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SHANGHAI-SOOCHOW

TOBACCO MERCHANTS-Cont.

Tientsin Tobacco Co. Tobacco Products Corporation Union Commercial Co. Westminster Tobacco Co., Ld.

TUGS AND LIGHTERS

Shanghai Tug & Lighter Co. TYPEWRITING, ETC.

Denniston & Sullivan Office Appliance Co., The Technical Supply Co.

Underwood Typewriter Agency

UNDERTAKERS

Macdonald & Co., Thomas

UNDERWRITERS

American Asiatic Underwriters VETERINARY SURGEONS

Shanghai Horse Bazaar Co., Ld. Keylock & Pratt WATCHMAKERS

Boyes, Bassett & Co. Hirsbrunner & Co. Ismer & Co., C.

Sennet Freres

Ullmann & Co., J.

WATER WORKS

Chinese Waterworks Co., Ld.

Shanghai Inland Waterworks Co. Water Works Co.

WHARVES AND GODOWNS

843-

Chinese Eastern Railway Co.'s Yang-

Kuda Wharf

Holt's Wharf (Pootung)

Old Ningpo Wharf

Pootung and Tunkadoo Wharves Rioka Šoko Kaisha, Ld.

Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co. Yangtsze Pootung Wharf

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.

Comp. Commerciale d'Extrême Orient- Dombey & Son

Dunn & Co., Walter

French Store

Gande, Price & Co Garner, Quelch & Co. Hall & Holtz, Ld. Hirsbrunner & Co. Italian Trading Co. Lane, Crawford & Co. Mondon, Ld., E. L. Sincere Co.

Solina & Co., R. V. Sweetmeat Castle Tsuchihashi & Co.

Venturi, F.

SOOCHOW

州蘇 Su-chau

Soochow, the capital of the province of Kiangsu, lies about eighty miles west by water and fifty-four by railand a little north of Shanghai, with which it is connected by excellent inland water-ways. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway supplies still better connection. The city is a rectangle, its length from north to south being three and a half miles and its width from east to west two and a half, the total circumference being about 10 miles. It lies not far from the eastern shore of the great Taihu lake. Past its walls runs the southern section of the Grand Canal, which joins Hangchow to Chinkiang; and in every direction spread creeks or canals, affording easy communication with the numerous towns in the surrounding country. It is an important manufacturing centre, with a population of over 400,000. Its two chief manufactures are satins and silk embroideries of various kinds. In addition, it sends out silk goods, linen and cotton fabrics, paper, lacquerware, and articles in iron, ivory, wood, horn, and glass, and rape seed. Since the opening of the port manufactures on foreign principles have been introduced, and there are now three silk filatures and one cotton mill. Before the Taiping rebellion Soochow shared with Hangchow the reputation of being the finest city in China, but it was almost entirely destroyed by the rebels, who captured it on 25th May, 1860. Its recovery by Major (afterwards General) Gordon on 27th Nov., 1863, was the first effective blow to the rebellion. Since that disastrous period it has recovered itself greatly and is once more populous and flourishing, though it has not yet attained to its former pitch of prosperity. It was declared open to foreign trade on the 26th September, 1896, under the provisions of the Japanese Treaty. The Foreign Settlement is under the southern wall of the city, just across the Canal, and is a strip of land about 1 mile long and a quarter of a mile broad. The Government has made a good