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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
useful hints may be gleaned from the experience of a municipality 
which is in sole control of a water front involving a capital expendi 
ture of millions, and an annual turnover of large sums. 
WAREHOUSES FOR FREE GOODS. 
The city has its own transit sheds and its warehouses for the 
storage of free goods. I send inclosed a list 0 of these sheds and 
warehouses with their area and cost of construction in perhaps 
unnecessary detail; but it is intended to show that the city has found 
it desirable to split up this warehouse accommodation. It has carried 
out the principle that its storage buildings should be so placed as to 
receive goods direct from ship. The saving of one handling thus 
effected has been the principal reason no doubt that warehouses in 
private ownership for nondurable goods have been to a large extent 
superseded. 
Grain and general merchandise are stored in these warehouses. At 
them the city is, in fact, prepared to handle almost any sort of a cargo 
from the moment that the ship breaks bulk up to the time of its final 
disappearance from the docks. 
Charges on unbonded general goods vary widely. 6 The quay rate, 
which comprises charges for landing from ship’s rail, sorting on quay 
when required, and delivering to railway trucks, including landing 
accounts, varies from 44 cents to $1.33 per ton, delivery to craft along 
side costing 6 cents per ton extra. The warehouse rate comprises 
landing from ship’s rail, sorting when required, housing, unpiling, 
and delivery to trucks, including landing accounts, and varies from 
61 cents to $1.39 per ton, delivery from warehouse to craft alongside, 
12 cents per ton extra. For the storage of goods in the warehouses the 
rent per week varies from 3 to 12 cents per ton. Weighing on deliv 
ery, when required, 14 cents per ton. These charges must be paid by 
the person giving the order for the work or clearing the goods. 
The charges and rent on barley, oats, durra, and millet in bulk per 
100 bushels are: From ship to craft, 70 cents; from ship to truck, 80 
cents; warehouse rate, $1.50; rent per week, G cents ; on wheat, maize, 
beans, peas, and rye the charges are: From ship to craft, 74 cents; 
from ship to truck, 84 cents; warehouse rate, $1.64; rent per week, 8 
cents; the charge for turning in warehouse is 14 cents per 100 bushels; 
for screening, 68 cents per 100 bushels ; for weighing over, 54 cents per 
100 bushels; for cutting and starting bags (merchant’s proportion of 
work) in ship’s hold (including bundling and delivering), 24 cents 
per 100 bushels. 
The ship to craft rate includes metering, filling sacks in the 
hold of vessel, weighing, and delivery to rail of craft alongside ves 
sel discharging. The ship to truck rate includes metering, filling 
«This list is on file in the Bureau of Statistics. It shows 4G different sheds 
with an area of 104.133 square yards, erected at an approximate cost of 
$1,125,000, which cost includes that of 30,994 square yards of covered way, not 
included in the area of the sheds. Some of these sheds are built three stories 
high, and many have two floors. There are, besides, one six-story warehouse of 
0,414 square yards area and costing $65,000, and three granaries with an aggre 
gate area of over 51,000 square yards and costing over $800,000. 
& Table of charges on general goods is on file in Bureau of Statistics, Depart 
ment of Commerce and Labor.