The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-16
'REvOLUTIONlSTS
 QUICKLY RESUME 1 ROUTINE OF LIFE
People Are Most Orderly
 After Outbreak Brings New Liberties

remarkable features of the Russian revolution. says Reuters Petrograd correspondent, has been the speed with which the people have resumed normal life Order is the watchWOrd of the day The correspondent con- tinues:
 'fStill more remarkable, looking back over the events of the last few days, is the way in which the same spirit of good order prevailed through the hours when the revolution was at its height. Unorganized crowds of rebels seemed to take pride in doing things regularly For instance. in all Sec- tions of the city the crowds con1man- deered all motor cars on the streets but in every case took the names of the occupants and promised to report the names and circumstances to the duna committee and facilitate the re- turn of the car.
 'tIn the view of the populace the revolution was virtually bloodless. Certainly there has been some loss of life, but it is insignificant in popular destination as compared with the tre- mendOus results obtained. For some weeks past everybody in Petrograd realized that a crisis of some kind was approaching. The temper, even of the most patient people in the world, Becomes frayed when they are obliged to stand three or four hours in a temperature 10 or 20 degrees below zero waiting for bread, which often was not obtained. Potatoes had risen eight and nine times their ordinary price and other food commodities were at @ cost almost profibitive for the poor. I.
 The explanations of the ;voluble new minister of agriculture, M Rit- tich, were not calculated either to re- l1eve the present hunger or the anx- iety for the future. He ascriEbed the delay in the arrival of flour to a snow storm, as if snow storms in Russia in February were an unparalleled phe- nomenon. The people in the streets were not the only ones who squirmed under this sort of explanation. The duma leaders as we'll regarded the sit- uation as inexcusajble, and President Rodzainko finally felt justified in go- ing to the length of offering his whole hearted assistance in putting into ef- rect special emergency measures for increasing the food supply.
 Minister of fNthe Interior. Protopo- pof was absent from Saturdays con- -OA SASO O1A IAS loOd question M. Protopopof is wealthy manufa cturer
 and courtier with reputation for
 debonair duplicity. Residing in the Tsarskoe Selo palace, h3 was reported
 lately as spending a large part of his
 time indulging in spiritualistic frances Equally detested by the parliamentary ians and the people, he never appear ed in the duma since his ministerial appointment.
 With such an administration of agriculture and the interior and with the premier a nonentity it was not sur- prising that the food prospects were regarded by the members of the duma with the greatest alarm and even dismay. While the duma leaders were discussing the food situation the people in the streets were getting more and more voluble in their pro- tests about the whole situation The dispatch says that the working
 class had decided on "peaceful" street | demonstrations on Saturday. Early on Saturday morning the police warned the citizens not to leave their houses,
 as it was not safe. In other words,
 the food demonstrators were to be
 suppressed with an iron hand. Un- deterred, however, by this warning.
 the people came out in such numbers that the Nevsky Prospect and other
 main thoroughfares were thronged.
 The crowds were mostly from the middle classes, as the roads from
 the labor districts were barred. The people were so good natured and l jovial that, the authorities believed at first that the day would pass 1 all right. Nevertheless they took
 precautions by sending for reinforce 1 ments. I Patrol after patrol of Cossacks, mounted and foot soldiers and police lined the Nevsky Prospect and the 1 court yfrds of the houses were filled with reserves. The crowd, still good
 natured, cheered the troops and Cos
 sacks warmly, and the soldiers show
 ed themselves, appreciative. There
 was an unprecedented feeling of cam
 araderie between the police and the troops. Cossacks doffed their hats repeatedly to the. cheerers and some | groups of soldiers cheered back at the 1 crowds. It was a sign of the times
 which the authorities, however, failed