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THE CHINA MAIL.
DR. G. P. JORDAN.
SUDDEN DEATH AT HOME.
MEDICO AND CITIZEN.
LON AND USEFUL CAREER IN HONGKONG.
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STEALING OXYGEN.
DISHONEST. EMPLOYER
TRAPPED.
Ah Wing, the proprietor of sa engineering shop at Whitfield, Cause way Bay, was charged with having received the stolen cylinders knowing they were stolen property.
Mr. M. H. Turner.prosecuted for the At the offices of the P.W.D., yester Company, and, Mr. A. U. Crew ap- was not. represented by a solicitor, appointed health officer, a position he day afternoon a piece of Crown land peared for Ah Wing. De Jesus who beld until quist recently when con- in Shaukiwan (Inland Lot No.484) entered a plea of guilty to stealing siderably past the age limit he resign-the rear of Inland Lot No. 12, Shat the cylinders but denied misappro
kiwan Road, containing 4,500 89priation of the money. Ab Wing ft., was offered for sale by public denied having received the cylinders, auction for a term of 75 years, at an
ed.
ders first.
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strain of his University and medios! | of language. This last word (used in
work here hopes were held that rest the article noticed by the Telegraph's
would restore him to health. "Only exponent of English pure and
yesterday," said Sir Paul Chater, "I urdofiled") is pure French. It is a
received a letter from him dated handy word, but not a good word.
November 1. He had arrived in Lon MANAGING DIRECTOR DEAD. A more nearly pure English, word
don fealing but had gone to "Ah" interrupts would be speech.
Harrowgate. He came back feeling
Daniel David de Jesus, à Portugues? the young student (we refer to his
much better,' he said. His wife was
clerk, employed by the Far East intellectual age: not his years)"but
very well and also feeling much better.
Oxygon and Acetylene Company, was I was writing of more than spoken
SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.
yesterday charged before Magistrate My heart trouble has not yet passed language. It was, in fact, English as Very real and deep regret will be off Dr. Jordan had written "but I Mr. A. Oben, managing director of Wood, with having abolen a sum of it is and should be written that I was felt at the news, received by cable am very different to what I was when Sincere's died yesterday at the Patlun 884 entrusted to him for disbursement discusaing." So? Had we not ex- pressed some desire for thinking just this morning, of the death is, London landed. Evidently be had a nudbi hospital. He was recently injured in by his employers, and with having relapse, added Bir Paul, a yesterday a motor mishap in Shanghai since stolen, on November 17, three cylin now? Think what the word language of Dr. Gregory Paul Jordan. meant. A literal translation would A resident here for over 30 years I received a cable that he was making when his health had been unentiafac dets of oxygen and one eylinder of be tongue-age, the affix "age" being and, the Colony's leading medical steady improvement, followed a few tory. He was one of the founders of acetylene gas, the property of the as in tonnage, shortage, etc. Clearly practitioner for a tatter of a century. hours later by another message stat- Sincere's. He was very philanthropic firm. the word language, like the word the late Dr. Jorunn was as widely in that his condition was much worse and was associated with the uplift of speech, means only talk, the vocal known, amongst Europeans and
Sir Paul Chater, and after practice for transmission of thoughts. Does this Chinese alike, as he was highly esteem Dr. Jordan arrived here in 1886, sald the Chinese community. not suggest to us after we have fed. "His-devotion to duty, his many a short time by himself, founded the stopped wasting time on the vain unobtrusive acts of charity, particular-
Aubrey, medical practitioners. search for a "pure" word that doesy in the direction of alleviating suffer firm of Jordan, Forsyth, Grove, and not exist) that there must be souteng by the use of his professional skill,Twice he acted for Dr. Ayres, the Colonial Surgeon and WRB later thing for more in "good writing" and his loveable disposition will be recalled by the hosts of friends who than "economy of words," austerity will experience a deep sense of losa at of style, and so All that
on. is good writing (especially in didactic the news of his passing away.
This morning's cable came as a writing) which vividly and clearly
profound shock because when Dr.
