Another of the old familiar river boats of the stern wheel typo has gone out of commission and is being offered for sale. Unlike many of her predecessors, however, she not giving in because of the dis-Jsipation that comes with age. She was burnt to the water's edge on November 4 when a fire broke out in the second-class passenger rooms while she was lying at the San Peh Tron Works Wharf. (The vessel which we refer to is the San Peh str. Tse Kiang.
The vessel has now done 27 years] Jof continuous service on the! Yangize, during which time she has been most of the time in the bandit-infested regions of the upper river} where she made a worthy name for herself.
Tke Tse Kiang was launched in Shanghai in 1899, having been built for an American concern Messrs. S. C. Farnham & Ca, At that time she was the "pride of the yangtze," being one of the frst to equipped with two horizontal tandem engines. She was known jas the Mei Fung and put on the run between Shanghai and: Hankow.
'Until 1922 the Mei Fung served various capacities on the' river,
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