Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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se steamships, 1,833Japanese junks and sailing ships, 3,406 foreignsteamships and 77 sailing ships, giving a totalof 9,164 vessels of 13,584,079 tonnage, clearedthe ports. The British ships numbered 1,777of 4.758,534 tons; 427 were German with 1,277,-278 tons; 407 were Norwegian with 392,343tons; 284 were American with 975,834 tons; 265were Russian with 353,667 tons; and 113 of234,408 tons were French. The mercantilenavy in 1003 comprised 1,088 modern steamersof 657,269 tons; 3.514 modern sailing vessels of322,154 tons, and 1,114 native craft above 8 tons. Railways, Roads, Posts, Telegraphs, andTelephones.— In 1904 there were 4,651 milesof steam railroad in operation, several exten-sions and new tracks projected and building,and over 300 miles of electric street railroads.In March 1906, the Imperial Diet promulgateda bill nationalizing the railroads. The chiefhighways or roads comprised 4.481 miles ofgovernment roads and 15.362 miles of pre-fectural roads. In 1904-5 there were 6,524
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HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY MUTSUHITO.The Emperor of Japan. JAPAN pi i ii throughout the empire handling an-nual lj .1 mail oi 929,286,136 purrs. In the same year there were 16,482 miles ofraph 1111 and 2.17.! miles of submai inecable. The numbei ol t ered inthr year was 19,410,674 I In- telephone serviceconsisted of 5 bureaus, 323 call offices, 35,065subscribers, and .i.o_i miles of communication, Weights, Measures, and Money.— The chiefobstacle to profitable trade after the opening ofthe !■ >rt> was the conflict between nativeand foreign ideas on the subject of currencjThe money of Japan consisted of a great va-riety nf gold, silver, and copper cuius. TheId ci iin was the obang, a pii ce 6inches in length and .ij in breadth, worth about$100. li was not in common use. The largestgold coin in ordinary circulation was the co-bang, which was 21.. inches in length, \l/z inbreadth, and worth about $7.50. A still morecommon coin was the itzibue, which when ofgold wa

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