980
WUHU
There is a large trade in timber in Wuhu, but that, like all other trades, is in the hands of the Chinese. There is a steam flour mill and a soap factory. The soap does not sell well. The preservation of egg yolk and albumen is an industry which was started in 1897, and has been carried on with several changes of proprietorship. A brick and tile manufactory is being erected.
The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese cities possess, and is tolerably paved. The tract of land selected 30 years ago for the foreign settlement was definitely ceded in 1906, and sites were allotted to the Anhwei Railway Company and to various shipping companies, each lot having a river frontage of 600 to 1,100 feet. Bunding operations have progressed satisfactorily, and the place has taken on a decided air of prosperity. The bund when completed will be about one mile in length. The roads in the Foreign Settlement have just been completed and are well laid out, forming a good promenade for those who care to avail themselves of walking exercise. Four large godowns have been built by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire on their ground in the New Settlement for storing rice. These are the only erections there yet. Everything in and about the New Settlement seems to be in a state of abeyance, waiting for, it is said, the Customs to build and move down to the site adjoin- ing it. Work on the railway also appears to be at a standstill. On the plots of ground acquired by the Asiatic Petroleum and the Standard Oil Companys below I-Chi-Shan, a hill which forms the lower boundary of the Foreign Settlements, the former company has erected oil godowns and the latter have premises in course of erection. The Electric Light Co. appear to be doing well, for electric lighting has superseded that of oil to a great extent. A railway is projected to Kwangtehchow, but funds are said to be lacking, and the only work noticeable at the Wuhu end is that piers have been erected for a bridge across the creek. The population of Wuhu is estimated at 80,750.
DIRECTORY
ANHWEI RAILWAY CO.
Hans Berents, civil engineer
M. ver D. Ing, M. PENN. SOC. E.C., en-
gineer in chief
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LD., THE
E. Middleton
行燊惠普
Pa Wei Yah Hong.
BERTHEL, C, Wholesale and Retail Drug-
gist, Dealeer inChinese Patent Medicines
Wong Sung Shu, manager
古
Tui.koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants---Tel.i
Ad: Swire
Geo. E. J. Rose, signs per pro.
Agencies
China Navigation Co.'s Hulk “Le-Tai" Ocean Steamship Company, Ld. China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld. London and Lancashire Fire Insee. L'o. Roya Exchange Assurance Corpn. Palatine Insurance Company Guardian Assurances Co. (Fire) Taikoo Sugar Refinining Co., Ld. Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.
of Hongkong, Limited
司公險保和濟仁
Jen-che-ho-pao-hsien-kung sre.
CHINA MERCHANTS' MARINE INSURANCE Co.
Li ('. C., manager
Williams, A. Y., clerk and translator
局商招
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION Co-
Hulk "Bombay"
C. C. Lee, manager
A. Y. Williams, clerk and translator
CHINAMUTUALLIFE INSURANCECO.,LD., THE
H. T. Nelson, manager
Li Sui-chi, resident Chinese manager
C. Huddy, agent Wong Zong Ying Chu Ter Ching
CONSULATES
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Actg. Consul-G. A. Combe
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul---W. T. Gracey (acting in the
interests of Cuba and Panama) Vice and Dy. Consul-A. W. Gilbert Marshal-C. F. Tappin
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