Show OF THE MAHATMAS P INVADED BY BYTHE THE RUSS RUSSIANS I Sent Out by the Czar Explores Reaching Great Altitudes young foong o ng Mens Christian ristian Association Asso Counterpart of S Org Or Organized Organized g by Americans Ameri ns in in St Petersburg nH noe 4 of Ot th the Associated led Press Presa C T J 10 n 17 Tb S b 4 of the Order of Ht Anne AnneLI noe LI 1 mm IM lit Gay Oay Gaylord ord lord an American who to 18 s secretary of C Ch b h Russian Society tor teT l r the Moral orul and amI I phys al Development Dt of PC Young You Men Meo L d by himself and James Jamee J arrie Stokes Lf sew NeW w York is Ie gratifying to the whole I American of or which Mr MI G yf j j n 1 f the t he most moat popular O alar It is II 1 I je e 7 jr way of f recognising the work ork of nr Mr r in 10 connection with vali the t ui M ns society sod tr This orp la lain inn in n is i L the counterpart f t the M n association in ht ii i l States State Stokes and Gaylord Gy ord had any anything thing l hut but easy sailing ailing when they be begin gin their efforts to institute ln the Young YoulA frn witty Indeed their t lr attempts in rn In transplant Iran the Y M C A to Ru Rust r advanced d an aD inch Until they sue sued e Aln d d it i enlisting the interest of the therina rina and Prince er of Olden rg The i prince rince became a patron of he b p and anit has always in Its Us work it 11 found favor faor with the young men f m its it inception and has haa grown ron rap rapidly thy idly dl Owing vIng to its Ita high patronage patruna the i ety tr has hag enjoyed complete immunity from interference by any branch of ot the them JI m eminent The religious features are by priests prk t of ot the Orthodox The Oft at t I Ir favorable attention lest last year yea I I from th fact that the young men un under der Ip fr its ita it influence refrained from partie in the political disturbances Many Hany New few Members 1 At th annual meeting just held Frince Alexander presiding i ln the secre ty I of If the executive council Peter orr reported 1016 1015 new members during the year yer and an average at atto to Ip at the evening classes clu es of or The Th society has a good library and willing aUng room supplied ped free by St Petersburg publishers and the concert concerti i jm m lecture rooms game gar e room class claM classrooms classI rooms I m etc f are well furnished and are I d b h ei el The ftc gymnasium Is 1 lilt best ben l t equipped place pitt pia of ot its Jt kind in IV Institution is i gradually although the fee tee fe is ty ly LO a s 7 year yaw and in J tuition fn n t only on H for ich me metr mom b tr r TJ ll nw ti L lf It bT pre to t the organisation Ilan e U t portraits of Mr Stokes and Prince Al AI Alexander Among others thra who have bave ta en an In ln Int t f t in the t he society O are the Princess of or Baron Free dorik minister of the court and minister mini tr of railroads th ih iM st friend of America In Russia a z hp h is k i known to Americans here Prin Pr P sent an official to the 1 States to investigate the opera ti PS i f r the th railroad Y M i C A This off told the correspondent of the Ule Associated Press recently nUy that Prince fully fu intended Introducing the railroad Y M C A in La some form so 10 son O sn n is i 1 the work of or Mr Gay Gaylords lords so sorly ety had heroine become sufficiently established to afford needed data and ex ox in f for fr or such Institutions cannot lannot I bp into Russia without mod modification H Altitude of Feet P R IL Kosloff the explorer of oC who recently reached n Ti al i i a it detailed report of his expedite ex i ilin te tin lin n on 11 rn arriving at that city From FromI I 1 al papers the following points were were I taken CaptAin who had bee n I a 1 of or an Mt Writer earlier enlacing to 10 accompanied by b Mr lIr a linguist Officer Kaznakoff and abd sixteen soldiers entered the detert I of Gobi on em the eastern slope of the Altai mountains in July ISM 1 The i party traversed the desert de ert in col columns urn us It wae found that the Its desert d rt i WB ws not a 8 plain but was intersected By W 1 a Of Mils hills Running r tram north w it cast The party reas roes reassembled 1 at und and proceeded d to pU tug northward T ot or the Part of the b was left under tinder guard of four men in Zal Zai dam Th The explorers ex rs quickly penetrated the highlands r a height of Qt 17 1000 OW set et in a few days d s The cli climate mate J alewa was severe re but lut both vegetable ble aad 4 im J ilfe were in plenty Larg IA herds of yaks and wild a asses e and nd numerous s bears were met The e skins skIn I In tn size to skins of polar bears were brought buck back Find Big Bears The population P of the valleys alleys are arc They Thy live as nomads fol following following following lowing their herds of cattle They arc are warlike and armed with guns sabres and pikes Another tribe the he keep herds and raise wheat and barley barey on the slopes lopes Their houses are two or three stories stones in height and are arc built of ot clay and stones At a distance they look like Uke small towers The feared reprisals for the murder of oC the Frenchman Dubell de in 1896 which they explained was ws 1 due to his hiB entering n emple Captain Kozloff Ko loft reported that a strong feeling prevailed among the They gave save the expedition no trouble until having cros crossed jd the and the the explorers approached the Me Kong river when the natives declared the visitors vl must return Two hundred men fired from Crom ambush as th the Russians werA crossing crol the Dsa Chu but the latter hitter by the use of their rules drove them off oft after two hours fighting Twenty natives were killed and sev seventeen st seventeen enteen others wounded Soa So 1 alter after ard an n embassy came from hondo to peg beg eg Captain Kozloff not to go to that tlc the second ond religious capital of the 11 y rite request est was wu heeded Cap where here herert rt t e Presets Presents PreSe ts For F 1 Staying Sf Away Three months were spent S making col collections collections collections of rare and hitherto unknown animals The return journey was be begun begun begun gun in the middle of March The Chon du authorities sent guides and gifts for forthe forthe forthe the czar out of gratitude to Captain Kozloff for remaining away from that place On their way Imy the rare were attacked by but Russian rifles were victorious The second at attack attack attack tack was made from an ambush Cap Captain Captain tain tatia Kozloff however had expected it and Hond sent sen t part of his men to fall fail upon the rear Through the influence of a Lama of ofa ofa ofa a neighboring convent the th were persuaded not to further molest the Russians Ru s The return to was W thereafter without danger Siberia was reached by way of Mongolia in November 1901 The party part marched To I surveys were made as observations were taken in forty places and meteorological were wore conducted cond at for fourteen months month The transport of the collections gathered by b the expedition required the use of fifty camels u |