New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13

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stu upon hiln when saw him. He was leaning
! up agairs; the park fence mutteriEg to himself
and stopped 10 hear what he was saying. Yes
yes" heard: Il must so to the Car; it IS the
Only thing lett for me to do: hen fix Up my pass
port know he will. and then the police simply
can't send me home: yes. I'll so to the LITTLE fan
or. and off he lunged in the direction Of The win
ter Palace. where he was probably told that the
place he wanted was in the Zabalkansky Pros
poet. The House ViaZemski is also called the
Crystal Palace because so few Of its windows
have any glass in them 1t is not much wonder
that such man brings w eventually in such
place. but there is striking pathos in his CON
Gding attitude toward his Gar
il may surprise the reader that the police Go
not return such unforturates to their villages
They ID this whenever they can. but the 'rouhe
Is that after awhile many Of them learn no" 10
forge passports. or bcg enough money To pu!
them. ard then it is very difficult TO prove whefe
they belong. The mir Of village Will OF course
refuse 10 take back man. particularly 'aSa-
bond. unless he really belongs there ana the
false passports often make II Impossible 10 'f'o
out the mans birthplace. If he becomes oDJ@c-
,ionab!c he is sent to Siberia as an enforced
ooicnist. but there he is often known as
merely "Ival-I- don't-know- my name" and be-
comes Siberian tramp.
OF the outward appearance Of the ViaZeinski
habhue / can only report bad things. In no
other country have | seen such tattered. dis-
cas- ed looking people III he heart If great city
They are allowed to go in and out of the gate
way day ard night and any one can join them
who likes. Excepting the Salvation Army mis-
slonary referred to and the police. nobody seems
to concern himself about them. and IT IS no
torious fact that the place IS g haunt OF pro
fcssjcnal criminals Now ard ,hon il is raded
lv the police. but there are so many nooiS
ard corners in which TO hide and 50 many ave
ruos Of escape thai the criminal wanted often
gets away For the last twenty years IL has
teen a fayo-ite background Of novciists ior
stirring scenes in sensational books and there
is hardly grown-up person In the cry WHO
does not know about IT. The reror, is that in
two years it is TO be torn down, ard mat
modern lodgirg-house will take It's place but
how are the thousands Of people TO be housed
on the same property in modern buildings? They
will probably merely dccamp TO smaller quarters
Of the same vile character They are a! or
eanized into a social system Of their own con-
c2ction and IT will take years 10 break il M. II.
indeed this can ever be done. Women are re2ily
os numerous as men. and | saw over a hundred
ard Gctv children growing UP TO take the PAGES
e their elders when they should drop out o.
the ranks.
During the day they all gather from time to
time in little knots in the courtyard. and one
may then see sights between which and pubhc
tEoroughtare Their should be a much greater
sauarafion than a mere board fierce. As stood
there in the midst of it all. could only think
Of the weird pictures one sometimes sees 81
SUM life in London fifty years ago. fhere Is one
picture which always remains very definitely
outlined ir my memory Of an Underground
haunt where men. women and Children some
lame and blind and all intoxicated. are shouting
f2htirg playing cards. drinking. taking OF iheIr
game" legs and arms, and generally creating
a pardemonum. Imagre a more or less similar
scene on summers cay in the courtyard OF
the "Viazemski Monastery" together win the
p,cular costumes and haiIdrcssng OF the hus-
sian rnuzh.k. ard you have a fair idea OF what
COS on there. II is estimated By Mr. SvrsKy
that there ar. we'll on toward eigh; million peo-
lie in the Russian Empire living either on the
edge Of or well within this kind of life Five
hundred Thousand. he claims, are almost CON
IL: ntIy in prison; seven hundred thouFaid ar"
professional female be6Sars ard there is the
same number. II lot more, If men Eesid : al!
;tcge there are over nine million men and women
without any occupation Whatsoever, when
means a large class from which the ou,cas:
world must eventually draw recruits
TIE CAUSES OF TIE MISERY.
One naturally asks what a:e the causes mat
have brought about such a state of affairs.
know Of no better explanation 10 offer than me
enc Mr.. Svirsky gave me. I.1Ssia's outward
power he explains on the ground CT Mere NUM-