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PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO-NEWCHWANG
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE-Tel. Ad: "Swire." (Agent in residence during the Winter
season only.)
Agency
The Leeds Forge Co., Leeds
CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MININGg Co.
LD., THE-Tel. Ad: Maishan
R. McConaghy, agent and engineer J. A. Enright, shipping clerk W. Roberts, harbour master
J. Phillips, traffic inspector
Dr. C. T. Andrews, medical officer
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL
WANGTAO
MARITIME
CHIN-
Commissioner-J. F. Oiesen Asst. in charge-J. D. D. de La Touche Chinese Assistant-Lo Ch'i-ming Surgeon--C. T. Andrew
Act. Asst. Tidesurveyor-E. T. Young Examiner-N. Ellis
Tidewaiters--J. B. Solingaerd, P.
Schmeltzer, J. Vurhaft
FORBES & Co., WILLIAM-Tel. Ad: Rinchee
Chinwangtao
Agent-W. Morton Smith Asst.-Angus Morton Smith Agencies
Russo-Asiatic Bank
Standard Oil Co. of New York British-American Tabacco Co., Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld. Lever Bros., Ld. (sub-agency) China Fire Insurance Co., Ld. China Traders Insurance Co., Ld. The Yangtsze Insurance Asso., Ld. The Messageries Maritimes Co.
FRENCH MILITARY CAMP
Lieut. d'Alverny, officer in charge
IMPERIAL CHINESE POST Office
T. A. Collaço, assistant postal officer Ho Hung Chun, head clerk
REST HOUSE HOTEL-Tel. Ad: Rest House.
Hop Kee, manager.
NEWCHWANG
Niu-chwang
口營 Ying-kow
Newchwang, in latitude 40 deg. 40 min. 38 sec. N., longitude 122 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. E., was opened to foreign trade in May, 1864, and was for more than forty years the only Treaty port in Manchuria. Manchuria comprises the three Provinces of Fêngtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, and is commonly called by the Chinese the "Tung San Sheng "or the Three Eastern Provinces. Newchwang is situated in the most southern of these three pro- vinces-Fêngtien, also known as Shêng Ching-and lies about thirteen miles from the mouth of the Lino River, which empties into the Gulf of Liaotung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili. The proper name of the port is Yingkow, and not Newchwang, which is situated 90 li (30 miles) further up the river. The old town of Newchwang was designated by Treaty to be opened to trade, but the first foreigners finding Ying- kow more conveniently situated, and more adapted in every respect for the purposes of trade, quietly installed themselves there and got over the difficulty by the simple process of changing the name of Yingkow into that of Newchwang!
The country in the immediate vicinity of the port is flat and unpicturesque in the extreme, and the town itself has nothing in the way of attractions for the traveller. The climate, from the foreigner's point of view, is one of the best in China, the sum- mers being comparatively cool, while the winters are cold and bracing. The hottest summer temperature rarely exceeds 85° (Fahr), but cold blasts from the North pull down the "mercury' in winter months often to 10° and 15° below zero (Fahr.). The river is generally frozen over for three months of the year, but navigation is practically suspended for four months, from December to the following April. Formerly New.
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