Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 40

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COLBERT ey Office Open From 7 to 10 Evenings in its apparent obscurity, although it is | of one-story frame structures to an- | waiters. one of the importa BUILT BY EXILES Chita, Capital of Short-Lived | to oo which was named ‘Lady street.’ Russian and Central Asian inhabitants { that number about 57,000, but after | that &mbnbly works as a fire precaution I of land are being planted by the na- more than a century’s growth it still | for the retains many aspects of a frontigr town | Chitans. of America’s early West. Timber is plentiful in the mountains and on the plains in the region of Chita, and most of the houses are constructed of wood. | blocks of tea may be purc] “Chita, Siberia, in the neighbor- hood of which ‘white’ Russians have reported as raiding Soviet com- was _the capital of the short-lived Far Eastern republic which spread shortly after the World ‘War from the eastern shore of Lake Baikal to the Pacific Ocean,” says a_bulletin from the National Geographic Society. “Chita’s remoteness has been a factor there is & Chita ‘skyscraper’ of three or | the street, fat, “Like many Siberian towns, Chita |four stories. Some are of brick or stone; customers; “The exiles built their own jail. Thelr | fares of Canton. Cheap calico trade. Russian tobaceo merchants dis- “Now Chita has a mixture of Chinese, | play cartons of cigarettes with long paper mouthpleces—a Russian device protection of long-whiskered Bread Resembles Cart Wheels. ; canay Shops Recall Canton Congestion, shops with an assortment of question- |ideals of the Men of Swartfly soap merchants ao nt stops on the trans- | other row of the same height and con- | not look as if ',hyey m‘:ke use of their Siberian Railway, within 300 miles of | struction on the other. Now and then |highly colored and odoriferous wares. In the Manchurian_border. b shiny-faced Burlay tribesmen stand by their carts of flour, got its start as a Russian place of exile. | others of stucco over frame facades |fresh meat and vegetables, silently At the beginning of the eighteenth | which at a distance resembles more | awaiting century, there were & few native huts | substantial construction. on the site and nomadic tribes set up their tents in the neighborhood. But | gsireets of Chita. hawkers and traders of all kinds strain their vocal “Business bristles in the ‘downtown’ | cords boosting their meager stock of In one street the |cheap jewelry, baskets, cakes and what not until 1825, when the first contingent | cpir e Y orchants display an array of | nots. A rasping voice draws the trav- of exiles arrived there, did Chita begin | qry goods on stands crowded together | €ler's attention to a comely peasant . as they are in the alleylike thorough- | maiden’ sitting beside a pile of rouna rints, | thin loaves of bread which in appear- wives built their homes along & street | Turkey reds, silks, spools of thread,|ance are not unlike the solid wooc That | needles and other sewing cabinet appur- | Wheels of her small cart.” street, still so named, is one of "the | tenances are their principal stock in — . principal thoroughfares of the town. Africans Plant Trees In Kenya Colony, Africa, large areas tives, who each agree to plant and care for 10 trees every year. R. St. Barbe Baker, who for mauy years was assistant conservator of for- “There are also shops where dusty|ests in Kenya, just before he sailed from London to America to spread the the Trees, the able sweets; and eating houses whose | association founded by him to encour- So declarcd “The wide, sandy streets of the town | proprietors apparently do not interest|age the planting and care of trees stretch from the doorsteps of one row | themselves in the cleanliness of their throughout the world. Open All Day Saturday, August 31 We’ve selected these Six Suites for the August Climax Specials, yes, in that you'll have difficulty matching the values at the prices. But they are typical “Fur- niture of Merit” quality—featured in our regular stock—proving, as always, that you can buy to the best advantage here. 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