Stories from Deli

Michielsen’s time on the East Coast dates back to a long and warm friendship with Tjong A Fie (1860-1921). Nothing else is known about the origin of this friendship, which was of great significance to Michielen, and here again the lack of Michiel’s own notes on this matter takes revenge. Tjong A Fie, who had…

HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ GUNTZEL & SCHUMACHER. Mr. Carl Hick, who has held the position of German Consul at Medan for eleven years, has been closely identified with the commercial interests of Deli for more than twenty years past. Among his other interests and activities he is director of the Handel Maalschappij Guntzel & Schumacher, one of…

Medan, September 7, 1916. A thirtieth anniversary. Now that the 12th of this year Mr Tjong A Fie is a well-known fellow townsman and fellow countryman will celebrate his thirty-year anniversary as the head of the Chinese, now being erected all over the city and the feast, according to his preparations, a in a large…

The Chinese people of Medan. Causery. BY P. B. VAN STADEN TEN BRINK. And now a word about the official heads of the Chinese in Medan. Certainly I do not need to inform the readers further about the necessity of appointing heads; throughout the Ned. Ind.-Archipelago is considered that system applied. At Medan we have…

We would nevertheless like to introduce our readers to the article about Deli in the Penang Gazette of 6 of this occurring. The writer is an American and screaming must therefore be for him the contrasts between the conditions in his native country, where in such an incredibly short time so much grand and useful…

Our trotting coolie turned and showed his sweat glistening face and his gold-gleaming teeth: “Tjaboh, Taukeh?” “Well,” Van Alphen said to me, “now that we’re here, we might as well take a look at the night life of Medan. Who knows, perhaps this Hongkong fellow can show us something amusing?” “Right, let’s take the opportunity.…

The Bangsawan stood on a spacious square. Outside the large frame building there was a swarm of people: Malays, talking in muffled voices, loudly screaming Chinese, individual tall-grown Bengalis with a princely bearing, a couple of constantly drunken Tamuls, and sly-looking Arabs. In the booths of the opportunity vendors and in the travelling kitchens everything…