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BATAVIA
Pieterszoon Coen, which was unveiled when the 250 years' existence of Batavia was celebrated. On the right and left of the palace are the Supreme Court and the Military Club Concordia. At a short distance from the Waterlooplein is another and larger square, the Koningsplein, each side of which is nearly one mile long. The square is surrounded by elegant comfortable houses, the residences of the higher officials and wealthy merchants. There is also a fine church, Willemskerk, near the railway station, and the museum of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences.
The old city and the new are connected by three railways, two tramways, and wide roads for carriages. Different Banks and Banking Corporations have agencies at Batavia, viz:--The Netherlands Trading Society (Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij}, with a capital of 60,000,000 (of which f.45,000,000 paid up) and a reserve capital of f.5,000,000 gave a dividend of 7 per cent. in 1903. The Netherlands Indian Mercantile Bank (Nederlandsch Indische Handelsbank), with a capital of f.7,200,000 and a reserve capital of f.1,576,670 40 promotes trade, industry, and agriculture in Netherlands India, advances money to agricultural estates and for the trade in produce. The Colonial Bank, capital f.10,000,000, also supplies capital to estates and promotes agricultural enterprise. The Netherlands Indian Escompto Company, with a capital of f.4,000,000 and a reserve capital of f.282,000, does general banking business, advances money on shares, etc. There are also agencies of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- tion and of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
The port of Tandjong Priok is in communication with Batavia by railway and by a canal. The outer harbour is formed by two piers 1,850 metres long; the entrance is 125 metres wide, and the depth is 8 metres. The inner harbour has a quay 1,100 metres long and 175 metres wide; the water has a depth of 7.50 metres. There is extensive accommodation for coaling and in the docks and workshops all kinds of repairs to vessels can be made. The expenses for the construction of the harbour and annexed works amounted to 26 millions of guilders.
The harbour was visited in 1890 by 647 steamers and 53 sailing ships.
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The population of Batavia consisted on the 31st December, 1900, of 8,893 Europeans 26,817 Chinese, 2,245 Arabs, 232 other foreign Orientals, and 77,700 natives; total, 115,887
BUITENZORG
The usual residence of the Governor-General is at Buitenzorg, at a distance of a little more than one hour by railway from Batavia. The population of Buitenzorg consisted of 1,649 Europeans, 3,854 Chinese, 463 Arabs, 20 other foreign Orientals and 19,089 natives; total, 25,075. The botanical gardens near the palace of the Governor- General were made in 1817, and are well known not only for their beautiful arrange- ment but especially for the great services rendered to science and agriculture under the management of the eminent directors Teysmann, Dr. Scheffer and Prof. Dr. Treub. All experiments for the introduction of exotic plants into Netherlands India are made here, with the result that many useful plants from foreign countrics are reared and flourish in Java as in their native soil.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
JAVASCHE BANK
President J. Reysenbach
DIRECTORY
Directeuren J.F.H.de Vignon Vandevelde,
A. F. van Suchtelen
Plantsvervangende Directeuren-W.Evan
Charante, Mr A. H. du Mosch President Commissaris-J. A. van der
Chys
Commissarissen-J. Schoutendorp, H. R.
de Vries, H. N. Stuart
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