TAKU-PEI-TAI-HO
POST OFFICE-Chinese Imper'L (at Tongku)
Postal Officer-H. E. K. Borck
TAKU CLUB
Hon. Secretary-
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TAKU HOTEL
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Ta-ku Po-ch'uan Kung-88u
TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED,
Head Office, Tientsin : Tel. Ad. Calendar
Directors - J. Stewart, W. C. C.
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Anderson, H. W. Walker, W. A.
Morling, R. K. Douglas
W. T. L. Way, secretary
W. S. Johnston, manager S. H. Dorey, clerk
Capt. Everett, supt. of the Bar
A. Crawford, supt. engineer T. R. Jones
J. Cromarty
TELEGRAPH COMPANIES--TAKU
177
Great Northern Telegraph Co., Ld. Eastern Extension, Australia and China
Telegraph Co., Ld.
H. H. Gilby, acting supt. (E. E. A. & C. T)
Co., Ld.).
P. V. Lange-Petersen, acting controller
(G. N. T. Co., Ld.)
D. K. Blair
A. Z. Frisenette A. W. Jensen F. Kerr
V. A. Petersen E. Riley E. Eden
J. T. Stavers
PEI-TAI-HO
Pei-Tai-Ho is a watering place on the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, which the energy and enterprise of the foreign community of Tientsin have called into existence within the last few years. It lies some 22 miles S. W. by W. from Shanhaik wan, where the Great Wall meets the sea, in latitude 39 deg. 49 min. N., longitude 119 deg. 30 min. E., and is distant from Tientsin by railway 157 miles. Nine miles distant is the harbour of Ching Wang T'au, which the Chinese Imperial Government has declared its intention of making a Treaty Port. Under the auspices of the reconstructed (British) Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ching Wang T'au is being made into an ice-free, safe, deep-water har- bour, giving access in all weathers to ocean-going steamers all the year round: the neces- sary works to ensure this end have been pushed forward during 1902, and vessels draw- ing 18 ft. can now be berthed at the jetty. The hinterland is rich in coal and iron, and has good railway communication with Tientsin and Peking; there is little doubt that Cheng Wang will soon become a great export coal depot, if not a considerable em- porium for general trade. The land round about has all been taken up by the Com- pany, which has been entirely reconstituted during the past year. The boundaries of the Treaty Port have been extended along the foreshore of Shallow Bay for nine niles, and are then spread out as to include the 3 or 4 square miles on which the foreigners have settled at Pei-Tai-Ho. The fact that the watering-place lies within the port limits gives legal title to all land purchase, and will ensure some sort of foreign Municipal control in the near future. An attempt has been made to obtain this from the Imperial Government; meanwhile, the foreign community has made temporary arrangements and has submitted to voluntary taxation for combined sanitation.
Pei-Tai-Ho at present is accessible only by rail from Peking, Tientsin, Taku and Newchwang, though the journey extends over two entire days from the Manchurian seaport. The railway station lies from four to six miles from the various settlements, and the journey is made by chair, donkey, or walking. Carriages cannot be used, as the roads are like those which General Wade superseded in the Scottish Highlands. There are six miles of beach of every possible variety, and the bathing is excellent from the middle of May to the first of October. The country rises at once from the shore to undulating uplands; most of the houses are at an elevation of fifty or a hundred feet above sea level. At the west end the country is diversified by the Lotus Hills, a series of granite rocks which come close to the sea, and are an off-shoot from the Pittah Hill twelve miles inland. The Lotus peaks rise to about 400 feet. The soil is chiefly a sand formed by disintegrated granite; it is very dry, fertile and non-malarial. The water is excellent. In 1896 there were about twenty tenements, in 1899 about one hundred; in July 1899,
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