TAKU--PEI-TAI-HO-CHINGWANGTAO
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3rd Officer-C. L. Fischer
利德 Te-le
4th do. A. Lavland
TAKU HOTEL
Steam Launches "Kweishun,” “Feifu”
Postal Officer -A. H. Lewis
HOTEL DU LOUVRE, French Concession,
Tongku
P. Bernardi, proprietor
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Officer in charge--G. Boeck
Postal Officer at Tongku-E. Caretti
Assistant Postal Officer-H. D. Hondt
水引沽大 Tu-ku yin ahui
PILOT COMPANY (TAKU)
Chas. Saville (secretary)
司公船駁活大
Ta-ku Po-ch'uan Kung-ssu
TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED.
Head Office, Tientsin : Tel. Ad, Calendar
Directors-J. Stewart, W. A. Morling,
R. K. Douglas, C. R. Morling, H. J. W. Marshall
W. T. L. Way, secretary
W. S. Johnston, manager
S. H. Dorey, clerk
Capt. W.S. Borrows, supt. of the Bar W. Brown, asst. supt.
A. B. Gaston, supt, engineer
A. C. Crawford, engineer
J. Taylor, W. P. Chard, S. J. Strong, TIENTSIN LIGHTER Co., Ld.
J. W. Stavers, J. M. Hoy
TAKU CLUB
Hon. Secretary-S. H. Dorey
Butterfield & Swire, managers
Capt. H. H. Brown, superintendent
J. B. Barclay, engineer
T. S. Morton, bar overseer
PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINGWANGTAO
Pei-Tai-Ho is a watering place on the Gulf of Pechili, which the energy and enterprise of the foreign community of Tientsin have called into existence within the last few years. It lies some 22 miles S.W. by W. from Shanhaikwan, where the Great Wall meets the sea, in latitude 39 deg. 49 min. N., longitude 119 deg. 30 min. E., and is distant from Tientsin by railway 157 miles. Nine miles distant is the harbour of Ching- wangtao which is practically ice-free. Under the auspices of the (British) Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Chingwangtao is being made into a safe, deep-water harbour, giving access in all weathers to ocean-going steamers all the year round: the necessary works to ensure this end have been pushed forward, and vessels drawing 18 feet can now be berthed at the jetty. The original conception of this port was that of an outlet for the coal which is being worked in the hinterland, but the trade statis- tics show that the port is principally used as a winter jetty for Tientsin, and as such it is growing in popularity and importance. Another winter function of the port is the transhipment from steamer to railway and vice versa of trade passing by Shanhai- kwan to and from any place in the direction of Newchwang and beyond. This is a particularly promising feature of the port. The Customs Commissioner in his Report for 1906 pointed out that Chingwangtao is also doing very well as a distributer of imports on its own account in its neighbourhood. The boundries of this Treaty Port extend along the foreshore of Shallow Bay for nine miles, and are then spread out as to include the 3 or 4 square miles on which the foreigners have settled at Pei-Tai-Ho. The fact that the watering-place lies within the port limits gives legal title to all land purchase, and will ensure some sort of foreign municipal control in the near future. An attempt has been made to obtain this from the Imperial Government; meanwhile the foreign community has made temporary arrangements and has submitted to voluntary taxation for combined sanitation. The net value of the independent trade of Chinwangtao, that is to say exclusive of Tientsin Railway Cargo, in 1906 was Tls. 8,612,519.
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