Show - MAGAZINE SECTION THIS - MAGAZINE SECTION SALT LAKE CTTY UTAH SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 1917 tfEKALD-KEPUBLluA- N w ' j c 11 Calling of Farmers to Service Opposed British Military However Says Many ‘Dodgers Are Posing Ruralists ' V T - tix t r - 7-' l C ' i v i ONDON Feb 24—Private letters from Petrograd give some inter-- esting facts about life in the Russian 'capital The theatres are crowded and the rich enjoy parties as before though working hard in hospitals the while But the most remarkable feature about Petrograd is the dearth o£ house-roo- -- i " m Refugees from Poland Lithuania and the other invaded provinces help to swell the population besides thousands of workingmen in the factories To have a room in a hotel and boarding house is now impossible you won't find a single advertisement of rooms to let or flats for Lire in any f S Petrograd paper Instead you read of offers of a present of sums of money varying from $20 to $200 to those who will find the advertiser a furnished room For years before the war winter al- ways brought the same problem The city is built on piles driven into marsh and mud All tar available ground has been built on years ago and all that remains is to pull down three or four storied houses and build But oven tlii3 is danskyscrapers mands it “Many prominent people some of high rank have already discovered how very extensive the powers of' the executive authorities are under wartime laws" said another legal authority “Nothing has appeared in the' ' newspapers or could appear tabout certain occurrences of which' quite v t gerous as the marshy character of the soil refuses to support above a certain weight Now the war has brought nearly half a million more inhabitants into the city Petrograd has grown apoplectic The meanest furnished room costs $100 a month The police are doing all they can to reduce the inflow of visitors by issuing tickets of residence for a few days only Their term expired the holders must leave the city for less congested areas in the center of Russia Kiev Moscow and Kharkov arc as congested as Petro-grad so the refugee must go still farther from the center How to feed all these people-ianother grave problem for Petrograd There is abundance of room in Russia but even in peace times there 'was trouble for Petrograd is in the midst of a nonproductive desert the frozen ocean on one side and marshes on the Nizni-Xovgor- od s other This made the city as dear as Xew York before the war it is far dearer now for the old sources of supply are cut off Fertile Poland Warsaw the lands of Lithuania Lublin and Kiele all these are in the kaiser's hands Despite the big consumption of tea — a necessity in a cold climate like Petrograd —no citizen may buy more than three pounds of sugar during thirty days To get even this moderate amount the consumer must have a permit issued by the police and controlled by the authorities who regulate the coming and going in all Russian houses Cakes and tarts are altogether taboo even thq pastry cooks are not allowed to make any more than a small fixed amount controlled by the police There is talk too of having cloth tickets without which none can get as much as a yard of woolen goods The Finland factories are now turning out men ' suitings at $1450 per upward For several weeks yard andfailed in Petrograd till fresh matches supplies came along from Japan ' Japan is now supplying all the cheap manufactured goods which Russia formerly bought from Germany and considering the lock of railroad accommodation across Siberia it is wonderful how fast the Japs have taken up this trade Germany will never get it back again if the Japs are to be believed The feeling against importing goods from Germany even after the war is very strong in Russia the better-price- d things Russians would like from England and America but only Japan can fit the cheaper market with the thousand and one trifles for which the astute Germans actually created a demand in agricultural and primitive Russia And now the Japs are reaping the benefit of their labors Their capacity for imitation their' cheap labor their patience in the way of credit these assets the Japs are using with all their might Japan will be Germany '8 great trade obstacle in the czar's dominions after the war One remedy for congested' population in Petrograd is now being discussed by the government and that is to transport the large factories into the interior but the step will be both difficult and expensive during the war and may not be started ' till afterward A strong portion of ine intelligent Russian population is for taking the capital back to Moscow but the powerful bureaucrats will oppose this for M'vacow would interfere with many beet-growi- ng ' v sensational stories may perhaps 'he he very badly off The capital itself told—some day — after the