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stacks of salt which line the east bank of the river are a striking feature. The salt is produced on the coast near Taku.
Foreigners live for the most part in the Concessions, British and French. The British Concession possesses a handsome Town Hall completed in 1889, and a small recreation ground called Victoria Park.
Tientsin will always be famous for the Treaty signed by Lord Elgin in a temple ince called the Treaty Temple, or Elgin's Joss-house, on the 26th June, 1858, and known as the Treaty of Tientsin. The port is also infamously notorious for the massacre of the French Sisters of Charity and other foreigners on the 21st June, 1870, by a Chinese mob, under circumstances of shocking brutality. Tientsin is connected with Taku by railway. The Chinese population is estimated at 950,000.
There is a fair foreign trade done at Tientsin compared with the other open ports; but the exports are very small compared with the imports. The Tea exported goes principally to Russia and Siberia, via Kiachta. In 1894, 500,560 piculs were exported by this route, compared with 446,707 piculs in 1893. A trade in Coal from the Kaiping mines has sprung up, the export for 1894 being 104,252 tons against 81,840 tons in 1893. Opium to the extent of 1,462 piculs was imported in 1894 against 1,616 piculs in 1893. The total value of the trade of the port in 1894 was Tls. 44,277,050 as compared with Tls. 38,570,147 in 1893.
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DIRECTORY
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants
M. Niclassen
W. H. Warmsley
Agencies
Shell Line of Steamers
Lancashire Insurance Company, Ld.
South British Fire & Marine Insce. Co.
Tank Oil Petroleum Syndicate
Green Island Cement Company, Ld.
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ARSENAL IMPERIAL
Chi-chi-chu
Superintendent Engineer-J. Stewart
Draughtsman--R. It. Oswald
Powdermaker-C. A. Scharffe
Chemist--J. M. Strain
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ASH, DONEY & Co., Brokers, Accountants,
Land and Com. Agents, and Auctioneers
Arthur Ash
L. Watts Doney
Jas. H. Watts
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ASSOCIATION COMLE. FRANCO-CHINOISE
A. Philippot
L. P. Chang, manager
德順利 Li-shun-te
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: Tel. Ad. Ritter
G. Ritter, proprietor
O. Diedering.
BELLINGHAM, A. W. HARVEY, A.M.I.C.E.,
Architect
龍飛
Fi-loong
BLOW & CO., H., Wine and Spirit Merchants,
Shipchandlers, Storekeepers, Outfitters
and Commn. Agents, 66, Victoria Road
H. Knox
古太
Tai-koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
W. Fisher, agent
Agencres
Yokohama Specie Bank
Ocean Steamship Company
China Navigation Company, Ld.
British and Foreign Marine Insurance Royal Insurance Company Imperial Fire Insurance Company New York Life Insurance Company Palatine Insurance Company
Taikoo Sugar Retining Company
Standard Oil Company of New York
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Lee-ho
CARLOWITZ & Co., Merchants
M. March, signs per pro.
W. Pape
K. Schell
B. Luckau
Agencies
Navigazione Generale Italiana
China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld.
Union Line of Steamers
Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Co.
German Lloyd Marine Insce. Co., Ld. Internationaler Lloyd
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chairman--E. Cousins
Secretary-W. Fisher