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Show BUILDINGS TORN DOWN FOR FUEL Former Chicago of Russia' Will Revive Quickly as Prosperity Comes ODESSA. April 15 This former fhleago of Russia, and destined to-be to-be again the principal export and Im-port Im-port center of the new Ukraine soviet ' republic, today presents the appearance appear-ance of a house from which tbe OWnei has been away on a long lourney and left It in charge of careless keepers. Despite the many conflicts which have taken place In thla cits- since the workmen captured It In the fall of 1017. the well built docks, the solid business houses and the splendid resl- , dences are in good repair, externally, 1 and seem to wear an expectant air, ready for the old prosperity to r- I turn. Unlike Baku and Tlflls. Astrakhan Batum and dozens of other cities the .correspondent has visited In Russia, there Is not the air of finality of dj -structlon und hopelessness hat so characterises them. There haa been destruction, of j course, but not so much from s i r n from necessity. The huge public market, mar-ket, covering several city blockH. has , been torn down and Its stones used I in street repairs. ' n the waterfront the port looks In good condition. ELK VA TOR DESTROYED. But tho lack of fuel in the ity for several years has led to the destruc tion of a part of the grain e levators once cupable of storing 6fu 000 tons of export wheat In BORIS Instances their wooden roofs are gone. A quarter quar-ter of a mile of the loading apparatus, appar-atus, consisting of steel and (vopdeji frames for handling the belt and bucket system of pourlni; wheat into the ships alongside h.i been torn down for firowood The Peresk warehouses ware-houses must be rcstorca. Coming into the cllv, along tho railway rail-way line from Kiev the train runs : for half a mile, along the gaunt walls of big buildings, tho roofs and upper stories of which aro gone. For all' this the city maintains itself it-self solidly. Tho sewage, waterworks ind electric light systems function. There Is no doubt that Odessa can I and will como back quickly. The saddest feature of Odessa's life has to do with the Immediate present. pres-ent. Coming In on the train, there was a whole car full of dead people, frozen during long weeks of travel or dead from hunger or from typhus. DROPPING OX STREETS. n the very streets of once proud und prosperous Odessa where bread could be had by the basketful, there ars daily dropping dozens of people. Ill and dying from hunger and typhus in th. only largo restaurant In the citj famishing people beg the privi- ' ot ssseeping the scraps from the . ind I he,. .-cr:.p th. v e.,t T.esc hungrj persons v. ere onc0 well-to-do now thinned down to tho skin' and bone. The fineness of tMjB'll pie and the beauty of the city two fii impre: :u:; of the stltHOH Dennis 'he ioafH bos sent in I . l.-tIcSBHW administration U .-i notns presslon The K'lrU are prottltrJ than In .Mo pw. I'll tell ve," h,Wm ' "But- they wear too much rO'JfM |