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CORROSION OF STEEL WHARVES.

Interesting lävestigations: at Kewloon.

Before the Institution of Civil Engineers, on January 1. Mr. Samer Howe Ellin. M. Inst. U.E,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916.

CORRESPONDENCE."

[The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not necess arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph."]

GERMAN EVOLUTION,

P

Throughout to a serious extent.

The method adopted in onoar ing, the piles of No. 1 wharf was the following:The piles-12 inch 80 lb. joiate in single anspliced lengtha ap to 78 feet- were first driven with an ordin ary pile-driver. Welded-steal cylinders, 20 inches in diameter inside, with metal † inch thick, were then dropped over the pile and tapped down into the mul with an 8 out. wooden hammer. (To the Editor of the Hongkong

Telegraph). read a paper on "Corrosion of The face row of piles, being driven

Sir, I approach the subject of Steal Wharves at Kawl on." Talin alat pairs, were enclosed in whatwes to which the paper re-cylinders 3 fest in diameter, built Commander Saemann's Isctures farm were ogontracted in 1907-09 up of inch steel plates with rivet with extreme diffidence, since I sod are witasted on the mainland tad joints. A depth of 4 fast to am sorry to have to admit that side of Hongkong Harbor, at 15 feet of the bottom of each my knowledge of Germany and the south-eastern corner of the ylinder (according to its depth), of German culture is very super They as then filled with 1:2:4 Portficial. However, from my scant Kowloon promontory.. belong to Mear Alfred Holt and land cement concrete, lowered knowledge, I do not as how it is through water possible to disagree with Com- Co., of Liverpool, the ships of town whose "Bins Funnel" line of metal hopper-boxer, and when mander Susmann' statement that steamers, of a capacity of 6,000 to his set the cylinde's ware pump "as a nation we show little appreci 10,000 tons, use No 1 wharf for jd dry at low water and filled ation of the value of onlture," at discharge and leading. Wharves with enperate thrown in and any rate il me sɩcept the usual de fuition of culture, viz. the Now, 2 and 3 serve for lights, rammed in place.

ealtivation of the mind, and nativecraftand an occasional amill

Ability to appreciata the thoughts of others and to think for ongolf. cauating steamer.

In 1906, in connection with the reconstruction of a wharf, an ex amination was made of some'sles!

the

The wharf superstructure was

casted with concrete by encasing each member in temporary wood- ea moulds.

A minimum cover of 24 inches joist piles which had been in provided to the steel through

Commander Susment epoke of the present and not of the past, and you have based your leader almost entirely upon the past,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

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place for about four yer, and out, the concrete being of Port which is a pity. I am exceeding; MONDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, FIRST DAY OF RAGES.

manner.

hund.

lund cement of standard quality, doubtfal of the correctcess of they were found to be errotand, and granite broken to pais your statement, that the averago in ourions and rather alarming

inch ring, in the proportion of Oxford or Cambridge under- 1:2: 4 by measure, mixed by graduate of 20 will yet bear com Auy steel immer-ed in sea

Farison with the Heidelberg or In Jaly, 1010, when the whole Leipsic youth of the same age," at Hongkong booment quickly coated with barnacles, nd other shell-fi-b and with a dense of the work und besa completed on the score of knowledge. about a year, and the bulk of I am quite certain that where the vegetable growth, particularly for two years, the author made

average Englishman in compared from near the surface of the water to 15 feet or ao below it. It had petion of the wharf and with the average German, where

been an accepted ibrary that this was unable to detect any sign of knowledge is concerned, judg-!

had formed in the surface of te

terioration on the surface, but

growth protected the meat and

ment must be heavily on the side he did not cut into the concrets.of the German. Three years later, obvious in- To takes vary conorato example, prevented rating. Ouroraping away the growth from pre of the ications of corrosion within were Were you to ask all the members wharf oxamined, however, it w found that a large number of preparent on the surface of the of the Hongkong Club whether enerate. Most of the diagonal Hame was of more practical service steel, varying in size up to 1.1-member had developed longitud-to the thinking world than Kant, | mal cracks in their apper longibs.er in what way their thought inch in diameter and 38 of above high-water mark, and the differed from that of 835, Dex- inch deep, They were full of a blackcarburaceousjoner, which der surface of the casing to artes, I should be very much the deck-beams showed similar surprised if one in ton had ever was also found in asuin layer an

auriacs of the unpitted steel afecte in a few places-all the board of all three names, or it one cracks having formed in le man is fifty could give you a (though no rast or seals could be with the outer edges of the reasoned and able answer. observed there), and which bangle of which the various exposure to the air, turned. tambure are built op. Rust stair daik red colour. Thus powder we leo visible on the surface was found to be sulphide of iro (FS), and its change

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colar to be due to oz ation Appa sutly, om- particularsheli-

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Were you to put the same gestion to all the members of the diab Germania (that was), I of the concrete in many places should be much surprised were jaburo high-water løyel.

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you to find one in ten who had Thorough examination of the pot heard of all three, and STALLS fish or other marine growth at-whole structure revealed that if five out of every ten could DRESS CIRCLE $2 tached to the piles produce large above high-water level corrosion not give you a fairly accurate PIT quantities of sulphuretted bydrapperred to have gone on almost outline

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of their respective GALLERY gen when dead and decaying; unchecked by the presence of the philosophies. Moreover, I think this sulphuretted hydrogen corele covering, and a thickness that where Art, Science, History attacks the metal, with an Bo of about 1/16 iach of rust-scale eto, are concerned, you would centuated notion in certain spits was found on all the steel mem obtiin very similar results from a

FIRE AT SHAUKIWAŃ. producing the psdesoribed; cere in this zone on their under comparison instituted between and it is evident that when obce outer sides. The upper sides the two different bodies of men.

