Identifier: wonderlandorpaci00hyd (find matches)
Title: Wonderland, or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska : with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Hyde, John, 1848-1929 Northern Pacific Railroad Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s are bemg educated.Christianized and taught useful trades; and, possibly, to pay his respects tosome member of that admirable body of United States officials, now administer-ing the affairs of the Territory with so much success. Baranoff Castle is not a grim, ivy-covered and decaying stronghold, withturrets, battlements and keep, but a plain, square, substantial, yellow framebuilding, surmounted by a little look-out tower, upon which might have beenseen until recently the revolving anemometer of the United States SignalService, whose station here hiis just been given up, presumably in view of thefact that observations having been carefully made and recorded for no less thanhalf a century, first by the Russians and afterward by the Americans, thereremains no necessity for its further continuance. The interest that attaches tothe Castle is almost entirely either historical or traditional. Among the memoriesthat haunt its great ball-room is that of the beautiful niece of Baron Romanoff,
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INDIAN RIVER, SITKA, ALASKA.(9i) WONDERLAND. 93 one of its Muscovite governors, said to have been fatally stabbed on her wed-ding night by her own lover, in whose enforced absence she had been com-pelled by her uncle to marry a previously rejected suitor of nobler birth. The most mteresting object in the city, however, is the Russo-Greek church,not so much for what it is in itself, as for the paintmgs, vestments and otherart treasures it contams. Among these is an exquisite pamtmg of theMadonna and Child, copied from a celebrated picture at Moscow, and solargely covered with gold and silver—after the manner of the Greek Church—that but little of the picture is to be seen except the faces. Another of itstreasures is a Bishops crown, supposed to be several hundred years old,and almost covered with emeralds, sapphires and pearls. Steamer day is a great day at Sitka, and the scanty American population—together with prominent members of the Russo-American community, like Mr.George Ko

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