. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. ude on these steamers, thebooming of cannon and the discharge of rocketssignalized our approach to the ConemaugJis broad-sides. The visitors on the Government steamerbeing invited to board the ship, a brief but veryimpressive ceremony took place in the a welcoming speech by Captain Spencer,a Russian gentleman representing the AssociatedSocieties of Riga, addressing the Captain, pre-sented the customary offering of bread and salt on asilver platter in t
. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. ude on these steamers, thebooming of cannon and the discharge of rocketssignalized our approach to the ConemaugJis broad-sides. The visitors on the Government steamerbeing invited to board the ship, a brief but veryimpressive ceremony took place in the a welcoming speech by Captain Spencer,a Russian gentleman representing the AssociatedSocieties of Riga, addressing the Captain, pre-sented the customary offering of bread and salt on asilver platter in testimony of their loving addressing me, as commissioner from America,he presented me with a beautiful album of photo-graphic views of Riga with the following appro-priate inscriptions engraved upon its silver the front cover: From the Committee of the Russian Society ofRiga, to the representative of the friendship of theAmerican people to Russia as a token of remembranceand gratitude for the brotherly gift to the sufferersfrom the failure of the crops, sent on S. S. Conemaugh. RIGA, May, 1892, UVM -. o3 WJ 2 .u rj cS o o o cf d S Si c O • *-*SHO rtOD ojSJO 2 rt ^1—I di—i o H RIGAS GRAND WELCOME 17 On the reverse side: The Beehive Stock Company, The Poet of the Glee Club of The Artisans Aid Society, The Combmakers Beneficial Club,Lado Literary and Musical Society,The Literary Circle,Lovers of Sacred Songs,The Nicolas Merchants Society,The Society Club,Society of Russian Physicians,Society of Mercantile Salesmen,The Porters of Peter and Paul,The Editors of Riga Courier,The Artisan Company,Third Society of Mutual Credit. As briefly as possible I now summarize some ofthe events of a complimentary character duringmy stay in Riga. There and in St. Petersburgladies of the nobility seemed to vie with each otherin tendering their social hospitality. There was a dinner at the Riga castle, given bythe Governor, at which about thirty were given
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