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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
wine, 6,170 ; rice, 4,825; fruit, dry, 3,524; rosin, 3,363; phosphates, 
2,868; flour, 1,830; iron, 1,492; wood, 1,405; textile fabrics and 
yarn, 1,332; metals, 1,221; beans, 1,185; sulphate of copper, 3,121; 
nutgall, 908; oils, lubricating, 960; cotton, 843; spirits, 763; wool, 
561; paper, 556; gums, 555; peas, 488; conserves, 466 ; drugs, 400: 
[allow and fats, 389; carobs, 383; cacao, 356; pigment, 286; nuts, 
259; my robo! an, 220; chemical products, 205; pepper, 168; cod 
fish, 152; citrons, in salt, 114; sulphur, 92; coloring material, 89; 
cork, 84; almonds, 80; glass, 71; candles and stearin, 59; brass, 
49; asphalt and bitumen, 36 ; tea, 23; all other articles, 1,601. 
While much merchandise of American origin is stored in the Trieste 
warehouses, it is done by the purchasers. It can, therefore, not be 
said that Americans make any direct use of these warehouses. 
All nationalities that make use of the warehouses are treated ex 
actly alike. 
During the last decade the average length of time goods remained 
in bond in the Trieste warehouses was nine weeks. 
HANDLING OF GOODS. 
The Government owns and manages not only all the warehouses, 
but all the piers, lading sheds (hangars), and other appurtenances 
of the port as well. The administration of the warehouses furnishes 
the necessary force of men for the loading and unloading of vessels, 
except the work on board ; it places and operates the cranes, advises 
the receivers, receives the merchandise from the cranes, assorts it 
according to marks and bills of lading, and loads it on wagons or rail 
way cars. On the other hand, the administration receives merchan 
dise from the railway company or other carrier, weighs it, and places 
it on board the vessel. It also attends to certain custom-house 
formalities. 
All goods after being taken from the ship are deposited in the 
hangars. They are exempt there from warehouse charges for from 
three to five days, and the receiver must either remove them or dispose 
of them otherwise within this period. If he fails to do so, the ware 
house authorities may remove the goods from the hangars to the pub 
lic warehouses or may sell them at public auction. 
Goods awaiting shipment enjoy free hangar storage for a period 
of eight days. 
The following is the tariff for various services connected with the 
loading and unloading of freight : 
For removing goods from vessel’s hold to hangar, wagons, or rail 
way cars, without landing them on the quay, 4 heller (0.8 cent) per 
quintal (220.46 pounds) ; when goods are weighed on board the ship, 
5 heller (1 cent) per quintal. This includes the compensation of the 
workmen required to remove the goods from the crane to the hangar 
or the railway car, also the supplying of cars. 
For removing goods from the crane to the quay, assorting them 
according to bills of lading and marks, advising receiver, and plac 
ing the goods on wagons or cars, 10 heller (2 cents) per quintal. A 
special rate, viz, 8 heller (1.6 cents) per quintal obtains for the fol 
lowing articles: Colophony and ordinary rosin, potatoes in sacks, 
earth colors, brass, logwood in blocks, grain, rags in bales, hemp in 
bales, lumber and sttives, Japan earth, jute in bales, flour, metal in