Dr. Jordan was unselfish in his thought. conveys the
If three
Jordan left for home by the s.8. will make the adjectives
"Anchises "last June he was reckoned labours for the Hongkong University veyance of the true thought more
ed to be better in health than he of which he was Pro-Vics Chancellor, annual rent of $43, with the option and the Magistrate decided to tiy bosh sure than one will, let no young waiter had been for some
years and, Sir Paul Chater recalled that when of renewal at a rent to be fixed by defendants with regard to the cylin
Opening the be afraid to use them: He must be
considering his 63 years, he was re-Sir Charles Eliot, the Vice Chancellor, HM's. Surveyor for a further term of 75 years. The upset price was $2,700 sure, of course, that they do co-operate
Dr. Jordan had, it was called away to Vladivostok, and the property was eventually sold prosecution, Mr. Turner said that the Company supplied cylinders of oxygen in this work. The fault that hus been markably ft. pointed out by literary critics would appears, been ill for about a week Dr. Jordan was asked to fill the gap.
before his death.
Sir Charles Eliot, it was expected, for $4,840.
Shaukiwan Inland Lot No. 2358, at and acetylene to engineering firms for welding purposes. The manager of be idle adjectives, the verbal drones
Born in India in 1858, Dr. Jordan would be absent a short time only, that disfigure the literary output of
was educated later at Edinburgh Uni- and in spite of the heavy pressurs of the rear of Inland Lot No. 1017, mere gasbags. The mark of good
versity Hestudied in Paris under Pro- private work Dr. Jordan agreed to Shaukiwan Road; containing about the Company, Mr. Geoffroy, had literature then, is not the paucity of fessor Chescot at the Salpetric and at accept the heavy responsibility for 10,150 sq. ft., was also offered for a rosson to believe that some cylinders adjectives employed, but the useful-
however,
much $104, with the option of renewal for of the Trays East without his per- ness of those that are employed, in Vienna under Professor Albert. Be the interim. Sir Charles Eliot's term of 75 years at a Crown rent of were being sent out from the factory transmitting to the mind of a reader was also a private student at Cam- absence,
Britain direct fetched $8,850 or $3,775 more than the Company was that they had two the mental image of the writer. Be.bridge and at St. Thomas' hospital in longer than anticipated and when a further term of 75 years. This lot mission. The system employed by
London. For two years he was in he returned to cause Masefield, for purely rhetorical private practice at home and he was Dr. Jordan was definitely left to the upset price of $5 075. The factories in the Colony where these Kennedy Town and one at Wanchai. reasons, did not "huddle
The first defendant was in charge of jectives up against their anbstantives, resident Surgeon at Dorset County carry on until the present Vice competition was keen in both cases cylinders were made and stored, one at the factory at Wanchai. Customers this Telegraph oracle failed to find Hospital. In the following year after Chancellor, Sir William Branyate, and the bidding brisk.
came to the head office at No. 16, them. His comment on this indicates his arrival in Hongkong in 1885 arrived in March last. Having to he was made acting Colonial Surgeon devote one half of the day to the
Des Voeux Road and there they met that that also (the juxtaposition of and in 1888 he took up the University and the other half to his
the manager who signed delivery noun and adjective) is a fault. If we wish to tell you that "one wet day position of Health officer of the Port heavy practice, Dr. Jordan felt the Inspector of Immigrants strain, said Sir Paul, and it was dur
President Sun Yat-sen has arrived orders for the amount of gas they required. The customers then toe saw a black man pushing a red
He continued to ing this period that his heart first in Hongkong.
presented the signed delivery orders handcart down a green lane," how
kold that post until a few gave him trouble. Two years ago he at Kweilin.
to the clerks in charge of the more "purely." can we tell it than in months ago when he retired from it had a bad heart attack.
factories, who arranged delivery. that way, or how effect a greater and it was constituted a position in Dr. Jordan was beloved by the "economy of words?" But for the the Government service. Besides his Chinese. His patients adored him so
Suspecting that all was not right ridiculousness of the subject, of the duties as Port Health Officer Dr. much, said Sir Paul, that when his
at the Wanchai factory, Mr. Geoffrey picture presented, that is
purer" English than Masefield's. Jordan had a very extensive general time was heavily taxed by his Indeed, if you have suy ear for practice and he was the senior partner University work they presented him rhythm at all, and you read it aloud in the medical firm of Drs. Jordan, with a motor car in order that Forsyth, Grove and Aubrey. Holding he could make his medical rounds with proper stresses, you will it
amy the degrees of MB, C.M., and with less trouble. As another in-was married to Miss Dorothy. Tilling, is a sort of prose poem. It is un. MR.G.S., he was regarded as a very stance of Chinese affection for Dr. youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. fortunate that this criticism must brilliant medical man and one of his Jordan, Sir Paul recalled the expres W. E. Tilling, of Bromley, Kent, appear to some wantonly unkind. It colleague's expressed the opinion this sions of goodwill that followed the
ct
·bis ad-
much
and
Was
·LOCAL AND GENERAL...
