Cable advices have been received in Shanghai to the effect that Captain H. E. Morton, who wag for many years the popular managing director of the Astor House. passed sway in Manila on Saturday. No definite infor-motion has been received as to the cause of his death, but it is thought that the old infection on his injured hand for which he had been taking treatment, even going so far as to have new portions of bones grafted in must have resulted in blood-ons of bones grafted in, Captain Morton, who was om in Ireland 53 ago, had a ied career in the Orient. and Shanghai, which port ho visited many times before making {ljis residency jhere. It will be remembered that for many years He had' command of the old Pacific a str. Mongolia, and Asiatia cities, while Uefore ply we between San Francisco that time he was an officer upon an old clipper on the Atlantic Coast. Hie became an American citizen by choice, upon resigning from that berth. Before accepting the position with the Shanghai Hotels -Co,, he was the senior partner of the firm of Morton Reeves, long established as Marine surveyorg. At the time of his death he was also. senior member of Morton & Erickson, marine surveyors in Manila, Shanghai people will also remember him as captain of the Due de Montpensier's yacht which he piloted round the world, and as a_parti-
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