The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
CONDITIONS IN CAPITAL
ARE ALMOST NORMAL
Vigilance of cossacks oueII lncipient
Disturbances-Workm Refuse
to Risk Their Lives to Please
Revolutionaries.

st. Petersburg May 15.-02:30 a. MI
The widely heralded May Day demon
strations in ST. Petersburg were COM
plete tasco, and reports from Moscow and
the provinces indicate that order reigned
on Sunday generally throughout the en-
tire extent of Russia Minor disorders
are reported at Reval, Kishineff and one
or two other places but up to midnight
no reports of serious tumults or loss of
life have been received. and the attempt
of the social democrats and social revo-
lutionists to signalize May Day by great
ant-government demonstrations, appears
TO have been complete failure.
Dispatches from Kazan, Tifis, Saratoff,
pronstadt, Rostov, kieff, Vologda, Tomsk
bnd other cities say the workmen observ-
ID the day a holiday; that the shops
were closed, and that quiet was not dis
thrbed.
In st. Petersburg the day was passed
in almost perfect quiet, and without
5drop of blood being shed. The revolution
laries found 1t impossible to execute the
programme of demonstrations and bomb
'lthrowing, which they so widely advertis-
ed the working men declining to sacrifice
themselves to advance the propaganda
of their self-constituted leaders, and the
advertised meetings were attended chief
ly by spectators. Governor General Tre-
poff handled the situation firmly, but with
view to avoiding collisions, and made
his dispositions skilfully. Squads of Cos
sacks patrolled the streets, reserves being
held out of sight in court yards, and the
guard regiments were retained under arms
at,. ale hut nfa1
sion to call out either.
City Almost Normal.
The Associated Press correspondent who
rode all through the sections of the city
and suburbs. found the streets perhaps
less thronged than usual. More or less
tension and agitation were apparent in
the Industrial quarters among workmen
promenading upder the of Cossacks with
whips in their hands, but otherwise the
city wore almost normal appearance.
The weather which was cold and raw. per-
haps acted as a deterrant of trouble, as
Russians dislike physical discomfort.
At the Preobrajensky cemetery, where
the principal meeting in honor of the
January martyrs as the victims of RED
Sunday are popularly called had been
advertised a scanty crowd largely COM
posed of curiosity seekers, assembled.
Cossacks dispersed the crowd, the more
aggressive of whom sang the Marsei-
laise" as they were crossing the fields.
This defiance was met by a charge of
Cossacks who used their whips freely, in
ficting many nasty injuries. There was
similar incident on yassili Island, where
a dozen students. mainly girls. raised the
'Marseillase' and gathered a crowd.
Cossacks cantered up and down, dis
persng the crowd with WHIPS seeming to
take special pleasure in slashing the stu
dents with their whips but the latter ap-
parently were anxious to pose as mar
tyrs and deliberately provoked attack
bv singing revolutionary songs. The af-
fair gave rise to rumors that number
of persons had been killed, but in the
incident which happened under the eyes
of the Associated Press correspondent,
.-sabres were not even drawn, and nobody
was seriously hurt
TumuIt in Park.
The day wound up with tumult in one
of the peoples parks, where white merry
makers were dancing Russian national
dances, agitators scattered proclamations
among the crowd, and drove scanty
guard Of police into shallow artificial
lake. Cossacks came up at gallop.
welding their whips, rescued the police
and made numerous arrests. 1t was mo-
ticeable that the Cossacks rode al wide in
tervals, evidently to minimize the effect of
bombs should they be thrown
Governor General Trepoff is exceedingly
pleased with the result of his precautions
and points out that order was exceptional
ly well maintained during the day with
out firing a shot or infiicting single
injury serious enough to warrant surgical
or hospital attention. He attributes the
success of his measures largely to whole
sale arrests of incendiary leaders Satur-
day and Sunday night. He also praises the
working population for its sensible stand.
The prestige of the social democrats and
revolutionists has suffered greatly by Sum
DAYS failure, though they were trying
last night to retrieve it by issuing a mani
festo attributing their inability to carry
out the programme to the overwhelming
force of military, and proclaiming a gen.
eral strike today. The leaders were so
confident of success in advance of the
advent that they prepared a number of
informal hospitals or bandaging stations
in the neighborhood of the various ad-
vertised meetings to render first aid to
the victims of the expected rioting. Part
Of the onus of their failure rests upon
Father Gopon, who sent a message from
abroad to the leaders Of his old organza-
tion, saying. do nothing until l re-
turn"
Quiet at Warsaw.
Warsaw. May Midnight. Sunday
nassed quietly at Lodz and In Warsaw.
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