Funds for the erection of a new building for the Awangtung Public Library have been subscribed by prominent persons of Canton.
At St. John's Cathedral on Satur day Mr. J: H. Scott, of Hongkong,
is not. The expression of sympathy moming that if he had not elected ceremony of conferring the LLD. St. Andrew's Church Men's in our opening sentence was sincere to be a general practitioner he degree on his nephew when Sir William Association, Kowloon cordially invites The explanation is our strong sense of duty. We simply cannot allow might have achieved eminence as a Branyate arrived here. Placing him
a concert to be held in the Church what we regard as false and mislead-writer on medical subjects. He was, in a motor car the Chinese students all members and their friends to however, too busily occupied with his towed Dr. Jordan frozn the University Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening ing teaching to go unchallenged, wherever we meet it. The beauty of practice to do much writing and, all the way to the Club.
though frequentiv urged to relinquish this principle is that if we preach his post as Port Health officer, be falsely, misleadingly, we are equally hold on to it because, as he said, open to correction.
that had been the foundation of his
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Lady Stubbs has kindly consent ed to distribute the prizes for the Peak School on December 21 at 5.15 p.m. at the Peak Club.
career.
He was in charge of the Alice Memorial. Hospital from its forma- tion till amalgamated with the Nethersole Hospital and since the inception of the university bad lectured there on tropical med icine. For a period of about 2 years he acted as vice-chancellor of
✓
THE GRAND OLD MAN.
HIS UNIVERSITY WORK,-
Pan Shun Ming, the manager of a Chinese firm at No. 1, Queen's Street, reports that his shroff abscond- ed yesterday with $2,730 the pro- perty of the firm. The police have a description of the missing iman.
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A Chinese boiler maker living
赴 had
rase
for the
detective placed ont-
side the building. On the 16th of November the second defendant, Ah Wing, visited No. 16, Des Voeux Road and ordered one cylinder of acetylene gas. Mr. Geofrey gave him a delivery order. On the following morning the detective who was watch. ing outside the building saw two- coolies take out 5 cylinders on to Ah Wing's shop. The detective, track. These cylinders were delivered after seeing two of the cylinders carried into the shop, questioned the coolies as to their order. The coolies stated that they had been. instructed by a Portuguese clerk to deliver them to Ah Wing's shop. At that moment the proprietor entered the shop and stated that he had only' ordered one cylinder of acetylene rsa. So far as the second defendant was concerned the whole point was, were these five cylinders delivered in error. The Magistrate to De Jesus: You There was a case to answer. plead guilty of stealing these cylinders, valued at $200,
The interest which the late Dr. Jordan took in the University of Hongkong is well evidenced by the fact that he was the first Fro Vice in Hokyaen village, was yesterday suffering from wounds on the face Chancellor of that institution. His removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital connection with the University and elbow alleged to have been the University and did some wonder- dates from its inception. The received as the result of an attack fully good work for the institution, particulars which follow are taken made on him by several men in the of He won the esteem of both students from data supplied by Dr. Jordan 130 and staff so that when in April himself to Mr. Teesdale Mackintosh, course of a dispute. None of his and produce exchanges in last the honorary degree of LL.D.Registrar of the University, at the alleged assailanta have been arrested. interview with me on the 15 inst. and
pure, all things may be pure but not the English language. The language
According to the Bureau which could most nearly be called pure English would not even have been Economic Information there were understood by this valiant champion stock
of it far less appreciated. We under-Shanghai on November 29, stand so well, baving been along that newest is to be a Ten Exchange. same road ourselves, how these de- veloping young minds get their ideas.
The
our.
De Jesus: It is not only myself. This man got a share. He had an
asked me to supply them.
was conferred upon him a remarkable time the degree of LLD. was conferred
Two cases of dephtheria (one The Magistrate: The police say demonstration took place in his hon- on the former.
