Directory_and_Chronicle_1899 — Page 648

204

CHINKIANG NANKING *

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Postal Officer--W. A. Washbrook

W**★ Ta-ying kung-yüan

RECREATION FUND

ex

Committee-H.B.M. Consul, chairman

Municipal Council (Trustees officio), F. Gregson, J. M. Moorhead | (hon. treasr.), E. G. Byrne (hon. secty.)

Shun-ch'ang

SCHIELE & BYRNE, Merchants and Ship-

ping Agents: Tel. Ad. Rhine

W. E. Schiele

E. G. Byrne

Agencies

Osaka Mercantile Steams hip Co. Manchester Fire Assurance Co. Royal Insurance Company

Nippon Sea and Land Insurance Co.

Manufacturers' Life Insce. Co., Canada

OLIVER, DE LANGENHAGEN & Co., Merchants

and Commission Agents

J. B. Roche

STARKEY, E., Commission Agent

和瑞 Sui-ho

Agency

Kerr, Stuart & Co., Ld., London

+

#Lee-kong

Stubbe & Wentzensen, Merchants

C. Stubbe

J. Wentzensen (Shanghai)

T. W. Bowern

Agency

General Marine Insce. Co., Dresden

局電國中

Chung-kirok-lien-vo-chuck

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Luh Chang-Kong, manager

C. L. Pang, controller

C. Y. Wong, clerk-in-charge

Tai-chang

WADLIEGH & EMERY, General Commission

Merchants

E. C. Wadliegh (New York) D. A. Emery

Yü Ching and others

Agencies

Arnhold, Karberg & Co.

Palatine Fire Insurance Company Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of U.S.A. Straits Insurance Company, Limited Eastern Manufacturing Company

WU CHOU SHAN BUNGALOW

Trustees-H.B.M. Consul and Com-

missioner of Customs

NANKING

☀I Kiáng-ning

The city owes its present name, "Southern capital," to having been many times the capital of the Empire, the last occasion being in the Ming dynasty at the commencement of the 15th century. It is also known as Kiang Ning Fu, being the chief city of the prefecture of Kiang Ning, and the seat of government for the provinces grouped under the designation of Kiang Nan. In official documents it is not considered proper to call the city Nanking, since the Government acknowledges but one capital. Besides Kiang Ning Fu, an elegant Chinese name commonly used is Kin Ling or "golden mound. From the 5th or 6th century B.C. to the present there has been a walled city at this place. Nanking is not yet an open port, although it is specified in the French Treaty of 1858 as one of the Yangtsze ports to be opened to trade, and its formal opening can doubtless be claimed at pleasure by the French Government.

Nanking is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze, 45 miles beyond Chinkiang and 205 from Shanghai. From the river little can be seen of it except the long line of lofty grey brick walls which encircle it. The walls have an elevation varying from 40 to 90 feet, are from 20 to 40 feet in thickness, and 22 miles in circumference. They enclose a vast area, a large portion of which is wilderness or cultivated land. The inhabited portion lies towards the south and west, and is several miles from the banks of the river. Whatever of architectural beauty or importance belong to Nanking perished or was reduced to a ruinous condition at or before its occupation by the Taiping rebels. The world famous Porcelain Tower, the most beautiful pagoda in China, was completely destroyed during this period of its history, and now only broken and scattered bricks remain of the structure that was once the glory of Nanking. It stood outside the walls on the south side of the city. The celebrated mausoleum of the