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The Tartar city consists (Dr. Williams tells us) of three enclosures, one within the other, each surrounded by its own wall. The innermost, called Kin-ching or Prohibited City, contains the Imperial Palace and its surrounding buildings; the second is occupied by the several offices appertaining to the Government and by private residences of officials; while the outer consists of dwelling-houses, with shops in the chief avenues. The Chinese city is the business portion of Peking, but it presents few features of interest to sight-seers, while the enclosure known as the Prohibited City is, as its title denotes, forbidden to all foreign visitors. The numerous temples, the walls, the Imperial Observatory, the Foreign Legations, and the curio shops are the chief attractions to the tourist. The streets of the Chinese metropolis are kept in a most disgraceful condition. In the dry season the pedestrian sinks deep in noxious dust, and in wet weather he is liable to be drowned in the torrents that rush along the thoroughfares, where the constant traffic has worn away the soil. There is an air of decay about Peking which extends even to the finest of the temples. The population of Peking is not accurately known, but according to a Chinese estimate, which is probably slightly in excess, it is 1,300,000, of whom 900,000 reside in the Tartar and 400,000 in the Chinese city. There is no direct foreign trade with Peking, and the small foreign population is made up of the members of the various Legations, the Maritime Customs establishments, the professors of the College of Peking, and the missionary body. In August, 1884, the city was brought into direct telegraphic communication with the rest of the world, by an overland line to Tientsin vid Tungchow. A railway line to Tientsin was opened in 1897.
DIRECTORY
洋華 Hwa.yanj
Assistant-N. A. Konovaloff
CHINESE CORPORATION, LIMITED
Do.
-H. Bismark
Lonis, Spitzel (Shanghai) -
Do.
-A. C. Bethell
W. F. Sylvester (Tientsin)
Do.
U. F. Wintour
Do.
-L. Sandercock
CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY, PEKING SEC.
Do.
--C. Lauru
Memberof Adminitn.-D. D. Pokotilow
Do.
-J. H. Smyth
Assistant-D. M. Posdnéeff
Do.
- L. de Luca
Secretary-J. J. Cheshev
Do.
Do. - R. J. Barbier
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Tsung Saai-wa-s-ä Kany-shu
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME-INSPEC-
TORATE-GENERAL
Inspector-General-Sir Robert Hart,
Bart., 4.C.M.G.
Deputy Inspector-Genl.--R. E. Bredon Actg. Chief Secretary J. R. Brazier Act. Chinese Secty.-J. A. van Aalst Audit Secretary--S. Campbell Statistical Secty.-F. E. Taylor (Sha’i) Non-Resident Secretary.-J. D. Camp-
bell, C.M.G. (London)
Act. Postal Secretary.--J. A. van Aalst Deputy do.-F. E. Taylor (Shanghai) Acting Assistant Chinese Secretary-
CH. Brewitt-Taylor
Act. Asst. Audit Secty.-F. W. Maze Actg. Assistant Statistical Secretary–
E. L. Lépissier (Shanghai)
Atg. Asst. Secty -P. von Rutenfeld Act. Private Secty.-P. R. Walsham Assistant-B. L. Simpson
-J. W. H. Ferguson
--F. Materna
Postal Officer--E. E. Encarnação
Assistant do. -J. C. de Pinna, W. S.
Dupree, H. B. Werner
Gas Engineers-C. B. Mears, A. Child
HILL, SYLVESTER G., D.D.S.,
Dentist
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Ilui-feng
American
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Banking Corpn.
E. G. Hillier, agent
A. M. Bruce A. D. Brent
HOTEL DE PEKING
Stepin-kwan
L. Tallieu & Co., proprietors
L. Tallieu (absent)
A. F. Cham ›t, gl. mgr., signs the firm
A. Brandt
J... Moore, bookkeeper
HOTEL METROPOLE
Carl Imbeck, proprietor
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