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Show BYREVOKj Astrakhan Much Resembles New Orleans at Close of Civil War ASTRAKHAN. Russia, Feb. 4. (By Associated Press.) Once prosperous but now ravaged by revolution, the situation sit-uation of this city reminds the visitor of the condition of New Orleans after : the Civil war. It is trying to regain us lormer prosperity dui ine process is slow. Even its position Astrakhan resembles New Orleans in some ways. The city is pitched on an island on a point where the Volga rier divides into many smaller streams forming a delta that extends 60 miles to the Caspian Cas-pian sea. The commerce of Astrakhan was once comparable with that of St. Louis. Memphis or ofcNew Orleans. It was rich in turs, in fish, in caviar and busy handling freight which traversed the Volga. There was once food for every mouth and clothes ror every I back, work aplenty far every man. ONLY RUINS LEFT. Today are seen the wrecks wrought by combat, between the Imperial and revolutionary forces, but no svmnathv , Is expressed with communism. "We have had enough." said one o( the j workmen who. together with thousands thou-sands ol his fellows and for IS days, 'just after the Pelrograd and Moscow risings in 1917, took to arms and be i sieged the Cossack troops and the wealthy people of the city, gathered in the Kremlin walls ,in soldier barracks, bar-racks, and other points ;.t the heart of the business district. , The immediate result or these 18 days of carnage was the destruction ot the duma buildings, the governor's house, tho great bazaar, and several blocks of stores filled with dry goods and Persian and Turkestan carpets, j silks and other fineries. The ultimate result is indicated by the bare, lire-burned walls today standing gaunt and cheerless, with no Work on the river and no food in the home; lor these worknu n Tlie people u.o c nine num. iu uin aiiiimug MOVIE HOUSE CROWDED. The spirited horses which once filled the horse market at the river Iside have gone to the wnrs not to rc-i rc-i turn or have been requisitioned for the present Budenny cavalry, a few troops ol which are quartered here. In the provincial hospital where 300 patients lay there was practically no broth for famine refugees nor quinine for fever sufferers. Dr Zakatowsky, the woman surgeon in charge, said American relief was promised but so far it had not come. Tho only public gathering places, opened seemed to be the moving pic-lure pic-lure theatre which was crowded with young people and soldiers of the Bu-denny Bu-denny cavalry watching an utterly vll-j liauous Italian tragedy. I |