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But I must tell you how we got there. We awaked to find 

 ourselves in Warsaw early Sunday morning. We passed clear 

 around the city in our car, going from one depot to another, 

 and saw the situation on the Vistula and the strong fortifica- 

 tions which surround it on every hand. Our baggage deposited 

 in the station, we walked up into the town, crossing the long 

 bridge over the Vistula and passing through winding streets to 

 a hotel, where we should spend the night. On the whole we 

 found Warsaw without great interest other than that which lies 

 in her varied and war-filled history. There are few remarka- 

 ble memorials of the past, no collections, no great palaces. It 

 was the street life that was the main attraction, and that was 

 very lively and interesting. The Polish type is attractive, still 

 thoroughly European, but better than expected. There were 

 more good-looking and well-dressed women on the streets than 

 I have seen before for many a day. It seems strange to have 

 so many memorials of Dresden in this out-of-the-way place. 

 But you know the Saxon kings held the Polish crown for a 

 time, and left many monuments behind. The main park is the 

 Saxon garden, delightfully laid out in the center of the city. 

 The same Count Bruehl, who left his name in Dresden, has left 

 here a great palace, and in other ways one associated what one 

 saw with the Saxon capital. We heard an excellent concert by 

 a large symphony orchestra in the evening in a little garden 

 in the open air out in the suburbs. You see in the programme, 

 with the Russian and Polish side by side, how much alike the 

 two languages must be when spoken. The next morning, Mon- 

 day, found us at the station together, with forty other members 

 of the Congress ready to take the train to Moscow. Of this 

 trip of 800 miles, requiring twenty-nine hours, there is not so 

 very much to say. Our train was an express, but we seemed 



to stop at most of the stations. The carriages were of all 

 classes, but better than the German ones in being made with 

 corridors, so that one could go from car to car quite unhindered. 

 Moreover, the conductors or guards paid no attention to one's 

 movements, and one could get off at stations or move about the 

 train almost as freely as in America, which was a tremendous 

 relief in a long journey. 



