The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-25
HON. n. B. SCOTT ABROAD,

nh. p,,.,hoY PaInrs Vlsitsd-A Nav In
En,aud !. The many Attractions Or
stockholm.
Continuing his correspondence to
trIsrd in this city, Hon. ~ B Scott
writes as follows, under the date OF
stockholm, sweden;
,T hardly know where I left on in my
last but believe It was after the great
rsview in st. Petersburg. on Friday
,,s, we visited Pcterhnfl, that is the
snn,ner home of the czar, and about
,uspty-three miles out of ST. Petersburg
and more lovely spot could not be
s,rra for palace. Peter the Great first
,nm, modest house at Peterhoff and 1t
Sac boon added to by each car since I'M
N ,bsv have a tremendous palace We
saw nvcr a hundred fountains playing
come of them throwing water thirty or
s,r,y feet high; others throwing water
ovcr marble steps and a number OF gut
dcnrcs do rot think u more beautiful
,,,n, could be seen on earth. We had
,be Measure OF going through a large
mart az the palace. and were shown the
r,om mat the emperor OF Germany oc-
cnnIad as well as the president OF France.
TEs nalace at Peterhoff Is much more
.,s5ern in it's furniture and pictures
han the winter palace at 81. Petersburg;
NIJ Peter the Great was very much OF
. man He took hold OF a semi-barbarl-
nus neople and by his own personal eX-
arnnia and active manual labor taught
hon, many useful things, and tell you
pnss,a Is tn a short time, II not now go
Inc IN dictate the policy OF the wGNtertl
world She has most productive SOIL
and n hardy people that believe IN the
car and the Greek church, and all ne
wnuld have to do 10 unite them IN case
NJ n division would be TO say the church
was In danger. .,.
They have but 100 people to each
square mile Of territory. so You can see
how many men they are capable OF sup ,
porting. They have standing army OF
aver n million men and can call million
more from the reserve
we left ST. Petersburg on Saturday
noon by boat. by way of the gulf OF FIN
land and Baltic sea, for this city we
mad n most enjoyable trip sailing
through the gulf OF Finland, with Its
thousands OF beautiful Islands, We stop
ned for six hours at the capital OF Fin
land, g.,
This was delightful little city ot from
20 600 10 10000 people and never saw
more cleanly or nicer looking set OF peo-
Mo We visited their market, which
was fine. and had the pleasure Of drink
ing with Colonel Howard, of the u. 5. A.,
n MINT of rich, warm milk. When went
"a nav the girl would not take Russian
money, and as I had no Fin money, we
we're at a dead stand still. for could not
give the milk back. What to do was the
question. | bolted back to the boat to
get some money changed, and the poor
girl looking after me with look, as
much as 10 say, there goes my milk. But
returned and paid her In her own mon
ey, four or Ave times as much as the
pricr of the milk, and she then wanted
me TO drink two gallon can full.
our next stop was at ado" II was
formerly the capital NJ Finland. and lite
construction was started in the eleventh
century. II has many interesting things
10 he seen. We then steamed out to cross
the Baltic sea for this city, but landed
Tor an hour on the lovely island OF MARI
cham, a great summer place for the rich
Of ST. Petersburg to go for six weeks OF
two months, as well as people from
home.
This city is a great surprise to me. II
Is more like live American city than
anything we have visited. The people
are all well kept. happy looking and
clean as new pin. The peasant girls
with their pointed caps and bright
aprons are beauty TO behold. And
such compilations, you never saw such O
lovely pink and white. They have an
exposition going on here. 1t is under
the management Of the government and
Is a very fine show. We have spent the
day looking Il over and will 60 out TO-
night to see 1t Illuminated. l like the
looks OF the Swedish people more than
any others we have seen.
We have a delightful hotel. Our room
window looking out on one OF the many
canals that run through the city, re.
minds me very much Of Venice. only
they use steam on their boats In place OF
the gondola man of Venice. We have
arranged for boat ride all around the
city for Thursday.