The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1895, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1895 ne ¢ Recent Clphe A]{h N IL ISLAND, April 9, 1895.— | 1 to my lot to present the | of the CaLL with the first accurate | count, from the testimonjy ss, of the mysterious con- aken place at Cuylers | an eyewitn vulsions that hav Harbor on § char of the harbor along its y, the 25th of March, | age was taken for the island of which i e in two days previously and lay at anchor in the barbor. The purpose of the CaLL correspondent had not been pub- jished abroad, but a very great interest was manifested in Santa Barbara as to the personnel of the passengers booked for this trip of the little sloop. Itis perhaps only fair to own that the CaLv correspondent went aboard the sloop in a very quiet and unostentatious manner, and the list of the Liberty’s cabin passengers only showed that Mrs. Devine, the housekeeper of San 1 ranch, had taken passage day, her daughter, ha Dt scarlet and green parr i who has lington, accompani charge a b whose home is on the i been spending the seasc as befits a bird of appeared v desirable t kest pos- | trip to the the de; with the sloop pre 1t out exposing the impo: acticed upon the pu of the seismicd - uel, which had appeared ne breeze sprang up and ared for an immediate t in en minutes it had died nd the vessel still rocked lazily at ongside the Santa Barbara wha 5 o’clock another breeze came, only to 3 1 1 the east lightened all hearts. T ad, the little boat went scud- 1 before the wind and the pa rned in for the night, with the ance tnat Tuesday’s dawn see the craft safely rs Harbor. anchored ing and creaking and splashing swhich seemed to indicate t tearin was ali twa Then the | an on | se from the | The row f tk nta Barbara b ard 1 iciously at him. i t a ir boat and master t nared the lit- es. Anxious bin, and the ous. ore out here in I only get out t, SO | ry far away. rking there on Tu and notebook seemed little boat sI:pped out d to trap her, nearly off up the coast. W ky and_water seeking hening breez v had her topsail,” groaned he'd make some little head- he Liberty’s topsail had been 1ed overboard on her last voyage, and op lay to in the calm like a maimed of an approaching storm were Im gathering over- 1p t in the gray nd the low bank of clouds piling t southeast. bowt 5 o’clock a lig! nced over the wat sail and sent the boat the captajya’s verdict. * 11 make t~e island to-night ve a warm supper at Captain before we go to rest.” s an enthusiastic assent all | To tell the truth, famine was | abroad on the Liberty, and all trembling before her ghastly face. | ttle sloop was not a passenger-boat, | carried freight between Sa Miguel and the island. She never expect- ed to be out over a couple of m, this occasion little extra prov been made, because the first mate, who | also officiated as steward, knew that the | iies would be sick and unable to eat. | But the ladies were not sick, and developed | scandalous appetites, to the dismay of the steward. On Tuesday, in view of the de- pletion of the larder, he had limited the meals to breakfasy and dinner, and when the latter meal was cleared away at 3 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon the butter, meat, vegetables, bread and other luxur of life had been consumed, nothing being | left but a half barrel of water and a very small keg of hardtack. At dusk the outlines of Santa Rosa land could still be dimly seen, and straight ahead was a low, dark streak on the horizon’s edge that the sailors knew to San Miguel. Night fell like a black Eull. Rain fell in sheets, and the wind lew a furious gale. Let the men strain their eyes as they might, they could no rn the outlines of the island. o light there, and the only way of finding the harbor was to listen to the sound of the breakers and trust to their knowledge of the shore line, with the chance that in making the sudden tack to_take the narrow entrance the wind might drive the sloop upon the rocks. | ded to this risk was the chance that | new and material changes might have occurred in the bed of the harbor s since v port. Once the glimmering ol 8, the direction of the harbor hall persuaded them that the sloop had by seen and a light hung to the flugpole for Ler gu ut a few minutes’ ob- servation revealed the fact that if they had steered for this light they would have made for a little schooner slowly tacking down the channel. There was nothing leit to do but to partially reef down, tack off in the direction of the mainland and lie by until morning. Atdawn it still rained heavily. As the view cleared the painful discovery was wiade that the sloop had in the darkness and heavy wind made a_bigger tack than she had centemplated and, having all night drifted with the current, was speedily making the return voyage to Santa Bar- bara and again lay off Naples in a calm in almost precisely the same place as where she had spent the preceding day. All the head made the night