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Leningrad Tarnished Reminder of Old Brilliance As Capital Leningrad, the St. Petershurg of |and an occasional government Czarist days, has been revisited and | owned motor truck. pictured by Walter C. Whiffen after | There is little evidence of the an absence of ten years. Mr. Whif- | former merchandizing - and ship- fen was The Associated Press cor- | ping that kept caravans of horse- respondent there in the days of the | drawn wagons moving about the Czar and witnessed the sgeenes of | city, and there are practically no olution in the capital‘city. He | privately owned pleasure vehicles. is now The Associated Press cor- | Show Windows Full respondent in Moscow, the present The show windows are full of Russian capital merc ome of the displays a s of old, but By WALTER C. WHIFFEN is a much more utilitarian me fruit and meat shops—which used to be relegated to side streets where lower leveling influence of Leningrad, Aug. heloved capital of and his Furope,’ r known as grad or St. Petershurg, ser hevism such establishments are ten years by one who knew to take their longside the peak of its glory and who plays of jewelry, clocks, haber- | nessed the beginning of its decline, ry, dressgoods and furs. There o aniblen ke hed brass bu ©ss of catering to a favored Outwardly it is the s 0ld women peddiing - contour and design are th , books and papers on there is no glitter. There ards are otivity in the streets gns of moderate pros the prilliancy impart the zaudier Crarist ur the | buil the 1 E smartness of the wom e 1 at a cost of ten m | urlous carriages and motorcars of | rul t ime she could other days i3 gonc. r. It was a sort There is none of t! ed precinct where one | restaurant life which was a resence of imperialism of pre-revolution days and which |ar . The big circle with the cansed the streets m. to be | column xander 1 marking its as lively as at hour of | er, ¥ t lace occupying the afternoon. ¢ Imost ‘- the former gov- no restaurants a such as there | ernmen departments the rest, ! are are sordld affairs img cling of reverence to no cafes chantant nor out [t of today sorts such as used to cater Marks of Bullets * tastes of the well-to-do pleasure | The f palace is still seeker and whose patrons were le and machine tertained in lav bands and orchestr songs and gypsies. The opera is here and the ballet | whole cirele of buildin, in practically pre-revolution stand- shows s of dilapida- ard of merit, but the fashionable |t v cay. The excey is attendance has given place to as- rer municipal administration semblages of apparently apprecia- 2 t which still serves a | tive people of all sorts, conditions |sim and which looks | and ages and in all sorts of garb | conspicuous with fis f sxcept the “Bourgeois” evening |yellow and white pa | dress, An old greybeard permitted the | Is Serions Today r to enter the co Leningrad today is serious, & the winter lace. somnolent and drab. The 2 ¥ [ bers and rubbish partially filled the Prospect, formerly f: 's par- | space that once resounded to the ade ground, s crowded of a late | rumbling wheels f imperial afternoon, but with modestly | coaches. In one co roup of | garbed women and girls - | children of the stre e naking | capped and hooted men merry w happy enough looking — happier | cd ther palace with its various than in Moscow where they are wings ved for bygone cz der the shadow of the “admini tion"—but with nothing snappy | looking in the ensemble. | 3 The Nevsky Prospect extends |pository of paintings, statuary and | straight away for a mile from the | zems which every visitor 1o Peters- Moscow station, strikingly effective | 1, hastened to visit, because of lts great breadth, fts overflowed into the Winter Pa " high business blocks, its window e. Connected as it is by a sort of displays and occasional old | “bridge of sighs” it readily lent it- churches and canals, to the Ad- [sclf to the needs of the Hermitage, miralty building with its graceful | whose exhibits hav slender gilt spire. Its cedar hlock | out of all possibilit pavement shews signs of decay but | date them through confi 15 still serviceable and a relief from | valuable private collections. the cobbles encountered nearly |other wing is devoted to exhibition everywhere else. £ revolutionary mementos—illus- Formerly there was progress of revolution a time in the year W during the last hundred | portion of it not n are to be found por- replacements. and it was com- |{raits innumerable of victims of mon gossip that foreign contrac- | revolution both imperial and prole- | tors had repeatedly offcred to Te- | tarian, hombs and infernal