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TIENTSIN-TAKU
美華 Hua-mei
TIENTSIN DAIRY FARM ANd Water Works
Mrs. J. M. Moore
館字印津天 Tientsin Yin-tze Kuan TIENTSIN PRESS, Printers, Bookbinders,
and Stationers
J. W. Fenton, secretary and manager
A. H. Watts
義商福 Fu Shang I
TIENTSIN TRADING COMPANY, Importers
F. H. Clarke, manager
A. Newcomb
F. de Souza
Chun-fung
TOKMAKOFF, MOLOTKOFF & Co., Merchants
J. F. Tokmakoff (Moskva)
O. J. Molotkoff (Kazan)
A. D. Startseff
M. A. Lauterstein
G. J. Shipkoff
A. S. Overin
ULLMANN & Co., Watch Importers, Jewel-
lers, etc.
E. Battegay
***** Pei-yang Tae Hsüeh-tang
UNIVERSITY-IMPERIAL TIENTSIN
Dirtrs.-Wu Ting-fang, Ts'ai Shaochi
President-C. D. Tenney
Professor of Chemistry-O. C. Clifford
濟良 Liang-chi
VAN DER STEGEN & Co., Merchants and
Commission Agents
L. Van der Stegen (Shanghai)
A. R. Agassiz, signs per pro.
L. Bahr
利達亨
Han-ta-li
VRARD & Co., L., Merchants and Com-
mission Agents
P. Loup
J. Krüger (absent)
A. Perrenoud
昌華 Hua-chung
WARD & Co., WALTER S., Merchants
W. S. Ward
W. S. Dickinson
Agency
Phoenix Fire Office, London
London Assurance Corpn., Marine
房藥大氏臣属
Wa-sun-sz ta-yah-von
WATSON & CO., A. S., Ld., Chemists and
Druggists, Aërated Water Makers,
Wine, Spirit, and Cigar Merchants
Ed. Wilkins, manager
Hsin-tah-sing
WILSON & Co., Merchants and General
Commission Agents
James Wilson R. A. Couseus
R. K. Douglas A. Adaa
Agencies
Dodwell, Carlill & Co.'s Steamers Northern Pacific Railway Compauy Northern Pacific Steamship Company North China Insurance Company, Ld.
Sun Insurance Office
Standard Life Assurance Company South British Fire and Marine Insce.
TAKU
This village is situated at the mouth of the Pei-ho, on the southern side of the river, about sixty-seven miles from Tientsin. The land is so flat at Taku that it is difficult for a stranger to detect the entrance to the river. There are two anchorages, an outer and inner. The former extends from the Customs Junks to three miles outside the Bar, seaward; the latter from Liang-kia-yuan on the south to the Customs Jetty, Tz'chu-lin, on the north. The village is a poor one, possessing few shops, no buildings of interest except the forts, and the only foreign residents are the Customs employés and some pilots. A railway from the adjoining town of Tungku (two miles up the river) to Tientsin was completed in 1888.
Taku is memorable on account of the engagements that have taken place between its forts and the British and French naval forces. The first attack was made on the 20th May, 1858, by the British squadron under Sir Michael Seymour, when the forts were passed and Lord Elgin proceeded to Tientsin, where on the 26th June he signed the famous Treaty of Tientsin. The second attack, which was fatally unsuccessful, wag made by the British forces in June, 1859. The third took place on the 21st August, 1860, when the forts were captured, the booms placed across the river destroyed, and the British ships sailed triumphantly up to Tientsin. The water on the bar ranges from about two to fourteen feet at the Spring tides. At certain states of the tide, steamers are obliged to anchor outside until there is sufficient water to cross.