before was lost, rain fell steadily, drenching the men to the skin, all hands were reduced to a diet Oof -hardtack and water, but nobody grumbled, and the red-and-green parrot :awhistled “Buy a Broom” and danced a = 'lntukdown to Then the breeze his own accompaniment. | freshened, the sails were | spread and_the sloop tore over the water, | entering Cuylers l!larbor at mnoon on | Wednesda, 3 his beautiful harbor, where the notable | of Nalares @onvalsions- 1 Island, completely | | aval )ganaé\i‘cjgd' seismic disturbances have taken place, hich make it at the moment the center of interest of the scientific world, is remark- ably picturesque, and in this respect has\‘ on this coast. It is very nearly rcular in form, but obstructing and ing the entrance lies Prince’s (¢ stately natural fortress son 500 feet in sth, 1000 feet acre nd feet high. The regular course for vessels entering the harbor is to the right of this island, and at this point it apparently joins the harbor line of the main 1sland on the | east, making the harbor appear circular, | with a narrow break at the north. The cliffs rise majestically, frequently from the water’s edge, and these are rugged and | barren, seamed with great fissures, where, in the nearly vertical formation, there oc- | curs a stratum of softer rock which wind and weather have worn and hallowed. Atsome points the lofty encircling hills are clothed with verdure, and now and then a line of green, flower bespangled, creeps warily down to the water’s edge, but oitener a stout bulkhead of rock holds back great, barren wastes of sand. Toward the east| end of the harbor, as it comes into sight as | the land is neared, there are stretches of | be: ) d ible, and theabrupt hillsand frown- | ing ledges that rise almost from the water's edge, seem to bar all access to the island. | The sloop anchored near the southwes curve of the harbor, and it at once becam apparent that there would be some peril in | mpting to land in the heavy sea that | was ru g, but the prospectsof staying | aboard in the pitching sea, sustained only | by a diet of hardtack and water, robbed death of all its terror. On account of re- cent radical changes in the harbor it wa necessary to pull an otter-boat throu half a mile of rough water to reach a fe ble landing-place, and even here there w a dangerous sea running, and great break- ers cor e boat high in the air and then leit her in a hollow, the next incoming sw er. Here Capt in surf-boat- : high on > breaker, then next one came, and P it with rapid, powerful strokes, ran the keel safely upon the beach and sprang out and held her there against the cruel under- tow, assisted by Captain Waters and his who had been anxiously awaiting And this feat was accomplished with- out shipping a pint of water on the five occupants or their baggage. San Miguel Island is the most easterly of all the channel islands and lies in north latitude 34 deg. i min. 4 sec.; longitude west of Greenwich 120 min. 18 min. 27 While it does not lift its head above the water to the heights reached by its larger neighbors, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, it is essentially a mountainous island and has none of their lower levels, its entire surface being at an elevation of from about 500 to | 800 feet above sea level. Its shores are generally high and steep, in many places heer precipices, rising vertically to a height of several hundred feet. At but three points on the island does the land meet the sea in any easy descent. One of these poirts is at the e side of the har- bor, another is around the point beyond, but neither of these is fitted for landing places, because of the rough surf along shore. The third is situated at the west end of the island and here light draught vessels can land, if steered by competent | navigators familiar with the soundings. | 1t was useless to attempt to photograph | a or examine the harbor so the party took sledges horses and | climbed the steep road, crossing deep sand ifts and chiseled out of the steep moun- | le side to the pleasant | uring rain, the head of a canyon, a Mount San x hundred ed feet below some five or feet above sea level. Here extended the most cordial ! his guest, and_rejoiced exceec act that the CALL should be tt paper | tosend a representative to the island to | correct the fictitious reports of the up- | heaval that had been published. The ac- | count seemed of right to belong to the Carr. Captain Waters is an old-time at- | che of the paver, and the Hoe Perfectin, press which he set up_in the CarLL pr room in 1878, soon after he came to this | , was the first of the kind runningin | ncisco. Foreleven years he was at e M t | yourself. sloping bank, about eight feet above the harbor at high water. Heaven! What's the matter with the boathouse? I said to myself. 