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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. An extensive scheme for improving the harbour and providing better facilities for trade has been carried out and large steamers can now go alongside the Customs piers to load or discharge The Yokohama Dock Company has now three dry docks of 515 ft., 481 ft., and 376 ft. docking length, 80 ft., 63 ft., and 50 ft., width of entrance, and 28 ft... 21.5 ft. and 26 ft,, of water on the blocks respectively, and a mooring basin of 600 ft. by 100 ft by 25 ft. Yokohama is well supplied with hotels. The Japan Gazette is now the only English daily newspaper published in Yokohama; others which were formerly published in the port are now printed in Tokyo..
The Japanese population of Yokohama has grown considerably in the last ten years and is now about 397,574. According to investigations conducted by the Census Registration Department of the Yokohama Municipal Office,, the total number of foreign residents in the city at the end of 1914 is put at 6,851, which, compared with the census taken at the end of the preceding years, shows a decrease of 1,702. This is attributed largely to the war, many having left to serve their country at the front. The British have decreased by 382, the French by 48, Russians by 29, Italians by 17, Germans by 121 and Austrians by 85. The importance of the foreign element in the port may be gauged by the fact that they pay nearly 40% of the entire amount of business and income taxes collected in Yokohama, though they have no voice in the control of local affairs.
The foreign trade of the port in 1915 was 305,953 588 yen in exports, and 140,350,624 yen in imports.
In 1915 the values of the different classes of Imports were:-
Cotton, Yarns
Grains and Seeds
Iron and Steel
Vehicles, Clocks, Watches, &c. Yen 3,239,616
Yen44,840,558
5,294,290
13,756,136
Woollen Tissues...... Cotton Manufactures
Drugs and Medicines
Bean-cake, Manure
Sugar and Sweetmeats..
Machinery
Ores and Minerals
Oils, Fats and Waxes
.....
1,562,948
2,512,595
12,240,471 Metal Manufactures
1,651,058
12,878,518
Copper. Lead, Zinc, &c..
3,188,018
6,556,308
Dyes and Paints
1,893,552
3,777,845
Beverages and Comestibles...
1,417,296
3,623,578
Sundries
12,405,564
5,452,730
4,059,523
Total Imports... You 140,350,624
Paper and Paper Manfetures.
The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows:-
Silk (Raw and Waste)...... Yen 162,592,268 Drugs, Medicines, &c. .......
... Yen 4,013,33 I
Silk Manufactures
Cotton Manufactures
Metals and MetalManuftrs.
Braids of Hemp.......
Sugar and Confectioneries...
Clothing and Accessories
40,335,519
Marine Products
1,923,427
10,483,164
Tea
2,523,674
25,279,653
8,728,460
Paper and Paper Manfctures. Sundries..
2,181,396
37,281,697
3,898,139
6,712,860
Total Exports... Yen 305,953 589
The above figures represent the total imports and exports of both foreign and native goods.
DIRECTORY
(For Government Departments see under G.)
ADET, CAMPREDON & Co., Agents for the Comité des Assureurs Maritimes de Bordeaux
ADVERTISER PUBLISHING Co. (Kabusliki Kaisha), Publishers of the "Japan Adver-
tiser "-18, Yamashita-cho, Kyobashi ku Tokyo; Teleph. 2570 (Shimbashi). Branch Office. 5, Maitreet; Teleph 1649; Tel. Ad; Advertiser
B. W, Fleisher, proper and pblshr.
Hugh Byas, editor
Ralph Turner, asst manager
Glenn Babb, city cuffor
Oscar E. Riley, business manager