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Intimations.

| MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (MITSUBISHI 00.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

PLAYED WITH MILLIONA

year. Gates had arranged with" certain" London beuses or delivery on call of

"Flungor" Gatos Dios in Parla | 60,000 shares of Vulca Fucife Con

Hotel.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1911.

Intimations.

V. R. C.

stock at prices meging about 58. Be pail £30,000 for the privilege ANNUAL SWIMMING SPORTS.

If Me&inlay wins and Union Pacifo

THURSDAY, 21st Sertexaan,

Commencing F FRIDAY, 2nd SEPTEMTER,

Commencing at 3 r.3., ' SATURDAY, 23rd STENDER, yards, 20 yards 410 yards and 600

Commencing at 4p.ar

yards Championships of the Colony, and many other Events, FILITARY BAND in attendance on M SATURDAY, 23rd September, on which day afternoon tea will be provided. to Lautes.

F&1831 Choy yo. NAPOLEON OF FINANCE. One uk the mit astounding financial Boto-to" "Cues to par,"prompted careous is clowed by the death, from Brigbe John W. Gate.You will make nearly disease. of Mr John Warre dates, which £300,000," replied the banker. "Some occurred at the Hotel Meuric, Taxis. thing like that," said Gates, Union Pacifica

want to 130%, and Gates cloro marly 100 leaves 20,000,000, but at one period con three quarters of a willion. He was bust trolled many times that sum, yea London known by his own countrymen as Bet-you- paper Gates, who was born in 1855 in million Caten. This title ho first gained Dupage County, Illinois spent his boyhood when he offered to wagir £200,000 on a OLE-PROFRETONS of TAKA on the farm, bie only duantios being such | horiso mea with Mr Jebu Brake, his SIMA, OUFI, MUTARE; YO- looling as fall" to the let of a country. I partners. Wetting with Caten-wax o manis, SHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA, brod lad. It is reinteil that his arst business. It is recorded how once, when travelling in NAMAZUTA, SATO, SHINNEW vonture was conducting to husk's Boigli- Pullman car, he anil a companior watch- and KAMIYAMADA Qoilérios,

00AL DEPARTMENT.

JOALS.

HEAD OFFICE :—TOKYO,

BRANCH OFFICES:—

"Nagasaki, Mojl, Karatan: Wakamatsu, Kobe, Osaka, Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankow

bouring farmer'a corti, and from the moneyed two mindrags trickling and zig-zagging he shred for this work he Lought a third down, the windowpane. That's my drop,' interest in threshing washine. His hail Gates, indicating his solection. **AIRE AGENTS for KISHIDARK & SAKITO enterprise was soon rewarded. for in the raco him against the held for £100 even sung year he was able to buy out his two monoy." Gates' raindrop won easily. partners. His next venture was cutting" Plunger'** Gates stopped

in timber and selling it for frywood," and | nothing |

the way of wild Before the winter was but he had made brizon speculation." Even his best friends dhough money to open as ironmango's admit that he was relentless and unscrupu shop. Next he drifted to Chiengo, 'where leus, uncoath in manner, and blasphemous he met. Me Isaac Elwood, the first of the barbed wire manufacturers, and was in duced to enter the business. For a few Fears he acted as a traveller, caring about £600 a year, when he decided on his first important step." -Me Gates induced some friends to form a syndicate for thelm facture of barbed wire, with a capital of £7,000, and in the first year the profts.

TYL, Auparices for above: ISKI. Godas:-A1, ABD 5th Ed., Wratoro Unien.

AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA M. Asada, Esq CHINKIANG: Messrs Gesting &

Co.

1768 MANILA: Messrs Macondray &

Co. SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Co.

Ltd.

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Delivered free Kowloon :

Delivered free. Hongkong:

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For particalam, apply to

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Manager, No. 2, Uunom Srketi

Flos XOXO.

nongkong, April 29, 1911.

816

GES FENWICK & CO., LIMITED.

(Is LacIDATIOs).

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PIL

THE

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mounted to £20,000.

BEGINNING OF VI FORTUNE.