1 took the glass and rubbed it, then examined it to make sure it was clean. There was the boathouse, to be sure, but instead of facmE to the east it was point- ing north-northeast by south-southwest and presented its broadside instead of its front to me, while between it and the water rose an abrupt bluff a hundred yards wide and some sixty or seventy feet high. I didn’t know what to think of it, I'll acknowledge. I tried to persuade myself that something ailed my eyes or that some low bank of fog or mist, with the sun shining through it, had created a queer optical illusion. There are just two souls live on the island besides myself, this man, Harland, who acted as general ranch-hand, and his wife, who went over to the mainland last week. 1 went back to the house and found him here. -*Hru;lsnd." I said, “just g a ALt aln o Tanl- Tné 4 0 up to the snnthanca 5—Mass of rocks on newly upheaved beach. “Call” correspondent. 4—The great rock formerly on the beach at the water's edge. formerly a clean crescent line, concave at every point. At one extremity cliffs of sedimentary rock, in distinct stratifica- tions, rose almost vertically from the water’s edge, and at one poiat these strata are faulted so that they join each other in sharp angles some fifteen to twenty feet above the water, forming a series of peaked triangular entrances to caves extending | far beneath the cliffs, and which are onl: accessible at low water. Along these clifi}; several ledges run out into the water, ex- tending at right angles to the curve of the | shore. = 5 From these cliffs, with their subterra- nean passages, toa point a little east of the old landing place, a distance of more than a thousand feet, is found the record of Dame Nature’s mammoth disturbance in this quiet port. Here the shore line previously consisted of a_sandy bluff, interrupted by a line of verdure—a veritable garden patch brilliant with flow- ers with the exception of perhaps a hun- dred feet at the southwestern extremity of this slope, where the sand broke off | ahrntie | Asrass anv nortion of this slone | scent a grizzly, stop; | ascent and protested against bearing your | correspondent further. | kodak shots it became necessary to dis- | The high winds_which prevaile | these and other views were taken, and the | constant driving of sand through the air wrested away, leaving a perpendicular fall of some sixty feet along the edge. From newly formed crags down to the hollow behind the boathouse, a distance of hundreds of feet, the steep hillside is rent and furrowed as if an army of giants had glowed it with monstrous plowshares. hese furrows are in places parted and crossed by deep fissures, and the footing is 50 uncertain that even “Jen,” the 45-year- | old mule who years ago was in the employ of the Coast Survey during the original mapping of these islands and who scents quicksands or a sand-slip as a horse will d short in the steep In order to secure mount and kneel on the quaking earth. while in the vicinity of the harbor, lodging upon | and obscuring the “sights” in a second, | made it difficult to do satisfactory work. In the interval which elapsed between Cantain Dallv’s last trip to the mainland " i VIEWS AT SAN MIGUEL. Princes Island in the distance. 1—The hillside above the new bluff, plowed and furrowed. 2—The boathouse since the disaster. bank on the left is part of the face of the upheaved bluff, and on the middle distance appears the tall rock which marks its seaward terminus). This rock was flung to a height of seventy feet by the convulsion of March 9. 6—General view of Cuyler Harbor. bluff at the left of the picture is new ground thrown by the convulsion of Maich 9). S—Wreck of the Liberty. From photographs taken by 3~ Shore in front of upheaval (the high 7—The upheaval (the Tt looks to me as if there'd been a tre- mendous npheaval down there. It may be it’s the reflection in the water, or that my eyes deceive me, but I wish you'd see for It wasn't long bejore Harland was back. “Why, there’s been a big landslide down there. Let’s go down and look at it,”” he said. The beds of sand on San Mignel Island are of vast extent and often of immeasur- able depth. They are censtantly shiiting and changing, and the explanation of the neer changes that had occurred seemed at gm the most reasonable. It was only when a close observation had been made it became apparent that this vast body of | a sledge could be taken to the heightssome 400 feet above. A few feet from the water’s | edge and on alow sandy bank some six feet above it stood the boathouse, facing | due east, with a small sheep corral beside | it. The convulsion which occurred was | violent and sudden. The interval between | which the harbor had been viewed by man | in its normal and its changed condition is | probably limited to twenty-four hours; i but the dead sea life flung 60 feet above high water bears mute and indisputable 1 evidence to the instantaneous action of the | nplifting force. A massof sand and rock | has been flung up from the bottom of the | harbor, forming a bluff 1000 feet long, 300 | feet wide and 70 feet high, crossing the d of the press department of the , Tesigning in 1888 on account of his ill hezalth. The wall, ceiling an. of the captain’s study are iuevl, beneath wall-paper and carpets, with old printed CaLLs, over which is spread tympan-cloth from the CaLL pressrcom. On the wall hangs a photograph of the old presstoom; fresh copies_ of the paper arrive with every mail, and scattered about y ittle mementoes of his service l&;;aper, telling of his loyalty to v HARBOR o. 2. R . 