Show III n z 1 I 1 THE l EMPIRE OF THE CZAR AS A FIELD FOR FAR FORTHE t r 0 OUR un i RU RUSSIAN SIAN MARKET W flIE THE TIIE TIR COMMERCIAL INVASION nn rn Special Correspondence of the Deseret News by Pram Frank G Carpenter I T have como COIla tram Horn Berlin to St Petersburg an an 1111 advance scout of at tilt tha S 5 American Invasion 1 I w went nt aero North Germany to Stet SteU Stettin Stettin tin on all the Oder and unil there got gotH gota 0 H n German steamer which took too toome me ma over the to tu Kron i t f r anil 1101 landed be Iw In St at The 9 a trip co cost COlt t IG and aul lasted three day Ilas IlasA A Our ship waY wan HO ao heavily laden with HT d German goods tor for Hu Ituata W that we could j not 1101 mox 1110 about boul upon ullon dock deck ock anti the cabins rl to eo tilled Oiled fill ell with commercial that wo tso had hall to Iu sleep In n II room about the stean I r was wai The bed hetI were too short an 1 tho floe win was shorter honer It 1 le II cold cohl on the halite ut al this time of or year eill and the fat feather tick which was WB Wilt my lilY only covering reached re but to my nay chest cheat When 1 I red my neck I had an attack atuck at olt of or cold let and If Ir I 1 saved my fen feat I wa war waIn warIn In III Manger dang r of or Tim The food foal wits was German j We e hill hod coffee coNe and hi bread pad and butter butler at 8 S In the morning pork chop or 01 veal seal cutlet cullell or 1 about hout 10 a dinner at 2 and antI supper HUpper at Rt 7 There lher was plenty of light e und and dark beer with each meal I und and J of ot all nil kind from to 10 1 I talked with the Herman German drummer drummers I nH fie to their trade with They rhe claim that they tho have the foreign trade t of lr the he whole who empire with the exception of oC agricultural ural machinery In III their In lIds ulde vest locket ocl t and as ne fur far an IU I can at nt early curly writing they are not 1 tar far limn from correct I ov ev everywhere 0 1 They rhey have hua their stores In Inov 1 ov every iy city and their agent on every very I It toed They do to go so omen mucH of oC the t t that German U III generally understood by 11 the larger merchants merchant are 54 more III than of or them In St SI Peters Peter PI terM it t burg alone to about 2000 French I 2000 h and lets lees than 60 Americans I I y J TUH BIG HIG RUSSIAN We e arc sending a n few tew million dollar 11 a 11 worth of ot good here heie every year jear ear but Jut our ourt t 1 have haxe not out begun to t tap the trade The mot most of or the American goods i ur 0 handled by II L Germans Germane 01 or sold said lC through German Garman agents and we the do ilo not seem Mem to leallie till the of ot tho the ther r empire umpire nor the possibilities of oC Its Ita trade It Is already aheady one Oil of the greatest lt markets of or the world fwd and In 44 tho the future It will be n u hundred linos have you over ever thought thou ht of the th size alzo of or You 1011 know kno It Ig Is Ii big but Jul do you OU know how big hl It II u Is From the top lOll tit or Russia In Europe to the th bottom I h fa a as tat fai as ns from Crom New Nev York to 10 Salt Sail lake lako City anti and across It II from west ost to tou u mill mat I II b almost Us ag far as us from Crom New York to Denver It comprises about two thirds of oC the tho European continent mill and It 11 Is about two as us large lar 8 as ns the tho United States Slates without Alaska or our ourI i I outlying colonies A large larl part of or the y has ha mime some of the tho best soil on the thet t lobo but It Is Ia not half haIr cultivated The Thebe better be tier farmers are introducing our ag ng agricultural n machinery and year Ir by year the crops Increase Hut In Europe Is less leA than Ihan of or the empire It has hos more than square miles stiles of or land In Asia the most mORI of or It In great t blocks Including vast t tracts that will ral e heat wheat cotton daliy dalry products and K everything r thing under the sun nun The land contains minerals of or nil all kinds und and it itIs itIs Is 18 on the whole the greatest pod property In the tho world today toda Al AI Altogether Altogether together tho the Russian Hussion empire contains A A more than oM of oC nil all tho the land on the Ihl earths surface Hurta or about two und anti antione one half times us liS much much u a us la le owned by bythe bythe Jy the United State Slater i This extent of ot country countr It Is thinly populated It will probably support luppert roan mon whore where It II now supports one but Jut nevertheless 8 It has a vast The rear cuir tiller lulea almost p people ole le leor or Jut juit about twelfth of or tho the lieu Hun of ot the globe That means mean If Ir you OU could put pot all a I thin the l people Opie nn lids big round earth Into one place one olle In every eer dozen would lie he a I These Theae people are a not nut like the of or Africa urn who hl lift hII hut hilt a n few wants More Mort rl than of thorn th m mare are white people popl who spend money mon like water wn lei If It they hay hp It The peasantry of or Russia are ver el poor but hUI when they Bd gel et rich they scatter their money around more inure extravagantly anlY than that any 11 other oilier people on earth Carth They want the thi