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TAKU-TIENTSIN.

DIRECTORY.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.

Boat Officer-W. French Tidewaiter-J. Graham Signalman H. A. Behnke

Lightship. Taku.

Captain-C. E. R. Handro Mate-C. Druwert Lightkeeper--W. Knight

Customs Cruiser Foam.

Captain-P. Reichwald

IMPERIAL NAVAL YARD.

Daw-lee.

TAKU CO-OPERATIVE Co.

A. T. Edwards, manager

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TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED.

Jas. Stewart, A. D. Startseff, R. M. Brown,

G. W. Collins, directors

W. H. Forbes, secretary, head office, Tien-

tsin

J. W. Jameson, manager, Taku W. T. L. Way, chief clerk, head office

Directors-Kung Chao Yü, Ku Yuen Chu, H. J. Macrae, engineer

Kao Tsang Ling

Instructor-W. Grant

TAKU PILOT COMPANY.

C. B. Sherman

C. Parker

H. M. Crowlie

W. Blanchard G. Lembke

T. W. Conner

W. T. Way, sec- [retary

H. Schnitger (abst.)

A. H. Talpey

H. S. Hurst J. Young

Steam Tug Heron, Capt. Adkins, Peiho,

Capt. A. Lindberg, Gem, Capt. Mac- lure, Lee Tah, K'ai T'ai, Capt. D. J. Webster, Orphan, Ewo, Hyson, Chiang Li, Lee Hsiu, Lee Chin, Sea Gull, Les Chuan

TAKU HOTEL.

Chung Hong, manager

TIENTSIN.

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Grand Canal with the Peiho river in lat. 39 deg. 3 min. 55 sec. N. and long. 117 deg. 3 min. 55 sec. E. It is distant from Peking by river about 80 miles. It was formerly only a military station, but towards the close of the 17th century it became a place of some importance. The walled portion is small compared with the suburbs, the circumference of the walls being only a little over three miles. The principal trade is carried on in the suburbs. The purely native city has the reputation of being exceptionally dirty. There are a num ber of soap-boiling works in the neighbourhood, and the smell that arises from them is most disagreeable.

A number of foreigners live in the suburbs of the native city, but the concession, which is situated about a mile and a half farther down on the south bank of the river, has been largely taken up during the last few years, and is now pretty well covered with buildings. It possesses a handsome Town Hall completed in 1889, and a small recreation ground called Victoria Park.

Tientsin will always be famous for the Treaty signed by Lord Elgin in a temple since called the Treaty Temple, or Elgin's Joss-house, on the 26th June, 1858, and known as the Treaty of Tientsin. The port is also infamously notorious for the massacre of the French Sisters of Charity and other foreigners on the 21st June, 1870, by a Chinese mob, under circumstances of shocking brutality. The China Railway Company, which took over the Kaiping Coal Mining Company's line, has now extended railway communication to Tientsin by a line from Taku. The official inspection of the line by H.E. Li Hung-chang took place on the 9th October, 1888. The line will eventually be extended to Tungchow. Tientsin is also connected with Shanghai by telegraph, and in 1884 a line to Peking was opened. A Chinese daily