1924

CHIN KIANG—NANKING
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Concession Electric Light and Water
Works
. U. J. Kelly
Country Club
U. J. Kelly, hon. secretary
I9f§ fM Chin-Jcianff-kwan
tstoms, Chinese Maritime
Commissioner—E. Alabaster
Assists.—O. Stinglhamber, D. Monroe
Medical Officer —W. Foulkes Jones,
M R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master—
H. P. Leaver
Assist. Boat Officer
Acting do. —R. J. Redd
Examiners—A. Nichol, J. H. Hunter,
E. A. Young, A. J. Payne
Tidewaiters—G. T. MacLaughlin, V.
(/. Spink, E. E. Ferguson, J. J.
Martin, R. St. J. Hicks
'ft it Fung-ho
Gearing & Co., Merchants and Commis¬
sion Agents—2, Paoshun Buildings
Mrs. E. Starkey ,
Agency
Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld.
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I Agencies
. 'Indo-China S. N. Co., Ld.
Canton Insurance Office, Ld.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
Masonic—Doric Lodge, No. 1433, E.C.
U. J, Kelly, secretary (acting)
Municipal Council
U. J. Kelly, secretary
W. Foulkes Jones, medical officer
j Post Office
Postmaster—E. Toussaint
Shanghai Nanking Railway
J. W. C. Chun, district engineer
R. Frame, permanent way inspector
^ Mei-foo
Standard Oil Co. of New York—TeL
Ad: Socony
H. F. Seitz, manager
J. M. Avent | A. G. Warner
C. F. Harrs, installation supt.
Chung-kwoh-d ien-pao-chuk
Telegraphs, Chinese
S. S. Chang, manager
S. Y. Foo, clerk-in-charge
S. Tam, assist.
Jardine,Matheson (feCo.,LTD., Merchants
—Tel. Ad: Inchcoy
G. Purton, agent
Texas Company
NANKING
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The city owes its present name, “Southern capital,” to having been many times the
), capital of the Empire, the last occasion being in the Ming dynasty at the commencement
) of the 15th century. Nanking is also known as Kiang Ning Fu, being the chief city of
1 ifche prefecture of Kiang Ning, and the seat of government for the provinces grouped
t under the designation of Kiang Nan. In official documents it is not considered proper
1 to call the city Nanking, since the Government at Peking acknowledges but one capital.
I J Besides Kiang Ning Fu, an elegant Chinese name commonly used is Kin Ling or “golden
i mound.” From the 5th or 6th century B.C. to the present there has been a walled city at
1 'this place. Nanking was specified in the French Treaty of 1858 as one of the Yangtze
j ports to be opened to trade, but was not formally opened until May, 1899. In July,
1 1915, Pukow, the southern terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway (lying across the
i river from Nanking), was opened to foreign trade as a branch office of the Nanking
3;, Customs.