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THE CIAR'S GIBRALTAR OF THE NORTH
At Vliadivostok All Channels from the Sea Are Superbly
Manned by Many Batteries of Modern Ordnance.
The Town a Dumping Ground for Outcasts.
Viadivostok, the not impregnable!
That is what the Japanese say. What
is said by the Russians who still hold
this far east port, their last touch with
the [P’acific in the orient, is another
matter.
That the Japanese hope to capture
the port and town before final peace
is declared is believed, says the Chica
go Post. With Vliadivostok in thelr
control they will have taken from Rus
sit every exit to the ocean she pos
sesses in the cast. The Transsiberian
railway will then terminate far in “the
suburks” of Manchurla, and it its op
eration to the water line is permitted
after the war ends it will be under
other than Russian domination,
“It was characteristic of the Russian
nation when it chose th= name of Vlad
ivostok, which means ‘Lord of the
East,’” says Fannie Caldwell Mac-
Caulay. “But, like so many golden
promises which originate on Russian
soil, it has failed to fulfill the prophecy
of its name. Perhaps it is the intensi
ty of the winters which stunts the
growth of these promises. Be that as
it may, Vladivostok remains after a
trial of more than forty years neither
‘Jord of the east’ nor of itself.”
Situated in eastern Siberia, on an
arm of the Japan sea called bay of Pe
ter the Great, it is beautifully located,
but by no stretch of the imagination
could it be called attractive. The long,
narrow harbor is so encompassed by
velvety green hills as to give the ap
pearance of a quiet inland lake. In
the winter the bay is frozen to the
depth of many feet and gives a fine
opportunity for skating and sleighing
and horse racing. In the summer it is
the scene of much gayety, especlally so
when the sguadron is stationed there
on its summer rounds.
© On a summer night the harbor looks
like fairyland, with its thousands of
jights from sampans, yachts, men-of
war and merchant steamers. Concerts
on the different flagships draw crowds
from the shore, who come in every con
ceivable craft. It is a merry, music
loving crowd, enjoying the pleasure of
the present moment without thought
or care of the future. The town itself
has a crude, unfinished look. The streets
are wid® and unpaved, and the distri
bution of mud on rainy days over
horses, carriages and pedestrians is
generous and impartial.
People seldom walk in Viadivostok if
they have the price of a drosky ride.
These droskies are very low four
wheeled vehicles. The driver, usually
a discharged convict, sits high above
the occupants and is 2 queer figure in
his dark blue velveteen blouse, which
exten r helow his knees and is oth
erwise cut by generous measurement.
The ornamentation of this dress is the
touch of color given by the bright red
sleeves of the bilouse and the fancy
leather belt. A low stovepipe hat com
pletes this altogether unique figure.
Discharged convicts are not allowed to
return to European Russia, and drosky
driving in Vladivostok is about the only
means of a livelibhood.
If the emblem of each country rep
resented by Viadivostok was displayed
along the line an international tlag of
vast dimensions would flutter in the
breeze. Vladivostok is the dumping
ground for the outcasts or Korea, Chi
na and Russia’s own forgotten exiles.
And this reealls a story of a woman
who was released this last summer
from a long servitude.
Twenty-three years ago a young Rus
sian married a young girl of high so
cial standing in St. P’etersburg. After
a few months of happiness the wife
disappeared, and all search failed to
bring to light her fate. Years passed,
and the man. believing his wife dead.
married again. In the spring of 1903
in some unexplained way the man was
given a clew that his wife was a po
litical prisoner at Sakhalin. Quickly
he made his way to the convict island
and found in the gray headed old woin
an who was indicated by a number the
wife he had lost so many years ago.
For twenty-three years she had suf
fered prison life, and for what she nev
er knew. Upon hearing all the circum
stances the wife left in St. Petersburg
released the man, and the last summer
it was not an unusual sight to see the
three out for a stroll, the lady in
St. Petersburg having been generous
enough to visit the reunited husband
and wife.
