Directory_and_Chronicle_1910 — Page 965

時最美

MELCHERS & Co., Merchants

E. D. Chang

Agencies

ICHANG--CHUNGKING

Nordd. Lloyd Imp. German Mail Line Nordd. Lloyd. Imp. Melchers & Co.'s,

Yangtsze Line Hamburg-Amerika Linie

Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ltd.

MISSIONS

For Protestant Missions see end of

China Directory

Tien-choo-tang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Right Rev. Modestus Everaerts

Bishop tit. of Tadama and Vicar Apostolic of Southern Hupeh

Rev: Angelus Timmers, pro vicar

Do. Gratianus Laurent Do. Marcellus Sterkendries Do. Polydorus Vercruysse Do. Hubertus Adons Do. Seraphinus Melissen Do. Damianus de Walleff

Do. Thaddeus Jacobs Do. Mathias Vlaminck Do. Natalis Gubbels

Do. Deodatus Janssen

Do. Robertus van Voorden

Do. Julianus Adons

Do. Thomas Kempenaers Do. Franc. Xav. Corbisier

Do. Clementianus De Vuyst Do. Trudo Jans

Do. Achilloeus Van Den Bosch

Do. Theodoricus Hesseling

Do. Carolus Goethals

Do. Columbanus Clement

Do. Marinus Adons

Do. Solano de Cock

Do. Libertus Callebaut Do. Victor Stolle Do. Julianus Verhaeghe Do. Donatus Sammels

Chen-mou-tang

977

REV. SŒURS FRANCISCAINES MISSION-

AIRES DE MARIE

Rev. Mère Marie Béatrix and 8Sisters

司公船輪清日

Tai-pan tseung-lun kung-tze

NISSHIN KISEN KAISIA, THE-Tel. Ad:

Nisshinkisen

Y. Ohbe, agent

F. C. Lu

P. Y. Chow

Agency

The Tokyo Marine Insurance Co.

局政郵清大昌宜

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE

District Postmaster-J. C. Johnston

District Inspector-A. Ortolani (Wanh-

sien)

Postal Officer-E. Rose

SALT LEKIN COLLECTORATE

Commis'ner-in-charge-W. T. Lay

富美 Mei-foo

STANDARD OIL Co. of New York

•

W. H. Lovatt

德立

Li-teh

THE WEST CHINA TRANSPORT Co.

Mackenzie & Co., Lrl.

Agencies

North China Insurance Co., Ld.

China Mutual Life Assce Co.

Upper Yangtsze Syndicate, Ld.

CHUNGKING

Chung-king

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 106 deg. 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province, All exports-yellow silk, white wax, hides, leather, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, opiuni, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines-are received, assorted, repacked, and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shasi, consignments to the latter port being transhippel there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, via the

Tung Ting lake.

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side

31