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THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL. PETROGRAD IN ITS GREATNESS AND DECAY..
THE PRESIDENOY OF THE
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** A' HAZARDOUS OCCUPATION”
The Manila Timie, says Warren G. Harding was the sixth Pre-
Was Saint Petersburg a Germau city!! asks Dr. Harold Williams in the course of his brilliant article on "Petrograd" in the current number of the Slavoniec keciem,sident of the United States to die in Travellers used to say so, and they were office.
The Presidency of the United States in foud of pointing out the atrast between what they called the Gerinan appearance of a "Hazarilous Decupation. Petrograd and the picturesquely Russian Contrary to the general impression. The pepple of most of our Presidents have held the appentance of Moscow.
ever jealous of Saint Petersburg, nation's highest office during middle life would gladly repeat this commonplace of and not in old age. travellers talk, and insist that etery These and other data on the mortality stranger should admit its truth. I cams of Presidents of the United States are to Saint Petersburg directly from Ger contained in the following memorandum many, but I never felt that the city was especially prepared, for the Time by Gorman. It was unique and solitary, Marton I. Netzorg. Secretary of the
apart. something wholly
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There was
augular and majestic beauty on a dreary drab background; bold, finely calculated, magnificent ou lines of palaces and cathedrals dominating and coercing (a swamp dull streets of gray, and monotonous blocks of tenement houses, and then, suddenly, the delight
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the river itself, the splendid Neva, amid all the symbols of fixed and stubborn effort, towing swift and clear. hroader and ever broader, out to the sea and the sunset the very pulse and motion of pow- er, a river of empire, with a sweep and majesty from which the palaces along the bank involuntarily took their tone..
THE GOLDEN AGE,
*
(a) Mr. Harding is listed as the 29th President. However, this includes, four who suceeded to the Presidency throngh deathy of the former Presidents (Tyler. Filmore, Johnson and Arthur); and Creland, who is listed twice.
Hence the actual number of men voted
(b) Of these 25 inen, six died while in office, three by disense, Willinn Henry Harrison, Taylor, and Harding; and three by assassination, Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley.
into the White House is but 23.
(c) An erroneous impression is abroad as to the ages of our Presidents, it being generally believed that they were men of advanced years..
As a matter of fact, there has never been a man of oir the Presidential chgit. Only two reached the age of 69, while still in office-Buchanan, who was inaugurated at 65 and served four years. and Jackson, who was elected at sit and served sight years.
Next comes William Henry Harrison. who was the oldest man to be elected He was 89 on assuming office but died a thenth later. J. Q. Adams was elected at G1 and served" but four years
The years between the Figt Revolution and the Great War were the period of a quickened Europeanisation of Saint Peters burg on the one hand, and, on the other, of a gradual reclamation of Saint Peters burg by Russia. The city was very pres. pernus, and lost its sober simplicity. Its whole texture was looser?" It nequired a certain pir of bourgeois ense and, perhaps, of bourgeois slackness. Industry grow, The banks dourishef, and houset, them seksin iss
new and splendid buildings, Theatres and restaurants were crowited. Whole, now streets of modern houses were run up to nccommodate a new bourgeoisie Saint Petersburg seemed to have absorbed into her old prestige new sources of in- Auence the Doma itself, a freer and more varie Press, fresh initiative in trade and industry, new movements in art and literature. Her influence over Eussia In short, the Presidency has seldom been was multiplied and intensified, and the placed at the disposal of men in okl age, new currents aroused through the Empire but has rather been secured by men stilli came back to modify her in their turn.in the height of their mental vigour, who But the point about this influence was could be deemed “in middle age" rather that it was new-in character. "It was not than in old age.
All others were less than 60 years old when entering office. With the exception of Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and Wilson all finished their terms of office before they were 65:
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Six men were inaugurated while still in their 40's, 14 were in their 50's and only five in their 608,
the pure Petrine exervive of power, but something far more complicated, far excessive death rate of our Presidents is (4) A graphic way of indicating the amenable to control and deliberate ance. For the first time, it may bo
to use the supposition that our Govern- during these years Saint Petersburg tenment had insured all of the Chief Exeen- ded to become the Russian capital, instead tires as it insured the service men of the capital of the Em World's War. By this plan, eath man
the
or being simply capital began to Pay's a premium that is exactly equal to |
peror of Russia. be entangled and absorbed in the process it had itself called forth. And the work of that strong mann Stolypin was an attempt of the bureauerney to reassert itself amid the changing conditions.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
the expected death rate for the cur rent year of his own age. The premium thus advances, from year to year, and en presents ela actual expected, death rate, according to the" "American Table of Mortality. Now on the supposition that our Presidents had vach secured a policy In those years Saint Petersburg was in from the United States Borean of War the throes of a protracted crisis. The atmosphere was stilling. The city appeared Risk Insurance and had paid the regular to be pulling two different ways, or rather Premium rates quoted for their respective there was a conflict between the old tradi- ages. the premiums collected by the Gos titial Saint Petersburg that had just crument would has been less than of come into being, nad was straining some the sum disbursed as a result of the six whither in a restion epposed to that of deaths. That is, the actual mortality
of Presidents has been "double the the bureaucratie tradition. There was no wuity or direction or sim. A grent nation expreted mortality." was atraining at the leash. The litter This last figare in the more striking as of a suppressed, revolution," the con when we consider that, in practical experi- tinual irritation at the oppressive meas-ence, the actual mortality of Insur- ares of the Government, the thwarting of ace Companies is always less than tap "expected." The usual ratio iz from Hiberty by all kinds of petty and foolish ennetments, the monotonous exposure of 99 to 10 per cent. (giving rise to surpluses bureaucratic futilities in the Duma, the i and dividends to policy holders). Eo oppressiveness of enforced inaction; and, while the American Table of Mortality on the other hand, the growing and irre-has proven too high a figure for the pressible habit of free speech, the partial general public, it is only 50 per cent. diversion of an unsatisfied impulse for efficient, for our Presidents, despite the action into commerce and industry and fact that they have access to the very best agricultural reforms and co-operative and medien attendarce and are all "" mozal
educational movements, the MENSE
use of grow rinke of the best quality ing weakness and undertainly of Aim within
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The inevitable conclusion then is the bureanerney itself, the lack of any that the Presidency of the United States clear leadership from the sovereign, the dad is to be classified as a hazardous occu- creasing international complicational pation, and the spectacle of numerous this combined to create a morbid and pro- Senators and Governors attempting to foundly disturbing temper in Saint Peters secure election to the highest office shouted
The story burst in 1914. not in revolt canitation.
