The Cordova daily times. [volume], October 27, 1916, Image 4

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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 27. There is
much inevitable hardship in Russia, a
present or threatening scarcity of
many essential tilings and a very gen
eral and unpleasant lack of organiza
tion. but there is also another side
to the picture, everybody who wants
work can get it. and wages are so high '
that the tremendous increase in the
cost of living has been nearly offset
by them. Mushroom fortunes are
growing tip over night, and the de
maud for luxuries is so great that it
can with difficulty be met.
This is (he report made to a corros
pendent or the Associated Press by
one of the best known members of
the American colony in Moscow, who
now, after seven years' residence
there, is returning to America. His
aetivitic during that period kept him
in touch wilh most parts of the great
empire, and he declared that condi
tions in Moscow are typical of what is
to be found elsewhere, so far as pros
parity is concerned, but rather worse
in the matters of housing and trans
portation.
Moscow had roundly 2,00*1.000 in
habitants before the war. This num
ber. lie believed, had been increased
about all per cent, making the popu
lation 2,00,01)0, One of the immediate
results lias been a scarcity of rentable
houses, and it is not at all unusual to
find advertisers offering bonuses up
to aoo rubles for anyone finding them
a suitable dwelling place. There are
certain rest riel ions against increasing
tents lo tenants already in occupancy,
but these restrictions do not apply to
new renters, and naturally such per
sons have to pay high prices when
they do succeed in ihiding a house.
The number of cabs lias been re
duced to a fraction of the ante-bellum
number, and a considerable number of
street cars lias also been withdrawn
from service Cab prices have in
creased to a point where many per
sons formerly addicted to the cab
habit have given it up, but without
finding an adequate substitute, the
street cars being continually jammed
to suffocation. So there is nothing to
do but walk, and Moscow is a city of
imposing distances.
The one really serious problem
which the city faces this winter, ac
cording to the informant, is the ques
tion of fuel and light — wood, coal
and petroleum. Wood which cost
from eight to ten rubles before the
war, now costs as much as fifty, and
the supply is most inadequate. To
be sure, there is wood enough in the
empire, but transportation facilities
are lacking. Indeed, one of the most
unfavorable things in Russia today is,
declared the American, the extreme
disorganization, or perhaps better,
woeful lack of organization of trans
portation of all kinds. Coal and pe
troleum are both dear and scarce,
and the outlook is not for any imme
diate betterment.
There is a great scarcity of lard
and other fats, and the meat supply
is rapidly becoming rapidly less. The
informant declared that not only have
the herds of cattle and sw'ine been
unduly reduced by excessive slaughter,
but that great numbers also perished
last winter, either from cold or hun
ger, due to insufficient care. Of the
foodstuffs of other sorts, how'ever,
j there is no lack and there can be no
: question of anybody going hungry ex
cept the unfortunate Germans and
j Austrians yet in the empire, who find
great difficulty in getting W'ork, and
whose numbers are so great and their
colonies scattered over such vast ex
panses of territory that it has become
impossible to prevent all distress, even
with the best efforts of the Ameri
can diplomatic and consular offices,
who have undertaken the distribution j
of the German and Austrian relief I
funds.
He declared that talk of a possible
revolution in Russia was preposter j
ous.
"The Russian people,” he said,
"never were so prosperous as they
now are, all the way from the laborer
up to the highest classes. The great
est furrier in the city told me he
had never done such a business as in j
the last few months, new automobiles I
appear daily in the streets, and the
laborer is eating more and wearing
better clothes than he ever did.
"There is a great longing for peace
among the civil population, but the
soldiers were never so well fed, well
clothed and happy in their lives. They
are now sure that they are winning
and nothing can stop them, and they i
are well armed, in striking contrast j
to the first months of the war, when !
many had no arms at all."
The prohibition of vodka, said the1
American, by no means banished'
drinking and drunkenness. The Rus
sians in Moscow, at least, and in the j
great district in which the city lies,
are drinking wood alcohol, and the
result is many deaths, darnings, cases (
of blindness, etc.
"It was a great mistake,” he con- :
tinued, “to abolish vodka at one blow
without giving the vodka drinking I
classes something to take Its place, j
Light wines and beers would have j
I prevented the present conditions. The
j Moscow beer saloons was in peace
times one of the most orderly resorts
in the world. One rarely or never
Raw a drunken man there, and there
were no quarrels or disturbances of
any kind. It was a pity to try to
change all Ibis at once.”
The narrator named some surpris
ing prices current in Moscow, such as
45 to 00 rubles ($22.50 to $30) for a
pair of shoes, the latter being demand
ed for American made goods. The
suit he was wearing — an ordinary
business suit — cost 150 rubles. Food
prices, however, are H many instances
lower than those prevailing in Ber
lin, and far below prices asked
throughout Scandinavia. Various ef
forts have been made to establish
maximum prices, but it has been
found impossible to enforce them.
The two things which made life j
most unpleasant for the American in J
Moscow were, he said, the dlfficul
ties of getting about the city, owing
to the inadequate street car and cab
service (and the dearness of the lat
ter) and the "uppishness'' and gen-,
oral independence of the servants.
"It is getting all but impossible to
find good, polite servants any longer,"
he said. “They are all making so
much money in factories that they
either will not go into service at all
or, if they do, ask such high wages
and comport themselves in such a
manner that it is intolerable. I saw
a girl last week in a munition factory
who, the foreman told me, was making
85 rubles a month. Before the war
she did very well indeed if she made
fifteen."
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE I
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION.
No. 852.
SUMMONS.
John Christenson, plaintiff, vs. Matilda :
Sweeney Christensen, defendant.
The President of the United States '
of America, Creeling:
To Matilda Sweeney Christensen, j
the above named defendant.
You are hereby required to appear j
In the District Court for the Territory |
of Alaska. Third Division, within thirty i
days after the completion of the pub
lication of this summons, to-wlt, with |
in thirty days after the "nth day of1
October, and answer the com
plaint of John Christensen, the above
named plaintiff, in the above entitled I
cause, which cause is an atcion for
divorce in one of the cases prescribed
by law. wherein Die plnintbf prays for |
a decree dissolving th'> bonds of mar
riage between himself and you and
tor such other and further relief as
to the court may seem right, and pro
per In the premises And you are
hereby notified that if you fail to ap
pear and answer said complaint as i
herein required, the said plaintiff will
take judgment against you for want
thereof, and will apply to the court
for the relief demanded in hm said
complaint, as hereinbefore set out.
ARTHUR JANG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division.
Territory of :s!:a.
By T. 1’. Geraghty, Deputy.
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LENA MORROW LEWIS
Senator
DR. E. F. GERMAN
Representative
R. E. HEGNER
STATEMENT BY SULZER
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people of Alaska on this question, and w ill do everytbing in mv
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For Representative
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