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has a very English look. The railway terminus is at the other end of Kobe, where it meets Hyogo, and there are extensive carriage works adjoining the station. There are two Clubs-the Kobe Club (British) and the Club Concordia (German). At Mirume the K. R. & A. C. have a fine boathouse and large lawn for all kinds of sports, and commodious chambers for the members. The Union Protestant Church and a French Roman Catholic Church are in what was formerly known as the Concession. An English Episcopal Church, All Saints', was opened in 1898 on the Hill behind, and there is also a native Protestant Church in Kobe town. There are two foreign hotels in the town-the Oriental and the Great Eastern. Two foreign daily papers, the Japan Chronicle and the Kobe Herald, and one weekly, the Japan Chronicle, are published in Kobe. There are also two native papers. The population of the city of Kobe in December, 1900, was 249,987. There are about 3,000 foreigners residing in Kobe, but of this number nearly two-thirds are Chinese. When a census was taken in 1901, the British numberd 602, Germans 188, Americans 179, French 67, and the Portuguese 70.
The Temple of Nofukuji, which possesses a large bronze Buddha, and which is situated in the old town of Hyogo, is worth a visit; and there is a monument to the Japanese hero Kiyomori, erected in 1286, in a grove of trees in the vicinity of the tem- ple, which claims some attention from its historic associations. On the Kobe side of the old river known as the Minato-gawa also stands a temple dedicated to Kusunoki Masashige, so famous in Japanese history for loyalty and valour, who died on the spot in 1336 during the unsuccessful wars for the restoration of the Mikado's power. The Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard situated at Hyogo is one of the largest in Japan. The new graving Dock will accommodate vessels of some 5,000 tons.
Kobe's excellent railway communications, both north and south, have naturally tended to centralise trade at this port.
In 1904 the values of the different classes of Imports were :- Beverages and Comestibles... Yen 5,610,911 Cotton, Raw and Ginned... Cotton Yarn and Piece Goods... Drugs, Chemicals &c.
Grains and Seeds...
Machinery, Watches, Arms, &c. 4.407,535
The values of the principal
Metals, and Manufactures of 14,820,554 62,142,367 Oil & Wax (mostly Kerosine Oil) 8,509,474
4,229,048 Rice...
25,570,523 4,083,893 Wool and Woollen Manufactures 5,559,238 6,747,985 Sundries...
32,573,673
...
...
...
Total Imports
Yen 174,853 201
3,928,144
5,135,135
4,419,572
20,275,472
articles of Export in the same year were as follows:
Beverages and Comestibles Yen 5,370,371 Kice... Cotton Yarn & Cotton Goods Drugs, etc. (mostly Camphor)
25,590,910 Straw braids...
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...
444
4,949,544 Tea... 7,471,539 Sundries... 4,910,404
5,925,087
Total Exports
...
Matches
Mats for Floor
Metals (chiefly Copper)
...
Yen 87,976,178
The quantity of tea exported from Kobe-Hyogo during the year 1904 was 13,138,893 catties or kin, equal to 17,343,339 lbs. Practically the whole of this went to the United States of America and Canada.
The following table of values in Yen shows the foreign trade of the port from 1895
to 1904.
Imports
Exports
Total
Imports
Exports
Total
1895
1896
63,098,427 82,546,593 1897 110,741,830 1898 138,133,799 1899 120,289,524
38,307,955 101,406,382 | 1900 40,317,817 122,864,410 | 1901 51,408,080 162,149,910 | 1902 60,119,645 198,253,443 | 1903 75,320,884 195,610,408 | 1904
137,4-4,281
69,706,549 207,190,830
125,979,022
77,206,226 203,185,248
144,516,111
74,748,143 219,264,254
:
154,534,013
90,518,216 245,052,229
174,855,201
87,976,178 262,831,379
ABENHEIM BROS., Merchants 76
Richard Abenheim (London) F. B. Abenheim (New York) R. E. Abenheim
Russel Leeds
DIRECTORY
ABRAHAM & Co., L. D., Comsn. Mercts.--51
L. D. Abraham
V. E. Abraham (absent)
I.Nishimoto
S. Ohashi
REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS are the Standard Everywhere.
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