Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-21
BATTERIES OF ARTILLERY
 READY FOR STRIKERS.
Should They Create Any Unusual disturbance To.hor row-strikers Are Parading the Main streets-0ne Hundred and Seventy.Four Places of Business Were Induced to Close Their Doors Yesterday

St Petersburg. Jan 21-The strikers Are continuing their agitation with ull- abated activity. Throughout the morn ing they have been parading the main streets of the center of the city and closing every industrial establishment.
 The agitation hitherto has been car ried on with remarkable absence of actual violence. The committee of the union having issued instructions that everything be done as quietly as pos sibie and that no personal violence be offered the police. Street traffic in the leading thorougnfares is hardly inter- ferleu with, tue demonstrators filing the streets, politely making way .l0r sleuges. A list Ot tue l14 works closed as tue result of yesterdays cOercl,e measul es SHOWS that every inuuslry is involved including construction ard eleclrical engineers. ln view of tl,s proDable failure of the elecrlc supply for stores and officers hunseholders are laying in large stocks Of candies The puDllc is nervous ana excited and the opinion is freely expressed that the ernlnent wlil be forced tu cuil. ceue the demands of the men.
 The authorities plan to prevent the wOrkmen tomorrow from enLering the city proper. The industrial sections beyond the Narva, Moscow ana News ky gate will be cut off and all tiie bridges will be guarded.
 Se> eral batteries of artillery have been brought into the city.
 Despite tie energetic measures talk en to insure the safety of the city the inhabitants are in a state bordering on terror. The widest rumors regard ing the intentions of the mob are af1oat and many small retailers dld not open their shops this morning. An edict has gone forth that no shop must open tomorrow when tine great assemblage on the palace square is scheduled to take place. Although the authorities seemingly are determined to prevent its preparations for the. gi- gantic demonstration are proceeding, the men declaring that they are ready to die in their tracks.
 
 have been kidnapped during the night is understood to be at large this moln- ing going from place to place organi- zing and directing everything. His dictum is that the meeting shall occur on the palace square no matter If 1t results in a massacre of the men. He says they must be resolved ito dos or die. It is noteworthy that the leaders are going back to the French revolu- tion for their. parallels. The deputa- tfon sent to Tsarskoe Selo was the march of the mob to Versailles. The assemblage planned for tomorrow is likened to the march of the multitude wearing red caps of liberty to the Tuileries to present their demands to Louis XVI. While there is much talk that the troops may be Overawed by the mob the authorities do not mani- fest the slightest apprehension on this score. The cossacks and the guard regiments they declare can be relied upon. Two regiments of infantry have also been brought here from Riga. Nevertheless the authorities are ex- tremely nervous realizing that blood once spilled in the present temper of the excited men spurred on by social ist agitators it is impossible to predict the end. The emperor's advisors how ever declare he must put down the agitation with q firm hand and that if he yields as Louis XVI did at Yer sailles all may be lost and the present resolution of the government is not to give way.
 While many drunken rows have Oc- cured and number of men have been injured no serious collisions have been reported up to this morning. An enormous number of arrests of known rcvolutionaries took place during the night.
 An attempt will be made to close all the bakeries in order to threaten the city with famine The workmen are also reported to have decided to cut the telephone and telegraph wires and cut off St Petersburg altogether from communication with the outside world.
 Altogether the situation is most crit ical. Father GOpOn when appraised that the government proposed to pre- vent the demonstration tomorrow iS- sued instructions to the men that tfev must go to the palace square with their. wives and children, hut the men must be armed'' he reportai f" have said. We must first show that we are peaceful We have appealed in vain to the employers and to the bureaucracy. Our last hope is the en- peror himself If he refuses to see us and orders them to disperse us then we must fight"
 Father Gopon has had guari of four hundred sworn workmen formed 10 protect the emperor from harm if he will come to the palace square to- morrow.
 Among the r,imors afioat is one to. Ire effect that the famous Prenroiteu sky guard regiment has declared if would refuse to fire on the mob but this like many other sensational re- ports pertaining to widespread dis satisfaction in the army is not con- hrmed.
 SITUATION IMPROVED.
 St Petersburg. Jan 21 tS n m.f-The