provide the philosopher, with materials tion, but in war. The conflict with Ger many Franched breaking' point.
Rua made her choice. For one hour the Em peror, returned to Saint Petersburg, and from a balcony of the Winter Palaes rend to a great and enthusinscie throng th declaration of war against Germany Saint Petersburg became Petrograd. But a change gradually came The first en thusiasm
to die downs and shadows Agricultural Hall, Islington, N., & ro dimail the right dawn of Petrogrn markable crystal wireless receiving set ghost of Saint Petersburg were with a range of some 15 miles was on hurking in the price is a shilling, and the come to Petrograd only for an hour, and whole apparatus is contained in a card- be had
gone hack again to his refuge at board box about 3 inches in diameter. Tsarskoe. Selo. There was a
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had definitely committed himself to the and his successors. war with German But he bad not
The collapse of the identified himself with the new spirit of Romanov dynasty and the sudden removal Petrograd: he had not in his tara res of all ancient barriers created among the ponded to the magnificent reponse of people the impression that the object of Russia to bis rall. There was something the great national effort for which meri
had bren reserved, something held back. The Tarfees had been made in the སྙar",
and all that he stood for shrunk from achieved. throwing himself, irrevocably into the new era marked by the outbreak of war.
THE END."
Only those who have lived in a great and dying capital know the bitterness of the end. As ahe Iny helpless and humilia ted, all the wild spirits of all the immense
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,
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Owing to the receipt of numerous complaints from patrons as to the incivility of various members of the Staff of the Hotels under the Management of this Company in Hongkong, such complaints being to the effect that "Cash" has been demanded in satisfaction of Liquors supplied, and patrons thereby inconvenienced by not being allowed to sign "chits", we beg to draw the attention of our clientèle to the terms of the Liquors Ordinance, 1917, an extract from which is hereby given:
in this Ordinance
(a) "Cash" means any coins or notes current in
the Colony,
(6) "Sale" includes any transaction in which intoxicating liquor is supplied for any con- sideration whatsoever, direct or indirect.
3-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of this.... section, no person shall sell any intoxicating liquor for consumption on or at any licensed premises. except for cash.
(a) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to
the following:--
(a) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel to a
-person residing at the hotel;
(b) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel of liquor to be consumed in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular meals of the hotel or of liquor to be consumed in conjunc-: tion with any other bond fide meal for which a charge of at least thirty cents can be rea- sonably made;
(c) any sale in accordance with the conditions of his licence by the holder of a restaurant adjunct licence:
4.Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or
of section employé in contravention
3.of this Ordinance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves affirma- tively that the sale was against his express orders and without his consent or connivance..
5.-Every person to whom any liquor. is, to the knowledge of such person, supplied in contraven- tion of this Ordinance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
The co-operation of our Patrons, with a view to assisting us to carry out the provision of the Liquors Ordinance, is respectfully requested.
For and on behalf of
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thook off the tramraels of Tanrykne-Selo to have come througing back upon her to that last refuge of the Petersburg spirit icer over her last dark hours. The great and plunged, reckless and lenderless, palace and churches and ministries still into the sea of Russian elemental forces. stood, monuments, of empire, overrun now All Russia followed with enthusiasm by a horde of revolted slaves. The Brouse the lead of Petrograd, or, rather, swept Horseman, that marvellous symbol of Petrograd along with her in her fierce Peter's conquests, still gazed out over the career. For awhile the old prestige
of river in front of Saint fac's Cathedral.
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But the. had departed, The Bolsheviks reigned for a few weeks. grad surrendered to all the chaotic aspi- from the Smolay Convent. They began rations of Russia, and sought by surrepenes negotiations with the Germans The der to recover its leadership, Rusia negotiations wore interrupted, the Ger- came bronging into Petrograd, and from mans avanced and took Esthonia. Petro Petrograd were proclaimed the watchwords grad was at their mercy. The Bolshevik that dissolved the fabric wrought by-Peter Government fled to Moscow. Petrograd
(Continued at foot of next Column.). ceased to be the capital of Russia.
Tremendous events. The drama of the metry of quays and squares. revolution was played out there Petro-
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