8 CuvLERS ¢ HARBOR SAN MIGUEL ISLAND. [A—Upheaval line of dots indicating the new reef. B—Customary anchorage where bottom of harbor has deepened. C—Point where sounding has increased from 11 to 18 feet. D—Where the Liberty went ashore. E—Where sounding has increased from 9 to 18 fathoms. The figures marked on the island designate the stations established by the Coast Survey.] SANTY »r 54&8 4,?4 or - FRINCE'S c" pe covered it, is best heard from_his own lips. A thousand yards from the house, on the top of a lofty promontory, is the captain’s observation point, where his flagstaff is Elmmd‘ and where he has been in the abit of going two or three times a day to sweep the horizon for sails and to keep a lookout for the Liberty, when she has been due from the mainland. On the morning of the 10th of March, said Captain Waters, I went up to the flag- staff to asceriainif my boat, the Liberty. which had gone over to the mainland with a load of sheep, under command of Cap- tain Dally, on Wednesday, the 6th of March, was in sight. There was no sail to be scen, and after 1 had swept the sea I turned the glass on the harbor, 500 feet below. By the merest chance, as I was about to put up the glass, I turned it on the shore in the vicinity of the boathouse, which had always stood on the brink of a th and gravel and rock had been lifted A . ths bed of the harbor. his was the beginning of the strange disturbances which are making Cuylers Harbor famous. The ground is still in motion. Every day sees new changes along the shore, and rocks are constantly rising from beneath the water alunmhe harbor’s southwest shore, where they have never been seen before, The first minute description of this un- canny district was made the day after the arrival of the CALL’s correspondent. In comyn‘x'avv' with Captain Waters, Cap- tain Dally, Will Devine and Henry Har- land the harbor was visited, measurements and observations made, several snap shots taken with the camera and a comparison made with photographs of the harbor taken by a party of Santa Barbara ladies two years ago. The southwest shore of the harbor was harbor’s crescent, and extending out into the water. The strip of greenimmediately around the boathouse has been scarcely disturbed, except to_be elevated abour 15 feet, and by some violent twisting move- ment of the earth carrying the sheep cor- ral up with it, with tracks of men and sheep nndistutbed, and pitching it at an angle of 35 degrees. ’Fhs boathouse was brought around sev- eral points of the compass, so that it now fronts in a direction almost at nfhz angles to its former line. Immediately behind the boathouse, where the hill formerly rose in an uninterrupted sloEe to the very summit of the high mesa, there is now a little roll of ground succeeded by a hollow. From this point to the summi fect above, the entire face of the hill iszent and torn by the stupendous jorces that have wrought all this havoc. Near the sum- mit the entire hillside has been bodily and his return to the island the sea ad- vanced and reclaimed some seventy-five feet of debris and sand which had been thrown up. As the week before the newly formed bluff had increased a hundred feet in_width, this leaves it still beyond its original proportions. This latest action of wind and wave has revealed some inter- esting facts and given clearer and more indubitable testimony as to the character of the disturbances. Along the face of this cliff, which so mysteriously sprang into existence in a single night, there appears a ledge of rock, extending nearly to the sum- mit and pitching inward at an angle of twenty-five degrees’ departure from a ver- tical plane. This rock is apparently composed of a dark-blue slate, and can be whittled with a knife. Imbedded in it are nodules of a dark-blue cement rock, and it is be- smeared with fresh, blue clay from the harbor bed. In crevices running all the way up the side of this ledge are limpets, barnacles, mussels and oysters, now emit- ting unsavory edors, which have drowned in the open air. The base of this cliff, which has worn away by the erosion of the water, is strewn with stones and broken rocks. Some of these have been subjected to the action of water and are rounded and polished. Some of these show a line of fresh cleavage, and one of them, picked up by the writer and now in her possession, is a hard, dark, bluish rock, with a clean horizontal cleavage, freshly wrenched from some hidden ledge and incrusted with sparkling iron pyrites. Scattered over this stony debris are monstrous bowlders, varying from one to several