For further amusement there is a thea
ter, in which a stock company gives
creditable presentations. Then, as the
Russians are most hospitable, there are
dinners, teas and dances of a charac
ter varied enough to suit any demand.
At these functions one is brought in
contact with people who have traveled
all over the known parts of the world
and have lived in many different coun
tries. Ope can easily hear in a small
company five or six languages spoken,
and yet there is perfect freedom of
conversation, the most of these people
gliding from Russian to French, from
French to German and in the next
breath to English as easily as the aver
age American speaks his own every
day language. A Russian dinner is
usually an elaborate affair which tesfs
every power of digestion.
A short walk along the main street of
YVladivostok brings to view all that Is
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worth seeing. The Nicolai arch is on
this street east of the so called park.
It was built to commemorate the visit
of the present czar eleven years ago,
when he was still erown prince. An
other monument farther along, rather
graceful in effect, is one recently erect
ed to Admiral Navelskoll, who discov
ered the mouth of the Amur river. The
buildings are rather massive and built
for solidity rather than architegctural
beauty. No frame houses are peraitted
in the town, and by law all staircases
are of iron.
The harbor is admirably located, with
narrow entrances, bordered on all sides
by hills of ample height to give excel
lent elevation to batteries and to afford
splendid proteetion for gun positions.
All the channels from the sea are su
perbly commanded by many batteries
of modern ordnance. I'ew of the guns
are, however, of greater caliber than
ten inches. Within the last two years
many old guns have been replaced with
new ones.
The city of Viadivostok is almost at
the toe of the Muravey Amurski penin
sula, on a harbor which affords excel
lent anchorage for warships as well as
merchantmen. There is here a large
navy yard, with adequate dry docks
and repair shop facilities. In an admi
rably formed depression on the Mura
vey promontory across the harbor
south of the city is a large battery of
powerful mortars. The entrance to the
barbor and the passages to the sea are
guarded by heavy batteries, and these
channels in a time like the present are
heavily mined.
Within the last two years a ship ca
nal was bullt near the upper end of the
Sapernui peninsula. The strategical
value of this Is to permit torpedo eraft
from the defenses an opportunity to
sortie against an enemy bombarding
the city from a distance without at
tempting to run the batteries. All these
are connected in the rear by sunken
roads which permit the rapid transpor
tation of ammunition from one to an
other without danger from the enemy’s
fire.
From a land attack, which is possi
ble only from the north, the city is
well protected by strings of land bat
teries connected by sunken roads and
equipped with the heaviest ordnance
in northern Asia. One peculiarity of
Vladivostok is the grevalence of heavy
fogs in the spring. Not long ago two
British warships, coming into Peter
the Great bay, bound for Vladivostok,
were caught in a dense fog. They used
the lead, and when the mist raised the
Russian officers were astounded to see
the British ships lying just off the wa
ter front. The English, unknown even
to themselves, had slipped past all the
battertes. This gave the Russian com
mander a severe shock, and an order
was straightway issued that thereafter
not more than two ships of any nation- ‘
ality should be ailowed within the har
bor at’the same time. The ostensible
reason was the harbor was too small.
Vladivostok is not a city which can
easily be starved out. For the last
twenty months the shipment of live
GEORGIA NEGROES PERISHING IN LIBERIA
Emigrants from Irwin County Are Among Half Civilized Afri
cans Who Live on Monkeys, Reptiles and Herbs.
From the Fitzgerald Epterprise
On Jan. Ist., 1904, fifty-six negroes
from Irwin county organized with
John Tucker as leader, left Ocilla for
Libera by way of Savannah steamer
0 New. York, N. Y., to Liverpool,
England, thence to Monrovia, Libera.
Soon after they arrived in Liberia
they went thirty miles into the inte
rior, by a small steamer 16 miles to
Gingertown, thence 16 miles to Ches
enburg, having their furniture trans
ported on the backs of the naked
natives. Within a week or two the
acclimating fever attacked them in
their thatched houses, and 25 of the
party soon died, every member of the
party being attacked by the dreadful
fever. A family of 13 was soon re
duced to 3, three of them dying in one
day. Without a physician, and as
coftins are expensive, the little colony
was soon decimated and those that
had not died were practically without
funds, with many leagues of water
between them and their friends in
Georgia.
