KEWKIANG-HANKOW
ST. VINCENT'S NURSING HOME FOR
FOREIGNERS"
Sister McCarthy (Superior) Sister Marguerite Infirmiare Paul
A. C. Lambert, M D. (medical officer)
Fow-cheong
MOLCHANOFF, PECHAZNOFF & Co, Merchts.
P. P. Martzinkevich, signs per pro. A. P. Martzinkevich
局務工英大
I* Ta Ying Kung-wu-kok MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
P. von Tanner (chairman), G. S. Haw- kins (hon. treasurer), A. C. Lambert
(hon. secretary), C. B. Tweedy (coun- cillor)
Health Officer A. C. Lambert, M.D. Inspector of Police--H. Pritchard
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA K. Takahira, agent
H. Sasama
POLICE STATION
H. Pritchard, inspector of police
923
STANDARD OIL Co. or N.Y.-Tel. Ad: Socony
Herbert R. Everall, manager
C. B. Brown
A. J. Kuntz J. A. Bristow
L. K. Taylor
W. J. Drummond, accountant
J. E. Morgan, installation manager
TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE
Chang Hur-koh, manager Kau Kih sung, chief clerk
Alway, A. T., Mrs. Dickson, G., Miss Everall, H. R., Mrs. Garden, I. G., Mrs. Glenny, Nora, Miss Halvorsen, H. E., Mrs.
Hawkins, G. S., Mrs.
LADIES' DIRECTORY
King, H., Mrs.
Lambert, A. C., Mrs. Martzinkevich, P. P., Mrs. Martzinkevich, Miss Molloy, E, Mrs.
Molloy, Rona, Miss
Moore, J., Mrs.
Morgan, J. E., Mrs. Symps, G. V., Mrs. Tanner, P. von., Mrs. Tweedy, C. B., Mrs, Williams, C. A. S., Mrs. Wright, S. F., Mrs.
HANKOW
口溪 Han-l:au
Hankow is situated on the river Han at the point where it enters the Yangtze, and is in lat. 30 deg. 32 min. 51 sec. N., and long. 114 deg. 19 min. 55 sec. E. It was formerly regarded as only a suburb of Hanyang, which it immediately adjoins, and which is a district city of the province of Hupeh, but Hankow has outstripped the older city in wealth and importance. These two towns lie immediately facing the city of Wuchang-fu, the capital of the province, which is built upon the south bank of the Yangtze, Hankow is distant from Shanghai about 600 miles.
Attention was first drawn to Hankow as a place of trade by Huc, the French missionary. Captain Blakiston, in his work "The Yangtsze," gives the following correct description of the place and its surroundings:-"Hankow is situated just where an irregular range of semi-detached low hills crosses a particularly level country on both sides of the main river in an east and west direction. Stationed on Pagoda Hill, Hanyang, a spectator looks down on almost as much water as land even when the rivers are low. At his feet sweeps the magnificent Yangtze, nearly a mile in width; from the west and skirting the northern edge of the range of hills already mentioned, comes the river Han, narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country; and to the north-west and north is an extensive treeless flat, so little
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