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PEKING TIENTSIN

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Chen Han Po, acting director

Sze Yih Hsuan, acting manager

SCHINDLER, Professor

廠機電子門西

SIEMENS CHINA ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Co., Electrical Engineers, Manufacturers

and Contractors, Soochow Hootung ;

Tel. Ad: Motor; Teleph. 315

A. Pfuetzenreuter, engineer and mngr.

A. Hopp, engineer

A. Bolte, agent

J. Rabe, bookkeeper

F. Engels, installation foreman

SINGER Sewing Machine Co.

順恒

SULLIVAN & Co., J., Commission and Manu-

facturers Agents and Auctnrs.; Cable Ad: Sullivan

SYLVA, J. A., Commission Agent

行銀總清大

Ta-ching-tsung-yin-hong.

TA-CHING GOVERNMENT BANK; Teleph.

No. 372, Western Station; Tel. Ad: Govtbank

Chang Yuen Yen, president

Jui Fung, vice president

Dr. Chen Chin Tao, vice president

Chen Han Po, chief manager

Chow Ching Lu, sub-manager

Woo, W. S., chief accountant

TELEGRAPH ADMINISTRATION,

CHINESE

Tao Foo Tung, manager

P. Y. Chu, asst.

do.

P. Y. Chu, asst. manager

E. Mengel, superintendent Y. K. Shen, controller

B. P. Koo, chief clerk

VRARD & Co., Jewellers

IMPERIAL

WANNIECK, L., Importers and Exporters

隆信 Shin-Joong

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

行銀金正濱橫

Heng-Pin-Cheng-Chin-Yin-Hong

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, Limited;" Tel.

Ad: Speice

S. H. Jissoji, manager

S. Ishimaru, signs per pro.

S. Nomura

Y. Nakagawa

M. Okamoto

M. Irie

F. Machino

Y. Ikeda

M. Mine

會年青督基京北

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

PEKING

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

D. W. Edwards, M.A., secretary

J. S. Burgess, B.A., do.

J. W. Chambers, army secretary

TIENTSIN

Tien-tain

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River, better knownas 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 between 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. The navigability of the Pei-ho for sea-going junks ceases at Tientsin, and this made it the emporium for the very large quantities of tribute rice yearly sent up to the capital, after the Grand Canal shoaled 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 of 1901 contains clauses which constitute a Board of Conservancy (now in existence)

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