ma- | pave the whcle of the boulevard | chines and implements of torture | with durable and guaranteed pave- | which have marked its path. ing for the cost of the repairs Admiiralty Buikling for a given period. The offers were [ The Admiralty building adjoin- as repeatedly refused becanse of the palace on its other side is the profit to be had by the bu- | still used for admiralty purposes reaucrats of the day from the fre- | and appears to be in 7 quent replacements. The broad : vend lies cement sidewalks were receiving | ¢ " apparently long needed attention in.places. Here and there a pale|years in process of construction, glass window neatly bored through ing from 1819, 1t is awe inspir- by rifle bullets ten years ago and from without with its massive patched with metal washers and columns and gilded dome. bolts still doee duty and serves as | lts interior is dank and denuded of a reminder of those troublous days. | some of its glittering A stroll down the Nevsky re-|and candelabra. A few minutes in veals to accustomed eyes further chill of its echoing emptiness evidences of the changed times. 1to give an impression of Street traffic, besides the street | the z blow dealt by the cars, manned by hooded and | revolution to the Orthodox Church, woolen-jacketed women, and aline | On a side o the square in front of new and efficient looking motor | of St. Isa Cathedral, and buses, s confined largely to shabby former German Embas publie carriages and motor cars glamorous a circular swing erect- id dreary Tsaac’s | completed during | Moika, therine and the Fon- | | with dust, | of Nicholas T, and thirty-nine | v Russian rioters at th Beth and Betty Dodge of Los Angeles have found a new study— monocles. The Los Angeles twins, who recently returned from England with a fine collection of the eye-pieces, insist that the wearing of the semi-windshields is more than a hobby, it's a science. The twins are identified by the monocles. Beth wears hers only in the left eye, while Betty concentrates on her right. beginning of the world war, the Ho- | tel Astoria, once the rendezvous | l E E at the tea hour for fashionable i | women, forcign and Russian, has heen converied into living quarters for Soviet cmployees and their umilies. b tearoom Serves as a playroom for children. A six story brick building under conctrnetion on st st ot e | BAS) Money Rates Tnfluence Buying Situation Associated Drese. ‘| New York, Aug. 9—Impressive {recoveries in prices took place n ltoday's stock market, indicating that the corrective reaction under way since last Saturday had been | completed. Pools, influenced by a where scarcely a craft | continuation of easy money rates The |and a plentiful poly of funds, marked up more than a dozen fs | Nevsky whose exterior was com- pleted at the outbreak of revolu- tion, stands precisely as it did | ten years ago — except that the wooden scaffolding has long since for fircwood. The three canals describe semicircular through the center of the city, the tanka, are bare of the barges, efly wood-lacyn, which they rried. The me is true of any sort was to b factories across on Vassili Island | appeared 10 be working, and the {sues to new ] leve ships tied there, | traders, who had sold stocks docks, with a few in the last few days, stimulated the were mildly active Across the Neva, in plain view |advance with their covering opers- from the windows of the Winter |tions, particularly in Baldwin and ‘alace, stands the low staunch jother issues which command a lls of the Peter and Paul prison premium in the “stock 1 crowd, fortress, seencs of tortune of other | Outside the stock market, chief days but now, a museum. 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Col- lins & Aikman, Dupont, Timken Roler Bearing and Case Threshing also were prominent in the early flernoon rally, City Items Joseph Brozozowski and Mi Genevieve Sutula were married this I morning at 7:30 o'clock at the | Sacrea Heart church. Both are well | known in the Polish community of | this city. | Miss Anna Kiniry of the probate court office underwent an operation | for the removal of tonsils today. She is reported to be getting along nicel. Myron Young of 21 CUff street, has returned to this city from a { vaudeville tour through the middle west. After a week's vacation in this city, he will leave for Indian Neck where he will play during the | 'summer. With the opening of the vaudeville season this fall, he will %o on the road again with a promi- nent vaudeville orchestra. ! New lunch specials, Crowell's— advt, i i | CLOSELY WOVEN KARPEN REED and FIBRE — SUITES — Consisting ;)f. 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