Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-26
TRAVELLED ACROSS ASIA.
The Experiences CT au English News
 paper Artist-LIfe in Siberia.


 From the Chicago Tribunal
 Only one white man, SO far as is known, ever travelled across Asia from the Artic ocean to the Pacific ocean, The man who made that periious trip is Julius NJ. Price, g special artist for the Illustrated London News, who left home fifteen months ago. He is at the Grand Pacific hotel, and says:
 'I started ont with the intention of go- through Siberia and more than carried out my intentions. A commercial expedi- ton sent out by English capitalists to open up trade route with Siberia along the Yenisei, one of the great rivers traversing the country from north to south, left Eng land about the time was dispatched by my paper and went with the party as far as Yeniseisk, a large town ,5OO miles up the river. To reach this point We had travelled over the Artic Ocean and tue Ka- ra Sea. From Yesiseisk travelled across Asia on sled on my own account, my on- ly companions being guides picked up in different parts of the country.
 My experience in Siberia was pleasant and most interesting one. The people there and the officials always seemed to be ol cACcAtut ltEtns Wltn one AIDIlGr- Al most every person I met was either po- litical exile, time expired criminal, or a descendent from one. Most of the officials are made up from the latter class, time eI- pired criminals not being barred from holding office. The director of the prison at Yeniseisk is political exile, and the convicts in this country in many cases are worse than the exiles in Siberian town. In the larger towns of Siberia life Is not so dull. There are excellent clubs and hotels which political exiles and even criminals are allowed to use. When was at Yeni- seisk there was a Russian theatrical compa- ny performing at one of the theaters, and everybody was permitted to go to the show, | which was good one. When balls are given at the clubs or hotels the exiles may take their wives and daughters to dance, but are not allowed on the ballroom floor themselves. There is a great deal more of complaint out of Siberia about the tyranny of officials thsn there is inside of it, and the average notions about life in Siberis seem to me to be the outcome of entire | ignorance.
 ''The officials, however, are too apt to find | a criminal intent in joke than otherwise, and there are numerous outrages on this account Every official suspects the other, and everybody is watched from the govern | or down to the guards. The Siberian sys- tenn is not exposed to view, but it is there all the same. don't want ii to be under. stood that the eIiles have anything like 6 | picnic, because such is not the case. "An incident that 1 witnessed at fancy | dress ball proved to me that the Czar'i | iron hand was ever ready to pick ont ST unfortunate. At this ball everybody wor, a mask. One young fellow attempted tC show the advantages and disadvantages oi Siberia. The picnic part was written on placsrd placed on his breast, and the disa | greeable part on piece of paper pasted or his back. The disadvantages of Siberian life were pictured in humorous way, and an official was offended. The masquerade was told by an officer to step into privat, room and remove his mask. The youn. man did so and he was found to be sudden of Tomsk college He was escorted iron the place and never heard of sfterward This is the life in the large towns. know nothing of the life of eriles in tn | mines n