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TAKU-PEI-TAI-HO

DIRECTORY

CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING Co.

G. Baldwin, manager

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME AT TANGKU Assistant Tidesurveyor in-charge-

R. M. Strangman

Tidewaiters-G. K. Goldan, D. Du- champ, W. H. S. Wardroper, A. Bolljahn, H. Hannemann

Lightship "Taku"

Acting Captain-E. Nielsen Mate-M. M. Ronan

Do. -F. F. W. Hieber

Revenue Cruiser "Foam," Steam Laun-

ches "Feifu, Spray Quarantine Station

Medical Officer in-charge--Dr. Chung

Tidewaiters-W. O. Lloyd, R. M.

Tisman, H. Pauls

塢船沾大 Ta-ku Chuan-wu

NAVAL YARD-IMPERIAL

Managing Director Pán Chih Tsuin Assistant do. Ch'êng Ts'ing Lien Superintendent Engineer-T. W. Dye

POST OFFICE-CHINESE IMPERIAL

Postal Officer-H. E. Howard

水引沾大 Ta-ku yin shui

PILOT COMPANY (TAKU)

C. B. Sherman J. Watts W. Blanchard

H. S. Hurst, secy.

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A. H. Talpey (abt.)

T. W. Conner

G. Lembke (abt)

TAKU CLUB

D. J. Webster

Hon. Secretary--H. J. W. Marshall

利德 Te-le

TAKU HOTEL

Captain J. Watts, proprietor

司公船駁活大

Ta-ku Po-ch'uan Kung-ssU

TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED: Head Office, Tientsin: Tel. Ad. Calendar Directors-J. Stewart, A. D. Startseff, W. W. Dickinson, J. Wilson, W. C. Anderson

W. H. Forbes, secretary, Tientsin H. J. W. Marshall, manager at Tn. J. W. Stavers, capt. s.s. "Chinlung" A. Young, capt. s.s. "Kaitai" H. J. Macrae, superdt. engineer A. Crawford, engineer

J. Cromarty, do.

PEI-TAI-HO

Pei-Tai-Ho is a watering place on the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, which the energy and enterprise of the foreign communities of Tientsin has called into existence within the last few years. It lies some 22 miles S. W. by W. from Shanhaikwan, where the Great Wall meets the sea, in latitude 39 deg. 49 min. N., longtitude 119 deg. 30 min. E., and is distant from Tientsin by railway 157 miles. Nine miles distant is the harbour of Cheng Wang Kow, which the Chinese Imperial Government has declared its intention of making a Treaty Port. It is hoped by the aid of foreign money that Cheng Wang may be made into an ice-free deep-water safe harbour, giving access in all weathers to great ocean- going steamers all the year round, but works of very considerable magnitude and expense will be necessary before this issue is reached The hinterland is rich in coal and iron, and has good railway communication with Tientsin and Peking; there is little doubt that if harbour facilities were given Cheng Wang would soon become a very important emporium. The land round about has all been taken up by a close Chinese syndicate, and as the success of the place might militate against the interests of Tientsin and Tongku, it is not likely to meet with much encouragement there. The boundaries. of the Treaty Port have been extended along the foreshore of Shallow Bay for nine miles, and are then spread out as to include the 3 or 4 square miles on which the foreigners have settled at Pei-Tai-Ho. The fact that the watering-place lies within the port limits gives legal title to all land purchase, and will ensure some sort of foreign Municipal control in the near future. An attempt is now being made to obtain this from the Imperial Government; meanwhile, the foreign community has made temporary arrangements and has submitted to voluntary taxation for combined sanitation.

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