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TIENTSIN-TAKU

美華 Hua-mei

TIENTSIN DAIRY FARM ANd Water Works

Mrs. J. M. Moore

館字印津天 Tientsin Yin-tze Kuan TIENTSIN PRESS, Printers, Bookbinders,

and Stationers

J. W. Fenton, secretary and manager

A. H. Watts

義商福 Fu Shang I

TIENTSIN TRADING COMPANY, Importers

F. H. Clarke, manager

A. Newcomb

F. de Souza

Chun-fung

TOKMAKOFF, MOLOTKOFF & Co., Merchants

J. F. Tokmakoff (Moskva)

O. J. Molotkoff (Kazan)

A. D. Startseff

M. A. Lauterstein

G. J. Shipkoff

A. S. Overin

ULLMANN & Co., Watch Importers, Jewel-

lers, etc.

E. Battegay

***** Pei-yang Tae Hsüeh-tang

UNIVERSITY-IMPERIAL TIENTSIN

Dirtrs.-Wu Ting-fang, Ts'ai Shaochi

President-C. D. Tenney

Professor of Chemistry-O. C. Clifford

濟良 Liang-chi

VAN DER STEGEN & Co., Merchants and

Commission Agents

L. Van der Stegen (Shanghai)

A. R. Agassiz, signs per pro.

L. Bahr

利達亨

Han-ta-li

VRARD & Co., L., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents

P. Loup

J. Krüger (absent)

A. Perrenoud

昌華 Hua-chung

WARD & Co., WALTER S., Merchants

W. S. Ward

W. S. Dickinson

Agency

Phoenix Fire Office, London

London Assurance Corpn., Marine

房藥大氏臣属

Wa-sun-sz ta-yah-von

WATSON & CO., A. S., Ld., Chemists and

Druggists, Aërated Water Makers,

Wine, Spirit, and Cigar Merchants

Ed. Wilkins, manager

Hsin-tah-sing

WILSON & Co., Merchants and General

Commission Agents

James Wilson R. A. Couseus

R. K. Douglas A. Adaa

Agencies

Dodwell, Carlill & Co.'s Steamers Northern Pacific Railway Compauy Northern Pacific Steamship Company North China Insurance Company, Ld.

Sun Insurance Office

Standard Life Assurance Company South British Fire and Marine Insce.

TAKU

This village is situated at the mouth of the Pei-ho, on the southern side of the river, about sixty-seven miles from Tientsin. The land is so flat at Taku that it is difficult for a stranger to detect the entrance to the river. There are two anchorages, an outer and inner. The former extends from the Customs Junks to three miles outside the Bar, seaward; the latter from Liang-kia-yuan on the south to the Customs Jetty, Tz'chu-lin, on the north. The village is a poor one, possessing few shops, no buildings of interest except the forts, and the only foreign residents are the Customs employés and some pilots. A railway from the adjoining town of Tungku (two miles up the river) to Tientsin was completed in 1888.

Taku is memorable on account of the engagements that have taken place between its forts and the British and French naval forces. The first attack was made on the 20th May, 1858, by the British squadron under Sir Michael Seymour, when the forts were passed and Lord Elgin proceeded to Tientsin, where on the 26th June he signed the famous Treaty of Tientsin. The second attack, which was fatally unsuccessful, wag made by the British forces in June, 1859. The third took place on the 21st August, 1860, when the forts were captured, the booms placed across the river destroyed, and the British ships sailed triumphantly up to Tientsin. The water on the bar ranges from about two to fourteen feet at the Spring tides. At certain states of the tide, steamers are obliged to anchor outside until there is sufficient water to cross.