The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-08
WANT CHINESE BHCE
Queer Condition of Affairs in
Siberia.
BUILDING is SUSPENDED
Because Monaghan Masons
Can't Be Secured.
BUILDING is SUSPENDED


nediately I heard that its manager was
French After the Russian diet Of greasy
soup and great pieces Of meat without
egetablSs-which makes Russian men
strong. and, strange TO say. gives Rus
sian women fine complexions-I found my
self facing over the buffet. laden with
what seemed to me insoluble appetizers.
a gentleman in white apron and white
cap, at your service, sir"
We have partridge kept in cold stor-
age from last season." he said in the
tongue of diplomacy Of cooks. win
you have that, sir. fried with potatoes?"
Yes, and I can give you d salad today.
IT isn't much, but God knows we are
in Siberia. And a small bottle OF Bor-
deaux, too?"
How such a master came to BIagove-
schenk it is past me to conjecture. I
content myself with the fact. He cannot
furnish salad every day for the same
reasons that are responsible for the stag
nation of business and the cessation of
building operations. The Chinese, who are
the market gardeners. as well as the ma
sons, refuse TO leave the Businesses of
Manchuria. Neither increased wages nor
the governments announcement that they
are forgiven viii bring them here.
From many eye-witnesses / have heard
confederation Of the preposterously in
human massacre Of q year ago. General
Gribsky. who had the town cleared by a
Gordon of troops, driving all regardless of
sex who ran from the bayonets into the
river to be drowned, is stin governor.
The living ~ rs=@4
have had some taste of marauding bands
of cossacks. have not yet developed that
nice appreciation Of the difference be
tween war and peace to accept the Rus
sian word that they shall not be harmed.
The number Of bodies which hoated down
the river OF lay decaying on the banks
within reach OF the nostrils Of the vener-
able, grsy-headed governor, if not Of his
conscience is variously computed at from
two TO three thousand. However. many
there were, Blagovescensk heartily wishes
them all back.
Gribsky is not popular with the resi-
dents. If they never criticize the Car or
the church, Russians are as fond as any
body Of criticizing officials and policies.
Gribsky's folly as much as his humanity
is the butt Of satire. BY way Of compar-
ison, they point 10 the foresight of the
governor Of Vladiyostok. When the re-
serves were called out last summer and
began celebrating their progress 70 the
wars with vodka and by waylaying snp
posed Boxers who were carrying mortar
on government buildings, the governor OF
Nladivostok issued an order that ex-
IRENE punishment would be visited upon
any soldier interfering with peaceable
Aninese in the town. His humanity was
rewarded. He kept his worl1men.
From Khabarofsk on. however. the pol
icy was thorough. In Justification was
pleaded the fear Of invasion by the terri
BILE enemy. armed with knives muzzle
loading rifles and a few muzzle-loading
cannon. who, uuprovided with boats, were
on the other side OF an unfordable river.
IT was great war" Near Blagove-
scensk. on Manchurian soil, in the form
of a regimental barracks, IS a speedily
erected monument IN celebration of the
victories It stands in sight of the once
prosperous Chinese town of Aigun, which
shared the fate of most Chinese villages
for twenty miles inland.
In one place, on the journey UP the
river. a block spot on the hillside. with
lohg line Of stone steps approaching,
Was pointed out 90 me as indicating the
grear energy Of the cossack settlers. Led
by their priest of the church militant the
people of the village on the opposite side
had crossed the river and destroyed this
old temple on the mountain-sde. which
had been the resort Of Chinese pilgrims
cro many generations. When the reports
of the venerable Grigsky's doings We're
brought TO the notice of the home gov
eminent. he was investigated and eNcul-
pated Now. however. I fear that for
economical reasons he Is passing under
a cloud. The absence Of Chinese coolies
and masons has not only delayed public
works. but the absence of Chinese farm
srs and erazers has doubled the price Of
he wheat ard meat which the army
consumes. and the bills. therefore. pass
ing before the auditor at st. Petersburg
makes him take a deeper puff at his Gig
arette. and suddenly finds the massacre
II the Chinese a most untoward event
indeed. their soldiers conduct through
cut Manehuria is bringing home 10 the
thinking Russians that there are more
WAYS than one of burning their own
bridges. The mountain which ever froWns
down upon Minister Dewitt in his vast
system of agents. who have no one TO
please except their immediate superiors-
When 1 smoke Of the minister and his
ambitions. and the great possibilities OF
development 10 one Of the managers OF
the Russo Chinese bank, who had been
IN America, he stopped me with d cynical
smile
yes. know. But Dewitte IS only one
man he said. In America everyone
seems TO have common-sChool educa-
ton. He is-trving 10 maks something be
sides his board Your ministers are only
piots. Yes. they are a little more than
e,larterrnasters The people tell them
where TO steer. Our ministers are pro-
Melting povver as wen as pilots Yet you
Americans come here and talk Of what
car, be done with our resources. as # our
Vorlnen and artisans were Ike Yours.
and we business men were fools. ] am
q Russian. however. by prediction. as
well as by birth. ! don't like your ooun-
nv where il is al work and no leisure;
alI rush. and clatter and bang
Rlarovescensk. stretched for two miles
along the river. makes panorama Of
frontier city of which any country might
be nroua. Its prosperity is shown in many
vaps. BY its eight churches. built by
por,ilsr subscription; by its four-story
brick hotel mot the F-eachman's). with
Russian baths attached. by two-storieG
sbons covering as much ground as the
more modest department stores on Sixth
avenue. where yoa can buy everything
from \ fne silver dinner service. Jana
- - 80 aud paris dress sfuffs.