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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ole has been theintricate problem for each successive sovereign ofRussia to solve. We left Moscow on the noon (12:30) express forOdessa. The journey from Moscow via Kief toOdessa is about iioo miles, and costs about forty-four rubles. Odessa is a city of about 200,000population, on the northwestern coast of the BlackSea, and was founded by Catharine II. The city isbuilt on a broad plateau, 80 feet above the sea, andis strongly fortified. Steps loo feet wide lead upfrom the lower quay or sea to a magnificent ter-race lined with palatial mansions and stately hotels.The streets of Odessa are well paved and plantedwith acacia trees. Here the morning is devotedto business, the heated middle hours to repose.At dark all the clubs and cafes are crowded. Hereare seen the money-changers of the East, with theirlittle green tables along the curbstones. Curbstonebrokers indeed! We exchanged English gold atone of these tables with a woman who was one ofOdessas wealthiest bankers. Here are Armenian,
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TRA VELS. 211 Jewish and Turkish merchants, and here comeannually hundreds of vessels, many being Britishvessels, for the finest wheat raised in the world. Thousands of emigrants annually leave Odessa forother countries. Often the scenes are pathetic.They take beds and bundles of clothing, a tin cupto drink out of, and usually rough boxes filled withtheir household goods and gods, and things neededin the long journey, perhaps of 5,000 miles or moreto America and the Great West. Czar Nicholas II. married Queen Victorias favor-ite grand-daughter. Princess Alix of Hesse-Darm-stadt. She is bending every effort toward thehigher civilization of Russia, while Nicholas hopesto make the Russian Empire the most powerfulpolitical and military country in the world. Everyyear about 280,000 conscripts are added to theRussian army. In times of peace it numbers1,000,000 men, and is the largest standing army inexistence. In the event of his death, his eldestbrother George, a man of many accomplishment

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