PEKING-TIENTSIN
TSING HUA COLLEGE-Tsing Hua Yuen ;
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Chang-Yu-Chuan, LL.D., president
Chao Guo Tsai, M.A., vice-pres.
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ULLMANN & Co., J., Jewellers, Diamond
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YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.--Legation
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K. Onuki, manager
I. Kawakami, signs per pro.
H. Kamiyama
K. Makino
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R. R. Gailey, general secretary D. W. Edwards, asst. do. Secretaries- J. S. Burgess, D. W. Carruthers, Chang Pei Chih, Fei Chi Hao, W. F. Yuan, J. L. Childs, W. S. Young, S. D. Gamble, L. A. Slars, R. H. Ritters, S. M. Shoewaker, jr., A. B. Parker, K. H. Hsu, P. C. Hsu, H. L. Liu
TIENTSIN
津天 Tien-tsin
Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River, better known as the Grand Canal, with the Pei-ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 3 min. 56sec. E It is distant from Peking by road about 80 miles, but the bulk of the enormous traffic between the two cities is now by the railway, which was opened in 1897, and the line doubled in November, 1898. Tientsin was formerly a place of no importance; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal it gradually assumed commercial importance, and by the end of the seventeenth century had become a great distributing centre. The navigability of the Pei-ho for sea-going junks ceases at Tientsin, and this made it the emporium for the very large quantities of tribute rice yearly sent up to the capital, after the Grand Canal shoaled up so as to be unfit for carriage in bulk. The trade of the city was imperilled by the silting up of the Pei-ho, but a river improvement scheme of some magnitude was inaugurated in 1898 under Mr. A. de Linde, and the Peace Protocol of 1901 contains clauses which constitute a Board of Conservancy (now in existence) and the provision of fairly liberal funds for the maintenance of the work. It is, however, generally believed that no lasting success will attend the remedial measures until steps are taken to deal with the Taku Bar by permanent dredging; meanwhile by closing the canals and creeks which take off most of the flood tide, by giving a larger radius of curvature to the bends, and by widening the Reach, and making three cuttings to straighten the river, its navigability has been greatly ameliorated. Unhappily in 1912