Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-29

situation. We who were housed consoled
ourselves with our window views of their
disappointment. We had no other con-
ISOLATION. Our accommodations were vile.
AT two roubles a day we had the use Of a
room six to twelve feet. containing a
looking-glass three by five inches, nailed
on the wall too low for standing
use: a small metal pitcher and basin,
tine former never filled except at
special request; a single iron bed
stead. the WORKOUT spl;ngs of which had
been replaced with boards: three shaky
chairs and a common wooden table. The
bed had a single straw mattress and one
dingy red blanket, and the floor and table
We're covered with dirty and dilapidated
.oil cloth. The room was papered in bright
blue and the single sash curtain was of
dingy cotton. Tackled along the wall be-
side the bed, probably for ornament. was
the remnant of an old felt piano cover. 1t
really afforded a retreat for insects too
closely pursued by rebellious guests.
Alloy the table, on a piece of hy-specked
cardboard. were scraWled the following
rules: -.
Price of room one day, . ubles.
| Extra bed, so kopecks.
! Tea for one 25 kopecks.
| Tea for two, 40 kopecks.
Dinner three dishes). l ruble.
Dinner (two dishes). 10 kopecks.
Every person taking a room must pay
for tWenty-fOur hours, no matter how
short his stay.
The person who stays one nour over
tWenty-four must pay for an extra half
day.
The person who stays thirty-six hours
must pay for forty-eight hours.
In the late Afternoon we strolied to the
bank of the Alnur. and. seeing it flowing
swift and strong, a full mile wide, could
easily accept it's length as 200 miles.
The water front is al incomplete piled
bund two miles long, at which are moored
narrow, rooted stages, with high-arched
entrances that serve as Wharves, and to
which steame and barges tie. There is
an mmens amount of traffic on the river
and it's tributaries, and in the open season
over 100 steamers of the sidewheel styles,
some screw tugs and launches and many
big. barges are in active service. The
floating piers, steamers, barges, junks,
boats, canoes and RATS, the teams, ear
riages and cask water carts. the peasants
in bright, crude %colors, the Chinese in
blue, the Coreans in white, soldiers and
civil service men in uniforms bright in
stripes and facings of different colors,
gold and silver, and The silent, eddying
foam-bearing river. are features of a
Khabarovk scene on any summer day,
Two blocks from such a scene we heard
clanking chains, and round the corner
came forty prisoners in a Gordon of SOL
in bright, crude coiors. the Chinese in blue
diers. They We're just from Russia, and
on their way to the Island of S%aghalien.
This was our first sight Of Siberian con-
victs. Six of them wore leg shackles and
the others We're ironless. They walked at
a brisk pace. of their OWL setting, looked
strong and healthy. and even the
shackled men did not seem leg weary. A
giant in shackles, standing about 6 feet
4 inches and on the sunny side of 80, tow
cred far above his fellows and the guard,
and as the party passed from our gaze
the last rays of the setting sun made a
beacon Of his blonde head.
A dozen brick buildings. one a school
for girls, 10ox250 feet; another a store
about the am size, We're being quilt by
Chinese workmen, with hours from 4 a.
m.. to 8 p. M. and whose pay is 80. 40 and
so cents a day. In a sense, the Chinese F.,
are building up Eastern Siberia. and the
Chinese are the small traders. The Chin
csc undersell their rivals. and on the main
street have booths with fruit. candy. to-
bacco. cigarettes. hard boiled eggs and
soft drinks. They also have genera!
stores. The khabarovk stores have no
windows. De1icatessen shops are
numerous and inviting, and bakeries
thrive. The Russians are hearty eaters
and use great quantities of bread. A
characteristic street sight of Khabaroyk.
~ ( ohAy iobi VI viz obS 10 II liltIl CARRYING
a big round loaf. Our letter from Count
Russian Ambassador at Washing
ton, to Major General Grodekoff, Goyern-
or OF Eastern Siberia, secured us a Rus
sian welcome, and to that courteous Off
we are indebted for many %kindnesses.
Under the personal escort of Captain
of his staff. we saw the city
md gathered guiding facts. The pride OF
khabarovk is the park that stretches
the river bluff and offers a beauti-
sul view every few feet of path and road,
Here, three times a week. from 6 to Q. u.
H., the military band. mpos of the
sons of soldiers, pays Russian and oper-
ttic airs. Imagine our delight as we an
the park, the evening of our ar
iVal, at hearing our wv Sousa's ..Wash-
ngton Post cutting the soft air. We
smiled as We saw the Russian pron,en-
lders unconsciously fall into step as we "
I'll do at home. A short distance from
he square brick house of the governor.
'ver which floats the imperial standard
black and gold, and at whose door, day
md night, stand. two sentries, is the tri-
arch erected in 1891 in honor Of
he visiting Czarewitch. At one end of
he park is a brick museum filled with
arInor. implements of war and
and other things Russian and
'hinese.
The great attraction for us was the
rome statue of General Graft Morayieff
landing on the front of a lofty promon-
DRY overlooking the river Which he prac-
lcally opened to Russian trade. Nature
nd art nave contributed to the impress
I've prominence Of the figure. and as its
ne outlines are silhouetted against Incl
your admiration extends from the
tatue to the idea that had placed it in
uch a noble position A fence of heavy
chains, posted with cannon. in
loses a mound II feet high, which is