The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-05

be TO get out of a penitentiarv at
nome At the frontier we were met
" guards on horseback and on foot.
pOlIceInen, detectives and other era #
erS, who took our passports and money
ana one fellow made me exchange. my
SOCKS with him. Then they impris-
ohed US IN stable with some cows
until they could hold a cOroner's in
Quest on our passports and divide our
money we slept with the cows the
llrst night in Russia, and do not want
10 steep again with animals that chew
cuds al night, and get up half a dozen
times TO hump up their backs and
Suretcn ana below We never slept
wink. and could look out through the
cracks in the stable and see the guards
shaking dice for our money.
flhaily they looked at the great seal
On our passports and saw it was an
American document. and they began to
turn pale, as pale as a Russian can get
without using soap. and when I said
w ashlngton. embassad dor. minister
plenipotentiary. Roosevelt, Hot Time in
the Old Town Tonight, + PIuribus
mum, whooDla, San Juan HILL and
pointed TO dad who was Just coming
out OF the Stable. looking like Wash
ington at Valley Forge, the guards
and other robbers bowed to dad gave
MN bag full Of Russian money in
place of that which they had taken
away, and let US take "A freight train
for st. Petersburg, and they must have
told the trainmen who we were. be
cause everybody on the cars took off
ther hats to US. and divided their
lunch with US
Dad could not understand the change
in the attitude of the people toward
Us until l told him that they took him
LOT distinguished American states
man. and that as long as we were in
Russia he must try TO look like George
Washington and act like Theodore
roosevelt. 50 every little While dad
would stand up III the aisle of the car
and pose like George Washington. and
When anybody gave him a sandwich
or a cigarette he would show his teeth
and say, Delighted" and all the way
10 St Petersburg dad carried out his
part Of the programme, and we were
not robbed once on the trip, but dad
tried 70 smoke on of the cigarettes
that was given him by a Cossack and
NJ died IN my arms. pretty near
They make cigarettes out of baled
hay that has been used for holdings
and covered with paper that has been
used to poison flies. / never smeIIed
our house by the board of health after
the hired girl had smallpox.
Well. we got to st. Petersburg in an
awful time, and went to a hotel. sus-
pected by the police. and marked as
undesirable guests by the Cossacks,
and winked at by the walking dele
gates and strikers, who thought we
were non-union men looking for their
jobc.
The next day the religious ceremony
of blessing the Neva" took place.
where all the population gets out on
the bank of the river, with overshoes
on. and fur coats, and looks down on
the river, covered with ice four feet
thick and the river is blessed. In our
country the people would damn a river
that has ice four feet thick. but in
Russia they bless anything that will
stand it. We got a good place on the
bank Of the river. with about million
people who had sheepskin coats on,
and who steamed like a sheep ranch.
and were enjoying the. performance
looking occasionally at the Winter pal