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HANKOW
During the last few years foreign interests at Hankow have undergone a marked development, the chief factor in producing the growth being the construction the Lu Han Railway, a trunk line connecting Hankow with Peking, the contract for which was let to a Belgian syndicate in 1897. It was opened in November, 1905, when trains passed over the Yellow River Bridge, which was immediately closed again as unsafe. Since December 19th 1905, through traffic with Peking has continued with- out interruption. Early in 1906 "trains de luxe" were started. The line has diverted much of the traffic that went by water to Chinkiang. Germany, France, Russia, and Japan have since 1895 acquired concessions, and the British concession has been extended. The German, Russian and British have Municipal Councils. Thus while there was formerly a bund of only half a mile in length, in front of the British concession, there is now a continuous line of concessions measuring in all over two miles of river frontage. Houses and godowns sprang up fast in 1904 and wells were bored. The English Church was re-built, and consecrated in May, 1904. Messrs. Vrard & Co. a few years ago imported and erected, on the Wuchang side of the river, machinery for crushing antimony ore, which is dried, packed in bags, and exported abroad. These have been taken over by Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., who are making large additions to the plant. Antimony, lead and zinc ores are crushed. A large business is also done by a match factory as well as by albumen factories. Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., who are agents for the Shell Transport Company, Limited, of London, have erected on the foreshore, several miles below the Foreign Concessions, oil tanks for storing bulk oil, to be tinned on the premises. Two tanks have a capacity of 2,500 tons of oil each. During the low-water season small tank- steamers will bring the oil from Shanghai. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, Langkat, has followed suit and erected an installation. The Standard Oil Co. had three large tanks erected at the end of 1904. Each installation added another tank in 1906.
Tea is the staple export. The total export in 1907 was 1,027,364 piculs. This in value represented about one-sixth of the exports. The net value of the trade of the port in 1907 amounted to 115,071,383 against Tls. 97,142,377, in 1906 and Tls. 111,043,046
in 1905.
DIRECTORY
AIRD, Robert, M.B., CH.B., Med. Practitioner
和協 Hip-wo
ANDERSON & Co., ROBT., Tea Merchants
C. Schlee (London)
H. Schlee (Foochow)
Ed. White
A. M. Lester
Chong-ying Tai-yuck.fong
ANGLO-CHINESE DISPENSARY Wongbika,
Hankow
S. M. Ong, manager
Dr. Samuel Wong, physician
D. C. Chow, assistant
記瑞 Sui-ki
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants,
Tel. Ad. Karberg
W. Herensperger, signs per pro.
Chas. E. Arnhold
F. Brandeis
E. Oelsner P. Paschen
H. Richter
M. Wallach, electr. engineer
F. Zimmermann
F. C. Da Costa
A. Brandes
F. Appel
F. Stucki
F. Betinez
Agencies
Magdeburg Fire Insurance Co.
South British Fire and Marine Insce.
Lancashire Insurance Company
司公油火亞世亞
Ah-si-ah For-u-kung-zse
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co., LD., THE, Tel.
Ad. "Doric," Telph. No. 152
C. Schultz, local manager
L. F. H. Hake
Tank Installation: Telph. No. 98
H. Koehler, manager
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