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SEOUL

1896 says the people are gradually being taught the benefits of good roads and clean surroundings. A spacious market place has been erected in one of the busiest parts. of the city, and arrangements are being made for establishing two or three others at suitable centres. An annual appropriation of $50,000 has been made by the Finance Department for the maintenance and improvement of the roads, and a similar sum was appropriated for expenditure on drainage in 1897. The shops are small and unattractive, and contain no articles de luxe or curios. The population of the city is variously estimated at from 150,000 to 240,000 persons; official returns give the number of houses as 30,000. An electric railway, running for three miles along the main streets of Seoul and thence three or four miles into the country, was opened in 1899 and now extends to Riong-san. A railway connects Chemulpo with Seoul and another line to connect the capital with Fusan is about to be started.

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COREAN GOVERNMENT

DIRECTORY

Adviser to the Minister of Justice-

Crémazy

Adviser to Home Office-W. Sand Adviser to the Police Departinent--

A. B. Stripling

Physician to Imperial Household-

Miss L. R. Cooke

CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE ET CONSULAIRE

President--F. Reinsdorf Secretary-G. Lefèvre

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (JAPANESE)

Y. Kaku, chairman

K. Shigeno, vice-chairman C. Nakamura, chief secretary

CHEMINS DE PER DU NORD-Ouest, Maison

IMPÉRIALE DE CORÉE

G. Lefèvre, directeur

J. de Lapeyriére, ingénieur, chef de

service

E. Bourdaret, ingénieur adjoint

CHRISTIAN NEWS," Weekly Newspaper

James S. Gale, editor

C. C. Vinton, business manager

COLLBRAN & BOSTWICK, General and Rail- way Contractors; Managers, Seoul Electric Lighting and Railway Co. and Water Works, and Contractors for con- struction of Works Toh Soh Extension Railway

H. R. Bostwick

H. Collbran (absent)

E. A. Elliott,

accountant

Herbert Collbran, assistant do. B. C. Donham, chief engineer

T. A. Ross, assistant enginecr C. H. Stone, inspector

G. Ewing,

do.

H. S. Kwack and others, clerks

COOKE, DR. LOUISE R., Physician to the

Imperial Household

Miss Helen Relph, nurse

CUSTOMS

Chief Commissioner

Brown, C.M.G.

J. McLeary

Secretary J. L. Chalmers Assistant-H. W. Davidson Medical Officer-Dr. E. H. Baldock

ECKERT, F. Professor of Music

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF JAPAN

K. Sasaki, agent

M. Harada

HOSPITAL

J. Yasuda, M.D., physician

HOTEL DU PALAIS

L. Rondon, proprietor

S. Yamada

JAPANESE MERCHANTS

Fuchigami & Co. Hamada & Co. Kameya & Co. Kiya & Co. Koinishiwa & Co. Tsuji & Co. Yamaguchi & Co.

“KOREA REVIEW,” Monthly Magazine,

H. B. Hulbert, editor and proprietor ·

KRUMM, R., Government Civil Engineer

LEGATIONS AND CONSULATES

BELGIUM

Consul-General-Léon Vincart Vice-Consul-M. Cuvelier

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The REMINGTON TYPYEWRITER does not get out of order easily.