, 1873-11-16

mo ono can have d Just opinion Of tho daring
position Of st. Petersburg who has not mounted
| ono Of her artificial heights and Vowed tho i'm.
| mense body Of water In which sho floats. like
bsss Tt Ian RTeoous Soods whs the
they would overturn in fow hours that which
the will Of man had raised BY such untlring labo,
and onorgy." =:
Although in this instance tho fashionable
part Of tho town has suffered to con.
| from tho frequent rising Of tho river han
thoso 'quartors which aro situated on a
lowlying euburba ii the cnpifai. 4 per;1sss' of
tho following polco regulations will probably
astonioh those Of your roadorB Who look upon
the Hituo*aon Of st. Petersburg m making her .aa
secure from harm by the elomon4s a. any other
capital. These regulations arc not only pub-
lshed In all tho almanacs, but are apparently
vol understood BY tho native population. Thoy
are 90 followB:
~. When tho rivur ziHea more than foot
aud II It is daytime four rcd flags will bo hoistod
On the Admiralty sptro; after dark four red
lights Will be shown instead.
''2. When tho water risea more than 4 feet
four whito dAEs will be hosted IN addition to the
red ones At night four rod lights.
" "3. Whom tho water riRss moro than fset
besides tho aforementioned signals gun mill
bB fred fro,n'the Admiralty every half hour.
j" 4. When tho water risos mora than fent +
gun Will 10 fred every fifteen minutes.
"5. Whon the water tiaea moro than 7. feet
two guns will he fred in quick succession from
tho Admiralty IS we}l as from tho fortress"
In addition to tho above warnings it Is ordered
that aftcr the river has rison more than 7,feot,
thirty sailors, under tho command Of An officer,
: with extra hands for tho rescue of drowning
porsonB, aro continually to row backwards from
one bank OF the riVor to the other. Your
roaderB will understand to what dangers tho
inhabitants Of this city must bo exposed il
such regulations aro considered necessary.
On last Tuesday night all the canals, moro es-
pecially that Of st. Catherine, overfowed, filing
the cellars Of tho noighboring houses with
HatsF poHg s the
kept announcing tho rapid rise Of the river.
Huge bargea. employed for bringing wood for
fuel from tho interior to the capital wore in
many instances thrown longtudinally across tho
twecn tho banks, hare. by tho subsiding Of tho
water, been laft high ind dry to break In tho
centre BY their own weight. On the Court Qnay,
in front Of tho Winter Palace, the hentriea had
rising from beneath, literally 1aised up
bodily tho wooden pavement along nearly its
entiro length, and deposited 1t on the stones
alongside. Tho payemont being made Of ooteg-
onal pieces Of rood fastened togethor BY means
S P se e. pssas sss sFa s
alongside OF it, proper position. Ihe floating
bridges across tho NevA we're much damaged,
anu ali tfa1ho over them vas stopped. IN 6poak-
81. Petersburg says that the ."atreets we1e lit
orally turned into rivers, and that in tue Fo-
narnoit Pereoulok Tor small street, tho watera.
we're flowing IN toIrents." a frlond Of mino
who 1yee near Mr. bsirds Works, on tho river,
littlo surprised when ho turned into the "Ofi-
clersky street, to find tho water up to his
horacs glrths, ana 10 meet four small boata With
man IN them: being padded about in tho very
street 10 had dnyon along on hia way to dnner
only feW hours before, and then In ita normal
condition; u ME: III; naaraa works, whore tle en-
glnes arc being built for the now irop-o}ad Peter
the aront the water rose 70 considerable
height,-indeed, It is 70 DO hoped that, when fin
ishoa and placed in tho ship, they viii never
nave enen narrow escape or pelng snpme1ged
- t9ey naa on 1uosaay nlgnt. A. Hong tae
nsoaAy ttne neeoHt 1tteoe 81 OF. foIethpursj tne
coua,a TGee nuvuu, nt"no e@asias nutn dsna8o & "
n.oioe, e.J:, "ur oson .uans ~ pnpn
IT, 9sans s,a - sne "nr
ooWn of Torn nPpy ano r0otst r,th fron.+at
-. Sa a.d ~. nv ~aatn,ai n,fi1 gostars
@ Mse unn fho %ooks Tsr 'c Ssn
sssd .nd saxnrs, h.ross vera ,oat y1,th Al,
"A1 = .t 1uno tHs'' IL, ';a5 MaSA .nd
elemant nn5e itn nnnesrsnce. two eTeat flroa
aas;n, at ta Rpha ,tsnu ~ ta
3aao1at;6n ~ thst ts,a beinr' wrn,Tht' Syaat Of
the town an immense luoifer-mstcb manutactory
w. 81 ~ thn nroni 1hiie IN tho nnrfher1
s,Jo sn3 haina ia fn-trrsa beautiful cn,,n-
~ honsa thn nronerty nf q hi, mcrohant' wsa
Jsatro1od hv ffan,es. T7rnf,ic ovar the Wnnlon
hsiaTos he1r irnnoesible. nnnnv f,re-anrfnea
ware. in INA 1nttor oaso unable to give any
ssn,s}}.;n
Of tho scepo-Aro, wind, aati water raging to tho
accompaniment Of tho inoessant firing Of heavy
guns,
ner obseryey that. on tho day following tho hood