Mr. Sze Sao-tseng
施肇會字省之
(Shih Chao-tseng)
Mr. Sze Sao-tseng was born at Soochow, Kiangsu province, in 1868, his ancestral home being Chinkiang. He is the elder brother of Mr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister, Washington. After having received education from regular Confucian schools, he served under the Ching regime as expectant magistrate and later as expectant prefect. He rendered good service in the flooit relief works in north China. Mr. Sze was attache to the Chinese Legation at Washington from 1893 to 1895 and was Consul-General at New York from 1896 to 1897. In the winter of 1897 he returned to China and at once became the superintendent of the Hangyang Iron Works. From 1898 to 1905 he was connected with the construction of the Peking Hankow Railway. He was Commissioner of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, from
