The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-03

p1tal, but Fortunately none died b77A under the Russian laws, we were lia.[ bIe, and paid large amounts to the fu< Jured men, without any suits teinzg brought by a single one of them. in other words satisfied them. aItbouei7, primarily the government officer waa responsible for the accident. The in; terfor of the vessel was burned
 Two other accidents occurred while. the boats were in charge of Russian officers and crew. for both Of which the Russians themselves were respon- sibIe.
 ''The first was to the Crocodile The government wished to do some work on one of the torpedo tubes and in stead of putting the boat in dock started to hoist the stern UT, out Of the water, at the same time admitting water into the forward part of the vessel and Sz5perstructure One of the deck ventila.Sors was open and the line parted. and of course the deck went under water and the vessel df1- ed through the ventilator and she sank The vessel was in the hands of the Russian officers and crew, none of our men were bDaId; she had been pfelinfltarily accepted. and was in commission, but had not been finally accepted, due to the crankshafts which had been furnished by the subcoufrac- tors who supplied the engines. being found too small to carry the full pow CT of the engines satisfactorily, and she had been turned over to the gov ernment with the understanding that they would themselves furnish new crankshafts and deduct the cost Of same from our final payment which was 100000 roubles and we also had a claim of over, 100000 roubIes for ex- tras.
 Another boat the Kainnan was r17, into by the Minister of Marines yacht the Neva at Kronstadt. This boat vya- also in the hands of the Russian of f1cers and crew. It appears that the Ministers yacht appeared and in ac- cordance with Russian naval custom. other vessels usually slow down and the sailors are lined up on the deck at salute. A cruiser on the port side of the Ministers yacht was undergo ing her stability tests and the com mander and other officers and passen- gers walked out on that side, as they were passing the cruiser, presumably to see what was causing the cruiser to heel. The Ministers yacht is a side wheerer and the steersman steers from a, pilot house in the center and could | not see the Kaiman which was low down in the water, and as there was no officer on the starbOard side to warn him, the yacht ran her paddle wheel up on to the deck Of the submarine and smashed the superstructure in, killing one sailor instantly, and throw ing a number into the water.
 These accidents caused considera bIs Z delay in the final acceptance of the boats, but finally received word4 nearly two years ago that they were ready to make a final settlement with [ us, and We sent Mir Whitney over with power of attorney to settle. He had been advised that their accountant had unofficially stated there Wasl about 600,00O Doubles due us although we believed it should be much larger J
 Our agent there had made purchasea and given orders to the Admiralty for something over 100000 Roubles, but we believed we would net at least the soc, 900 Roubles; but before MT. Whit ney had arrived, the agitation arose here on the admission of Jews on American passports, and our Conner ciaI treaty of 1882 with Russia. wao abrogated, and MT Whitney on his arrival found that the sentiment to- wards Americans had changed. the Russians being highly indignant at this government interfering as they considered it, with their private af-. fairs, and some of them did not hesi-' tate to say, now you will get uOLh- ing and he found that they had rec ognized the Crichton claim of 75.OOO Roubles against us, while refusing to consider our claim of 246,000 ROubles against them, and had also charged up the cost of work not authorized on any part of the contract, and had also charged us with the cost of repairs anu II1dlIl6IldIlGS 1LlAiAG AClfelAAes yA ss--- cidents for which they had them selves. only to blame
 MT. Whitney expresses it. you, among many other Americans in Rus- sia, are being made to pay for ths@ abrogation of treaty on the demand of a class of people that R1Esia will never give in to as she claims bhsi right to administer her own internaIf affairs without outside interference-'
 1T am advised of another large American manufacturing concern that is abandoning Russia. with a. loss of over $2,oO0.OO0 caused by the feeling against America in trying to meet that undesirable Russian Jews shall have the right to re-enter Russia and trade under the right of an American passport