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OSAKA-KOBE-HYOGO
METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION (AMERICAN)
Rev. D. S. and Mrs. Spencer Miss Carrie A. Heaton Miss M. H. Russell
Miss E. R. Bender
Methodist PROTESTANT Mission
Rev. H. L. and Mrs. Layman, 99,
Minami Buheicho
Prof. J. P. and Mrs. Richardson, Ei-wa
Gakko, 99, do.
Rev. U. G. and Mrs. Murphy, 636,
Gonokiri, Yabacho
Rev. E. H. and Mrs. Van Dƒke, 79,
Oiwa-mura, Shidzuoka
Miss A. E. Lawrence, 42, Takaoka-cho Miss Alice Coates,
do.
OKAYAMA
AMERICAN Board MisSION
Rev. J. H. Pettee
Miss Alice P. Adams
Miss M. E. Wainwright
TOTTORI
AMERICAN Board MissION
Rev. S. C. Bartlett, Jr. and wife
TOYOHASHI
CANADIAN CHURCH MISSIONARY ASSOON.
Roy. J. Macqueen and Mrs. Baldwin,
Hat-cho
TSUYAMA
AMERICAN Board MissiON
Rev. S. S. and Mrs. White
KOBE-HYOGO
Kobe was until 1892 the foreign port of the adjoinings town of Hyogo and was opened": to foreign trade in 1868 ; in October, 1892, Hyogo was also declared by the Japanese Government to form part of the open port. The port is finely situated on th Idzumi-nada, at the gate of the far-famed Inland Sea. The harbour is goo. and affords safe anchorage for vessels of almost any size. The two towns fag the landlocked water covered with white sails, while behind, at a distance é about a mile, rises a range of picturesque and lofty hills, some of which attai an altitude of about 2,500 feet, and the steep sides of which are partly covere with pines. Kobe and Hyogo stretch for some three miles along this strip of lar between the hills and the water. The Foreign Concession at Kobe is well laid out; tl streets are broad and clean, and lighted with gas. There is a Municipal Counc consisting of the Governor, the Foreign Consuls, and three elected members of tl community. The Bund has a fine stone embankment and extends the whole length Kobe. The foreign houses are neatly built, and the Sannomiya railway station, with three minutes' walk of the Concessión, has a very English look. The railway termin is at the other end of Kobe, where it meets Hyogo, and there are extrusive carria works adjoining the station. The foreign concession at Kobe is the “model settlemen of Japan. There are two good Clubs and a spacious recreation ground at the East e of the settlement. The Union Protestant Church and a French Roman Catholic Chur are in the Concession, and there is also a native Protestant Church in Kobe top The foundation stone of a new Anglican Church, All Sonls, was laid on the 21st Ju 1897. The two principal Hotels are the Oriental and the Occidental Hotel. Th foreign daily papers, the Hogo Noirs, the Kobe Herald, and the Kobe Chroniel va published in Kobe, and there are one or two native papers. The population of Ko Hyogo in December, 1895, was 161,406, including women and children. There w over 2,000 foreign residents in Kobe in 1896, of whom more than half were Chim The British numbered 515, the Germans 141, and the Americans 126.
The old town of Hyogo is only divided from Kobe by the river Minato, wh is spanned by a substantial stone bridge. Hyogo contains few features of interest, the streets and shops are inferior to those of Kobe, its population being much sme and nearly stationary. The Temple of Shinkoji, which possesses a large bre Buddha, is worth a visit; and there is a monument to the Japanese hero Kiyon erected in 1286, in a grove of trees in the vicinity of the temple, which clainis s attention from its historic associations. On the Kobe side of the Minato-gawa stands a temple dedicated to Kusunski Masashige, so famous in Japanese his for loyalty and valour, who died on the spot in 1336 during the unsuccessful for the Restoration of the Mikado's power. In connection with the Imperial Shipbuil Yard at Hyogo is a Patent Slip, which will accommodate vessels up to 2,000 tons. total length is 900 feet; length above water, 300 feet; breadth, 38 feet; declivity, I i The slip is worked by hydraulic power.
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