OSAKA-KOBE-HYOGO
TOKYO MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD.
23, Koraibashi-dori, Shichome
H. Hirao, manager
VACUUM OIL Co., of New York, No. 4
Chome, Utsubokitadori Nishi Ku
J. W. Webb, representative
KYOTO
CADY, Prof. C. M., Director of the Orphan Industrial Press; House Ad: 1, Daisan Koto Gakko Kwansha, Yoshida, Kyoto
647
KYOTO UNIVERSITY, IMPERIAL
(See Mombu - Sho in Tokyo section); Telephone 460
President Baron D. Kikuchi
WILMINA JOGAKKO, American Presbyterian Mission Girls' School, Niyemon-cho, Higashi-ku
Miss Agnes Morgan
Miss Sallie Alexander Miss Elva Robertson Miss Evelyn Maguet
KOBE-HYOGO
Kobe was until 1892 the foreign port of the adjoining town of Hyogo and was opened to foreign trade in 1868, but in 1899 the two towns were incorporated under the title of Kobe City, when the City Municipal Law was put into force. The port is finely situated on the Idzumi-nada, at the gate of the far-famed Inland Sea. The harbour is good and affords safe anchorage for vessels of almost any size, but to extend the facilities for loading and discharging an extensive scheme of harbour improvement was begun in 1907 and is proceeding. The two towns face the land-locked water covered with white sails, while behind, at a distance of about a mile, rises a range of picturesque and lofty hills, some of which attain an altitude of about 3,000 feet, and the steep sides of which are partly covered with pines. On one of these hills, Rokkosan, are a number of foreign residences, the place having become a favourite summer resort. The summit of this hill has been well prepared for the purpose, several miles of excellent paths making walking on the hills easy and enjoyable. Among the attractions of Rokkosan are excellent golf links. Kobe and Hyogo stretch for some five miles along the strip of land between the hills and the water, and the former is rapidly extending in the direction of Osaka, which is connected with Kobe by the Hanshin Electric Railway. What was at one time known as the foreign quarter at Kobe is well laid out; the streets are broad and clean, and lighted with gas. The Bund has a fine stone embankment and extends the whole length of the foreign business quarter. The foreign houses are neatly built, and the Sannomiya railway station, within three minutes' walk of the Bund, has a very English look. The railway terminus is at the other end of Kobe, where it meets Hyogo, and there are extensive carriage works adjoining the station. There are four Clubs-the Kobe Club (British, but including members of all nationalities), the Club Concordia (German), the Masonic Club, and the Oriental Club (Indian). At Mirume the K. R. & A. C. have a fine boathouse and large lawn for all kinds of sports. The Union Protestant Church and a French Roman Catholic Church are in what was formerly known as the Concession. An English Episcopal Church, All Saints, was opened in 1898 on the Hill behind, and there are several native Protestant churches in Kobe town. There are three foreign hotels in the town--the Oriental, the Tor, and the Grand, while the Mikado (near Kobe railway station), is in foreign style, but under Japanese management. Two foreign daily papers, the Japan Chronicle and the Kobe Herald, and one weekly, the Japan Weekly Chronicle, are published in Kobe. There are also two native papers. The population of the city of Kobe exceeds 300,000. There are about 3,000 foreigners residing in Kobe, but of this number nearly two-thirds are Chinese. When a census was taken in 1901, the British numbered 602, Germans 188, Americans 179, French 67, and the Portuguese 70.