Departure from Shanghai of a Cable Service Veteran By the Empresa of Russia today Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Gaines are leaving Shanghai, and it is learnt with.general regret that on this occasion it is a definite farewell. Mr. Gaines has been superintendent of the Commercial Pacific Cable Ca. here for a considerable time, and on his return Home he anticipates retiring on a pension. There has been no, more popular official in tha cable service than he, and his innumerable friends in the East will wish him and Mrs. Gaines the most enjoyable time possible in their home country.
Mr. Gaines, who is a son of a former U. Consul at Tripoli (where he was born), belongs to a family which has long been settled in the southern states of America. It is interesting here to recall an investigation made by a Welsh clergyman into the history of the family a number of years ago, when it was found that the early Welsh form of the name was Gam, Gams, or Games. There is a record of the branch to which Mr. Gaines belongs being in Virginia prior to 1650, and through the family papers it is possible to trace his genealogy for about 400 years.
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