Many Houses Gutted. the progress is sturtel, the de-of the top horizontali could not posit of eulphide favoure more be examined without removing anent Nietzsche, however mach the timber deck, which at the we may dislike his doctrines, we

An alarming fire broke out in rapid erosion beneath it,

time it was not convenient to do. must face the fact that he has the early hours of the morning at The author examined at that he vertical posts were in slight-thrown down a very real gauntlet No. 86, Shaukiwau village. Orink arrived, Consignees of cargo

and that iginating shortly after three in, time some steel pates of an H-ir..

ly better condition, apparently before Christianity. pattern, which had been in place | enly 3 or 4 years, and estimateding to the concrete which en Christianity does not seem to the morning from a cause at pre- that 10 per cent. of the metaled them being of a denser greatly relish the idea of taking sent unknown, the fire, helped by was eaten away in some sections, quility, as their position allowed it no, though quite ready to the wind, which was liigh at the me, spred to numbere 63, 64, 68 o more thorough ramming into throw mud at it and to ecora. it.

His doctrines seen to me to he parand 70.1 he fire brigade arv obi-fly in the form of pitting.

Toe destuctive effects of the

Although the workmanship wasxcellence the doctrinen of Force, on the scene with commendable marine growth appear to be con- ct everywhere good, the author whereas those of Christianity (promptitude and succeedest is fined to the between low-water was forced to the conclusion that do not refer to those of the Founder getting the fire under, numbers level and 15 feet below it, the van when perfectly encased in of Christianity), are the doctrines 84, 60 and 68 are practically. zone of wordt co rosion extruding 2.1/2 inch covering of round, of Faith, and the two doctrines gutted but 02 and 70 have suffered from 5 fret to 10 feet below low-bomogeneous concrete, the steel seem to me to be essentially com more from water than fire

The amount of damige is not water fevoi.

wea nut protected against the plementary, though their up Aus rasult of his inspection, effect of excessively damp salt oirhol era would have them an-known at present, but it is said that none of the property was tagonistic. in that climate,

The limit of serious rustingmay The Germans appear to me to insured, with the oxcaption of be taken as high-water of neap Be a nation which, though natur-that at No. 66. tides; below that level the ally suited to Faith methods, has dimini-bod rapidly got into the hands of Force, and

the author recommended that the piles and lower bracing of the main (No. 1) warf" should be encased in cement condisie; and

pitre.

corrosion,

However, inflicting one's views

it was eventually decided to cortosion encase the whole of this structure, down to meantide level, and there as a result we see the distrassing find oneself, and then not leaving the other wha ves-NUD.

it practically disappear d. The spectacle of an amiable, hespec-know how to rule aneaslf when 2, 3, and that fronting tuu Prej lower bracing members of the toled, peace-loving pressor ran found. The Germans an trying to Whirl-with three), which wharf in question were all found ning amok with a que, fearfally find themselves, and the English was painted with Built be entirely unaffected by angry, and at the same time are trying to rule themselves. In intensely faithful. Wo Britiebere, fact, it seems to me that the main composition on erection.

work of constructing there The author concludes. that on the contrary, seem to have a effect of the Garman national without later wharven was impeted in while itsel protected by concrete vary workable mixture of Faith culture is learning 1908. Since then the superarucheltuile or no tendency to corrode and Forco, resulting in a fairly obaracter to temper it, while the tore and the piles above low water it becomes thoroughly weltwice Round commonsense, which is effect of oura ia character without level buvo breu scraped in the 24 hours, set when it is practical and faces the present learning to temper it. painted anually, and the exposed to air rendered constantly rather than the past or the future, has been kept in fair condition damp by the evaporation of sea- and this sound commonsense is, upon others ie the prerogative of with no marked deteriuan, water, especially in a tropical I think, a very valuable asset in learning and so, being an Eng except in one year when a long climate, some other external cost- our national culture, which we lishman, I fear that I have probably excreded my prerogative, period than 12 mouths was allow.

ng most be sought for, either are apt to overlook.

an addition to the concrete, or It seems to me that there are let alone your patience, and there- ed to elapse between the re

two kinds of learning, the fore hasten to, remain coating Tue yearly cost ut

place of it. maintenance is about 21. 0, tor a

Tuo corrosive effisots of salt learning which comes tutal deck-res of J4,0,0.quare camp air appear, however, even books, and that which is the

in auch a climate as that of Hong result of practical contact with Hongkong, Feb. 14, 1915, To geure alter completion, kong, to be limited to a zone im- the world, the latter being the piting but comenced on the mediately above the surface of the builder of character which enables ukio-water surface of the piles, water. Steel work, both ixposed us to utilise the former. Buth aro the conatraction costing of point and embedded in concrete, in necessary, and an excess of either having then almost disappeared, rabcases on the same property is to be deprecated, but un

****doubtedly if we are to have an TO LET Floor and First and a thick layer of shells and i pot ibus affected..

Neither, in the author's ex- excess of either the latter in the marine gro¬th having become

Floor of 49 Pottinger Street, near attached to the metal. In April, perience, does the evaporation enfer one to exceed in, 1913, European diver fouudikas frond fresh water affect steal em Nietzsche wanted men to find Orosion had developed bedded in good commrete, themselves, but it is dangerous to

foot.

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