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and is well lighted. A General Purposes Committee looks after the interests of the Foreign Quarter and derives the revenue at its disposal from voluntary contributions by residents. The natives are most orderly and civil to foreigners. There are three good hotels and at least three excellent boarding houses, all of which are full of visitors from July to the end of September. The climate is bracing. The winter, which is severe, lasts from the beginning of December to end of March; April, May and June are lovely months and not hot; July and August are hot and rainy months; and September, October and November form a most perfect autumn, with warm days, cool winds and cold nights. Strong northerly gales are experienced in the late autumn and through the winter, and the roadstead gives but an uncomfortable, though safe, anchorage for steamers. During the summer and autumn amusements are varied sea bathing, lawn tennis, picnics, &c.-and there is a good club. The races take place towards the end of September. Chefoo is two days' journey from Shanghai, and in the summer tourist tickets from Shanghai and return are issued by the Indo-China S. N. Co., the China Merchants S. N. Co. and the China Naviga- tion Co. Since the declaration of war (August, 1894) between China and Japan the port has been much frequented by vessels of the different foreign navies, and its close proximity to Corea will cause these visits to be continued; the result is that Chefoo has become a coaling station and large stocks of Cardiff coal are kept to supply the foreign men-of-war. During the winter of 1894-95 the port was in a state of excitement owing to the close proximity of, and possible occupation by, the Japanese. In 1876 the Chefoo Convention was concluded at Chefoo by the late Sir Thomas Wade and the former Viceroy of Chilli, Li Hung-chang. The bunding of the western shore, recently carried out by the Chinese authorities, has removed many of the difficulties formerly attending upon the shipping business of the port. An enterprize has been recently established by a Wine Company of substantial standing; the soil of the locality lends itself to such an industry and the future success of the proprietors of the first Far Eastern wine growing concern is a matter of considerable interest.
The trade of Chefoo, which is increasing, is principally in Beancake and Beans, of which large quantities are annually exported to the southern ports of China. In 1898 the net export of Beancake amounted to 975,521 piculs and of Beans to 77,759 piculs, as against 1,298,334 piculs of the former and 93,102 piculs of the latter in 1897. Silk, Strawbraid, and Vermicelli are the other chief exports. The import of Opium was 498 piculs compared with 3,536 piculs in 1879, the trade having gradually dwindled. The net value of the trade of the port for 1898, after deducting re-exports, was Tls. 26,238,774, for 1897 Tls. 22,051,976, and for 1896 Tls. 19,533,953,
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Anz & Co., Merchants
G. Gipperich
O. Anz
E. Meyer
W. Busse
H. Gipperich
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd Hamburg-America Line
DIRECTORY
Rickmer's Line of Steamers Shell Transport and Trading Co. Dampfschiffs Rhederei M. Jebsen
Deutsche Transport Vers. Ges., Berlin China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. Northern Assurance Company Prussian National Insurance Company Mannheim Insurance Company, Ld. Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company Deutscher Lloyd Transport V. Å. G.
"BAY VIEW "
Mrs. E. F. Otaway
BEACH HOTEL
P. Calender, proprietor
司公裕張
BLUFF WATER COMPANY
F. J. C. Curtis, manager
CHANG YU & Co.-Pioneer Wine Company
in China-Wine Growers, Distillers and
Merchants
Thio Tiawsiat, managing director
Chang Ching-king, manager
Baron M. von Babo, do.
Chou Joon Guan
有富 Fu-yu
CHEFOO DAIRY FARM
J. Smith
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