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Some three or four miles south-west of Hangchow city lies the rising little town of Zakow, situated upon the Ch'ien-t'ang River at the railway head. The Standard Oil Company, the Asiatic Petroleum Co., and several missionary establishments (includ- ing a large College) have their headquarters here. For residential purposes the hilly sites in the vicinity, overlooking the broad estuary and open to the sea breezes, afford far more sanitary locations than the low-lying malarial Settlement 10 miles away.
Halfway between Hangchow and Shanghai is Kashing, where the Grand Canal joins the Whangpoo River on which Shanghai is situated. Kashing is a Customs Sta- tion under Hangchow and was first opened in 1898 for collecting duties on foreign opium, owing to the fiscal arrangements being against the collection at Hangchow. It has a completely cquipped Custom-house, but has not yet acquired the full status of a Treaty Port.
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A railway from the Settlement to the further end of Hangchow City near the Ch'ien Tang river was completed in September, 1907. It was built solely by Chinese and with Chinese capital. There is now railway connection with Shanghai vid Kashing. Twenty-eight miles north of Hangchow is situated the well-known summer resort of Mokanshan. It can be reached from Shanghai by way of the railway and a notor-launch service in ten hours. There are now over 500 houses on the slope of a hill about 2,250 feet high. The scenery is magnificent and the views are very grand. Bamboo forests cover the mountain and afford shade to all the roads, and clear mountain springs abound. Chairs and coolies for baggage are always available, and are under contract with the Mokanshan Association. Houses more or less completely furnished can be rented. The difference in temperature from the plain amounts to 10° F. in the day and 15° F. at night.
Save for the prevalence of malaria-which, however, is not of a virulent type-the climate of Hangchow is fairly salubrious. July and August are hot, the spring months are wet and raw, but the autumn is delightful, and the winter is cold and bracing.
DIRECTORY
司公油火亞細亞商英 Ying-shang A-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co., (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric. (In Shanghai)
E. G, Masters, manager
D. R. Mackintosh
K. F. B. Pawley
E. C. Hubbard
Mrs. Cresswell
司公煙美英華駐商英 (司公限有)
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Powhattan; Code: A.B.C
C, Cance
所分核稽務
浙兩
CHINESE GOVERNMENT SALT REVENUE
ADMINISTRATION-Tel. Ad: Salt
關海州杭
Acting Commissioner-R. Inokuma
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Acting Deputy Commissioner
Kway Yoong (at Kashing)
- Li
Assistants-Woo Chien Son and Ling
Cu Nguong
Tidesurveyor A. Pederson Examiner-E. R. Takaishi
事領國帝本日
CONSULATE, JAPAN-Tel. Ad: Riyoji
Consul-C. Seino
Chancellor-T. Oda
Police Inspector-J. Nakajima
局釐貨東浙
LIKIN COLLECTORATE, EASTERN CHEKIANG
Commr.-in-charge R. Inokuma
MISSIONS
AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION (NORTH) Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Clayton
Miss El'en J. Peterson
Miss Gertrude McCulloch
Miss Florence Webster
Mrs. W. S. Sweet
Miss Lillian Fleming
AMERICAN
(SOUTH)
PRESBYTERIAN
Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Blain
Dr. and Mrs. R. J. McMullen Miss Annie Wilson
Miss Rebecca Wilson Miss Frances Stribling Miss Natalie Moffett Miss Orene McIlwaine
MISSION
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