| Show TRANSPORTATION IS IS STUDIED FIRST HAND SAN FRANCISCO Feb 24 i 4 Gregory John formerly a a. commander In the Russian navy is la starting a study of ot the American transportation business by doing a a. a hour fourteen-hour shift shUt each night a j at-j watching lanterns for tor an Oakland Cal CaI streetcar company fv- fv a graduate of at the Russin naval academy and the Imperial Un U- U t of ot Kazan commanded a fleet of Russian submarines on the Baltic i and later latet was In command of ot a gunboat gun gun- boat on the Amur river When they the revolution came he was arrested Condemned to death deathS according according- or to ov his own story h he later was wag released and with his family went to Yoko hama finally coming to San Fran Frany cisco oil sr First he obtained work as an electrician elec elec- 1 on a n. torpedo boat being bUilt here later he worked as a motion picture operator then as a nig night t watchman and finally as a lantern tender 1 believes that some day h h t. t and other Russians of ot the old regimes q will be back in Russia and so he is i making a study of at the l systems here while he Is working When the time comes he lie said I Lt Iv I want to be prepared to tell my re countrymen of at modern American v vt Ideas v t |