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SEOUL-CHEMULPO
C. Peynet, A. Rigoulot, Le Gac, L. J. Meng, missionaries Tjeung-nam-hpo, or Hpyeng-yang
Rev. Le Merre
Rev. O. Chapelain
Orphanage of St. Paul de Chartres Rev. Mother Stanislas, superior Five Sisters
MISSIONARY HOME AND AGENCY
W. H. and Mrs. Emberley
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
W. H. and Mrs. Emberley
SCHOOL-GOVERNMENT ENGLISH
Head Master--W. du Flon Hutchison Assistant Master-T. E. Hallifax Five Native Assistants
SCHOOL GOVERNMENT FRENCH
Head Master-E. Martel
SCHOOL-GOVERNMENT RUSSIAN Head Master-Birukoff
SEOUL ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY CO. H. E. Ye Cha Yun, president H. R. Bostwick, general manager
H.Maki, E.E., consulting engineer K. Ohata, superintendent J. T. Nagasse, auditor
R. A. McLellan, chief engineer R. G. Price, assistant engineer
Geo. Ewing, car foreman
E. Piehl, W. H. Whitney, P. Dowell,
J. H. Morris, motormen
SEOUL HIGH SCHOOL
Miss Past, principal
TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL Corean
Superintendent-H. J. Mühle nsteth
TRILINGUAL PRESS
G. C. Cobb, manager
S. A. Beck
CHEMULPO,
Port of JENCHUAN, called also JINSEN and INCHIUN
浦物 Che-mul-po
This port, known to the Japanese as Jinsen, is situated in lat. 37 deg. 28 min. 30 sec. N. and long. 126 deg. 37 min. E., at the entrance to the Salée river, an embouchure of the Han-kang close to and immediately east of Rose island, on the west coast of Corea, in the metropolitan province of Kiung-kei. The British Consul in his report for 1896 says:-"Chemulpo, which thirteen years ago was a collection of fifteen miserable huts, is now a large and flourishing centre of trade, with brond metalled roads, good substantial buildings, and a foreign population of some 6,000 or 7,000, mostly Japanese and Chinese. The Chinese and Japanese settlements are fully occupied, and the price of land in the general foreign settlement has risen to almost fabulous rates." There is a Municipal Council, composed of the Foreign Consuls, one Corean official, and three representatives of the landholders. The outer anchorage is accessible to ships of all sizes, and the inner one to coasting vessels and steamers ordinarily employed in the local trade. The river is navigable for vessels not drawing over 10 feet up to Mapu; but seeing that at certain seasons there are a few places where the fall in the river is very considerable, owing to the existence of sand banks, it is desirable that river steamers, intended to run regularly, should not draw over six feet. An overland telegraph line from China to this port and the city of Seoul was opened to traffic in November, 1885. A railway to connect Chemulpo with Seoul is in course of construction. The climate is healthy and may be compared to that of Chefoo. The foreign population was 5,718 (including 4,301 Japanese and 1,344 Chinese) in 1898; the natives were estimated at 7,669.
The port was opened to Japanese trade on the 1st January, 1883, and to foreign trade on the 16th June of the same year. The value of the imports from foreign countries in 1898 was $7,785,651, and that of the exports to foreign countries $2,319,478, as compared with $5,868,605, imports and $3,643,066, exports in 1897. The total value of the trade of the port in 1898 was $10,853,851, as compared with $9,710,870 in 1897.
The sub-prefectural town of Jenchuan is situated ten li distant from the port.