The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-15
ORDER KEPT
 BY SOLDIERS Expected May Day IrOu- ble Did Not Occur. AFFAIR COMPLETE FIASCO WOrkingmen Declined to Be
 Sacrificed. Only Minor Disorders Reported in Rus- sia, and at St. Petersburg Not a
 Drop of Blood Was
 Spilled.

StTaIlOnS III E5t. fetcTSDuh6 WCiC n NSAsA plete fiasco and reports from Moscow and the provinces indicate that order reigned on Sunday generally through out the entire extent of Russia.
 Minor disorders are reported at Reval, Kishineff and one or two other places but up to midnight no reports Of seri- ous tumults or losses of life have been received and the attempt of the soclal democrats and social revolutionists to signify May Day by great anti-govern- ment demonstrations appears to have n complete failure. Dispatches from Kazan, riffs, Saratoff. Cronstadt. Rostov, Kieff, vologda, Tomsk and other cities say the workmen observ- ed the day as a holiday. that the shops were closed and that quiet was not dis turbed.
 Tn St. Petersburg the day was pass ed in almost perfect quiet and without a drop of blood being shed. The revo- lutionaries found 1t impossible to exc cute inc program of demonstrations and bomb throwing which they so widely advertised. the workingmen declining to sacrifice themselves to advance the propaganda of their self-constituted leaders and the advertised meetings were attended chiefly by spectators Governor General Trepoff handled the situation firmly. but with view 10 avoiding collisions and made his dispo- sitions successfully. Squads of Cos sacks patrofIed the streets. reserves be- ing held out of sight in court yards and the guard regiments were retained un- der arms in their barracks, but there was no occasion to call out either.
 City Almost Normal.
 The Associated Press correspondent, who rode all through the sections or the city and suburbs, found the streets perhaps less thronged than usual More or less tension and agitation was ap- narent fin the industrial quarter among workmen profnenading under the eyes of Cossacks with whips in their hands buf~ othsrwise the city wore almost normal appearance. The weather, which was cold and raw, perhaps acted as a detrement of trouble. as Russians dislike physical discomfort.
 At the Preobrajensky cemetery, where the principal meeting in honor of "the January martyrs" as the vic- tims of the Red Sunday" are popular Iy called, had been advertised, a scan ty crowd, largely composed of curios- ity seekers, assembled. Cossacks dis- persed the crowd, the more aggressive of whom sang the 'Marseillaise" as they were crossing the fields. This de- fiance was met by a charge of Cossaeks who used their whips freely
 IneTe WAS d SlHliidl iiAS'NNhN Nfi sil Island. where a dozen students, mainly girls, raised the "Marseillaise" and gathered a crowd Cossacks can tered up and down and dispersed the crowd with whips, seeming to take special pleasure in striking the girls with the whips, but the latter appar- entIy were anxious to pose as martyrs and deliberately provoked attack by singing revolutionary songs. The af- t., yfe that num- Der of persons had been killed, but in the incident, which happened under the eyes of the Associated Press corrcs- pondent, sabres were not even drawn and nobody was seriously hurt.
 watching for Bombs.
 The day wound up with tumult in one of the parks, where while merry makers were dancing Russian national dances agitators scattered proclama- tions among the crowd and drove scanty guard of police into q shallow but difficult. lake. It was noticeable that the Cossacks rode at wide inter- vals, evidently to minimize the effect of the bombs should they be thrown.
 Governor General Trepoh is exceed ing1y pleased with the result of his precautions and points out that order was exceptionally well maintained du- ring the day without firing a shot or inflicting single injury serious enough to warrant surgical or hospi- tai attention. He attributes the sue cess largely to wholesale arrests of incendiary leaders Saturday and Sat urday night. He also praises the working population TOT its sensible stand.
 The prestige of the Social Democrats has suffer ed greatly by Sundays fail ure, though they were trying last night to retrieve it by Issuing a manifesto attributing their inability to carry out the program to the overwhelming force of military and proclaiming again a strike today. The leaders were so con- hdent of success in advance of the ad vent that they prepared number of informal speeches for bands in the sta tions in the neighborhood of the vari- ous advertised meeting places to rem der first aid to the victims of the ex- pected rioting. Part of the onus of their failure rests upon Father Gopon, who sent a message to the leaders of his old organization saying Do noth- ing until I return"
 The police prevented meeting yes terday of resident clergy who desired to pass resolutions of sympathy with the Metropolitan Antonious. who has been transferred to the Caucasus on &C., count of his agitation in favor of re- vival of the Patriarchate. When repre- sentatives of the clergy asked an of- fcer if he might hold a meeting in a church he replied in the negative say ing that his orders were not to permit a meeting anywhere.