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TOKYO-YOKOHAMA

TRUSCON STEEL Co. OF JAPAN, (Nippon Truscon Kozai Kabushiki Kaisha)-1, Itchome, Yuraku-cho, Kojimachi-ku; Telephs. 1357, 1358 and 1359 (Marunou- chi); Tel. Ad: Truscon

R. F. Moss, vice-pres. and mng.-dir.

A. J. Accola

B. E Chamberlin S. Takahashi

Factory-Wakas Shinden, Kawasaki;

Teleph. 136 (Kawasaki)

F. W. Shackelton

UNION INSURANCE SOCY. OF CANTON, LTD. 19, Mitsubishi Building, 1, Yurakucho, Itchome, Kojimachi-ku; Telephs. 1156, 1157 (Marunouchi); Tel. Ad: Union

F. S. Boyes, branch manager

UNITED STATES STEEL PRODUCTS Co.-15, Nakadori Marunouchi; Teleph. 682 (Marunouchi), P. O. Box 11 Central; Tel. Ad: Steelmaker

Edmond D. Berton

G. S. Mundle

OF NEW YORK-1,

VACUUM OIL CO. OF NEW

Yeirakucho, Itchome, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo Marine Building

H. E. Daunt, gen. mgr. for Japan A. W. McGlew

J. G. S. Gausden, manager for North-

ern Japan, Tokyo

R. Irwin,

do. Yokohama

YAMATAKE & Co., Importers of Machinery and Tools-7c, Marunouchi; Telephs. 476 to 479 (Marunouchi); Tel. Ad:

Yamatakeco

505

YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.-34, San- chome Hiranu-macho; Telephs. 2658, 3816 (Chojamachi), 4615 (Honkyoku); Tel. Ad: Yokoruco

Baron K. Nakashima, chairman Y. Kawai, president

G. Goto, mang.-director

S. Nakagawa, director

H. E. Raymond, do.

T. Komuro,

do.

W. C. Arthur, do.

YONEI SHOTEN, Importers and Exporters, Merchants and Contractors, Agents for principal Manufacturers, Engineers, and Insurance Cos.-Head Office: 12, ́ Ni- chome, Ginza; Tel. Ad: Akebono and Daybreak

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCN.-3, San- chome Mitoshiro-cho, Kanda; Telephs. 807, 808 (Kanda); Tel. Ad: Flamingo

Representatives of International Com- mittee Young Men's Christian Asso. of North America President-Hon. S. Ebara Vice-Pres.-T. Sugiura Treasurers-Y. Suminokura, L. Sato Res. Secretary-R. Furuhashi Directors-B. Fukunaga, T. Schidachi, T. Yamamoto, T. Makino, J. Merle Davis, K. Ishikawa, Y. Namae, F. Kato, S. Kondo

Gen. Secretary-K. Yamamoto Industrial Work-T. Arakawa Hon. Sec. do.

-J. Merle Davis

Hon. Sec. (Educational)- W. F.R. Stier Physical Director- W. Scott Ryan English School-Forest Middleton

YOKOHAMA

Yokohama is the principal port of Japan, and was opened to foreign trade in July, 1859. It is situated on the Bay of Yokohama, a small bay on the western side of the Gulf of Yedo, in lat. 35 deg. 26 min. 11 sec. N., and long. 139 deg. 39 min. 20 sec., in the island of Honshiu, and is distant about eighteen miles from the capital, with which it is connected by a line of railway. The town, having sprung up from a poor fishing village only, since the site was selected for a treaty port, instead of the little town of Kanagawa, possesses few attractions for the visitor. The scenery around, however, is hilly and pleasing, and on clear days the snow-crowned summit and graceful outlines of Fuji-san, a volcanic mountain 12,370 feet high- celebrated in Japanese literature and depicted on innumerable native works of art-is most distinctly visible, though some seventy-five miles distant. The native portion of Yokohama is compactly built of low houses with tiled roofs. The town is divided into two nearly equal parts, the western half being occupied by what was known, before the abolition of extra-territoriality, as the