The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-21
Mr.. n. 8. SCOTT ABROAD.

II. Describes His Trip oyer the border
Through Poland 20 the ola Russian
CnpisaI-Wass al Traveller la That
Countrr.
Hon. y. b. Scott, who IS travelling
through Europe, writes entertainlnsly
Of his trip to a friend in this city. The
following extracts are taken from let
ter dated al MOSCOW, August 10;
Well We have finally reached the old
capitol OF Russia. now the great city of
inland Russia, Since writing you last
we have Travelled from Vienna through
Austria and the part OF Poland that
now belongs to that country, and must
saw # has the best cultivated and incest
farm lands we had seen up 90 that time.
Such immense fields OF buckwheat as
they grow all through that country is a
wonder 10 behold. We left Vienna at
10 n. m, on Saturday, the 18th, and ar
rived al the Russian frontier at 10 p. m.
There we had 10 get out aud pass
through an aisle and have our baggage
examined aad our passports taken up,
They ran US through that passage and
INTO a sort OF hull pen, where we were
huddled together for an hour or more,
waiting for our passports, and when
they came with them in envelopes, we
could not read our names In Russian,
and they could not understand our
names In English, so they handed them
over In lump and allowed us each to
hunt his own.
We had over sixty In our party, so It
was quite Job. Our trip from the bOr-
der 10 Warsaw was very hard one,
ewleg 10 the miserable railroad accom-
modations. We sat up six and eight in
a compartment, no room 20 move or ex-
erclse and dust so thick you could cut
II, and no water on the cars. Hereafter
l shall take off my hat to a Pullman
porter and call him blessed when i tip
him.
AT Warsaw we did not see much of In
terest. Il is an old rickety city, paved
with cobble stone. poor hotels and mis-
cradle, bad water We took the train
from Warsaw for Moscow at $3.50 a M,
Monday, and came through a beautiful
country, well kept, with splendid crOps.
was very much surprised at the fine
law of the lands and the manner In
which II Is cultivated. We had rather
better cars with only four 10 each COM
partment, so we could make ourselves
more comfortable than coming to War
saw BY the time our train pulled out
for this city, we had over twenty cars
in one train. filled with doctors, or near
~ so, en- route from all over the world.
our guide informed US that We would
have to look out Mt stations. where
food could be had, as every fellow took
care of himself Such a scramble as
there was for something to eat. IT was
a circus / assure you, At one place l
had a roast chicken on {. fork and was
making out to share 1t With Mrs. Scott,
when big Italian doctor took II off the
fork and ran with It. Maybe | was not
mad. ! kept on trying at each station
for a chicken until finally got one and
sat down In our compartment, happy,
as took drum stick, But just as the
strain stopped In came a lot of officers
and commenced to move our things out
of our car | held on to the chicken,
hrandishlng II In the air and demand
inv what was up. The louder l shout
ed the louder they shouted and neither
OF us could tell a word until one pulled
me out and showed me the car was
broken down. So out we piled. chicken
and all, into third class car and on we
went. But Just as ] got started at my
chicken, we stopped again and In came
officers and commenced carrying out
our baggage and into car they had
hitched on to our train. When got To-
Gated In this. after dropping Mrs
Scotts satehel and breaking an am-
mona bottle filled with ammonia l
found my chicken gone.
The country we came through after
daylight; was sandy, hut produced as
good crops rs on the low lands. l never
saw hay stacks stand thicker. and on
the high ground there were wheat and
oats helds OF taig size mud FAX fields by
The mile. think | saw enough lax
GROWING to supply the world.
The Russians Of the middle and up
per class are very polite and obllgIng
They consider It a compliment to walk
five or six blocks to show you Where
YOU want to 70. The serfs are tough
lot. and no more httet for seif-gorern-
mert than lot Of cattle They all
wear their shirts outside OF their pants
and belt around them. Those VINO
were not barefooted wore boots with
the pnnialoons tucked inside, and had
long hair and whiskers They had n
holiday to-day. called blessing the APP
pies. and the city Is full of country
folks They stop and take Of ther hats
at all shrlnes and the large Greek
churches nre fun To the doors With
peasants worsnlppinE I am told the
serf portion ~ the country live on a
kind OF mush, made thick and let II
stand until It gets cold and stlT and cut
It in slices with string and eat II
without cutter or salt. and this Is their
living the year around
| met a gentleman from GAINESVILLE.
WISCONSIN, here who has been selling
th"eshng machines In this country, He
is uow trying TO collect for those sold
two years ago. He says they nave not
got sufficient intelligence In the country
TO run one. and after two or three days
they set them aside as no good, simply
because they have not brains enough 90
learn how 10 run them. We were driven
out on the grounds where the loss Of life
was 90 great at the time Of the crown
ing Of the present car. They tell MS
that over million of peasants We're
cnmped on the grounds Mt the time OF
the accident. and that over eight thou
yand men. women and children were
trampied to death IN one long ditch.
which they had dug out for some pur-
pose, they buried over three thou
sand bodies, and put lime on them to
prevent the stencil coming up through
the ground. We saw the great bell Of
Moscow. 1t Is twenty feet high aud
sixty feet In circumference, weighing
900 pounds The value OF the metal
I'm the bell Is estimated at El,12O.0OO, as
YOU remember many ladies' gave their
Jewels 20 add Ia is size aud To have an
Interest In II. l have no doubt WIN
have something more to say about Mos
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