The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-23

/ recognize when ! hear them only, but
can't use l really felt quite chesty when
! found myself able 10 give the drosky
driver the street and number where i've
so that he understood It. can't TO THIS
day tell him the number OF the consulate
but have to let II go with the street name
and punch him in the back when want
him To stop. / am therefore communicat-
ing with my fellow man In an elaborate
sign language, some German. few scat
tered sentences of French and my rev
words OF Polish, Russian l don't attempt.
! am slowly picking out the alphapet
from the street signs. but am on speaking
terms with no single word.
The city OF Warsaw has a population or
about 500 900. 1t was the capital OF the
ancient kingdom OF Poland and is inc
residence of the governor general OF inc
Russian government OF Poland. which has
a population of about - 900 900, Of which
20 per cent are Poles, 10 per cent Jews.
slams. In Warsaw alone 81 per cent OF
the population Is Jews. All ofielaldom
IS Russian, and garrison OF about lVV,-
600 Cossacks is constantly kept at the
city is one OF most striking contrasts.
There are but two kinds Of people. the
rich and the poor. and the rich are very
rich and few, and the poor very poor and
many, There are innumerable splendid
palaces. once the seats Of Polish nobility.
but now mostly confiscated by the rus
sian government and used for admins
tyativc purposes. There are dozens and
dozens OF noble cathedrals and churches
, mostly Roman Catholic, n few Russian,
couple OF synagoeues and one frot-
estant.
Some Splendid Streets.
There arc some splendid streets and
avenues, but the poorer quarters are most
ahject The streets are well lighted bu'
poorly paved, and present contrasts even
more striking than do the city buildings.
Dinl1y little cabs hurry wcll-dressed peo-
pie and officers in gorgeous uniforms
from place TO place. while the sidewalks
arc crowded with men and women In rags
and tatters.
Barefoot women are seen everywhere
on the streets, and Jews In long coats
and little caps, indescrlbably greasy and
filthy, Beggars In rags and with horrible
deformities crowd the church steps and
importune the pedestrians on every street
corner, AT night the cafes are thronged
with wel-dressed mon and women. and
the music halls vie with those of Paris
or Vienna in brilliapcy. Soldiers throng
the streets. and Cossack partols ride up
and down at all hours. These Cossacks,
by the way. were the one touch OF home
that l saw. They are fine looking young
are also not unlike our COW 1onies. Tne
city Is, however, on the whole orderly,
and presents an appearance OF municipal
well-bcing. It's water supply is good,
and its sewage system fair Up to the
time when ! left there had been but two
cases of Aslatlc cholera in Warsaw, while
at ST. Petersburg there had been more
than a thousand cases, with two or three
hundred new cases every day.
Trip Pleasant One.
My trip has been entirely pleasant. II
at times rather wearying. Through Ger
many, the weather was fine, and the we'll
ordered German cities are always pleas
ure. and on the ocean, while We had a
day Of fog and two days OF high wind. II
was on the whole smooth and was only
| saved from monotony by fairly good COM
pany. In New York and Washington. it
| was uncomfortaby warm, but from Ne
! braska to Utah we had snow all the way:
| and with all her variety. America Is good
| 10 see again. There are a few things that
| | think we might take lessons In from
| Europe, and one of them is that OF munic-
| ipal administration.
l don't like TO say It, but our cities
even little old New York. Washington the
| beautiful and Salt Lake City look rather
shabby when compared with the perfectly
| kept streets OF the German cities. and
the street car conductor in Berlin. for
| instance, who appeared In the dirty and
disreputable looking uniform that seems
Salt Lake, wouldn't last long enough to
run his car two blocks. All the same. we
are the people, and on the whole there Is
nobody like us. and no country quite so
good, nor nearly so great as our own. II
does for man what no other country can
Let me cite an incident. On the steamer
coming across ! met elderly Russian
Jew. He told me that at the age OF six
teen he escaped from Russia. and when
he told me his name ! recognized II is
that OF one of the largest importers In
New York City. He is still very notice
ably the Jewish immigrant, bat | noticed
particularly his daughter. who was with
him, a faultlessly gowned young woman
crat and the air and manner OF a patrlc-
ian. America had done this for her. Ten
generations in Europe would have left
her without 1t.