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EYESIGHT

AT MOSTON 2. "Non-monster 82 Cach day.TESTING

Ladies 50 cents each day. Hongkong, September 18, 1911. 1194

NOTICE.

ISS MASSEY wishes to thank all who of her MOTOR BOAT: the present OWNER is MA NIELSON, KOWLOON No. 104:

Hongkong, September 20, 1911.

MISS Noted in dispaing

iz

LESSONS IN FRENCH..

moderate.

1203

of speech. He gambled at everything-MONVERSATIONAL FRENCH Laught cards, billiards, trap-shooting, horses, by Frenchman (Government in

structor) entirely in French, without cotton, grain, and coffee. Alwayg'a bilter translation, even for more beginners. enemy of Pierpons Morgan, Gates get Fluency acquired in a short time his own back" ones when he gathered in trial lawson free of charge. Terms very the Tauisville and Nashville Railroad over.

•Apply to manuaight from the Belmont family, and com-

c/o "CHINA MATI' Office. Hopkope, September 9, 1911. peled Mr J. P. Morgan to take it off his hands at a profit of botwaen £1,000,000 and £2,000,000. Oo, the Exchanges his cam- HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S paigns wera always spectacular.. To 10031 the firm of Charles Gates and. Co. was

This was the beginning of his fortune and carrying on margin £15,000,000 worth of My Gates's mancin' operations were soon on stock Most of this was for Bir J. W such a colossal scale that he could hardly Gates. The market had been ballad unt. keep up with himself, Hu soon developed it would bull no more. The banking ele into a gambler of the most reckless plung-ment anddenly presented a hostile front ing type. The zenith of his career was Mr Gates scented the calling in of his reached in March, 1900, when he became loans, so sold every aharo of his speculative president of the American Steel and Wire holdings in one session, causing a slump of Company, one of the great trust o robin over 10 points. In striking a balance he tions, with a capital stock of £18,000,000, found that he had lost £1 600,000, which Suddenly, without any warning, Mr Gates hu acknowledged without raserës, Two ordered the whole of the works to be American newspapers began publishing "shut down," and 4,000 work people, Mr Gates" obituary several days before be were instantly deprived of employment. died. In Wall Street he was referred to on Bia reply to inquiries was, "Une com

the day of his death by an acquaintancs as pany is running this business, without any the most colossal line he had ever met, need of oxplaining, and we shut down An instanco is quoted. Once Mr Gates and ripen our mills when we see fit." It is counselled another man to buy. Union said that when the Americas steel and Pacifies, which were going up 20 points

THE CREDITORS of the above-named Company are required on or beforo the 30th day of Septentar, 1911, to send their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims, and the mumes of their Solicitors (

r (if any) to the Undersigned, the Liquidators of the said Company, and farther, if required by Nefice in writing, permally or by their Soliters or Reprevire fills resumed ranning John W. Gates for certain." "To show my appreciation." sentatives to come in and prove their said was a richer man by a million or two than sarcastically replied the receiver of the tip Debts or Claims at such time and place ast shall be specified in such Notice AND he had been when the mills" wore closed.to Me Gates, "I'll telephone selling 1,000 NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN it in Gates never plunged, as he frequently Union Pacifies right now." Before the

chart thereof Credite ill-bo excluded from the banelt. of any distrita declared, beyond his depth, the ever man-left-Mr Gate Union Pacific declined. tion before such Debts are proved.

incurred liabilities he could not neet. The 1 point and they went down stendily all PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, secret of his succes in life was simple. day. That there was also another side to

Lipidaturë

the dead financier's character in exemplified The lesson I had drilled into mo as a boy Baled at Hongkong tiis füth September

by an anecdote concerning his marriage. 1186 was this, he once tdd au interviewure lad married Bellor B. Beköy ih 1874,

Make up your mind what you want, and

As the unillionaire was stepping into ble then go after it, and keep after it till you DGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, get "Unmuling arcards and betting co private car one day, a white-haired mas mahorses were his homeata, but here stepped up, tid, extending his hand. said, Heila Jolin.” “Well, how are THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET. again his phenomenal luck rarely deserted

you Mr Foster" replied the man from ING of Shareholders will be holdim. He played what he described as a at the COMPANY'a "Urriers on SATUR DAY, the 23rd September, at Nous, for quict game of poker with Joe Leiter, of Wall-street-Forty years previously the the purpose of receiving the Report of the west corner fame, in an express be- General Managers together with a Statetween Chicago and New York, and won a

