Iaving heard that one of the veter f the Shanghai-Nanking Railroad was retiring from service, a representative of the "North-China Daily News" called at his home for the purpose of an interview. For more than 52 years. Mr. Quincey has been connected with the Constabularies of many Chinese cities, with not a single break. Tt was with surprise that we greeted not a foreigner as the name might indicate, but a native-born Chinese, whose birth place is Quinsan, a short stretch up the Nanking Railroad. His life has been spent all the way from England to Peking and every minute of it as fall of interest and excitement. as the average man would care to experience in ages of time.
A protege of the famous Chinese Gordon, who has gone down in Chinese history as the man who quelled the Taiping Rebellion, the youthful Quincey was given opportunities that have stood him in good stead for the past half cen-tuny. Gordon, finding him in the ruins of his native city, took him. with three of his companions, in charge in order to care for them. Bub the boys, afraid of this great foreign general, slipped off to hide in the wilds of Shanghai. Twelve-year old Quincey found a place under the barber's chair on a _corner of an alley in Nanking Road, but did pot cover himself well enough, for one of the 30 searchers despatched by the general discovered him and carried the trembling lad back to, the camp. Gordon ordered him to be tied upon the poop of his ship bound for Eng-Jand, only, to be released upon reaching the open sea.
The first move in the home country was to send the boy to school, and later to Aldershot, where he spent the five most valuable years of his youth. Ho learned the military principles, riding, musket: y, and drills of all natures." During his free periods, he was taken into the household of General Gordon and his sister, getting the culture and life of the European student.
Captain Deane of the Hongkong police, seeing the true worth of the young man, induced him to come with bim to the colony and assist in the strengthening of the local police. Mr. Quincey's record here is illustrious, for he proved his merit and was finally advanced to the position of Chief Chinese Investigator. Particularly clever was his work in rubniug down the bands of pirates who prayed on the merchant ships of the carly nineties. The band: that captured the str. Namoa just out of the Hongkong harbour, and the Bowen and Spark
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