PEKING-TIENTSIN
Tsao Yung-kwei, M.D., professor of
Gynecology and Obstetrics
E. K. Lowry, B.A., director of Indus-
trial Department
H. E. King, M.A., professor of History
and Political Science
N. S. Hopkins, M.D., lecturer on
Diseases of Eye and Ear
Miss Alice Terrell, M.A., professor of
Mathematics
Mrs. H. E. King, M.A.. professor of
English
RUSSIAN GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION
Rt. Rev. In ocentius Figurowsky
Rev. Alexis Vinogradoff
Rev. Nikolas Drobjasguin
Rev. Nikolas Chasting
A. Rudakow
P. Kandinsky
堂慈仁 Jen-tze Tang
Maison de l'Immaculée Conception;
堂南 Nan Tany
111
Hôpital St. Vincent; Sister Lieutier,
superioress, and six Sisters
Cha-la-eul-Sister
Fraisse,
sup-
erioress, and four European Sisters
RUSSO-CHINESE Bank
D. D. Pokotilow, manager for China
D. M. Posdnéeff, manager
E. Wilhfahrt
館賓西 See-pn-kwan
TALLIEU & Co., L., Storekeepers Commis-
sion Agents, Manufacturers of Peking
Cloisonnès, and Silk Factors
L. Tallieu (absent)
A. F. Chamot, signs the firm
A. Brandt
J. M. Moore, bookkeeper Pierre Tcho, assistant do.
Matthias Tcho, do. do.
SISTERS OF CHARITY
Sister Jaurias, superioress, and
superioress, and
eleven European Sisters
WOUTERS D'Oplinter, CHEVALIER DE., Legal
Adviser to the Tsung-li Yamen
TIENTSIN
津天 Tien-tein
Tientsin is situate l at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River, better known as the Grand Canal, with the Pei-ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 3 min. 56 sec E. It is distant from Peking by road about 80 miles, but the bulk of the enormous traffic between the two cities is by the river Pei-ho as far as Tungehow (13 miles from Peking) and thence by carts and wheelbarrows over the once magnificent but now dilapidated stone causeway. The traffic is now, however, being rapidly diverted to the railway, which was opened in 1897, and the line doubled in November, 1898, Tientsin was formerly a place of no importance and till recently had few historie associations; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but as the northern terminus of the Grand Canal it gradually assumed commercial importance, and by the end of the seventeenth century had become a great distributing centre. The navigability of the Pei Ho for sea going junks ceases at Tientsin, and this made it the emporium for the very large quantities of tribute rice yearly sent up to the capital, after the Grand Canal shoaled up so as to be unfit for carriage in bulk. The trade of the city is now imperilled by the silting up of the Pei-ho. A river improvement scheme of some magnitude was inaugurated in 1899 under Mr. A. de Linde. It is hoped that by closing the canals and creeks which take off most of the flood tide, the naviga- tion will be restored to its normal state before the year 1900. The expeditions of the allies in 1858-61 greatly enhanced the importance of the city as it then proved to be the military key of the capital and an excellent base. It was here on June 26th, 1858, that Lord Elgin signed the treaty which was to conclude the war but which unhappily led to its prolongation. The temple in which the treaty was signed is about a mile distant from the West gate, and is now inclosed in a small arsenal (Hai Kwan Tze) and surrounded by factories for the manufacture of small arm ammunition. It is worth a visit if only to see the large bell which, as usual, has an interesting tradition associated with it.
During the long satrapy of Li Hung-chang the trade and importance of the city developed exceedingly. Li, by the vigour of his rule, soon quelled the rowdyism for which the Tientsinese were notorious throughout the empire, and as he made the