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HANKOW
Ltd., of London, have oil tanks for storing bulk oil, to be tinned on the premises. Two tanks have a capacity of 2,500 tons of oil each. During the low-water season small tank-steamers bring the oil from Shanghai. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, Langkat, also has an installation. The Standard Oil Co. had three large tanks erected at the end of 1904. Each installation added another tank in 1906. An English Company commenced an export trade in frozen pork, eggs, poultry and game in 1909, the refrigerating plant costing upwards of £30,000.
Tea is the staple export. The net value of the trade of the port in 1919 was Hk. Tls, 200,398,431, as compared with Hk. Tls. 165,162,308 in 1918, Hk. Tls. 170,730,067 in 1917; Hk. Tls. 174,819,487 in 1916, and Hk. Tls. 160,904,722 in 1915.
During the last few years foreign interests at Hankow have undergone a marked development, the chief factor in producing the growth being the construction of the Lu Han Railway, a trunk line connecting Hankow with Peking, the contract for which was let to a Belgian syndicate in 1897. It was opened in November, 1905, when trains passed over the Yellow River Bridge, which was immediately closed again as unsafe, Since December, 1905, through traffic with Peking has continued without interruption. Early in 1906 trains de luxe" were started. The line has diverted much of the traffic that went by water to Chinkiang. A railway from Hankow to Canton is in course of construction, and will eventually link up with the Canton Kowloon line, giving direct communication between Hongkong and Europe viâ Siberia.
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The Hankow Race Club and Recreation Ground was incorporated in 1904, and since then has undergone a phenomenal development.
The property of the Club is sufficiently extensive for a racecourse, an eighteen-hole golf course, football and cricket field, swimming pool, and, in fact £
f every branch of sport indulged in by the members Apart from this
Apart from this cub, mea s chiefly devoted to sport, there are the Hankow Club, the Russian Club and the French Club, which have splendid libraries, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, etc. The Hankow Golf Club, which was instituted in 1878 and is certainly the oldest club in the port, still holds its own and boasts of a membership of considerably over 100. It is almost entirely devoted to golf and has well laid-out links. There is also a Chinese Race Club with a course as good as any in China. Meetings are conducted under New- market rules, and the management is entirely in tlie hands of Chinese.
DIRECTORY
ABE, KOBEI, Importers and Exporters-
13, Poyang Road, B. C.; Teleph. 308
AIRD, SKINNER & TATCHELL, Physicians
and Surgeons
Robert Aird, M.A., M.B., CH.B.
A. H. Skinner, M.A., M.D.
W. A. Tatchell, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.)
AMERICAN-ASIATIC
Taipeng Road
UNDERWRITERS
N. H. Crawford, manager
18,
AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY-15, Panoff Building, corner of Nerpin-Skaia and Kitai Skaia; Tel. Ad: Amtraco
ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., LTD., Engineers and Contractors, Exporters and Im- porters, Manufacturers, Insurance Agents-11, rue Clemenceau; Telephs: 1500, 1501 and 1502; Tel. Ad: Danica. Head Office: Shanghai
W. Wright, manager
J. J. Cobbs D. D. Forbes
E. E. Lathrop L. E. Martin O. E. Vongehr U. Ulf-Hansen L. H. T. Wei
Miss L. Jesperson H. D. Johnson
T. E. Dunne
H. S. Fuller
Liang Pan Sheng, compradore
Agencies
Home Insurance Co., New York Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld. (For other Agencies see Shanghai Section
Hip-wo
ANDERSON & Co., LTD., ROBT., Tea Merchants
Ed. White, director Henry Schlee, do. Robt. Schlee, do.
** Chung-ying Ta-yoh.fang Anglo-CHINESE DISPENSARY, Chemists and Druggists, Dealers in Patent Medicines, Photographic Apparatus, Chemicals, Sundries, etc.-31, Sing Seng Road