rival of the Grand Duchess Hira the question of rents of rooms and Kirliovna and her husband Prince gate has become: one of such acute~ [Louis Ferdinand of Prussia to Shang-for the Russian colony, court al, has been postponed to August sot Rudslans. who are often 22," The ship in which this royal atnout any reason whatsoever couple are sailing, the Empress. of Wild from—their rooms in order Russia, will stay in Shanghai for 24 atthe premises may be let out hours.' Grand Duchess Hira is arriv-UMfigher rates have become so numer {ng in Japan on August 6.
that the accommodation crisis 'After lying in an isolation hospital Ratins to" assume the proportions of for, some' time, Mr, Nicola! Yui, in-2"fommunal calamity. Special interpreter for Russian eases in' the Sestigations on. the subject by the First District Court, died of cholera NShanghal Zaria" has ellelted that last Thursday. Employed by. the there are two main reasons for-this court for a number of years, Mr. into of attalre, "First come the mili-'Yul was counted one of tite best in-fury events of last year which,, on terpreter im Shanghai, and had an the one hand, sent a wave of Chinese excellent reputation both among Rus-{ito the Setilement and Concession sian lawyers and among Russian reind, on the other, halted. the con-porters covering the Chinese courts ruction of new, buildings, partic-of Shanghai. Hig sudden death, all rly apartment houses which prior the mere unexpected os he had twice August, 1087 grew in Shanghai ike inoculated himself against cholera, mushrooms after a shower, The evoked! general regret in the Russian tecond reason is the fall of the oology."
Ghinese dollar and: the consequent News has been received from Bel-fise of prices on_ practically every. fade of the suicide of Mr. AE. thing under the, Shanghai sun—Aats, Tsiklinsky, formerly an active in-partments and Yooms included. dystelalist ta the Russian Far East russians rent their living quarters and at-one time the Vice-Minister either by contract "or by way of Supply in the government of Ad-Verbal arrangement. Prior to. the! miral. Kolchake at Omsk. The de-Eommencement of hostilities the mi ceased has for the past few years torily signed. yearly contracts of Afved.in die poverty... Information Handardized form with realty com-has also come to'hand that Mr. E. K. ponies, These contracts were of Kalina," well-known. engineer, has Sich a generalized character that Jdied "at Moscow. "At one time' head rent payers hardly ever troubled of the engine and wagon department ead them, a9 court cases and other bf the Chinese Eastern Railway, Mr. mellon a9 a result of failure to carry Kling drew general attention on out this of another clause were ex-himself during the Great War when framely rare. When the hostilities he Tet through long lines of heavily broke out some realty companies did freighted trains from Vladivostok to. away with the routine of signing Russia, thus tangibly speeding up the contracts {n order that they could in-transportation of ammunition bought frease rent when they should find from America to the Western front. that necessary. 'This, in fact, was 'Among the many who have left subsequently found necessary—not by' shanghai for summer resorts are Col. all companies, of course, but in a Clementiem, choirman of the good 25 per cent, of the cases, while "Manchurians' Union," (composed of separate unfurnished houses were officers of the regiments formed in rented out to Chinese fleeing from 1918 by Ataman G. M. Semenemt), Chapel and Nantao at an increase Mr. N. A. Tepliakoff, business of 40: and even 40 per cent. Mostly, ager of the "Shanghai Zaria," however, the increase for a flat ce Mrs. M. A. Yartseva and Mrs. B. G. slated of $10 to §20 per month, Lempert, Russians leave for Tsingtao any rate the past year has not been Dairen, visas for which cities are unprofitable one for realty com-spite of the present incident on panies, og all available living pre~ the Soviet-Manchurian border given mises are rented out, without restrictions, and for Unzen, Which this year seems to be especial-Room Rents Increased ly popular, Dr. A. M. Kazimirova is With rooms the situation fs worse, shortly leaving om a long trip. Nearly as Russians know to their sorrow. every year Di. Kazimirova visits the Most Russians live in rooms, and United States where she studies the prices for these have swelled $0 and latest progress in dentistry. 'This even 70 per cent, F'range as it may' year she will first visit Paris, Berlin seem small rooms have increased in and London and then sail for New ent more than large ones; those that York, thus possibly staying away for previously went for $15' to $20 a cover a year. month at present cost $90 to $95.
