A. 20
PEIPING
most Chinese buildings in this section were removed the Legation quarter presents the appearance of a European settlement of about half a square mile in extent. There are several large stores, which sell all kinds of foreign goods. The Peiping Club is much larger and inore convenient than it was before; there is a Catholic Church for the Legation Guards, and several hospitals-Rockefeller Foundation (a handsome and splendidly equipped institution, the opening of which marked an epoch in the history of Peiping), Dojin (Japanese, completed in 1917), Central, German, St. Michael's and the Methodist Episcopal John L. Hopkins Memorial- which are provided with accommoda- tion for both Chinese and European patients. There are many foreign banks, and numerous Chinese banks. In addition to a number of smaller hotels, there are two large splendidly-equipped hotels-the Hotel des Wagons-Lits and the Hotel de Pekin. The latter is a magnificent structure capable of accommodating 1,000 guests.
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The main streets of Peiping are macadamized, and two electric light companies have been organized which will furnish light wherever wanted in the city. Outside the Legation quarter there are many foreign buildings, the number of which is growing yearly, changing to some extent the appearance of the business localities adjacent to the Glacis.
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Since the revolution many changes, which would have been unthinkable under the Manchu régime, have taken place. In addition to opening all available gates, the authorities have constructed several new streets at considerable cost, and are giving better access to certain localities which were formerly badly served. The Imperial City Wall is now pierced in over a dozen places, and three new thoroughfares have been opened, viz., the Nan Ch'ih Tzu, the Nan Fu K'ou, and the Fu Yu Chieh, the last-mentioned providing a well-made road alongside the western wall of the Imperial City. Peiping has a population of 1,375,634 (figures of the Ministry of the Interior.)
There has been a considerable decline in the official population, both Chinese and foreign, since the transfer of the capital to Nanking.
There are air services to Shanghai via Tientsin and Tsingtao and to Canton via Tsinanfu, Sianfu, Hankow and Changsha.
Peiping is now connected with Tientsin by a motor road, and there are also motor roads to many places in the Western Hills.
DIRECTORY
(For Legations See China Section, Pages A16-A18)
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION OF THE
DIPLOMATIC QUARTER
Members-Y. Muto (Japanese Em- bassy), president, J. Pieters (Belgian Legation), M. le Jonk- heer M. W. van Weede (Nether- lands Legation), J. Dautremer (Banque de l'Indo-Chine), hon. treasurer, J. H. Voskamp (Deutsch-Asiatische Bank) Medical Officer of Health-W. H.
Graham Aspland, M.D.
Clerk of Works--A. Thiele
Inspector of Police Capt. M. Inouye Secretary W. P. Thomas
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AMERICAN BANK NOTE Co. Pei Ch'ang
Chieh, Hui Chi Ssu; Teleph. 659 (E); Cable Ad: Banknote
AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (See
Associations)
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AMERICAN CHINESE Co. (Federal Inc. U.S.A.), Ford Sales Service-4, Tung Chang An Chieh; Teleph 4380 (East); Cable Ad: Tacco
G. T. Cole, manager
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