In conjunction with Sir Patrick fatal) and one case of enteric fever that there is nothing against you, and Manson and Sir James Cantlic, Dr. (imported) were reported during the as you are 56 years of age the sentence The Dairy Farm request their
Dz: Jordan was a very prominent Jordan was one of the original 48 houra ended yesterday. All three Lam going to pass is a very light one. They are almost always purely and customers to return all small empty freeraason and was one of the oldest founders of the Hongkong College of were Chinese. Last week three You are sentenced to three months" directly derivative, because reading milk bottles in their possession as members of the Grand Lodge of Medicine, on which institution se a Chinese died from puerperal fever, imprisonment with hard labour. and thinking are two distinct pro- they have run' short of battles and Scottish freemasonry in Hongkong bass the university was founded. He one from cerebro eginal and another De Jesus was then placed in the ' osses, and these diligent readers are their next shipment is not expected and South Chins in which he filled was also a founder and member of the from plague. One case of diphtheria witness box to give evidence against loss diligat thinkers. In fact, the
the position of District Grand master. University, where he was a lecturer, and another of plague, both Chinese, Ab Wing. He said that he knew the WELLBELOVE-WILLIAMS. On majority of journalists of their rank until the end of the current month.
In 1914 while home on leave head Pater. Professor, of Tropical and one of enteric fever, Portuguese, second defendant. Ah Wing came to him on the 15 inst, and asked him to November 28, 1921, at Shan.hai, and that implies the majority of all
All firms, clubs, etc., who have offered himself for war service to the Medicine. During the Vice Chancellor were also reported.. Edmund Wellbelove to Gwen Aun journalists, are merc retailers. They
arrange delivery of three cylinders acquire from reading some ides which not yet returned particulars for inser: secretary of state and in 1915, on his ship of Sir Charles Eliot, Dr.
The Members of the Chinese of oxygen and one of acetylene. Williams. SCOTT TILLING. At the Cathedral appeals to them as plausible and tion in the Dollar Directory are re-returned to the Colony was enrolled Jordan beld the office of Pro Vice
on December 3, Mr. J. H. Scott pleasant, and they represent it, inquested to do so immediately to No. as Surgeon Major of the Hongkong Chancellor. On the former leaving Seamen's Union who recently ap He was to supply them with Ah aproached the shipping companies for Wing's delivery order at $15 each. of Hongkong, and Miss Dorothy their own way, to their readers. This 5. Wyndham Street. Particulars of Police, Reserve. He served with that the Colony for Siberia on Tilling, youngest daughter of Mr. ous had read somewhere that a super-new firms etc., will be gladly received force until it was disbanded on the Government Mission in 1918 Dr. an increase in wagse are shortly to The proper price, was, $20 each.
Tighing of peace in 1818.
Jordan was induced, take the reins, hold a mass meeting in the City The witness agreed and Ah Wing and Mrs. W. E. Tilling of fluity of adjectives is a mark of for inclusion in the Directory.
Maoh sympathy will be felt for acting as Vice Chancellor until the Hall, provided the Secretary for went away and mid he was going to Bromley, Kent.
Mrs. Jordan who was evidently with arrival of Sir William Branyate in Chinese affairs will agree to it. The get one from the office and then the her husband when he died. There April 1921. This work for the shipping companies will be invited to others could be delivered at the same DEATHE.
are no children.
University did not stop por-attend and to state their views. It time. He (witness) was to get $15 sonal effort but his enthusiasm is felt by the Union that open for his own pocket for each cyclinder. was instrumental in bringing along discussion is better than secret several donations. Through him negotiation.
inferior composition, which is true enough. After solemnly telling us
Within the next day or so there that this is a common fault "with well be on view in the show room of young and inexperienced writers," the Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., the DENEGEL-On November 29. 1921, this venerable and experienced one Colony's first Rolls Royce car. This at Shanghai, suddenly of heart went on to add, in effect, that strict has been purchased by Mr. C. K. Lau, failure, Mario Massimo Denegri, simplicity is the mark," most often," Manager of the Chinese Merchauts of Novi Ligure, Italy.
of the purest English. After quoting Bank. JORDAN-At London on December long extracts from John Masefield
4. Dr. Gregory Paul Jordan.who is a good writer but not at all (By cable.)
UNSELFISH LIFE.
the University now possesses three
SIR PAUL OKATER'S TRIBUTE.
medical rohools donated by Mr. Ho
The Magistrate: There is no ovid ence of receiving stolen goods against this man. He is discharged.
