CHEMULPO-WONSAN
719
Tah-chang
RONDON, PLAISANT & CIE., General Store- keepers, Importers and Exporters, Coal Merchants and Commission Agents
E. J. Sauveur, signs per pro.
A. J. Rondon
DENKI
SIEMENS-SCHUCKERT KANKOKRU
GOMEI KAISHA ; Tel. Ad: Siemens Chemulpo; Head Office: Tsukiji 48,Tokyo
Carl Wolter & Co., managers R. Ogawa, elec. engr.
STEWARD, E. D., & Co., Shipchandlers, Forwarding Agents and Hotelkeepers
TOWNSEND & Co., Merchants
W. D. Townsend
J. D. Atkinson
Jas. Cruze
Agencies
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.
昌世 Seichang
WOLTER & Co., Carl, Merchants; Tel. Ad:
Barbarossa
Carl Wolter (Hamburg)
Paul Baumann
Hermann Henkel
P. Schirbaum
R Heckscher
O. Henschel
K. Naito
S. Chiu
H. Tanaka
Agencies
Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Shanghai Chartered Bank of India, A. and China Dresdener Bank, Dresden
Banque de Comrce. de St. Petersburg Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg Russian East Asiatic Steamship Co., Ld. Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen
Austrian Lloyd, Trieste
United States & China-Japan S. S. Co. Indra Line
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld Glen Line
Dampfschiffs Rhederei "Union " A. G
Hainburg
Java-China-Japan Lijn
British India Steam Nav. Co., Ltd. Lloyd's
Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ltd Verein Hamburger Assecuradeure The North British and Mercantile
Insurance Co., London
The Liverpool, London, Globe Insur
ance Co., Liverpool
Albingia Feuer Vers., Hamburg Friedr. Krupp Grusonverk, Magdeburg
Buckan
A. Borsig Tegel, Berlin
Duisburger Machinenbau-Actien Ge-
sells. vormals Bechem & Keetmann Central Agency Ltd., Glasgow United Alkali Co., Ltd., Liverpool Dynamit Actien Gesellschaft vormals
A. Nobel, Hamburg
Vereinigte Koln-Rottweilei Pulver-
fabriken
Chemische Fabriken vorm. Weiler ter
Meer, Uerdingen
C. F. Bochringer & Soeline, Mannheim Henkell & Co., Mainz
Heidsieck & Co., Reims
Managers
Korea Syndikat
(German Mines at Soenchoen)
Fr. W. Kegel, managing engineer W. C. Kegel, assistant engineer H. J. Mills
R. Garratt
R. Ebena, mine captain
Siernens Schuckert
Kankoku Denki Gomei Kaisha
R. Ogawa, engineer
WONSAN (GENSAN OR YUENSAN)
山元 Yuen-san
This port, situated in Broughton Bay, on the north-eastern coast of Corea, is in the southern corner of the province of South Ham-kiung, about halfway between Fusan and Vladivostock. It was opened to Japanese trade on the 1st May, 1880, and to other nations in November, 1883. It is called Gensan by the Japanese and Yuensan by the Chinese. The native town has grown considerably since the port was opened to trade, and contains now a population of fully 20,000 inhabitants. The town is built along the southern shore of the bay, and through it runs the main road which leads from Seoul to the Tumen river. Markets are held five times a month for the sale of agricultural produce and Foreign imports. The Custom House is situated in the heart of the foreign settlements about a mile distant from the Native town. The Japanese have