. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ess,and mostly improperly baked; potatoes,with common kitchen grease; boiled ryesprinkled with melted grease; occasion-ally, hard-tack fish. As to meat, that hemay have at most once a week. Of fruit,candy and other luxuries, he sees preciouslittle. Perhaps he makes the acquaintancethereof when there is a wedding in thefamily. If he has a cow and fowls, he ha-milk and eggs part of each year. Hisdrink is unsweetened tea—mostly madefrom exhausted tea—that is, former fairlygood tea which has already been onc
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ess,and mostly improperly baked; potatoes,with common kitchen grease; boiled ryesprinkled with melted grease; occasion-ally, hard-tack fish. As to meat, that hemay have at most once a week. Of fruit,candy and other luxuries, he sees preciouslittle. Perhaps he makes the acquaintancethereof when there is a wedding in thefamily. If he has a cow and fowls, he ha-milk and eggs part of each year. Hisdrink is unsweetened tea—mostly madefrom exhausted tea—that is, former fairlygood tea which has already been onceused, and the refuse leaves saved and to the big-leaf tea I bought in Japan at 2sen (2 cents) a pound. Altogether, the life of the Russian rail-road employe is, I believe, the poorest-living, hardest life of any em-ploye in crackdom. chasing power of those $15 in Russia be-ing only equal to $8, or at most $10, inthe United States. Railroad navvies re-ceive from 40 to 50 kopeks per diem (20to 25 cents). Nearly the only thing cheapin Russia is labor. Religion—I dont mean.
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