Former Resident of Shanghai Passes Away in America: A
Veteran of the Telegraphs We regret to announce the death on August 11 of Mr, J. D. Gaines, news of which was received by cable in Shanghai August 1 news, which was quite unexpected, will come as a severe shock to his many friends here, for it is not six months since they bade farewell to him when on retiring from active service he left this country for the United States. He then appeared to be in his wonted state of health, and there was a general hope and belief that he would enjoy the Icisure of a well-earned retirement for many years. This was not to be, and so to-day his friends here pipes his end.
Mr. Gaines was one of a family which had long settled in the United States, and he took a keen interest in tracing his forebears back to the Welsh family of the \name, His father was United States Consul at Tripoli, and it was there that Mr. Gaines was born. A few years subsequently his father resigned from the consular service, and turned his atte: tion to telegraphy, being intere: ed in the laying of the first Atlantic cable. This decided the career ines was to follow, and after being educated at Duxbury and Bingham, Mass., he entered the service of the anglo-American Cable Ca, at Duxbury.
Fiery Years wita tHe TeLecnapss.
Ibs first introduction to telegraph and cable work was in the warly sevent so he had been practically half a century in the ser-ihe Anglo-American Cable Ca., and First, stated, it was with then in 1884 he joined the Commercial Pacific with which he was connected until the date of his retirement. His service with the Commercial Pacific included a term of 18 years at Canso, U. S.—from 1884 to 1902—and at Honolulu from 1902 until 1909. The excellence of his work in connexion with the cables at the latter place called forth a letter of thanks from the Governor of Hawaii on his departure.
In 1909 he came to Shanghai as superintendent, and this&post he held until April of this year when he retired. His work had always been of the highest quality, and on his retirement many public bodies paid tribute to the assistance be had given the community in assuring the efficiency of the cable service.
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