Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-08
RUSSIAN WATERWAYS IN THE CITY OF MOSCC

third class waiting room, each or whlch
has its own restaurant. There are also
tea pedders, notion stores and news
stands. so that one can buy What ne
needs without going out Of the depot.
IA as good as you find anywhere anu
The restaurants are excellent. the 1000
remarkably cheap. A plate Of soup Is
enough for meal. and Russian soup
Is as good as any In Europe. There IS
one Kind called "stchee," made OF cab
bages and other vegetables with
chunk OF meat about four inches square
and two inches thick in each dish. The
nroper WAY TO take II Is 10 eat the soup
first and after that the meat bowl
OF thick cream IL furnished with the
SOUP. This is poured into II TO thicken II
and a green cucumber or so Is also
furnished to eat between the spoon
fuls. II Is not at all bad, ] assure you.
TEA PEDDLERs.
Theer are always tea peddlers about
a Russian station. Tea Is brought TO
the windows at the stopping OF the
train. Il Is also served IN the depots
and is drunken at all hours OF the day.
The Russians have better tea and more
Of Il than any other people OF Europe
Most Of the people drink Chinese tea,
which is brought In caravans over the
mountains Of Thibet, and consequently
escapes the long SEQ voyage, when Is
said 10 lnjure the flavor. The tea Is
served in glasses instead OF In cups. III
Is always taken hot and usually with
out milk A slice OF lemon is generally
dropped into the glass and several Jumps
of hard loaf sugar PLACID beside H. Inc
favorite way Of drinking Is TO take one
OF these sugar Jumps between your Ups
and suck the tea through H. The sugar
il as hard as rock candy, ana u IS
made so for tea drinking The Gus
tora is bad for the teeth and has open
ed up a great field for the American
dentist. venture one-half of these
Russians have bad teeth, and the cav
tiles awaiting filling with gold or ANAL
gam may be counted by millions.
RUSSIAN FREIGHT TRAINS,
The freight cars here are much SMALL
er than ours and the trathc IS less
heavy. che rates seem low. Heavy
godds cost one-eighth Of a cent per
mile ami the dearest freight rate II less
than FIVE cents per ton per mile. There
IL a great variety in rates. so that It Is
impossible 10 describe just what things
cost. The freight brings in the greatest
per cent OF profit TO the road and II Is
increasing more rapidly than the pas
senger traffic
Russia Is farming country, ana
large part Of the freight is made up OF
grain and agricultural products. some
Of the articles are peculiar Prince Hi
/ koff told me that he vas shipping
train loads OF game birds from Siberia
to the markets Of Europe and | Know
sma, 'tie A !, sor Ui ,1nortapt freight
item. More than 100000 tons OF geese,
chickens and eggs arc carried over the
railroad I'm a wear and the exports OF
| thiAkind To other parts Of Europe now
amint 10 almost s25. 900. OOO annually.
The eggs exported alone bring In about
yl5 600 900. while the live geese sent to
| Germany are sold for some million dol
| Iare more.
ARreat many pigeons are being raised
ana also ducks turkeys and phossants.
some Of the larger estates have htguu
10 breed cartridges aualls and grouse.
and othsrs have great locks OF nalf-
Wild phensants which they raise for the
market
As TO egrs 1l50Oo tons are now an