Directory_and_Chronicle_1894 — Page 486

Rev. I. T. Headland

Miss A. E. Steere

Miss A. B. Sears Miss H. E. Davis Miss C. M. Frey

Miss E. Young Miss C. M. Jewell

Miss A. D. Gloss, M.D.

PEKING TIENTSIN

NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND

AND SCHOOL for the Blind

Rev. W. H. Murray, agent

院書交滙都京

Ching-tu Hui-wên Shu-yuan

PEKING UNIVERSITY

L. W. Pilcher, M.A., D.D., President, and professor of History and Political Science

H. H. Lowry, M.A., D.D., Dean, and professor of Practical Theology F. D. Gamewell, M.A., professor of

Chemistry and Physics

M. L. Taft, M.A., D.D., professor of Exegetical and Historical Theology I. T. Headland, M.A., S.T.B., professor

of Mental and Moral Science W. H. Curtiss, M.D., prof. of Surgery

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Miss H. E. Davis, instr. in English;

principal of primary dept. Tsuo Yung-kuei, M.D., instructor in

Anatomy and Physiology

RUSSIAN GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION

Rt. Rev. Amplilochius Lutovinow

Rev. Pimenus

Rev. Innocent

堂慈仁

Jen-tzu Tang

SISTERS of Charity

Maison de l'Immaculée Conception;

Sister Jaurias, superioress, and

eleven European Sisters

堂南 Nan Tang

Hôpital St. Vincent; Sister Gilho-

dès, superioress, and seven Euro- pean Sisters Cha-la-eul-Sister

Fraisse, supe-

rioress, and four European Sisters

館賓西

See-pin-kwan

TALLIEU & Co., L., Storekeepers and Com-

mission Agents

L. Tallieu

A. F. Chamot

TIENTSIN

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Huei river, sometimes called the Grand Canal, with the Feiho 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 road 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. Since the Viceroy Li Hung-chang made Tientsin his residence during the busy part of the year instead of Pao-ting-fu, the provincial capital, the political importance of the place has necessarily much increased. A great stimulus to native building has also been imparted by the opening of the railway in 1888. The walled city 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 native city has the reputation of being exceptionally dirty. Of the local industries the distilling of samshu from kaoliang (sorghum) occupies a prominent place, and the enormous stacks of salt which line the east bank of the river are a striking feature. The salt is produced on the coast near Taku.

Foreigners live for the most part in the Concessions, British and French, situated about a mile and a half farther down on the south bank of the river. The British Concession 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, about 80 miles altogether. The official inspection of the line by H.E. Li Hung-chang took place on the 9th October, 1888. The line may