The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-04
Cholera dispatch stamped cut by censor.

their friends before sending them to the
people to whom they are addressed. and |
was told at Moscow that a journal with any
illustrations IN II was almost sure to be lost
in The mails. The Christmas numbers of
the London Graphic, the Illustrated London
News and papers of that kind which have
chromos or Autographs with their letter.
press seldom reach the hands of their sub
scribers without these being stolen by the
p0stoftico employees, aud L am told it is
unsafe to send photographs through
the mails without registering them.
| am sending all my photographs to Amer
lea in United States consular envelopes,
and am registering everything, and
so far l think that everything has gone
through. The consular stamp is good
thing to have on your letters when you send
them out from here. They then appear 10
come from the legation, and even a Russian
mail clerk VIII think twice before he opens
the letters sent out by an American diplo-
mat. | don't think that the papers that
opened. and he gets all sorts Of newspapers.
Including many which are not permitted 10
come 10 ordinary peOple In Russia. There
are, in fact, only few newspapers which
are permitted to come into Russia. and the
only American daily paper which is sure of
going through tie malls every time is the
New York Herald.
This newspaper censorship as to the
American newspapers is becoming less rig
OrOus since the kindness of the Americans
as 10 the famine, and have received quite
number OF American newspapers. When
/ came to Russia some weeks ago ] had
quite number OF newspaper clippings
from American. newspapers about Russia.
and | feared that these would be taken
from me at the frontier. A number OF them
related b. the Gar and others were about
nihilists and the Siberian prisons. Owing
to letter which | had from one of the
Russian diplomats of Europe, got these
through without examination and my trunk
WAS not even opened.
Speaking of the backing out OF articles
by the censOrS, funny instance occurred
when the young Grand Duke made his re-
cent tour in India. The London Graphic
came to st. Petersburg with a black mark
upon ii as big as a sheet Of notepeper
and one of its subscribers who wondered
what this important Obliteration might mean
cut this page out Of the Graphic and sent il
back 10 the Office. asking them TO tear the
page from another copy and send il to her
through the mails 1t was sent and the OBJ
liberated picture was merely photograph
Of tiger hunt ia which the Grand Duke was
standing with others about the body of a
dead tiger. The Graphic thought the blot
ting of this so ridiculous that in Its next
issue il reDuelished the sketch and also the
fac-simile OF the plotted paper. This came
10 the eyes of the Gar and he laughed at it
and ordered that this copy of the Graphic
should be admitted. and it was admitted,
and all ST. Petersburg laughed with the
Gar
With such restrictions il is impossible TO
make good newspapers. and none of the
newspapers here make very much money.
The daiies are published without illustra-
tiOns aud the pages of them look as though
the Greek alphabet had gone on drunk
and sprawled around over them. There
are In the whole empire less than
five daily journals. and the telegraph
bills of the whole of them are not rs
great as those of big New York news
paper. Nearly every paper publishes con-
tinued story. which runs along the bottom
of the paper, aud few of them have many