SCHIEDAM  , a See also:

• TOWN

town and See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Holland, on the Schie, near its confluence with the See also:

• MAAS, JOSEPH (1847-1886)

Maas, and a junction station 3 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail and See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam See also:

• TRAMWAY

tramway W. of See also:

• ROTTERDAM

Rotterdam . Pop . (19o5) 29,227 . The public buildings of See also:

• INTEREST

interest are the' Groote or Janskerk, the old See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic zhurch, the See also:

• SYNAGOGUE (avvaywyii)
• SYNAGOGUE, UNITED

synagogue, the town-See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall, the See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange, the See also:

• CONCERT (through the French from Lat. con-, with, and certare, to strive)

concert-hall and a ruined See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle . Schiedam is famous as the seat of a 323 See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• GIN

gin manufacture, which, carried on in more than three See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred distilleries, gives employment besides to See also:

• MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt-factories, cooperages and See also:

• CORK
• CORK (perhaps through Sp. corcha from Lat. cortex, bark, but possibly connected with quercus, oak)
• CORK, RICHARD BOYLE

cork-cutting establishments, and supplies See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain refuse enough to feed about 30,000 pigs, as well as sufficient yeast to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form an important See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article of export . Other See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries include See also:

• SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding, See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass-blowing and the manufacture of stearine candles .