Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-17

| me congestion III all tne depOtS OF
the city is very great and ten days
| will be required to clear it.
The strikebreakers are being paid
off and furnished transportation to
| their homes.
The latest thing in apartment house
luxury is miniature commercial laun.
dry equipment for every tenant in the
building. II used to be considered quite
a luxury when lifts were introduced
in apartment houses, but soon other
features were added to the equipment
OF apartments; gas ranges, electric
light. ice boxes, etc. Only short
time ago II caused some comment
when ii became known that the build
| er of new aristocratic apartment
house had provided electric ironing
outfits for every apartment in the
building. In his effort to Guido his
competitors. the builder of an apart
| ment house now in course of erection
decided to supply each Tenant with
complete laundry outfit, consisting
of machine washer, drier, and roller
Tor flat work" as well as seperate
ioning board and electric iron for
hand work. all operated by electricity
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 14.-Mes
sages received today from Koyelst in
dictate that Count Tolstoy will prob
ably remove shortly to Canada to join
the Doukhobars, religious fanatics, un.
less the present grief of his wife i'll.
duces him TO return home.
Reports today are that the count
has effected reconciliation with the
| Greek Catholic church from which he
was communicated when he wrote:
Resurrection, have been verified but
are not believed. Tolstoy's writings
have been in direct opposition to the
| church teachings
Tolstoy has found temporary ref
uge in a convent at Koyelst, in which
his favorite sister Maria has been a
nun for a number of years. His daugh-
ter. Alexandria, and his woman ty-
| pist have Joined him there. 1t is prob
able his flight. despite its suddenness
| had long been contemplated.
His wife and son, who have been
managing his estates, have raised the
rents and reduced the wages to a
point of almost beggaring the ten
nants. This is direct opposition to
| the wishes of Count Tolstoy, who
believes in equality, and who wished
his tenants to have as much as him
helf Then, too, in his scorn of money
| Tolstoy refused to copyright an un-
| published novel for which he had been
offered immense sums These things
| are what estranged him from his fam.
lily.
The convent where the count has
taken refuge. is one of the severest
! in the world. The 500 nuns do all the
| work, tilling soil, building houses.
shoeing horses and attending to the
| flocks.
If ToIstoy decides TO carry out his
| determination to join the Doukhobars
| in Canada is it probable that the gov
crnment will interpose no interference.
Tolstoy's writings are not approved by
the authorities. but he is too powerful
to be exiled
KALAMAZOO, Mich. Nov. 14.-Six
persons dead, twenty-six Injured, four
of whom will die. as the result of a
street car on the Kalamazoo city
lines of the Michigan United Railway
company being run doyn last night by
| n west-bound express train on the
Michigan Central railroad All the
dead and injured were passengers
Oh the street car.
| WASHINGTON, d. C. Nov. l4.-Brig-
adler General A. l.. Myer. in command
of the department of Texas. closed
his active career in the army today,
| list by operation of the law on account
of age. He entered the army during
| the closing days of the civil war as a
| private in the 29th infantry. In 1867
| he was dppOlHleu secoHu ie"tehaH' III
that regiment. By gradual promotion
he reached the grade of brigader gen
eral in March. 1907 He is succeeded
| in command of the department OF
| Texas by brigader General Ralph w
F; Hoyt, who has been commanding fort
d. A. Russell.
The vacancy In the grade of brig
adler general caused by the retire
ment OF Gen. Myer is filled by the
promotion OF Col. Montgomery NJ.
Macomb. 9th Field Artillery. The new
brigader general is from Michigan
and was graduated from West Point
In 1874, and from the Artillery schoo