Show zn tmii? - Hjp‘xxy fclf lkM IMP t’V- HTUPES WCWLD'S George Bart ph The Moscow JkfcaflUroacI Mime if An Episode in the life' Generdl Drenteln ChiefofThe Secret Police ofBussia copwcut 9r fly tc omphpr Tccnvcs “there is not much demand for these dry works on political economy” "Who bought them?” demanded the inquisitor The dealer paused for a moment to consider “The first one was sold to a woman— a school teacher I think” “Do you know her name?” “No” “And the second?” man” “Thatwas to a tall “Did you know him?” “No I never Baw him before" him "Would you know if you met him?” the first of December the Tailway carriage carrying Alexander II the czar of Russia was dynamited at a point near Moscow and several persons were seriously injured Fortunately the czar’s train preceded Instead of following the baggage train and this miscalculation on the part of the conspirators saved the life of his imperial majesty An investigation showed that a mine had been’ dug beneath the railway Two secret service men descended Into the hole made by the explosion and came to a subterranean passage which led to a little cottage close to the railway on the outskirts of Moscow The Inhabitants had fled and the police found an untouched meal on the table of the dining room The czar was so startled over this dastardly attempt on his life that he determined to use unusual means to discover and punish the perpetrators of the outrage The ordinary protection with which he had surrounded himself had proven insufficient The police of Moscow were remiss in permitting the digging of the mine under their noses so to speak In this crisis he sent for General Drenteln the chief of the secret police and charged him with the commission of assassins to jusbringing the would-btice General Drenteln was well fitted for the task Be was hard cruel and as remorseless as death Itself and had been the cause of sending many prisOrfce a prisoner oners to Siberia tried to escape and he penalty announced by the general was hanging His personal bravery was unquestioned he exposed himself in public places without fear Six months before the Moscow attempt on the czar’s life a Nihilist named MIrski had shot at the chief of the secret police and Drenteln had taken the had escaped thing with characteristic calmness N 1879 ira “Surely” sea to blow up the emperor but It A watch was placed on the stationhad been discovered by the police and the scheme frustrated The second at- ers’ store There was never a minute day or night that it was not untempt was made by Anthony Solovleff der the observance of the secret poa former school teacher From reading the theories of socialism he had lice One day a tall The into the place lounged gradually accepted the doctrines of fellow stationer eager to justify himself that order and finally became a Nihilist The perseverance of the man may pointed to the newcomer “There stands the man!” be understood when It is known that The stranger was arrested at once he learned the trade of blacksmith In order that he might come into close and taken to police headquarters He the name of Jules Goldenberg gave communication with the class of peoOne of the detectives said that he reple whose wrongs he sought to right He Journeyed to St Petersburg in the minded him strongly of a person who summer of 1878 for the purpose of had- been seen in the company of Ankilling the emperor and haunted the tony Solovleff who had been executed early in the year for an attempt on the palace in order to get the opportunity While he was in of carrying out his design On the life of the emperor second of April 1879 he was in custody the secret police were sent in-to hiding when Alexander czme out' to search his house where they found walk up and down the sidewalk in criminating evidence the most Imporfront of the palace Solovleff fired four tant of which was a quantity of dyshots at the czar He was seized im- namite Goldenberg was terrified and tried in the following June in order to save himself he turned mediately He gave the authoriand hanged before the month was state’s evidence at ties his version of the explosion over The third attempt on the life of the Moscow and also furnished the names scores of of who were directpersons emperor has already been detailed in concerned and in the plot ly indirectly the beginning of this article Drenteln’s first move was to make More than a hundred persons were ara personal investigation of the house rested and many of them were subOthfrom whence the tunnel had been dug jected to summary punishment under the railroad tracks near Mos- ers were held to await developments cow It was a trifle better than a and Goldenberg was one of those kept He hoped for the anxious bench peasant’s cottage It was sparsely on furnished the floors were bare and his liberty but he did not know wheththe beds and tables and chairs were er he would be pardoned or punished The the persistillustrates story as plain as it was possible to make them In the front room he picked up ence no less than the fanaticism of a copy of “The Will of the People” those who had been pursuing the emSome middle of June of for newly arrested persons the organ which the peror About the represented held a conyear the Nihilists eight hundrafl prisoners under a “Party of Terror” composed of the that gress or rather a secret riictlii ftT i" B Ni6r were sent" from Odessa most extreme Nihilists Tomboff at which of In same the the the month province That in Itself was not a very tanat Kieff of the persons many of the leading spirits openly adrjJ gible clew Copies of that paper as vocated the killing of the czar As a woo year before had resisted well as of “Land and Liberty” the orresult of that gathering it is averred the ’police sent to arrest them for began of the most conservative Nihilists imperial ing in possession of a secret printing were constantly being picked up in it was decided to blow up the the Journey of the em- press different The train during parts of the empire from