The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-01
WILLI1MSTOWN

ANY patrons of the Vermont Mutua
or Union Mutual Insurance companie
who have not received calendars for 1911
may get them by calling on w NJ. vii
liams.
The Congregational society held it
morning service Sunday in the churel
parlors instead of in the body of tn
church.
Miss Margaret Kanaly of Montpelier
who is home for the Christmas vacation
from the normal school at Fitchburg
Mass, was in town last week to visit
her cousins, Ruth and Richard Martin.
The selectmen are to meet Friday, Jan
A. from to II O'Clock in the forenoon
at the office OF the town clerk to draw
orders in payment of bills against the
! town.
An interesting article by George FL
| Brigham which appeared in the Novem-
Der number of the Machinery Magazine
published in New York, has lately been
read with care by your correspondent
through the Kindness OF Mrs. Edwin G.
Smith in loaning the magazine. The
author, who was in Russia several
months at the time Of the breaking out
of the revolution, gives his impressions
of the country and people, and we make
the following extracts from the article:
These cities, Haparanda and
Tornea, are only few miles from the
Arctic circle, and it was hardly day
light at 0 a. m. and dark again at p. m.
The average temperature was 10 to Is
degrees below zero, but in Petrograd,
where there is dampness, zero is much
more uncomfortable than Is degrees be
low in Vermont About the mid
die of January tl0l7l ] left Petrograd,
going to Moscow, Bransk, Kiev, Tagan
rog, Mini Novgorod and other towns.
The hotels were always crammed full
in Petrograd l spent two nights
on couch in the room of another Amer
lean and in Moscow | spent three nights
in bathroom, with resulting attack
of tonsilitis. In Taganrog, city of
10000 inhabitants, on the Azoff sea,
| stayed at what was supposed TO be the
best hotel in town, which sported electric
lights but lacked even one sheet on the
bed Most Russians carry their own
bedding, but not having acquired that
habit, / had to use my fur coat to sleep
in. In Petrograd everything was
in chaos; every hotel was guarded by
soldiers, each of whom wore a red ribbon,
and thousands more were parading the
streets with their red banners proclaim
ing the freedom of Russia. At one time
there were 10000 deserters in Petrograd
alone Practically no work was
done anywhere for about month after
the revolution begun. Every
prison in the country was broken open
and criminal and political prisoners alike
turned loose. About 50 per cent
Of all the munitions manufactured in
Russia were made in the Petrograd dis |
trict, in the city and suburbs. /
had my ticket on the Trans Siberian ex
press for about two weeks and when ! |
eft, all tickets for that train had been |
sold out for at least two months in adj |
vance. We finally arrived at |
% hours late after 10 days |
If continuous travelling on the same
rain. the longest train ride without |
,hange in the world. Japan was
wonderful contrast to Russia, the Of
icers were alert and courteous and the
baggage was soon examined. No
where did / see any hostility to the
United States. On the contrary, the
Japanese have such good opinion of us
hat in the development of their country
hey are using almost entirely American
Methods. Their train service is excellent,
heir roadbeds are rock ballasted and
Justices, most of the locomotives are
american and their express trains com
ARE favorably with ours"