NINGPO-WENCHOW
Excess Fire Assce. Co., Ld., Northern Fire Assce. Co., Ld.
China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ld.
PEARSON'S PRIVATE HOTEL--The Bund; Tel.
Ad: Pearson
T. Y. Pearson, proprietor
PILOTS-A. J. Philbey, H. Edgran
POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE
Distr. Postmaster-J. W. Innocent
Distr. Postal Officer-F. L. Smith
POST OFFICE, FRENCH
E. Sauvage, postmaster
司公船輪紹甯記慎盆美
Me-ih-shun-kee Ning-shao-lun-zan-kung-z
STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY
A. Ehlers & Co., agents
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Sun Jang Ching, manager
Launches "Chinhsing
房捕巡 Shun Pou Fong
POLICE STATION
985
A. Bookless, magistrate and controller
of Police
S. P. Chang, interpreter
Yue Sih Yuen, writer
8 native corporals
50 do. constables
局報電國中
Chung-Kuo-tien-pao-chu
TELEGRAPHS, IMPERIAL CHINESE
Liu Shao-kah, manager
Boun Pah-yung, clerk-in-charge
TRINITY COLLEGE (C. M. S.)
Principal-Rev. W. S. Moule, M.A.
Rev, W. Robbins
WÊNCHOW
州温 Wan-chau
Wenchow, one of the five ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention is the chief town in the department of Wenchow, occupying the south-east corner of Chekiang province. The city is situated on the south bank of the river On, about twenty miles from its mouth, in lat. 27 deg. 18 min. 4 sec. N., long. 120 deg. 38 min. 28 sec. E. The site is a well cultivated plain, bounded on all sides, but at a distance of some five miles, by lofty hills. The walls are said to have been first erected during the fourth century, and enlarged and re-built by the Emperor Hung Wu in 1385. They are formed of stone, diagonally laid at the foundation, and partly also of brick, and measure about four miles in circumference. The streets are wider, straighter, and cleaner than those of most Chinese cities. They are mostly well paved with brick and kept in careful mpir by the householders. They slope down on either side to waterways, which in their turn communicate with canals intersecting the whole city. There are numerous large nunneries and temples in Wenchow, The Custom-house, outside the chief gate, known as the Shwang Men or "Double Gate," the Taotai's Yamén, the Prefect's and other public offices in a cluster, and the Foundling Hospital, all near the centre, are the other chief buildings. The latter institution, built in 1748, contains one hundred apartments. Among the objects of greatest interest and curiosity to the stranger are two pagodas situated on "Conquest Island, abreast of the city. They are both of great antiquity and, with the temples between, were for some time the retreat of Ti Ping, the last Emperor of the Sung dynasty, when seeking to escape from the Mongols under Kublai Khan. His Majesty Ti Ping' has left behind him autographs preserved to this day in the adjoining temple.
The British Consul and the Customs outdoor staff Occupy foreign built houses on the island. The estimated population of the city is 80,000. There were Boxer troubles in the Ping-yang district, several native Christians being murdered in 1900, and all the missionaries left Wenchow, where, however, the officials were able to maintain order. The Roman Catholic Missionaries have a spacious and imposing Cathedral in the Western part of the city. The English Mission has a church, capable of seating about a thousand people. In 1903 this Mission The English Methodist frected a fine college at a cost of $20,000, containing sleeping accommodation for over a hundred students, and teaching accommodation for more than two hundred. Early Mission at an outlay of fully $20,000. The building consists of a central block and two in 1906 an extensive and substantially constructed Hospital was also completed by this wings, after the style of Hunt's Block, Guy's Hospital, and can accommodate about two
hundred patients.