Directory_and_Chronicle_1902 — Page 678

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

Rev. J. de Vienne Rev. G. Rembry Rev. V. Lebbe Rev. C. Chocqueel Rev. E. Gärtner Rev. J. Gasté

Rev. A. Lasagne Rev. J. Martin Rev. H. Barrault Bro. A. Maës Bro. A. Denis

Bro. L. Bétin

Bro. J. Vidal

Frères Maristes

Orphanage of Cha la-eul

PEKING

Bros. Marie-Basilius, Crescent, Joseph

Malachie, Marie- Floribert

Collège de l'Immaculée Conception,

Bro. Louis, directeur

Bros. Agathonique, Julien, Angelin

P. P. Trappistes

R. P. Maurprieur, Albéric, Leon

院書交滙都京

Ching-tu Hui-wên “Shu-yuan

PEKING UNIVERSITY

H. H. Lowry, M.A., D.D., President, and Prof. of Practical Theology

F. D. Gamewell, M.A., M.SC., PH.D. Professor of Chemistry and Physics I. T. Headland, M.A., PH.D., S.T.B., Pro-

fessor of Mental & Moral Science G. D. N. Lowry, M.A., M.D., Professor

of Histology and Pathology

Tsao Yung-kwei, M.D., Professor of

Gynecology and Obstetrics

H. E. King, M.A., Professor of History

and Political Science

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N. S. Hopkins, M.D., Lecturer on

Diseases of Eye and Ear Miss A. Terrell, M.A., Prof. of Math. Mrs. H. E. King, M.A., Prof. of Eng.

RUSSIAN GReek OrthodOX MISSION

Rt. Rev. Innocentius Figurowsky Rev. Abraham Chasownikoff P. Pyskonnoff

N. Osypoff

Jen-tre Tang

SISTERS OF CHARITY, Maison de l'Im-

maculée Conception

Fourteen European and Eight

Chinese sisters

French Hospital St. Vincent-Nine

sisters

Cha-la-eul- Six sisters

PEKING CLUB

Hon. Secretary-G. Kahn

RUSSO-CHINESE BANK

D. D. Pokotilow,

manager

D. M. Posduceff, acting do.

E. Wilhfahrt, signs per pro. A. Malvigne,

B. Adamson,

do.

do.

F. Schlachwuilders, do.

J. Chesher,

secretary

R. Barbier, assistant do.

O. Brackwai

WOUTERS D'OPLINTER, CHEVALIER DE., Legal

Adviser to the Tsung-li Yamen

TIENTSIN

津天 Tien-tsin

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River, better known as the Grand Canal, with the Pei-ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 3 min. 56 sec. E. It is distant from Peking by road about 80 miles, but the bulk of the enormous traffic between the two cities is by the river Pei-ho as far as Tungchow (13 miles from Peking) and thence by carts and wheelbarrows over the once magnificent but now dilapidated stone causeway. The trathic is now, however, being rapidly diverted to the railway, which was opened in 1897, and the line doubled in November, 1898. Tientsin was formerly a place of no importance and till recently had few historic associations; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal it gradually assumed commercial importance, and by the end of the seventeenth century had become a great distributing centre. The navigability of the Pei-ho for sea-going junks ceases at Tientsin, and this made it the emporium for the very large quantities of tribute rice yearly sent up to the capital, after the Grand Canal shoaled up so as to be unfit for carriage in bulk. The trade of the city is now imperilled by the silting up of the Pei-ho. A river improvement scheme of some

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