The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-29

Lendon Daily Mail
 Above the snow-walitened Place of St. Isaac the great cathedral rears it's enor- nous bulk of gray and green granite and marble, with the gilded dome blazing sn tho sunlight. Its outlines are picked out, wherever snow can lie, in whi.e. Snow marks the straight lines of thu base, the marble cornice and fr1eze anl the circie of marble columns whioh asc and tn ca: Ty the great golden dome
 Down below, over the smooth snow the sleighs glide swiftly, noise'esslv by. At the end of one perspective of painted houses the slender golden pinacle Of Peter the Greats Admirality shoots a tongue of flame aloft. At the end of another perspective the curio IS cupoias of great church float like ballooons in the sky. The Bolshois Morskaia the Bond street of St. Petersburg. Is full of life and movement. Pavements are thtpnged with men in astralchan coats and caps, ladies in sable and fox. Ill the roadway double stream of sleighs. driven by sha ggy- y-haired izvostchiks in caps like ladies' muffs and huge padded coats wrapped round and round them and Ae- cured by embroidered waist belts, Dov n the middle of the street, with great shout ing to clear the way. comes at the furious pace of a fire engine the privt 5 e.eigh. drawn by two magnificent horses, of some great nooleman. The driver, with beard and hair curied and oiied, and a three-cornered hat Of fur, is leaning fer ward with outstretched arms like Ro- man cnarioteer. gripping the blue silk covered reins taut in both hands. Over the horses quarters a blue silk netting is spread to screen the lady in richest sa- bles who occupies the sleigh from the flying snow flung up by the hoses hoofs.
 Through the archyway which leads from the Morskala fin the Great Place psforc the Winter Palace comes the sound %f an approaching cheer.
 Instantly police officers in long gray coats appear from everywhere the trafnc in the roadway draws to one side the people on the pavement stop and Lace | toward the road a sleigh conveying a distinguished looking onfcer, who looks keenly about. and whom all the sud- denly materiAlized police salutes dasneS by; then, after an interval slotgh
 magntnclentIy horsed. with the driver in the bright scarlet and gold lace livery
 of the court
 Ofhcers salute, the people raise their hats, and the Empress bows and smiles. Another sleigh follows, the little orices- sion turns into the NeVshy Pfospekt, and. taking the center of the broad avenue. is gone like a flash on it's way to the | AnitehkofH Palace, where is a gathering of great ladies interested in tho Red Cross organization. The swarms of po- lice disappear as quickly as they ap- peared the unobtruSiweiy dressed men who when the royal carriage was pass ing showed indications of official respon- sibitties mingle once more with the crowd.
 | Down on the broad quay alongside the Neva, where the palace fronts and many | of the great houses are. the 'heavy car riages of Ambassadors race along at what seems more than motor car speed | detachment of soldiers in queer tall brass hemlets that look more ecclesias- tical than military marches by people are out taking the afternoon constitution al-In furs and goloshes. of course, and the men mostly in uniform, for nearly every one wears uniform of some sort.
 Not only soldiers but students, officials, all sorts of people, wear uniforms. Ev- en a ladies' school, out walking two by
 two along the quay. has its distinctive
 uniform. The river is a broad white snow plain, upon which dark groups of men with horses and sleighs are engaged in digging out huge blocks of ice. The | Neya is frozen nearly two feet deep, and heavy wagons are crossing It by the
 tracks which supplement the long-spanned bridges.
 On the other side the semi-oriental splres and rninarets of the fortress of peter-Paul give 8 curious sensation of strangeness and novelty to the scene. But you look a mile up the river, ana instead of gilt mtnarets and cupo'as you rse a little forest of tall, straight, ugly, factory chimney stacks helchlag esnse