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NAGASAKI
Lodge. The principal hotel is the Nagasaki Hotel, opened in 1898, a three-storeyed brick building situated on the Bund. There are several other hotels, of which the largest are the Hotel de France, Japan Hotel, Belle Vue Hotel, the Cliff House and the Hotel de Japan. The Mitsu Bishi Company own two docks in Nagasaki, the largest admitting vessels 500 feet in length on a draught of 26 feet. A new dock is in course of construction which will be the largest in the Far East. It will have a length of 714 feet on the keel blocks and a depth of water at ordinary springtides of 34 ft. 6 in. As a ship-building centre the place is rapidly developing, and since 1889 eight large ocean-going vessels, of between 6,000 and 7000 tons, have been launched, having been built there for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The waterworks, owing to the growth of the town, were found to be insufficient for its wants, and a large extension of the works was completed in March last. The reservoirs holds 405,240,000 gallons, and there are three filter beds and a service reservoir. The Sanyo Railway is now completed between Shimonoseki and Yatsushiro, in Hyogo province. Connection is made at Moji (across the narrow strait) with the Kiushiu line to Nagasaki, so that it is possible, with a brief sea passage of ten minutes between Moji and Shimonoseki, to travel by rail to Kobe and thence to Tokyo. The climate in Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, and there are several very popular health resorts in the neighbourhood, the most famous being Mount Unzen.
In 1903 the imports were valued at Yen 12,867,380, a substantial increase of Yen 3,541,549 as compared with the figures for 1902, while exports remained about the same, the value being Yen 4,956,980.
Though the foreign trade has fallen off considerably, the population of the port has increased greatly. In September 1903 it was returned as 152,727, nearly double what it was ten years ago. The foreign population, exclusive of Chinese, was 481 including 91 British, 83 French, 37 German, 49 Russian, and 102 American. An English news- paper, entitled the Nagasaki Press, is published daily; a monthly magazine is published from the same Office, entitled Cherry Blossoms: The Nagasaki Press Monthly.
DIRECTORY
AHRENS & CO., H., Nachfolger, Merchants
A. Gese, signs per pro.
R. Uhlmann
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd
London Assurance Corporation
BALMES, VVE, Navy Contractor J. Sirot, successor
H. Balmes
BELLE VUE HOTEL
B. Bay, proprietor
BOEDDINGHAUS, C. E., Merchant
Agencies
Hamburg-America Line of Steamers Sloman Line of Steamer Bureau Veritas, Paris German Lloyds, Berlin Transatlantic Marine Insce. Co., Berlin Transatlantic Fire Insce. Co., Hamburg Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters Agrippina M., R. & L. Insur. Co., Col. Oberrheinische Insce. Co., Mannheim Rheinisch Westfälischer Lloyd Deutsche Transport-Vers. Gesel., Berlin Deutsche Rück and Mitv. Gesel., Berlin Netherlands Fire Insce. Co., Hague Northern Assurance Co., London
Eidgenössische Trans. Insur.Co., Zürich Neuer Schweizerischer Lloyd Providentia General-Ins. Co., Vienna Salamandra Ins. Co., St. Petersburg Russian Co. Sea, Land, and River Insur.
BOWIE, ROBERT I., M.D., Medical Practitioner
Browne & Co., Merchants (See Moji)
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chairman—K. Mori
Vice-Chairman-H. Murakami Secretary S. Kamii
CHINA AND JAPAN TRADING COMPANY, LD.
S. M. Officer, manager
M. C. Adams, assistant manager
Agencies
China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Standard Life Assurance Company Phoenix Assurance Co., Ld.
CLIFF HOUSE
Wilson Walker, senior proprietor
CONSULATES
BELGIUM
Consul-F. Ringer
REMINGTON TYPEWRITER, 327 Broadway, New York, U. S. A.
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