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called Chong-kak (the “Bell Kiosk "), from a large bell about seven feet high which is placed there. This spot is regarded as the centre of the city; and from it another street, as wide as the main street, branches off to the south-west. The four wide streets vhich thus radiate from the "Bell Kiosk" are known as the four Chong-ro or

"Bell roads."

Another conspicuous feature of this central part of the city is the row of large warehouses two storeys high, the lower portions of which are divided off into little shops, opening into a small courtyard instead of facing the street. The width of the main streets was formerly much reduced by the construction in front of nearly every house of a rude wooden shanty used for a workshop or for business purposes, which gave the streets a poor and squalid appearance, but some of the principal streets have now beer cleared of these unsightly obstructions, and the British Consul in his report for 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 250,000 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 lure 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 being constructed.

DIRECTORY

COREAN GOVERNMENT

Adviser to the Minister of Justice-

Crémazy

Adviser to Home Office--W. Sands Adviser to the Police Department..... Physician to Imperial ifcusehold-

Miss L. R. Cooke

ARSENAL IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT

Captain-Payent

Assistants-Louis, Lemmieff

BUREAU DES MINES DE LA MAISON IM-

PERIALE DE COREE

Hyeu Sang Kien, directeur Arémoulet, inspecteur général L. Cuvillier, ingenieur, E.C.P. H. Lecoy de la Marche, ingénieur A. Rabec, conducteur

CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE ET CONSULAIRE

President and Secretary-J. Lefèvre

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (JAPANESE)

Y. Kaku, chairman

K. Shigeno, vice-chairman

C. Nakamura, chief secretary

CREMINS DE FER 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 of the Seoul Electric Railway and Lighting Co., and Water Works, and Contractors for con- struction of the Toh Soh Extension Railway

H. Collbran

H. R. Bostwick (absent)

E. A. Elliott,

accountant Herbert E. Collbran, assistant do.. B. C. Donhain, chief engineer H. S. Kwack and others, clerks

COOKE, DR. LOUISE R., Physician to the

Imperial Household

CUSTOMS

Chief Commissioner

Brown, C.M.G.

J. McLeavy

Secretary J. L. Chalmers

Assistant-H. W. Davidson

Medical Officer-Dr. E. H. Baldock

DAI ICHI GINKO, LD.

K. Takaki, agent

M. Harada

ECKERT, F., Professor of Music

FARM-IMPErial GoverNMENT

J. Schott

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