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PEKING-TIENTSIN

F. D. Gamewell, M.A., professor of Chemistry and Physics, acting President

J. F. Hayner, M.A., B.D., professor of

Practical Theology

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., professor of

Practice of Medicine

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

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

English

RUSSIAN GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION

Rt. Rev. Amphilochius Lutovinow

Rev. Alexis Vinogradoff

Rev. Amphilochius Shipunoff

Rev. Nikolas Charting

堂慈仁 Jen-tze Tang

SISTERS OF CHARITY

Maison de l'Immaculée Conception;

Sister Jaurias, superioress, and

eleven European Sisters

堂南 Nan Tang

Hôpital St. Vincent; Sister Lieutier,

superioress, and six European 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

A. Brandt

TIENTSIN

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River, better known as the Grand Canal, with the Pei-ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 3 min. 56 sec. E. It is distant from Peking by road about 80 miles, but the bulk of the enormous traffic between the two cities is by the river Pei Ho as far as Tungchow (13 miles from Peking) and thence by carts and wheelbarrows over the once magnificent but now dilapidated stone causeway. Tientsin was formerly a place of no importance and till recently had few historic associations; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but as the northern terminus of the Grand Canal it gradually assumed commercial importance, and by the end of the seventeenth century had become a great distributing centre. The navigability of the Pei Ho for sea going junks ceases at Tientsin and this made it the emporium for the very large quantities of tribute rice yearly sent up to the capital, after the Grand Canal shoaled up so as to be unfit for carriage in bulk. The expeditions of the allies in 1858-61 greatly enhanced the importance of the city as it then proved to be the military key of the capital and an excellent base. It was here on June 26th, 1858, that Lord Elgin signed the treaty which was to conclude the war but which unhappily led to its indefinite prolongation. The temple in which the treaty was signed is about a mile distant from the West gate, and is now inclosed in a small arsenal (Hai Kwan Tze) and surrounded by factories for the manufacture of small arm ammunition. It is worth a visit if only to see the large bell which, as usual, has an interesting tradition associated with it.

During the long satrapy of Li Hang-chang the trade and importance of the city have developed exceedingly. Li, by the vigour of his rule soon quelled the rowdyism for which the Tientsinese were notorious throughout the empire, and as he made the city his chief residence and the centre of his many experiments in military and naval education, it came to be regarded as the focus of the new learning and national reform. The foreign affairs of China were practically directed from Tientsin during the two decades 1874-94.

The city will ever be infamous to Europeans from the massacre of the French Sisters of Mercy and other foreigners on June 21st, 1870, in which the most appalling