The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-15
WON'T LIVE IN
WINTER PALACE
Gar Kept Away by Intrigues of
Designing Ministers

st. Petersburg. March Est. Pet
ersburg has Just issued from strug-
gle which far exceeded In thrills the
Balkan war declares the correspond
ent of the BROOKLYN Eagle. The Win
ter Palace is II stucco red montrosity
by the frozen Neya. and the Alexan-
drof Palace is "A stucco rocco mon
frosty AZ Tsarskoe Selo. where Mich
elias dwells. The pair nave long been
foes The Winter Palace is angry
with the Alenandron Palace for en-
ticing away little Nicholas on a cold
winters morning of 1908. And. since
then, frightened little Nicholas has
not spent live nights i'm the Winter
Palace Naturally. the red stucco walls
are turning green with jealousy. And
round the jealousy spins n comic tale
of the Kind which only Russia yields.
In the quarrel between the mani
mate red stucco and the rocco stucco,
most serious human interests are at
stake. They are the interests of
Nicholas IFS ministers, secretaries
lackeys. chairwomen and private do
nestle robbers.
Lays the Plot.
For eight years past, ministers have
been walling that they must travel
To tedious Tsarskoe Selo when they
want To see their lord; ana the see
retaries. chairwomen and other adher-
ents of the Winter Palace have yawn-
ID with tedium, but mainly because
the pickings of an empty palace are
not worth living Tor.
Many lackeys chairwomen and pri-
vate domestics have been dismissed
and given half their salaries as pen-
sions. And, for such reasons. power.
iul interests have been aiming at
dragging little Nicholas from the
Tsarskoe Selo seclusion and housing
him uncomfortable again in the red
stucco barracks by the Neva's banks.
Some time last December, when
the Festival of orders was held IN
the Winter Palace. IL st. Petersburl
paper announced that little Nicholas
cX- Minister of Justice Scheglovitoff.
who aches To stand in Premier Ko-
kovtseff's shoes. had persuaded Mich
elias that his metropolitan subjects
yearn to see him. Some days later
Nicholas secretary, Prince Putialin,
and the imperial architect, Rietch
l;oft were sent TO examine the Win
ter Palace and see il il We're dry
and habitable. Three days the exam
ners examined the 500 rooms. When
they got To the 50Oth they reported
To Tsarskoe Selo that the Winter Pal
ace was in first rate order and that
about five weeks minor operations
would make it ready for the ear.
Repairing Begins.
II was believed that Nicholas, when
he came to st. Petersburg la watch
the waters blessed on Jan. 10, would
take up residence and have "a brilliant
season which would end only when
he left in early summer for seaside
peterhof. This story was made more
probable by an official warning To the
newspapers that they must not write
about the return To st. Petersburg at
oh.
Il is Il rule that, when newspapers
are forbidden To discuss Nicholas
movements, then something is ON
foot So everyone knew that. after
eight years absence, Russians ear
would return: and loyal citizens he
gan to thing of laying in stocks of
flags, bombs and other things which
traditionally mark every imperial
progress.
Next descended ON the red stucco
palace a host of painters, plasterers,
carpenters and locksmiths. The hiS
canvas sheet which for -four years has
mysteriously decked the east side ot
the hermitage gallery was taken down.
Everyone worked. Then the unawait-
ed happened. A few days before
Christmas the work stopped. The
painters. plasterers. carpenters ana
locksmiths disappeared, and things