Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-26
MERCHANT WANTS NAMES.
American Exporters Looked Up
 By Moscow Merchants.

Colonel Yermaloff Speaks Highly of
 American ospitality-Winter Sched-
 ule of Siberian Railways-Twenty
 Seven Eersts Per Hour to Be Made.
 St Petersburg, Nov 1.-The card catalogue of American exporting mer- chants and manufacturers which was sent to Consul General Holloway re- gently has already proven it's utility. Colonel Holloway got the newspapers to insert notice about the matter and received inquiries from a dozen persons Within twenty-four hours. He has already had inquiries from T doz- el persons, all of whom desired three CT 1our classes Of addresses. Ono MOSCOW merchant submitted a list of twelve classes of exporters whose ad- dresses he desired
 Minister of Agriculture Ycrmalofr last year requested Ambassador Tow. CT to procure for him an assortment or American seeds for experimental purposes. Ambassador Tower sent for cotton. apple. corn. apricot. peach and 1 other seeds and plants. Minister. Yer inatof in conversation with A!r Tower. this week informed him that his ex 1 perimentS had resulted far better than had been anticipated. The peaches ana apples are t1OuriShn% in the Cau- caSuS, the corn in the Caucasus and 1 central Asia and the cotton in Turkes- | tan.
 Colonel 1ormaloff. the brother of the minister. has just returned from the | to fTE. -l,,, i cuperating since the close of the Gu ban war. He spoke in the most com plimentary terms of the American commanders whose acquaintance he made as Russia's military representa- tive in Cuba, of the hospitality of the AmericanS
 The contract of the Paris Bell Tcle- phone company with the Russian gov ernment, which gave it monopoly Tn the five most important cities of the empire during the last twenty years IS about expiring and lease-hold fran cnlSeS will be offered at auction within a few weeks. as has been stated in ca ble dispatches from here. The charge. hitherto 25O roubles or over S125 an nually, will be reduced to % roubles There are in this city of more than q million people now only 4.6OO SubScrib- CTS. The neighboring Finniah city of Wiborg. with scarcely 23,90O people, has over 1000 subscribers The an nual charge is SIG It is likely that the municipality of St Petersburg will secure the franchise here. Odessa. Riga. Moscow and Warsaw. which have fared no better than St Peters burg. may also municipalize the ser vice.
 The municipality does not let itself be heard from often. Colonel Hollo- way was reminded of the existence re- gently when he received a letter from the inventor of a voting machine. in quiring if he thought it advisable tC send an agent to work Russia. Colonel Holloway recalled that the local mer chants. or at least some of them. elect q mayor. which is about all the voting I done in Russia. if one except the peas ant communities. which elect theil
 own officials and regulate their owr l affairs. such as the re-Dartition of the | common lands among the members ot
 the community at stated periods.
 The winter schedule of the Siber' al
 railway has just been published. Thi
 first 5000 yerstS east of lrkutsk vii | be traVerSed by express trains at tht
 rate of 27 verstS per hour. not count
 ing stoppages. which are endlessly Ions
 even in European Russia. and will TO
 ouire five and half days for the jour
 ney of about 2.0OO miles. Ordinar.
 trains are scheduled to make the tril
 in six and a half days.