. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. f work. Atone of these, only typical Russian dishes wereserved. A serenade was given at my hotel, theDe Rome, Saturday night, the Riga Chorus Clubof one hundred men singing the national hymnsof their country and ours. At this time a thousandmen and women thronged the wide, open squarefacing the hotel that it might be understood by therepresentative of the givers of the Conemaugtiscargo that all the people united in the welcome andin the national thanksgiving for the b
. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. f work. Atone of these, only typical Russian dishes wereserved. A serenade was given at my hotel, theDe Rome, Saturday night, the Riga Chorus Clubof one hundred men singing the national hymnsof their country and ours. At this time a thousandmen and women thronged the wide, open squarefacing the hotel that it might be understood by therepresentative of the givers of the Conemaugtiscargo that all the people united in the welcome andin the national thanksgiving for the benevolencethat prompted the gift. At all these assemblieswere uttered the strongest possible expressions ofRussias gratitude to their American friends. On Sunday morning, accompanied by theMayor of Riga and the Captain of the Cone-maugh, I visited several clubs and churches,—firstthe Lutheran Church of St. John, the largest in thecity, erected in the thirteenth century. Here theSunday School was in session. Forty to fifty smallboys and girls stood in parted ranks,—boys bow-ing, girls courtesying as the visitors passed.
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