There was absolutely nothing they
could do for a livelihood. There was
no demand for labor except that
which could be performed by the half
domestic animals from China and Ko
rea to Vliadivostok has been extremely
heavy. They are put to pasture in the
vielnity and are permitted to breed,
against the day when the place will be
besieged. The city is susceptible of
disastrous bombardment by warships
if they lie off about 8000 yards to the
westward, but there is little possibility
of these ships doing much to disable
the batteries. They could only hope to
work bavoc in the city.
Russia has patiently tolled by day
and by night at the self imposed task
of making this, her fortress on the far
eastern shores of the IPacific, as nearly
impregnable as science, combined with
the advantages of nature, couid make
the czar's first great seat of power and
prestige in the orient. It is now pro
claimed as the czar’s Gibraltar of the
north. It is the eastern terminal of
the Transsiberian railroad, and the
Russian government has expended mil
lions of rubles on its harbor defenses
and its countless hidden land batteries.
Vladivostok differentiates itself in
many ways from other oriental cities.
Russians, Japanese, Chinese and Ko
reans are the predominating classes,
and they have built a city architec
turally rude In character, but capable
of resisting all assaults. The harbor
entrance from Peter the Great bay re
semmbles that of San Francisco. Not
only are the entrances almost identical
in formation, but also are the names—
vou pass through the Golden Geote at
San Francisco and enter the Golden |
Horn of Viadivostok.
civilized naked natives. Twenty-four
cents per day was the ruling price for
wages, with meat and lard at 25 cents
per pound, flour $l5 per barrel. One
e :
article of food, monkey meat, could be
had at 12 cents per pound by those
fertunate enough to have the price.
Last November Howard Fuller re
ceived sufficient funds from Hon. J.
A. J. Henderson, of Ocilla, to pay
passage back home for him and eight
of his family, and they arrived at
Ocilla last December, leaving behind
his sister and twenty-four others of
the party under the leadership of Hal
Scott, a minister well known in the
southeastern part of the county. They
are situated 30 miles from the coast,
perhaps starving to death. They are
surrounded by uncivilized natives,
most of whom go stark naked and live
on monkeys, reptiles and herbs.
Howard Fuller, an intelligent mu
latto and evidently an honest, worthy
negro, is now engaged in raising
funds for the relief of his friends. He
is devoting all of his energy to it, but
has not had the encouragement that
might be expected. About $2,000 will
be necessary to bring the balance of
the colony back to Georgia.
WOMAN HELD AS HORSE THIEF.
Mrs. Row Arrested on Charge of
Stealing a Team.
A woman, calling herself Mrs. Rich
ard Row and claiming Valdosta as
‘her home, was arrested in Cordele
‘Thursday, after making her way
through a dozen cities in the state, on
the charge of stealing a mule at Rut-i
ledge Saturday night.
The woman is apparentl: crazy, I
and since being locked up has heen‘
talking wild of murder. The charge
upon she is held comes from the pub
lication of an interview with W. P.
Wallace of Rutledge, who claims that
a fine mule was stolen from him Sat
urday night and attached to a buggy
stolen from Dr. Rider of Madison.
A message from Eatonton says that
she wore a man’s overalls when she
passed there. When arrested at Cor
dele she wore fairly respectable cloth
ing, not men’'s. She gave the officers
the name of J. S. Schuman of Ash
burn as her son, but no such man can
be found.
Not as Smart as the Proverbial Hog.
In the trial of a case before the re
corder in Columbus against Charles
Ray, a white man who was very dis
orderly Saturday night, it developed
that he drank thirty bottles of beer in
a few hours time. He was fined $l5.
Picking the Pickaninnies.
Savannah is making a raid on boot
blacks for doing business without
license.
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