Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-31
with RATS and Brobdingnagian Households:

with RATS and Brobdingnagian Households:
alive with traffic. Beyond the iarmarka-
the great horseshoe which is Nijny-Nov-
gorod 1t is built all of wood. in some six
ty great blocks, which contain, perhaps,
three thousand shops. 1t is laid out in
broad straight streets that run parallel
and rectangularly. with sidewalks under
covered colonnades. A canal circumscribeS
the horseshoe, but the fair has prospered
beyond circumscription, and has lately
built itself a substantial succursale on the
far side of the old boundary. Without the
horseshoe, though, as within, each block
of buildings Is affected altogether to one
class of goods. Here all is cotton.
The next block deals in pelts This is a
liquor block; that jewelers.. You sample
nothing but tea-the famous ''thes de CUR
of Hankow, which this year may not go off
so well as usual, perhaps-on this side of
street, while the other side may be all
leather and prunella There are silk blocks,
and drug blocks. and woodwork blocks; tool
shops and crockery shops; Russian iron In
pigs and Russian-made agricultural impse-
ments; piles of niellowork. and samovars,
and cutlery, and the most eccentric pad
locks that you shall find. Here street is
all China pagodas. Turn this corner and
you are in Persia. You have half million
icons, and a library of religious works, or.
If you prefer 1t. of almanacs-your Russ Is
much given to the Illuminated almanac-to
choose from here: and bales Of tobacco yon-
der You can stroll through thorough
fare of clocks. or of dried frult-the tchap-
ate-as the fancy takes you You have your
choice of exotic vehicles, of fur coats, OF
CARPETS Of articles of personal adornment,
and of patent medicines. One thing only
Won have no choice about at ALL Out OF
doors in the streets of the fair, you must
NOT smoFe A careless light-up, or mis-
handled cigarette. might mean a connaSra-
ton. There is no tobacco for you IN TINS
wood. and that makes your only Woe
This rule obtains even on the eyot in the
middle of the Okla, which, in summer time,
il formed there by the barred SAND DRIFTS;
On this eyot are built huge storehouses ana |
warehouses; wooden also. These constitute
tho fish market of the fair. The hsh Is All
oF the dry order 1t is stacked in piles, ike
so much logwood. and TO iogWo0d tnese
niles hear a marked resemblance ms par
ticnIar article of merchandise comes from
siberia. 1t comes sailed, dried picked
Smoked. in boxes. in barrels, or in pyramlus
hound in bark that bulk some six feet hlSh
II is in more senses than one, very strong
feature of the fair. Another, not less strohg
ar times is the variegated, polySlot CROWD.
You see every type OF race. except tne
AneIo-Saxon; you behold every sort OF |
dress and you acquire a notion of what
ton must have been ike when the |
Tower of Babel was under construction.
Announce yourself a purchaser, now
ever. and you have difficulty in making
your wants understood, even if you express
them in your own vernacuiar.
All day long and every day for some SIX
ty days business is carried on at high pres
sure. With evening comes relaxation: and
when the Novgorodian trader reiaxes ne
lets CO. altogether. He dimes, ana does
himself we'll, according to his knowledge or
his means at the well-appointed traktir,
where all white walters supply his needs,
or at restaurants of another character