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PEKING-TIENTSIN

Dist. Inspr.-P. Petersen (Sinkiang) Postal Officers-E. E. Encarnacao,

F. L. Tuck

JAPANESE

Director-K. Sugino

Senior Clerk-M. Nakagawa

Assistants-M. Takahashi, K. Matsu-

zaki, M. Okami

RUSSIAN

Postmaster-K. Reiss

府李 Li-fu

RAFIQUE & Co., General Merchants and

Commission Agents; Tel. Ad: Rafique

S. M. Rafique

M. S. Ayer

S. A. Ansari

REUTER'S NEWS AGENCY

A. Cotter, agent

RUSSO-CHINESE BANK

E. Wilhfahrt, manager

S. de Jastrzembski, signs per pro.

A. Lambelet du Bois

D. Rahinsky

RUSSO-CHINESE SCHOOL

J. Brandt,

1st teacher

A. Weinstick, 2nd do. T. Verevkin, 3rd do.

SCHINDLER, Professor

SINGER SEWING MACHINE Co.

SYLVA, J. A., Commission Agent

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA, Importers of Cigars,

Cigarettes, Tobaccos and Smokers' Sun-

dries; 3,429, Hatamen St.

W. S. Wood, manager

P. C. Ching, signs per pro.

C. H. Chang

F. C. Ning

局字印堂興德

TE HSING TANG PRINTING OFFICE

Shigesaku Ichiyama, proprietor

T. Ichiyama, manager

TELEGRAPHS, IMPERIAL CHINESE

V. Petersen, superintendent

VRARD & Co., Jewellers

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WANNIECK, L., Importers and Exporters

E. Dumetier, sign per pro.

Jules Bigle

Shin-lovng

WARDROPER, W. S., & Co., Merchants.

行 銀 金正濱横

Heng-Pin-Cheng-Chin-Yin-Hong

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, Limited; Tel.

Ad: Nabekra

S. Jissoji, manager

S. Ishimaru, signs per pro.

K. Iida

Y. Nakagawa

M. Okamoto

M. Irie

F. Machino

Y. Ikeda

會年青敎督基京北

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

PEKING

R. R. Gailey, M.A., general secretary

D. W. Edwards, M.A., associate secretary J. S. Burgess, B.A.,

do.

L. D. Frollick, army secretary

TIENTSIN

津天 Tien-tsin

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River, better known as the Grand Canal, with the Pei-ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 3 min. 56 sec. E. It is distant from Peking by road about 80 miles, but the bulk of the enormous traffic hetween the two cities is now by the railway, which was opened in 1897, and the line doubled in November, 1898. Tientsin was formerly a place of no importance and till recently had few historic associations; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal it gradually assumed commercial importance, and by the end of the seventeenth century had become a great distributing centre. junks ceases at Tientsin, and this made it the emporium for the very large The navigability of the Pei-ho for sea-going quantities of tribute rice yearly sent up to the capital, after the Grand Canal shoale! up so

up so as to be unfit for carriage in bulk. The trade of the city was imperilled by the silting up of the Pei-ho, but a river improvement scheme of some magnitude was inaugurated in 1898 under Mr. A. de Linde, and the Peace Protocol