100
WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
francs ($18,142). The "ross receipts were 202,000 francs ($38,980),
and the gross expenses 108,000 francs ($20,844).
All sorts of goods are stored, but chiefly wheat, coffee, sugar, wine,
oil, and china. I give the principal charges per 100 kilograms (220.46
pounds), and per month: Wheat, corn, maize, etc., 1.5 cents; coffee,
in sacks, 2.9 cents ; sugar, in sacks, 1.9 cents ; in boxes, 2.9 cents ; wine,
spirits, oil, in casks, 2.9 cents; in bottles, 5.8 cents; stoves, 5.8 cents;
mineral waters, 3.9 cents; china, packed, 3.9 cents; unpacked, 5.8
cents; hardware, 5.8 cents; fruits, in sacks, 2.9 cents; in boxes, 3.9
cents; machines, packed, 3.9 cents; unpacked, 5.8 cents; food preserves,
5.8 cents; furniture, packed, 3.9 cents; unpacked, 5.8 cents.
Persons of all nations are entitled to the use of these warehouses,
and the same tariff is applied uniformly. Of course, no merchandise
entered can be taken out without paying customs duties, save for
transshipment beyond the country or to another custom-house. There
is in both places only one exit for goods, and at all other doors customs
officials are placed to prevent fraudulent passage of merchandise.
(From United States Vice and Deputy Consul-General Smith-Lyte, Constantinople, Turkey.)
Warehouses for the storage of merchandise in transit or in bond
and from which goods may be withdrawn for shipment elsewhere
without paying the customs dues do not exist in this capital.
There are spacious warehouses in connection with and forming
part of the custom-houses in this city. Dimensions can not be
obtained. Those of the Galata custom-house are of a very temporary
character. When the Constantinople quays (Galata side) were
completed in 1897 the custom-house was given accommodation, and
sheds and galvanized zinc buildings were erected temporarily. These
have remained in use to this day. There are, however, two large
stone warehouses in the Stamboul custom-house.
In these warehouses goods may be left for a whole year, but after
that, unless cleared, they are sold by public auction and the proceeds
used to pay accumulated storage. Merchandise intended for the
city may remain eight days without paying storage, from the ninth
day storage commences, at the following rates per day:
Daily storage rates per package at Constantinople warehouses.
Horace Lee Washington, Consul.
Geneva, Switzerland, July 35,190J+.
TURKEY IN EUROPE
CONSTANTINOPLE.
Six-After
twentysecond
day.
Maximum weight of package in kilograms.
Ninth to teenth
fifteenth to twen
day. ty-second
day.
Over 5(15
113
226
339
460
