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CHAPTER I
THE AWAKENING OF RUSSIA.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9cm, 1901
| railway rush for the ordinary passenger. "Ex- one offer tench that is truly Russian. On the tes 'ccscles ?*** "Not without an order from the platform at Stolbtal is a chapel ardent, hend-quarters." "No room? "Will, there's, and thora the train waita whilst the conductors. another train to-morrow." The like congestion and others attend divine service. In Siberia pervades the Fort Office, the Police department the trains fake their church and priests with the Crown department, indeed, all public offices them, but in Russia the church-car is aa yot The capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow, have unknown. The delay is silowed for somewhere; Leach but one man selling stamps at the chief exactly to scheduled time the train arrives at Fost Office; be closes his drawer at twofin, Cleo | the Moscow terminus, ao longer on the out- day, and is not able to reckon without the skits of the town. nazistance of a counting board! There are s half-dozen or so branch offices, but at these
Until a comparatively récent date Rusis was treated by the nations of Western Europe as aD Asistio state. It was our mistake so to regards are as scarce as postal orders are at the backstar-postmaster's shop in a Wolsh village, her. Russia is no more Asiatic than she is At one branch Post Offles, in Moscow, the Europeay sione among the Great Powers to letter-bor was filled to overdowing-a dozen day she is Continental.
I took my letters projected from the slit.
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which he might see into Europe. Since his day Russia has opened doors to the west, bat has never travelled far in that direction; she has turned instend towards the norise and marched eastwards,
We British have peopled south and west, but, although we have spread, more or less, to every point of the compass, the east romains an colonised. We do not know the cast; its very strangeness awakens our interest, may von fascinate us, but never you have we been
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to accept them. Texplained the matter. Find letter-box which is not full," said ho. "That will be difficult, said 1. "Then wait until one is emptied to-morrow,” ha rotamed,
In Russis the people are awake; the govern. ment departments are not able to cope with the business brought them; they do not work at high pressure, and the higher officials know little or nothing of the business the public are anxious to transact, but have no opportunity of getting through. Instead of sending u telogram an ordinary telegram has been three weeks in
The Moscow of the literary traveller, the Moscow we all know, was a superb village ballt in a great hurry less than a hundred years ago. The larger part of that Moscow bea already disappeared, the remainder is going as fail as Loudon siam before a newly-elected County Council. Wooden Moscow was pictures. and fire insurance societies objected to it Wooden Moscow will never re-appear; instead MESSHS. W. BREWER & CO. there is a town with immense buildings of white etnono and terra colta; ́à town of surfaco railways and slectric trams; of pared streets burrowed by water and gas companies; of large shops, magnificent arcades and all that goes to make a modern town fit for the habitation of the man of business. Those who would see anything of the Moscow they have pictured to themselves must hurry, soon all that will be Churches. The bazaar of Moscow is a thing of the past; instead of the dark, orumbling, foul
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westerbers never will. Not that it is remote. The lines are blocked by official messages, sent old Gostinnoi Dvor there is a marvellous block their attention and skill to the improvement of trusses, for the treatment of various kinds of but because it is so different. Russia has free, and urgent messages, which are charged of rodes with overhead galleries, a block brought Japan within forty-two hours' sail of treble rate. Many letters and telegrams never containing over one thousand shops and offices; all spick and span as the latest erection in London. True, in addition there is a rail-reach the addresses. On the other hand way journey across two continents, Intersage to a lady nenouncing her husband's Berlin. Gone, too, is the cloth-fair ander, the nowadays travelling by train is too trifling death was delivered, and re-dollvered, day after all of the Kilai Borod; gone the Sunday matter to count. Of this long line, the sole con- day until a friend went to ask for the discon-morning market by the Suklarey Bashnia, gono
the scrambling thrashchike and the clamour GREGRECKE necting land link between east and west, five-tinuance, as the repetition was unpleasant,
ing vendore of second-hand clothing. The sixths is controlled absolutely by Russia. The Between the frontier and Warsaw there are
Moscow of to-day is lit by electricity, country that joins the far east to the west is in few noticeable changes; the crowds at the staand is eminently respectable and progres a position to interpret one to the other, if com- tions as are large and as dirty as ever, but sive. A bird's eye view from the summit of patent-but this, Russia may not be. She has there are not so many beggars, and in traces of Ivan Veliki is still a scene to enchant the eye, ret to show that she understands the east; she equator. The uncleanliness and antidnoss result but eastward and southward the view is obscur may not be western enough to make all clear to from habit, not necessity. Russian Fuland is of by the dark sanke belehed out by many us, for, at most, Russia is only connected with prosperous, and Poles in Austria and Germany factory stacks. Wood fuel is no longer the som auxions to got under Russian rule. There rule; the blue sky is-clouded by the black smoke the west, and not herself of it.
is considerable immigration which the Bassisus from ligneous coal, or screened by the sepis vainly endeavour to check.
