'A resident of the Far East for bout 55 consecutive years, most of them in Shanghai, Mr. Carl Herzberg died, suddenly on June 19 in the Paulun Hospital. One of the old est of the really old China Hands, Mr, Herzberg only celebrated his 80th birthday at the beginning of last month, when this vigorous-minded and humorous old man was the guest at a special cocktail party given him by his children, adult grand-children and friends, He leaves behind him his wife and five children, Mz. A, Herzberg, of the Mamburg-Amerika Linie, Mr. Max Herzberg, Mrs, Ann Bellman, Mrs. Staber, at present in New York and whose husband is with the Standard Oi}, and Mrs, Minnie Nantz, at present in Mant 'A civil, mining and marine engineer for many years, he was born of The Late Mr German parentage at a little town in Silesia called Schweldnitz on May 9, 1887, He went to school in Walden burg and Breslau, starting his career apprentice' in. an. engineering works in that coal mining and factory district, Later, he went to Hanover to study the higher branches of engineering, and under the German conscription system, joined the navy; subsequent-4y, he' used the knowledge thus Guired to get a position as engineer on the as, Felicia, in which he went to, New York and Yokohama in 1882.
had a row with the chief engineer," he told a "North-China Herald" representative not long. ago, eft the ship in Yokohama and have been out here ever since!
He was probably the last survivor of those who ran on the old vessels of the Mitsu Bishi Mail a5, Ca, which later amalgamated with another company to form the present Nippon 'Yusen Kaisha; the ships in those days were low-pressure paddle-boats about 3,000 tons. He tried' copper mining for a while, but soon rejoined the ¢hipping company on. Yokoham: and next went to Korea, in 1886, ru ning in boats bought by the Koret government, Aiter an interesting career at sea, including three shipwrecks, he worked in Hankow and then Tienisin for the Shell Oi1 Company, and it Is said that was his changing of the tins from sharp-edged to. rounded containers that was largely instrumental in. in~ creasing the sales by many times at Practically no cost, Vigorous-minded {0 the last, Mr. Herzberg was one of those rare men who could tell little anecdotes Shanghai many years ago in a semihumorous vein, "and. tell them well, One of his most interesting memories was that of a Norwegian ship which sank in the Whangpoo River near Woosung and of a Chinese ship sinking directly on top of her.
Fears, he would say, that the cha nel would be blocked by this novel Accident were swept away when was found that the impediment so affected the flow of the. stream as to dig a deeper channel and facilitate the postage of trame, The death is announced of Madame Wu Ting-fang, widow of the late very well-known diplomat and statesman Dr. Wu Ting-fang, and mother of another well-known diplomat—and statesman, the late Dr, Wu Chao-chu, Both husband and son held the posts of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister to Washington during' their Madame Wu died at Kowloon, Hongkong, on June 37 at the age of 01 years, and is survived by three grandsons and five granddaughters, 2 Madame Wu came from one ofthe earliest Chinese Christian families in south China, her brother being the late Sir Kai Ho Kal, who was a member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong for nearly a quarter of a century. It is of interest also to recall that Madame Wu's husband,
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