| Show DREAM AM COMES TRUE AT LAST Former Seattle Laundry LaundryMan LaundryMan Man Now Head of Chinese Railroad SE Wash June 4 4 Marches and clashing cla of the op- op opposing opposing op opposing posing armies In China have havo not the serenity of Chin G Gge e Hec one time track laborer laun- laun laundryman laundryman laun dryman and In Seattle and now J president re of ot the Sun Ning rail railway 1 ay greate greatest t in South Sou C C kept Ina sa sal Seattle Scathe friends who have k pt In touch with the Chinese Jim Despite his 78 tears ears Chin Ge Gee Hee flee rm actively at the head of the various arlous enterprises which hate e earned for him the tho sobriquet King King of South Chinas China China- since his return to his nath native e country ry the Pacific coast in 1905 1903 Tho The Sun Ting rail railway n first In liChina China to be constructed by capital independent of aid from any gO government Is the fruit of n a adream dream that came camo to Chin Chill Gee Itee 60 fears vears ears ago eo when hen as ns a common laborer he aided in the Construction Construction tion of a branch line of the Soul Southern h hern ern Pacific in California Two years ear before he had begun life lICe as asa asa asa a laborer In the California gold goldfields goldfields fields BECOMES WEALTHY Chin Gee Ilea Heo held to his In the seventies he be went vent north and worked on the construction of t the theold theold be old Columbia and puget Sound rail railway ay now a part of the tho Chicago Milwaukee Ii St Sl Paul s system tem It was not long before he became a In a small way u using Chinese labor and by the time the road was ns completed he had bad ae ac acquired some capital In the early SOs SO's Chin Gee flee Hee established a small laundry here branching out as a merchant In partnership with Chin Ching Chine Hock flock Following this venture he founded the Quong Tuc company a mer establishment still in bust bustness ness under the direction of ot his nephew Chin Keity Keny The tiro fire of o 1889 which destroyed the business section of the city took Chin Gee Hees Hee's store along with the rest but hut he before fore the ruins were cold he had started the con con- construction construction con construction of ot the first brick building erected In Seattle after the fire It still stands THREATENED BY MOB During the anti anil Chinese riots of 1886 Chin Gee flee was ordered from the tho city by hy a mob but re under the protection of o a small group of residents The erst erstwhile track worker kept In fn his mind the project of an nn In Independent independent Independent dependent railroad In China and through the Influence of Seattle friends attracted the notice of James J Hill HIli president of th the Great Northern railroad Mr Hill Hili advised him from his own expert expert- experience ence once and Invited incited him to make a trip tripas tripas as as his guest over oter the principal lines lines of the United States In 1905 Chin Gee Hoc flee returned to China and shortly thereafter the construe tion of ot the Sun Ning railway was wa begun FINEST OF WORK Railway men have hate ha e praised con con- construction con construction of ot the road built road built with without without without out the aid of ot a single foreigner foreigner- as one of the finest lInest pieces of ot en- en engineering en engineering work in the Orient Decorated by hy the late lato Chinese emperor Chin Gee Hf Hee retained the confidence of his country's leaders after the change In gov- gov government government The Tho road Is protected by a special guard of soldiers from a the Canton army |
