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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
The following, from the report of the chamber of commerce for
1902, shows the present situation :
As mentioned in our last report, the town council resolved on September 19,
1900, to build some additional vaults and ground rooms at the communal
entrepôt. These were completed in the first half of December.
As the winter season is not suitable to the transport of wine, the operation
of already contracted leases was postponed until May 1. Some new ground
rooms, destined for wine and arrack, were used during the winter tor the storage
of sugar.
In December a resolution was passed for the building of a new warehouse,
to be let to the wardens of the tea establishment for the storage of tea, with
ground rooms destined for spirits. The bearing capacity of the floors of this
warehouse is projected at 1,000 kilograms (2,204.6 pounds) per square meter
(10.76 square feet). (In the entrepôt dock they have a capacity of 2,000 kilograms
per square meter.) Spaces for the erection of goods sheds were let
to the Holland Iron Railway Company and the company for the administration
of State railways. A new shed was placed behind the eastern iron shed for the
storage of molasses. The town council resolved to build near the entrance to
the entrepôt a police station and a dining and waiting room, and also a coffeehouse,
to be operated by the company. So much regarding the extension of the
entrepôt buildings.
Of sundry improvements introduced in the course of last year we notice the
following: To meet complaints about leakage from sugar a first floor was covered
with asphalt. The boom closing the access by water was improved by making
it slide lengthwise. The necessary mooring buoys and stopping posts were
placed. It was resolved to apply a lining of iron cement to the walls of the
room let to the Government in order to cut off the smell of the methyl alcohol
stored there. Sundry necessary- items were supplied—some boxes for
custom-house men, protection for electric wires, repeated digging out of
water pipes to repair breaks caused by the sinking of the soil, renewals of
pavement, etc.
The “ Blaauwhoedenveem ” (a warehousing company) obtained permission
for placing an automatic weighing machine to serve in packing tea.
The rent received amounted to 103,579 florins ($41,639) and the storage and
wages under wardens to 80,856 florins ($32,504).
Frank D. Hill, Consul.
Amsterdam, Netherlands, July #0,190J h
PORTUGAL.
LISBON.
(From United States Vice and Deputy Consul Klnchant, Liston, Portugal.)
The dimensions of the principal warehouse at Lisbon are 75 meters
by 26 meters (246 by 85 feet). The original cost can not be given.
The warehouses are conducted under a concession from the Government
by Messrs. Hersent & Co., whose official address is New Harbor
Works, 10 Travessa do Corpo Santo, Lisbon. The services rendered
include loading and unloading of steamers or sailing vessels either
anchored in river or berthed at quayside; storage of merchandise generally;
removal of merchandise by rail, along quays, communicating
with main lines for distribution to all parts of the country; receiving
merchandise for export, and, in short, acting for importers and
exporters as required.
The rates charged for the various services performed at the harbor
