950
ICHANG--CHUNGKING
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants
A. Ross
Agencies
Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited . Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Alliance Assur. Ço., Ltd.
Commercial Union Assur. Co., Ld.
Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.
Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
"Glen Line" of Steamers
"Shire" Line of Steamers
茂隆
MACKENZIE & Co., LTD.
J. Wallace, resident agent
Agencies
North China Insurance Co., Ld. West China Transport Co.
MACRIS & Co., Wine, Spirit and Provision Merchants and Tobacconists-Tel. Ad: Macris
E. M. Macris, manager
MISSIONS
(For Protestant Missionaries see separate "Directory")
Tien-choo-tang
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Right Rev. Modestus Everaerts, Bis- hop tit. of Tadama and Vicar Apos- tolic of Southern Hupeh
Rev. Angelus Timmers, pro vicar
Chen-mou-tang
REV. SŒURS FRANCISCAINES MISSION-
AIRES DE MARIE
司公船輪清日
Jih-tsing-lung-chuan-kung-sze
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA, THE Tel. Ad:
Nissikisen
局政郵昌宜
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Postmaster-E. Cammiado
李美 Mei-foo
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
R. J. Corbett, manager
F. G. Prescott
SZECHUAN-HANKOW
RAILWAY
Section)-Tel. Ad: Szehan;
(I-Kwer
Codes:
Western Union, A B.C, 5th Edition, Engineering Code
Richard Wood Randolph, engineer-
in-chief
SZECHUAN STEAM NAVIGATION Co.
Steamers "Shutung," "Shu hun”
Li-teh
THE WEST CHINA TRANSPORT CO.
Mackenzie & Co., Ld.
Agency
North China Insurance Co., Ld.
CHUNGKING
慶重
Chung-king
The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 100 deg 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province, All exports-yellow silk, white wax, hides, wool, hemp, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines are received, assorted, repacked, and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shasi, consignments to the latter port being transhipped there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, vid the Tung Ting lake.
The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the sido of the Yangtsze. It is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is some five miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. Chungking is now electrically lighted, a native company with an authorised capital of $300,000 having been formed for that purpose. The