The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-18
zres PROTECTION IN RUSSIA.
Way Home on Visit
From ST. Petersburg.

.;nce Minister Lothrop's resignation, is the
b;ghest representative of the United States
- Prussia. is in New York on his way home
10 savannah, Ca, for a visit. Col. Way,
Tho was "a rebel brigadler," arrived on the
Etrutria and joined his accomplished wife
hare preparatory to visit to their beauti-
81 plantation in Georgia, whereof the
..onfnlar f,lrlough of sixty days, they will
soe and receive their friends with the old
s;na hospitality for which Georgia and
go are famous. But Col. Way will
81 admit that there are in the world,
- aven in Georgia, more hospitable and
s.,o.m. hearted hosts than the Russians
s.,hon he has met and made his friends in
ST Petersburg.
The diplomatic representatives of this
country abroad have nowhere been more
courteously AID honorably received and
antartained under Mr. Ceveland's admin
.tration than in the wonderful Winter City
-, the Neva. Its learned from Col. Way
.hat Minister Lothrop's resignation of his
lost as minister has been deeply regretted
a. the cars capital, and that the opinion
= freely expressed that the great
sTastern republic has at no time been repre-
.antad in a more dignified and distinguished
manner than during the presidency of Mr..
cleveland. Minister Lothrop will arrive in
Nav York this week. One of Col. Ways
first acts when he arrived at st. Petersburg
was 10 have the inscription on his prede-
cessor's gravestone rechiseled and the grave
nroperly cared for.
Residence at st. Petersburg has many
cbarms but each new diplomat faces from
The first the probability that his new home
nav be his tomb. The Russian vital sta
tstics, which have. been kept since 1740,
show an amazing death rate IN their beau
uful capital and the representatives of the
limited States have been by no means ex-
enpt from fatal climatic influences. The
body of so recent a minister as Gen. Hunt
Rad, after long delays on account of sailors
superstitions, to be shipped home as ''statu-
Rry"
"As soon as crossed the Russian from
tier,n Col, Way said to reporter, 81 saw
was in strange country. At the custom
touse a stalwart and soldierly body of
troops in the various picturesque uniforms
of the Russian army confronted me. Tie
cossack Of the Don and the cossack of the
l)neper, the lithuanian and the Pole We'd
with each other in dignity and gorgeous
array. When | arrived at st. Petersburg
was at once impressed with the genial
Hospitality of this warm-hearted people.
The Russian eats on an average once every
TWO hours. The climate and custom re-
duire such frequent meals, the digestion of
which is aided by frequent draughts Of
yodd and tea. VodkI is the Russian
whisky, made from potatoes and rye. 1t is
fiery and colorless, generally favored with
some extract like vanilla or orange, as we
flavor soda water. 1t is drank from small
cups TINT hold perhaps half a gill. Vodki
and tea are the inseparable accompani-
ments of friendly as well as of business in
tercourse in the country of the car. Drunk
en- mon are rare.
Russia and Sweden are the only coun-
tries in which the double dinner is the rule
When you go to the house of Russian, be
he friend or stranger, you are at once
invited to a side table. where salted meats,
pckled eels, sailed cucumbers and many
other spicy and appetizing viands are urged
upon you with an impresslveneSS that
knows no refusal. This repast is wasned
down with frequent cups of vodki. That
over and when the visitor feels as if he bad
eaten enough for twenty-four hours, the
host says, and now to dinner At the dim
ner table the meal is served in courses,
with stacks of bottles, here ana there on
the table. of champagne and of delightful
wines grown in the Crimea and in BesSa-
rabia, where excellent claretS and Burgun-
dies are made and sold for from II to So
cents the bottle.
SIN the cultivation of wines, as in many
reforms, Russia is making strides which
Americans little realize 1t has the high
est protective tariff of any country in the
world. The effort is constantly made to
produce within the limits of the empire all
that its inhabitants use. Foreign products
are admitted only on the payment of duties
of from 80 to $50, and even POO per cent.
So boundless are the extent aud the diversity
of the Cars dominiOns that nearly every
Il DtNA ifTfr
to government ideas, to desire to use, is or
can reproduced III Russia. Business does rot
begin fairly in the cities until noon, and the
working classes who are stolid and con-
tented, labor from fourteen to sixteen hours
day for from IA tON35 cents day. Yet
labor as well as manufactures is protected.
immigration is not desired, and emigration
is only permitted under special restrictions.
The Germans OF Russia who owned farms
on the German Russian frontier have been
obliged to sell them, chiefly because their
German fellow-countrymen came over the
border and did the work which Russians
might have done.
Russia is the highest protected country
in the world. And her laborers receive the
smallest wages
"The Russian laborer is not allowed to
walk on the sidewalk. He must 60 out into
the street.
"The Russians are exceedingly friendly
towards Americans. sBy paying handsome
concessions to the government, a few Ameri-
cans have been permitted to engage in bust
ness in Russia The New York and Equit-
able Life Insurance companies do business
there. One manufacturer of a familiar
proprietary remedy offered $1,000 bonus in
vain to be permitted to sell in Russia. The
theory was that his goods might diminish
the income of the Russian druggists aud
doctors. There is big RuSsian-Anerican
meat-canning company In trade there.
Russians are constitutional procrastina-
tors. A Russian will offer to do tomorrow
twice as much as you ask him TO do to-day.
Zafrd, cto morrow he will say to every
thing. There is no word for Immediately
The nearest approach to it is TchetcheSSe,
which means within an hour When he
receives a commission or a command he
says pdjoltz, as you please
I'm the cities the Russians live almost en-
tlrely III apartment houses. There are TO-
wv tenants, it is said, in one house i'll st
petersburg. The house are nearly always
OF prlck, and the government buildings are
all succeed and painted red. Each house
mas duorntk, who's the agent Of the owner
and OF the police, and a porter who wears
tne uniform of colonel in the army and is
The lanitor or agent of the tenants. The
ocorntk inspects tho passport OF every new
tenant and even temporary tenant or visi-
Tor, and reports it to the police station,
Where it is recorded A like notification is
made Of every change Of residence. The
drorntk sits at the back gate of the
mouse, clad generally in a sheepskin. He