beet beat still will poly pay Ia lift big prices price for tor It The Tho great market of ot till future wil 11 bo ho In their I no i cn od anti Increased wants Ag Aa 1 It Is II no now the Ih average Itus HUI rich Ian II fa I not worth ene t its murk much a athe as the average American There Chore are arp vast 11 1 territories whore where tho the earning of nr the Ihl In Inhabitants habitants ere arn not 1101 more thin then 12 13 cents ent n day and altogether the foreign undo Trade IB is II now no worth only nb 6 5 or 88 6 per person i n i iThe II The people live 1110 upon almat aim alm rt l tc I II a I few tew cent centi a Ii day th thin in with their black breed and an soup and their cloths cloth coth being the ill rh ip p peat est eat of oC the cheap Mo Mot Mont t of 0 these Iliac Russians are a farm r rhut but hut there are lire a It and a half hulf hare h tire are now IIO working In iii ho thin th ml tnt there thorr arc at III l least leal a t I I who c come m ni rn village In to tl fl till I nt mr th rh soil Holl Rut all nil thin I 1 shall d 11 II III I 1 go 10 over the tits country ST IN 1 I 1003 03 In this letter leller I 1 want to 10 tell yi JU oU I something about St bw mil vIII how liow It do loee s I was wan h lire 10 li 11 years jeara earl ego ago but Lut wince since that time an all u i m t new capital h has s sprung up ul on an tilt thi bin bill banot of ot the tho Nova Neva St Sl Is th lh same game center of at Potpies sod and as liS asIt liSIt asIt It Ans vaa al then but It In Is now nol a I great tom man center and It does an rn en tr r muus business with all nil parts of oC th the world In do riding rid In out Into the country on the railroads you go 10 for Cor miles past towns built bulit among There ore lire Iron works machine works arks and mills milla of or all nil kinds I inde This U la the tha chief eta M gate for Cor the th rest rent of or Europe and a 11 vast ast commerce floats through It The town already has bus about people and new now buildings ore ure going up Iti In all parts of ot It ll The buildings are aro large lun rind and modern Some SOllie of or them are of or orlIe live lIe stories Others oiher ore are lower covering a I vast space apace The Prospect lug liaa perhaps the tho best belt houses houles and the larg large eat eft and finest t store but there 10 ie other streets street almost as liS good oot and I enormous markets m In out of or tho the way parta of oC tho city Tim OI OF ST So far Car I have not found a depart department ment store here hore I understand there la is laone l lone isone one In III Moscow and It would se seem eem m to tome tome me IIII that a good one on would pay pa In St Ht The here Is done Ilone like that of at a I department store torl I mean you can buy almost ev e everything under one roof root but every de no department department has ha Its owner and there are aie a 1 thousand merchants each cach working for Cor himself In the store etore In other othir words whole tho the business Is done dono In bazars The biggest leizar Is B that of oC the tile Gos los I I Dyer vor which la is right In the heart of or the Pi Prospect the till widest lt and Anti best street of or St Petersburg This bazar covers us much as three of ot our A CHIEF JUSTICE WALTER CLARK CLA K OF NORTH CAROLINA r A 1 T 4 f A Ai I i I y s y S j kv f y r i 4 I Ik IJ IA J k A y I I I I II Cz U Tt J tee Jf CaZ a Jennings has bas It bi la I said Mild Id what In h dooms deems an Weal Ideal I for tor the ho nc In 1841 He I II Chief Juat Waltar Clark of oC j i the lb supreme court of or North Carolina way iMy urge nomination I j I in n the Democratic lIm The former 1 candidate for tor ut thinks that 1 Justice hu has baa none roue of oC the tb In tie the It opinion ton of or Mr dr Ir unfit the 1 far ti tl tilt rl 11 pia ui c un on Hn Ili D lk IH Is I oC iG years old l and famed t u as s a 1 I irid juris lIe He Is I nn an ex exi i soldier a gloat and Is tl ell 1 a l of or great executive z I I Is s n 2 I How Now the hor Germans Have the Business BU Enormous E size One Twelfth of the Russian Customers A Loon al nt altho a athe the tho Blazers of St Petersburg Its Merchants The Tariff f and How It Affects Americana o J i IH H JH II t r r Nt t t t j 0 j I t 1 e T r rT T v r rt 1 J rJ t t i 1 lib 1 X 1 1 I II I IT T TT I T T r r rr I II il 1 I I T 1 i iI Cil i i C I 1 r rT rJ 1 T j 1 J r r r rI rr 3 r I IJ F I A c 1 had hll tor tin t O D Ne Nety hy by FrAnk O G H ii i r e I Hj i 4 I WMS H a RUSSIAN TAILORS SELLING TROUSERS ON TIlE THE STREET city squares It U Is a n long low two torY story building composed of one solid muse mass of ot booths or stores opening out upon n R corridor which I Is separated tram from the street by a line of or pillars Iko the tho cloisters of or a n monastery The file corridor Is III about 10 0 feet teet aide It la Is painted white and Is well troll lighted As you stand tand In lit It you ou cult can see lee a moving ma mUll mass of or er and shoppers whIch w 10 o tilts Ills tIll It that you cannot see fee e to the end of or It Tho The stores are each ich about IS 16 feet Ceet square g with lIh plate at lit the front reaching from Hood flood to root toof The T e mo moat t of or the goods are arc In the Ih windows anti and the wares ware are AI of the tho most moat gaudy des du description