Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-26
PETROGRAD GAYEN
FADES INTO GRIEF
City Saddened by Its Losses
and Woes That Ebb
From Front.
ARISTOCRAT AND PEASANT
MEET ON COMMON LEVEL
End Of Two Months of War Brings
Hope of Final Success to
Muscovites.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
PETROGRAD. Russia. October 3
Probably in no capital of Europe have
the first two months of the war
wrought such a change in the aspect
and character of city as in Petro-
grad. What was additionally regarded
as a city of dissipated energies and
midnight gayety. quickened by the sale
of vodka, has become in a short period
as somber in tone as a nocturne.
The streets are quiet and almost de-
serted at the hour when the night life
used to begin In the restaurants all
the guests could be comfortably gath
cred around one large table. The
Nvesky Prospect no longer echoes
with revelry, but is as quiet and Or
derby as 9Th avenue on Sunday after
noon. The capital is. of course. sad
dened, like all cities of Europe. by Its
losses, and by all the misery which
GIBBS back from the front.
In the general staff offices. which are
ut one side of the famous winter gar
aen, the daily lists of the dead are
published. In front of this structure.
a line of peasants, their black shawls
like bIots of ink against the blood.red
color of the building, stand helpless
and afraid. Some of them have 1ound
relatives in the published hsts. ana
others morbidly apprehensive are try
ing to acquire sufficient courage to go
upstairs and look.
Community Of Grief.
Women of the better class. dressed
In heavy furs, come forth with ehaiKy
faces and bowed heads and step into
their carriages. There is no soholng,
no outward protest against the rate
which has bereft them. Sometimes
thew stop and offer money and WORDS
of consolation to the peasant women
who face the world as paupers. There
is the extraordinary spectacle OF afis-
tocracy and peasantry brought To-
Eether in a community OF grief.
Eut apart from scenes Such as tnese,
which abound in the capitals OF every
country at war. Petrograd Is awe
with new hope and confidence Ine
end of the first two months OF wal 10
tion which usually accompanies great
anniversary or a holiday. Inc rus
sian papers have assisted IN TINS oy
careful reviews of the fighting along
the German and Austrian frontiers
Russian Comment.
The Noyoe vremya makes the fol-
lowing comment:
I'VE have now finished the second
month of the war. Although we were
on the whole fortunate during the first
month, we were overtaken by great
calamity. The second month has not
been marked by a single failure we
have not only beaten the Austrlans,
but we have seen the conquest OF a
Observation-Disclosures a duchy-Ru-
kovina We have captured strongly
fortified points held by the enemy as
we'll as great provision depots, large
number Of guns. trains, etc
I'VE have hundreds of thousands OF
prisoners. Aside from the value of
these successes from military point
81 view. they are significant as a real
ixation of our national aim, In that
they give back to Russia Land Whlch
was wrested from her 600 years ago.
II we are able to hold this land these
DAYS in Russian history will be ap-
preciated in the centuries TO come.
German Soldiers Not Supermen.
Another Russian newspaper in refer
ring to the recent repulse of the Ger
mans along tho Nieman river says;
We have now proved the German
soldiers to be ordinary soldiers and not
the supermen which they have been
called"
Russia and the loyalty of population
commonly thought of as revolution.sts
pervaoes every class. Restaurant Keep
ers- whose rooms were converted into
military quarters during the mobiliza-
ton OF troops have yielded without
hope of compensation.
why should we not help to pay for it p
One of the larger restaurants was for
tunate enough last night TO have as
many as twenty guests. 1t was the
same restaurant in which six years ago
q Russian officer leaped TO MS 1eet ana
shot dead a student who was dining
to rise when the Russian national an
them was played. On account of this
and other similar episodes the orches-
tras III the restaurant had struck the
national anthem from their program.
Last night for the first time since then.
the orchestra played the national air.
Every person in the room Immediately
rose to his feet
Income Instead Of Vodka Tax
If the minister of finance is successful
IN carrying out a project which has
been for some time under the consid
grafton Of specially appointed commits
sion. Russia will soon have an income
tax to compensate the government for
the enormous loss sustained through
the prohibition of the manufacture and
sale of vodka. This monopoly has
yielded an average yearly income of
about S0O.000.000 roubles (appr' ximate-
" $lDo. o0o.o0o.)
There are two ways In which we are
trying at present to raise this neces-
gary revenue" said Minister Park In a
recent interview. ''The first of these 10
by the increase in present duties on
ordinary commodities. with which we
have already made considerable prog
ress. Under the Russian fundamental
law, when the duma Is not In session.
the emperor has the right to make
laws affecting the revenue from already
existing duties. Upon my recommen-
dalton several Of these have already
Gone into effect.
The creation Of new revenue will
havA "A tina YneeffnR of the dNma
The most important of the taxes which
] expect to present at the time Is an
income tax. The commission which has
been studying this has already fOrmu-
lated a program, which has been based
to some extent upon the principle
operative In Germany"
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