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street, as wide as the main street, branches off to the south-west. The four wide streets which 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 been cleared of these unsightly obstructions, and 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 appro- priation of $50,000 has been made by the Finance Department for the maintenance and improvement of the roads. 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 now connects the capital with Fusan.

COREAN GOVERNMENT

DIRECTORY

Adviser to the Minister of Justice-

L. Crémazy

Advisers to Home Office A. Delcoigne,

W. F. Sands

Adviser Foreign Office---H. J. Mühlen-

steth

Japanese do.

-D. W. Stevens Physicians to Imperial Household—

Dr. Wunsch, Miss L. R. Cooke

American KOREAN ELECTRIC Co., Operat- ing Electric Railway and Lighting Plant, Seoul

H. Collbran, president

H.R. Bostwick, vice- do. & gen. mgr. E. A. Elliott, secy, and treasurer

H. Maki, B.S., consulting engineer

H. E. Collbran, auditor

J. H. Morris, assistant manager

R. A. McLellan, chief engineer H. Eguchi, assistant

do.

do.

do.

H. G. English, supt. electrician

K. Ueda,

S. Ishikuma, asst.

Y. Tanimoto, lineman

do.

ARSENAL-IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT

BUREAU DES MINES DE LA MAISON IM-

PERIALE DE Coree

Charles Alévêque, délégué

Hyen Sang Kien, directeur Trémoulet, inspecteur général

L. Cuvillier, ingénieur, E.C.P.

H. Lecoy de la Marche, ingénieur

A. Rabec, conducteur

CHAMBER OF Commerce (Japanese)

Y. Kaku, chairman

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

CHEMINS DE FEr du Nord-OUEST, MAISON

IMPÉRIALE DE CORÉE

G. Lefèvre, directeur

J.de Lapeyriére, ingénr., chef deservice-

E. Bourdaret, ingénieur adjoint

"CHRISTIAN NEWS," Weekly Newspaper

James S. Gale, editor

C. C. Vinton, business manager

COAL MINES-IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD, (Pyng-·

yang)

L. Cuvillier, E.C.P., ingénieur en chef H. Rapin, sous-ingénieur

F. Pouchard, id.

H. Truche, chef mécanicien

Rondon Plaisant et Cie. Com'l Agents.

COLLBRAN & BOSTWICK, General Bankers,.

General and Railway Contractors; Con- tractors for construction of Seoul City Waterworks; Managers American Corean Electric Company

H. Collbran

H. R. Bostwick

E. A. Elliott, signs per pro.

H. S. Kwack

G. Moriwaki

COOKE, DR. LOUISE R., Physician to the

Imperial Household

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER, 327 Broadway, New York, U. S. A.

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