The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-14
A DOOMED CITY.

ST. Petersburg In Danger Of subrnersiou
"A st. Petersburg correspondent O
the London Times says: Against th,
scourge Of the summer dust, which
sweeps day and night oyer st. Peters
burg, all the pumps drawing waterfron
all the four branches OF the Neva arc
inefficient. There is nothing for it but
TO turn ones back upon it; and that il
what every man does who can manage
It, The city is left to a few priests,
the police, officers of her Britannia
malesty's squadron, who are on a weeks
hohday, and to myself, and the Hotel
de fEurope, the best in town, is being
swept, scraped and painted like a Lon.
don club in mid-September; for this is
the dead season in st. Petersburg, and
the place is really too much Of O thing
for o man to have it all to himself.
what town it is How large, how
dlsmally empty How it squats like
an immense alligator half in and half
out OF swamp modelled on Amster-
Dam, and reminding one of Venice |
what miles and miles of prospects"
or, as the French would say, "boule-
wards T. What endless succession of
wide, open spaces and magnificent dis
tances, Of long straight lines of walls
and rows of trees, and interminable
avenues, contrived, as it were, to allow
the town ample room to run out of
town y city OF churches, converts
and palaces, of steeples and monu-
ments, OF gold, bronze, granite and
roneon o,,d il;e9 49, ~ az soyles' bu-
indifIeront oo,l;oa ,,1-;'0, 9uains originals OF
and n1ossiva "a rot9, s4,y na%ny oI mem grand
banhozayd o,S So' pulemn ,osfont, over space at
orronnino, no,ri, o,." .o 10y nA' surface,
for elraci or v,;t1, -, oa iiei 4 iaiu OUT
esnue. ~ 'A'o pio'ur-
a town of r,rinoas to o1I o,,,,oo~o,,o,
or of wealthy bon1,ors or H., w. ,-.;tl,
nothing mean. no bacl, sl,ros ~ d., pas,i
fair: the homes of tbe ,oo, ;f - M a51
existing. carefrllv hidden ont 90 s;nbt. %a az.
the whole coveriIio- acoros - ,,,;inS ~
ground. n moza of ;s1os All iainta ieS "
BRIDGES and embontr,o,+s of -; VI
and branches of rivnr ord co,,oIs T,; :,
q town made bv ono man ,ooda ~,
plan and for purnose: and wbon III tbot
is said, all is said r. Voc not oro aS
the cities of Gods own bu;1d;ror. 49,,
seeuently. il nav be foorod ,,ot o,,os
those that abidS Tts fo,,D5ot;o,, 49, ~. o-
suggested bv n creat tbonobt ond -
turns out now to have been r,;stal,o
It is questionable indeod ,rbotbo,
Peter the Great ever meant ST Patarsl
burg for permanent court roe;donoo
and capital AS late no 1894 GO,
months before his deofb Il ,r.osot
here. but Of Moscow that ba co1obYotoy
the coronation Of his wife Cotbor;,,n.
md if he spent roncb of bis t;rno or
his snot IL va cbirG,- l,aoa-,so 80 'aii-o III
Of sucb ,naon;t7,9o as lo Ia a VI
aiken ronrired tbo ,,,.4o,.,a 'ia ; uiieiel
presence For tho rnst ol1 t,-at e5s,.nO DSt
wanted hero was . oorl ond IL I'o o',i3 ui
under the circrmstnbcos fnd i ne nc 1,o4' Couiu'
He built II on cornnorod rr,.o,,I ,r., ~ De'teI
III tbe bonnJor;as Of FOL O15 P, oullG, ouo o,
, Finnish ronn1otior tio s,, so,., auiiu
ects of Sweden. He drafted his VII
men amonp tho sarfs NJ all lie "u.n yin
-inces, and waited loo 00o bnr,aI, nr' ,iu- pro-
n the achievement. labor beino az 49,,
or him as il ever woq for t6o t;no.i,,
,n;Ido,a nf ~ W. iol 'ne kIngy
rbe s;to wos sr-o 50 -, i'l'1n ~ yislnlus;
lnboaItb,, en,a,,,', "i,l, - "uSaie ana
Il its fincst ,oont,,,ot- t.i,io ti, tliav some
olnnn ~ Aiaraa,.ISn iionoIlth
JbnrcbN Nsbn1, --'t'i =, ~, L. J inu 'Ho isaac
he ro,1;d Tooo,, ~ - 'nI'i ueeP creviccs
ma drornJ y, ~ Nil!Tn tie tIeacner-
-, ,'S e,oui-.' S1IeIiie''n IS looming
1ct 10 ;DnnJotio,,D I,i, ge1il.c' 1;J' ns 10 oe SUD
ncient Rnne. foy +ho Inv 49,, .nI s'oinu oI
ee,, dost,,ct;raII. ,t; .Ir tle ivy mas ALREADY
ince 1703 The ds.o i'';s 81 ~ SSn' fp5i; 1iilos
ndSsven last WOW | to - - ito ao..,I''aIion
han ten faot sI,a--o 49, al ~ "@eel? rose more
rivino noo,,lc fro.,, '-4T Gr''ln,,y leVei,
asemeent doors c1.' ~ MI LII &C ee1iars ana