tons in weight. At about the middle of this new cliff, ex- tending from its base far out into the water, are manlym' large rocks. The principal among these measures over sixty feet in circumference at the water’s edge and rises twenty feet above at high tide. All of these rocks are on certain faces and in their crev- ices swarming with sea shells. Some oys- ters of superlative quality were found upon them 1mmediately after their upheaval, and the shells of many which were over- looked, with their putrifying contents, are still to be found on all sides. Upon this narrow, rocky beach, immedi- ately after the upheaval, something was found which will arouse the interest of epicures and cause a ripple of excitement to thrill the gourmands of San Francisco. This is half of a fresh oyster shell, five and three-quurters of an inch wide and six and a half inches in length, appearing almost circular in form. It distinctly gifiers in color and shape from the ordinary species, being pale-gray on the outside and having a gray, pearly lining. This single valve weighs almost an even pound. The white limy line of the oyster's adherence is fresh and plainly marked, and one cannot but wonder what it would be to sit down to a half dozen of these mammoth bivalves on the half-shell, and if it wouldn’t be worth while for the San Francisco club- men to send down a commission to pros- pect the shoals of Cuylers Harbor. This shell is also in your correspondent’s pos- session. It must be borne in mind that all along the harbor in the locality described there formerly existed merely a narrow strip of sandy beach, free from shells or pebbles or stones of any sort, the single exception being one peculiarly marked rock, weigh- ing fully six tons, very hard and porous and of manifest volcanic origin, which stood on the edge of the beach and was a little landmark in this neighborhood. This rock, with what was formerly its seaward side fringed with gray moss and plastered with limpets and snails, was found the morning after the upheaval, on the top of the new cliff, seventy feet above the sea, and was viewed there by half a dozen com- petent witnesses. 5 ‘. Duriu%fihe big seas whith prevailed be- tween the 23d and 26th of March, and which undermined the cliff, it fell upon the stones below and now lies there, above the reach of tidewater, the dried seamoss | with these changes is the notable differ clinging to its face and the tiny mollusks dead in their shells. The top of this cliff when it was first thrown u}) was strewn with seaweeds, living seashells and hermit crabs, which now lie there dried and dead. | A hundred feet back a slight depression | was filled with sea-water, and in this pool | ?uantmeq of white perch, some of them ully 18 inches long, were floating. This water has now evaporated and soaked away, but the dried fish still lie on the sands. Eight pieces of ballast and a con- siderable length of chain and the top or the tiller belonging to the sloop Challenge, sunk in the harbor three years ago, 800 feet off shore, were tiung up from the bot- tom of the sea at the time of the upheaval, and were picked up high and dry upon the shore. | There seems to be no limit to the pecu- liar developments incidental to this up- heavel, which constantly occur. The latest discovery is that the entire beach, for some distance west of the new cliff, is slowly rising, and that a ledge of rocks | which slopes downward into the water and which formerly only showed its head near the shore at low tide, is now eight or ten feet above its former level. A curious and significant fact connected ence now observed in soundings of the har- bor. Besides the tall pointed rock which stands out so prominently at the front of the upheaval at the point marked “C” on the map where the water used to be eleven | feet deep, it is now eighteen, and a strong current with a dangerous undertow is here | observable. | At the point marked “B,” which has | been the anchorage of San Miguel boats for several years, %e invariable sounding has hitherto been four fathoms. After the upheaval it became six fathoms, and the | bed of the harbor at this point, always a | gray sand before, changed to coarse gravel and bedrock. Between the 25th of March | and the 3d day of April this sounding changed to five fathoms and the harbor showed a bottom of yellow mud. It has| been impossible to have a thorough ama- | teur survey made of the entire bed of the | harbor, but Captain Dally, passing through | the narrow channel lying between Prince’s | Island and the harbor's east shore, has | found a depth of thirteen fathoms at a point where his decpest sounding has itherto been nine fathoms, and where the largest figure on the coast survey map is nine and a quarter fathoms. . Should Professor Davidson carry out his | intention of sendiug a coast survey to the | island new and interesting developments | may be expected. travel over San Miguel with one of the coast survey maps for a companion and not be