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Encyclopedia Britannica



SCHIEDAM

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 323 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCHIEDAM , a town and river port of Holland, in the province of
South
  Holland, on the Schie, near its confluence with the Maas, and a junction station 3 M. by rail and steam tramway W. of Rotterdam. Pop. (19o5) 29,227. The public buildings of
interest
  are the' Groote or Janskerk, the old Roman Catholic zhurch, the
synagogue
 , the town-
hall
 , the exchange, the concert-
hall
  and a ruined castle. Schiedam is famous as the seat of a
323
great
  gin manufacture, which, carried on in more than three hundred distilleries, gives employment besides to malt-factories, cooperages and cork-cutting establishments, and supplies
grain
  refuse enough to feed about 30,000 pigs, as well as sufficient yeast to form an important article of export. Other
industries
  include shipbuilding, glass-blowing and the manufacture of stearine candles.


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