The funeral of the Into Taotai Shéi jon, 3rd uncle of BLE, Shi Director-general of the Imperial Telegraphs Administration, the China Merchants' N. Ao., and Imperial Railways South of the Yellow River, who died on the 10th ultimo, took place yesterday morn procession was of the usual mandarin style so frequently soon Shanghai with the addition of some twenty four-wheelers filled with factory girls (from the Cotton Mills of HE, Siéng at Yangtzepoo, of which deceased was also a large shareholder). These girls had been presented each with a dress of Prussian Mue coloured stuff by the family of Aeceased, and with a long strip of white cotton cloth draped over their head-dresses, looked quite neat and picturesque mourners as their vehicles took their places in the procession. Besides these the female relatives and clansmen of the deceased filled no less than 120 sedan chairs, there being also a number of carried stands on which were placed flowers, wreaths, ete., the gifts of foreign friends of deceased and of his nephew—H.E. Sheng. Under a panoply of white marched six chief m urners (sons and grandsons of deceased), following in the immediate wake of the richly embroidered pall which covered the expensive coffin of the decessed. Behind them again walked on foo! H.E. Sheng and other members of his branch of the family, while bringing up the rear of the procession rode H.E. Shéng's father, Sheng Hsia-jen, many years ago Acting Provincial Treasurer of Hupeh, the eldest brother of deceased, and now over eighty years of age. The funeral process stitched with white.
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