The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-28

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S. T. Kong. formerly a teacher at
the Iolani College here, whose mother
and brothers are residents of Homo
| lulu, is attracting considerable atten-
| ton on the mainland because of the
| fact that he has graduated from the
Columbia School of Mines being the
| first Chinarnan to have received a dip
Iona from that institution. He is well
known in Honolulu, being a brother of
the Rev. Kong Yin Tet, of ST. Peters
church, Chinese mission, and of NJ. T.
Kong, in the employ of Davies & Co.
His mother is a well known church
worker also, being the parochial visitor
among the Chinese adherents of the
Episcopal church here.
The Milwaukee Sentinel. of Septem-
Der s, publishes the following. concern
ing the Chinese mining expert and his
proposed work:
A graduate of three of the worlds
best known universities, though only
Is years of age, S. Il. Kong, a Chinese
mining and metallurgical engineer,
has come to Milwaukee to work in the
Allis- Chalmers plant at West Aflis, as
a finishing touch to the education
which will adapt him for an important
position in the lead and zinc mining
region of Human.
Mr.. Kong arrived in Milwaukee last
night and will begin his work for the
big American machinery company on
Monday morning. After three months
work here he will go to the lead and
zinc district of Kansas, and then hast
en- to China to fill the position which
awaits him there. He says he has al
ready been cabled for, but has refused
to go until he has completed the course
of work he laid out for himself.
There is a great demand in China
he said, .for the American educated
Chinese who can fill engineering posi-
tions. Engineers frequently receive
$1,000 a month over there, and even
when a man goes back to work fresh
from college in America he will be
paid from $500 to 5000 month. The
Chinese student who gets his higher
education in America is more fitted to
cope with the difficulties of moderniz-
ing Chinese industries than the Amer
lean, for he knows the Chinese GUS
toms and deals with conditions far
better than foreigner.
Many Chinese young men are be-
ing sent here every year by the gov
eminent to secure a technical educa-
ton.
Il graduated from Tien Tsin univer-
sity before coming to America" Mr..
Kong said in telling of his securing an
education, land there were nine of us
who passed the governments COMPETE
tive examination. The students select
ed to be educated in America at gov
eminent expense We're those who had
progressed sufficiently well in English
to be able to understand the work in
the classes in the American schools,
and who were as thoroughly trained
as the facilities of the Tien Tsin uni-
permit.
Upon arriving IN America some re-
manned here and others went on to
England. By sending the students to
various countries the government is
able to get the best training to be had
in all the various countries. / went to
the University of California and was
graduated in the class of 1905. l liked
the mining and metallurgical engineer
ing. so decided to specialize in that
work, and took my masters degree at
the Columbia School of Mines, which
is considered the best in America. I
took the four years engineering course
at California in three years by work.
ing steadily. During the winter /
finished my apprenticeship at the Chi
cago plant of the Allis- Chalmers COM |
pany.
II have been spending some time in !
the coal region of Pennsylvania study /
ing the methods employed there, and |
shall spend a little time in the KAN |
sas field / am particularly interested /
in the American lead and zinc mines, |
because those are the metals with |
which 1 shall deal. Ny first work on |
returning to China will be the erection /