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PEKING-TIENTSIN

W. H. Curtiss, M.D., professor of

Practice of Medicine

Robt. Coltman, Jr., M.D., professor

of Surgery

G. D. N. Lowry, M.A., M.D., professor

of Histology and Pathology

Tsao Yung-kwei, M.D., professor of

Gynecology and Obstetrics

E. K. Lowry, B.A., professor of

Mathematics

H. E. King, M.A., professor of History

and Political Science

N. S. Hopkins, M.D., lecturer on

Diseases of Eye and Ear

Miss Alice Terrell, M.A., instructor

in Mathematics

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

principal of primary dept.

RUSSIAN GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION

Rt. Rev. Amphilochius Lutovinow Rev. Amphilochius

Olhovsky

Schipunoff

Rev. Innocent

Nico Partchukoff, clerk

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

Fraisse, supe-

Cha-la-eul-Sister

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 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 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. Tientsin is connected with Taku by railway and the line may eventually be extended to Tungchow. The Chinese population is estimated at 950,000.

There is a fair foreign trade done at Tientsin compared with the other open ports; but the exports are very small compared with the imports. The Tea exported goes principally to Russia and Siberia, vid Kiachta. In 1893, 446,600 piculs were exported by this route, compared with 367,707 piculs in 1892. A trade in Coal from the Kaiping mines has sprung up, the export for 1893 being 81,840 tons against 85,589 tons in 1892. Opium to the extent of 1,616 piculs was imported in 1893 against 1,641 piculs in 1892. The total value of the trade of the port in 1893 was Tls. 38,570,147, as compared with Tls. 35,326,854 in 1892.

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