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HAKODATE
The Hakodate Harbour Improvement works were completed in 1900, and a patent slip capable of taking vessels up to 1,500 tons was also finished.
There is also under construction a dry dock to accommodate ships up to 10,000 tons at ordinary spring tides, and at highest spring tides the dock will be capable of receiving the largest battleships in the Japanese Navy. Harbour improvements are also being carried on at Otaru, where a massive breakwater, about 3,500 feet long, is under construction.
In August, 1907, half the city of Hakodate was destroyed by a fire. The number of houses destroyed in the conflagration was ascertained to be 8,977, rendering about 60,000 persons homeless. All the foreign residents with the exception of the American Consular Agent were burns out, saving nothing, and the total loss was estimated at not less than 50,000,000 yen.
DIRECTORY
BANKS
Nippon Ginko
Hakodate Bank, Ltd. Da San Ginko Twentieth Bank Takushoko Ginko
113th Bank, Ltd.
Yesashi Ginko
CHIHO SAIBANSHO (DISTRICT COURT) President-Techkia Yoshiyasu Chief Procurator-Hasama Yeijiro
COLBORNE, DR. W. W., Ensleigh Hospital,
8, Omori-machi
CONSULATES
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Acting Consul-Harold G. Parlett
GREAT BRITAIN, 68 Kaisho-machi
Vice-Consul -Harold G. Parlett Shipping Clerk--J. Will
NORWAY
Acting Vice Consul-Harold G. Parlett
UNITED STATES OFÂMERICA
Consular Agent E. J. King
CURNOW & Co., J. LD., Storekeepers
M. Russell, managing director H. Russell, director
G. Russell, do.
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL
Director- K. Miyoshi
Chief of Secretariat-S. Tateyama
Chief Appraiser-Nishimura Chief Collector- K. Kirino Chief Accountant-T. Kishibe Chief Inspector-C. Anzai Auditor-M. Takigawa
Chief of Secretariat-Y. Nagaoka Agencies
Chartered Bank of I., A. and China Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld. British Dominions Marine Ince.Co.,Ld.
DENBIGH & Co., Merchants and Commission Agents, 31 Kaji Machi; Telephone No.111
G G Denbigh
J. A. V. Cooper
Agencies
Chartered Bank of I. A. and C. Russo-Chinese Bank (Correspondents) Commerical Union Assurance Co., Ld. British Dominions Marine Insurance
Co., Ld.
Russian East Asiatic S. S. Co., Ld. Russian Volunteer Fleet (Okhotsk-
Kamchatka Lines)
HAKODATE DOCK COMPANY, 88, Benten-
machi
Baron Ryokichi Kawada, president Directors-Baron Ryokichi Kawada, Chuzo Okamoto, Toyokichi Kawada, Aisuke Kabayama, Shigeo Sakaki Mangrs.-Toyokichi Kawada, Hisataro
Shinagawa
Auditors Kumatsuchi Matsushito,
Kichi Yendo
Adviser-Renpei Kondo