Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-13 | Page 11 | Home is Aboard Train Grand Duke Busy Man Constantly on Move

T eo Home Is Aboard Train Grand Duke Busy Man 1 Constantly on Move 4 I I I GIL GRAND GILD D DUKE DUJE NICHOLAS S NICOLAE- NICOLAE June 12 Tho l-Tho Tho headquarters head- head I JT quarters of the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas Nicho Nicho- las Is on board a special train of ot six cars ears In which he Jumps from one field of oC activity to another at frequent In Intervals intervals In- In ten ten-als as the tho necessities of ot strategy dictate I Sometimes the train stands on the the same a a. fortnight at a time sometimes only for tor an hour but hut at all times tho the locomotive has hns steam up ready at an Instants Instant's notice to be he on the tho way y again It It ItIs is In this moving habitation that the commander In chief of ot the Russian armies spends practically practically all ally all nil his Ills nights and a considerable portion of ot his days das He has also a Q fixed headquarters lo located ho- ho far tar behind the lines In a little littletown littletown littletown town so peaceful and Isolated that It has hag never yet et aroused the curiosity of or orthe the German aeroplane or Zeppelin scouts The place Is well wen but unostentatiously unostentatiously guarded The grand dukes duke's train consists of ot a a. anew anew new locomotive a sleeping car a dining car a a. parlor car and an or ordinary first first- class coach followed b by two ba baggage vans each cach containing a high powered motor car which can be quickly un un- un loaded Whenever henc tho the train stops sentries sentries sen sea tries with fixed bayonets take their places silently at each doorway and at nt atthe atthe the front and rear ll By night the train runs without an any lights 1 visible from outside except the time necessary signal lamps The commander In chief and hi his staff start behind curtained windows work tate late Into the night Tho The grand duke duko sold seldom om retires before midnight and four tour or tho hours is as 35 much as he allows himself for tor sleep sheep Throughout hout the empire the war has made the grand duke the great popular popular popular lar hero of ot tho the day lay His lofty lotty stature his fearless honesty his sh sharp rp h- h haughty hugh ugh severity se his reputation for firmness and Justice his strict adherence to discipline dis are all nil qualities which appeal to the popular mind In time of ot war ivar One of ot the grand grond dukes duke's pet pot aversions aversions aversions aver aver- Is the Russian German population of or the country which is Is particularly numerous and Influential In tho the northwest northwest northwest north north- west and Is also rather firmly established established In Petrograd rad It Is said that the tho grand duke recently remarked to his nephew the czar You nia ma may feel quite at case ease with re regard regard regard re- re gard to the Germans at the tho front I will tIll undertake to give them a thorough beating I on olmi only wish you ou could be suro sure that th the enem enemy In our your own court would be as well handled