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MOORE, J. W., Agent
PEKING
MOREAN, BROSSAY & Co., Wines, Liquors
and Groceries
A. Cazas, agent
MORRISON, Dr. G. S., "Times" Correspdt.
PEKING CLUB
Hon. Secretary—T. F. Mayers
AIA
Pa-king-kung-yi-chü
PEKING INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTION, THE
H. E. Hwang Sze-yung, director-
general
Hwang Chung-huei, director Wang Lingoh, secretary
C. A. Cooke, foreign agent
Ching-hua-pau
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"THE PEKING MANDARIN PAPER," Inside The Peking Industrial Institution
Hwang Chung-huei, editor and propr.
Wang Lingoh, translator
PEKING SYNDICATE
G. Jamieson (Shanghai)
E. Sabbione
POST OFFICES
Postmaster-E. Kohler
FRENCH
Postmaster-M. Ruby
GERMAN
IMPERIAL CHINESE
Postmaster-E. E. Encarnaçeo
Postal Secretary-J. W. H. Ferguson
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JAPANESE
Postmaster--H. Kawai Assistant-S. Shiokawa M. Inaba
T. Nakano
K. Nakamura
RUSSIAN
Postmaster-N. Gombojeff
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY
R. M. Collins, agent
RITROVO ITALIANO, Provisions, Wines and
Liquors
F. Jej, agent
RUSSO-CHINESE BANK
D. D. Pokotilow, director D. M. Posduceff, manager
E. Willfahrt, signs per pro. R. Barbier,
O. E. Brockmann F. Slachmuylders Baron Drackenfels C. Beckmaun
RUSSO-CHINESE SCHOOL
do.
D. M. Posdnéeff, superintendent R. Tamberg, professor
TO SHING TANG HOTEL
T. Ichiyama, proprietor
TURNER, P., Architect and Builder
WOUTERS D'OPLINTER, CHEVALIERDE., Legal
Adviser to the Tsung-li Yamen
TIENTSIN
津天 Tien-tsin
Tientsin is situated 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 înîn. 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 Tungchow (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 historic associations; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but at 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
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