The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-10-26
GREAT CHANGE
In PETROGRAD
RUSSIAN CAPITAL MOST EFFECT.
30 BY THE WAR STREETS
ARE DESERTED AND SILENT
And What Was once a City Of Re.
Velry Is Now Like a coun-
Try ViIlase-city Is Alive
However With Hone

PETROGRAD. Oct 25-Probably
IN no capital OF Europe have the first
Two months of the war wrought such
a change in the aspect and character
OF a city as In Petrograd. What was
additionally regarded as a city OF dis
sipated energies. and midnight gallery
quickened by the sale of Vodka. has
become In short period as sombre
IN tone as a nocturne.
The streets are quiet and almost
deserted al the hour when the night
NE used TO begin. In the restaurants
an the guests could be comfortably
gathered around one large table. The
Nevsky Prospect no longer echoes
win revelry, but Is as quiet and ord
erly as Fifth Avenue on Sunday after
noon. The capital is OF course sad
dened like all cities OF Europe nv its
losses and by all the misery when
ebbs back from the front
In the general STAFF Offices which
are al one side OF the famous winter
garden. the daily lists OF the dead are
published In front OF this struc,nrs-
line OF peasants. their black shawIs
IKE plots OF ink against the blood
req color OF the building stand help
Tess ana afraid Some OF them have
round relatives in the published lists
ana others morbidly apprehensive are
tryins 10 acquire sufficient courage 10
90 upstairs and look. Women OF the
better class. dressed in heavy furs
come forth with chslky faces ana
bowed heads and step into their car.
riages. There IL no sobblng. no out
ward protest against the fate which
has bereft them. Sometimes they stop
and offer money end words Of consola-
ton 10 the peasant women who face
the world a. paupers There Is the ex-
traordinary spectacle Of aristocracv
and peasantry brought together I'm a
community Of grief
Alive with Hone.
hut apart from scenes such as
these. which abound In the capitals 81
every country az war. PetroRrad IL
alive with new hope and confidence
The end Of the first two months Of
war - the occasion for the Kind Of
celebration which usually accompa.
mics great anniversary or holiday
The Russian napers have assisted in
this by careful reviews Of the febtioe
along the German and Austrian from.
tiers.
The Novoe Vremya makes the fol.
lowing comment.
We have nov finished the second
month Of the war Although We were
on the whole. fortunate during the
hrsi month. we were overtaken bv
great calamity The second month
mas not been marked BY a single FAN.
IRE We have not only beaten the
Ausfrianf. but We have seen tho ron.
quest Of kingdom Gaiicia-snd
ouchy Hukowina We have captured
fironfly fortified points held bv the
enemy as well aa great provision Dc.
pots. large number Of guns. trains.
cic
we have hundreds n Thousands Of
prisoners Aside from the value Of
these successes from military point
oi Wow hey are significant az n re-.
aiizauon of our national aim In that
they give back 10 Russia land which
was wrosted from hcr 600 years ago
II We are able 10 hold this land. these
days In Russian history will be- appro-
ciated IN the centuries to come
Another Russian newspaper. In re-
trfriug 90 the recent rcpuise Of the
Germans along the N.emen river.
says.
We have now proved the German
soldiers 90 BE- ordinary soldiers. and
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