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TAKU-PEI-TAI-HO-CHINGWANGTAO

★ Tai-koo

Butterfield & SWIRE, Merchants H. H. Brown, agent (Tongku)

DIRECTORY

CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME—(Tongku)

Actg.T'surveyor-in-charge--J.R.Heard 1st. Class Tidewaiters W. Anderson,

W. C. Prahl

2nd Class Tidewaiters-S. Power, O. Lindsith, S. H. Bentzen, H. Pawelzig Prob. Tidewaiters-G. MacSweeny Gas Lightship "Taku" Revenue Cruiser "Tienching" Steam Launch "Kweishun”

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, THE-

Tel. Ad: Maishan (Tongku)

J. H. Worth, shipping agent

POST OFFICE-CHINESE

Officer in charge--T. A. Collaço

*** Ta-ku yin shui

PILOT COMPANY, TAKU

J. Taylor, Ch. Saville, W. P. Chard, S. J. Strong, J.W. Stavers, J. U. Gordon A. McTaggart, secretary

司公船駮活大

Ta-ku Po-ch'uan Kung-ssu

789

TAKU TUG & LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED.

Head Office: Tientsin; Tel. Ad: Calendar Directors-J. Stewart, W. A. Morling, R. K. Douglas, C. R. Morling, H. J. W. Marshall

W. T. L. Way, secretary

W. S. Johnston, manager

S. H. Dorey, clerk

Capt. W.S. Borrows, supt. of the Bar Capt. Ecke

A. B. Gaston, supt. engineer

TAKU HOTEL

利德

Te-le

TIENTSIN LIGHTER CO., LD.

Butterfield & Swire, managers

H. H. Brown, supt.

J. S. Calder, engineer

T. S. Morton, overseer of lighterage

PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINGWANGTAO

Chinwangtao, which owes its existence as a seaport to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ltd. (now the Kailan Mining Administration), is situated on the western coast of the Gulf of Liao Tung, and is distant about 10 miles W.S.W. of Shanhaikwan. It is thus the natural distributing centre for the north-west part of the great province of Chihli. The breakwater and pier which form the harbour are so constructed that vessels may lie alongside at any state of the tide and in all weathers, and discharge or load direct on to and from railway cars, so that a minimum of handling, and, consequently, of loss, is ensured. There are seven berths-five at the breakwater, and one on each side of the piers, and the railway tracks are so arranged that loading and discharging can be proceeded with independently at each berth. The main berths have 21 feet of water at the lowest tides, but steamers drawing 23 feet 6 inches can as a general rule discharge with perfect safety. The bottom being soft mud, there is really nothing to prevent vessels with a draft of 25 feet from discharging, provided they are prepared to take the mud at low water. The Company have at present three steam cranes available for weights up to five tons each, and, generally speaking, it may be said that the loading and discharging facilities are excellent. On one occasion 73,000 bags of flour were taken out of one steamer in 27 consecutive hours, whilst on another 4,000 tons of coal were loaded on to one steamer in 31 consecutive hours. These facilities, resulting from the Company's liberal exenditure of capital, have caused Chinwangtao to become a formidable rival for the trade hitherto shipped via Taku to Tientsin. The port is accessible throughout the year, for, though in hard winters there is occasionally a good deal of floating ice in the Gulf, there is no case on record of a steamer having been prevented by ice from making the port. It is, in fact, practically the only port in the Gulfs of Pechili and

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