Mr. Turner: My client Mr.
Fook and the late Mr. Chan Kai-ming Chancellor he guided the University Geoffroy does a twish to prncend
one of the best exemplar-our oraclo At the China Inland Mission, "He devoted his whole life to the His relations with the studenta said that is pure. English and Chefoo. last week a double wedding Colony, seeking nothing for himself had always been of the happiest, through the greatest orisis of its "gainst the first defendant with the nudefilcd." He called our attention took place, the contracting parties and giving everything to others. What better tribute could there bo history. The institution was in great charge of stealing the money your The Magistrate to first defendant: to an alleged absence of rhetorical being Miss Grace Taylor B.a. and Mr. This tribute was paid to his nephew, then the title of The grand old fissural difficulties, which ultimately Worship. tained many of these, One Miss Lilian Smith and Mr. Harold J when approached at Marble Hall this ably known 1
William against you on the first charge of
The China Mail.effects; whereas the quotation. con- Reginald F. Harris B.A. (Cantab) and Dr. Jordan, by Sir Paul Chater man" by which he was affection brought about the University
Dr. Jordan, band. As no evidence is being brought
HONGKONG, TUZnday, Dir. 6, 1021.
THE DELUSION OF PURE ENGLISH.
The demons Comunission.
WHOOPING COUGH.
•FRUTE, JUNTION, PURLIO SIRTICE" sentence had no less than three ad- Chalkey B.A. (London) all four being morning by China Mail reporter trations which followed the non-ed over to fir
jeotives in it; he mid "in the whole members of the Staffs of the C. I. M. regarding the sad news from London. ferring of the honorary degree will Brunyate an institution financially stealing $84, you are discharged. of the last three piragraphs only three Compound.
The whole time he worked for the long be remembered how he was sound. Another fact for which Dr. adjectives are used." Our one rough:
Colony," continued Sir Paul, and carried bodily from the ball to his Jordan deserves great gratitude was count (we may have missed some) -
during the 35 years he spent out here car, surrounded by cheering admirers, the obtaining of silication with the gives us éleven. The whole citation,
three times only dd ho take a boli Nor was this undeserved for Dr. Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
THEN your Child has whoop Woough be careful to keep the e very rhetorical, and the "econotay. A GERM DESTROYER: day at Home. This was his fourth Jordais took a great interest in under which degrees granted here are of words!! which, according to our
In short Dr. Jordan's connection Dough lose and expectdrs fon asay-by giving Chamberlain Cough Rema di na wore amused in the way that Instructor, "is great part of the HERE in no danger whatever from trip and I had at last induced him to student life. One of his last sots fully recognised,
loc, faw ur blood poison resulting, give up his strenuous work. He in- was the furnishing of the Students parente esthused by the antics of of good writing, could have been from a would when i hamberlain's faol tinded to return to Hongkong and Union Building, towards which he with, the University has been marked may be required his comedy will also
Balm in promptly wiplied; it is an
the fruits of which will be enjoyed by Burr to expecturste ir children, that is to say, amused carried very much farther.
ahtisep ie and destroys the germs which settle down horo, in quint retire obtained $20,000 from his personal by unflagging interest and enthusiasm, liquify the tough musu
friends, with certain tenderness of Now let us think a bit. Let us not use the dias. It also dugo ment."
While Dr. Jordan'e death was not To say that he will be missed by succeeding generatiuus of students, crossfully in sympathy, by some observations of a bo hypnotized by the rastr generaliza. "wounds to heal with us matur fion and In one third blip time required by
suffered from heart trouble under the During the time, he was acting Vios Man the Babject of pure ngis. To the who may have sat up as a professor Obsemists and storeksopers.
Their
and make it. It has been unecks ruotis or other in aridus- ubstancos, it is perfently safe. For pale by all Chemists and Storekeeper.
Teypreph aerikler on Saturday, na tons of anybody, however eminenthurual treatment Fr sale by all altogether "unsrpsótad has had staff and studente is maying too little. He was in truth "The Grand 047 contalus nohy epidemics and k