the Crimea to St Petersperor General Drenteln had determined to publication of these papers was treatImpress the entire population with the ed as treason Presses were conflscat- - burg Having decided on this course the fact that law and order was to be eswent about their work tablished and the emperor’B safety asconspirators with painstaking care Dynamite sured He succeeded apparently benec- cause it was many years after that picks axes and other Implements essary to dig and prepare the ’underbefore the hand of Nihilism was raised ground passage for the explosion were against anyone in authority in the Ruscarefully gathered and placed in hid- sian empire ing at various points The mines for In the meantime Goldenberg after the explosion were laid under the rail having betrayed hundreds of his assodifferent way lines at three points ciates was seized with fear and reOne was near Odessa another'adjoin morse and one morning ended the and the third near whole sombre ing Alexandrovsk tragedy by committing Moscow One of those inexplicable suicide decisions which we call chance caused a Blight change in the emperor’s itin' A Wiley Witticism As a consequence of this the erary The night that famous men debated Odessa mine was abandoned The on sched at the National Press club in Washtrain passed Alexandrovsk ule time but owing to some defect in ington on whether whiskers or baldthe capsule tbe mine did not explode ness formed the greater handicap to although the battery was closed at the great careers the speeches were limitThe imperial train ed to ten minutes each and Dr right moment exthe passed uninjured over the dreadful Harvey W Wiley precipice the czar chatting with his pert was timekeeper “Only one minute more!” he called blissful in companions ignorance of out to Nicholas the awful fate he had been spared Representative who was arguing that a bald It was at Moscow however that the assassins were partially successful head is a fine thing to carry through Months before they had purchased a the world “Does that minute include these unsmall house near the railway and the work of excavating a passage began solicited Interruptions?” asked in that humble structure and ended “You bet it does” replied Wiley under the tracks of the railway A large number of persons were con- “So far the interruptions have been cerned in this task Leo Hartmann the best part of the speeches”— Popuan electrician superintended the elec- lar Magazine trical branch of the work Sofia and numerous others gave Living In Japan the benefit of their advice and assistlife is as Every item of ance the Naturally greatest caution costly in Japan as in Europe or Ameriwas exercised the work being done ca says a Japanese paper A respected and men iarrested but as fast as quietly and and most of it at secretly can be able house looking this was done the papers magically ap- night There was a rainy season at rented in London at £30 a year while So General that time of the year and it is claimed peared in other places Drenteln did not lay very great store that at times the miners worked in the same money can rent only a Bread wretched in Tokyo by this find However a few moments freezing water standing in it up to meat milkcottage electricity gas perhaps later he discovered a book which their knees with the exception of eggs nothing of results The gave gave promise The train came along according to more in is far costs It cheaper Japan volume in itself was of no conseschedule and the explosion took place to run a house in Tokyo than in Lonquence but it contained a book mark but the emperor as already stated esdon Wages and salaries are lower on which was printed the business nobecause his train had fortunatecaped because of misuse of labor and overtice of a stationer in St Petersburg ly preceded instead of following the abundance of laborers What the EuDrenteln interviewed the man at baggage train move with the derrick men When these facts became known ropeans once He was a commonplace tradesand women carry on their Bhoulders man and had nothing to conceal He and during Goldenberg’s imprisonso necessarily a great number of them ment a virtual reign of terror existed answered questions freely must be paid for A state of “Have you ever seen this book?” in all parts of Russia siege was established throughout the asked the general Russian empire In St Petersburg Bernhardt Thought She Was Honored “Yes” was the response "it looks the was the triMme Sarah Bernhardt precautionary measures were more like one of a kind that I have on A police or umphant victim of a mistake two or ' rigid than anywhere else sale” der was issued requiring each house- three years ago She had just re“Are you sure?” sternly of her Lonone after holder to keep a watch day and night turned to Paris “Why yes There Is nothing wrong at the door of his house to see who don visits and King George of Greece about it I hope It is not a prohibited went in and out and to see that no happened to be at the Gare du Nord book” The In the months waiting for an outgoing train placards were affixed “No not exactly But it has been following the Moscow attempt against great actress was overwhelmed found under unusual circumstances the emperor it is said that there were “Sire” she said sweeping a proHow many of thede books have you nearly five thousand political prisonI cannot found bow “you honor me sold?” ers in the Fort Petropowlovski These sufficiently thank you for your cour“Two” was the unhesitating replp in turn were removed in a single tesy in coming here to meet me” The “You see” he added complalnlngly to to cituation eastern make night room king accepted the dramatic prisons Soioveff Fired Four Ft Fhe Czar Shots His wound which was slight was bound up and he at once resumed his official duties This then was the man who was to uncover the mystery of the Moscow mine Jle went about his work with deliberation He was conprovoking fident that the explosion was part of a great general conspiracy and that