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 pre 
serves, 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and from which goods may be withdrawn for shipment elsewhere 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 tempo 
rary 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 
twenty- 
second 
day. 
Maximum weight of package in kilograms. 
Ninth to teenth 
fifteenth to twen 
day. ty-sec- 
ond day. 
Over 5(15 
113 
226 
339 
460