Evening star., 1900-11-26
RUSSIA WANTS OUR GOODS
CONSUL HALLOwAY'S EFFORTS PRO-
DUCE GOOD RESULTS.
He Receives Many Inquiries Regard-
ing American Exporters In
Answer to Catalogue.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 1.-THE
card catalogue of American exporting mer-
chants and manufacturers which was sent
to Consul General Holloway recently has
already proved it's utility. Col. Holloway
got the newspapers to insert a notice about
the matter and received inquiries for ad-
dresses within twenty-four hours. He has
already had inquiries from a dozen persons,
all of whom desired three or four classes
of addresses. One Moscow merchant sub
mitted list Of twelve classes Of exporters
whose addresses he desired.
Minister of Agriculture Yermalonf last
year requested Ambassador Tower to pro-
cure for him an assortment of American
seeds for experimental purposes. Ambas-
sador Tower sent for cotton, apple, corn,
apricot, peach and other seeds and plants
Minister Yermaloff, in conversation with
Mr.. Tower this week, informed him that
his experiments had resulted far better
than had been anticipated. The peaches
and apples are flourishing In the Caucasus
the corn in the Caucasus and central Asia
and the cotton in TurkeStan.
Col. Yermaloff the brother of the minis
ter has just returned from the United
States, where he had been recuperatlng
since the close of the Cuban war He spoke
in the most complimentary terms of the
American commanders, whose acquaintance
he made as Russia s military representative
in Cuba of the hospitality of the Ameri-
cans.
The contract of the Paris Bell Telephone
Company with the Russian government
which gave it a monopoly in the five most
important cities of the empire during the
last twenty years is about expiring, and
leasehold franchises will be offered at auc-
tioE within a few weeks, as has been stated
in cable dispatches from here The charge
hitherto $50 roubles. or over $12o annually,
will be reduced to % roubles. There are in
this city more of than 100000 people now
only 1900 subscribers. The neighboring
Finnish city of Wiborg, with scarcely 239OO
people. has over 1000 subscribers The an
nual charge there IS S160. 1t is likely that
the municipality of st. Petersburg will Sc
cure the franchise here. Odessa. Riga, Mos
COW and Warsaw, which have Jared no bet
ter than ST Petersburg, may also munich
palize the service.
The municipality does not let itself be
heard from often. Colonel Halloway was
re minded of its existence recently when he
received a letter from the inventor of a
voting machine inquring if he thought it
advisable to send an agent to work Russia
Colonel Holloway recalled. the local mer-
chants at least some of them elect a
mayor, which is about all the voting done
in Russia if one excepts the peasant COM
munities which elect their own ouicials
and regulate their own affairs. such as the
repartition of the common lands among the
members of the community at stated
periors.
The winter schedule of the Siberian rail-
way has just been published. The first 300
versts east of Irkutsk will be traversed by
express trains at the rate OF tWenty-SeVen
versts per hour, not counting stoppages
which are endessly long even in European
Russia and will require five and a nalf
days for the Journey of about 1000 miles,
Ordinary trains scheduled to make the
trip in six and a half days.