TAMSUL AND KEELUNG
703
At Keelung a long delayed harbour improvement scheme has been commenced, the estimated total cost of the undertaking being Yen 6,500,000. The widening and deepening of the fairway for steamers in the inner harbour has been completed. The steamer anchorage in this harbour now has a uniform depth of at least 30 feet and the harbour has been widened to 480 feet in its narrowest part. A slipway is at Keelung for vessels of 400 tons, but a project is on foot to enlarge it to accommodate vessels up to 1,000 tons. Designs for another slipway are under consideration by the naval authorities. During 1900 a lighthouse was completed on Pak-sa Point, a low headland on the west coast, some 20 miles south-west of Tamsui, and one has been erected on Agincourt Island. A pier has been built in conjunction with the railway, alongside which most steamers are now berthed. The depth of water alongside of same is 25 feet at low tide.
The railway line between Tamsui and Daitotei (Twatutia) was opened on August, 25th, 1901, and has been of great benefit to the people of the district. The actual cost of construction was insignificant, the line having been laid upon a practically level sur- face for nearly the whole of its route. Keelung is the northern terminus of the trans- Formosan government railway; the total length of this line to Takow, on the south- west coast, is 251 miles. The capital, called by the Chinese Taipeh, is now under the Japanese nomenclature, called Taihoku. Twatutia will be found in the Japanese postal guide as Daitotei. It is here, on the outskirts of Taihoku, and on the Tamsui River which flows past Daitotei, that the foreign merchants have their residential and business quarters. At the mouth of the Tamsui River lies the town of Hobé, in Japanese Kobi, but now most usually called Tamsui to avoid confusion with Kobe in Japan proper.
TAIHOKU (TAIPEH) AND DAITOTEI
(TWATUTIA) DIRECTORY
行銀灣台社會式
BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (Taiwan Ginko); Head Office Taihoku (Tai eh); Bran- ches Kobe, Osaka, Tainan, Taichu, Keelung, Takow, Hongkong, Amoy, Swatow, Foochow, Canton, etc. Tele- graphic Address: Taigin President-K. Yagiu
Vice-President-T. Shimosaka
Directors-M. Tatsuno, I. Kajiwara
Auditors K. Okura, K. Otani, K.
Kada, Lim Nee Kai
Manager-K. Nagao (Head Office)
記和 Ho-kee
BOYD & Co., Merchants
E. Thomas
F. G. Kell, tea inspector
G. A. Sword, assistant
Agencies
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited Lloyd's
China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. Royal Insurance Company
The Northern Pacific Steamship Co. Dodwell & Co., Ld. "Suez" steamers Eastern & Australian S. S. Co., Ld. The Bank Line Limited
CANADIAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
Rev. Wm. Gauld, B.A., and wife Rev. J. Y. Ferguson, B.A., M.D., C.M.,
and wife
Rev. M. Jack, M.A., B.D., and wife Rev. Duncan MacLeod, B.A., and wife Miss Janie M. Kinney, B.A.
Miss Hannah Connell
COLBURN COY., THE A., Daitotei, Tea
Merchants
Head Office-Philadelphia, U. S. A.
William Hohmeyer, manager
C. S. Averill
A. W. Schroeter
CONSULATES
CUBA
Acting Consul S. C. Reat
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
In charge of Norwegian and Spanish
interests
Consul- A. M. Chalmers
Acting Consul—A. R. Firth Shipping Clerk-S. Shimizu Clerk T. Kise
NETHERLANDS
Consular Agent-A. W. Gillingham
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Daitotei)
Consul S. C. Reat
Vice-Consul-
Clerk-Yachiho Nitta