a of persons must be innumber large volved Instructions were sent to every part of the empire to keep a close watch on all known or suspected Nihilists The magnitude of the task when it is undermay be appreciated stood that all of Russia was in a turmoil over the attempt to destroy the head of the government Literally thousands of persons for months were engaged in shadowing thousands of other persons General Drenteln realized that three attempts had been made on the emperor’s life within the short period of a year and he endeavored to make between these varisome connection He could not help but feel ous plots that the same persons must have been interested in each of the conspiracies In the autumn of 1878 a mine had on the Black been laid at Nikolaleff ' mIIl! i The ompMTORS FrimOtFe' Me A Relic of veneration of the faithful and applied to the sick every day since that time at certain hours of the day During the novena it is applied all day long to 9 from 8 o’clock in the morning o’clock at night and it is during this the priests say that period the greatest number of “favors” are — New York Tribune blessed accomplished Saint Ann The fathers of the most Clock Made From Scrap Iron sacrament who have been the keepmemorial A coronation was dediers of the precious relic of St Ann since 1900 were tireless in their cated at the parish church of Wootton Wiltshire preparations for the opening of the Rivers near Marlborough annual novena of St Ann when thou- on Sunday and the memorial is a proof of the Ingenuity of the sands of worshippers will begin the There were not sufficient nine days’ pilgrimage to the shrine villagers where the relic is kept in the little fiends to pay for a public clock such as church of St Jean Baptiste in East ‘was desired by the people of the vil76th street The crippled the blind lage but Mr Spratt who began life ofand the afflicted in body and soul will on a farm and who is come aB in previous years to seek fered to make a clock free of charge the “favors” of the saintly relic by if he could get some one to do the pressing it to their lips and having heavier work and if the villagers it applied to their ailing members by would bring him all the odd iron lead steel and brass available in the vilthe ‘priests lage with which to make the more cures are recordMany miraculous ed in the annals of the church as a delicate parts The villagers entered into the spirit result of the application of the relic The cures are spoken of by the priests of the project with zest and Mr of the order of the blessed sacrament Spratt’s cottage was soon the scene artifrom God of a collection of heterogeneous obtained as “favors” — through the intercession of St Ann cles parts of agricultural machinery perambulators bedsteads Two large racks filled with crutches bicycles braces and other implements used by fire irons brass weights and other the deformed stand on either side of odds and ends The two great wheels the shrine of St Ann in the base- of the clock were taken from disused ment of the church as mute testi- separators while the hammer which monials of the efficacy of the powers strikes the hours on the largest bell of the relic The priests said that of a peal of five is a governor ball they had burned hundreds of these taken from a steam engine The three tokens of misshapen humanity which dials are made of iron enameled with were left after the pilgrimage of last a white background and black figures and hands On one dial is the inscripyear The novena or nine days of prayer tion “Glory be to God” Instead of the Roman numerals — London is held in preparation for the feast usual of St Ann July 26 The celebration Standard of the novena this year has a pecuby Pat Inspected to the liarly pleasant significance The commanding officer of a corps priests of the order of the blessed was much troubled about the persistsacrament at this little church as it ent untidiness of one of his men Repmarks a year’s progress toward the rimand and punishment were unavailconstruction of a large new church The man was incorrigible A of St Jean Baptiste almost directly ing brilliant idea struck the colonel: “Why across the street from the present not march him up and down the whole of The small brick edifice gifts line of the regiment and shame him money received during this novena into decency?” It was done The will be applied to the fund for the to exuntidy warrior was ordered new church himself and march up and down but with hibit Starting without funds men entire told regiment and the the profound belief that divine Provi- the to have a good loolf at him The undence would provide this little band abashed Pat halted saluted the colof devotees fearlessly pledged themonel and said in the hearing of the selves a year ago to build a great new whole with the utmost sang church which would be the purest ex- froid: corps “Dhirtiest regiment I iver inample of the classic Roman style in spected sorr!” this city the total cost of which was estimated at 3750000 They have acRecords Music much within a year’s complished An electrical music recording aptime All of the property on the site paratus invented a score of years ago needed for the new church at the by a Swedish engineer has been latesoutheast corner of Lexington avenue ly put Into practical form by a Stockand 76th street hai been acquired holm firm The “melograph” as it is forwork and the excavating the called is attached to a piano organ or other keyed instrument and as the inbuilding is nearly completed The new church will be a receptacle strument is played in the usual way for the relic of St Ann the attachment registers the tune on The relic of St Ann is a portion a of one of the small bones of her wrist ribbon having a coating The which was brought from France 20 roeord may be used for a phonographlike rtp'duction or the impression years ago by the ’ transcribed In ot-- ‘ priests then in charge of the church can be read oJ here It has been exposed to the dlnary musical notes r |