. In spite of this remarkable state- inent, however, until recent years China used to import more coal Nanking, Jan. 10.-It is learnt than she exported. This is due to that detailed plans and estimates the fact that, with the exception of for the construction of a hydro- mines under foreign control, and electric power station at Ichang. a few isolated Chinese mines, the drafted by engineers of the Nation methods of mining in China are at Reconstruction Commission" and very primitive. Most of the Chin the Yangtze River Conservancy eso mines are surface mines, no Commission, have been submitted to shafts having been sunk at a much the Executive Yuan for considera- greater depth than 300 ft. The difficulty seems to be that, after tion.

reaching a depth of 300 feet, the The station is estimated to cost crude pumps are unable to expel 640 millions and will require three the water quick enough. The ve years for erection. It will have atilation in these mines is also very generating capacity of 20,000 kilo bad. It is almost impossible for a watts, sufficient for the demands of minor to work under such condi- & wire tions, as owing to the bad, ventila- an area extending over radius. Kuo Min.

tion the gases cannot escape.

SHIPBUILDING ORDER FOR PORT-GLASGOW.

In Most Provinces. Conl is found in nearly every province in China. The richest de- posits are in Shansi, Chihli, Shan- tung and Hunan provinces, Shan- si and Husan being particularly rich in anthracite coal. Most of the mined coal of China is bitu minous, a big tonnage of which is extracted from Chihli,

Messrs. Lithgows, Limited, Port- Glasgow, have received orders: from Messrs. J. and C. Harrison, of London, to build another two cargo steamers of 8,250 tons dead. weight. Since the month of August, The main coal supplies come from 1831, Mesara. Harrison had already those mines which are under, or ordered six vessels from Messrs. partly ander, foreign supervision

The principal foreign, or partly. Lithgows, and this latest order now brings the number up to eight. foreigu, owned mines are those of Economy will be the main feature the Kailan Mining Administra

Anhui also produces coat, and in Fukien coul is so abundant that even the poorest people keep fire burning night and day during the

ld winter months. The provinces.. of Yunnan, Kweichow, Kwangsi which is mined by native methods. The mining is mainly open cut, no shafts have been sunk of any great depth. A good yearly average of cont comes from the provinces of Hunan, Kiangai, Hupch, Secohwan, Kwoichow and Shantung, but the province of Shansi is one of the richest, if not the richest in the whole of China.

Ment of Shanghai's anthracite cal contes, from the Hongay Mines of French Indo-China, and her bitu. minous coal from the Kailan cof leries,

The Kaiping District.

The coal mining concession is in the Kapping District of the pro vince of Chihli, and the Company is fortunate to have the sea port

The Ma Chia Ko of Chinwangtao, a distance of 50 mine has a daily outpat of 2,500 miles away. tons; the new mine of Chao Ko Chang, which has reached a depth of 900 feet, produces 5,500 tons daily, and the Linsi mine daily output of 14,500 tons.

The Hongay Coal Minea are-also equipped with modern machinery. The two methods of mining are

City planning experts of Europe and America were consulted, aud the rough scheme was submitted to them for their criticism. The re sulting plan is,, therefore, the re sults of experts' unanimous opin- ion In their proper order the of these new vessels and the pro- tion, whose coalfields are in the mining. The open cut is naturally pelling machinery will be supplied province of Chibli, and which have be brought into being. That the and installed by Messrs. David a daily output of some 15,000 tons realization of such a scheme will

syndicate, Ltd., whose colleries are port.

various stages of the scheme will

prove to be of great value to this Rowan and Company, Limited, of bituminous coal; Glasgow.-Engineering. city is unquestionable,"

Development Ahead,

Faw who have travelled much abroad would be bold enough to deny that, in many lines, we have lost ground to our competitors not only on account of high prices, and inadequate selling capacity, but on account of poor design and colour. The Whangpoo Harbour has It is of importance that the stan- sorved us well to this moment dard of taste of the great British but with the ever-increasing volume public should be raised, also that of shipping_additional space must the romance. of industry should be be found. The wharves now avail- revealed to them, its intimate con abla are already overtaxed. They nexion with daily life, and the es- are situated too far from the en- sential value of beauty. This should trance of the harbour to be econo- lead to a broader intelligence and mically efficient: A new harbour A more exacting demand on the of sufficient size and more suitably part of the British consumer, who located is needed. Such a place is would insist on a higher standard found near Woosung. In its clbee of attractiveness, from the producer proximity vast space on the east even in the cheapest article. If bank of the river is available for this higher standard were once es- the building up of a commercial tablished in the home trade, it port.. River traffic with the in- could not but react favourably on terior has been sonfined to the our foreign trade.

Woosung King of Soochow Creek, This impressed him as an admir which, at times, is so congested able clear statement of a plain that the passage of boats is a pain- truth. There was plenty of talent ful process. The only solution in in this country if only they were to divert part of this heavy traffic prepared and willing to look for to the Wen-topang creek near Woosung. This diversion can be it, and, when found, to use it.

more effective by With the advance of education, and rendered even consequently discrimination, an ap. connecting this creek with the Soo- preciation of good and beautiful chow creek by a new canal. things had naturally grown and would develop gradually, but the measure of development depended largely on doing all they could to continue this good work and to train the public to know the dif ference between what was good and

bad.

A NEW MOTOR YACHT

Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Company, Limited, Southampton, have secured another order for In these days of machinery it motor yacht, the second to be plac was vital that everything reduned with them this month, making dant should be cut out, so that three ocean-going private yachts even the most ordinary articles under construction in their yarde. could be brought within the reach This last order is for a 90-ft. ves- of all and at the same time be good sel having a beam of 15 ft. 8 in.. and a draught of it. The ma chinery will comprise two of the new types of Thornycroft RL/6 six- There was a tendency nowadays, cylinder Diesel engines with reduc and particularly since the recent ing gears, each development 128 world depression started, to think b.h.p.

to look at.

A Market for Quality,

only of cheapness. This was 20

unwise policy and in many ways a

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policy of fear. Quality would of long run to have something that ways tell and would always find was good and permanent, particu market. He did not necessarily larly when it was pleasing to the mean that an article must be ex- pensive any more than he meant that a thing could not be cheap It had gradually been realized and at the same time, have a basic that a finely set page of text on a clement of quality. It paid in the fine paper could be as attractive tinued at not of anet column.) in its way as any picture Spac ing proportion, well-selected type all went to form the perfect whole, and the cheapest of books could be made to look better, in this way. It was of interest here to mention that The Times had broken away from tradition in this respect, with the cordial approval of the vast majority of its readers. With re gard to advertising and posters, an advance had been made in produc ing something really good and! dignified, compared with the cheap and assy rubbish of days gone by

They still had far to go, but the change had begun and would go on The Royal Academy was fully alive to the necessity of encouragi ing industrial art. With fresh awakening to the vital importance Kof Industrial art the time was op j portune to go forward before it might be again too late Pending a national movement, and the reali zation that to spend money on this object was not an extravagance but 60-economy: it might be well-f outside bodies could be

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