# a small Methodist church at St. Charles ment of Accounts to the 30th June, 1911.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-jack-pos of £15,000 by a bluff with a pair. One day there came to him a young pany will be CLOSED from the Otla to the cf nines. In 1000 he made a secesional man and his betrothed. The young, man 23rd September, both days inclusive,

was John W. Gates. When you married gamble in, England. He backed Royale I only gave you a fra-dollar fes, but DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., Flusti, & dengiad selling plater, for the Ill make it up no said Mr Gatot as he

General Managers.

·Hongkong. September 4, 1911. 1154 Goodwood Cup, because the borse was

wrote his yeherne for 1,000 dol. (2200) and ewned by ap Amerjeau and its nime handed it to the wondering divine. In savoured of his favourite game. He plunged commenting on the career of Mr Gates, the DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, so heavily-un the horse that its prica New York Zeening Post enys: “It will

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shortened from 3 to 1 to 6 to 4. Gates, be many years before such a career will bo von £100,000 on the race and nearly, broko possible again in this country, and for that the ring. Another historia plango was bis fast" "jadicione, people may be profoundly 39,00 stake on Mckinley's presidential thankful, and this sentonces sous up the the Western States at the opening of the claction. Gates had inade a trip through general verdict of the American Press.

political campaign, and saw that, barring a diaster, the crops would be enormous and. the railways choked with traffic..

ATOFICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTILAORDINARY GENERAL IN DOD SINETING of the DOUGLAS STEAM

nt

DAY, the 23rd day of September, 1811, held at the Company's Offices, on SATUR 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Extraordinary Resolution will

ped.

1. That. Art. 186) of the Company's Articles of Association be altered by substituting the mat of $50,000 for therum of $25,000 in line two, Should the Rosolution. 1 pasal by thu required Mujarity, it will be sabuitted for Leontiranation as 1. Special Revolution to a Second Extornary Meory, which will be subsequently convened.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

Genmut Alanujer. Hongkong, September 18, 1911. 1168.

WRCORN 300st.

white-haired MAD "was minister of

KINGSLEY AS A SMOKER.

The following story of Charles Kingsley is told by MF Arthur C. Beason in the. August" CornhillMy father used to tell **Betyön million," said Gates to how once he was walking with Kingsley friend in New York hotel one night, round about Eversley, when Kingsley hati-3cKinley wins we-are-going-to-suddenly stopped and said: "It is no have the biggest boom on record. @ Union use; I know you detest tobuco, Badsin,

und the 15th any of September, 1911. Pacifier with ger at pur, Northern Pacifient but I must have a soroko;" sad hu had, 159,"" Thoso aber were then selling accordingly gone to a big furze bush and below 60 Gates went quietly to work put his arm in at a hole, and after some ad one oening handed a bundle of papers groping about, produced a big church Parker friend to hold for him, warden pipe, which he filled and asked lle bet on the election," he said. The with great satisfaction, afterwards putting it into a hollow.tine, and telling diy father, "papers wore "calls" où ̄50,000 slintes of Union Pecite, extending into the now all over the parish, to moet the exigencia witli a chuckle, that ha lnd concealed pipes

of a sudden desire to susko.

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THE TWENTIETH DRAWING of and Bulba

SIXTY-FIVE DEBENTURES of the ПONGKONG Chen (1896 issue, $100.00 only) wan hold in the BoyGrose Czer Hotar on THURSDAY, the 14th September, when the following Debentures were uzor! for Redemption →→

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41

£86

48

408 100

1360 1379

1880

1394

1710

101

R+ 457 DOL 1307 1728

471 .950 1408 494 10-43 · 1123

1730

1707

100

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1823"

148

511

1070 1529

1880

1660

500

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200 614

1180 · 1660-

103

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