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PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO-NEWCHWANG

DIRECTORY

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA), LTD.-Chinwangtao; Tel. Ad: Powhattan

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE-Address: Tientsin;

Tel. Ad: Swire

Agencies

China Navigation Co., Ld. Ocean Steamship Co., Ld. China Mutual S. N. Co., Ld.

*GIA Chin wang tao hai kuan CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-E. B. Howell (stationed

at Tientsin)

Deputy Commissnr.-Lo Ch'i-ming

Tidesurveyor-H. A. Smith

Examiner-T. Araki

Tidewaiter-D. F. Lobastoff

興盛吉 Chi sheng hsing

HOP KEE & Co., General Storekeepers and

Commission Agents

局務礦灤開

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

Ad: Maishan

· Tel.

R. A. McConaghy, agent and engineer

W. B. Chilton, assist. agent

A. G. MacNeill, assistant engineer Capt. W. J. Donohue, marine supt. Dr. D. D. Muir, medical officer A. Hatton, yard foreman

A. Lemoing, wharf master G. Simmons, first accountant

Weng Ko Chai, general assistant to

agent and engineer

MITSUBISHI TRADING CO., LTD.-Tel. Ad:

Iwasakisal, Chinwangtao

司公限有鑛煤票北

PEI PIAO COAL MINING Co.-Mines: Pei

Piao via Chinhsien P.M. Railway, North China

STANDARD OIL Co.-Tel. Ad: Socony

R. M. Reid

TEXAS CO., THE, Petroleum Products-Tel.

Ad: Texaco

Wang Yu Tseng

YAO HUA MECHANICAL GLASS Co., LTD.—

See Tientsin section

NEWCHWANG

莊牛 Niu-chwang

口營 Ying-kow

Newchwang, in latitude 40 deg. 40 min. 38 sec. N., longitude 122 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. E., was opened to foreign trade in May, 1864, and was for more than 40 years the only Treaty port in Manchuria. Manchuria comprises the three Provinces of Fêngtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, and is commonly called by the Chinese the "Tung San Shiêng," or the Three Eastern Provinces. Newchwang is situated in the most southern of these three provinces-Fêngtien, also known as Shêng Ching-and lies about 13 miles from the mouth of the Liao River, which empties into the Gulf of Liaotung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili. The proper name of the port is Yingkow, and not Newchwang, which is situated 90 li (30 miles) further up the river. The old town of Newchwang was designated by Treaty to be opened to trade, but the first foreigners, finding Ying- kow more conveniently situated and more adapted in every respect for the purposes trade, quietly installed themselves there and got over the difficulty by the simple process of changing the name of Yingkow into that of Newchwang!

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The country in the immediate vicinity of the port is flat and unpicturesque in the extreme, and the town itself has nothing in the way of attractions for the traveller. The climate, from the foreigner's point of view, is one of the best in China, the sum- mers being comparatively cool, while the winters are cold and bracing. The hottest summer temperature rarely exceeds 90° (Fahr.), but cold blasts from the North pull