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public buildings in the native town are the Kencho, opposite the British Consulate, the Town Hall, which has a clock tower, and the Custom House. The Railway Station is also a creditable structure, being a well designed and commodious terminus. On the 12th August, 1899, a disastrous fire occurred in the Iseza Kicho district, in which some seven- teen streets were swept by the flames, the number of houses destroyed being 3,237. The town is now in the enjoyment of an excellent water supply, large Waterworks having been completed in 1887. The harbour is much exposed, but two breakwaters, of an aggregate length of 12,000 feet, have been built and are so projected as to practically enclose the whole of the anchorage, leaving an entrance 650 feet wide between these extremities. There is a pier 2,000 feet long at which vessels may load or discharge. A graving dock was opened on the 26th April, 1897. It is built of large blocks of granite and is 351 feet on the blocks, its length from the outside of the entrance to the head is 419 feet 10 inches and from the outside caisson to the head 400 feet 3 inches. The width of the entrance is 60 feet 8 inches at the top and 45 feet 11 inches at the bottom. The depth is 35 feet 1 inch on the inside, and 31 feet 2 inches on the sill. The depth of water on the blocks is 27 feet 2 inches at spring tides, 26 feet 2 inches at ordinary springs, and 19 feet 8 inches at low water of spring tides. This is the smaller or No. 2 Dock of the Company. The No. 1 Dock, completed at the end of 1898, is 478 ft. 10 in. on the blocks and has a depth inside of 36 ft. 3 in. and on the sill of 34 ft. 1 in., the depth of water on the blocks being 28 ft. 10 in. at springs, 27 ft. 11 in. at ordinary springs, and 21 ft. 4 in. at low water of springs. Yokohama is well supplied with hotels. There are four English daily papers published in the port namely, the Japan Gazette, Japan Herald, Japan Daily Mail, and Japan Daily Advertiser, and several weeklies.
The Japanese population of Yokohama numbered, on the 31st December, 1897, 188,455. The number of foreign residents exclusive of Chinese was 2,096, of whom 869 were British. The Chinese population was returned at 2,015.
In 1901 the values of the different classes of Imports were :-
Arms, Munitions, Clocks, &c. Yen 7,550,194
Indigo
Kerosine Oil......
1,580,352
Beverages and Provisions......
3,458,773
6,406,749
Clothing and Accessories
649,176
Metals and Manufactures of
10,260,017
Cotton, Raw....
5,900,082
Paper and Stationery.
1,487,879
Cotton Yarn..
3,944,240
Sugar
16,371,075
Cotton Piece Goods
4,565,839
Wool and Woollen Manut'res... 6,126,949
Drugs, Medicines & Chemicals
2,347,258
Sundries
14,076,254
Dyes and Paints
1,239,176
Grains and Seeds
2,422,076 Total Imports Foreign Goods Yen 88,386,089
The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows: Grain, Beverages, and Provns. Yen 3,469,271
Metals (mostly copper)
Silk and Cocoons.....
Silk Piece Goods..
6,321,686 78,610,206
Tea Sundries
Yen 5,098,461
10,410,559
29,274,580 Total Exports Native Goods Yen 133,364,763 The value of the Imports in 1900 was Yen 109,584,020, and of the Exports in same year Yen 95,339,071. The value of the Imports thus shows a decrease of Yen 21,197,931, and that of the Exports an increase of Yen 38,025,692 as compared with the year 1901. The total export of raw silk during the season from 1st July, 1898, to same date 1899 was 50,661 bales. The total export for the previous year was 56,783 bales. The export of tea during the season 1st May, 1898, to same date 1899 was 26,515,888 lbs., nearly all for America. The export during the previous season was 27,206,290 lbs.
DIRECTORY
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E. Adet
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B. Martinelli, signs per pro.
Tel. Ad. Advertiser
A. May Knapp, editor and publisher
A. T. Knapp, assistant editor C. L. F. Duhain, manager J. M. dos Santos, foreman I. M. Laffin, shippingjagent
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