Show I CHINESE COMMISSIONER ENO IRA TRAVELED ACROSS OCEAN TO ThANK UNITED 81 STATES A ns Tang Tant Shao Shao Qi the hi high h commissioner of the Chinese empire to the United States who camo came so man many thousand mil miles s to thank the United States gov government ov- ov for remitting part of the Boxer Doter indemnity is one of t they tho ie most brilliant and capable men of th flowery kin king king- dom doni In fact he hc is he-is is is Am American in many wa ways wars g having ing received his cad early education education tion at Springfield Mass He lie arrived armed is 1874 84 when 1 12 I Years ears old became a guest lest of th the family of E. E C. C Gardner but later Inter moved mo to I Hartford Conn Cann where he attended the hi high h school chool preparatory to his entrance into Columbia university at New v York He was attending that university ers ty when he lie was vas recalled to China in 1881 Tang Shao Yi is not only the bearer I of letters and rare presents ts to President President dent Jent Roosevelt and other officials of the tho l rf t i. i yr Tx t r I v vr t to r r f. f 1 t TANG SHAO YI American government as a token of Chinas China's est esteem oem and gratitude e but he is commissioned to observe and absorb all he can cau concerning the tho financial and commercial systems of tho the United States so that upon his return his country country country coun coun- try may ma- profit b by what be he has learned After his education e in this country Tan lan Tang Shao Y Yi i was made mado manager of tho the Imperial railways in in North China and later became to where he adjusted successfully a difference differ differ- once ence between England and China over the perpetual question Later ho fab fas as made minister to England and antI then theu became mandarin of a Manchurian province pro from which he was promoted to the board of foreign At present Tan Tang Shao Yi is director of railways of tho the Chinese empire hi high h commissioner ioDer of customs and a n member of the tho grand council which governs go the nation While Tang Shan Shao Yi foj for a time was nn an ardent progressive ho is now y identified identified iden idea tilled with those whose motto is China for ho Chinese But those who know h him m best assert that this is simply imply diplomacy di di- with him that he firmly believes be bo- Moves in pro progress and occidental civilization civilization civi civi- but Lut lie be realizes that ho can cnn hope hono to brin bring it t about only by de degrees rees That his visit to this tillS country means menns more marl than tho the mere mero presentation of a aletter aletter letter of thanks from irom the emperor is thorough under understood tood and it is conceded eon con ceded that no moan man in tho the imperial gov gov- government government nt is L bettor better fitted not Dot only to master the intricacies of tho the American financial s system but hut to adopt it to the peculiar conditions that exist in ill the flowery kin kingdom om |