Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1919 — Noted Chinese Engineer. [ARTICLE]

Noted Chinese Engineer.

Jeme Tien-yu, better known among Chinese as Chan Tien-yu, died recently at Hankow. He was the builder of the Peklng-Kglgan. railway, the only purely Chinese railway, and has held many important posts in connection with China’s railways and the ministry of communications. In building the Kalgan road he made a record for efficiency and success in. doing good work at small cost not yet equaled by an foreign engineer in China in any large undertaking. He was Amer-ican-trained. —Far Eastern Bureau Bulletin. '