. Giornale di elettricità. COALING UN TRASPORTO LIXEK la vista delle madri con i bambini legati alle loro spalle e piccoli cestini girlsfilling con carbone, tutti che assistono nel coaling dei grandi oceani-goingsteamers, è un'immagine che lungo abita in una memoria. I basketsare passarono a mano le navi bunker di cui sopra e thecomplete coaling così effettuato in un tempo di giorni. Lavorando per un salario giornaliero di quindici centesimi, così ho divertito. Alcuni dei passeggeri della cabina si sono divertiti loro stessi gettando i penny giù sulle chiatte e osservando la confusione risultante nella lotta per i thecoins. S

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. Journal of electricity. COALING A TRANSPORTATION LIXEK The view of mothers with babies strapped to their backs and little girlsfilling baskets with coal, all assisting in the coaling of great ocean-goingsteamers, is a picture that long dwells in ones memory. The basketsare adroitly passed hand over hand to the ships bunkers above and thecomplete coaling thus effected in a days time. working for a daily wage of fifteen cents, so I aminformed. Some of the cabin passengers amused them-selves by tossing pennies down upon the barges andwatching the resulting confusion in the fight for thecoins. Some wit aboard conceived the idea of run-ning down into the chief engineers room and se-cretly borrowin* a handful of iron washers.These with great furor were tossed enmasse uponthe barge. Thinking a tropical rain of money wastaking place, the entire coaling crew dived in togather the favors. After the mob tumbling andtussling had subsided and the joke was discovered, the simple folk on the rafts below enjoyed the joke. A VIEW FROM THE WALL OF CANTON, CHINA Outskirts of Canton, the great metropolis of southern China, throughwhose narrow streets passes the commerce of an empire. fully as much as did the passengers aboard. Need-less to say, they did not suffer in coins to followfor the amusement furnished. One day is usuallysufficient to accomplish in this manner the completecoaling of any ocean going vessel putting into Naga-saki for its supply of fuel. It is remarkable whatgigantic results may be accomplished by such prim-itive methods oftentimes wholly without the aid ofany modern labor saving devices. On all sides one may note, nevertheless, theo-radual but triumphant advance of modern methods June 15, 1918] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY 605 in construction. Indeed the thought processes ofwestern civilization are rapidly being reflected in thegarb wherewith the native attires himself. In thenew commercial era so soon to sweep the Orient, especially in China, undoubtedly the old will g

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