greatly impressed with startling dis- crepancies between the character of the coast, as outlined there, and the height of | different elevations, as indicated by the | contour lines, opposed to the testimony of the eye. These maps are always draughted from the most accurate and painstaking surveys and may be absolutely relied upon. | Captain Waters is convinced that im- portant changes in the island had taken | lace since the survey made by Hilgard, | Forney and Greenwell in 1883 and pre- | vious to the late upheaval. Whether | these changes are slowly and steadi progressing or_the recent violent u‘meuv 1s_but preliminary to the letting loose of | still more powerful subterranean forces is a question that must claim the attention of “scientists everywhere and whose solu- tion will be regarded with the deepest in- terest. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that at some day not far distant the old craters of San Miguel may be spitting fire and the island’s territory be extended by streams of lava flowing down the old fis- sures to the sea, cementing the detached reefs and little islets to her shore. Yet it is quite as probable that these inward con- | vulsions are dying away, that shore and | harbor will adjust themselves to the new | conditions and_that for centuries to come | San Miguel, with its mystical history and its emerald pastures, will nurture its flocks, form a peaceful abiding-place for men and | remain_a stanch sentinel at the western | extremity of our channel, warding off harsh winds from the mainland and her harbor. Your correspondent is at some slight dis- advantage in being bound by the limita- fions of truth and fact in the {»resentation of this account. Facts are stubborn things and a great handicap to imaginative and | lurid descriptive flights. These occurrences at San Miguel are unprecedented in the known history of this coast, a fascinating study of geological changes, and of the ut- most importance to navigators, yet they donot in themselves constitute material for a Rider Haggard romance. In two days the CaLL correspondent’s observations of the harbor were completed, and everything was in readiness to return to the mainland. On the morning of the 30th of March a party descended the road leading to the harbor. One glance at the spot where the stanch little Liverty had been left anchored showed an empty ex- panse of water. Three-quarters of a mile away in the southeast curve of the harbor there was a shore strewn with wreckage, and at the water’s edge, wearily pounding up and down upon the beach,was a skeleton frame, crashed and broken and tangled in a mass of rigging. The Liberty had gone ashore in the night. Here was a dramatic situation! A news- paper correspondent, with an important story ready for publication, shipwrecked on an_island—happily not desert, forty-five milesfrom the mainland, out of the path of passing vessels, and whose only connection with the mainland was the little boat whose bones were crunching on the beach below. Frora HAINES LOUGHEAD. NEW YORK'S RUSSIAN CHURCH. San Francisco Clergymen Will Have Charge of It. New York is to have a Russian church. A priest and a deacon will go from this city to take charge of it. says the New York Times. It is to be known as the Church of St. Nicholas, and is to be opened in New York shortly after Easter in a house on Second avenue, between Eighteenth and Nine- teenth streets. Father Evtikhey Bolano- vitch and u Russian deacon will come from | San Francisco to take charge of it. It will be under the diocesan supervision of Bishop Nicholas of S8an Francisco, who has charge of Russian church affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, including Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The church proper will occupy the first floor of the house, and the upper - floors will be given over to a library and resi- dential quarters for Father Bolanovitch and his wife, and the basement will be de- voted to the uses of a Sunday-school. Mme. Eugenie Lineff, formerly an oper- atic singer, will conduct a choir of a dozen voices. The iconostas which will conceal the church altar is an historic one. It was owned by a Russian army corps, and was last used in the field during the battles in the Balkans. The trustees of the new church include Prince Prince Cantacuzene, the Russian Minister to the United States; Mrs. B. MacGahan, widow of J. A. MacGahan, the famous Bulgarian correspondent; J. A. Beliakoff, and Consul-General Olarovsky of New York. Among the honorary mem- bers of the church society are: Mme. Olga Kireef-Novikoff, Countess Ignatieff, the Prince of Montenegro and General Gourko. Bishop Nicholas has subscribed several hundred dollars, and many persons not of the Russian faith have contributed liber- ally toward the church. There are ortho- dox Russian churches in Minneapolis, Minn. ; Stater, Ill.; Wilkesbarre, Pittsburg and Osceola, Pa., and in Brid(sport. Conn. 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