In the spring of 1913 there arrived in Shanghai from Singapore an old steamer called the Teresa.
The voyage from the south was somewhat of an achievement, for the vessel had lain idle for many months and was condemned to the scrap heap; but an enterprising Chinese merchant conceived a better fate for her, had the vessel patched up, and got together an intrepid crew for the journey to Shanghai, which journey was successfully accomplished, with a useful cargo of hardwood.' After this had been discharged, the Teresa was handed to her new owner, Mr. Tong Yue.
For many months she lay at moorings alongside a primitive Chinese repairing slip on the Pootung side of the river, opposite the Dong Chang Oil Mill, and the time was occupied in removing de*k gear and houses, and such other alterations were made as would fit the vessel for the usual type of native trade, her cargo and passenger carrying capacity being much increased. The hull and boilers were in an extremely dilapidated state, but with the roughest of tools and conveniences. and under conditions which most foreign engineers, if nob all, would have considered impossible, both hull and boiler were repaired, the boiler being renewed piecemeal without being taken out.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.