Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11

places they We're to he seer plying pick
ana shovel under the supervision. of
armed soldiers of the red guard. Re
sisting or, as the fashionable revolu-
tionary jargon now goes. "~sabotaging'
persons who objected to taking part
IN this street scavenging were threat
ened with heavy fines and im%prison-
mcnt. In Il Few cases these penalties
were enforced, but. like so many more
of the ~tyrannical edicts lately issued.
their general application was impos-
sible. and the dominant pr~oletaliat had
to be set to do the work at e~Xtravagant
wages, far exceeding the salaries
earned by educated men and the best
skilled artisans before the war.
A DiIapidated City.
The return of summer does not bring
amy advantage to P~etrograd. In the
piping times of peace 100000 workmen
came into the city from the country to
build and do necessary repairs. The
wal and the revolution have taken
away most Of these men. and although
peace has been signed and sealed 1t
annot be called a piping one, seeing,
that the whole male population is to be
trained to arms. and that the author
tiles are hastily recruiting a new red
army, into whose ranks men are being
enticed by enormously high pay and
many privileges. 1t is not likely thai
we shall have many workmen for an
N's>A -tA ~ w IiS IlSOlS "a lue
climate. the destructive effects of the
biting winter frosts. and the blistering
summer II of Petrograd is q city
which each successive generation of in
habitants have had to rebuild afresh
by installments OF annual repairs. SO
that it's dilapidated condition after four
years neglect in this respect may be
easily imagined. AS all house
ty is appropriated without compensa-
tion for the alleged benefit OF the ma
tion. and put under he management
of very unwilling committees OF mex
Derienced tenants who have to nay.
their rent into the boshevist excheguer.
1t is not to be expected hat the in
terror wear and tear will be made good
FOR some time to come. AS for the ex-
%teriors of buildings, the walls and fa-
cades of palaces. private houses. and
shop fronts. are all disfigured by thick
~ plastered successive layers of ragged
posters, procalmations, and advertise
ments. .Innumerable windows are brok-
en-, n much of the StuccQ work is
ruined. !.
The Neva has now been free Of it's
own ice for some little time. and the
last ice floes from Lake Ladoga are
now coursing down stream past Kron-
stadt out into the gulf. AS soon az
the river opened it was at once occ,-
pied below the bridges by the asl, COL
ored cruisers, gunboats. destroyers.
n the war craft escaped from the
Gelnans at H~eisingfors. These vessels
are owd alongside the quays and
wharves at present, but the idea has
been broached of sending them out OF
harms way INTO Ladoga lake and the
Marie system OF canals, as the belief
was entertained tina the Germans
would first come to Kronstadt and
P~etrograd by water.
All ships present the dirtiest and
most disordered appearance possible.
The sailors on board do just what they
like. For instance. they have been
offering to sell furniture from their
cabins to the public OF the quays. The
military commissioners Nj. Trotsky.
writes that a detachment of the lst
battalion OF Baltic marines has COW
cred the name OF the Baltic seamen
with shame by refusing to obey or
ders. deserving, n stealing guns,
which they took away with them in
armored cars.