The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-15
MAY DAY PASSED
SANS BL00OSHED
Widely-HeraIded Demonstrations a
Complete FiascO.
WHIPS USED BY COSSACKS
OTHERWISE THERE WAS NO
TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

OF. PETERSBURG, May l., 1880 a.
y m--The widely heTalded May Day
demonstrations IN St. Petersburg
were a complete fiasco, and reports
from Moscow and the provinces indi-
cate that order reigned on Sunday gen
orally throughout the entire extent OF
Russia. Minor disorders are reported
at Reval Kishineff and one or two
other places. but uD to midnight no
reports of serious tumults or loss OF
life have been received, and the at
tempt of the social democrats and So
cial revolutionists to signalize May Day
by great anti-goveTnment demonstra-
tions appears to have been a thorough
failure
Dispatches from Kazan, Tif1is, Sara
tOff. Cronstadt RostOT-Ou-DOn. kieH,
VoIogoda, Tomsk and other cities say
the wOrkmen observed the day as a
holiday; that the shops were closed and
that quiet was not disturbed
Passed in Perfect Quiet
In St Petersburg the day was passed
in almost perfect quiet. and. happily
without d drop Of blood being shed The
revoIutionaries found il impossible TO
execute the programme of demonStra-
tons and bomb throwing which they
so widely advertised. the working men
declining to sacrifice themselves to ad-
vance the propaganda Of their self
constituted leaders. and the advertised
meetings were attended chiefly by spec
tatOrS. Governor General TrepOff han
died the situation firmly. but with a
view to avoiding collisions, and made
his dispositions skillfully- Squads OF
COSSacIs patTOlled the streets. reserves
being held out of sight in court yards,
Il q
under arms in their barracks. but there
was no occasion to call out either
Day Cold and Raw.
The Associated Press correspondent
who rode through all sections of the
city and suburbs. found the streets
perhaps less thronged than usual More
or less tension and agitation were ap-
parent in the industrial quarters among
wOrlmen prOmeuading under the eyes
of Cossacks with whips in their hands.
but otherwise the city wore almost
normal appearance The weather,
which was cold and raw, perhaps acted
as a deterrent of trouble, as Russians
dislike physical discomfort.
At the PreObrajenSlIy cemetery
where the principal meeting in honor OF
THE January martyrs" as the victims
of Red Sunday" are popularity called,
had been advertised, scanty crowd.
largely composed Of curiosity seekers,
assembled. COsSacks dispersed the
crowd. the more aggressive of whom
sang the 'Marseillaise" as they were
crossing the fields.
Used Whips Freely.
This defiance was met by d charge
Of Cossacks. who used their whips free
", inhiCting many nasty injuries.
There was d similar incident on Vas
sill island. where a dozen students,
mainly girls. raised the "Marseillaise'
and gathered a crowd. CoSsacks can
tered UP and dispersed the crowd with
whips. seeming to take special pleasure
I'm SlashinE the girl students with their
whips. but the latter apparently were
anxious to pose as martyrs, and de
liberately provoked attack by singing
revolutionary songs. The affair gave
rise TO rUmOrS that a number Of per
sons had been killed. but in the Incl
dent which happened under the eyes
of the Associated Press correspondent,
sabeTs were not even drawn, and no
body was seriously hurt.
The day wound up with a tumUIt in
one of the peoples parks, where while
meTTymakPTs were dancing Russian ma
tionaI dances. agitatOrS scattered proc
lawations among the crowd and drove
scanty guard of police into shallow
artificial lake. COSSaCks came up at
EaIlOp. welding their whips, rescued
the police and made numerous arrests
II was noticeable that the Cossacks
rode at wide intervals. evidently TO
minimize the effect of bombs, should
they be thrown.