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ASAHI

CHINESE WEDDING.

PRETTY CEREMONY AT THE PENINSULA HOTEL

Two highly-respected Chinace families wore united yesterday afternoon when Miss Tang Kwan- yuk, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Tang Kwal-pok, of Hongkong, becamo the bride of Mr. Soo Chong-hee, the brother of Mr. Boo Choong-yew, of Kampar, F.M.S.

The pretty wedding ceremony took place at the Peninsula Hotel, and was attended by a large circle The of relatives and friends, Hon. Mr. R. H, Kotewall officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of white georgetts, and was attended by Miss Yung Suk-ching DA bridesmaid, who was dressed in pink georgette. The bride's mother wore Chinese ceremonial dress.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932.

CAPT. DOLLAR DEAD

"GRAND OLD MAN OF SHIPPING"

AMAZING CAREER

Donth has ended the long, netive and amazing career of Captain Robert Dollar, President of the Dollar Steamship Lines known the world over. A message received from Reuter's American Service last night, reports his death at San Rafael, Califoria, at the age of 88 years.

Captain Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1844. After finishing his school days at the age of eleven years he went to Canada and began his active, carcer at 13 years of age in a lumber camp. In 1860 he went to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in Mr. Lam Swee-chum discharged 1888, acttling in San Francisco,

Business in a small way claimed the duties of best-man., Mr. Lauhla attention for the first and Man-hin played appropriate, music 1993 he had saved enough to catub during the ceremony.

lah sawmill. His frat shipping venture was in 1901 when he pur-

A reception was held at the Hotel after the wedding, when the health and happiness of the newly married pair was duly toasted.

The happy couple will spend their honeymoon at Singapore.

THE DIME-A-DANCE GIRL

(Continued from Page 3.)

And then, "Oh my darling!" Ellen's tear were spent. She sut up.

I can't

"I can't go on with this. be married," she said in a trem- bling voice.

CAPTURED BY REDS CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.

FLOOD RELIEF DISTRIBUTOR HELD IN CAPTIVITY

Shanghai, May 16.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.

MILJELISEN

L

PARMA

.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO",

ANTWERP, LONDON And STRAITS.

"DENREOCH"

the

It is reported from the China Inland Mission that Mr. Henry The Steamship. Ferguson, a mission worker and distributor of relief for the Na-

Consigneck of Cargo are hereby tional Flood Relief Commission, informed that all Goods are being was captured this morning by landed At thoir risk into Communists at Chongyangkwan, hazardous and/or extra hazardous who pillaged the mission there and Godowns of The Hongkong and Kow- took the property of the Flood loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves de- Relief Commission.

Mr. Ferguson, who came from livery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after Canada to China in 1890 for mia- ston work, is now being held th the Goods have left the Godowns, and captivity on a small sailing boat all Goods remaining undelivered after in the river. A fellow worker, the 23rd May, will be subject to rent. Mr. W. W. Moore who was with him at the time of his capture managed to escape-Reuter.

All claims against the steamer

must be presented to the Undersign- jed on or before the 6th June or they

will not bo recoginzed.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 21st May at 10 a.m., by. Menara. God-

Planes to be Used.

Nanking, May 10. The Nanking Government has commissioned the Sixth Squadron of aeroplanes to be sent to Nandard and Douglas. chang in connexion with the Nan-

To comply with the General Bonded, inking organisation of an expedition Warehouse Regulations consignees to Klangal against the Communist must have a Revenue Officer in atten- dance when damaged dutiable goods aro examined. bandits-Rensha

chased the Newsboy for the trans- port of his lumber.

From California he gazed across the Pacific at the undeveloped mar kels of the Orient and decided that there was a trade field that should be claimed by American enterprise. In 1901 the steamer Arab cleared from San Francisco, and Dollar's venture in Chinese trade began in earnest. From this year on he was a frequent visitor to the Orient, building up trade for the Dollar in- terests.

011

Robert shipping

Harold Dollar. R. Stanley Dollar, jed. the elder of the two has risen to a high

No Fire Insurance has been effect-

Bill of Lading will be counter-

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD..

Agents.

place in the shipping signed by, fraternity of the world.

But Capt. Dollar never relinquish- ed his active interests on his under- takings and his frequent round-the- world tours were not holiday trips,

kept him but

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Many agencies and fund of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. ness at the

Although all Oriental cities; branches in the world ports. When back at San Francisco he was knew of Robert Dollár, at least since the war, his activities in always at his desk punctually. Began in Small Way.

Church Worker.

recent years made a deeper im- From 1901 unli) 1923 Dollar engaged in the

The venerable shipowner took a pression than ever. In his pur of the U.S.S.B. Vessels It small business

arale. deep interest in church work and chase

Park operated during the past few years the In 1923, at

80, park beautification, being of age

the the Admiral Lino and nearby he purchased a fleet of "President"commissioner at Sausolito

Matl

the Pacific

Companies,

overcome ship-owner Sole Agent for both of them.

Myra felt that she must be wise liners from the United States Ship-San Francisco.