war Peocustoms that they enjoy in Petromay be supplied with necessaries to a ple have beeq called on to reveal all grad Moscow is at once conservative and Vcertain degree but the population in sorts of things which they never exthe interior judging from the secrecy pected to have to account for yet liberal bitterly opposed to bureaucratic tyranny but proud of all prevailing on the subject must be in “The only safe course for anyone ancient Russian traditions an unenviable plight with a secret today is to keep it strictin Minor which produces In Asia ly to himself or herself if possible It People in Vienna v have so many normal times a large quantity of foodis just as well for the public to troubles of their own that they scarce- - stuffs a starvation existedthat merely to ask a casual already ly give heed to those of their fellies in-in five months ago owing to the impossiquestion of an official' of the state Bulgaria and Turkey Very little no there distribution of who may be a personal friend may:-involbeing formation comes to hand from those bility roads no of and both in an offense railways deserving countries especially from Turkey the name in that region Turkish cor“This is the sort of danger that where however the people are said is still flourishing there as of ladies at their dinner tables ruption or at to be much better off than the people old and the poor are on next living afternoon their bear receptions might of Hungary or Austria Whether this to nothing The state does not underin mind with advantage They may is really true' it is not possible’ to astake to feed its indignant citizens have the unpleasant experience of be- certain as there - is no direct news and as practically all the men are with to asked explain how and where service between Constantinople and ' the army the sufferers are the women ing heard certain information of 'they the monarchy ' and children which they may have been boasling a The Ottoman News agency has pracThere are no secrets from the state little" tically ceased to exist owing to the censorship and the semiofficial news in wartime Solicitors doctors priests Both the French' and the German is scanty in the extreme dealing only in the confessional —all are included armies been trying for years to in ‘ ‘ person or persons or any elass or discoverhave with the movements of Enver Pasha how to make a gnu that shall M Barabas the only Hungarian jourdescription who must tell ' ' on denot noiseless but that shall be merely mand under defense of the realm regnalist in Constantinople ceased writno emit flash For as Nicholas Fla-m-el ' ulation No 53 ing some months ago as only fragsays in La Nature after dark two' ments of sentences from liis message The issue has been pointedly raised observers by watching the time can ever reached Budapest As for tradin Ireland The military authorities with accurate' chronometers having ers and travelers coming from Turhave arrested a solicitor II O 'B dials discover luminous precisely the key they are so few that it is hardly Moran with his client James Ryan the of enemy battery or possible to get hold of one once in six for refusing to state how certain doc- - position observers three regardless of time uments read in a Limerick prosecumonths same do can the by grouping their obThe tion came into their possession express And servations this merely by the the once famous Balkan-Zu- g lias be“The safety and defense of the flash of the guns come $ transport train since Rumania realm override everything" said Sir German inventory succeeded by entered the war and no traveling perWilliam Bull- M P who is a prommits are issued to Turkey unless one inent solicitor to a Daily Express adding a minute quantity of alkaline salts to their powder ifi diminishing can prove that one can secure foodrepresentative the flash but they found that in prostuffs as the result of the journey “There can be no question of privwhich is very seldom the case The ileges or customs intervening in a portion as they suppressed the flash ' rumors that conditions as regards matter essential to the welfare of the they increased the smoke Other sub foodstuffs are more tolerable in Constate Doctors' and priests would be stances added to the powder for this’ stantinople than in the monarchy does under exactly the same obligation as purpose have been vaseline alkalin not convey much for even if they are a solicitor to give information to tho soaps oxalates and resinates of soda a good deal better the Turks may yet competent military authority ’who de (Continued on Folio wing Page) Czar Nicholas at the v Upper left front right Russian duina in session center a procession in Moscow celebrating a Russian suc cess flower left digging trenches in the invaded area right the 'ar‘ and his bodyguard -- "re--mem- ber - ve - - ’ -- Berlin-Constantino- ple - - - ‘ -- r- - |