TAKU-PEI-TAI-HO-CHINGWANGTAO
*Ta-ku yin shui
PILOT COMPANY, TAKU
J. Taylor, secretary
Ch. Saville, W. P. Chard, S. J. Strong,
J. W. Stavers, A. McTaggart, J. U.
Gordon
TAKU CLUB
Hon. Secretary-S. H. Dorey
TAKU HOTEL
利德 Te-le
司公船駿活大
Ta-ku Po-ch'uan Kung-ssu
TAKU TUG & LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED.
Head Office: Tientsin; Tel. Ad: Calendar
785
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 boundaries 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-llo at present is accessible only by rail from Peking, Tientsin, Taku and Newchwang, though the journey extends over two entire days from the Manchurian seaport. The railway station lies from four to six miles from the various settlements, and the journey is made by chair, donkey, or walking. Carriages cannot be used. There are six miles of beach of every possible variety, and the bathing is excellent from the middle of May to the first of October. The country rises at once from the shore to undulating uplands; and most of the houses are at an elevation of fifty or a hundred feet above sea level. At the west end the country is diversified by the Lotus Hills, a series of granite rocks which come close to the sea, and are an off-shoot from the Pittah Hill, twelve miles inland. The Lotus peaks rise to about 400 feet. The soil is chiefly a sand formed by disintegrated granite: it is very dry, fertile and non-malarial. The water is excellent. In 1896 there were about twenty tenements, in 1899 about one hundred; in July, 1899, the population was slightly over four hundred, chiefly from Tientsin, Peking and the mission stations of Chih-li. There were three major and two minor settlements; West End, Rocky Point and East Cliff being the designations of the former, but the