Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-13

Don, in charge Of H. w. Zimmerman.
and at Samara. in charge of A. H.
Schwartzenbach.
The ]. 1. Case Company Of Racine. Wis.
has large Offices and warehouses uses IN
Co. of Richmond. Ind. have similar es-
Establishment, in charge of A. A. HANNA
cher; the Deere Plow Company of Moline
is represented by II. E. Rusch: the Chat
tanooga Plow Company by Mr.. HONS:
the Parlin & Orendorff Pillow Company of
Canton, ILL.,, by J. a. Rose and j. Bender,
and Oelrichs & Co. of New York, by SUIT
ken & Co.
Various other American interests. such
as the Singer Sewing Machine Company,
the Cash Register Company, the Column
bia Phonograph and the Remington Type
writer, are represented by native agents
and the sales OF American merchandise
craze is a little late in reaching Russia,
but II has come at last. Large Kinks are
being built In all the cities In this section
Of the empire. while the leading hardware
lean skates and German limitations. The
floor OF the new rink at Odessa Is iaid
with American cherry lumber
Exposition Not Interesting.
There is an exposition open here now,
but Ii does not amount to a great deal
and has very little interest except in the
reproduction Of ancient Russian buildings.
These types of early Muscovite archi-
lecture are rather fantastic in their de-
signs. and some Of them look actually
grotesque In the presence OF the classic
Greek pavilions which are interspersed
about the grounds. Most Of them are oc-
cupied by exhibitors or as restaurants ana
cafes.
In the agricultural department Amer
lean exhibitors come out strong. j. 1.
case threshing machines and traction en-
gines from Racine. Emerson disc gang
plows, Planet cultivators. Walter A. WOOD
reapers, John Deere gang piows ana
various other American inventions MI
large building. The international Harves-
ter Company has samples OF It's machn-
ery. including engines. windmill pumps,
cultiyators. harrows. disc drills and vari-
Gus other agricultural labor savers. which
are popular on the large estates vi sou'h
ern Russia
The exposition Is purely commercial
affair, subsidized by the municipality Tor
the benefit Of exhibitors who sell every,
thing they display. and the hotels ana
droskv drivers who have doubled their
rates during the exposition. The grounds
are crowded every afternoon ana evening"
and the people are an entertaining spec
tacle of Themselves
In another part of the city the Imperial
library occupies an imposing building OF
classic design with several hundred thou
sand books. The university, which ranks
third among. educational institutions In
Russia occupies several buildings and has
between four and five Thousand students.
Schools Are Celebrated.
The schools Of art. engineering, chem
istry and medicine are celebrated and the
students of medicine have access 10 sew
eral enormous hospitals and charitable In
stitutions for the infrm and defective. l
am told that medical science has attained
much higher proficiency in the southern
provinces than In northern Russia.
There are several military schools which
are needed more than anything else and
are well patronized, for the army Is the
principal thing here. and when young
man is deciding upon career he always
tries that first. The army grows bigger.
the taxes grow higher, the people grow
poorer and labor becomes scarcer in Rus
STA every year. Military rank seems TO be
essential for happiness and social pres
tige Nearly every man you meet on the
street or In the hotels and cafes wears
uniform and everybody has a military
rank. The school teacher. the apothe
cary. the lawyer and doctor and architect,
the clerks in the custom house, the post
office and city hall-even the convicts in
the prisons wear uniforms and the regis
trars of the schools of the university are
dressed like major generals.