ected 1875), the centaur fountain (1891), an
equestrian statue of the emperor William I. (1893), and a statue of the
poet Theodor Korner. A beautiful park, Burgerpark, has been laid out in
the Burgerweide, or meadows, lying beyond the railway station to the
north-east of the city. It is a peculiarity of the domestic
accommodation of Bremen that the majority of the houses, unlike the
custom in most other German towns, where flats prevail, are occupied by
a single family only.

The industries and manufactures of Bremen are of considerable variety
and extent, but are more particularly developed in such branches as are
closely allied to navigation, such as shipbuilding, founding,
engine-building and rope-making. Next in importance come those of
tobacco, snuff, cigars, the making of cigar boxes, jute-spinning,
distilling, sugar refining and the shelling of rice. Bremen owes its
fame almost exclusively to its transmaritime trade, mainly imports. By
the completion of the engineering works on the Weser in 1887-1899,
whereby, among other improvements, the river was straightened and
deepened, to 18 ft., large ocean-going vessels are able to steam right
up to the city itself. It has excellent railway connexions with the
chief industrial districts of Germany. Like Hamburg, it does
predominantly a transit trade; it is especially important as the
importer of raw products from America. In two articles, tobacco and
rice, Bremen is the greatest market in the world; in cotton and indigo
it takes the first place on the continent, and it is a serious rival of
Hamburg and Antwerp in the import of wool and petroleum. The value of
the total imports (both sea-borne and by river and rail) increased from
L22,721,700 in 1883 to about L60,000,000 in 1905; the imports from the
United States, from L9,755,000 in 1883 to about L25,000,000 in 1905. The
countries from which imports principally come are the United States,
England, Germany, Russia, the republics of South America, the Far East
and Australia. The exports rose from a total of L26,096,500 in 1883 to
L62,000,000 in 1905. The number of vessels which entered the ports of
the free state (i.e. Bremen city, Bremerhaven and Vegesack) increased
from 2869 of 1,258,529 aggregate tonnage in 1883, to 4024 of 2,716,633
tons in 1900. Bremen is the centre for some of the more important of the
German shipping companies, especially of the North German Lloyd (founded
in 1856), which, on the 1st of January 1905