"The early training I received veteran

which would havu "Are you ping Board, and shortly after

in his obstacles, MITSUI frightened, too ?" she asked. "I'm established the now-famous Dollar in Scotland," he wrote

shaking all over. I was so terri-Line, and was one of the plancers memoirs, "has stuck to me all my "oored" nay one with leas cour- life, and when living in the lumber age and grit. To acquire the Pre- BUSSANed last night I couldn't sleep. If the Round-the-World service. KAISHA didn't want to be married. I al- Captain Dollar took the first trip camps, among the roughest of the sident ships, which sailed

around the world that was made by rough, having no opportunity to San Francisco, he had to overcome most jumped out the window."

S. S. Bible in quietness, half the Chamber of Commerce of LTD.

"Myra! Did you? 1 thought-"the company, and called on 400 read the HONGKONG "All brides feel this way, fool-shippers and prospective customers, always made it a practice on Sun- that city, as well as Eastern ship-

in the Rucceed in this, but he also won a CHITRAL upaot and drumming up business in all parts day to take my Bible out to a quiet ping interests. Not only did he

*KIDDERPORE frightened. You do like Steven, of the globe. The next year he place and read it, even

RANOHI went again and made four hundred coldest weather. Ever since I had fight through Congress to the halls don't you? Like him a lot?" BWhy yes,

and eighty personal calls, Mrs. had the opportunity of being alone of the White House.

Sweet Romance. Elien

*BANGALORE answered

Dollar accompanied him on these a room, I have always read a slowly, beginning to feel the vice

On Sundays and holidays the sons passage out of it every morning. tripa. that held her heart loosen

When there was no freight to and amongst other things, attri-and their families used to gather Bo slightly.

carry back, he bought eggs in China buto much of my success to the at the beautiful home of Captain "Then do something to your silks in Japan, hauled them to teachings received from this daily and Mrs. Robert Dollar, in San

reading. eyes. They look terrible!

Rafael where the "Grand Old Man the United States, and then sold

Capt. Dollar was very generous of the Pacific" and his bride of 60 wait for you."

them at a profit after paying him in educational matters, and when

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Ellen did her bent to repair the self for huling his own freight still quite young and his fortune years lived since their migration to

ravages of her grief and terror while her sister watched.

They were in the living room

When the first Dollar liner reached Egypt. there was vacant space.

cargo

The eighty-year-old captain egain and then on their way out hustled around Alexandrin and the stairs. They stopped out into found 400 tons of ontone, filled the

glorious day. The limousine Uswept them out of the hubby ship and sold them on his return

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Extensive Interests,

far from made, ho strained a point and gave his native city of Falkirk the books for a much needed library, Andrew Carnegie furnished the building.

Generous Glver.

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of

་་

the Pacific Const. The story their life romance was a beautiful Robert Dollar was a young man working from dawn till dusk in a Jumber camp in the Canadian woods, when he met Miss Margaret Prowd-

· His activities were philan neighbourhood, out of New York to the United States.

thropic, as well as commercial, foot, the girl who was to become his future wife. Shortly after and on to the smooth rond that

He was engaged on an extensive and the Y.M.C.A., both American led to Haley, Connecticut. They!

for himself and failed, going hud chosen this small town in the scale in foreign trade and lumber and International, counted him as they met he entered into business

was well known one of their staunchest supporters, hills because Steven knew a clerk business and it

of the largest and ranked him with such men as heavily into debt. In was in 1878, who would withhold reporting the that he was one

Vessels in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. He con- while still deeply in debt, that ceremony until he and his bride operators of ocean were far away on the ocean. world. He was chairman of the tributed lavishly to the Foreign Robert Dollar took her for his bride. No one spoke of Ellen's long Dollar Steamship Co., the Robert Y.M.C.A. at Shanghai, to the Wu-Although filed with many hardships and whenever the absence in the bedroom. There Dollar Co., the Admiral Oriental chang building, to the American their life has been one continual had been no time. But as they Co., the Dollar Portland Lumber School in Shanghal, to the Com-honeymoon

Canadian Robert Dollar munity Church. He established a "Grand Old Couple" started on an swept down the tree-lined, shads Co. the streets of the little village Ellen Co., and the director of the Ameri- number of 10-year schola. hips for other of his periodical inspection sensed that Steven meant to mem-can International Corporation, the Chinese in the Shanghai institution tours of the Orient, the San Fran- tion it. When they alighted from Anglo-London and Paris Bank, and and built a school in Pootung for cisco papers said that Captain and use by his employees' children. Mrs. Robert Dollar were starting the ear he drew her away from the San Francisco Savings Bank. the others.

In his work to create an everlast- In addition Captain Dellar assist on "another honeymoon." To his "I believe you were crying being trade between the United States ed the Y.M.C.A. Training School, countless friends the world-over he fore we started." he said gently. and the Orient, Captain Robert the Chi Sue School and the Hang was Captain Dollar, but to Mrs. assisted by his chow Christian College. In San Dollar he was "Father, and to him "If you want to stop right here Dollar was ably

R. Stanley and J. Francisco, where he was president she was Mother.” sons, Messrs. for going there's no reason Perhaps you would rather havo more ilme to decide. Shall wait until I return from Europe?"

To be Continued.)

MOM

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