HANKOW
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Antimony, lead and zinc ores are crushed by machinery on the Wuchang side and exported. A large business is also done by a match factory, as well as by albumen factories. Several miles below the Foreign Concessions the Shell Transport Company, Limited, of London, have oil tanks for storing bulk oil, to be tinned on the premises. Two tanks have a capacity of 2,500 tons of oil each. During the low-water season small tank-steamers bring the oil from Shanghai. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, Langkat, also has an installation. The Standard Oil Co. had three large tanks erected at the end of 1904. Each installation added another tank in 1906. An English Company commenced an export trade in frozen pork, eggs, poultry and game in 1909, the refrigerating plant costing upwards of £30,000.
Tea is the staple export. The net value of the trade of the port in 1917 was Hk. Tls. 170,730,067 as compared with Hk. Tis. 174,819,487 in 1916, Hk. Tls. 160,904,722 in 1915, Hk. Tls. 141,328,672 in 1914, and Hk. Tls. 154,029,939 in 1913.
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During the last few years foreign interests at Hankow have undergone a marked development, the chief factor in producing the growth being the construction of the Lu Han Railway, a trunk line connecting Hankow with Peking, the contract for which was let to a Belgian syndicate in 1897. It was opened in November, 1905, when trains passed over the Yellow River Bridge, which was immediately closed again as unsafe. Since December, 1905, through traffic with Peking has continued without interruption. Early in 1906 "trains de luxe' were started. The line has diverted much of the traffic that went by water to Chinkiang. A railway from Hankow to Canton is in course of construction, and this, when completed, will link up with the Canton- Kowloon line, giving direct communication between Hongkong and Europe via Siberia. The Hankow Race Club and Recreation Ground was incorporated in 1904, and since then has undergone a phenomenal development. The property of the Club is sufficiently extensive for a race course, an eighteen hole golf course, football and cricket field, swimming pool, and in fact for every branch of sport indulged in by the members. Apart from this club, which is chiefly devoted to sport, there are the Hankow Club, the Russian Club and the French Club, which have splendid libraries, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, etc. The Hankow Golf Club, which was instituted in 1878 and is certainly the oldest club in the port, still holds its own and boasts of a membership of considerably over 100. It is almost entirely devoted to golf and has well laid out links. There is also a Chinese Race Club with a course as good as any in China. Meetings are conducted under New- market rules, and the management is entirely in the hands of Chinese.
DIRECTORY
ABE, KOBEI, Importers and Exporters--
13, Poyang Road, B. C.; Teleph. 308
R. Toyama, manager
AIRD, SKINNER & TATCHELL, Physicians
and Surgeons
Robert Aird, M.A., M.B., CH.B.
A. H. Skinner, M.A., M.D.
W. A. Tatchell, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.)
ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., LTD., General Importers, Exporters, Electrical and Civil Engineers-11, rue d'Hanoi; Teleph. 376
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R. Johansen, manager
G. W. Theodor
V. Reinhardt
E. A. Moffett H. B. Niles
W. R. H. Dick M. R. Von Mullen Agencies:
Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ltd. Royal Exchange Assurance Corporn.
New York Life Insurance Co. International Savings Society
Fut Hip.wo
ANDERSON & Co., LTD., ROBT.,Tea Merchants
Ed. White, director Henry Schlee, do. Robt. Schlee, do. A. Pollard, asst.
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Chung-ying Ta-ych-fang ƒ‡‡ ANGLO-CHINESE DISPENSARY, Chemists and Druggists, Dealers in Patent Medicines, Photographic Apparatus, Chemicals, Sundries, etc.-31, Sing Seng Road K. S. Chen, director (Shanghai) T. S. Chen, general inanager M. J. Chang, chief asst. H. C. Wei, accountant H. V. Chang, chemist
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