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TIENTSIN-TAKU

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興泰新 Hsin Tai Hsing

WILSON & Co., Merchants and General

Commission Agents-Victoria Road;

Teleph. 1143; Tel. Ad: Wilson

R. G. Buchan

H. F. Dyott, signs per pro.

D. B. Walker,

W. G. Speyer

J. A. Andrew

A. Adaa

E. C. Leighton

L. Horenstein

Agencies

do.

O. Mamen

A. Delwig

Miss T. Verest-

chagine

Dodwell & Co.'s Steamers

North China Insurance Co., Ld. Sun Fire Office

Standard Life Assurance Co. South British Insurance Co., Ld. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Socy. Thames & Mersey Marine Insce. Co., Ld. Palatine Insurance Co. Ld. Ocean Transport Co., Ld.

WOLFF, CARL, Importer and Commission Agent-307, Victoria Road; Tel. Ad: Silesius; Codes: A.B.C.6th edns. Bentley's

司公璃玻造製器機華耀

Yao-hua-chi-ch'i-chih tsao-po-li-kung-ssu

YAO HUA MECHANICAL GLASS CO., LTD.- Consular Road (National Ind. Bank

Building); Teleph. 1090 (South); Tel. Ad: Chinglass

Kailan Mining Administration, gen-

eral managers

Board of Directors -- Li Po Chih (chairman), P. C. Young, C.B.E. (deputy chairman), Li Sze Hsiang, Wang Shao Chuan, Li Shi Ming, A. Docquier and G. Gaillard George K. Huang, secretary Factory-Chinwangtao

O. Gobbe,

chief engineer

E. Herman, assist. do. A. Carlier

P. C. King

L. Van Win J. Segard

Dr. D. D. Muir, medical officer Mlle. L. Leclercq, stenographer P. Baute, O. Jaspart, E. Leclercq,

and M. Wauters, drawing machine mechanics

F. Devienne, F. Bellings and J.

Warmont, furnace melters

M. Mondron, G. Gilson, glass cutters

TAKU

沽大 Ta-ku

This village is situated at the mouth of the Pei-ho, on the southern bank of the river about 36 miles from Tientsin by water. The surrounding country is so flat and uninteresting that it is difficult for a stranger to detect the entrance to the river. Beyond the mouth of the river a large mud bank, clearly visible at low tide, stretches out to sea for some miles. It is through this bank and about 4 miles from the real mouth of the river that the bar extends with a width of 150 feet.

There are no clearly defined anchorages but steamers arriving off the bar at low tide must anchor outside the bar while steamers from Tientsin proceeding to sea may anchor anywhere in the river clear of the shipping channel.

The village of Taku is of inconsiderable size and contains few shops and no buildings of interest. About a mile below the village in a direct line lie the Old Southern and Central Fort, while on the northern bank of the river lies the Northern Fort. All are completely demolished and now present the appearance of mounds of earth, though periodical whitewashing of the surface facing seaward makes them serve a useful modern purpose-an aid to navigation. The only foreign residents are the employees of the Customs, the Taku Tug and Lighter Co., and The Pilot Corporation, situated a short distance below Taku. The railway from the neighbouring town of Tangku, on the Northern Bank of the river, to Tientsin was completed in 1888.

Between the signal-station and Messrs. Butterfield & Swire wharf on the northern bank is situated "Cockle Village" so called because of the comparatively large industry for the boiling and drying of shellfish such as cockles, crabs, clams, etc., that is carried