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Lightship "Taku"
TAKU-PEI-TAI-HO-CHINGWANGTAO
Acting Captain-M. Harldson
Acting Second Mate-C. Hansen Acting Mate-N. Thus
Revenue Cruiser "Tienching"
Steam Launches "Kweishun,” “Feifu”
HOTEL DU LOUVRE, French Concession,
Tongku
Veuve P. Bernardi, proprietress
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Officer in charge-A. H. Lewis
Ta-ku yin shui
Chas. Saville (secretary)
PILOT COMPANY (TAKU)
J. Taylor, W. P. Chard, S. J. Strong,
J. W. Stavers, J. M. Hoy
Hon. Secretary-S. H. Dorey
TAKU CLUB
利德 Te-le
TAKU HOTEL
司公船駮活大
Ta-ku Po-ch'uan Kung-s8u
TAKU TUG & LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED. Head Office, Tientsin : Tel. Ad. Calendar
Directors-J. Stewart, W. A. Morling,
R. K. Douglas, C. R. Morling, H. J.
W. Marshall
W. T. L. Way, secretary
W. S. Johnston, manager
S. H. Dorey, clerk
Capt. W.S. Borrows, supt. of the Bar
W. Brown, asst. supt.
A. B. Gaston, supt. engineer A. C. Crawford, engineer
TIENTSIN LIGHTER CO., LD.
Butterfield & Swire, managers
Capt. H. H. Brown, superintendent J. B. Barclay, engineer
T. S. Morton, overseer of lighterage
PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINGWANGTAO
Pei-Tai-Ho is a watering place on the Gulf of Pechili, 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 Shanhaikwan, 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- wangtao which is practically ice-free. Under the auspices of the (British) Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Chingwangtao is being made into a safe, deep-water harbour, giving access in all weathers to ocean-going steamers all the year round: the necessary works to ensure this end have been pushed forward, and vessels drawing 18 feet can now be berthed at the jetty. The original conception of this port was that of an outlet for the coal which is being worked in the hinterland, but the trade statis- tics show that the port is principally used as a winter jetty for Tientsin, and as such it is growing in popularity and importance. Another winter function of the port is the transhipment from steamer to railway and vice versa of trade passing by Shanhai- kwan to and from any place in the direction of Newchwang and beyond. This is a particularly promising feature of the port. The Customs Commissioner in his Report for 1906 pointed out that Chingwangtao is also doing very well as a distributer of imports on its own account in its neighbourhood. The boundries of this Treaty Port extend along the foreshore of Shallow Bay for nine miles, 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. The net value of the independent trade of Chinwangtao, that is to say exclusive of Tientsin Railway Cargo, in 1906 was Tls. 8,612,519. 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