Directory_and_Chronicle_1913 — Page 747

716 TAMSUI AND KEELUNG -TAINAN, TAKOW AND ANPING

S. Musha

K. Funabashi

B. Ichikawa

Agencies

Joyo Mokuzai Bofu Kabushiki Kaisha Chugai Asphalt Kabushiki Kaisha

Taito Takushoku Goshi Kaisha (Slate

Dep't.)

Japan Cement Kabushiki Kaisha Siemens Schuckert Denki Kabushiki

Kaisha

Meiji Life Insurance Co., Ltd.

Yokohama Fire and Marine Insurance

Co., Ltd.

Teikoku Mineral Water Co., Ltd. Kimmon Shokai

KEELUNG DIRECTORY

店支藤後

GOTO & SONS, K., Merchants-56, Shosen-

towgai; Head Office: Kobe

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA (Japan Mail S.S. Co.)

T. Takayanagi, manager

K. Tamaki

S. Mori

M. Okazaki

K. Inada

G. Kawamoto

S. Tamaki

隆基社會式株船商阪大

OSAKA SHOSEN Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile

Steamship Co.)

Y. Shiroshoji, manager

Agency

Tokyo Marine Insurance Company

SAMUEL SAMUEL & Co., LD., Merchants-40, Gyuchokosoho and 63, Sansawan; Tel. Ad: Orgomanes

M. Oda Agencies

(See under Taipeh)

TAINAN, TAKOW AND ANPING

The city of Tainan (until 1889 known as Taiwan), situated in lat. 23 deg. 6 min. N., and long. 129 deg. 5 min. E., is the commercial capital of Formosa. Since the Japanese occupation many improvements in the city have been made, and at the present day the main roads are all wide and well made. An extensive scheme of alterations is in hun l, the progrimine extending over ten years.

When this is completed the city will be second to none in the Island in arrangement. The old Chinese walls some five miles in circumference, havò been demolished in many places and the gates removed for the passage of the railway and new roads. Waterworks course of construction in the hills some distance from the city, and will be finished in about three years' time. The city is lighted by electricity, the power being carried by an overhead line from a generating station a few miles south of Taków.

are in

Anping is the shipping port for Tainan, situated about three miles west of that city. Communication is by a trolley line and a creek navigable for chutes and small junks. The port itself is an open roadstead, vessels anchoring outside the bar and a mile or so from the beach. From November to the end of May the anchorage is a good one, but during the S. W. Monsoon a heavy swell sets in, rendering it difficult and sometimes impossible for vessels to load or discharge. There are now 36 adult