Show FR M MOSCOW TO TIlE THE FRONT I Ey Every ry da day the station at Moscow Js is besieged Guards at the entrance try to keep out a throng or of people who I come to bid farewell to the regiments ordered east The soldiers are roused I from their stolidity The prospect of oC war has appealed to th them m Parti Parting a of them less lez ly t an their rela relatives relatives tives left behind Men Ien kiss each other upon time the cheeks la in the Continental fashion There Is much gloom There Is no set net hour for trains to de depart depart part Re Regiments stay wait for hou hours or for days Their time Is worth nets noth nothIng Ing Small box cars each with a tiny stove stoe in the middle are drawn up In long lines to receive the soldiers Some of these already with men have been waiting fo for hours All the engines that could be spared time the Moscow division have bave been rushed to time the fal farl east and trains are crawling At last the train moves out It Is I nearly a thousand miles to the Siberian distance from New ew York to I Chicago The troops my cover It in a week In two weeks no one knows Sometimes in desperate haste baste to meet j I at the next station a westward train I time the men will be bumped about at the i frantic speed of thirteen miles an hour Then will IlI ensue long waits walts until the theline line is clear leal again for the next net move Wrecks are parsed due to haste time the track hastily re ired Some of the cars have rude benches more are bare of furniture as a cattle car carIn carIn In Continental Europe a 8 Common common sIgn upon a boxcar Is Tea uTeR horses fort forty men Is reached at last Be Beyond yond ond lies the Ule Siberian railway proper more slightly bunt built already alread needing re ballasting already warped by the de deI decay I ca cay or of the Insufficient wooden ties and by the th rascality or of contractors who have used but half the needed rivets in joining the rails aUs Water t towers hove have I in man many cases S burst from frost The I little sto stoves barely keep the mens blood from freezing At times when i ithe the waits walts are long iong they get out and stretch their legs lego or even sleep over oer overnight nl night ht In one of the used need In ordnary times for prisoners bound for forI I Siberia The sleeping benches are alive with vermin and time the gre rooms Are kept at atU heat by hU huge e soap soapstone p stone stoves j Beds are made upon the flat tops of these Ulese contrIvances and these are the posts or of cholee is 1190 mites miles from Mo Moscow cow Six weeks it has taken to reach It it and here herc the travelers feel that they are approaching war Already Alread they b have ve IO looked ked upon mysterious men caught I as spies being summarily hanged banged There are content contant stoppages In spite or of patrols m mysterious occur to the track At every bridge passed for fora a 0 thou thousand nd mIles nes soldiers have stood on guard n the fr freezing zing weather Spring win will be In the air as early In AprIl the Moscow men who leave eave this Ulis week spin merrily down the short run front from to Lake They have sl stayed tn In k endlessly ly awaIting their turn The sun sunsweet ened air makes them feel merri merry after days das when th time thermometer stood at t 30 below bolow As time the train dashes down through the pass that heads to the lake very fair In Its framing the thee they see e the lee ice lUll stihi unbroken except in bl black ck linen They The have heard of these tiny black liue across the Ice The They represent distant great crevasses es In hl hey her hoe have hoehe he d mp r l n has be bean en Jre tl rou h hb b t ril a n d never t p en n I ain some mUrchin blindly ca cast t thirty miles by bJ compass engulfed and amI unable to escape or pulled from froin the depths by only to die later in the wild bUzzard blizzard In their gar r In spite pite or of every ery effort rt to I k keep p back the truth sonic some hint of oC tera ha has floated back There it 1 no more of the Ice no now To 10 the south the men QUI can sec the na working along Ute the new Dew line about the southern end of the lake Jak Ahead is III a gigantic steamer the Bikai Baikal In England and aDd ported hither in se sections she lee ice for the Little Father her pro prow is her reversed S screw rew sucking the water down don under Ute the keel This creates a vacuum under the Ioe which rotting In the sunshine breaks or of its own weight ht It If an obstinate ge Is Ismet ismet met the spoon prow Iff the BI slides up on it and crushes It It was useless to o try the Icebreaker In winter Frost repair In a an n night ht the breaches made by it At on the eastern shore More I again an endless walt wait At last the I troops entrain for another thousand md miles ItI It hi less than three hundred to the point where re the new line Amur and strikes t through a fertile country to awake for tor tM the spring The frost frostI I has hag warped the tracks all ail aJ along ng tile the theline line Progress is very slow otteR not a hundred miles a da day the themen themen men are turned out till work as tr tack k repairers to ks br in the lIne Une made by spies Ot or bandits Men MeD have bave been hanged but the mischief iet goes on onA onA A fun full fortnight from the great lake sees them at lost In It bas hes taken two months to make meke the trip one of hardship and dangers wn Will the themen themen men now be over the track to Vladivostok or pushed down don some orne portion of the miles that U lie between and Port Arthur To the south hithe field ot of the Was ras ever eer war waged ov oval au such distances under NeW Yo York k |