. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across SKINNED AND STUFFED MAN. THE MOSKOVSKI TRAKTIR. 267 waiters were in snowy frocks and trousers, and tlie establishment was solarge that it was said to employ one hundred and iifty waiters in thedining; and tea rooms alone. Many of the jjatrons of the place were taking nothing but tea, and thesamovar was everywhere. Frank and Fred thought they had never seenwaiters more attentive than at this traktir. They seemed to understandbeforehand what
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across SKINNED AND STUFFED MAN. THE MOSKOVSKI TRAKTIR. 267 waiters were in snowy frocks and trousers, and tlie establishment was solarge that it was said to employ one hundred and iifty waiters in thedining; and tea rooms alone. Many of the jjatrons of the place were taking nothing but tea, and thesamovar was everywhere. Frank and Fred thought they had never seenwaiters more attentive than at this traktir. They seemed to understandbeforehand what was wanted, and a single glance was sure to bring oneof them to the table. They did a great deal more than the waiters doin Western Europe. They offered to cut up the food so that it could beeaten with a fork, and they poured out the tea, instead of leaving thepatron to pour for himself. Frank observed that nearly every one who. RUSSIAN BEQCiARS. entered the place said his prayers in front of the holy picture. There isa picture in every room of the establishment, so tliat the devout wor-shipper is never at a loss. Another day they went to the ^^Moskovski Traktir,^- a large restaurantsimilar to the Troitska, and containing an enormous orgati which is saidto have cost more than fifty thousand dollars. Tiie Russians are very fondof music of the mechanical sort, and their country is one of the best mar-kets of the Swiss makers of organs and music-boxes. In the best housesall through Russia expensive instruments of this kind can be found, and 268 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. sometimes the barrel-organs arc large enough to fill a respectably-sizedroom with machinery and fittings, and an entire house with sound. Prob-ably the most costly mechanical musical instruments are made for Rus-sians, and some of them give the effect of a whole orchestra. While theinstrument in the traktir was in operation, both
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