Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-05
IN THE DAYS NEWS
VLAyDINOlSTOK

"On the eight-day trip from Mos COW she had told fellow passengers on the trans Siberian railway of an Eng lshman who was disappointed because he spent ten days in New York and had not seen an Indian.
 Just before alighting at the ter minal city of the longest railroad in the world she inquired, Is there much danger from wolves in Vladivostok? --
 Not only is there about as much danger of meeting a wolf in Vladivos- tok as there would be encountering a mountain lion in San Francisco; but there are other likenesses between Vladivostok of just before the war be compared with the San Francisco of it's earlier, Barbary Coast days" ac- cording to a bulletin from the Wash ington, D. c. headquarters of the Ma tional Geographic Society.
 @The city of the Golden Horn is younger than our city of the Golden Gate, having been founded in 1860. Had it's normal development not been interrupted by the war, it's hinterland beset by Soviet forces, unsettled by rapid changes of government and now reported to be left without any be- cause of the attacking Chita troops Vladivostek might soon have rivalled our own coast city in population and 1 beauty.
 Living is extremely dear said the Baedeker of 1912 ;and of the Vladi- VoStok of 1922 it might be said with equal truth that human life is very cheap. The city warranted a Bret Harte's attention for it's bizarre and colorful atmosphere during war times, but for the variety of peoples who made up it's transitory population 1t i outdid any earlier experiences of our own frontier towns. Normally it has fewer than 50,000 people; by 1918 its residents numbered nearly 200, 900. The i influx was made up of human grada- 1 ttons between typhus victims and Am erican millionaires. Huge piles of war material were massed there before the i revolution came-aeres of automobiles, mountains of car wheels, and square miles of barbed wire
 Even in ordinary times Vladivos- tok is city of extreme contrasts, as might be expected of a place where i Chinaman and Russian compete, where east literally meets west. Alighting at the European looking station, from
 one of the most luxurious trains of
 any continent Q918 was the last year you could have done that) you saw trailers, automobiles, droshkies, car rlages and jinrikishas Russians, Jap anese, Chinese and Koreans predomi-
 mated, with many Europeans, occa- sional Americans and Africans
 "A tongue of hilly land thrust out into land-locked bay constitutes the site of The Mistress of the East The 4 architecture maintains the European
 note struck by the station; which
 makes the presence of Oriental people
 
 exotic. You no sooner accustom your.
 self to the dreary routine of bazaar
 buying, flOrishing lotteries, and Babe
 of tongues than you encountered tn,
 more familiar telegraph office, mo tion picture theatre, museum, club anC
 university. You may dodge a Europe
 an racing car, under an AmericaI
 electric light, and run plump into
 coolie burden bearer despite the warn
 ing cries of a Russian policeman. Tn
 Golden Horn restaurant was the ren deZvouS/ of bon Viyants of the world Small wonder living was extremel,
 dear in the old days and is an acut problem now, since the city subsiste, formerly on supplies from China an,
 Japan, Europe and even America. It
 growth seems due to some inexplicabl
 exception that proves the rule that
 city, to succeed, should be self-sus taining, interchange products with tn country around it, be thrifty, culti , yate civic consciousness, be well gov [ erned and possess some racial. eultu 2 ral, or patriotic unity. It owed it's com 2 merce to the fact that it was the mos ) nearly ice-free port. of Siberia, b. which virtue it became the termina , of the trans Siberian railway, and t , the military and naval esfa h1ishnan+ : maintained by the government of tn ) Tsar.
 l Now its patron government IT,