The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-17
Would be .Pr;celes.

A short time ago q professor OF
theology in the university at 81 Pc
tersburg. Russia. purchased At shop
In Moscow . manuscript copy Of the
Gospels dating from prior. TO A. D.
1000. On examination Il was Yound to
have belonged to the great library col
.lected in His youth by Ivan the Terri
BILE. when he believed that he had .
divine mission. This library was sup
posed to have been burned In the
great IRE OF Moscow Of 1919.
On subsequent visit to Moscow the
professor traced his, book to the fam
lily Of laborer, who said that he had
found It with several similar volumes
In . subterranean passage near the
Kremlin.
The famous library Of Ivan the Ter
ribls 10. now supposed to be still hid
den in some underground vault which
the efforts Of generations have hithef.
to fsiled to discover. II was Ivan the
Terrible-whoss reputation a. = great
ruler has been obscured BY the fas-
sination OF his Extraordinary excessss
who established the printing press
In RnssiG 81.
Thsrs u . vide reid Of consscturs
~ to what might mot come to light IN
the event Of ohis curious library one
lay being discovered. Ivan the Terri
,ls was In close communication with
Ill the rulers Of our hemisphere. from
london to Picking; one branch Of
knowledge 10 almost certain to be we'll
represented In this lost library. and
hat 10 the scence Of black magic. II
equally likely that new Goddess Of
Holy Scripture may yet como to light
or Ivan The Terrible undertook to
print the. Scriptures in the vulgar
.onsue. Only one thing 10 certain.
hat such library existed and has
FEVER been found. nor 10 1t even known
% have persisted in any Of the numer-
,us iires that devastated Moscow.
Differences in the archives to its ex.
.stence, ~ well ~ to the existence Of
he subterranean roadways. are sam.
.ient TO whet the keenest curiosity,
but not enough to afford much practi
al assistance to the Investigator.
Apart from changes Of surface feat
ares in the Kremlin. the level Of the
,oil 10 six or eight feet above what It
~as in the sixteenth century. II ID NO
ioubt the knowledge. an unpleasantly
vague knowledge. Of the existence OF
:hess underground passages which
:auses the police ON every occasion OF
an imperial visit to Moscow to seal mp
with wire and lead seal every single
opening, cellar shoot, surface drainage
grid. to be found anywhere over the
area Of the Kremlin. and frequently to
inspect the integrity Of these seals.
Legends Of . labyrinth Of under.
ground passages have been current
among the populace for centuries. but
It IL only within the last decade or 20
that the very extensive building enter.
prise on modern lines undertaken in
Russias premier capital" has given
substance to these ancient legends.
When the main drainage scheme had
been in operation . few years the al.
teration Of subsoil conditions caused
n sinking Of the foundations Of many
Of the more massive public buildings.
which had to be underpinned. while
new erections required much deeper
excavation In order that . secure
foundation might be reached. It was
in course Of these operations that
many underground passages came to
light, and eventually the newly hedged
societies interested in the preserva'
ton Of monuments Of antiquity At
tempted TO deal with the matter from
the historical standpoint