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Like a sponge Russia has absorbed; she has not samimilated. Whatever there is of western civilisation in the Rossion is an accretion; there is no blend. The Russian is au apt imitator; bat he stops there. His acquired knowledge not enable him to initiate similar *F. BLACKHEAD & CO.
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that he is apt to mistake his copy for original work, so much so that one may doubt whether Russia will ever fud herself. Of late yeare she has tried to accumulate material wealth by adopting the methods which have proved suc
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The towns de exhibit changes, and all for the better. Warsaw has improved beyond all expectation; its main streets are well pared and kept its now buildings are grandiose when they are not hundsome, and altogether the city is ostentatiously prosperous, ja no less degree, bnt in not so an offensive manner as Berlin. Soon Warsaw will be a city well worth a long journey to see. The smaller towns do not sl share the capital's good fortune, but some, a Lodz, have simply stepped from the runk of villages to cities in two decades. The cause is sufficiently simple. Industries were protected; the Poles possessed greater pratical knowledge than the Russians, and bare established factories whose products find a market in Russia at remunerative prices. Ledz is both the Oldham and Leeds of Rarsin, Warsaw is the Eiriningham, Stoffeld and more, for it furnishes all the articles the Paris, galan teric ware, and goods "made in Germany" to
Poland is making a big bid for the trade of the Far East, already her wares compete with foreign goods in all Russia, and Aiboria' west of Lake Baikai. Poland is
is many things; inost important she is, the western manufacturing annexe of the great fusslan Empire, and as that she will continue to prosper.
As Moscow, so the other towns in south and cast. Kief thinks Moscow slow, Odessa believes Kief is far from being up-to-date; all aro modifying their towns in accordance with the lows of fitness held in the west. St. Petersburg. and the German towns in the Baltic provinces are changing, too, but as they were of brick and stone bigger buildings of the same material do not bring about se great a change.
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The examination is winute; a weird scene by the light of many lanterns. The contents of huge coffers tumbled out for inspection, goods kanded fron man to man, a dia of excited chatter. men and women rushing confusedly from one line to another, falling over trauks and each other; the placa littered with wares of ANTED A WARD-ROOM MESS. all descriptions, until the hail resembles a cheap W MAN. Applicants to attend on Board drapes's shop ou remnant day. A modest prayer-snow remain praying for several
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portmanteau and the regulation Gladstone bag | minutes. Only one passenger fails to observe present no difficulties. A bálky čamera, un an. the customs he remain unmoved, gazia, idly
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tonckel box of cigars, other ample provision for out of the window, a fair-skizmed man, with the journey are all passed without question. A short, grey door-knocker beard, and garments few neckties and some many-times washed cut in German fashion; a foreigner leurly. pocket handkerchiefs are scrupulously examines? What are you ask in German, An for evidence of use. Rireian industries are Asian," he auswers pleasantly. He had come protected these customs watchers are the west from Feyond the Ural thirty years before, guardians, and they do their work thoroughly, and he found Warsaw a very pleasant and
Then a train is packed full as it will hold, we profitable place, start sitting among our baggage the Russian Einpiro can one live so well and so cheaply," he WNERS of HOUSES situated in the takes muok into the compartment with him sold. Eut he was a merchant,
Western Division of the City of Victoria and wo prepare to endure the discomfort as fur who have not hurt their Premises LINE Warsaw, Inckily only a few hours distant WASHED and CLEANSED in accordance with Jaw are reminded that the period during From Warsaw on the same overcrowding which this work should be finished ends on the continues, congestion is chronic everywhere 31st day of December, 191, and the Sauitary Some lines are a little worse than others, but Beard being convinced of the necessity of all are bad. To obtain a numbered reserved Cleanliness in its efforts to STAME OUT PLAGUE, is detained to RIGOROUSLY seat. it is necessary to book days in advance, PROSECUTE any Owner in default after the river steamers sometimes are booked full weeks in the western isles. And the grest mar; lies of
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