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Inner Guard-H. A. Northey Chaplain-Rev. H. J. Warren
Director of Ceremonies E. Simonsen Organist O. Johnson
Missionaries.
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Ang Lik Kang Hoi.
FOOCHOW.
ENGLISH CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Rev. John Wolfe
Rev. R. W. Stewart, M.A.
Rev. L. Lloyd
Rev. W. Banister
Rev. J. Martin
Rev. C. Shaw
Miss Goldie
美以美教會
Mi-e-mi-kow-wùi.
AMERICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH MISSION.
Rev. Stephen L. Baldwin, D.D. (absent)
Rev. Nathan Sites
Rev. Franklin Ohlinger
Rev. Nathan J. Plumb
Rev. D. W. Chandler (absent) Rev. G. B, Smyth
J. L. Taylor, M.D. Miss Beulah Woolston
Miss S. H. Woolston
Miss S. Trask, M.D.
Miss Julia E. Sparr, M.D.
美蘿油
公會
Mei-pu-chw'en-tao-kung-hwui.
AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. Caleb C. Baldwin, D.D.
Rev. Charles Hartwell (in city)
Rev. Simeon F. Woodin
Rev. J. E. Walker (Shau-wu)
H. T. Whitney, M.D.
Miss Ella J. Newton
Miss Alice B. Harris
南台番船浦尾天主堂
Nan-tay-huan-sun-puo-muy-tsen-chio-tin. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Gentili
WENCHOW.
Wên-chow-fu, one of the four ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention, is the chief town in the department of the same name occupying the south-east corner of Che-kiang province. The city is situated on the south bank of the river Ou-kiang, about twenty miles from its mouth. in lat. 27 deg. 18 min. 4 sec. N., long. 120 deg. 38 min. 28 sec. E. The site is a well cultivated plain, bounded on all sides, but at a distance of some ten miles, by lofty hills. The walls are said to have been first erected during the fourth century, and enlar ed and re-built by the Emperor Hung-Wu in 1385. They are formed of stone, diagonally laid, and measure about six miles in circumference. The streets are wider, straighter, and cleaner than those of most Chinese cities. They are well paved with brick and kept in car-ful and constant repair by the householders. They slope down on either side to water ways, which in their turn communicate with canals permeating the whole city. The streets therefore are not only easily kept clean, but this is specially accomplished by bands of scavengers, who go round every morning at daylight, sweeping and scrupulously removing every atom of dirt or refuse. Wênchow, in this particular, is unique among Chinese cities, which are chiefly remarkable for their filthiness. There are numerous large temples in Wênchow. The Custom-house, outside the east gate, the Taotai's Yamên, in the south-west corner of the city, and the Foundling Hospital, near the centre, are the other chief public buildings. The latter institu- tion, built in 1748, contains one hundred apartments. It is supported by the interes of invested subscriptions and the rental of alluvial lands presented to it by the Government. The nu uber of foundlings on the establishment's bocks at one time varies from two to three hundred. When of suitable age the boys are either articled to tradesm n, or adopted; the girls are betrothed as wives, or employed as house servants. Ther is also a Beggar's Asylum outside the south-west gate. It was built during the 14th century, and is supported by the state. The monthly allowance for each recipient is one tael and a half, but it is reported that few avail themselves of the charity. Among the objects of greatest interest and curiosity to
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