SHANGHAI–SOOCHOW
TOBACCO MERCHANTS—Continued
Hughes Co., Inc., J. E. Ito, G.
Kelly & Walsh, Ld. Keystone Tobacco Co. Melachrino & Co., Inc. Mondon, Ld., E. L.
Murai, Bros. & Co., Ld.
Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co., Ld.
National Commercial Tobacco Co., Ld.
Palace Tobacco Store
Rosenbaum, J.
Shanghai General Store Tabaqueria Filipina Tientsin Tobacco Co. Tobacco Products Corporation Union Commercial Co. Westminster Tobacco Co., Ld.
TUGS AND LIGHTERS
Shanghai Tug & Lighter Co. TYPEWRITING, ETC.
Office Appliance Co., The Technical Supply Co.
Underwood Typewriter Agency
UNDERTAKERS
Macdonald & Co., Thomas UNDERWRITERS
American Asiatic Underwriters VETERINARY SURGEONS
Shangliai Horse Bazaar Co., Ld. Keylock & Pratt
WATCHMAKERS
Boyes, Bassett & Co.
Hirsbrunner & Co. Ismer & Co., C.
Sennet, Frères
Ullmann & Co., J.
WATER WORKS
Chinese Waterworks Co., Ld.
Shanghai Inland Waterworks Co. Water Works Co.
WHARVES AND GODOWNS
Holt's Wharf (Pootung) Old Ningpo Wharf
Pootung and Tunkadoo Wharves Rioka Soko Kaisha, Ld.
Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co. Yangtsze Pootung Wharf
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS
Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.
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Comp. Commerciale d'Extrême Orient Dombey & Son
Dunn & Co., Walter French Store Gande, Price, Ld. Garner, Quelch & Co. Hall & Holtz, Ld. Hirsbrunner & Co. Italian Trading Co. Lane, Crawford & Co. Mondon, Ld., E. L. Sincere Co.
Solina & Co., R. V. Sweetmeat Castle Tsuchihashi & Co. Venturi, F.
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SOOCHOW
州蘇 Su-chau
Soochow, the capital of the province of Kiangsu, lies about eighty miles west by water and fifty-four by railand alittle north of Shanghai, with which it is connected by excellent inland water-ways. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway supplies still better connection The city is a rectangle, its length from north to south being three and a half miles and its width from east to west two and a half, the total circumference being about 10 miles. It lies not far from the eastern shore of the great Taihu lake.. Past its walls runs the southern section of the Grand Canal, which joins Hangchow to Chinkiang; and in every direction spread creeks or canals, affording easy communication with the numerous towns in the surrounding country. It is an important manufacturing centre, with a population of nearly 500,000. Its two chief manufactures are satins and silk embroideries. of various kinds. In addition, it sends out silk goods, linen and cotton fabrics, paper, lacquerware, and articles in iron, ivory, wood, horn, and glass, and rape seed. Since the opening of the port manufactures on foreign principles have been introduced, and there are now three silk filatures one cotton mill, two match factories, one cardboard factory, and a brick factory. Before the Taiping rebellion Soochow shared with Hangchow the reputation of being the finest city in China, but it was almost entirely destroyed by the rebels, who captured it on 25th May, 1860. Its recovery by Major (afterwards General) Gordon on 27th Nov., 1863, was the first
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