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Mr. K. Y. Kwong, a native of Nanhai Hsien, Kuangtung Province, was born in Canton in 1863. He was one of the first groups of young Chinese who was sent to America by the Chinese government to receive modern education. Mr. Kwong prepared for college in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., from 1887 to 1880. He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1880 and joined the 1884 class, but returned to China in 1882, before graduation. From 1882 to 1886 Mr. Kwong was general assistant in the Kaiping Mining Company, Tongshan. From 1886 to 1900 he was assistant engineer on Peking-Muk len Railway. He was assistant engineer in the Pinghsiang-Chuchow Railway from 1901 to 1903. Mr.