There are lire ninny many Jewelry stores store and brass and 1101 un gold and sliver silver wares meet your our e eyes en es at every cErr tel few OW steps IU A part of or the bazar Is given to Icons and religious merchandise Th These Theft e Ho Ito And religious ell merchandise These Kus Itus Hu slann ore are the lice most pious people on onearth onearth onearth earth They are always praying and the tho pi priests tests have hae made them believe bellee they have hac to pay pR as all as pray pm They buy brass bra ll and Images of oC the Savior to hang up In the hou o and churches Every 1 11 living room has hns hf such an Image and as n a rule a 1 en idle l Is III kept Luring below belllw it The Tile face tac of or orthe the Madonna or saint IB is painted and the brass or gold so cut rut out that It U forms torms the clothing and frame of the tho Image ImA Some Scone of or these things cost cott enor enormous sum stints The Jewelry stores store are fine and the fur tur stores stares are magnificent for I Is the chief fur tur market of or the world The skins of or tigers wolves jackals and nt foxes taxes are beautifully I mounted with wIlh the heads of the Intact so 10 that they the grin out at you ou ns as you OU walk along alon the corridor Go with withIn In and you nu OU find piled high with furs fun and AmI upstairs are hate bates and bog bags bogot of ot them some Of or the being worth almost their weight In gold Th Then n there are dry good goads stores tores Ito R and anti notion stores Ilor tore and toy to stores nit nil In this thU same lIme bazar The toy I baura sell In ht swaddling clothes stud mid 1111 1 little Indies In III the costume of ot the country They The pelt fell 11 nl nI ors sors wort of 0 U loos v M domestic And lirt It ported and there n a good mar mor markel market ket kel here fur far the Ihl machine toys of oC tho the United States Slates In oth other r farts of or the bazar Nazar arc aro basket stores stored hardware stores More tori and stores H sell Mil selling ing gents gent furnishing goods I Including dickeys or Imitation shirts Some Seine of or orth the th stores have hae dickey ve vests t which reach only ani to 10 the h of or the chest being merely mpr l u white while belt when the cent cont Is II otto oft but Jut when h n on en like n a 1 full tull white drew dress 1 nt Our commercial travelers tm elers will have hae to sell noil ell to tu the Russian merchants and In order to deal well the they ought aught to 10 speak HUMm or ur at least German They ought to know something of at the merchant class clan and amid how they the do Jo business They must limit be careful now nol tp offend them and jt 1 will pay Day them to study their cus cue custom tom lone before berol they th begin to o trade The merchant merchants as s a rule are proud of ot their busmen business s They The are arc HuMlan and they do trot not put ut on foreign airs air aI Time The most mOlt of them n i Uv coats coat and high hoot Into 1111 which they sturt atuf their pantaloons They The usually usually ally all part Jart their hair In the middle and cut It out oft around the neck cl so o 0 that It forms form u II sort Hurt of or brush as It hangs hans down the crown They are aie shrewd traders trader and go on the principle that till ev ever e er thing Is fair In n trade Seine Horn of or them themore are ore very rich and as a I a II rule lull the thc richer n II man U Is the power poorer r he dresses eM and tilt the lees lell Ie style Ille he puts put on un hits his tren lIIn home I The most moat of ot the merchants merchAnt are religious re roo religious I er store of ot this big lee lias a sacred sacral picture over th the door with witha I a little candle le under It It Sometimes Some Som Sometimes times the picture I Is h no ne bigger than a playing card end and some ome times even Ivan aa as small Mm a III as A s pottage portage stamp but hUI It h Is III al always always w ways V there Th The proprietor and anti hi hie clerks each earh say Sly a B prayer and cross crota themselves as al they the open Ipen the store lIarI and they all say II prayers prayer before lh they y leave lell SHUTTING til III SHOP I 1 spent Silent one night at al the great relit baiar bazar watching the closing of ot the different stores store It un woe 9 0 the usual clot rho Ing tag hour lout but In tills this latitude a II as light an all anat at It 6 5 in the State Sates A As I looked th tm the clerks clerk came come out and Ind began to put up the th shutters er r Th They y r closed th the whole front of 01 each cadi store lit or leaving a crack ciack for tor the clerks clerk and proprietor to u uro roar ro out Before departing the merchant and hi his hll clerk clerks crossed roll They roiled crossed themselves And pia prayed ed when they tho stood outside and nil then th n watched I one of at the men mn pull the great pal doors to together toI together gether and turn toe tin ponderous keys koyn In the Ih halt Iloan Boren different locks lock Then Theil I the merchant took a n string sail and tied It about the Iron work to so that tint it crossed the opening oJ of or the door He II joined the ends end of oC the string airing with Ith wax and stamped this with his hia private seal so 10 o that U It wa was wal to open oln the lock without cutting |