Directory_and_Chronicle_1939 — Page 711

SOOCHOW-CHINKIANG

DIRECTORY

會公聖 Sung Kung Wei

AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION Cable Ad:

J

Amchumiss

Miss E. M. A. Cartwright

Rev. F. A. Cox and wife

Miss A. B. Jordan

Rev. H. A. McNulty and wife

Mr. D. G. Poston

Mrs. W. H. Standring

亞細亞 A si a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Teleph. 357: Cable Ad: Doric

C. Woolhouse, manager

C. H. W. Robertson,

關海州蘇

Soo Chow Hai Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME-

Acting Comr.-Chen Tso-chü

校 學 範 師 子女海景

LAURA HAYGOOD NORMAL SCHOOL-House

231, 137, Edinburgh Road, Shanghai

Miss A. E. Bradshaw

Miss Kate B. Hackney

Miss Nina Troy

Miss Ethel Bost

Miss Mary Winn

局政郵國民華中

POST OFFICE-

A329

First Class Postmaster--Wong Chi-

sheng, deputy postal Commissioner

SOOCHOW BRICK AND TILE Co.---

J. A. Snell, president

Victor Chang, manager

學大吳東

Tung woo ta hck

SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Incorporated

under the laws of the States of

Tennessee, U.S.A., 1900) (Register-

ed with Nationalist Nationalist

August, 1929)--

Tien Sse Tsang

Government,

Mei Foo

STANDARD-VACUUM OIL Co.-Cable Ad:

Standvac

Daniel Ho, in-charge

K. Y. Tan, assistant

TUNG WOO DISPENSARY-West Central,

Street; Cable Ad: Tungwo

CHINKIANG

江鎮

Chin-kiảng

The port of Chinkiang, which was opened to trade by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze River, about 150 miles from its mouth, and near the entrances of the southern and northern sections of the Grand Canal. Formerly this position gave it great importance, and it was at one time believed that the port must eventually become a serious rival to Shanghai, but the neglect of the inland waterways, and especially of the Grand Canal, which is closed to steam. traffic for some months during each year, either because the water is too shallow or because the wash from launches during the high water season would injure the embankments, is causing the trade to be diverted to Pukow, Tsingtao and Nantung- hsien. A further reason for the decline in importance of the port is the silting up of the harbour. The Chenjenchow Spit to the west of the harbour continues to increase slowly, and two additional spits, one stretching north-west from Consular Bluff and one stretching north-west from Silver Island Bluff, are now forming.

Chinkiang is one of the pleasantest ports on the river. It is now within five hours railway journey of Shanghai, which enables necessities to be delivered promptly, while the Shanghai papers are received the same afternoon

The sur- rounding country is very pretty and contains fair shooting. Road development is proceeding apace and motor cars are steadily increasing in numbers.

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