RIGA'S GRAND WELCOME 23 



Livonia, in the Russian language; the other by 

 Madame de Woehrmann, nee Princess Mary 

 Ourousoff , in English. The next day these verses 

 were presented to me tastefully printed in both 

 these languages and enclosed in a cover of satin, 

 representing on one side the flag of their country 

 and on the other side our American flag. 



POEM BY MADAME MAXIMOVITCH 



In your distant, happy land 



You have heard of our need, 

 And you send a helping hand, 



Friends in sorrow, friends in deed. 



On the waves of the vast ocean 



Came the news of hungry peasants; 



The Indiana, swift of motion 



You then sent us with your presents. 



Worse than wind and storm and rain 



Is the famine's cruel sting, 

 And the help out of this pain 



The Missouri was to bring. 



But a new act of your friendship, 



Of such tender, deep import, 

 Is this third and noble steamship, 



Conemaugh, now in our port. 



