The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-01
RUSSIA SPENDS DAY
 CELEBRATING FREEDOM
SOME DIScoNTEET MANIFESTED -BK THE SOCIALISTS AND
 RET0LUTIoNIsEs.

In St. Petersburg and Moscow No sucb
 Day as Yesterday Had Ever Been Ex-
 perienced-sIavtc People Gives Itself
 Fully to the Exuberance of the Me-
 ment and spends Hours in Parade.
 and AssembIies-PeopIe Given Full
 est Rein but TrepoR Finally Issues
 Order to Suppress All Disturbances
 With Most Premptory Measures.
 St. Petersburg. Oct. sl.-Ail Russia to-day celebrated enthusiastically the emperor's gift Of freedom which the great part of the people received with deepest joy, though in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities socialists an,I reVolutionaries organized anti-govern- ment demonstrations and red flag pa- rades, which, with the patriotic nani- festations led to a number of conflicts between the reds ad "whites.a as the anti-governnlent and royalist fac tions are respectively termed. on the whole the day passed more quietly in Russian than had been expected though collisions between the people and the troops are reported from Poitava. Kaz- an and Kishineff and two men were killed.
 In each of the two capitals. St. Pet ersburg and Moscow the day was one such as the Russians never before have seen. The Slavic people. which during the long war just closed and the anxious period preceding the announce ment of the new era of constitutional- ism seemed self-restrained and apathet- ic, gave itself up fully to the exuber- ance of the moment and spent the en- tire day in parades and assemblies which for the first time in the history of Russia were freely permitted. Un- der the orders of Count Witte and Gen. eral Trepoff the troops generally were withdrawn from the streets of the cit. ies and the fullest rein given the peo- pie to let out their enthusiasm in dem- onstrations, which so long as they were not destructive were not ifaterfered with.
 It vas significant omen that after fortnight of gloomy and depressing weather symbolic of the days of the strike the sun shone out brightly to- day iii St. Petersburg, and brought a radiant Indian summer day. The scenes in St. Petersburg reminded the observ- CTS of events In an American universi- ty town after 8 great football victory, but thousand tine nsgnfffeds < fs.sSf early morning, the streets of the capi- tai were filled with a mass of demon- strators who paraded up and down the long broad Nevslxy Prospect and tramp ed time and again the route between the two principal centers Of demonstra- ton, the Kazan cathedral and the uni- versity, and, constantly auglnenting, reached a grand total of fully 100000 persons, while down the Nevsly Pros- pect late in the afternoon socialist agi- tators, consisting of both students and Workmen. and members of revolution- ary organizations jumped into the fore front of affairs in St. Petersburg and converted the celebration into a great revolutionary demonstration. There were long processions in which huri- dreds of red flags were carried and to which every one was compelled to dofr the hat. A great majority of the pa raders Haunted on the lapels of their coats rosettes and streamers of crim- son ribbon, and socialist orators deliv- cred fiery orations from the balconies of the university and the portico of the cathedral or wherever they could gath CT audiences. They declared the con- sessions of the enperor's manifesto were insufficient, and that they must have the freedom of all political pris- oners, the formation of d national mi litia and the banishment of General Trepoff, and all the troops under his command twenty miles from the capi- tai.
 Early in the day the Marseilles sup planted the national anthem as the popular marching song. The loyalists attempted to take the lead against the socialists and revolutionists by organ izing counter parades in which they carried the red, white and blue banners of Russia and chanted the national an them; but they were driven off the Nevsky Prospect by the overwhelming numbers of the reds every time they appeared
 In the early part of day great crowds of spectators filled the broad sidewalks and remained until the demonstrations assumed so turbulent a character that the well mentioned classes fled to their homes and the merchants hastily boarded up the windows of their stores and shops and barred their doors. fear- ing an outbreak which might result in pillage and destruction. Such an oux- break, however, did not occur, and the day closed without serious collisions The major portion of the citiRens, tired out by the long celebration of the first day of Russian liberty, went early Ito bed and at midnight the Nevsky Prospect was deserted, except for crowds of rughs, armed with clubs, who paraded the avenue singing the nation- al anthem as well as revolutionary songs and had frequent collisions with each other, during which shots were fired.
 The most serious encounter during the day occurred at the end of Goroch- vaia street, near the barracks of the Seminoff regiment, where a crowd of demonstrants in attempting to march to the Pathological institute was stop- ped by troops. Shots were fired on both sides.
 General Trepoff's Order. St. Petersburg. Nov. 1. (S:5O a. nl.)-