io RUSSIA THEN AND NOW 



for God's suffering children in Russia, starving, 

 despairing, dying victims of famine resulting from 

 the almost total failure of their crops of food 

 products in 1891. 



The Conemaugh's course, after crossing the 

 Atlantic, was around the north of Scotland 

 close by the Hebrides, through the North Sea, 

 under the coast of Sweden; thence northeast- 

 ward to Riga, the principal Baltic port of 

 Russia, a beautiful city of more than two 

 hundred thousand inhabitants. This voyage, 

 Captain Spencer of the Conemaugh had in- 

 formed me, would probably require twenty 

 days. 



Four days after the sailing of the Conemaugh I 

 took passage for Antwerp, Belgium, on the 

 Steamship Waesland of the International Naviga- 

 tion Company's Red Star Line. The superior 

 appointments of this steamer and the extreme 

 kindness and courtesy of its commander, Captain 

 Grant, combined to make the voyage a delight. 

 The Captain by request of the Company quartered 

 me in his spacious deck cabin. A two days' sojourn 

 in Antwerp was made necessary by sending and 

 receiving cable messages, etc., and then I started 



