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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



WARNER SUGAR REFINING CO. INCREASES 

 FACILITIES 



The Warner Sugar Refining Co., whose 

 refinery across the river at Edgewater, 

 N. J., is a familiar sight to New Yorkers 

 from Riverside Drive, is proceeding to en- 

 large its facilities for receiving raw sugar. 

 To this end the raw sugar dock, which 

 now measures 300 x 120 feet, is being ex- 

 tended riverward, 66 feet. Besides giving 

 increased length, the extension is to be 

 built northward, giving the dock an "L" 

 shape for the present. The northerly wing 

 as it may be called, will be 88 x 81 feet. 

 It will be seen that with a length of 360 

 feet and a width at the river end of 208 

 feet two vessels can be accommodated at 

 the same time. Ultimately the pier will 

 be widened throughout its entire length 

 and it will then be possible to dock three 

 vessels at once — one on each side and one on 

 the end. 



In connection with all this, it will interest 

 our readers to know that, partly at least, 

 through the earnest efforts of the Warner 

 Company, the War Department has ex- 

 tended the pier head line several hundred 

 feet, and the Government is spending over 

 a million dollars dredging for operations 

 looking to the general improvement of the 

 North River from Fort Lee to Jersey City. 



Another imjwrtant feature will be the 

 extension of the bonded warehouse space 

 made i)ossible when the pier is fully en- 

 larged. The Warner Company, like other 

 refineries, keeps a certain section of its pier 

 under bond where sugar, not required for 

 immediate use can be stored until needed. 

 If no change is made in existing law and 

 .sugar is admitted duty free next year, 

 the necessity of l)onding this storage space 

 will, of course, terminate. 



The expansion outlined above is made 

 necessary by continual growth of business, 

 and while details of future plans cannot 

 be published at this time, it may be said 

 that alterations will be required in the 

 near future to extend facilities for shipping 

 refined sugar from the adjoining refined 

 sugar dock. 



These improvements will be made in due 

 course, together with any others necessary 

 to fulfill the Company's purpose to maintain 



the entire plant at the h'ghcst possible 

 standard of efficiencv. 



THREATENED SHORTAGE OF SUGAR IN 

 SWITZERLAND 



The greatest tlanger tiiat is at ])re-.- 

 ent threatening the condensed-milk and 

 other Swiss food-products industries is the 

 difficulty in procuring sugar, particularly 

 from Austria and Germany, which countries 

 heretofore have been the principal sources 

 for the Swiss supply. 



Owing to the threatened shortage, the com- 

 mercial division of the Swiss Political Depart- 

 ment sent a circular letter on March 2G, 1915, 

 to the different sugar-consuming industries, 

 as well as to the wholesale dealers of sugar for 

 household purposes, asking them to report 

 within six days the quantity of the sugar of all 

 kinds in stock and under contract with Aus- 

 trian and Cierman manufacturers, and the 

 estimated additional requirements above the 

 stock on hand for the remainder of the present 

 year. It was also suggested that in case this 

 inquiry proved that the stock on hand was 

 sufficient for only a short time, it might be 

 necessary, in addition to the export embargo 

 on sugar, to place an export embargo on all 

 products containing sugar, such as chocolate, 

 condensed milk, confectioneries, etc., and 

 that it might even be necessary for the Swiss 

 Government to sequestrate all the sugar in 

 stock that was destined for the sugar-con- 

 suming industries in order to insure a suffi- 

 cient supply for household purposes. The 

 replies to the circular letter indicated that the 

 .stock on hand was probably sufficient for 

 two months, and it is understood that the 

 greater part of the stocks was of sugar des- 

 tined for the different industries that are said 

 to have been working overtime, in the mean- 

 time, in order to forestall a possible seques- 

 tration of their sugar stocks by the Federal 

 Government. 



No sequestrations of sugar have to date 

 (May 31, 1915) been made, and it is also 

 understood that, although both Austria and 

 Germany maintain their general export em- 

 bargoes against sugar, and although Switzer- 

 land in turn maintains its export embargo 

 against chocolate, condensed milk, etc., going 

 to these countries, an agreement has recently 