'The outstanding success of Master And in spite of these prices it would'
Vindimir Haveky, the youthful Rus-bbe very hard to find an empty room, sian pianist, at the last concert in the Alliance Francaise, is being widely Russi 2 (aidrlts deneely populated by commented upon" in the colony.
Owners of apartments likewise spe-'Master Havsky has for the last three culate on the present situation. years studied under the well-known 'Whereas previously a fully furnished Dlanist and instructor Prof. B.S. apartment of 4 or 5 rooms could Bakharoft, and {g revealing talents ought for $600—at the most. $800—that are nothing' short of unusual. at present it would cost $1500 or Tt could be seid without the slightest even $2000, Tenants are found not exaggeration that he is undoubtedly much because the price of furni-the best youthful pianist ever to play ture has risen or the Chinese dollar before the Shanghai public. Vladimir 'Because comfortable free Havaky is only 18 years of age, yet many older planists could envy' him not only the precision of his techni-Prof, N. P, Pokrovsky, Director of Jque but his sensitive understanding the Commercial School' and for 30 of the pieces he plays and the musical years a teacher of Russian literature, intuition and inspiration he reveals is at present publishing an interest= when at the piano. After the con ing and important book: "An Out-ort the enthusiasm of the audience line of the History of the Newest vas indescribable. 'Maestro Mario Russian Literature." 'This book will Pacei, himself an outstanding pianist undoubtedly interest not only stu who had just recovered from an dents, for whom it will serve as operation' and who on the eve school book, but all who study Rus-of his departure, came specially and sian literature, In the 20 years that voiced his admiration by the exclama. have elapsed after the Revolution obtion, "He is a genius of the piano! Jective books dealing with Russian Prof. Zakharoft would ike Master iWlerature have passed out of exis Haviley to sooner oF later play before tence, In Russia literature is inter-Serget Rachmaninoff. Havsky comes preted according to the "party line," from an old Russian family; his while in emigration no book: dealing father, although a graduate of one of with the crop of new literature has the most privileged educational in-been published. If to this be added stitutions of Tsarist Russia, studied that books of this nature published musie seriously and after the Rein Russia before the Revolution volution was forced to resort to it hardly ever touched the writers of fas a. means of earning a living. 'To the 20th century, one will see that Gay hig son fe in a more enviable there is a gap of 40 years to be position, New vistas of a brilliant filled, And during this time world-musical' career are without doubt wide names have beer made by such opening before young Master Havsky. writers as Anton Chekhov, Maxim Kazan Clan Celebrates Gorky, Leonid Andreev, Ivan Bunin, Alexel Tolstoi and Alexander Kuprin, Last Thursday members of the to say nothing of even more recent [Kazan Clan celebrated an anniversary ones like M.A. Aldanov, V. Sinn, of the miraculous appearance of the Pantelelmon Romanov, Boris Pilniak, Kazan Holy Mother, one of the most. Sholdhov, naming writers of the most widely known sacred images in all undisputed talent. Prof. Poktovsky Russia. On the eve of the holiday divides the authors of the 19th and vespers were held in the St. Nicholas, 20th centuries into Slavophiles, ad-Church, while on the day itself a herents of the West, those who com-liturgy and prayers before the ikon, bine Slavophilism with "Westernism, which is an excellent copy of the moralists, and extreme individualists. universally revered holy of holies, Prot, Pokrovskj's book is written in were well attended, a choir conducted, an excellent Language, and several by Mr. I. A. Kolchin singing. The passages are masterpieces of Russian Very Rev. Mikhail Rogojin is head literature in themselves, Jot the Kazan clan.
The colony has just learned from it of Grand Duchess reports from Yokohama that on July The. Emigrant Committee has had 42a Chinese funk rechristened information' from Japan that the "Hummel Hummel" and belonging to
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